Discland
edited by Jonathan Doyle
Mafioso (The Criterion Collection, 3.18.2008) Nino Badalamenti is a supervisor in a car manufacturing plant who hasn't taken a vacation in over two years. On his way out the door to visit his beloved childhood hometown of Sicily -- with his blonde wife and daughters -- Nino is handed a package by his boss and asked to deliver it to a powerful and influential Sicilian gangster named Don Vincenzo. Once in Sicily, Nino has a hoot seeing friends and family, but his wife has trouble fitting in and is unfairly dismissed as a snob by Nino's family. Even more worrisome, Nino finds himself entangled in an intricate web of secret mafioso dealings and is eventually sent on an unexpectedly... elaborate errand. (continued)

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Ferrara's Chelsea Doc

Forever partial to the films of Abel Ferrara, the Cannes Film Festival is offering a special screening of his latest, a doc about a certain storied Manhattan hotel called Chelsea on the Rocks. Screening on Friday,. 5.23, it'll include "interviews with residents past and present" such as Milos Forman, Ethan Hawke, Dennis Hopper and R. Crumb, plus vintage music, archival footage and re-enactments of famous Chelsea episodes -- Nancy Spungen and Sid Vicious, Janis Joplin -- performed by Bijou Phillips, Jamie Burke, Adam Goldberg, Giancarlo Esposito and Grace Jones.


The press screening is at 11:30 am at the 60th Anniversary Theatre inside the Palais, the press conference is at 3:15 pm, and the official screening is at 7:45 pm. Ferrara, Phillips, Burke and Hooper will attend.

Posted by Jeffrey Wells on May 07, 2008 at 01:01 PM

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LexG [TypeKey Profile Page] says ...

DRILLER KILLER OWNS YOUR ASS.

Posted by LexG [TypeKey Profile Page] at May 7, 2008 01:48 PM

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corey3rd [TypeKey Profile Page] says ...

no recreation of Janis Joplin giving Leonard Cohen a blow job?

Posted by corey3rd [TypeKey Profile Page] at May 7, 2008 02:05 PM

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MilkMan [TypeKey Profile Page] says ...

Where is Mary? Where is Go-Go Tales? Why can't I see them?

Only Abel Ferrara would come up with the idea of casting Adam Goldberg and Grace Jones as Sid and Nancy.

If Driller Killer owns my ass then Bad Lieutenant owns my taint, while The Funeral owns my balls.

I wonder if Abel is going to recreate the greatest moment in Chelsea Hotel history, i.e., the time Ethan Hawke mussed his hair, lit a cigarette, flopped into an old chair an attempted to read the first ten pages of the used paperback edition of Ulysses he kept in the back pocket of his jeans. Me, I'm not so pretentious. As a prop I carry around a used paperback edition of Coover's Public Burning in the back pocket of my jeans.

Posted by MilkMan [TypeKey Profile Page] at May 7, 2008 04:41 PM

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BurmaShave [TypeKey Profile Page] says ...

Then what does KING OF NEW YORK own? Something major I hope.

Posted by BurmaShave [TypeKey Profile Page] at May 7, 2008 04:49 PM

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MilkMan [TypeKey Profile Page] says ...

King of New York owns my spleen.

Posted by MilkMan [TypeKey Profile Page] at May 7, 2008 04:52 PM

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actionman [TypeKey Profile Page] says ...

King of New York owns everyone's spleen.

Posted by actionman [TypeKey Profile Page] at May 7, 2008 05:00 PM

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LexG [TypeKey Profile Page] says ...

FEAR CITY OWNS YOUR ASS.

MS. 45 OWNS YOUR ASS, especially the HORN MUSIC during the final shootout.

KING OF NEW YORK has a PINK SLIP ON YOUR BALLS.

And BAD LIEUTENANT OWNS ALL, or at least used to, before Ferrara changed the music. That rap song was fucking AWESOME.

For those keeping score, though, CAT CHASER, CHINA GIRL, THE BLACKOUT, and DANGEROUS GAME don't OWN much of anything.

Posted by LexG [TypeKey Profile Page] at May 7, 2008 06:40 PM

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JosephB [TypeKey Profile Page] says ...

Whoa whoa... "Dangerous Game" owns something. It's one of my fave Abel Ferrera films. Not only do you get a halfway decent Madonna, but a coked out, electric James Russo. And talk about a self-reflexive film. If you watch carefully at one point, the film marker in the film-within-the-film is actually titled "Dangerous Game".

Posted by JosephB [TypeKey Profile Page] at May 7, 2008 09:49 PM

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