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Bloody Thoughts: Abel Ferrara on The Addiction
Appearing online for the first time, here is Scott Macaulay’s report on Abel Ferrara’s The Addiction, from our Winter, 1995 edition. It appears here in newly revised form. ***“Addiction will be our question: a certain type of ‘Being-on-drugs’ that has everything to do with the bad conscious of our era.” — Avital Ronell, Crack Wars “Look at this,” Abel Ferrara says, tracing his finger across the video monitor in his Manhattan office/editing room. On the screen: black-and-white images of blood-streaked, bullet-ridden Bosnian casualties. “This is the real thing.” These images, and others of Nazi concentration camp victims from Ferrara’s new […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jul 7, 2019 -
TRAILER WATCH: STEPHEN ELLIOTT’S “CHERRY”
Here’s the just-posted trailer for Stephen Elliott‘s Berlin-bound Cherry, the debut feature of the author (The Adderall Diaries, Happy Baby) and Rumpus website founder. It stars Ashley Hinshaw, James Franco, Lili Taylor, Jonny Weston, Dev Patel and Heather Graham. From the film’s website: Cherry is about Angelina (Ashley Hinshaw), an 18-year-old girl on the verge of finishing high school. Angelina’s family life is difficult. Her mother (Lili Taylor) is an alcoholic and her step-father is violent and unpredictable. One morning her boyfriend (Jonny Weston) suggests she take naked pictures for money. She balks at first but then does the photo […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 22, 2012
