Abel Ferrara made some of the best films of the 1980s. Fear City (1984) is a deliriously sleazy depiction of New York City in the aftermath of its bankruptcy scare. Ms 45 (1981) (aka Angel of ...
Abel Ferrara raised a number of eyebrows when he claimed that he knew who was responsible for the murder of director/writer Pier Paolo Pasolini, a man he just so happened to be making a film about.
Pasolini—Abel Ferrara’s murky recreation of the last few days in the life of the iconoclastic Italian writer and filmmaker, who was murdered in 1975—is a flawed film of unvarnished integrity (Grade: B ...
As his much-anticipated biopic, Pasolini, premieres at the Venice film festival, the American film-maker reveals his debt to Italy’s film provocateur In November 1975, the Italian film-maker Pier ...
In the early morning of November 2, 1975, in Idroscalo, a terminally dreadful shanty town in Ostia, outside Rome, the body of Pier Paolo Pasolini, then 53, an intellectual powerhouse and one of the ...