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.
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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
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Pasolini review – handsome tribute to the great directorAbel Ferrara’s account of the last days of the Italian auteur, played by Willem Dafoe, is beautiful and enigmatic
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Abel Ferrera turns to Kickstarter: 'I’m gonna hurt people with this film'The veteran director calls for progressive audiences to fight the studio system and back his new movie, an exploration of dreams starring Willem Dafoe
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Our ten favourite film interviews of 2014A selection of our best interviews this year, which included Daniel Radcliffe in a gas mask, John Cusack calling Hollywood a ‘whorehouse’ and the re-emergence of forgotten indie star Thora Birch
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Abel Ferrara on the death of Pasolini: 'The pursuit of truth is what matters'As his much-anticipated biopic, Pasolini, premieres at the Venice film festival, the American film-maker reveals his debt to Italy’s film provocateur, writes Xan Brooks
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Pasolini first look review – Abel Ferrara's bewitching walk on the wild sideXan Brooks: Willem Dafoe is superb as the celebrated Italian director who died in mysterious circumstances in 1975, in a film that could be Ferrara’s best yet
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Who really killed Pier Paolo Pasolini?
A biopic by Abel Ferrara at the Venice biennale will reconstruct the last hours of the Italian film director, who was murdered in 1975
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Welcome to New York review – Gérard Depardieu offers naked ambitionGérard Depardieu is remarkable as a Dominique Strauss-Kahn figure in an incoherent tale with flashes of brilliance, writes Jonathan Romney
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The Guardian Film Show: Welcome to New York, God's Pocket, Lilting and All This Mayhem - video reviews
Henry Barnes, Leslie Felperin and Andrew Pulver review this week's big releases, including Abel Ferrera's jaw-dropping take on the DSK scandal and Philip Seymour Hoffman's last starring role
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Welcome to New York review – Abel Ferrara is unencumbered by good taste
Gérard Depardieu lets it all hang out, and director Abel Ferrara indicts the super-rich, in a brutal, pitiless and sulphurous spin on the Dominique Strauss-Kahn sexual-assault case, writes Peter Bradshaw
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Jacqueline Bisset: 'Older women continue to want sex but men don't want to sleep with them'In Welcome to New York, Jacqueline Bisset plays the long-suffering wife of an adulterous financier, based on Dominique Strauss-Kahn. She talks to Catherine Shoard about sexual desire and what divides men and women
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Elementary, my dear Watson-Watt: Eddie Izzard biopic set for Edinburgh premiere
Izzard biopic about radar innovator and Elijah Wood's Dylan Thomas film lead pack of world premieres at June festival
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Abel Ferrara at Cannes: 'You gotta be careful what you say … but I'm not'Catherine Shoard: Abel Ferrara has long been one of Hollywood's most provocative directors. This week his new film, Welcome to New York, was the hot ticket at Cannes – especially after ex-IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn decided to sue
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