If the world ends any time soon, as threatened for 2012, what will the last day on earth look like? That is the dominant conceit for two films in this year's New York Film Festival.
A hallmark of this year's New York Film Festival: a sense of impending doomsday. First, Abel Ferrara's rather goofy 4:44 Last Day on Earth, then Melancholia by Lars von Trier.
VENICE, Italy -- Abel Ferrara made his new film "4:44 Last Day on Earth" to serve as a wake-up call to humanity over impending ecological disasters.
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