NDNF MoMA/Film Society of Lincoln Center ALERT the opening night film DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL should have won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in my opinion ... it will be the hot ticket ...it is quite frankly like no other teen awakening film that I have seem .. shocking and audacious int its commitment to authenticity .. funny and frank ...don't miss .. and YES get those tickets now at MoMA on Film Society of Lincoln Center online here the director Marielle Heller and actors Bel Powley and alexander Skarsgard talked about film .. note : Kristen Wig once again turns in a remarkable performance as SF based, feminist mom with an attraction to coke . It 1975 .. but it could be today , Bel Powley made me think she looks exactly like what I think Penny Arcade looked like at 15...... and the same kind of risk taker
As usual with this director when Pasolini the new Able Ferrer film played the New York Film Festival (2014) controversy erupted. Here he and actor Willem Dafoe meet the audience ,.Dennis Lim, chief programer at the Film Society moderates .his answer to my question is interesting FYI Ferrara's Pasoline is Mama's boy and his brutal murder not a political act but simply a bad trick act.
here are the program notes from the NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL (2014) prestred by the the Film Society of Lincoln Center :
Pier Paolo Pasolini—filmmaker/poet/novelist, Christian, Communist, permanent legal defendant, and self-proclaimed “inconvenient guest” of modern society—was an immense figure. Abel Ferrara’s new film compresses the many contradictory aspects of his subject’s life and work into a distilled, prismatic portrait. We are with Pasolini during the last hours of his life, as he talks with his beloved family and friends, writes, gives a brutally honest interview, shares a meal with Ninetto Davoli (Riccardo Scamarcio), and cruises for the roughest rough trade in his gun-metal gray Alfa Romeo. Over the course of the action, Pasolini’s life and his art (represented by scenes from his films, his novel-in-progressPetrolio, and his projected film Porno-Teo-Kolossal) are constantly refracted and intermingled to the point where they become one. A thoughtful, attentive, and extremely frank meditation on a man who continues to cast a very long shadow, featuring a brilliant performance by Willem Dafoe in the title role. Note: This film contains scenes of a sexually explicit nature