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	Abel Ferrara, the Man: Who Cares? by Kent Jones
		Not that Ferrara is working overtime to dispel his press image.
		Ferrara cuts from a close-up of the driver to a wide shot of the whole event.
		Ferrara may be the most patient director in American movies today, possessed of a deeply contemplative sensibility under a patina of hardcore low-life.
	www.cultureport.com /newhp/lingo/authors/ferrara.html (1099 words)

	MovieMaker Magazine \| Issue #11 \| Raising Cain With Abel Ferrara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		It's an early hint of a standard Ferrara theme: His protagonists, obsessed with revenge, or on a quest for redemption, invoke the symbols of the Roman Catholic Church for a kind of ersatz absolution.
		Ferrara's characters exist in a world where that which is normally deemed sacred is warped, and the twisted call the shots.
		Ferrara cuts back and forth from Israel and his actors discussing their scenes, to the film - within - a - film being shot, to the story of Israel's struggle in making the film.
	www.moviemaker.com /issues/11/11_ferrara.html (1194 words)

	Abel Ferrara (film retrospective)
		With the hard dedication of a Rodin, Ferrara carves out a wrenchingly physical representation of movie work (which is the point of collapsing the barriers between realities), and creates a collapsible and ambiguous sense of onscreen time that approximates the lost hours of making a film.
		Only Ferrara and St. John would dream of creating a character like this, the logical extension of the asinine oceanic urge to "clean things up" that results in abstract drug wars or ecstasy over the fall of the Berlin Wall without consideration of the consequences.
		Listening to Ferrara speak, always on a plane of bedrock necessity, you realize how much time most filmmakers spend justifying themselves, assuring their interrogators that they have a serious theme (like Tarantino proclaiming to the multitides that the pornographically violent Pulp Fiction is a film about "redemption").
	industrycentral.net /director_interviews/AF03.HTM (5004 words)

	Abel Ferrara Jams with "New Rose Hotel"
		Ferrara: I showed the movie for the first time in Venice, and it was the first time I saw the movie myself.
		Ferrara: Did she kill Hiroshi or was she an innocent and she's dead too.
		Ferrara: When you go down to the list, I wanted someone with experience, when you're looking for 20-22 year-old girls, there aren't too many...Asia has been acting since she was eight.
	www.indiewire.com /people/int_Ferrara_Abel_981019.html (1941 words)

	Abel Ferrara: The King of New York - Nick Johnstone
		Abel Ferrara: The King of New York attempts to give the devil his due as a serious chronicler of urban transcendentalism.
		Invasion of the Body Snatchers), Ferrara's consistently leering nipple close-ups and woman-on-woman love scenarios are repeatedly mentioned but never questioned, leading one to believe that the director's less admirable qualities don't quite fit into the author's canonization conceit.
		Abel Ferrara: The King of New York has its flaws and shouldn't be considered the final word on Ferrara's career.
	www.culturevulture.net /Books/AbelFerrara.htm (832 words)

	Abel Ferrara (1951 - )
		Here's a character so vile and corrupted that he consumes or re-sells the drugs he confiscates, but when he's assigned to investigate the brutal rape of a nun who refuses to press charges, he feels that this is his opportunity to redeem his rotten soul.
		Abel Ferrara, the bad boy of American independent filmmaking, made his first splash with this violent twist on Death Wish and the revenge-vigilante genre.
		Tamerlis is decked out in a nun's habit with a slash of lipstick across her face, a handgun tucked in a garter, and a contract out on the entire male sex.
	www.jahsonic.com /AbelFerrara.html (744 words)

	Film: Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Intimate portrait of Abel Ferrara: the result is an eccentric road movie, with the restless film maker as a charming, shabby guide around New York by night.
		The result is an eccentric road-movie, with the restless Ferrara as a charming, seedy guide leading us through nocturnal New York.
		Yet the films are present everywhere, and that is largely thanks to the melancholy mood in Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty.
	www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com /en/film/26388.html (243 words)

	Interview with Director Abel Ferrara
		Ferrara is amused by the notion of a ballad becoming an elegy to the decadence of the big city; little else seems to faze the 41-year-old New York City born-and-bred director, who casts a jaundiced eye upon the filmmaking process.
		Ferrara, a critical and cult favorite for his punchy, low-budget urban dramas, curdles a bit when asked about the improvisational contributions of Keitel, and the development of the film's plotline.
		Another paradox is the way in which Ferrara talks, in a low, conspiratorial drawl, filled with verbal shorthand that is clipped and subdued – entirely opposite to the flashy and multi-layered visuals of his films.
	members.aol.com /morgands2/text/2ferrara.htm (1443 words)

	Epinions.com - The 10 Rites of Abel: A Critical Biography of Abel Ferrara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		It bears all the hallmarks of Ferrara’s visually accomplished and thematically uncompromising style and is available on homevideo both as an R-rated release and also as an Unrated version which runs 7 minutes of sex and violence longer.
		With Ferrara’s trademark moral acuity -never, one is advised to note well ‘moralizing’- intact and art design of considerable richness and detail this a period movie of immense worth, and one cruelly unsung.
		Ferrara isn't the greatest film maker that has ever lived but there is a unique quality to his work which runs through every item of it.
	www.epinions.com /content_2480644228 (1716 words)

	interview-abelferrara
		Ferrara has been making feature films since 1979, but don't feel bad if you've never heard of him.
		His debut "Driller Killer," starring a pseudonymous Ferrara as a Lower East Side artist driven crazy by a punk band practicing in the apartment next to his, was interesting low-budget schlock, but it was still schlock.
		When this Polish Catholic queries Ferrara as to why a church that was supposed to be in Spanish Harlem had stations of the cross in Polish, he groans, "Ah, man...
	mondofausto.com /interview-abelferrara.htm (1009 words)

	www.sansebastianfestival.com - - - - - - - - - - - - -
		Abel Ferrara - AEB - Frantzia - 2000
		Abel Ferrara - Frantzia - Italia - 2005
		Abel Ferrara - Italia - AEB - Britainia Handia - 1990
	www.sansebastianfestival.com /2005/eu/secciones05.htm (242 words)

	Abel Ferrara Interview
		Abel Ferrara is a celebrated rebel director who is known for his ultra violent and arty films, which sometimes contain Catholic imagery.
		Ferrara-I was born in the Bronx, and I grew up in Peekskill, New York.
		Ferrara-I would say the Stones and Dylan and also Italian painters such as Da Vinci.
	www.artinterviews.com /abelFerrara.html (997 words)

	ToxicUniverse.com - Abel Ferrara - - Ms. 45 Movies Review
		Abel Ferrara (King of New York, Bad Lieutenant) seems to be one of those directors that people simply love or hate.
		Say what you will about Ferrara’s films, but there’s a definite aesthetic at work in them—the man has a gift for capturing the hopelessness and despair of living in a blasted urban landscape like the New York City featured in most of his filmsand 1981’s exploitation masterpiece Ms.
		First off, this was only Abel Ferrara’s second feature length film (I know he directed a porn film before Driller Killer, which I’m not counting, and a film that was a short)—but you’d never know that from looking at it.
	www.toxicuniverse.com /review.php?rid=10003017 (1148 words)

	Abel Ferrara brings religion to Venice film festival
		Ferrara told a press conference in Venice that he was only able to make the film with what he called "passion dollars" after the success of Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" made a film about religion acceptable.
		Ferrara uses them to support the film's central case that Mary Magdalene, depicted in the Gospel as a prostitute, was in fact one of Jesus's 12 apostles.
		Ferrara, who directed and co-wrote the film with Simone Lageoles and Mario Isabella, has made a series of strange, off-kilter movies since his 1979 debut with "The Driller Killer," including "King of New York" with Christopher Walken, "Bad Lieutenant" with Harvey Keitel and "Snake Eyes" with Madonna.
	news.sawf.org /Entertainment/2552.aspx (746 words)

	The CHUD.COM Message Boards - Abel Ferrara DVD commentaries
		The track starts off with Abel cracking open a can of beer (a sound that is repeated quite a few times throughout) and that pretty much sets the tone as the guy cusses and yells at every other scene, drools and talks dirty whenever a blonde woman is on screen.
		Ferrara is one of the few Director's around today that makes Grindhouse orientated films, designed for cinema release, in style, and/or budget and/or techincally...Even big budget films in his hands play like they crawled out of the local flea-pit, hungover, tripping, with crotch itch and a hard-on.
		Abel - I salute you [you sick fuckin' asshole!].
	www.chud.com /forums/printthread.php?t=66688 (2055 words)

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		His gray hair is long and coiled under a grimy Yankees cap, his chin unshaven, his teeth crooked, his shoulders hunched in a loose denim shirt.
		Abel Ferrara: It was made over a period of time.
		So I met a woman who told us that supposedly she actually did it… [At this juncture, Ferrara says, there was some disputing with De Jesus over money, which held things up for a while.] Then we got serious behind the film.
	nypress.com /15/27/news&columns/feature.cfm (2956 words)

	Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty Film Review - Time Out Film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		This portrait of Ferrara is structured like one of the director's own films.
		In his crumpled leather jacket and baseball cap, Ferrara is a shambolic figure.
		He never probes or questions Ferrara (whom he idolises) and thus fails to unearth any of the biographical information that most audiences would crave from a documentary.
	www.timeout.com /film/77400.html (313 words)

	Eye - VIDEO JUNKIE: Abel Ferrara's New York - 01.05.95 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Tana kills her second assailant, and spends the rest of the film getting rid of his body piece by piece, while simultaneously stalking and eliminating any other male predators she happens to meet -- with the aid of Mr.
		Ferrara -- who frankly credits Tamerlis for giving her character "more complexity than there was in the script" -- shot the movie in record time, wrote the screenplay under an alias, and also plays Rapist #1.
		That's debatable, but with his steel sigh of a voice and Nosferatu tan, he does look more like he's spent the last seven years six feet under, rather than in jail compiling a list of all the "bums" he's gonna get his posse to off when he hits the street.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_01.05.95/FILM/vj0105.htm (483 words)

	Buy Bad Lieutenant, Crime Story (Pilot Episode), Driller Killer / The Early Short Films of Abel Ferrara, Cat Chaser, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		THE DRILLER KILLER stars Ferrara himself (under the pseudonym 'Jimmy Laine') as Reno Miller, an artist being driven mad by the pressures of New York life who takes to the streets and begins murdering derelicts with a power drill.
		Abel Ferrara's adaptation of William Gibson's cyberpunk story (from the short-story collection Burning Chrome) is quite faithful to the source, which may explain why it bypassed cinemas almost completely to emerge on video.
		Ferrara winds up in the same place, but first plays out his story for us to see...
	amdvd.com.ru /CAT_456666 (1444 words)

	channel4.com/film - Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Abel Ferrara, Pamela Tiffin, Frank De Curtis, Echo Danon, Simone Lageoles
		You've got to love the French, a people so in thrall to their beloved auteurs that they'll happily commission a documentary which almost exclusively consists of trailing leftfield director Abel Ferrara around the Manhattan streets at night and filming the mayhem.
		Originally made for the French TV series 'Cinéma De Notre Temps' by a fellow outsider, the Iranian filmmaker Rafi Pitts, this isn't any kind of proper biog of the man and his controversial canon.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=139163 (232 words)

	Notes on Abel Ferrara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		I also had a mini Abel Ferrara film festival.
		Neither was as good as Ferrara's masterwork, THE ADDICTION; and neither sustained the intensity of BAD LIEUTENANT.
		Ferrara's unique integration of "philosophical" issues with b-movie plots is still embryonic and feels a bit thick here.
	www.pitt.edu /AFShome/s/t/stukas/public/html/ferrara.html (257 words)

	Ms. 45 by Abel Ferrara: Video-hills.com
		Portraying Thana as a mute is a brilliant move on part of Abel Ferrera.
		Rape is the most underreported crime, and Thana's inability to speak symbolizes perfectly a sexual assault victim's inability to express what happened to her.
		The photography and editing are superb indicating ferrara as a major talent.
	www.video-hills.com /Ms-45-B00004S89Y.htm (1450 words)

	dark discussion - Abel Ferrara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Abel Ferrara's repertoire has never filled me with delightful anticipation, neither did Ferrara's bohemian life in New York is presented as evidence of artistic credentials, as Driller Killer remains the only film I have seen.
		It's riotously amateurish and Ferrara's endearingly misanthropic view on society doesn't contain any coherent content whatsoever, while I do praise the ambiguous end.
		The lack of "any coherent content whatsoever" in terms of contempt (or lack of contempt) for humankind (or one human being) is really the quality that shines in his later work.
	www.darkdreams.org /vbulletin/printthread.php?t=6850&pp=40 (1389 words)

	Films by Abel Ferrara on DVD & VHS - MovieMail UK
		Abel Ferrara's updating of the classic sc-fi story relocates the action to a military base, where a doctor notices some frightening changes in his patients following a hazardous waste clean-up.
		Fortunately, this political thriller from Abel (Driller Killer) Ferrara is one of the better adapta...
		Ferraras off beat vampire movie tracks the moral dilemmas of a philosophy student who becomes an unwilling new recruit into the ancient society.
	www.moviemail-online.co.uk /directors/490 (292 words)

	Buy Abel Ferrara: Bad Lieutenant, Ms. 45, King of New York, Bad Lieutenant, The Addiction, Cat Chaser, The Funeral, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		In this period family drama set in the Depression-era world of organized crime, director Abel Ferrara (King of New York, Bad Lieutenant) weaves a dark and impressive morality tale of revenge and family loyalty.
		Christopher Walken plays Ray Tempio, a low-level mobster who with his unstable younger brother Chez (played by Chris Penn) plots revenge for a rival mob's assassination of their younger brother.
		This is a raw, stark, and affecting film with fine ensemble acting and powerful direction from one of the independent film world's most original voices.
	vhs-video.video-dvd.com.ru /C_164810/abel-ferrara.html (1079 words)

	Open Directory - Arts: Movies: Filmmaking: Directing: Directors: F: Ferrara, Abel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Abel Ferrara - An interview with the director on his struggles to find financing and screens, by Olivier French and John Strausbaugh.
		Ferrara, Abel - International virtual library dedicated to American director Abel Ferrara.
		Raising Cain With Abel Ferrara - Rustin Thompson offers an overview on the director's work.
	dmoz.org /Arts/Movies/Filmmaking/Directing/Directors/F/Ferrara,_Abel (133 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty : Main
		Abel Ferrara, Echo Danon, Frank De Curtis, Pamela Tiffin
		Pitts explores the life and work of maverick American filmmaker Abel Ferrara, shooting the director in his hometown of New York City.
		Ferrara provides ample interview footage and is seen through...
	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/243150/moviemain.jhtml (129 words)

	Abel Ferrara - Moral Visions (BOOK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Now Brad Stevens has subjected Ferrara's output to exhaustive analysis and discovered a tender heart beating beneath the excessive imagery.
		By invoking acknowledged masters in the fields of cinema and literature, the author establishes Ferrara's status, demonstrating how the stylistic practices of such masterpieces as Ms.45, King of New York, Snake Eyes, The Addiction, The Funeral, The Blackout and New Rose Hotel express a generous and passionate morality.
		It also contains a thoroughly researched filmography, notes on variant versions of Ferrara's films, a bibliography and a section dealing with unrealized projects.
	diabolikdvd.com /category/Exploitation/Abel-Ferrara-~-Moral-Visions-(BOOK).html (268 words)

	The DVD Maniacs - Forum - New Abel Ferrara film
		According to the imdb, Abel Ferrara is finally getting another project off the ground.
		I remember at one point Monica Belucci was supposed to be in this, but I don't think it lists her as in the cast.
		This seems like a roller coaster for me. The upside is that it's Abel Ferrara doing a movie about religion.
	www.dvdmaniacs.net /forums/showthread.php?t=11050 (182 words)

	Abel Ferrara's New Rose Hotel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The plot is either so Byzantine or opaque that I felt someone was having me on.
		Is this an elaborate prank from Abel Ferrara, the man who brought us the human condition in gregarious excess of filth and bile in Bad Lieutenant?
		Perhaps the fact that I didn't get it but the characters seemed to piqued my curiosity and kept me watching.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/american_independent_cinema/47531 (444 words)

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