Who is older, Peter Tscherkassky or Abel Ferrara?
Abel Ferrara
Title: Go Go Tales
Passage: Go Go Tales is an independent 2007 film by Abel Ferrara.  Ferrara based the film on "The Killing of a Chinese Bookie", directed by John Cassavetes.  It stars Willem Dafoe as a strip club owner and co-stars Bob Hoskins.  Ferrara had the cast improvise much of their lines.  He described the film as his "first intentional comedy".
Title: The Addiction
Passage: The Addiction is a 1995 American vampire film directed by Abel Ferrara, starring Annabella Sciorra, Lili Taylor and Christopher Walken.  It was written by Ferrara's regular screenwriter, Nicholas St John, filmed in black-and-white and released simultaneously with Ferrara's period gangster film, "The Funeral".
Title: Chelsea on the Rocks
Passage: Chelsea on the Rocks is a documentary film directed by Abel Ferrara about the Hotel Chelsea.  It premiered out of competition at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.  The film features Ferrara interviewing people who have and had lived at the hotel, intercut with dramatized footage of some famous events that took place there.  During the film's interviews and docudrama Gaby Hoffmann, Dennis Hopper, Robert Crumb, Adam Goldberg and Bijou Phillips make appearances.
Title: Nicholas St. John (screenwriter)
Passage: Nicodemo Oliverio, better known as Nicholas St. John, is an American screenwriter.  He has collaborated with film director Abel Ferrara in nine films together including "The Driller Killer" (1979), "Body Snatchers" (1993) and "The Addiction" (1995).  For his work in the film, "The Funeral" (1996), also directed by Ferrara, St. John was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay.  Other films St. John wrote include "Ms. 45" (1981) and "King of New York" (1990), both of them also directed by Ferrara.
Title: Lucca Film Festival
Passage: Its purpose is to offer its audience a new approach to cinema; to promote a cinematographic culture made of a plurality of sights, styles and perspectives; and, most of all, to introduce attendees to a new sensory and intellectual experience Throughout the years, the Lucca Film Festival has dealt with the various contrasts of today’s cinema: Attendees to the LFF have included important directors, actors and international artists, like Kenneth Anger, Jonas Mekas, Tsai Ming-liang, Michael Snow, Paolo Taviani, , Lou Castel, Abel Ferrara, Philippe Garrel, György Pálfi, Antoni Padrós, Benedek Fliegauf, Peter Greenaway, John Boorman, David Lynch, David Cronenberg, Terry Gilliam, William Friedkin, George A. Romero, Marco Bellocchio, Paolo Sorrentino.
Title: Peter Tscherkassky
Passage: Peter Tscherkassky (born October 3, 1958) is an Austrian avant-garde filmmaker who works primarily with found footage.  All of his work is done with film and heavily edited in the darkroom, rather than relying on recent advances in digital film.
Title: 9 Lives of a Wet Pussy
Passage: 9 Lives of a Wet Pussy is a 1976 American pornographic film directed by Abel Ferrara (under the pseudonym Jimmy Boy L) and written by Nicholas St. John (under the pseudonym Nicholas George).  Although "The Driller Killer" (1979) is considered his official directorial debut, "9 Lives of a Wet Pussy" was the first film Ferrara directed.
Title: Cat Chaser
Passage: Cat Chaser is a 1989 film directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Peter Weller and Kelly McGillis, based on the novel of the same name by Elmore Leonard.  It was adapted from the novel by Leonard and James Borelli.
Title: Abel Ferrara
Passage: Abel Ferrara (born July 19, 1951) is an American filmmaker, known for the provocative and often controversial content in his films, his use of neo-noir imagery and gritty urban settings.  A long-time independent filmmaker, some of his best known films include "Ms. 45" (1981), "King of New York" (1990), "Bad Lieutenant" (1992) and "The Funeral" (1996).
Title: Bad Lieutenant
Passage: Bad Lieutenant is a 1992 American neo-noir crime drama film directed by Abel Ferrara.  The film stars Harvey Keitel as the titular "bad lieutenant."  The screenplay was co-written by Ferrara with actor-writer Paul Calderón and actress-model Zoë Lund, both of whom appear in the film.
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