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Abel Ferrara’s latest film, “Siberia,” finds his constant muse, Willem Dafoe, in an icy, isolated wasteland not explicitly meant to be the Russian tundra but rather an abstract plane of solitude. His character Clint, an English-speaking bartender out of place in this far-off land populated by indigenous peoples, follows the ambient energy of the area on a metaphysical journey through his own past.

Actor Willem Dafoe is known for his quirky smaller pictures, and it looks like his upcoming release “Siberia” won’t be an exception. The project comes by way of “King of New York” and “Bad Lieutenant” director Abel Ferrara, pushing some strong visuals seen in the film’s trailer that has arrived via Screen Rant.

Mexican content producer Talipot Studio has signed with CAA. Launched in 2018 and led by CEO Regina Solórzano, Talipot Studio is executive producing Lisandro Alonso’s Eureka, starring Viggo Mortensen.

Dave McNary Film ReporterEthan Hawke, Cristina Chiriac and Phil Neilson will star in the upcoming war thriller “Zeros and Ones,” with Abel Ferrara directing from his own script.Filming begins in Italy later this month. Hawke will portray an American soldier stationed in Rome as it’s under siege, with the Vatican blown up.

Though no one would be mad at Ethan Hawke for taking some clear “paycheck films” at this point in his career, after starring in some of the best features of the past 30 years, the actor is clearly going down a more challenging path, as he tackles some of the most interesting projects in the industry.

Ethan Hawke will star in the next film from director Abel Ferrara, a war-time thriller called “Zeros and Ones.”Hawke joins a cast that also includes Cristina Chiriac and Phil Neilson, and “Zeros and Ones” will begin filming in Italy later this month.“Zeros and Ones” is both written and directed by Ferrara, and it stars Hawke as JJ, an American soldier stationed in Rome under siege, locked down and at war who witnesses an attack on The Vatican.

Ben Croll World premiering this week at NewImages Festival in Paris before playing at the London Film Festival in early October, the Franco-British-Taiwanese co-production “Missing Pictures Ep.

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage, and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

Guy Lodge Film CriticThere is no writing credit for “Sportin’ Life,” which feels like an omission, but an apt one. On the one hand, this documentary self-portrait by rogue auteur Abel Ferrara feels wholly the product of his eccentric imagination, colored by his voice from beginning to hasty end.

Bronx-born, Italian-based filmmaker Abel Ferrara is a character and so is Cypriot independent movie theater owner Nicolas “Nick” Nicolaou. “I do it cause it combines two things I like to do,” Nicolaou says in Ferrara’s new documentary “The Projectionist.” “Make money and keep neighborhood theaters alive.

Made as part of an international art project curated by Saint Laurent’s creative director Anthony Vaccarello, Abel Ferrara'sSportin’ Life is a 65-minute trip through the mind of the New York filmmaker, where we find a mixture of the curious and the exasperating. Screened out of competition at Venice, it was filmed and edited between February and September of this fateful year 2020, when the coronavirus brought the world to a halt.

Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorSometimes controversial director Abel Ferrara addressed the idea of cancel culture in today’s world and whether it had become more difficult to make the kinds of films he once did. “It’s on the artist to uncancel himself, to come clean with himself,” he said.

“The documentary on the act of making documentaries.” Filmmaker Abel Ferrara perfectly sums up the crux of his new film in the opening seconds of the trailer for “Sportin’ Life.” His succinct description would only be better if he was able to somehow weave in that Willem Dafoe is featured throughout.

Abel Ferrara’s “Sportin’ Life” is set to premiere at this year’s Venice Film Festival.

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentNewImages Festival has unveiled the XR competition lineup for its 3rd edition, running at Forum des Images in Paris from Sept. 23-27.

The word “canceled” means so much to different people in today’s society. For some, it’s a possible end-result of a celebrity’s terrible actions that were made public.

Fernando Sulichin is used to doing things differently. The veteran producer and CEO of New Element Media has established a reputation for working with maverick auteurs — Oliver Stone, Sean Pean, Abel Ferrara, Michael Winterbottom, Larry Clark, Harmony Korine — and finding creative ways to get films made that don't fit the industry's cookie-cutter models.

Sometime after the second or third film together, director Abel Ferrara and his frequent star Willem Dafoe developed something of a shorthand. “The closer we are and the more experience we have together, the more independent we become on the set,” says the Bronx-born auteur behind such indie classics asKing of New YorkandBad Lieutenant.

The trailer for Tommaso, a new film from cult filmmaker Abel Ferrar and starring Willem Dafoe has landed online. The movie is the latest teaming of the two who have previously worked on the likes of Pasolini in 2014 and the upcoming Siberia, which screened at the Berlin Film Festival back in February.

Willem Dafoe’s character Clint is not going to be the only one struggling to find meaning in Siberia, the latest rumination on life from agent provocateur Abel Ferrara. Not only does the screenplay, which Ferrara wrote with Christ Zois, seem like a highly personal exploration of the director’s own psyche, but it is peppered with dreamlike/drug-like encounters with pregnant women, naked dwarves, shamans and magicians who pop out of nowhere, are questioned and disappear a few minutes later.

By Andreas Wiseman

Kino Lorber has picked up the North American rights to two upcoming films by cult filmmaker Abel Ferrara, including Tommaso, a Rome-set drama starring Willem Dafoe that bowed in Cannes.Kino Lorber also nabbed The Projectionist— Ferrara's documentary about a Greek Cypriot immigrant, Nicolas "Nick" Nicolaou, trying to keep New York City art house cinemas open in competition with the multiplex — which bowed at Tribeca.The autobiographical drama Tommasoabout a director and recovering addict