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- Ms. 45 (1981) The rape-revenge arc and hard-boiled title may root Ms. 45 in the exploitation tradition, but Ferrara’s vision is far more audacious. Zoe Lund plays Thana, the picture’s avenging angel, exacting random and violent retribution on the men of New York.
- Fear City (1984) Though lacking the rich thematic textures that would come to define his later narratives of urban grit, Fear City is the quintessential early Ferrara policier – a lurid chronicle of nocturnal misdeeds, awash with salaciousness.
- King of New York (1990) Unlike the work of many of his contemporaries, Ferrara’s films are not derailed by big performances – they adjust to them. The best examples filter the director’s thematic concerns through performances of unhinged grandeur.
- Bad Lieutenant (1992) With Bad Lieutenant, Ferrara equated the death drive of his protagonist with that of New York itself, entwining the fate of both the man and the city.
Nov 25, 2021 · Ferrara has navigated nearly every creative obstacle one can think of over the course of his fifty-year career: addictions that nearly killed him, feuds that fed into his bad-boy image, controversies that derailed his meteoric rise, and the fact that hiring him was, at one point, considered a professional liability.
Aug 23, 2024 · Iconic American filmmaker Abel Ferrara discusses blood-dripping crucifixes, black-and-white cinema and the “forever” of da Vinci.
May 10, 2019 · Drama. 87 minutes ‧ 2019. Matt Zoller Seitz. May 10, 2019. 8 min read. A love letter from one iconoclastic Italian Catholic artist to another, Abel Ferrara ‘s “Pasolini” stays far from the cliches of the Hollywood biopic, embracing a fragmented, intense, impressionistic approach.
Jan 21, 2020 · Tue Jan 21 2020 - 05:00. More than any other filmmaker, even those anointed by Cahiers du Cinéma at its peak, the American writer-director Abel Ferrara requires a degree of Francophone framing....
May 13, 2019 · Given the assignment to interview Ferrara in conjunction with his month-long MoMA retrospective, Louison responded with a five-part personal memoir that tracks the impact of the director and his work on his own life. Check back each day this week for the next in the series.
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Sep 4, 2015 · When Abel Ferrara discovered the films of Pier Paolo Pasolini, it was 1971 and the great subversive Italian director was still alive.
