Film Screening: Crash (David Cronenberg • 1996 • R18)

Join Canterbury Film Society for our final screening of 2023 with David Cronenberg’s cult classic: Crash (1996 • 100 mins • Canada • R18)

“For this icily erotic fusion of flesh and machine, David Cronenberg adapted JG Ballard’s future-shock novel of the 1970s into one of the most singular and provocative films of the 1990s. A traffic collision involving a disaffected commercial producer, James (James Spader), and an enigmatic doctor, Helen (Holly Hunter), brings them, along with James’s wife, Catherine (Deborah Kara Unger, in a sublimely detached performance), together in a crucible of blood and broken glass – and it’s not long before they are all initiated into a kinky, death-obsessed underworld of sadomasochistic car-crash fetishists for whom twisted metal and scar tissue are the ultimate turn-ons.” — Criterion

Please note that this film is rated R18.

The Canterbury Film Society offers weekly screenings of top-quality films – arthouse, classic, cult, documentary, world cinema and more – on the big screen. We screen on Monday night at 7.30pm, doors open 7.00pm with drinks and home-baked food for purchase.

This is a Film Society Members Only screening - but new members are warmly welcome. Go to www.canterburyfilmsociety.org.nz to see membership options (including 3-film Flexipasses for $40, as well as Half Year and Full Membership). Join and pay online, or bring along cash (eftpos not available) and sign up at the membership table before the film.

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