Siberia
With Siberia (2020) renegade auteur Abel Ferrara returns too familiar ground. The director continues to obsess over the means by which regret and guilt can fracture the human spirit. Clint… Read more »
Tag: Abel Ferrara
Body Snatchers
Robert H. Solo followed up his 1978 production of Invasion Of The Body Snatchers with the quasi-sequel/remake Body Snatchers (1993). Body Snatchers wasn’t the hit its more famous predecessors were,… Read more »
Ms. 45
Ms .45 (1981) tells the familiar exploitation narrative about a woman who is raped several times in the course of a day and as a result begins killing would-be assailants… Read more »
Pasolini
Here are those times recreatedby the brutal force of sun-drenched images:the light of live tragedy. -from Pier Paolo Pasolini’s poem Tears Abel Ferrara’s Pasolini (2014) could be about any filmmaker… Read more »
The Ms. 45 Soundtrack
This is one of my favorite records and I think that it is worth discussing in-depth: The Death Waltz Recording Company release of Joe Delia’s soundtrack to Abel Ferrara’s Ms. 45 from… Read more »
A Pair Of Book Reviews
On Tuesday, May 9th, 2017 two stories broke on my facebook feed. One was from indiewire that detailed David Lynch’s “retirement” from making films (2006’s Inland Empire is to be… Read more »
Fear City
Abel Ferrara’s career, and more importantly his influence upon the American cinema, has almost exclusively been within the vernacular of the genre film. Most consistently, he has worked within the… Read more »
