New Rose Hotel
In the near future, Fox (Christopher Walken, King of New York) and X (Willem Dafoe, Light Sleeper) are industrial spies who are hired by corporations to bring sought after employees to the highest bidder, leaving their current employers in the dust. When they are hired to help move Hiroshi (played by anime artist Yoshitaka Amano), a brilliant scientist, from a German company back to Japan, they enlist the help of a call girl named Sandii (Asia Argento, Boarding Gate) to seduce him. The actions of Fox, X and Sandii result in a play of power, sex and violence that takes them around the globe, not knowing who either can trust.
Based on William Gibson’s short story of the same name and adapted for the screen by noted iconoclast Abel Ferrara (Bad Lieutenant, Dangerous Game), who co-wrote the script with regular collaborator Christ Zois, New Rose Hotel is an understated foray into cyberpunk aesthetics at the turn of the millennium that signals a turning point in the career of Ferrara. Cinématographe is proud to present Abel Ferrara’s often overlooked sci-fi thriller in a new 2K restoration from the best surviving film elements.
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- New audio commentary by film critic Adrian Martin
- New video introduction to the film by writer/director Abel Ferrara
- Wild & Wooly – a new video interview with actor Willem Dafoe
- Doing Your Homework – a new video conference with actress Asia Argento
- I Had to Be Cool – a new video interview with composer Schooly D
- Checking Into the New Rose Hotel – a new video essay by film critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
- Booklet with new text essays by film critic Filipe Furtado, Cinématographe’s Justin LaLiberty and film critic Nick Newman