CANNES, France -- Abel Ferrara’s new film ... for urban tales of damnation such as “Bad Lieutenant” and “King of New York,” moved to Italy several years ago, fleeing a city transformed ...

Ten years ago, Abel Ferrara was getting ... ruinous NC-17 certificate in the US. The New York sleaze of those films, and his ability to shock, earned Ferrara a reputation as a kind of haunted ...

Director Abel Ferrara’s King Of New York was recently reissued on Blu-ray. Ryan takes a look back at this one-of-a-kind 1990 gangster flick… Share on Facebook (opens in a new tab) Share on ...

Abel Ferrara, the rascally perennial New York filmmaker behind seminal tales of urban grime like “Bad Lieutenant” and “The Funeral,” has never taken kindly to the idea of compromise.

Like any good Catholic, bad-boy auteur Abel Ferrara has always had sin ... Ferrara's operatic 1990 gangster film King Of New York confirmed his affinity for the morally wayward and contradictory.

Abel Ferrara hit this miraculous — albeit offbeat — stroke of genius in the 1990s with this and “King of New York.” He shaped the theatrics of the city like no other. “Bad Lieutenant” is a segment in ...

The 1990 gangster film "The King of New York" is being hailed as a neglected masterpiece in the genre, boasting a solid 77% ...

Abel Ferrara’s Welcome To New York premiered in Cannes last May as it simultaneously went out on VOD in France in an unconventional release strategy for Wild Bunch. It was downloaded 100K times ...

In early March, director Abel Ferrara lashed out against distributor IFC Films for its plans to release a director-unapproved version of “Welcome to New York,” his lightly fictionalized ...

A "neglected" gangster film is earning acclaim as "one of the very best of the genre" and boasts a 77% rating. The King of ...