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Both two very funny witty guys there.

Ballard was bang on about the upcoming defeat of those vile Tories 🤣

James Spader is a stone cold killer 😂. He only opens his mouth to spit venom or billow plumes of smoke. Luv him

No wonder Spader and RDjr were friends. They are cut from the same cloth.

Wonderful! Crash would not be made today. And this kind of candid, intelligent conversation about any film is long gone. I don't really do 'heroes'. But I have a handful of them, and to see two of them (Ballard and Cronenberg) speaking at the same table is a rare treat. I miss the 90s. I miss Jim Ballard.

The car wash scene is a masterclass like Ballard said. Best sound design ever! Turn it up loud and enjoy! Love you David!!

narcotized is really a nice word

David spader is so sexy

Amazing material! Thank u so much, how did u get it?

The host of the table seems like a specialist in making people uncomfortable

19:20 - Deborah Unger wondering what Elias Koteas is going to come out with next...

What a lot of fluff over nothing. Garbage film. 🦨🦨🦨🦨🦨

real cinema

Oh my. What a raucous and fantastic and sizzling press conference with everyone still warm from the frisson of the controversial screening. I would've loved to be there, for the screening and this conference and any after-parties.

Exceptional. Felicitari pt edit!

Aura potentissima!

Ok I watched it, and despite the good technical aspects like camera work, editing, sound mixing, that was a high-budget fetish film with zero plot. Nothing against being an individualistic, unapologetic director, but you can't just call it art because there's perversity in it.

everyone is smoking hot in this press conference.

When art mirrors reality, reality is madness?

37:46 he's not lying

James Spader looks SUAVE beyond belief ... and Holly Hunter accent is beyond sexy !! The guy who does the introduction is cringe beyond belief though...

Interview goes nowhere.

Deborah Unger and Elias____. What happened

James Spader is an awesome actor. Think he hasn't quite shed the role of James Ballard here.

“Crashes: the sequel” Which is about the sexualisation of emotional disturbance of the consequences of computer crashes and also the sexualisation of the consequences of the emotional disturbance of computer crashes and of course the sexualisation of emotional disturbance of the consequences of computer crashes.

It’s interesting how there can be a book and an interpretation of that story which results in a film and then the interpretation of that story also has a number of different interpretations.

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I realize that the author and director had been doing press together for some time prior to this conversation. However, there seemed to be such a profound difference between the way the two men understood this story that one could imagine they'd never spoken at all. Cronenberg betrayed real disenchantment at the outset concerning the cautionary tale remark. Maybe he felt Ballard had somehow disavowed the text. I saw this film many years ago, but what I remember most was a meditation on the cyborg and the oneric desire to fuse flesh/body with machine. Too bad Jean Baudrillard wasn't asked to join this discussion.

What a great disscussion. David working with such a heavy subjects always finds lightness and humour in it. What a great mind.

Cronemberg at 2022 looks like an older Chris Moltisanti.

Great to see the film, read the book, and now hear this conversation. I've never heard Ballard's voice before, he sounds exactly like the stereotypical Brit in my head. (By the way, Cronenberg being Canadian got muddled with the book in my head, and I thought it was set in London Ontario for the first half 😭lol) Thank you for the upload!

Did not like Balla0rd's novel Crash. Neither think no one could say he liked it. Think Ballard wrote that to create a bit of a scandal and become widely known. Ballard was a clever writer and liked a lot some of his Short Stories in Billenium, Terminal Beach and Vermilion Sands. Also read and liked his High Rise. But about Crash, what's its meaning? Obviously every life is a process of self destruction, which is about what the characters are doing in the novel. You could say it also deals about the couple enjoying their suffering. And in this sense it would also deal about masochism and its pleasure. Then the relation between tanatos and sex. But being all this matters interesting ones, they aren't enough to make the novel an interesting enough work. The Cronenberg movie is just quite disgusting and boring. Though I liked Scanners, The Fly and A Violence Story. Cronenberg can be quite good, though he not always is so good. As every artist he has good and not so good works. Ballard is one of my preferred authors, inspite of Crash. Crash maybe suffers about a lack of plot. It may also dealt about how far to mithify some people, could lead you. Reminding his characters are recreating the way some movie icons died. Through their car crashes. We have to always demitify, that's clear. So, finally, I stick to my idea, Crash, though dealing with interesting stuff, is not a good novel. Its lack of much plot and/or action, makes it as boring as the Cronenberg movie. Cronenberg should better turn Wasp, of Erik Frank Russell, into a movie. He has there excellent material to go on with. Wasp deals basically about paranoia, but has plot and action enough to do a great movie. That would make us think a lot, besides. Anyway, both Cronenberg and Ballard are very good artists, indeed. 🤗👍

I really imagined that Cronenberg would be a more spikey and difficult conversationalist, him and Ballard have such an interesting communicative dynamic! Two fantastically skilled and imaginative artists

12:40-14:08 bro has to be stoned out of his mind

22:48 knock-out the journalis

It sounds like he's discussing the movie as a fan, not that it is his own movie and that is so awesome. Quite pleasing to hear him speak.

I think it's nonsense though that the movie couldn't be done in a regular system, it was done and was distributed as with any other commercial film, or Cronenberg film. Honestly, what a load of bullshit! I saw it opening night at the Angelika Film Center in NYC. That was pretty mainstream.

I think James is saying they were playing Hide the Salami. It was well hidden.

Thank you youtube for existing.

thumbs up if you're still watching this in 2025

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nice

Cronenberg's face when he listens about David Lynch's Blue Velvet....

When I saw Cronenberg at a Cosmopolis Q&A, I was surprised by how hilarious he was and it seems he's always been like that! This conversation is so cute which is a nice contrast from how dark and messed up the material is.

What the f":$k is the camera operator thinking of?! Jaysus, let's see the people who are speaking instead of peering at Cronenberg for fuck's sake

great document about one of the greatest and important movies ever made

James Spader is playing a James Spader character in real life!

We are home and dry, Well done

Huge Spader fan.... He smokes shamelessly LOL

Love Holly Hunter and her accent