BUY THE STANDARD EDITION HERE Bluray of New Rose Hotel by Cinématographe When New Rose Hotel premiered, Abel Ferrara was at the end of a very impressive run. These were the years when he was furthest from the margins of American film culture, working with stars and at least something of a budget, heir to a tradition of Italian American filmmakers and pushing his films in a rawer direction. Comparisons with Martin Scorsese, which people would rarely make now, used to pop up so

BUY THE STANDARD EDITION HERE I propose a challenge: should we ever meet, tell me the exact sequence of events in Abel Ferrara's New Rose Hotel without stumbling or doubling-back or confusing any people, places, or entities, and do so to such an extent that I am completely certain what happens in this film I have gladly seen four times. Manage this and you will forever live in my mind as a genius (and I'll throw in a drink of your choice). It's embarrassing to admit you can't

BUY THE STANDARD EDITION HERE New Rose Hotel Bluray art from Cinématographe 1998's film adaptation of New Rose Hotel, with its barrage of histrionic outbursts from the three leads, lo-fi locales, and pulsating sexuality is clearly the work of later-career Abel Ferrara. The film meshes near perfectly with the video art-forward, similarly performance obsessed The Blackout from the year prior—offering an aesthetically (perhaps spiritually) tethered double feature about men in p