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Article: Malice toward nuns. (motion picture director Abel Ferrara) (Interview)
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- March 1, 1993
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Abel Ferrara takes no prisoners--not in conversation and certainly not in the seven feature films he's directed over the past 13 years, especially his latest epic in degeneration, Bad Lieutenant. Starring Harvey Keitel, Bad Lieutenant tracks a few sorry days in the life of a nameless New York cop who's going down fast and hard. An alcoholic crackhead on a gambling tear, he's the kind of guy with one hand on his dick and another that's always in some shmuck's pocket. Shot for less than two million dollars, the film has the raw, pulpy texture of great '70s movies like The French Connection, but with the soul of a medieval miracle play.
Faith, redemption--the words ...
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Article: Nicolas Cage to star in 'Bad Lieutenant' remake
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May 14, 2008 ;
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... ... star in Werner Herzog's remake of the 1992 cult classic 'Bad Lieutenant," for Nu Image/Millennium Films. Pressman Film Corp ... its original Abel Ferrara NC-17 film about the depraved New York police officer, who was heavily involved in drugs, gambling ...
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