Exploitation Cinema
Fandor Focus: Takashi Miike
by Jake Rubenstein When it comes to Japanese filmmaking, many credit the works of Akira Kurosawa, Yasujirō Ozu, and Nagisa Ōshima for popularizing cinematic excellence …
The Driller Killer (1979)
In career that has encompassed such controversial classics as Ms. 45, Bad Lieutenant and Welcome to New York, none of Abel Ferrara’s films have quite …
Fandor Focus: Grindhouse Cinema
by Jake Rubenstein For over half a century, theatergoers around the globe have witnessed a monumental shift within the cinematic experience. With a majority of …
The Driller Killer
By Don Stradley It’s New York in the late 1970s, a time of punk rock and garbage strikes, of Ed Koch and Son of …
FANDOR FOCUS: Abel Ferrara
By Jake Rubenstein Within the Grindhouse and exploitation subgenres, one name that has always been synonymous with Gritty New York filmmaking of the 1970s into …