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Home Tag Archives: abel ferrara

Tag Archives: abel ferrara

Tommaso

By Jake Cole
June 7, 2020
in :  Film, Film Reviews, Recommended

An anomaly in Ferrara’s filmmaking in that its character is not the embodiment of his milieu but an outsider struggling to fit into a different place.

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Rediscover: The Addiction

By Jake Cole
March 11, 2019
in :  Features, Film, Revisit-Rediscover

Epitomizes Ferrara’s ability to wring exceptional formal rigor out of shoestring budgets and a style that remains fundamentally gritty and street-level.

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Ms. 45

By Pat Padua
December 17, 2013
in :  Film, Film Reviews, Recommended, Recommended

[xrr rating=4.0/5]Thana (Zoë Lund, then known as Zoë Tamerlis) works as a seamstress in Midtown Manhattan’s Garment District. Pretty, mousy, and mute, she declines an invitation to hang out with her female coworkers. She pays a high cost for shunning the sisterhood. Drafthouse Films has distributed wildly different and essential cinema in the past few years, from the rediscovered Taekwondo-Ninja …

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Re-Make/Re-Model: Bad Lieutenant (1992) vs. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)

By Nathan Kamal
July 22, 2012
in :  Features, Film, Re-Make/Re-Model

Remakes have been around nearly as long as Hollywood itself, and not always for the reasons or with the results you’d think. Spectrum Culture’s new feature Re-Make/Re-Model will examine the long history of cinematic remakes, the good movies turned great, the bad ideas turned worse and the weird ones turned boring. Of all movies to remake, Bad Lieutenant has to …

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Re-Make/Re-Model: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) vs. Body Snatchers (1993)

By Jesse Cataldo
May 6, 2012
in :  Features, Film, Re-Make/Re-Model

Remakes have been around nearly as long as Hollywood itself, and not always for the reasons or with the results you’d think. Spectrum Culture’s new feature Re-Make/Re-Model will examine the long history of cinematic remakes, the good movies turned great, the bad ideas turned worse and the weird ones turned boring. Don Siegel’s version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers …

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4:44 Last Day on Earth

By Trevor Link
March 27, 2012
in :  Film, Film Reviews, Recommended, Recommended

[xrr rating=4.25/5]One of last year’s major films was Lars von Trier’s Melancholia, which depicted the end of life on Earth. This year, Abel Ferrara’s apocalyptic drama 4:44 Last Day on Earth deserves, but probably won’t get, similar attention. Despite some similarities, including most curiously ending on a fade to white, these are two rather different films. They have perhaps little …

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Chelsea on the Rocks

By Teri Carson
October 10, 2009
in :  Film, Film Reviews

Chelsea on the Rocks Dir: Abel Ferrara Rating 3.5/5.0 Aliquot Films 88 Minutes It’s fitting that Abel Ferrara, the man behind edgy tales about New York’s underbelly (Bad Lieutenant, King of New York) and a notoriously unreliable and undisciplined director, would salute the history of Manhattan’s legendary bohemian abode of debauchery. The free-form, erratic and absorbing Chelsea on the Rocks …

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