Revisited: Abel Ferrara Talks the Actor-Director Relationship and the Rewards of Collaboration

By Abel Ferrara | September 7, 2022

As Abel Ferrara's new feature Padre Pio premieres at the Venice Film Festival, we look back at his 2015 essay for Talkhouse.

Revisited: The Way We Get By: Abel Ferrara on the Films of John Cassavetes

By Abel Ferrara | December 30, 2020

Under lockdown in Rome, the director of Bad Lieutenant and Driller Killer looks to the works of a legendary auteur as a form of escape.

By Abel Ferrara | April 2, 2020

Under lockdown in Rome, the director of Bad Lieutenant and Driller Killer looks to the works of a legendary auteur as a form of escape.

By Abel Ferrara | January 2, 2016

Two of cinema's bad boy directors chat about Padre Pio, pornography, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and more.

By Abel Ferrara | November 3, 2015

Two of cinema's bad boy directors chat about Padre Pio, pornography, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and more.

By Abel Ferrara | June 13, 2015

Fittingly, this piece on filmmaking and communal creativity is itself an act of collaboration between writer and editor.