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Abel Ferrara

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Abel Ferrara at IFFR

  • Snake eyes

    Madonna and Harvey Keitel in revealing portrait of Hollywood film director.

    • main programme

  • Bodysnatchers

    This remake of INVASION OF THE BODYSNATCHERS is a modern metaphor for AIDS.

    • main programme

  • Mary

    Abel Ferrara’s answer to Mel Gibson is a contemporary Bible story in which the paths cross of a director who is playing Jesus in his own film (Matthew

    • Kings & Aces

  • The Addiction

    Abel Ferrara has made a vampire film – and who could have done it better? Philosophy student roams New York at night in search of her victims.

    • main programme

  • Crime Story

    A few years ago, Crime Story was an extremely popular TV series, for which Ferrara once made the pilot episode.The series is striking for the colourful visual fantasy; you could call it stylistic eclectic – the clothes and the cars are largely from the fifties while the houses and offices are modern. Apart from that, […]

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  • King of New York

    Frank White (a beautiful role by Christopher Walken) has just been released from jail and, with his entirely black gang, he kills several rivals in order to get New York City in his grip. He wants to get the drugs market +!+ turn over more than a billion dollars +!+ under his control. To achieve […]

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  • Driller Killer

    With this feature debut, Ferrara immediately set the tone for his future work.The troubled painter Reno (played by Ferrara) lives in New York City with two women: his girlfriend and a punk-groupie. His painting isn’t going well, he doesn’t earn very much and, to cap it all, a punk-rock band comes to love and rehearse […]

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  • China Girl

    Very violent, dramatic love story against the background of two famous neighbourhoods in New York City: Chinatown and Little Italy. On ‘Italian’ territory, a Chinese restaurant is opened and this causes a war between the different gangs. Like a real Juliet, a pretty Chinese teenage girl falls in love with her Romeo, a pizza-seller. Their […]

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  • The Bad Lieutenant

    Bad Lieutenant offers a devastating look at the decadence which makes the inhabitants of a city be they policemen or criminals +!+ degenerate into moral turpitude. The central theme of this violent and controversial film is the relationship between sin and salvation. Ferrara wondered: ‘How can a cop go to work every day and witness […]

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  • MS’ 45

    After the troubled painter in Driller Killer, in Ferrara’s next film Ms. 45 (also screened as Angel of Vengeance) it is the turn of a seamstress to go a-murdering. The dumb girl Thana works Manhattan sewing shop and, on her way home, she is mugged and raped. When she gets home she is attacked by […]

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