1984 Original VR CULT Film MOVIE POSTER Israel FEAR CITY Hebrew EROTICA THRILLER

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Here for sale is an ORIGINAL beautifuly illustrated colorful ISRAELI Theatre POSTER . The theatre poster depicts a few typical IMAGES and FIGURES from the CULT erotic NEO-NOIR thriller ABEL FERRARA
movie : "FEAR CITY"
, Starring TOM BERENGER and MELANIE GRIFFITH to name only a few .
The poster was issued in 1984 by the Israeli distributers of the film for its ISRAELI PREMIERE - RELEASE . Kindly note : This is an ISRAELI MADE poster - Designed , Printed and distributed only in Israel
. The Hebrew text is very archaic . The Israeli distributors provided the film a newly fresh Hebrew title : " AFTER MIGNIGHT ".
Size around 28" x 20" .
The poster is in a very good used condition. Slightly stained . Folded. Tiny staple/pin holes in corners. ( Please watch the scan for a reliable AS IS scan ) . Poster will be sent rolled in a special protective rigid sealed tube.
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This poster is an ORIGINAL vintage 1984 theatre poster , NOT a reproduction or a reprint  , It holds a life long GUARANTEE for its AUTHENTICITY and ORIGINALITY.
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Shipp worldwide via registered airmail is $ 25 . Poster will be sent rolled in a special protective rigid sealed tube.
Will be sent around 5 days after payment .
Fear City is a 1984 American neo-noir[1] erotic thriller film directed by Abel Ferrara[2] and starring Tom Berenger, Billy Dee Williams, Jack Scalia, and Melanie Griffith. The screenplay was written by longtime Ferrara collaborator Nicholas St. John. It is considered a cult film. The film follows a nightclub promoter (Berenger) and a police Detective (Williams), investigating a brutal serial killer targeting strippers in Manhattan. Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Release 3.1 Home media 4 Reception 4.1 Critical response 5 References 6 External links Plot[edit] Best friends Matt Rossi and Nicky Parzeno run a management company for Manhattan’s best exotic dancers, managing and booking their clients into clubs across the borough. Rossi was once in a relationship with their top client Loretta, but they broke it off due to his emotional coldness, by his accidentally killing an opponent in the ring during his days as a professional boxer. One night, one of their dancers is targeted by a brutal assailant who beats and mutilates her. Rossi and Parzeno immediately suspect rival promoter Lou Goldstein, but he vehemently denies any involvement. Vice Detective Al Wheeler is put on the case, displaying nothing but contempt towards Rossi and his colleagues and their occupation, and convinced that they know more than they’re letting on. Soon, more dancers are attacked, including Loretta’s lover Leila, leaving Rossi and Parzeno’s clients unwilling to work for fear of being targeted. Rossi and Loretta slowly begin to rekindle their relationship, while Wheeler begins to suspect that the attacks may not be gang-related, but instead the work of a single person. When another dancer is killed in her own apartment, Rossi and Parzeno’s business is left effectively destitute, with the majority of their clients refusing to work. Loretta begins a downward spiral into drug addiction after Leila dies of her injuries in the hospital. Rossi and Parzeno stalk and attack a man in one of their clubs, mistakenly believing he’s the killer, and drawing the ire of Wheeler in the process. While Matt is harshly interrogated by the Detective, Parzeno and his girlfriend Ruby are ambushed by the killer. They manage to fend him off long enough for help to arrive, but Parzeno is severely injured and hospitalized in the process. Hungry for vengeance and seeking guidance, Rossi visits a local mafioso named Carmine, with whom he built omerta many years ago when he witnessed him kill someone in a drive-by shooting. Carmine tells Rossi in no uncertain terms to find the assailant and kill him, and Rossi begins preparing himself for the inevitable encounter. When Loretta asks Ruby for money, Ruby gives her cab fare, and directs her to go straight home. However, Loretta takes the money to her dealer, where she discovers his body hanging in an alley. The attacker, laying in wait, stabs Loretta in the leg before Rossi arrives, and a fight ensues. Loretta goes for help as Matt takes several hits. When Matt exercises his boxing skills, he defeats the attacker. Police officers arrive to discover that Matt has beaten the man to death. Wheeler acknowledges Matt’s heroism, and sends him home with Loretta. Cast[edit] Tom Berenger as Matt Rossi Billy Dee Williams as Det. Al Wheeler Jack Scalia as Nicky Parzeno Melanie Griffith as Loretta Michael V. Gazzo as Mike Rossano Brazzi as Carmine Rae Dawn Chong as Leila Janet Julian as Ruby John Foster as Pazzo, the killer[3] María Conchita Alonso as Silver (as Maria Conchita) Joe Santos as Frank Ola Ray as Honey Tracy Griffith as Sandra Cook Emilia Crow as Bibi (as Emilia Lesniak) Jan Murray as Lou Goldstein Daniel Faraldo as Sanchez Release[edit] Fear City premiered in New York, opening on February 15, 1985, and in Los Angeles on March 8, 1985.[4] Home media[edit] It was originally released on DVD on November 28, 2000, through Anchor Bay Entertainment with the theatrical trailer as a special feature.[5] On July 17, 2012, the film was released in the United States on Blu-ray Disc by Shout! Factory and includes the approximate 97-minute uncut version and the 95-minute theatrical film release. The sole extra feature is a theatrical trailer.[6] Reception[edit] This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (April 2020) Critical response[edit] The film received mixed reviews from critics. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 67% based on 9 reviews, with an average rating of 6.0/10.[7] The New York Times film critic Janet Maslin said "Fear City also showcases Mr. Ferrara's skill with action scenes and with nonverbal narration." Maslin continues and describes "Mr. Ferrara's visual talent for the unexpected is not matched by an equivalent gift for character development, but Fear City doesn't attempt to make personality its strong suit. Its biggest selling points, quick pacing and a bright, hard-edged look, are as much as the genre requires."[8] For the Chicago Tribune Gene Siskel criticized the soulfulness of the characters as "Fear City is concerned only with surface thrills--exotic dancers, the martial arts, knife attacks and knockout punches."[9] ***** The low-down, dirty ambiance of ''Fear City'' should effectively keep it from being seen by anyone outside the hard-core action crowd. However, Abel Ferrara, who directed this and an earlier exploitation thriller called ''Ms. 45,'' has a strongly individual style that almost transcends the genre. For all the violence, sexism and racial slurs that are de rigueur in films of this sort, ''Fear City'' is better than most, and it has elements of originality and visual distinction. It opened yesterday at Loew's State and other theaters. The story, which takes place largely in strip clubs rendered as seamy as Mr. Ferrara can make them, concerns two men who run a so- called talent agency supplying women to work in the clubs. A killer with a command of ferocious martial- arts tactics begins attacking the women, in sequences Mr. Ferrara films with overabundant gusto. However, the killer, who is identified briefly as a ''Taxi Driver'' type conducting his own war against smut, is a relatively small part of the film's crowded Times Square tableau. The cast includes Billy Dee Williams (as a homicide policeman), Melanie Griffith, Rossano Brazzi (as a Mafia kingpin) and Rae Dawn Chong. It's an interesting lineup, although Tom Berenger, as an ex-boxer who now runs the strippers' agency, makes a dullish hero. In addition to being watchable for its casting eccentricities, ''Fear City'' also showcases Mr. Ferrara's skill with action scenes and with nonverbal narration. For instance, some of the flashbacks to the boxer's youth are imaginatively done. Mr. Ferrara's visual talent for the unexpected is not matched by an equivalent gift for character development, but ''Fear City'' doesn't attempt to make personality its strong suit. Its biggest selling points, quick pacing and a bright, hard-edged look, are as much as the genre requires. The Cast FEAR CITY, directed by Abel Ferrara; written by Nicholas St. John; director of photography, James Lemmo; edited by Jack Holmes and Anthony Redman; music by Dick Halligan; produced by Bruce Cohn Curtis; a Zupnik-Curtis Enterprises Inc. presentation. At Loews State, Broadway and 45th Street; Orpheum, 86th Street at Third Avenue, and other theaters. Running time: 93 minutes. This film is rated R. Matt RossiTom Berenger WheelerBilly Dee Williams NickyJack Scalia LorettaMelanie Griffith CarmineRossano Brazzi LeilaRae Dawn Chong FrankJoe Santos MikeMichael V. Gazzo GoldsteinJan Murray RubyJanet Julian SanchezDaniel Faraldo Fear City DirectorAbel Ferrara WriterNicholas St. John StarsTom Berenger, Billy Dee Williams, Jack Scalia, Melanie Griffith, Rossano Brazzi RatingR Running Time1h 35m GenresCrime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller *****  In New York City, a psycho killer is stalking and randomly slashing and killing strippers working in various nightclubs. Matt Rossi is a former boxer trying to escape his past whom is currently employed at a talent agency which caters exotic dancers to the mafia-controlled strip clubs all over Manhattan. Matt and his business partner, Nicky, are relentlessly dogged by Al Wheeler, a persistent police detective on the case of the murdered strippers, and hoping to find something to nail both Matt and Nicky on. Matt is trying to reconcile with his former flame, Loretta, whom also works as a dancer and has a off-again, on-again drug problem. With the police constantly hounding them, and under pressure from his mob boss and other bosses to do something, Matt must somehow face his inner demons to find the killer before he strikes again. For more about  Fear City  and the Fear City Blu-ray release, see  Fear City Blu-ray Review  published by Dr. Svet Atanasov on July 22, 2012 where this Blu-ray release scored  3.5  out of  5 . Director:  Abel Ferrara Writer:  Nicholas St. John Starring:  Tom Berenger ,   Billy Dee Williams ,   Jack Scalia ,   Melanie Griffith ,   Rossano Brazzi ,   Rae Dawn Chong Producer:  Bruce Cohn Curtis »  See full cast & crew ****  `FEAR CITY` A THRILLER STRIPPED OF SOUL Gene Siskel CHICAGO TRIBUNE Take away the attractive strippers regularly on view in Abel Ferrara`s ''Fear City,'' and what you are left with is a second-rate urban thriller full of elements lifted from the infinitely finer films of Martin Scorsese. ''Fear City'' is about a Travis Bickel-style killer (from Scorsese`s ''Taxi Driver'') who is murdering strippers managed by a former boxer (from Scorsese`s ''Raging Bull'') who, himself, has been questioning the violence of his life ever since he killed a man in the ring. The big question in the film--and it has a very small answer--is whether the former boxer will finally spring into action and destroy the killer. Also chasing the mad slasher are a police detective (Billy Dee Williams), a strip-club operator (Jan Murray) and a Mafia don (Rossano Brazzi). Tom Berenger, the Paul Newman lookalike also on view in ''Rustlers` Rhapsody,'' stars as talent booker Matt Rossi, the guy with the troubled past. Every time he hears about one of his strippers being bumped off, he flashes back to the fight in which he killed his opponent in the ring because the dumb referee wouldn`t stop the bout. The flashbacks become almost comical after a while because director Ferrara shoots his wad with the first flashback, showing the deadly knockout punch. From then on, every other flashback is anticlimactic. Ferrara is known in film circles for his cult thiller ''Ms. 45,'' which by comparison with ''Fear City'' was a totally original work. But here, Ferrara proves he can`t direct a fight scene as well as Scorsese, whose style he imitates in the boxing flashbacks; and similarly, Ferrara proves incapable giving the kind of deep soulfulness to his characters that is a Scorsese trademark. And that`s why the scenes with the strippers are so welcome. At least there we see some professionalism as we tour a variety of topless bars. One wishes Ferrara would have spent more time in that world, investigating the women who work the clubs. But ''Fear City'' is concerned only with surface thrills--exotic dancers, the martial arts, knife attacks and knockout punches. Also symptomatic of the film`s superficiality is the role played by Williams. Not only is the role surprisingly small, given Williams` billing in the picture, but his character is given no life separate from his pursuit of the killer. Billy Dee Williams` fans--and they are legion--will be roundly disappointed with ''Fear City.'' ****           ebay5195