Phorographers. John Loengard. Bill Cunningham New York. Christian Frei. Christian Frei is considered to be one of the most renowned contemporary documentary filmmakers. In 1997 he produced his first feature length documentary, RICARDO, MIRIAM Y FIDEL, the portrait of a Cuban family torn between loyalty to revolutionary ideals and the desire to emigrate to the United States. In 2001, he made WAR PHOTOGRAPHER, the portrait of James Nachtwey, whom Frei accompanied to various places of war and calamity around the world. The film is nominated for an Oscar in the category of ‘Documentary Feature’ and receives numerous international awards.
This is followed by THE GIANT BUDDHAS in 2005, a film journey into the world of fanaticism and diversity, terror and tolerance, ignorance and identity. In 2009, SPACE TOURISTS takes the audience into a fascinating world full of wonder and surprise. In 2010, Frei begins with the research and development of LOVELORN IN NEW YORK, a documentary about the universal phenomenon of love, jealousy and rejection.
Poets. Royal Ears. Dennis Kuipers. Abel Ferrara. When director Abel Ferrara’s addiction-oriented masterpiece, Bad Lieutenant, hit movie theaters in 1992, the crack epidemic in New York City was at its peak. In the popular cult film, Harvey Keitel played a crackhead NYPD detective who prowled the streets of the city, smoking ungodly amounts of crack and generally behaving, well, like a very bad lieutenant. The film is an exhausting portrait of addiction and violence, but it’s also the story of a man who is clearly not comfortable inside his body, and who deadens that discomfort by abusing cocaine and power in equal measure.
In a sense, it's the story of Ferrara himself. The director had first become an international druggy cult-icon after making his 1991 hit, King of New York. But his bad-boy rep was really cemented when he released The Addiction in 1995 and The Funeral the following year. Both films depicted characters who were unapologetic about their ardor for drugs—people like him and his friends. Yeah! So let’s switch gears. Larry Clark. Clayton Patterson Archive. Regarding Warhol at the Met.
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