Packing a voice that’s sounds like a New York accent filtered through gravel and a filmmaking resume comprised exclusively of uncompromising darkness, Abel Ferrara is a pretty intimidating provocateur ...

Ferrara caught up with The Playlist last week to talk about his newest work, the differences between working in Italy versus the United States, and what the difficult experience of making “Welcome to ...

The fearless champion of bad taste talks spirituality, improvisation and his shamanic approach to shooting a film about Pasolini’s fateful final hours Abel Ferrara has a charming chuckle, particularly ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Abel Ferrara discovered the films of Pier Paolo Pasolini, it was 1971 and the great subversive Italian ...

Willem Dafoe plays the murdered gay poet whose loss still reverberates through Italian intellectual life in Abel Ferrara's anti-conventional portrait By David Rooney Chief Film Critic “Narrative art, ...

“Pasolini” is not a biopic of the late Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini (played here by Willem Dafoe). The complicated director of “The Gospel According to St. Matthew,” “Teorema” and “Salo, or ...