Tag: Abel Ferrara
Padre Pio | Review
In the Name of the Father: Ferrara Explore Infamous Saint with Guerrilla Branded Biopic
Like many of Abel Ferrara’s projects hobbled by various production issues,...
2022 Giornate degli Autori: Ferrara, Buscemi, Wissam Charaf, Cristina Grosan, Cláudia Varejão, Bendimerad+Ounouri Among Selections
After Venice Comp reveal, it was now up to the Giornate degli Autori sidebar (Venice Days) to unveil their line-up and if there was...
2022 Venice Film Festival: 70 Predictions (Part II) Aroonpheng, Lindholm, Hogg & Rolf de Heer
Only hours before TIFF unveil what should be a sizeable amount of their line-up (and in the same sweeping motion confirm a lot of...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #49. Abel Ferrara’s Padre Pio
Padre Pio
His insatiable appetite for the seventh art means that when Abel Ferrara ain't making one movie in particular, he is already onto some...
2020 Venice Film Festival: Michel Franco, Mona Fastvold, Jasmila Zbanic & Konchalovsky in Comp
Mona Fastvold, Emma Dante and Chloé Zhao were tipped for the comp months ago, but today heavyweights such as Jasmila Zbanic, Malgorzata Szumowska (Never...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #24. Siberia – Abel Ferrara
Siberia
It’s been a long, hard road, but it looks like 2020 may finally be the year we’ll see Abel Ferrara’s Siberia, a film he...
The Conversation: Vying for Venice 2019 – Predictions!
Once again, Venice seems poised to make a killing by featuring a number of high-profile US auteurs in its line-up. Like last year’s program,...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #6. Siberia – Abel Ferrara
Siberia
We’ve been waiting quite some time for the latest narrative feature from Abel Ferrara, who has been struggling to get financing for his project...
Through the Looking Glass – The Top 50 Foreign Films of 2019: #5 to #1
#5. Nicolas Roeg’s The 7th Magpie
This past autumn, famed British auteur Nicolas Roeg began collecting financing for his first feature since 2007’s Puffball: The...
Top 5 Most Anticipated Venice Film Festival Picks: Ming-liang, Roskam, Pallaoro, Ferrara & Paravel/Castaing-Taylor
Keeping up its reputation as an awards season launchpad while not compromising on its recent philosophy of eclectic and daring competition programming, the Venice...
Venice 2017: Weiwei, Haigh, Maoz, Doueiri & Kechiche Compete for Golden Lion
Despite the number of spoilers in TIFF announcements less than 48 hours back, the are some top filmmaker names and highly anticipated film items...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2018: #7. Abel Ferrara’s Siberia
Siberia
Director: Abel Ferrara
Writer: Abel Ferrara
After a prolific return to form in 2014 with his Willem Dafoe starring Pasolini and one of the best films...
The Driller Killer | Blu-ray Review
Highly indebted to Martin Scorsese and Paul Schrader’s 1976’s Taxi Driver, a classic portrait of urban sleaze and anti-social behavior, (perhaps more than anyone...
Napoli Napoli Napoli | Blu-Ray Review
In the late 2000s, fringe auteur Abel Ferrara experimented with a series of documentaries, and in-between 2008’s Chelsea on the Rocks and 2010’s Mulberry...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #33. Abel Ferrara’s Siberia
Siberia
Director: Abel Ferrara
Writers: Abel Ferrara, Chris Zois
This may be a bit of wishful thinking for Ferrara to have his latest endeavor ready in time. Following...
The Conversation: Best of 2015 – Top 10 Theatrical Releases
Diving into the hundreds of new theatrical releases, including large chunks of grueling, gluttonous marathons through world cinema’s greatest offerings from a variety of film...
Pasolini | 2014 TIFF Review
The Gospel According to Pier: Ferrara Poetically Captures an Auteur’s Last Day on Earth
It appears that 2014 marks a resounding return for auteur Abel...
2014 NYFF: Chazelle, Broomfield, Bonello, Ferrara, Sang-soo, Hansen-Løve Make Cut
While Sundance (Damien Chazelle's Whiplash and Alex Ross Perry's Listen Up Philip) and Berlin (Dominik Graf's Beloved Sisters, Yann Demange's ’71, Alain Resnais' Life...
71st Venice Film Fest: Oppenheimer, Akin, Bahrani, Andersson & Ferrara Compete for Golden Lion
Whiles the likes of Terrence Malick, Todd Haynes, Alexander Sokurov, Giorgos Lanthimos and J.C. Chandor no where to be found in the fall fest season...
Latest From Ozon, Bahrani, Baumbach, Gordon Green, Petzold & Hansen-Løve Heading to TIFF…Telluride & Venice
Much like back to school sales in mid July, in our books, TIFF's first announcement wave reminds us that the end of summer is...
Most Anticipated Films for 2015: An Overview
Last month, we unveiled our all-encompassing, most anticipated films for the current year in film. Now we peer into a future that is a...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #69. Abel Ferrara’s Welcome to New York
Welcome to New York
Director: Abel Ferrara
Writers: Abel Ferrara, Christ Zois
Producer: Belladonna Productions' Adam Folk
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Jacqueline Bisset, Maria Di Angelis
While...
4:44 Last Day On Earth | Review
Forget the hype: Ferrara’s end-of-the-world reverie puts other apocalypse movies to shame
The countdown to the apocalypse becomes a celebratory wake in Abel Ferrara’s transcendent...
