Abel Ferrara

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petergunn said:
it's worth tracking down the entire version of this, by far the funniest director commentary i've ever heard, and really gets across what a complete fucking character Ferrara is...
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holy shit, you haven't been here in forever (that I've noticed, anyway), Peter!
 
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Abel Ferrara is set to begin production on his latest feature, “American Nails,” a modern gangster story inspired by ancient tragedy that stars Asia Argento and Willem Dafoe, Variety has learned.

According to the producers, “American Nails” charts “the rise and fall of this modern Phaedra, in a tale set in the gangster world of primal violence, power and revenge. This no-holds-barred retelling of Euripides’ masterpiece pits Argento against the male-dominated remnants of power and entitlement, in the shadow of the Roman Empire in contemporary Italy.”
 
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He recently went to Ukraine to make what was inevitably going to be a piece of shit, a documentary on the war interspersed with Patti Smith reading poetry... Who was asking for that? Anyway, the fun part is he apparently had a meltdown at the premiere during a Q&A where he spent half the time on his phone and the other half insulting the people asking questions, including telling a Ukrainian man to shoot him after he criticised the film.
 
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FERRARA: Who the fuck knows? I have no fucking clue. Fury Road is kind of the fucking vibe I want to get.

O’CONNOR: Sick.

FERRARA: Fury Road meets Ulysses meets straight up gangster Guinea fucking trashy shit down there.



O’CONNOR: And you’ve got Willem [Defoe] in it?

FERRARA: Yeah. I couldn’t believe he wanted to do it.

O’CONNOR: How many films have you made together? Six or seven?

FERRARA: I stopped counting.
 
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ABEL FERRARA — They say Steve Jobs tried to stay humble. Did you hear what his last words were? “Oh, wow. Wow. Oh, wow.” Something like that.

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a conversation with Spencer Sweeney interview by SPENCER SWEENEY photography by ANNABEL MEHRAN Abel Ferrara's new film, 4:44 — Last Day on Earth,
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Is he actually any good? I've seen (and enjoyed) Bad Lieutenant and King of New York, but nothing aside from that and everything else of his seems to be polarising at best. I was surprised to see him pop up with the recent stuff with Dafoe too; I've always thought of him as very raw and sleazy and suddenly he's got three in a row with arty posters and about Pasolini and struggling artists and dreams.

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Do you go back and read this post and get chills?
 
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This was before the movie, I was in the lobby in line for a water and Modine and Ferrara were 5 feet from me talking to people, the programmer came over and kept asking them to do the intro, and so I ditched the line as I saw them go in to do the intro. Modine said some stuff and was a bit more enthusiastic, then he gave the mic to Ferrara who just mostly said “yea the shoot was pretty crazy during and after” and then “and there’s not gonna be no Q&A after, so you don’t have to think of any question” then he just walked out. Once the movie finished, some people left, but most were just watching the credits when the programmer in the back said “there’s not going to be a q&a, sorry” and then everyone shuffled out.
 
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rewatched the funeral tonight. it was a very timely viewing, given that I had just recently done my yearly rewatch of the first two godfather films. while coppola's gangster masterpieces are grander, and more polished in scale, ferrara's masterpiece is a very grim bookend, it is a film that much more forwardly interested in the catholic guilt looming over the greasy guineas of new york. dark, brooding, full of deceit, and truly one of ferrara's best films.
 
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