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  1. lark144

    Criterion Press Release: Crash (Blu-ray)

    I think this is Croneberg's greatest film. It's meant to provoke and challenge and disturb. Unlike his earlier films of biological horror, which exist on the outside of a phenomena, and are almost Grand Guignol in some of their effects, this is purely internal; but an internal state one might...
  2. lark144

    Criterion Press Release: Crash (Blu-ray)

    In my particular cinematic universe, this is the only "Crash" that exists. It would be funny, though, to be a fly on the wall in someone's home theater, someone who rented Croneberg's "Crash" by accident, and wondering why this film is set in Toronto and who are these strange actors obsessing...
  3. lark144

    Criterion Press Release: Crash (Blu-ray)

    I've been multi-region for a long time and was planning on getting the Arrow. But I have to see that Q&A with Ballard! It's a must-have for me. And yes, there are plenty of people who are region locked.
  4. lark144

    Criterion Press Release: Crash (Blu-ray)

    I am not yet 4K ready, and because of funds, I may never be, so that aspect doesn't concern me. And while it's true the Arrow has a bunch of interviews with crew members and an essay about Toronto (none of which I really care about) not found on the Criterion, the one extra on the Criterion...
  5. lark144

    Criterion Press Release: Crash (Blu-ray)

    I talked to J.G. Ballard once at a book signing about the French introduction to "Crash", where he insisted that the book is "highly moral". Apparently, Jean Baudrillard wrote J.G. Ballard a letter in which he said that "Crash" was not only completely immoral, but "a concentrated act of rage"...
  6. lark144

    Criterion Press Release: Crash (Blu-ray)

    It helps a lot if you read the book, which is both a lot more outrageous, and yet more matter of fact, than the movie is. The film is an amazing adaptation, putting a lot on the screen that one wouldn't have thought possible, but the book itself is a dark masterpiece--subversive, perverse, a...
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