CRASH - DAVID CRONENBERG

Directed by David Cronenberg
Canada/USA, 1996, 1h 40min, 35mm

“Cronenberg has made a movie that is pornographic in form, but not in result. Take out the cars, the scars, the crutches and scabs and wounds, and substitute the usual props of sex films, and you’d have a porno movie. But CRASH is anything but pornographic: It’s about the human mind, about the way we grow enslaved by the particular things that turn us on, and forgive ourselves our trespasses.”
—Roger Ebert

David Cronenberg’s visceral, bizarre, and sexually transgressive adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s novel about people who are erotically obsessed with car crashes and their aftermath screens with a special appearance by author Violet Lucca at the 7/24 show. Copies of Lucca’s book Cronenberg: Clinical Trials will be on sale at a special First Light Books pop-up in our lobby. In 35mm.

• write up by Austin Film Society

Ticket
Trailer
Discussion venue AFTER the screening Yellow Ranger

Meetup Structure
1: Meet at the lobby of the theater with other members prior to the screening. (Look for movie poster, Deserto Rosso: poster image link )

2: If you missed or arrived late then meet the Event Host who will wait for all the participants to converge in the lobby after the screening at the same spot.

3: The group will proceed to the designated hangout space for the discussion.