Tag: abelferrara
Interview: Abel Ferrara Talks Pandemic Film ZEROS AND ONES, Recalls Cult Classic MS .45
At 70, Abel Ferrara lives with his partner Cristina Chiriac and their little daughter Anna in Rome, Italy. Far from the city that made him a legendary filmmaker, he makes fictions and documentaries with absolute creative freedom, personal works that...
CENSOR Interview: Prano Bailey-Bond Talks Video Nasties and Horror As a Cathartic Experience
Director Prano Bailey-Bond's acclaimed horror film is now streaming on Hulu.
Locarno 2021 Review: ZEROS AND ONES, Abel Ferrara Destroys Vatican, Spy Thrillers in Perplexing Pandemic Film
Ethan Hawke stars in Abel Ferrara's puzzling punk spy thriller.
SPARE PARTS Interview: Director Andrew Thomas Hunt on Finding Balance Between Entertainment and Exploitation
In Spare Parts, Andrew Thomas Hunt’s second directorial effort, an emerging all-female punk rock band from Canada – called Ms .45 – is touring the United States. Not long after one of their seedy bar gigs turns into a brawl, the four...
Review: SIBERIA, Willem Dafoe on an Abel Ferrara Roller Coaster
Willem Dafoe, Dounia Sichov and Simon McBurney star in a European horror fantasy, directed by Abel Ferrara.
Sundance 2021 Review: CENSOR, The Danger Of Confusing Fiction With Reality
One of the most popular arguments to despise horror films and related genres – in their most violent and explicit incarnations – is that they can inspire atrocities in real life. It's a thought as old as the films with...
Review: TOMMASO Stars a Riveting Willem Dafoe As Abel Ferrara Stand-In
The unexamined life is not worth living. The half-examined life isn’t worth living either or - to be more accurate - isn’t worth documenting in narrative film, let alone a character study with a two-hour running time and a loose,...
Berlinale 2020 Review: SIBERIA, Carnivalesque Therapy Session Turned Divine Journey
Willem Dafoe stars in Abel Ferrara's Rorschach of a film that might and might not be a satire of expressionist psychoanalytical drama.
Cannes 2019 Interview: Abel Ferrara and TOMMASO
Like Harvey Keitel in Bad Lieutenant, Abel Ferrara is an artist who’s never been afraid to let it all hang out. In fact, I can think of few filmmakers more ready, willing and capable of cinematically exorcising personal demons in...
Euro Beat: NSFW Trailer And Release News About Abel Ferrara's WELCOME TO NEW YORK
Also in today's Eurobeat: Project news from Ben Wheatly and Paolo Sorrentino, a closer look at Spain's new box-office juggernaut, and more!...
Drafthouse Films Shares A Clip & New Poster For Abel Ferrara's MS .45
Drafthouse Films has been developing a habit of picking up cult oddities and giving them another theatrical run and remastered home entertainment releases. Today begins the theatrical run of Abel Ferrera's Ms .45. You will find it at Alamo Drafthouses...
MS. 45 Ready To Deliver Vengeance (Again) In New HOBO-ish Trailer
Abel Ferrara's grotty grindhouse classic Ms. 45 is returning to select theaters on December 13, ahead of its release to the home video market, all courtesy of Drafthouse Films. To prime the pump, so to speak, a new trailer for...
Watch An Exclusive Clip From Abel Ferrara's 4:44 LAST DAY ON EARTH
Abel Ferrara ushers in the end of the world in starkly realistic fashion with his Willem Dafoe starring 4:44 Last Day On Earth. Less concerned with what causes the end than how people prepare to meet it this one is...
Willem DaFoe Witnesses Abel Ferrara's Apocalypse: 4:44 LAST DAY ON EARTH
"At 4:44am tomorrow morning there will be no survivors. The world will end." It certainly feels like we should have caught this last year to go in with the handful of personal apocalypse films of 2011: Take Shelter, Melancholia, Another Earth,...
Sitges 2011: 4:44 LAST DAY ON EARTH Review
Abel Ferrera is not a director known for overly sensitive work; at least, not sensitivity in the conventional sense. Which is why 4:44 Last Day on Earth is something of a surprise. Like Ferrera's past work, it delves into the...
New Shot And Poster Art From Ferrara's 4:44 LAST DAY ON EARTH
Abel Ferrara makes a return to the Venice Film Festival with his end of the world drama 4:44 Last Day On Earth. In a large apartment high above the city lives our couple. They're in love. She's a painter, he's...
