Abel Ferrara has been making films for nearly 50 years without compromising his unique, provocative, unflinchingly autobiographical vision. In this episode we invited special guests Marcus Pinn and John Frankensteiner to discuss Ferrara's four narrative films from the last decade: his farewell to New York City in 4:44 Last Day on Earth, his return to a very different kind of city in Welcome to New York, a chronicle of the last days of a filmmaking legend with Pasolini and the brutal self-examination that is his latest film, the Rome-set roman à clef Tommaso starring Willem Dafoe.

Marcus previously appeared on an episode of the podcast The Wrong Reel to discuss Ferrara's full filmography. We pick up the thread here by talking about how this particular Ferr-era of 2010 to 2019 fits into the scope of his long career, his evolution as an artist, his past and his future.

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Broadcast on:

18 May 2021