James Spader is playing a James Spader character in real life!

22:00 ... and Robert California was born! Love it!

Love it. James Spader blowin’ smoke in the air…

So much talk about sex… Whilst missing the point about Crash entirely. Crash is about Trauma. Ballard wrote Crash from the trauma of losing his wife in a sudden short illness. Living alone suddenly with 3 children in the 1960s, how could he find a way to connect with the world again. Crash explores what happens when a traumatic event happens and how you can find others to connect with who have experienced the same thing. Disguised in the car crash. Ballard is telling you his pain behind the veil of something so controversial as to mask his true feelings. He wanted to write a book that would shock the audience and also somehow shock him into feeling something again.

Wonderful! Crash would not be made today. And this kind of candid, intelligent conversation about any film is long gone. I don't really do 'heroes'. But I have a handful of them, and to see two of them (Ballard and Cronenberg) speaking at the same table is a rare treat. I miss the 90s. I miss Jim Ballard.

Finally! I have been waiting to see this for YEARS!!!!!! Thank you so much for the download! EDIT This was great! I saw no controversy or hatred thrown here. Questions were quite polite. Spader was like 'I'm too cool for this,' Cronenberg is quite literally the smartest person in the room and Ballard is blunt as hell! Elias sounds and acts like he hasn't quite shaken off the Vaughan character yet!

22:00 The funniest thing ever said begins

Love Holly Hunter and her accent

What a group of talent - thank you for sharing

James Spader is an awesome actor. Think he hasn't quite shed the role of James Ballard here.

LOVE THIS. During this video it seemed like Elias Koteas was still inhabiting the Vaughn character (18:00) I kept waiting for him to paw all over Deborah Unger while he answered their questions.

“We’ve only got 45 minutes I’m afraid.” Takes ten minutes over pompous introductions.

everyone in this movie is so attractive and it was a joy to watch them wrap themselves in sex and violence in such a way. wonderful film

great document about one of the greatest and important movies ever made

‘He certainly doesn’t deal in haute couture, unless you want to redefine the notion..’ lmao

Oh my. What a raucous and fantastic and sizzling press conference with everyone still warm from the frisson of the controversial screening. I would've loved to be there, for the screening and this conference and any after-parties.

James Spader looks SUAVE beyond belief ... and Holly Hunter accent is beyond sexy !! The guy who does the introduction is cringe beyond belief though...

everyone is smoking hot in this press conference.

Smoking suits most to him.. He is aware of that and enjoys it... 🤣

Huge Spader fan.... He smokes shamelessly LOL

God! i love spader

James Spader is a stone cold killer 😂. He only opens his mouth to spit venom or billow plumes of smoke. Luv him

The host of the table seems like a specialist in making people uncomfortable

We are home and dry, Well done

12:40-14:08 bro has to be stoned out of his mind

Amazing material! Thank u so much, how did u get it?

“He‘s got a funny accent.”

real cinema

Exactly what I like to see

I think James is saying they were playing Hide the Salami. It was well hidden.

Such awkward introductions

It is tremendous to be allowed to learn more about this uncommon subject and this brilliant, if unsettling film. For the first time I understood that the people who found car crashes to be so erotic, if I can describe it this way, as people who did not necessarily choose their reactions to this unusual erotic stimuli, as, in fact, many people do not choose. They often have no choice at all. This is, obviously, one of the wonderful Cronenberg films intended for thinking people, and he has made so many that are stunning to watch and about serious subjects that are not addressed in many mainstream films. To everyone reading this, I urge you to see Crash again after hearing what these people had to say, and see all the films Cronenberg has made after Crash. They are invariably stunningly beautiful, (Cronenberg is a great painter of life), and they are intelligent food for your brain. You will be spending your time well.

22:48 knock-out the journalis

Deborah Unger and Elias____. What happened

miss lisa from variety at 35:29 gets it so bad omg

19:20 - Deborah Unger wondering what Elias Koteas is going to come out with next...

33:20 very prescient

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Accidents never happen. Many people were offended by the obscene bizarre remarks about Jackie O .

Deborah looks like the spitting image of Ava Gardner

Wow James Spader really was full of himself wasn't he? Hopefully he's come back down to earth in his old age.

No wonder Spader and RDjr were friends. They are cut from the same cloth.

Interviews are boring. Film is a masterpiece.

Those Finnish interviewers so drab and joyless, uninteresting cliche machines, both of them

I think it's nonsense though that the movie couldn't be done in a regular system, it was done and was distributed as with any other commercial film, or Cronenberg film. Honestly, what a load of bullshit! I saw it opening night at the Angelika Film Center in NYC. That was pretty mainstream.

Can the introductions be cornier and more offensive? Deus!

Ok I watched it, and despite the good technical aspects like camera work, editing, sound mixing, that was a high-budget fetish film with zero plot. Nothing against being an individualistic, unapologetic director, but you can't just call it art because there's perversity in it.