"Sportin' Life" and the Documentary Spirit of Abel Ferrara

Review

In the 2000s, cult auteur Abel Ferrara increasingly struggled to get his projects off the ground. After making eight features in the 90s, beginning with two of his best known films, King of New York (1990) and Bad Lieutenant (1992), Ferrara would move further and further into the outskirts of American cinema, finishing that decade off with the The Black…