Venice: Abel Ferrara Movie Backer Responds to IFC "Punks" and "Vampires" Rant — hollywoodreporter.com

While in Venice promoting his latest film Pasolini, director Abel Ferrara attacked his U.S. distributor IFC Friday for asking him to recut Welcome to New York, his well-received film about Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s fall from grace, starring Gerard Depardieu. “They don’t give a shit about movies or people that make them,” Ferrara had told The Hollywood Reporter, noting that he was “disgusted” with IFC for trying to alter his film before its U.S. release.

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