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.
So much talk about sex… Whilst missing the point about Crash entirely. Crash is about Trauma. Ballard wrote Crash from the trauma of losing his wife in a sudden short illness. Living alone suddenly with 3 children in the 1960s, how could he find a way to connect with the world again. Crash explores what happens when a traumatic event happens and how you can find others to connect with who have experienced the same thing. Disguised in the car crash. Ballard is telling you his pain behind the veil of something so controversial as to mask his true feelings. He wanted to write a book that would shock the audience and also somehow shock him into feeling something again.
There are multiple interviews by Ballard on CZcams and you can listen to his thoughts. Also his Autobiography ‘Miracles of Life’ mentions this. Most of Ballards protagonists are based on him in some way. They often centre around a person coming to terms with the madness they find themselves in. Considering Ballard spent his formative years in a interment camp in Shanghai, 1 year at medical school cutting up cadavers to become a phycologist, There’s no wonder he writes about people coming to terms with the madness they see in the world.
Finally! I have been waiting to see this for YEARS!!!!!! Thank you so much for the download! EDIT This was great! I saw no controversy or hatred thrown here. Questions were quite polite. Spader was like 'I'm too cool for this,' Cronenberg is quite literally the smartest person in the room and Ballard is blunt as hell! Elias sounds and acts like he hasn't quite shaken off the Vaughan character yet!
LOVE THIS. During this video it seemed like Elias Koteas was still inhabiting the Vaughn character (18:00) I kept waiting for him to paw all over Deborah Unger while he answered their questions.
@@thiscorrosion900 I wonder if something was going on between them. She was quite stunning back then and recent photos of her suggest she is still not bad looking for the age of 56. But she has never been married and there is not much out there about her private life. In 1997, the British edition of "Premiere" had her mentioning that when she was making the film, she tried to drive across from Canada into the US. The US border police checked her car and found the script, or part of it, of "Crash". They decided she was a porn actress and wouldn't let her into the USA.
James Spader looks SUAVE beyond belief ... and Holly Hunter accent is beyond sexy !! The guy who does the introduction is cringe beyond belief though...
Totally agree re the "clever clever" intros to everyone on stage. They must have all cringed inside (I saw eyes rolling). Who the HELL does he think he is???
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.
It is tremendous to be allowed to learn more about this uncommon subject and this brilliant, if unsettling film. For the first time I understood that the people who found car crashes to be so erotic, if I can describe it this way, as people who did not necessarily choose their reactions to this unusual erotic stimuli, as, in fact, many people do not choose. They often have no choice at all. This is, obviously, one of the wonderful Cronenberg films intended for thinking people, and he has made so many that are stunning to watch and about serious subjects that are not addressed in many mainstream films. To everyone reading this, I urge you to see Crash again after hearing what these people had to say, and see all the films Cronenberg has made after Crash. They are invariably stunningly beautiful, (Cronenberg is a great painter of life), and they are intelligent food for your brain. You will be spending your time well.
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.
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.
James Spader is playing a James Spader character in real life!
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.
Love it. James Spader blowin’ smoke in the air…
…and into the journalist’s faces
my sexual orientation is james spader blowin smoke in the air.
So much talk about sex… Whilst missing the point about Crash entirely. Crash is about Trauma. Ballard wrote Crash from the trauma of losing his wife in a sudden short illness. Living alone suddenly with 3 children in the 1960s, how could he find a way to connect with the world again. Crash explores what happens when a traumatic event happens and how you can find others to connect with who have experienced the same thing. Disguised in the car crash. Ballard is telling you his pain behind the veil of something so controversial as to mask his true feelings. He wanted to write a book that would shock the audience and also somehow shock him into feeling something again.
Thank you for this.
I think Ballard said he was in a car crash himself at some point, and that's clearly part of the "autobiographical" aspect of the novel as well.
Excellent comment 🙌
Great comment. Just your opinion? Or based on something we can read and learn more about? Thanks.
There are multiple interviews by Ballard on CZcams and you can listen to his thoughts. Also his Autobiography ‘Miracles of Life’ mentions this. Most of Ballards protagonists are based on him in some way. They often centre around a person coming to terms with the madness they find themselves in. Considering Ballard spent his formative years in a interment camp in Shanghai, 1 year at medical school cutting up cadavers to become a phycologist, There’s no wonder he writes about people coming to terms with the madness they see in the world.
22:00 ... and Robert California was born! Love it!
Finally! I have been waiting to see this for YEARS!!!!!! Thank you so much for the download! EDIT This was great! I saw no controversy or hatred thrown here. Questions were quite polite. Spader was like 'I'm too cool for this,' Cronenberg is quite literally the smartest person in the room and Ballard is blunt as hell! Elias sounds and acts like he hasn't quite shaken off the Vaughan character yet!
22:00 The funniest thing ever said begins
What a group of talent - thank you for sharing
LOVE THIS.
During this video it seemed like Elias Koteas was still inhabiting the Vaughn character (18:00) I kept waiting for him to paw all over Deborah Unger while he answered their questions.
Can't really blame him if he had!
@@thiscorrosion900 I wonder if something was going on between them. She was quite stunning back then and recent photos of her suggest she is still not bad looking for the age of 56. But she has never been married and there is not much out there about her private life.
In 1997, the British edition of "Premiere" had her mentioning that when she was making the film, she tried to drive across from Canada into the US. The US border police checked her car and found the script, or part of it, of "Crash". They decided she was a porn actress and wouldn't let her into the USA.
Love Holly Hunter and her accent
James Spader is an awesome actor. Think he hasn't quite shed the role of James Ballard here.
everyone in this movie is so attractive and it was a joy to watch them wrap themselves in sex and violence in such a way. wonderful film
everyone is smoking hot in this press conference.
great document about one of the greatest and important movies ever made
It is my favourite film of all time...astounding!
James Spader is a stone cold killer 😂.
He only opens his mouth to spit venom or billow plumes of smoke.
Luv him
“We’ve only got 45 minutes I’m afraid.” Takes ten minutes over pompous introductions.
Spot on!
Interesting Discussion. Interested To Watch The Film. Your.make me curious.
Not sure about pompous, but definitely unnecessary
@@kengruz669right! The actors were looking at eachother like, wtf okay ⏳
Smoking suits most to him.. He is aware of that and enjoys it... 🤣
Spader is so fucking cool here!
James Spader looks SUAVE beyond belief ... and Holly Hunter accent is beyond sexy !!
The guy who does the introduction is cringe beyond belief though...
someone likes using "beyond"
Totally agree re the "clever clever" intros to everyone on stage. They must have all cringed inside (I saw eyes rolling). Who the HELL does he think he is???
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.
‘He certainly doesn’t deal in haute couture, unless you want to redefine the notion..’ lmao
Huge Spader fan.... He smokes shamelessly LOL
The host of the table seems like a specialist in making people uncomfortable
God! i love spader
12:40-14:08 bro has to be stoned out of his mind
Amazing material! Thank u so much, how did u get it?
“He‘s got a funny accent.”
real cinema
We are home and dry, Well done
Exactly what I like to see
I think James is saying they were playing Hide the Salami. It was well hidden.
Such awkward introductions
It is tremendous to be allowed to learn more about this uncommon subject and this brilliant, if unsettling film. For the first time I understood that the people who found car crashes to be so erotic, if I can describe it this way, as people who did not necessarily choose their reactions to this unusual erotic stimuli, as, in fact, many people do not choose. They often have no choice at all. This is, obviously, one of the wonderful Cronenberg films intended for thinking people, and he has made so many that are stunning to watch and about serious subjects that are not addressed in many mainstream films. To everyone reading this, I urge you to see Crash again after hearing what these people had to say, and see all the films Cronenberg has made after Crash. They are invariably stunningly beautiful, (Cronenberg is a great painter of life), and they are intelligent food for your brain. You will be spending your time well.
Cronenberg is a great painter of much more than life. Nightmares, he does, beautifully, as well.
22:48 knock-out the journalis
19:20 - Deborah Unger wondering what Elias Koteas is going to come out with next...
33:20 very prescient
Deborah looks like the spitting image of Ava Gardner
miss lisa from variety at 35:29 gets it so bad omg
Deborah Unger and Elias____. What happened
12:41
4:33
No wonder Spader and RDjr were friends. They are cut from the same cloth.
Accidents never happen. Many people were offended by the obscene bizarre remarks about Jackie O .
Wow James Spader really was full of himself wasn't he? Hopefully he's come back down to earth in his old age.
Interviews are boring. Film is a masterpiece.
Best damn Cannes interview yet for me! I think pretty much everyone was thoughtful, sincere, and in some cases, hot!!!
Those Finnish interviewers so drab and joyless, uninteresting cliche machines, both of them
they aren't having sex. lol! maybe WITH machines, or their cars. There's a newer movie about that as well!
Can the introductions be cornier and more offensive? Deus!
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.
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.
You posted this on another Crash video. Really missed out on this film I think - not sure what you were looking for in it if this was your takeaway…
@teenage-fanclubIt could've been copy and paste ChatGPT for all we know.