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Always Trying to Get Beyond the Veil: An Interview with Abel Ferrara
Abel Ferrara recently spoke with Bright Wall/Dark Room from Rome about his new memoir, Scene, his films, and his life as an artist.
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Abel Ferrara talks with @aheartofgould.bsky.social about his new memoir, his films, and his life as an artist.
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Abel Ferrara talks with @aheartofgould.bsky.social about his new memoir, his films, and his life as an artist.
(🎨 by @bturnerinfo.bsky.social)
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Seattle, this could be our mayor, please check your ballots immediately to make sure they were counted, she is wonderful
November 11, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Seattle, this could be our mayor, please check your ballots immediately to make sure they were counted, she is wonderful
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Carnival of Souls (Harvey, 1962) - Michelangelo Antonioni's Night of the Living Dead
Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows (Jay, 1998) - The biggest "I can't believe they got that on tape" this side of The Jinx
Red Rooms (Plante, 2003) - beyond harrowing
Kneecap (Peppiatt, 2024) - beyond inspiring
Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows (Jay, 1998) - The biggest "I can't believe they got that on tape" this side of The Jinx
Red Rooms (Plante, 2003) - beyond harrowing
Kneecap (Peppiatt, 2024) - beyond inspiring
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Carnival of Souls (Harvey, 1962) - Michelangelo Antonioni's Night of the Living Dead
Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows (Jay, 1998) - The biggest "I can't believe they got that on tape" this side of The Jinx
Red Rooms (Plante, 2003) - beyond harrowing
Kneecap (Peppiatt, 2024) - beyond inspiring
Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows (Jay, 1998) - The biggest "I can't believe they got that on tape" this side of The Jinx
Red Rooms (Plante, 2003) - beyond harrowing
Kneecap (Peppiatt, 2024) - beyond inspiring
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It's amazing that such a harrowing film was an actual box-office hit. Probably would not even get a theatrical release if it came out today
November 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
It's amazing that such a harrowing film was an actual box-office hit. Probably would not even get a theatrical release if it came out today
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deserve its own post
October 19, 2025 at 6:04 AM
deserve its own post
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RIP Tatsuya Nakadai - one of the all time greats of world cinema variety.com/2025/film/ob...
Tatsuya Nakadai, Japanese Film Legend That Starred in ‘Ran,’ ‘Harakiri’ and ‘The Human Condition’ Trilogy, Dies at 92
Tatsuya Nakadai, one of Japan's most celebrated actors who was a frequent collaborator of Akira Kurosawa and Masaki Kobayashi, died. He was 92.
variety.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:41 AM
RIP Tatsuya Nakadai - one of the all time greats of world cinema variety.com/2025/film/ob...
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Saw the remaster of Yi Yi in the theater for the 25th anniversary and that movie has everything. It's graceful and expansive, uninterested in anything tidy, instead giving us the chaos of life with everything entangled in and rhyming with everything else.
November 10, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Saw the remaster of Yi Yi in the theater for the 25th anniversary and that movie has everything. It's graceful and expansive, uninterested in anything tidy, instead giving us the chaos of life with everything entangled in and rhyming with everything else.
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I saw All That Jazz for the first time this year and I've thought about it every day since.
What is the best movie not from this year that you’ve seen this year? Bonus points if you say why
November 10, 2025 at 8:28 AM
I saw All That Jazz for the first time this year and I've thought about it every day since.
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Network. I was familiar with the film's famous speech before, but seeing it in the context of the film, and how relevant it is in today's times, hit like a truck.
November 10, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Network. I was familiar with the film's famous speech before, but seeing it in the context of the film, and how relevant it is in today's times, hit like a truck.
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I legit think it’s CLASS OF 1999.
Dystopian schools filled with student gangs that end up having to fight automoton teachers whose military-grade programming turns them into killing machines? One of whom is played by Pam Grier? Art. Goddamn art. What a midnighter blast.
Dystopian schools filled with student gangs that end up having to fight automoton teachers whose military-grade programming turns them into killing machines? One of whom is played by Pam Grier? Art. Goddamn art. What a midnighter blast.
What is the best movie not from this year that you’ve seen this year? Bonus points if you say why
November 10, 2025 at 6:43 AM
I legit think it’s CLASS OF 1999.
Dystopian schools filled with student gangs that end up having to fight automoton teachers whose military-grade programming turns them into killing machines? One of whom is played by Pam Grier? Art. Goddamn art. What a midnighter blast.
Dystopian schools filled with student gangs that end up having to fight automoton teachers whose military-grade programming turns them into killing machines? One of whom is played by Pam Grier? Art. Goddamn art. What a midnighter blast.
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THEY ALL LAUGHED, Bogdanovich’s most rigorous *and* his loosest and loopiest. A film that pushes screwball plotting into a nearly avant garde tangle, leaving you to just soak in the vibes. John Ritter’s performance is a miracle. And by the end you find yourself unaccountably moved.
What is the best movie not from this year that you’ve seen this year? Bonus points if you say why
November 10, 2025 at 6:55 AM
THEY ALL LAUGHED, Bogdanovich’s most rigorous *and* his loosest and loopiest. A film that pushes screwball plotting into a nearly avant garde tangle, leaving you to just soak in the vibes. John Ritter’s performance is a miracle. And by the end you find yourself unaccountably moved.
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Inside Llewyn Davis. Perfectly conveys what it looks and feels like to be deep in pursuit of something —a warm winter coat, a few bucks, a place to sleep, artistic fulfillment and connection, love, contentment, a lost cat, etc.
November 10, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Inside Llewyn Davis. Perfectly conveys what it looks and feels like to be deep in pursuit of something —a warm winter coat, a few bucks, a place to sleep, artistic fulfillment and connection, love, contentment, a lost cat, etc.
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This is the secret point of all of this! And if anybody wants to make a letterboxd list out of it, that’d be swell 🖤
This is just a big list of movies and it makes me so happy.
What is the best movie not from this year that you’ve seen this year? Bonus points if you say why
November 10, 2025 at 6:46 AM
This is the secret point of all of this! And if anybody wants to make a letterboxd list out of it, that’d be swell 🖤
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GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES. An absolute masterpiece: focused, gentle, elegiac. Such love amid such loss.
November 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES. An absolute masterpiece: focused, gentle, elegiac. Such love amid such loss.
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Hopscotch (1980) Walter Matthau on the run from various security services because he's releasing all their big secrets. He's smart in a Doctorish way and has Glenda Jackson as his confident and foil. Only found out about it because of the Criterion edition and wish I'd grown up with it.
What is the best movie not from this year that you’ve seen this year? Bonus points if you say why
November 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Hopscotch (1980) Walter Matthau on the run from various security services because he's releasing all their big secrets. He's smart in a Doctorish way and has Glenda Jackson as his confident and foil. Only found out about it because of the Criterion edition and wish I'd grown up with it.
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Hoop Dreams!! Good and evil, love and hate, success and failure, vice and virtue - all in two Chicago households, all on the basketball court
What is the best movie not from this year that you’ve seen this year? Bonus points if you say why
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Hoop Dreams!! Good and evil, love and hate, success and failure, vice and virtue - all in two Chicago households, all on the basketball court
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PARIS, TEXAS. You watch a movie like that and you thank whoever or whatever you usually thank for things for the existence of movies.
What is the best movie not from this year that you’ve seen this year? Bonus points if you say why
November 10, 2025 at 5:08 AM
PARIS, TEXAS. You watch a movie like that and you thank whoever or whatever you usually thank for things for the existence of movies.
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Jean Vigo's L'Atalante. Emotional longing manifests itself in surreal and musical movie magic. It's incredibly sad that such an amazing filmmaker had to die so young. One of my favorites.
What is the best movie not from this year that you’ve seen this year? Bonus points if you say why
November 10, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Jean Vigo's L'Atalante. Emotional longing manifests itself in surreal and musical movie magic. It's incredibly sad that such an amazing filmmaker had to die so young. One of my favorites.
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The Straight Story, which I hadn’t seen in a couple of decades and still brought me close to tears. There’s just this overwhelming sense of kindness in the film that makes the viewer want to be a better human.
What is the best movie not from this year that you’ve seen this year? Bonus points if you say why
November 10, 2025 at 5:47 AM
The Straight Story, which I hadn’t seen in a couple of decades and still brought me close to tears. There’s just this overwhelming sense of kindness in the film that makes the viewer want to be a better human.
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Separate Tables (1959), for moral maturity.
What is the best movie not from this year that you’ve seen this year? Bonus points if you say why
November 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Separate Tables (1959), for moral maturity.
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YI YI
DEEP COVER
THE DEVIL'S BATH
NOTORIOUS
PEKING OPERA BLUES
WALKER
EVE'S BAYOU
CITY ON FIRE
JOHNNY GUITAR
THE APPOINTMENT
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST
MY DINNER WITH ANDRE
HANGOVER SQUARE
MCCABE & MRS.MILLER
THE HOUSE WITH LAUGHING WINDOWS
THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE AND HER LOVER
DEEP COVER
THE DEVIL'S BATH
NOTORIOUS
PEKING OPERA BLUES
WALKER
EVE'S BAYOU
CITY ON FIRE
JOHNNY GUITAR
THE APPOINTMENT
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST
MY DINNER WITH ANDRE
HANGOVER SQUARE
MCCABE & MRS.MILLER
THE HOUSE WITH LAUGHING WINDOWS
THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE AND HER LOVER
What is the best movie not from this year that you’ve seen this year? Bonus points if you say why
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
YI YI
DEEP COVER
THE DEVIL'S BATH
NOTORIOUS
PEKING OPERA BLUES
WALKER
EVE'S BAYOU
CITY ON FIRE
JOHNNY GUITAR
THE APPOINTMENT
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST
MY DINNER WITH ANDRE
HANGOVER SQUARE
MCCABE & MRS.MILLER
THE HOUSE WITH LAUGHING WINDOWS
THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE AND HER LOVER
DEEP COVER
THE DEVIL'S BATH
NOTORIOUS
PEKING OPERA BLUES
WALKER
EVE'S BAYOU
CITY ON FIRE
JOHNNY GUITAR
THE APPOINTMENT
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST
MY DINNER WITH ANDRE
HANGOVER SQUARE
MCCABE & MRS.MILLER
THE HOUSE WITH LAUGHING WINDOWS
THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE AND HER LOVER
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THE BLOOD SHIP (1927), which I have been wanting to see for more than a decade and it lived up to the hype! The hype, of course, being a bloody and decadent seafaring revenge tale.
What is the best movie not from this year that you’ve seen this year? Bonus points if you say why
November 9, 2025 at 9:02 PM
THE BLOOD SHIP (1927), which I have been wanting to see for more than a decade and it lived up to the hype! The hype, of course, being a bloody and decadent seafaring revenge tale.
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Crossing Delancey, a movie that made me romantic for New York
What is the best movie not from this year that you’ve seen this year? Bonus points if you say why
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Crossing Delancey, a movie that made me romantic for New York
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Night Moves
Don't Bother to Knock
Mona Lisa
The Company
What Lies Beneath
Light from Light
Kindred
Dead Mail
All the President's Men
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
The Serpent and the Rainbow
Dead and Buried
Good Time
What Lies Beneath
Don't Bother to Knock
Mona Lisa
The Company
What Lies Beneath
Light from Light
Kindred
Dead Mail
All the President's Men
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
The Serpent and the Rainbow
Dead and Buried
Good Time
What Lies Beneath
What is the best movie not from this year that you’ve seen this year? Bonus points if you say why
November 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Night Moves
Don't Bother to Knock
Mona Lisa
The Company
What Lies Beneath
Light from Light
Kindred
Dead Mail
All the President's Men
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
The Serpent and the Rainbow
Dead and Buried
Good Time
What Lies Beneath
Don't Bother to Knock
Mona Lisa
The Company
What Lies Beneath
Light from Light
Kindred
Dead Mail
All the President's Men
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
The Serpent and the Rainbow
Dead and Buried
Good Time
What Lies Beneath