An interview with filmmaker Allan Holzman about his remarkable new book, Celluloid Wars 2: The making of FORBIDDEN WORLD.

Abel Ferrara’s The Driller Killer, Ms. 45 and Fear City are an unofficial trilogy of sex, violence, alienation, and filmmaking on the streets of a city coming apart at the seams. Part One of The Ferrara Files, my journey through the work of one of America’s essential filmmakers.

…that’s what makes Sean Connery’s casting so inspired. The screen’s great embodiment of masculine invulnerability is playing a hero whose body and spirit have finally begun to reveal the price of all that invulnerability…