SHOW NOTES:  

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“The Examined Life Is Not Worth Living Either” by Michiko Kakutani, NY Times, Sept. 20, 1994

“New Line to Join Ted Turner Empire Today: Film: With more money, the company is likely to add a few big movies to its annual production schedule” by James Bates, LA Times, Jan. 28, 1994

“Alternative Rockers Think Big, Uneasily” by Jon Pareles, NY Times, October 22, 1995

“Crash Rocks Cannes” Los Angeles Times, May 18, 1996

“Cronenberg Tries to Clear Crash Site” by Louise Bateman. Hollywood Reporter, May 20, 1996

“CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK: Cannes Finally Gets a Noisy Controversy” by Janet Maslin, NYTimes, May 20, 1996 

Cannes Coverage: “Mike Leigh Film Takes Top Festival Honors, Again” by Kenneth Turan, LA Times, May 21, 1996 

“Secrets and Lies’ Wins the Top Prize at Cannes” by Janet Maslin, NY Times, May 21, 1996

Crash Cannes press conference, 1996 

Siskel & Ebert: Crash, 1996 

“Fine Line Faces Crash test” by Colin Brown, Screen International, May 24, 1996

Cronenberg and Ballard: Talking Crash 1996

“Planes, Trains & Auto(erotic)mobiles” by Elizabeth Pincus, LA Weekly, May 31 1996

“No Clash Over Crash NC-17” by Dan Cox, Variety May 31, 1996

“Swept Away” by Georgia Brown, Village Voice, June 4, 1996

“Ace of Spader” by Dennis Hensley, Detour Magazine, September 1996

“Director defends ‘perverted’ film” by Dalya Alberge, The Times of London, November 9, 1996

“Canada’s ‘Crash’ Hit Doesn’t Fly England, U.S., Others Leery Of Shocking Film” by Howard Schneider, Washington Post, November 30, 1996

“No smooth ride for explicit ‘Crash’” CNN, November 22, 1996 

“Canada’s ‘Crash’ Hit Doesn’t Fly England, U.S., Others Leery Of Shocking Film” by Howard Schneider, Washington Post, November 30, 1996 

“Crash Barriers and Chinese Walls” by Charles Fleming, LA Weekly, December 6, 1996

“Censors to allow Crash to be screened in Britain” The Sunday Times of London, Dec 22 1996

“The Road To “Crash” by Tom Shone, New Yorker, March 9, 1997 

“A Director Collides With the Proprieties” by Anthony Depalma, NY Times, March 19, 1997

“Crash Controversy” Los Angeles Times, March 21 1997

“Cronenberg on a ‘Crash’ Course With Eroticism” by Kenneth Turan, LA Times, March 21, 1997 

“`Crash’ Appeal No Accident / Sex, death and David Cronenberg make for a daring mix” by Edward Guthmann, SF Gate, March 21, 1997 

“Sex & Wrecks” by Wade Major, Entertainment Today, March 21 1997

Crash Review by Roger Ebert, March 21, 1997 

“Cold Leatherette” by Manhols Dargis, LA Weekly, March 24, 1997

“Crash’-ing The Theaters” Variety, March 24, 1997

“Kiss, Kiss—Kaboom! Some of today’s millennial filmmakers seem obsessed with sex and death as the ultimate highs” by Jack Kroll. Newsweek March 24, 1997

“Crash Test” by Amy Taubin, Village Voice, March 25, 1997

“An Orgy of Bent Fenders and Bent Love” by Janet Maslin, NY Times, March 21, 1997 

“Unsettling Visions Of the Erotic” by Stephen Holden, NYTimes, March 30, 1997 

“Just What Is the Film ‘Crash’ Driving At?” by Sallie Tisdale, LA Times, April 5, 1997 

“Set for collision” by David Cronenberg and J. G. Ballard, Index on Censorship, Volume 26, Issue Pages3-223, May 3 1997 

“Crash burned in West End” by Adam Dawtrey, Variety, May 22, 1997

“Star Vehicle” Time Out London, May 28, 1997 

“Home Video” by Peter M. Nichols, NYTimes, Dec. 12, 1997 

“Crash: The Family-Values Edition” Robs Movie Vault 

“Dead Man’s Curve: David Cronenberg’s ‘Crash,’ 25 Years After Cannes” by Adam Nayman  May 20, 2021 

“Yours extremely, David Cronenberg and Bruce Wagner” by Cronenberg, David; Wagner, Bruce. Interview. Aug 1996, p64-64. 1p. 

“A Director Collides With the Proprieties” by Anthony Depalma, NYTimes, March 19, 1997 

“Mind Over Matter: David Cronenberg Interviewed WIth the release of Crash, Canada’s radical scientist reflects on his style and psyche” by Gavin Smith, Film Comment,  March-April 1997 

A Chronology: Key Moments In The Clinton-Lewinsky Saga, All Politics, CNN, 1998

“Carnal Knowledge” by Dennis Lim, Village Voice, September 11, 2002

“David Cronenberg’s Body Language” by Jonathan Dee, NYTimes, Sept. 18, 2005 

http://www.dvdexotica.com/2015/05/cronenbergs-crash-lost-criterion.html

“Cronenberg Says Coppola Didn’t Want Him to Win a Cannes Jury Prize for ‘Crash’ in 1996 According to David Cronenberg, Cannes jury president Francis Ford Coppola was “totally against” his controversial J.G. Ballard adaptation” by Ryan Lattanzio, Indiewire.Com, August 13, 2020 

“David Cronenberg: ‘Movies Were Made for Sex’” by Charles Bromesco The Guardian, Feb 27, 2020 

https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Crash-(1996)#tab=summary

“David Cronenberg’s Dreams and Nightmares” by Adam Nayman, The New Yorker, June 3, 2022

Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America Paperback by Elizabeth Wurtzel

“Ever More Experimental: Crash” from David Cronenberg: Interviews with Serge Grunberg

The Artist as Monster: The Cinema of David Cronenberg by William Beard

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