Pier Paolo Pasolini’s notorious film is now 50 years old, and its cavalcade of shocking cruelty and violence still leaves a stark impact on its viewers. Film-makers explain why Pasolini ‘was a saint t ...

EXCLUSIVE: Alongside prepping to shoot his next feature, veteran filmmaker Abel Ferrara is working on a book, he tells Deadline. Entitled Scene, Ferrara doesn’t categorize it exactly as a memoir, ...

Conan O'Brien just finished up 25 years of late-night TV. Here's the story of Abel Ferrara, the guest he called the most difficult of all. What were some of Conan’s most satisfying interviews over the ...

One highly anticipated film from the past weeks’ Venice and Toronto festivals was Abel Ferrara’s newest collaboration with Willem Dafoe as lead, the darkly avant-garde “Pasolini.” Erroneously labelled ...

The 'Bad Lieutenant' director's latest, a non-fiction portrait of war and art, bowed out of competition at the Berlin Film Festival. By Leslie Felperin Contributing Film Critic Ukraine may have bled ...

Less than a year after premiering “Tommaso” at Cannes — maybe the most grounded of movies that renegade auteur Abel Ferrara has made with long-time muse Willem Dafoe — the Bronxiest of filmmakers ...

Shia LaBeouf has resurfaced on the big screen for the first time in two years since he was accused of misconduct. He can next be seen starring as a Catholic saint in Abel Ferrara’s upcoming “Padre Pio ...

The distributor, which plans to release an R-rated version of the director's 'Welcome to New York,' says the filmmaker refused to make his own edits when offered the chance. By Gregg Kilday Freelance ...

The offbeat historical drama “Padre Pio” bears the stamp of writer-director Abel Ferrara, a maverick filmmaker known for brutish, feverish genre pictures like “Bad Lieutenant” and “The Addiction.” As ...

Abel Ferrara, who launched his controversial Gerard Depardieu-starrer Welcome To New York at Cannes last year, will return to announce his plans for his next film. He’ll unveil at a 4 PM Monday press ...

Ken Kelsch, the longtime cinematographer for Abel Ferrara, has died from COVID and pneumonia at the age of 76, his son, Chris, said on Facebook. “If you knew him, you probably have a story about him.

Abel Ferrara, the rascally perennial New York filmmaker behind seminal tales of urban grime like “Bad Lieutenant” and “The Funeral,” has never taken kindly to the idea of compromise. At the same time, ...