Crash by David Cronenberg

The script to Cronenberg’s 1996 adaptation of J G Ballard novel of the same name. Featuring an introductory interview with Chris Rodley and some great black and white stills from the film. The Daily Mail would launch a crusade to get Cronenberg’s film banned in the United Kingdom, succeeding only in one London borough—Westminster—whose denizens had to make the arduous trek to neighboring Camden to see it in a cinema. And this mixed-message moral panic came after the competition judges of the Cannes Film Festival had already awarded the film a Special Jury Prize—from which disapproving jury president Francis Ford Coppola pointedly distanced himself.

The film is currently available to stream on Tubi and also available on special blu ray editions put out by both Criterion and Arrow Films. Highly recommend checking out Jessica Kiang’s brillant essay too on the criterion website: ‘Crash: The Wreck of the Century’.

Paperback

Published by Faber and Faber

First Edition, printed in 1996