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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Abel Ferrara has a taste for trouble equal to Pier Paolo Pasolini’s, but this chronicle of the late film-maker’s final hours is surprisingly restrained The 40th anniversary of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s ...

“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 ...

Rome (AFP) – Provocative Italian filmmaker and poet Pier Paolo Pasolini had no shortage of enemies, but half a century after his brutal murder on a beach, his death remains a mystery. Italy marks the ...