The twelfth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1996 features our future cult classic pick, David Cronenberg’s Crash. Written and directed by David Cronenberg (based on J.G. Ballard’s novel) and starring James Spader, Holly Hunter, Deborah Kara Unger, Elias Koteas and Rosanna Arquette, Crash was awarded a Special Jury Prize at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/crash-1997), Janet Maslin in the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/21/movies/an-orgy-of-bent-fenders-and-bent-love.html), and Owen Gleiberman in Entertainment Weekly (https://ew.com/article/1997/03/28/crash-8/).

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