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TOP NOTCH FERRARA

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2008-02-05 06:16:00 by Steve Langton in The Last Picture Show
...Ferrara, I'm hard pushed to select any individual title as being his best work to date, but THE ADDICTION has to be very close to representing this director at the peak of his powers. While I'd love to see a fully loaded special edition of this film hit DVD, this looks unlikely at best. Let's just keep our fingers crossed and hope My first...
 
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DIRECTORS ABEL FERRARA AND WILLIAM LUSTIG TO APPEAR AT "VIGILANTE" FILM FESTIVAL THIS WEEK IN NY

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2008-08-20 21:31:23 by Cinema Retro in Celebrating Films of the 1960s & 1970s
...Ferrara Director in person Saturday 8/23 MS. 45 1981, 80 min, 35mm. With Zoë Lund and Abel Ferrara (as 1st Rapist This early-1980s cult classic still stands as a potent and uniquely feminist entry in the urban revenge subgenre. Mute fashion seamstress Thana is raped twice within the films first 15 minutes. After killing the second rapist,...
 
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The Filmmaker Overview Essay

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2008-10-06 00:35:00 by girish in girish
...Ferrara Most great directors have signatures: Max Ophuls expansively tracking camera, Hou Hsiao-hsiens static long shot-long takes, Jean-Luc Godards montage-mix of sampled and interrupted sound sources. But Ferrara? There is no consistent affectation, no recognisable manner in his prodigious forms. In the prolific 90s, especially, diversity...
 
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New Yorxploitation

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2006-03-27 11:40:16 by Editor in Cinephiliac
...Ferrara is one of those two-fisted screen bards that always follows through on each sucker punch, his heart beating with Sam Fuller's blood. His scorching morality plays and tainted-psyche humanizations are raw nerves exposed and chewed through, like a naked tornado called Hyde to Scorsese's more calculated risk-taker Jekyll. However, what...
 
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Through a Lens Darkly

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2008-02-06 09:15:00 by Joe in Fin de cinema
...Ferrara - 2005 - Italy/USA/France I've often joked that Abel Ferrara, like Sam Fuller before him, isn't so much "an American filmmaker" as he is the French's idea of "an American filmmaker." He's pulpy and seedy, particularly when addressing issues of philosophy, spirituality and religion. It's only now dawned on me that more than just that,...
 
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2007: Year in Review

2008-01-01 23:05:00 by Sachin G. in Scribbles and Ramblings
 
...Ferrara -- part I , part II & III Antonioni Chaplin Jacques Becker David Cronenberg Japan Turkey Alejandro Jodorowsky Francesco Rosi Greece Bollywood Hong Kong And ofcourse, there was the matter of the two film festivals CIFF VIFF Full list of films seen in 2007 (roughly in order of viewing Comments/reviews of atleast 350 films...
 
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Please Tell Me I Am Hallucinating

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2008-05-16 07:23:00 by Jeremy Richey in Moon In The Gutter
...Ferrara's beautifully bold 1992 masterpiece Bad Lieutenant , a movie in my eyes which is among the finest in all of American cinema. The film, which started out from an original script by Zoe Lund (something that isn't mentioned enough), remains one of the most memorable theatrical theater experiences I have ever had and one of the most...
 
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Fear the city when Ms. 45 takes on The Driller Killer

2008-07-12 22:14:00 by Sachin in Scribbles and Ramblings
 
...Ferrara made his feature directorial debut in 1979 with The Driller Killer and followed that in 1981 with Ms. 45 . Even though the titular characters in both films start their killing sprees via different circumstances, they eventually start enjoying their murders. The random nature of their murders create fear in the city, so it is not a...
 
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KING FOR SEPTEMBER

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2008-07-17 11:45:00 by Steve Langton in The Last Picture Show
...Ferrara buffs should mark the 22nd of September in their diary. That's when Arrow Films will be releasing a 2 disc special edition of THE KING OF NEW YORK . On disc one, the film will be presented in an anamorphic widescreen transfer with Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo and 5.0 surround audio. There will be two commentary tracks: one from Ferrara,...
 
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The Worst Police Officer New York's Ever Had

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2006-03-27 23:24:00 by Brian in Hell on Frisco Bay
...Ferrara film Bad Lieutenant . Here's a link to an mp3 of a live recording o