After the break you can find a special crossover episode of The Trash Twins and Travis Bickle on the Riviera, the world's only movie podcast. With your hosts Katie Skelly, Sarah Horrocks, and Sean Witzke.
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0:00:00 - 1:09:19 - This week Sean is joined by Katie Skelly and Sarah Horrocks of The Trash Twins, to talk about the films of Abel Ferrara. This is part 2 of the conversation, part 1 being the latest episode of their show. In part 1 we talked about Ms. 45 and Bad Lieutenant, this time, the films discussed include:
Dangerous Game (1993), starring Harvey Keitel, Madonna, and James Russo.
King of New York (1990), starring Christopher Walken, Laurence Fishburne, Nancy Drew, Wesley Snipes, David Caruso, Paul Calderon, Victor Argo, Theresa Randle, Steve Buscemi, and Giancarlo Esposito.
Driller Killer (1979), starring Ferrara, Carolyn Marz.
New Rose Hotel (1998), starring Willem Dafoe, Christopher Walken, Asia Argento, John Lurie, Yoshitaka Amano, Gretchen Mol, and Ryuichi Sakamoto.
China Girl (1987), starring Richard Panebianco, Sari Chang, James Russo, Russell Wong, and David Caruso.
The Addiction (1995), starring Lili Taylor, Annabella Sciora, Edie Falco, Christopher Walken, Paul Calderon, Fredro Starr, and RedRum Simmons.
Fear City (1984), starring Tom Berenger, Billy Dee Williams, Melanie Griffith, Jack Scalia, and Rae Dawn Chong.
The Blackout (1997), starring Matthew Modine, Beatrice Dalle, Dennis Hopper, and Claudia Schiffer.
Cat Chaser (1989), starring Peter Weller, Kelly McGillis, Charles Durning, Frederic Forrest, and Tomas Milian.
ALSO DISCUSSED ON THIS EPISODE: L. Ron Hubbard, Review, Stagecoach, Le Mepris, Hannah & Her Sisters, Tenesee Williams, Long Days Journey Into Night, Madonna's Sex Book, Vanilla Ice, Cher, Debbie Harry, Russ Meyer, The Hunger, Near Dark, Habit, Possession, Antichrist, Scenes From a Marriage, Raging Bull, Stoker, Queen of Earth, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, The Fearless Vampire Killers, Shelly Duvall, Werner Herzog, John Waters, David Cronenberg, Tony Scott, Peter Bogdanovich, Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach, Martin Scorsese, Dario Argento, Into The Night, Lars Von Trier, Sam Peckinpah, Paul Verhoeven, Rihanna on Instagram, Taylor Swift, Beyonce, Justin Timberlake, Jennifer Lopez, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Nosferatu, Aguirre the Wrath of God, Grizzly Man, Stroszek, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Pink Flamingos, Kickstarter, Pasolini, Kathryn Bigelow, Numero Deux, Strange Days, Boarding Gate, William Gibson, James Cameron, Cat Marnell on Whitney Houston, Demonlover, The Stendhal Syndrome, Nancy Drew, Queen Margot, Alphaville, Jean Rollin, Coppola's Dracula, Requiem For A Vampire, Fascination, Female Vampire, Christopher Lee, Nadja, You Must Remember This' series on Charles Manson's Hollywood, Trouble Every Day, Living Dead Girl, Inglorious Basterds, Takashi Miike, Shinya Tsukamoto, Sean Penn, Paul Thomas Anderson, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Codependent No More, Blackhat, 8 1/2, Clouds of Sils Maria, New Jack City, Garth Ennis, Schooly D, Notorious B.I.G., The Punisher, Russell Simmons, The Sopranos, Superfly, Andy Warhol, Manos the Hands of Fate, Cocaine Cowboys, Maniac, Charlie Chaplin, Jerry Lewis, Nightbreed, Jamie Lee Curtis, Christopher Guest, Isabelle Adjani, RXmas, and Max Payne.
Next Week: The Wraith.
Music this week: Our intro this time is Chris Penn singing "Tonight Will Be the Night" from The Funeral, and our outro is "Am I Black Enough For You" by Schooly D from King of New York.
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CONSUMERISM!
Loved this.
On Ferrara's later career:
I'm interested in seeing his Killing of a Chinese Bookie remake with Dafoe? I haven't seen any of these recent Abel/Dafoe movies, I don't know if last year's Pasolini biopic was ever released in the US.
Posted by: Taylor | 2015.08.31 at 14:28