Abel Ferrara

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

The day his new movie Project Space 13 is released, Michael M. Bilandic looks back on the quirky microcinema that played his first film.

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.

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.

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

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

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

The latest film from one of indie cinema's most vital directors is not, in fact, his film at all. And that's the problem.

From watching a film about favelas in Rio to Ferrara's vision of Pasolini in Rome, how do we experience movies when dialogue doesn't get in the way?