David Cronenberg’s Cannes Special Jury Prize-winning 1996 erotic fetish thriller “Crash,” now over two decades old, is making a comeback and this time it’s not holding back.
Recorded Picture Company and Turbine Media Group have reportedly completed work on a 4K restoration of “Crash” supervised by Cronenberg and director of photography Peter Suschitzky and based on the original negative of the film.
Multiple film experts were reportedly employed to oversee the transfer and ensure grain structure and detail were carefully preserved. Said restoration is of the uncut NC-17 version of the film and will have its world premiere at this year’s Venice Film Festival before heading out for worldwide distribution afterwards.
Based on the novel by J.G. Ballard, the story begins when a serious car accident leads to James Ballard (James Spader) discovering an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who get off on the raw sexual energy car accidents produce. He uses this to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife (Deborah Kara Unger). Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas, Rosanna Arquette and Peter MacNeill co-starred.
Talk of the restoration comes as Ed Zwick’s 1989 war drama “Glory” coming to 4K disc this week with stunning reviews being published for that film’s similarly careful restoration.
Source: The Playlist
