Daily Briefing. A Pulitzer, "Pizza" and Cannes Shorts
David HudsonAlso: Brad Stevens on Mizoguchi, a new viral video for Prometheus and more.
Abel Ferrara
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A Personal Reflection on the Work of Abel Ferrara in Light of His New Picture (Written in the Shadow of Serge Daney)
Otie WheelerUpon the release of 4:44 Last Day on Earth.
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The Golden Donkey Venice 2011
The Ferroni BrigadeVenice! The Biennale! Retrospectives, new films, festival turmoil, art that’s not cinema—all this and more!
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Daily Briefing. Rendez-Vous 17, Ferrera on Filmmaking, More
David HudsonAlso: Béla Tarr and the Cannes and Berlin film festival directors speak out for Hungarian cinema.
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Daily Briefing. Iranian Hardliners Vs the Oscar
David HudsonAlso: Abel Ferrara intends to direct Gérard Depardieu as Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Isabelle Adjani as Anne Sinclair.
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Daily Briefing. "60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero"
David HudsonAlso: Müller out, Barbera in at Venice. Ferrara’s DSK movie? And farewell, Helen Frankenthaler and Sam Rivers.
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NYFF 2011. Abel Ferrara's "4:44 Last Day on Earth"
David HudsonAs he nearly always does, Ferrara splits the critics.
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Movie Poster of the Week: The Posters of the 49th New York Film Festival
Adrian CurryA look at the posters for the films in the main slate of this year’s New York Film Festival.
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Daily Briefing. Acquisitions and Disappearances
David HudsonDistributors go on a shopping spree in Toronto. Still no word on the whereabouts of Mojtaba Mirtahmasb and Michel Houellebecq.
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Venice 2011. Gestures from the End of the World
Daniel KasmanAbel Ferrara’s 4:44 Last Day on Earth is a small, apocalyptic but love-filled ode to self-doubt, New York City and the female body.
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Street-Walking: "Mamma Roma", "Mulberry St.", "Petition"
David PhelpsI. An impulse to action sings of a semblance… Mamma Roma, Pasolini’s story of an aging whore in for one last trick while guarding her son for
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"Abel Ferrara in the 21st Century"
David HudsonEven though Abel Ferrara never really went away, what he's been up to these past few weeks sure feels like a comeback. He began tweeting last month, not long after the launch of his new site, featuring