Abel Ferrara

Abel Ferrara

Nacimiento : 1951-07-19, The Bronx, New York, USA

Historia

Abel Ferrara is an American movie screenwriter and director. He is best known as an independent filmmaker of such films as The Driller Killer (1979), Ms. 45 (1981), King of New York (1990), Bad Lieutenant (1992) and The Funeral (1996).

Perfil

Abel Ferrara
Abel Ferrara

Películas

Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
This very special film features a carefully curated selection of some of the priceless messages that have graced Anthology’s voicemail system over the years. From the historically important to the utterly (and sublimely) absurd, they feature a cast of characters ranging from legendary avant-garde filmmakers, scholars, and other cultural figures to civilians whose legend has (until now) been confined to the offices of Anthology, thanks precisely to their witty, eloquent, eccentric – or in some cases unforgettably psychotic – voicemails. We’ve toyed with the idea of sharing these messages in some form for years, and the “Imageless Films” series provides a perfect pretext.
Padre Pio
Writer
It is the end of World War I and the young Italian soldiers are making their way back to San Giovanni Rotondo, a land of poverty, with a tradition of violence and submission to the iron-clad rule of the church and its wealthy landowners. Families are desperate, the men are broken, albeit victorious. Padre Pio also arrives, at a remote Capuchin monastery, to begin his ministry, evoking an aura of charisma, saintliness and epic visions of Jesus, Mary and the Devil himself. The eve of the first free elections in Italy sets the stage for a massacre with a metaphorical dimension: an apocalyptic event that changes the course of history.
Padre Pio
Director
It is the end of World War I and the young Italian soldiers are making their way back to San Giovanni Rotondo, a land of poverty, with a tradition of violence and submission to the iron-clad rule of the church and its wealthy landowners. Families are desperate, the men are broken, albeit victorious. Padre Pio also arrives, at a remote Capuchin monastery, to begin his ministry, evoking an aura of charisma, saintliness and epic visions of Jesus, Mary and the Devil himself. The eve of the first free elections in Italy sets the stage for a massacre with a metaphorical dimension: an apocalyptic event that changes the course of history.
The Last Days of Mankind
Self (archive footage)
The panorama of human affairs encounters the “man with a movie camera”. His playground has no boundaries, his curiosity no limits. Characters, situations and places pitch camp in the life of a humanity that is at once the viewer and the thing viewed. But what are the last days of this humanity? Have they already passed? Are they now or still to come?
Zeros and Ones
Screenplay
Tras un asedio apocalíptico, 'Zeros and Ones' cuenta la historia de cuando el soldado americano JJ se abre camino en un mundo turbio y encerrado de miedo, paranoia y, más adelante, esperanza a la sombra del Vaticano. Una guerra entre la historia y el futuro tiene lugar hasta el amanecer.
Zeros and Ones
Director
Tras un asedio apocalíptico, 'Zeros and Ones' cuenta la historia de cuando el soldado americano JJ se abre camino en un mundo turbio y encerrado de miedo, paranoia y, más adelante, esperanza a la sombra del Vaticano. Una guerra entre la historia y el futuro tiene lugar hasta el amanecer.
Missing Pictures
Himself
For every film completed, dozens of potential films fall by the wayside and never make it onto the big screen. In the VR experience Missing Pictures, Abel Ferrara, Tsai Ming-liang, Catherine Hardwicke, Naomi Kawase, and Lee Myung-Se give us a guided tour of a story they were not able to tell.
Bleedings
Abel Ferrara - director and actor known for his stories of redemption, Christian interrogation and inner turmoil - gives voice to the scourgers through Gabriele Tinti's poetry.
Sportin' Life
Sportin’ Life is the sixth incarnation of the international art project Self, curated by Saint Laurent’s creative director, Anthony Vaccarello. This project is an artistic commentary on society while emphasizing the complexity of various individuals through the eyes of artists who evoke the Saint Laurent attitude of confidence, individuality and self-expression. The documentary is an exploration into the sources and personal history of creativity, the essential life of an artist. Raw and sharp, it has the feeling of a moment in time that is still happening. Abel Ferrara’s intimate and lush look at his own life, his world refracted through his art – music, filmmaking, his collaborators and inspirations such as Ferrara’s early works and his creative partnerships with Willem Dafoe, Joe Delia, Paul Hipp and the musicians who inspired this work.
Sportin' Life
Director
Sportin’ Life is the sixth incarnation of the international art project Self, curated by Saint Laurent’s creative director, Anthony Vaccarello. This project is an artistic commentary on society while emphasizing the complexity of various individuals through the eyes of artists who evoke the Saint Laurent attitude of confidence, individuality and self-expression. The documentary is an exploration into the sources and personal history of creativity, the essential life of an artist. Raw and sharp, it has the feeling of a moment in time that is still happening. Abel Ferrara’s intimate and lush look at his own life, his world refracted through his art – music, filmmaking, his collaborators and inspirations such as Ferrara’s early works and his creative partnerships with Willem Dafoe, Joe Delia, Paul Hipp and the musicians who inspired this work.
Siberia
Director
Clint es un hombre muerto que vive solo en una tundra helada. Sin embargo, este aislamiento no puede traer ni evasión ni paz. Una noche, comienza un viaje donde debe enfrentar sus sueños, recuerdos y visiones, cruzando la oscuridad hacia la luz.
Siberia
Screenplay
Clint es un hombre muerto que vive solo en una tundra helada. Sin embargo, este aislamiento no puede traer ni evasión ni paz. Una noche, comienza un viaje donde debe enfrentar sus sueños, recuerdos y visiones, cruzando la oscuridad hacia la luz.
Tommaso
Screenplay
Narra la historia de un artista estadounidense (Willem Dafoe) que vive en Europa con su mujer Nikki (Cristina Chiriac) y con su hija de 3 años, Deedee.
Tommaso
Director
Narra la historia de un artista estadounidense (Willem Dafoe) que vive en Europa con su mujer Nikki (Cristina Chiriac) y con su hija de 3 años, Deedee.
The App
Novia amorosa, fortuna familiar, papel de película: él lo tiene todo. Hasta que una aplicación despierta un nuevo y poderoso anhelo. Mientras está en Roma para rodar su primera película, el actor y heredero industrial Niccolò se obsesiona con la aplicación de citas "US" que lo lleva a una espiral autodestructiva.
At the Video Store
Self (archival footage)
Equal parts personal essay, intense rumination, and playful satire, this movie laments the death of the American Video Store while it searches for the missing human element in today's digital landscape.
The Projectionist
Himself
In his first New York City-set documentary in nearly a decade, filmmaker and provocateur Abel Ferrara uses the experience of one longtime cinema owner to chart the vast changes to the city’s theatrical landscape.
The Projectionist
Director
In his first New York City-set documentary in nearly a decade, filmmaker and provocateur Abel Ferrara uses the experience of one longtime cinema owner to chart the vast changes to the city’s theatrical landscape.
Alive in France
Original Music Composer
Abel Ferrara headlines a film retrospective and a series of concerts in France dedicated to songs and music from his films. Preparations with his family and friends will form the material of this self portrait, showing another side of the director of legendary films BAD LIEUTENANT, THE KING OF NEW YORK and THE ADDICTION. Ferrara is joined on stage by past collaborators, including composer Joe Delia, actor-singer Paul Hipp and his wife actress Cristina Chiriac for concerts at the Metronum in Toulouse and the Salo Club in Paris in October 2016.
Alive in France
Himself
Abel Ferrara headlines a film retrospective and a series of concerts in France dedicated to songs and music from his films. Preparations with his family and friends will form the material of this self portrait, showing another side of the director of legendary films BAD LIEUTENANT, THE KING OF NEW YORK and THE ADDICTION. Ferrara is joined on stage by past collaborators, including composer Joe Delia, actor-singer Paul Hipp and his wife actress Cristina Chiriac for concerts at the Metronum in Toulouse and the Salo Club in Paris in October 2016.
Alive in France
Director
Abel Ferrara headlines a film retrospective and a series of concerts in France dedicated to songs and music from his films. Preparations with his family and friends will form the material of this self portrait, showing another side of the director of legendary films BAD LIEUTENANT, THE KING OF NEW YORK and THE ADDICTION. Ferrara is joined on stage by past collaborators, including composer Joe Delia, actor-singer Paul Hipp and his wife actress Cristina Chiriac for concerts at the Metronum in Toulouse and the Salo Club in Paris in October 2016.
Talking with the Vampires
Abel Ferrara directed this thirty-minute documentary that interviews the cast of his film THE ADDICTION.
Talking with the Vampires
Director
Abel Ferrara directed this thirty-minute documentary that interviews the cast of his film THE ADDICTION.
Wiara
Himself
Six authorities of cinema describe their approach to transcendence, mysticism, spirituality and life after dead.
Plankton Salesmen
Self (archive footage)
A nostalgic look at the birth and death of arthouse film distribution in the early 2000s in Russia. The story of the "Cinema Without Borders" company and its two founders, Sam Klebanov and Anton Mazurov.
Hans
Director
In July of this year, Hans Hurch travelled to Rome to meet Abel Ferrara and discuss the terms and content for a potential Viennale trailer with him. Following Hurch's unexpected death, Ferrara conceived the trailer as an obituary: We see a landscape at dusk and hear music and children crying in the distance. The face of the late Viennale director is superimposed, his first name pronounced by an electronically distorted voice that can hardly be understood. Captured in an extremely aesthetic manner, a photo of Bob Dylan in his youth and an emblematic image of John Ford with a black patch over his eye are rolling past. Abel Ferrara's trailer is a phantasmagoria, a visual game of deception, combining some of the things that were important to Hans Hurch with dream-like sequences and celebrating a moment of utmost existential compression. In his accompanying note, Ferrara wrote: "A small thank you to someone who constantly and consistently maintained the dream of the eternal cinema."
Piazza Vittorio
Himself
Vivid mosaic/portrait of Rome’s biggest public square, Piazza Vittorio, featuring talks with African musicians and restaurant workers, Chinese barkeeps and relocated eastern Europeans, homeless men and women, artists, actors, and many others.
Piazza Vittorio
Director
Vivid mosaic/portrait of Rome’s biggest public square, Piazza Vittorio, featuring talks with African musicians and restaurant workers, Chinese barkeeps and relocated eastern Europeans, homeless men and women, artists, actors, and many others.
Mariposa negra
Pat
Paul (Antonio Banderas) es un escritor en horas bajas que un día recoge a un vagabundo (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) y le ofrece quedarse con él en su apartada cabaña de madera. Pero el extraño decide tomar a Paul como rehén y lo obliga a escribir todos sus secretos íntimos, enterrados durante años... Remake del thriller francés "Papillon Noir" de Christian Faure.
Ultima Chiamata
A man wakes up in a strange place. Peeled walls, a bare, cold and damp room. He doesn't understand where he is. He has severe pain especially in the head, tries to open the door but it's locked, tries to call someone but nobody answers. He is a prisoner. A nightmare begins for him in which he will have to go through a path of understanding to finally get to understand what really happened.
Searching for Padre Pio
Director
A documentary directed by Abel Ferrara for the series ‘BOATS – Based On A True Story’ about the Padre Pio di Pietrelcina.
Pasolini
Idea
La noche del 2 de noviembre de 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini es asesinado en Roma. El director era el símbolo del arte revolucionario que lucha contra el poder. Sus escritos eran escandalosos; sus películas, perseguidas por los censores. Era tan amado como odiado. Ese día, Pasolini había pasado sus últimas horas con su madre y con sus amigos; por la noche se lanzó a la calle en busca de aventuras. Al amanecer, su cadáver fue hallado en una playa de Ostia, en las afueras de la ciudad. (FILMAFFINITY)
Pasolini
Director
La noche del 2 de noviembre de 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini es asesinado en Roma. El director era el símbolo del arte revolucionario que lucha contra el poder. Sus escritos eran escandalosos; sus películas, perseguidas por los censores. Era tan amado como odiado. Ese día, Pasolini había pasado sus últimas horas con su madre y con sus amigos; por la noche se lanzó a la calle en busca de aventuras. Al amanecer, su cadáver fue hallado en una playa de Ostia, en las afueras de la ciudad. (FILMAFFINITY)
Welcome to New York
Screenplay
Una mirada al ascenso y caída del economista francés y director del Fondo Monetario Internacional, Dominique Strauss-Khan. La película está dirigida por Abel Ferrara ('El rey de Nueva York', 'El funeral') y protagonizada por Jacqueline Bisset ('Bullit', 'La noche americana') como Anne Sinclair y Gérard Depardieu ('La vida de Pi', 'El hombre de la máscara de hierro') en el papel de Strauss-Khan.
Welcome to New York
Director
Una mirada al ascenso y caída del economista francés y director del Fondo Monetario Internacional, Dominique Strauss-Khan. La película está dirigida por Abel Ferrara ('El rey de Nueva York', 'El funeral') y protagonizada por Jacqueline Bisset ('Bullit', 'La noche americana') como Anne Sinclair y Gérard Depardieu ('La vida de Pi', 'El hombre de la máscara de hierro') en el papel de Strauss-Khan.
Don Peyote
Taxi Cab Driver
Cuenta la historia de Warren Allman, quien se lanza completamente en el agujero del conejo de las teorías de la conspiración, sociedades secretas y la contra-cultura, todo para tratar de descubrir que está sucediendo realmente en el mundo y quien está jalando las cuerdas.
Balkan Spirit
Self - Director
Filmmaker Hermann Vaske explores the creative Balkan world in the hopes of understanding the meaning of "Balkan spirit".
Home Sweet Home
A young woman wanders down an endless corridor, while other people knock at a door at night. A man takes a picture of Montmartre, two women hand him some money, while a patron manages from rue de Mhyra a network of Italian call girls. Adiba sings an ancient Moroccan song in a room full of children, while Vidya is performing her daily puja in Pune (India). Giuli sings to herself as she drives at night through Turin and runs to the station at day. Parallel stories where every character is caught “in a situation,” closed.
Abel Ferrara in Lucca
A simple, modest and faithful record of some moments at the Lucca Film Festival in October 2010, with songs and speeches by Abel Ferrara: trace of the co-presence of two of the greatest contemporary filmmakers, dissident and true sons of Cesare Zavattini’s revolutionary spirit.
4:44 Last Day on Earth
Writer
Una pareja formada por un actor (Willem Dafoe) y una pintora (Shanyn Leigh), que comparten un loft, esperan el fin del mundo. Ella vive en paz consigo misma, es budista y cree en la reencarnación. Él, en cambio, es incapaz de aceptar la situación y vive lleno de inquietud.
4:44 Last Day on Earth
Director
Una pareja formada por un actor (Willem Dafoe) y una pintora (Shanyn Leigh), que comparten un loft, esperan el fin del mundo. Ella vive en paz consigo misma, es budista y cree en la reencarnación. Él, en cambio, es incapaz de aceptar la situación y vive lleno de inquietud.
Happy Life
Executive Producer
New York Tunez, an all techno record store, is going under. The owner, Keith, a down and out trance DJ, struggles to cope with the changing cultural climate. In a final effort to save the store he organizes a rave. Unfortunately, 2009 is a far cry from the early '90's.
42 One Dream Rush
Director
Película de episodios en la que conocidos autores cinematográficos plantean sus ideas acerca de los sueños.
Uncle Bob
Himself
Robert Oppel's documentary about the life and murder of his uncle and namesake, Robert Opel, the man who streaked the Academy Awards in 1974.
Napoli, Napoli, Napoli
Writer
Weaving together fact and fiction, this docudrama performs a portrait of the often seamy underside of the city of Naples.Ferrara traveled to Italy to interview the inmates at the Naples Pozzuoli State Prison, a high security lockup for women, and with the help of a translator he allows a number of women doing time to talk about their lives before and after they were convicted. Ferrara chose to expand the short profile of the prisoners into a feature by offering a look at life in the slums of Naples and the actions of a number of law enforcement officers and social workers struggling to improve conditions for the poor, as well as adding three short fictional segments shot of digital video gear.
Napoli, Napoli, Napoli
Director
Weaving together fact and fiction, this docudrama performs a portrait of the often seamy underside of the city of Naples.Ferrara traveled to Italy to interview the inmates at the Naples Pozzuoli State Prison, a high security lockup for women, and with the help of a translator he allows a number of women doing time to talk about their lives before and after they were convicted. Ferrara chose to expand the short profile of the prisoners into a feature by offering a look at life in the slums of Naples and the actions of a number of law enforcement officers and social workers struggling to improve conditions for the poor, as well as adding three short fictional segments shot of digital video gear.
Mulberry St.
Self
Born in the Bronx and raised in upstate New York, Abel Ferrara started his professional film career on Mulberry Street in 1975. For the past year he's been living on the block, and the feast of San Gennaro is the subject of his new film. While he has used this location for a few of his features, this time it's the star of the film.
Mulberry St.
Director
Born in the Bronx and raised in upstate New York, Abel Ferrara started his professional film career on Mulberry Street in 1975. For the past year he's been living on the block, and the feast of San Gennaro is the subject of his new film. While he has used this location for a few of his features, this time it's the star of the film.
Vendada
Producer
Desde la muerte de su esposa, Arthur, un cirujano curioso y peculiar, encierra a su hija Lucille en una mansión extraña. Desesperada, Lucille intenta suicidarse y termina con la cara completamente quemada y vendada. Arthur, con la ayuda de su tía, prepara un extraño injerto de piel para devolverle el rostro a Lucille, una cara que se parece a su amada y fallecida esposa. Para cuidarla, el padre contrata a Joan, una atractiva enfermera con un pasado sombrío. Lucille y Joan comienzan una historia de amor prohibida y apasionada.
Daddy Longlegs
Robber
Lenny tiene 34 años, es proyeccionista en un cine y tiene la custodia de sus dos hijos únicamente dos semanas al año. A pesar de ser un padre rabiosamente divertido para un niño, constituye un manual viviente de todo lo que un progenitor nunca debería hacer. 'Go get some Rosemary' le sigue durante estas dos semanas, en las que incurre en una larga serie de irresponsabilidades en absoluto malintencionadas, pero que terminan siendo desconcertantes incluso para un par de niños a los que les encanta el juego y el caos. Pero dos semanas son muy poco tiempo, y entre pesadillas que incluyen mosquitos gigantes, tomará una peligrosa decisión.
Dream Piece
Director
Abel Ferrara's 42 second short movie for the collective film OneDreamRush
Chelsea on the Rocks
Writer
Chelsea on the Rocks celebrates the personalities and artistic voices that have emerged from New York’s legendary Chelsea Hotel. Once considered an untouchable, impenetrable tower for writers, artists, musicians and mavericks, it has been recently claimed as a boutique hotel venture for a management company that shows disregard for its formidable history. –Cannes Film Festival
Chelsea on the Rocks
Himself
Chelsea on the Rocks celebrates the personalities and artistic voices that have emerged from New York’s legendary Chelsea Hotel. Once considered an untouchable, impenetrable tower for writers, artists, musicians and mavericks, it has been recently claimed as a boutique hotel venture for a management company that shows disregard for its formidable history. –Cannes Film Festival
Chelsea on the Rocks
Director
Chelsea on the Rocks celebrates the personalities and artistic voices that have emerged from New York’s legendary Chelsea Hotel. Once considered an untouchable, impenetrable tower for writers, artists, musicians and mavericks, it has been recently claimed as a boutique hotel venture for a management company that shows disregard for its formidable history. –Cannes Film Festival
Cannes: All Access
Self
From its simple beginnings in 1939 in a sleepy beach town in the south of France, the prestigious Cannes Film Festival has become the must-attend red carpet event of the year. Filmmaker Richard Schickel's fascinating documentary captures the glitz and glamour of the festival's incredible 60-year run with archival footage and unforgettable moments. Hollywood's biggest names including Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, Sharon Stone and Harvey Weinstein talk about the politics, madness, and thrills of competing for one of the industry's highest honors - the coveted Palme d'Or - and what it's like to be at the most fabulous festival by the sea.
Go Go Tales
Screenplay
Ray Ruby's Paradise" es un bar cabaret situado en pleno Manhattan, en el que actúan go-gos; es una especie de fábrica de sueños cuyo propietario es el carismático empresario Ray Ruby.
Go Go Tales
Director
Ray Ruby's Paradise" es un bar cabaret situado en pleno Manhattan, en el que actúan go-gos; es una especie de fábrica de sueños cuyo propietario es el carismático empresario Ray Ruby.
Exes
Caïn
Virginie, a very famous writer, is caught up in her past. A serial killer with inhuman cruelty, Exes, the hero of his first novel, wants to take revenge on her.
Mylène Farmer - Music Videos IV
Director
Find the unique visual universe of Mylène Farmer accompanying the albums "Les Mots," and "Avant que l'ombre...." from 2001 to 2005.
Mary
Story
En un mundo convulso tras los atentados del 11-S, el destino de tres personas se une a través de la figura de Cristo. Tony (Matthew Modine), un cineasta egocéntrico, dirige en Israel una película en la que encarna a Jesús. Marie (Juliette Binoche), que interpreta a María Magdalena, bajo la influencia de su personaje, inicia un proceso de búsqueda interior. Y Ted (Forest Whitaker), un periodista con dudas religiosas, realiza un programa televisivo sobre Jesucristo en el que participan Marie y Tony. (FILMAFFINITY)
Mary
Director
En un mundo convulso tras los atentados del 11-S, el destino de tres personas se une a través de la figura de Cristo. Tony (Matthew Modine), un cineasta egocéntrico, dirige en Israel una película en la que encarna a Jesús. Marie (Juliette Binoche), que interpreta a María Magdalena, bajo la influencia de su personaje, inicia un proceso de búsqueda interior. Y Ted (Forest Whitaker), un periodista con dudas religiosas, realiza un programa televisivo sobre Jesucristo en el que participan Marie y Tony. (FILMAFFINITY)
Odyssey in Rome
Alex Grazioli follows bad-boy filmmaker Abel Ferrara as he spends three grueling years battling obstacles in Italy to direct "Mary," a modern-re imagining of the life of Mary Magdalene. Featuring candid interviews and on-set footage with Forest Whitaker, Heather Graham, Matthew Modine, and Juliette Binoche, "Odyssey," brings to bear an impressive tableau of Ferrara's colleagues as they discuss his unique approach to creating dynamic films.
Nice to Meet You, Please Don't Love Me!
Himself
A documentary on Asia Argento, made during the making of "the Heart is Deceitful Above All Things." Cinema has always been a part of her life, so much so that she cannot separate her childhood souvenirs from her film career. With Abel Ferrara, Peter Fonda, Marilyn Manson, Rancid, John Robinson...
Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty
Himself
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.
White Boy
Producer
An Italian street hood gets romantically involved with a woman who is the ex-girlfriend of a leader of a white supremacist gang, after being being brutally attacked by the gang he seeks revenge via his street connections.
Un cuento de Navidad
Writer
Es 1993. El honorable David Dinkins es alcalde de Nueva York: el primer alcalde negro de la ciudad. Entre un paseo por Central Park, compras de última hora y una visita al árbol de Navidad en el Rockefeller Center, una familia normal y corriente se prepara para celebrar las Navidades. Ella (nunca sabremos su nombre ni los de los otros personajes principales) es de origen puertorriqueño. Él, su marido, procede de Santo Domingo. Inmigrantes o hijos de inmigrantes, vinieron a Estados Unidos para hacer realidad el sueño americano. Para cumplir su sueño hay sólo una actividad posible: la del tráfico de drogas y se dedican a ello como si fuera un negocio normal y corriente. “Cortan” la heroína con precisión farmacéutica y llevan su negocio con el mismo rigor que los directores de empresa. Trabajan duro porque el negocio de la droga funciona 24 horas al día, siete días a la semana. El negocio también tiene sus bandas y sus límites territoriales y raciales.
Un cuento de Navidad
Director
Es 1993. El honorable David Dinkins es alcalde de Nueva York: el primer alcalde negro de la ciudad. Entre un paseo por Central Park, compras de última hora y una visita al árbol de Navidad en el Rockefeller Center, una familia normal y corriente se prepara para celebrar las Navidades. Ella (nunca sabremos su nombre ni los de los otros personajes principales) es de origen puertorriqueño. Él, su marido, procede de Santo Domingo. Inmigrantes o hijos de inmigrantes, vinieron a Estados Unidos para hacer realidad el sueño americano. Para cumplir su sueño hay sólo una actividad posible: la del tráfico de drogas y se dedican a ello como si fuera un negocio normal y corriente. “Cortan” la heroína con precisión farmacéutica y llevan su negocio con el mismo rigor que los directores de empresa. Trabajan duro porque el negocio de la droga funciona 24 horas al día, siete días a la semana. El negocio también tiene sus bandas y sus límites territoriales y raciales.
Mylene Farmer: Music Videos II & III
Director
Includes videos of Mylène Farmer made ​​by Laurent Boutonnat, Luc Besson, Abel Ferrara and Marcus Nispel.
New Rose Hotel
Screenplay
Ambientada en un futuro no muy lejano. A Horoshi, un brillante ingeniero genético japonés, se lo disputan dos importantes empresas, la japonesa Hosaka y la alemana Maas. Los revolucionarios descubrimientos del científico tienen el poder de transformar el mundo y generar beneficios billonarios. Hosaka contrata a dos espías, X y Fox, que deben ganarse la confianza de Hiroshi en perjuicio de Maas. La estrategia de los dos mercenarios consiste en atraer a Hiroshi utilizando los encantos de una joven y bella prostituta.
New Rose Hotel
Director
Ambientada en un futuro no muy lejano. A Horoshi, un brillante ingeniero genético japonés, se lo disputan dos importantes empresas, la japonesa Hosaka y la alemana Maas. Los revolucionarios descubrimientos del científico tienen el poder de transformar el mundo y generar beneficios billonarios. Hosaka contrata a dos espías, X y Fox, que deben ganarse la confianza de Hiroshi en perjuicio de Maas. La estrategia de los dos mercenarios consiste en atraer a Hiroshi utilizando los encantos de una joven y bella prostituta.
Abel/Asia
Himself
Behind the scenes mini-doc from Asia Argento on Abel Ferrara during the filming of New Rose Hotel.
Love on the A Train
Director
Every morning, a married man and his wife enter the subway, buying a newspaper and coffee together before taking separate lines. One day, as the man is standing in the aisle of his train, leaning against the support pole while reading his newspaper, a strange woman touches his hand. She slides his hand down the pole and begins to discreetly pleasure herself with it. The man looks over, only to see that the woman is nonchalantly reading the newspaper, as she continues to pleasure herself with his hand. No words are spoken between them. The next day, the same encounter takes place, with the woman boarding the train and hovering over toward the pole by which the man is standing. This time, his hand is already waiting lower on the pole. These daily, wordless encounters between the man and woman continue over a nine month period.
Subway Stories: Tales from the Underground
Director
The actual experiences of New York City subway riders are dramatized in a collection of 10 intriguing and very different vignettes. The tales showcase an ensemble of familiar faces, and range from stories of compassion and love to reflections on violence and loss. Among them: a disabled beggar quarrels with a woman and ruins her shoes with his wheelchair, provoking onlookers to wrath and pity; a skittish tourist proves to be her own worst enemy; a newlywed trysts with a mysterious sexpot; a commuter helplessly witnesses a suicide attempt; and, in the most affecting segment, a young woman grieves over her mother's imminent death.
The Blackout (Oculto en la memoria)
Screenplay
Tras ser abandonado por su mujer, Matty (Matthew Modine), una gran estrella cinematográfica, se refugia en un mundo de orgías, corrupción y alcohol, hundiéndose en un oscuro túnel del que no saldrá en mucho tiempo. Dieciocho meses después, está completamente recuperado y se ha casado con Susan (Claudia Schiffer). Todo marcha bien hasta que unos extraños sueños, en los que aparece una mujer asesina, empiezan a torturarlo. Obsesionado por un pasado que no recuerda, vuelve a Miami con la esperanza de desenterrar los recuerdos ocultos en su memoria.
The Blackout (Oculto en la memoria)
Director
Tras ser abandonado por su mujer, Matty (Matthew Modine), una gran estrella cinematográfica, se refugia en un mundo de orgías, corrupción y alcohol, hundiéndose en un oscuro túnel del que no saldrá en mucho tiempo. Dieciocho meses después, está completamente recuperado y se ha casado con Susan (Claudia Schiffer). Todo marcha bien hasta que unos extraños sueños, en los que aparece una mujer asesina, empiezan a torturarlo. Obsesionado por un pasado que no recuerda, vuelve a Miami con la esperanza de desenterrar los recuerdos ocultos en su memoria.
El funeral
Director
Nueva York, años 30. La familia Tempio se reune en el funeral de uno de los tres hermanos, Johnny, que acaba de ser asesinado. Allí están los otros dos: Ray, el jefe de la familia, y Chez, que padece una enfermedad mental. Todos juntos se acuerdan de Johnny, el hermano pequeño, pero lo único importante es planear la venganza.
Mylène Farmer: California
Director
Short film release
The Addiction
Director
La estudiante de filosofía Kathleen Conklin (Lily Taylor) es mordida por una mujer vampiro (Annabella Sciorra), lo que provoca cambios decisivos en su persona, convirtiéndose en una yonkie ávida de sangre para calmar la insaciable sed que la atenaza. Incapaz de rebelarse ante su nueva condición vital que la domina por completo, la desconcertada joven buscará comprender el auténtico alcance del fenómeno, al mismo tiempo que intervendrá en brutales masacres vampíricas de inadvertidos amigos y conocidos.
At Sundance
Himself
A group portrait of filmmakers attend the 1995 Sundance Film Festival. Featuring Matthew Harrison, Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Todd Haynes, Greg Araki, Abel Ferrara, Atom Egoyan, James Gray, Robert Redford, Haskell Wexler, among many others. Co-directed by Amy Hobby. [Filmed in Pixelvision and blown-up to evocatively grainy 16mm.]
Juego peligroso
Director
Un director de cine recrea en una serie de televisión la vida de un matrimonio fracasado. La violencia de sus personajes se refleja en la vida real, pues el director, obsesionado por convertir el film en parte de su vida, presiona a sus actores hasta llevarlos a extremos emocionales más allá de la ficción.
Body Snatchers (Secuestradores de cuerpos)
Director
En una base militar, una familia observa cómo sus vecinos y amigos se comportan de una manera extraña. Poco a poco, se verán inmersos en una terrible pesadilla de la que no podrán escapar.
Teniente corrupto
Screenplay
Dura y polémica película sobre la corrupción policial. Un policía (Harvey Keitel) agobiado por las enormes deudas contraídas en el juego y que comete toda clase de abusos de autoridad, decide replantearse su vida y su profesión cuando investiga el caso de una joven monja que ha sido violada.
Teniente corrupto
Director
Dura y polémica película sobre la corrupción policial. Un policía (Harvey Keitel) agobiado por las enormes deudas contraídas en el juego y que comete toda clase de abusos de autoridad, decide replantearse su vida y su profesión cuando investiga el caso de una joven monja que ha sido violada.
El cazador de gatos
Director
George Moran, un veterano de la intervención militar norteamericana, antiguo combatiente en la República Dominicana y en la actualidad propietario de un hotel de Miami, regresa a Santo Domingo con el fin de localizar a la mujer que le puso el mote de "Cazador de gatos". En su lugar encuentra a Mary, una mujer casada con el ex director de la policía secreta del país, e inicia un apasionado romance con ella...
El rey de Nueva York
Director
Violento film de gángsters que relata los intentos de un traficante de drogas por recuperar su "territorio" perdido mientras cumplía prisión. En Nueva York el crimen se hace a la manera de Frank o no se hace. Recién salido de la prisión, Frank White se reúne con su antigua banda para retomar su posición como "señor de la droga" de la ciudad. Se enfrentarán en sangrientas batallas al resto de capos de la ciudad y lucharán por estar en la cima. Incapaces de volver a poner a Frank entre rejas, la policía también les declara la guerra.
China Girl
Director
"China Girl" es una actualización de la clásica historia de "Romeo y Julieta". Ambientada en el Manhattan de los años 80, la trama gira alrededor de la historia de amor entre Tony, un adolescente italiano de Little Italy, y Tye, una joven de Chinatown, mientras sus hermanos mayores, que forman parte de bandas de delincuentes juveniles, se enzarzan en una lucha por el poder de las calles. De todas sus películas, el director Abel Ferrara ha declarado que su favorita es "China Girl".
El gladiador (TV)
Director
Un guerrero de la carretera busca vengar la muerte de su hermano a manos de un motorista irresponsable.
Ciudad Del Crimen
Director
Después de haber matado a uno de sus contrincantes en el ring, Matt (Tom Berenguer) se retira del boxeo y regenta con su socio Nicky un club de bailarinas de striptease en Nueva York. Cuando dos bailarinas aparecen brutalmente asesinadas, Matt sospecha de Carmine, rival y propietario de varios clubes, pero éste niega cualquier tipo de implicación en el crimen. Mientras tanto, el detective de policía Al Wheeler (Billy Dee Williams), que teme que estalle una guerra entre las bandas, intentará impedirla. Pero los asesinato se suceden y toda parece indicar que la siguiente víctima será Loretta (Melanie Griffith), la primera bailarina del local de Matt.
Ángel de venganza
Director
Una muchacha muda, que ha sido violada dos veces en el mismo día, consigue matar a su segundo agresor y, apoderándose de su revolver, se convierte en una especie de vengadora feminista, dedicada a liquidar chulos, violadores, traficantes y otros muchos misóginos en general.
Ángel de venganza
1st Rapist
Una muchacha muda, que ha sido violada dos veces en el mismo día, consigue matar a su segundo agresor y, apoderándose de su revolver, se convierte en una especie de vengadora feminista, dedicada a liquidar chulos, violadores, traficantes y otros muchos misóginos en general.
Killer (El asesino del taladro)
Songs
Reno Miller (Abel Ferrara) es un artista que, sofocado por los agobios y las exigencias de la vida urbana, ha ido hundiéndose progresivamente en una espiral de locura y, a pesar de su esfuerzo por resistirse, encuentra que ya no tiene otra forma de desahogarse que no sea el recorrer los callejones de Nueva York, armado con un taladro, en busca de carne dónde hundirlo.
Killer (El asesino del taladro)
Reno Miller
Reno Miller (Abel Ferrara) es un artista que, sofocado por los agobios y las exigencias de la vida urbana, ha ido hundiéndose progresivamente en una espiral de locura y, a pesar de su esfuerzo por resistirse, encuentra que ya no tiene otra forma de desahogarse que no sea el recorrer los callejones de Nueva York, armado con un taladro, en busca de carne dónde hundirlo.
Killer (El asesino del taladro)
Editor
Reno Miller (Abel Ferrara) es un artista que, sofocado por los agobios y las exigencias de la vida urbana, ha ido hundiéndose progresivamente en una espiral de locura y, a pesar de su esfuerzo por resistirse, encuentra que ya no tiene otra forma de desahogarse que no sea el recorrer los callejones de Nueva York, armado con un taladro, en busca de carne dónde hundirlo.
Killer (El asesino del taladro)
Director
Reno Miller (Abel Ferrara) es un artista que, sofocado por los agobios y las exigencias de la vida urbana, ha ido hundiéndose progresivamente en una espiral de locura y, a pesar de su esfuerzo por resistirse, encuentra que ya no tiene otra forma de desahogarse que no sea el recorrer los callejones de Nueva York, armado con un taladro, en busca de carne dónde hundirlo.
9 Lives of a Wet Pussycat
Editor
A series of related episodes featuring the erotic escapades of a young New York heiress and the people associated with her.
9 Lives of a Wet Pussycat
Old Man (as Jimmy Laine)
A series of related episodes featuring the erotic escapades of a young New York heiress and the people associated with her.
9 Lives of a Wet Pussycat
Director
A series of related episodes featuring the erotic escapades of a young New York heiress and the people associated with her.
Could This Be Love
Writer
Two carefree women have a fun day out, pick up a prostitute and take her to a party hosted by one's husband.
Could This Be Love
Director
Two carefree women have a fun day out, pick up a prostitute and take her to a party hosted by one's husband.
The Hold Up
Writer
Three men, laid off from their factory jobs, plan a gas station robbery.
The Hold Up
Director
Three men, laid off from their factory jobs, plan a gas station robbery.
Nicky's Film
Cinematography
A man is threatened by mobsters to pay up a loan or be killed.
Nicky's Film
Man in junkyard
A man is threatened by mobsters to pay up a loan or be killed.
Nicky's Film
Director
A man is threatened by mobsters to pay up a loan or be killed.
La Passion Selon Béatrice
A tribute to Pier Paolo Pasolini.
9 Lives of a Wet Pussy
Director
A series of related episodes featuring the erotic escapades of a young New York heiress and the people associated with her. Pauline is a wealthy and married New York heiress who embarks on a series of sexual encounters with various people. She keeps in close contact with Gypsy, a tarot reader whom Pauline writes letters describing in minute detail about her conquests from seducing a French stable boy, to having sex with a gas station attendant, to a visiting Nigerian princess with a past, and to a fantasy lover, which apparently stems from her past involving a flashback sequence showing Pauline's young grand mother and younger sister taking a verse from the bible a little too far and seducing their own father.
9 Lives of a Wet Pussy
Old Man(as Jimmy Laine)
A series of related episodes featuring the erotic escapades of a young New York heiress and the people associated with her. Pauline is a wealthy and married New York heiress who embarks on a series of sexual encounters with various people. She keeps in close contact with Gypsy, a tarot reader whom Pauline writes letters describing in minute detail about her conquests from seducing a French stable boy, to having sex with a gas station attendant, to a visiting Nigerian princess with a past, and to a fantasy lover, which apparently stems from her past involving a flashback sequence showing Pauline's young grand mother and younger sister taking a verse from the bible a little too far and seducing their own father.
La Notte Brucia
Abel