Sunday, May 15, 2016

Corpulent Corporality: Abel Ferrara's Bad Politician [On Welcome to New York]

Welcome to New York (Abel Ferrara, 2014)
Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara, 1992)

Over at The Chiseler, I wrote about the different bodies on display in Welcome to New York (2014) and, to a lesser extent, Bad Lieutenant (1992). 

Pedro Costa's Growing Pains [On Colossal Youth and Horse Money]


Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa, 2006)

For Fandor, I wrote about Ventura's performances in Pedro Costa's Fontaínhas films, particularly in Colossal Youth (2006) and Horse Money (2014).

Brooklyn Magazine capsules (April - May 2016)

Deranged: The Confessions of a Necrophile (Jeff Gillen & Alan Ormsby, 1974)



Here are just a pair of capsules for this roundup: