PRESENTED ON 35MM! 30th ANNIVERSARY SCREENING!
Neon Dreams has its engines revved for the 30th anniversary of David Cronenberg's Crash, the provocative and highly controversial intersection of hot sex and car wrecks. We are celebrating by putting our very own Prime Minister of Cinema's™? full-throttle masterpiece back on the big screen, uncut and presented on a 35mm print courtesy of the University of Toronto Media Commons Library.
A traffic collision involving a disaffected commercial producer, James (James Spader), and an enigmatic doctor, Helen (Holly Hunter), brings them, along with James’s wife, Catherine (Deborah Kara Unger, in a sublimely detached performance), together in a crucible of blood and broken glass—and it’s not long before they are all initiated into a kinky, death-obsessed underworld of sadomasochistic car-crash fetishists for whom twisted metal and scar tissue are the ultimate turn-ons. (Criterion Collection)
Adapted from J.G. Ballard's 1973 novel, the wild fusion of flesh and four-wheelers was simply too much to bear for many 1996 audiences. Despite furious controversy, it was awarded the Cannes Special Jury Prize "for originality, for daring and for audacity". 30 years later, Crash remains both a benchmark of Can-con cinema and a guarantee that you will never look at the 401 the same way again.
This screening and others are made possible thanks to our wonderful sponsor Hollywood Suite.