Crash (Criterion Collection) - DVD

After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his S*x life with his wife.Crash is about the strange lure of the auto collision, provoking as it does the human fascination with death and the tendency to eroticize danger. Most motorists will slow down to stare at the scene of a collision they may feel their pulses quickening and become aware of the fragility of their own bodies. The characters of Crash carry this awareness a step further, cherishing and nurturing it. For them, a car collision is a sexual turn-on, and a jolting life force they come to crave.

Writer/director David Cronenberg's explicit, controversial adaptation of the J.G. Ballard novel stars James Spader and Holly Hunter as lovers who literally meet by accident, in a highway collision. Their affair draws them into a sexual subculture of fetishists where man and machine, pain and pleasure, and even life and death come together. With Elias Koteas, Rosanna Arquette, Deborah Kara Unger. 100 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack English DTS HD 5.1 Master Audio; Subtitles English (SDH); audio commentary by Cronenberg; behind-the-scenes footage; interviews; theatrical trailers; more.

The final film from director Stanley Kubrick is an eerily detached exploration of eroticism and obsession, based on the 1926 German novella "Dream Story" by Arthur Schnitzler. An argument on fidelity with his wife Alice (Nicole Kidman) sends Dr. Bill Harford (Tom Cruise) wandering into the Manhattan streets and into a variety of sexually-charged scenarios, culminating in a visit to a secret, upper-class orgy that could have dangerous consequences. Sydney Pollack, Todd Field, Marie Richardson, Alan Cumming also star. 159 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks English DTS HD 5.1 Master Audio; Subtitles English (SDH); documentaries; featurettes; theatrical trailers; more