Crash
(Blu-ray) 

Originally released as a motion picture in 1996.

Adapted from J.G. Ballard's novel.

Wide screen (1.66:1).

New 4K digital restoration.

Special features: audio commentary from 1977 featuring David Cronenberg; Ballard and Cronenberg (footage from a lecture with Ballard and Cronenberg discussing the film adaptation effort and the controversy surrounding both the film and book); press conference from the 1996 Cannes Film Festival; Q&A from 1996; behind-the-scene footage and press interviews from 1996; U.S. and international trailers; on insert, essay by Jessica Kiang.

Director of photography, Peter Suschitzky ; editor, Ronald Sanders ; music, Howard Shore ; costumes, Denise Cronenberg ; production designer, Carol Spier.

James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas, Deborah Kara Unger, Rosanna Arquette.

"For this icily erotic fusion of flesh and machine, David Cronenberg adapted J. G. Ballard's future-shock novel of the 1970s into one of the most singular and provocative films of the 1990s. 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. Controversial from the moment it debuted at Cannes--where it won a Special Jury Prize 'for originality, for daring, and for audacity'--Crash has since taken its place as a key text of late-twentieth-century cinema, a disturbingly seductive treatise on the relationships between humanity and technology, sex and violence, that is as unsettling as it is mesmerizing"--Container.

Rating: NC-17; for numerous explicit sex scenes.

Blu-ray; region A; DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1; 16:9 wide screen presentation.

English dialogue; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).