New Rose Hotel

New Rose Hotel
by Abel Ferrara

New Rose Hotel
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Actor: Annabella Sciorra, Asia Argento, Christopher Walken, John Lurie, Willem Dafoe
Director: Abel Ferrara
Brand: Lions Gate
Producer: Christopher Walken
Writer: Abel Ferrara
Producer: Adam Brightman
Producer: Alessandro Camon
Producer: Christian Halsey Solomon
Writer: Christ Zois
Writer: William Gibson
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 93 minutes
Published: 1999-12-01
DVD Release Date: 1999-12-07
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lions Gate

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Movie Review: New Rose Hotel - see it!
Summary: 5 Stars

Abel Ferrara is one of those directors that people either love, or don't know exists, and New Rose Hotel is one of his films to treasure. This adaption of William Gibson's short story "New Rose Hotel"is one of Ferrara's finer films.

Fortunately Ferrara is committed to film. he will ignore whatever and keep making films regardless.

Ferrara is obviously not a person imprisoned by the notion of 'good taste', but more to the point, recognises that life is an emotional mental and physical experience - sex looks weird, decisions are 'non logical' and the world is bigger than any individual. These are virtues.

Forget everything you have heard about William Gibson - 'cyberpunk' blah blah blah. Ferrera pulls out the beating heart and mind (they are the same thing) at the centre of the short story and avoids speculation about 'the future. This is a love story, and it reeks of semen, strange urges and a distinctively human scent.This is not a sci-fi story, and If anyone tells you this is a sci-fi story, never take a word they say seriously again.

The smartest move Ferrara makes is recognising that the future looks remarkably like the present. Freedom! left the geeks behind, so lets get on with it!

Once again Walken pulls out the stops for Ferrara and delivers the kind of desparte, funny, tender, sad, tragic, half mad characterisations only these two seem to know how to cook up. It is also a thrill to see Willem de Foe deliver a good performance in a watchable film.

Like a lot of Ferrara's films its riches are yielded through multiple viewings - engaging, confusing, evocative - the relationship between the three protaganists and their place in a world they don't quite understand, and which will surprise them.

It would be tempting to call this an arthouse movie - but that is an insult. When arthouse stands for some halfwitted pose (it is not good enough to mock mainstream film values - you actually need to deliver something superior), Ferrara is a rare talent. he doesn't need our encouragement, but do see this movie before he explodes.

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