Abel Ferrara
Abel Ferrara is a director and screenwriter, known for films including Driller Killer, The King of New York and Bad Lieutenant. He was born in New York in 1951.
Padre Pio review – Shia LaBeouf stars in chest-beating homage to Italian mystic
‘I’m not a saint’: Abel Ferrara on his wild career, rehab and nightclubbing with Donald Trump
Martin Scorsese at 80: Francis Ford Coppola, Steve McQueen and Woody Allen on the ‘greatest director alive’
Ahead of his birthday next week, directors including Tim Burton, Edgar Wright, Lynne Ramsay and Luca Guadagnino reveal their favourite scenes – and what Scorsese’s work means to them
‘Godard shattered cinema’: Martin Scorsese, Mike Leigh, Abel Ferrara, Claire Denis and more pay tribute
Padre Pio review – Shia LaBeouf’s bearded brooding leaves film stuck in limbo
Zeros and Ones review – Abel Ferrara’s dream-like thriller struggles to make sense
Abel Ferrara’s confused, guerrilla-filmed actioner stars Ethan Hawke as a soldier and his hostage twin brother
Siberia review – Willem Dafoe and Abel Ferrara on fine freaky form
Dafoe has gravitas as a barkeep on a journey of delusion and epiphany in Ferrara’s glacial, woozy dream-odyssey
Venice film festival 2020 roundup – against all the odds, a triumph
Pieces of a Woman director: gender neutral awards 'a logical move'
My streaming gem
My streaming gem: why you should watch New Rose HotelContinuing our series on underappreciated films available to stream is a vote for Abel Ferrara’s erotic 1998 drama
Lockdown watch
Abel Ferrara's lockdown choices: sexual deviance, wild sci-fi and Nazi propagandaThe director of King of New York, Bad Lieutenant and The Funeral recommends film and TV for a coronavirus age, in the hope that ‘the light becomes more evident in the darkness’
Willem Dafoe and Hillary Clinton to attend Berlin film festival
Dafoe stars in Abel Ferrara’s Siberia in a competition that beats out Cannes and Venice for female directors, while a documentary about Clinton shows outside the main lineup
First look review
The Projectionist review – Abel Ferrara's wistful, indulgent ode to cinemaIn a loving yet overlong documentary, the director looks back on 1970s New York and how movie-watching has changed
Cannes 2017 day nine: Robert Pattinson and Lindsay Lohan on the red carpet – in pictures
Alive in France review – Abel Ferrara's shambolic blues jam of a music documentary
Gérard Depardieu leads Cannes Directors Fortnight that mixes politics with pop opera
The French festival strand picks provocative films about Israel, Ukraine and US society alongside a Joan of Arc electro musical, and there’s room for the debut of British director Rungano Nyoni’s film about an African girl accused of witchcraft
Film blog
The Driller Killer and the humanist behind the blood and sickening crunchFar from a mere ‘video nasty’, Abel Ferrara’s gory gem shatters our complacency and forces us to confront our moral choices
Film blog
How dare you remake my classic! When directors attackWoe betide the Hollywood studio that revisits a classic film without the blessing of its original creative team. Because things can get ugly ...
Pasolini review – handsome tribute to the great director
Abel Ferrara: 'Pasolini's death is not some kind of fictional event'
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