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Abel Ferrara

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  The reader interview

  Ice-T: ‘Anybody that thinks controversy is a way to make money, it’s not. You need lawyers!’

  With a new Body Count album out next month, the hip-hop superstar turned actor answers your questions on Law & Order, the Cop Killer furore and working with ‘wild man’ Abel Ferrara

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  Padre Pio review – Shia LaBeouf stars in chest-beating homage to Italian mystic
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  ‘I’m not a saint’: Abel Ferrara on his wild career, rehab and nightclubbing with Donald Trump

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  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

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  ‘Godard shattered cinema’: Martin Scorsese, Mike Leigh, Abel Ferrara, Claire Denis and more pay tribute
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  Padre Pio review – Shia LaBeouf’s bearded brooding leaves film stuck in limbo

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  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

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  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

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  Venice film festival 2020 roundup – against all the odds, a triumph
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  Pieces of a Woman director: gender neutral awards 'a logical move'

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  My streaming gem

  My streaming gem: why you should watch New Rose Hotel

  Continuing our series on underappreciated films available to stream is a vote for Abel Ferrara’s erotic 1998 drama

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  Lockdown watch

  Abel Ferrara's lockdown choices: sexual deviance, wild sci-fi and Nazi propaganda

  The 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’

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  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

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  First look review

  The Projectionist review – Abel Ferrara's wistful, indulgent ode to cinema

  In a loving yet overlong documentary, the director looks back on 1970s New York and how movie-watching has changed

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  Cannes 2017 day nine: Robert Pattinson and Lindsay Lohan on the red carpet – in pictures
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  Alive in France review – Abel Ferrara's shambolic blues jam of a music documentary

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  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

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  Film blog

  The Driller Killer and the humanist behind the blood and sickening crunch

  Far 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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  Film blog

  How dare you remake my classic! When directors attack

  Woe betide the Hollywood studio that revisits a classic film without the blessing of its original creative team. Because things can get ugly ...

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  Pasolini review – handsome tribute to the great director

  Abel Ferrara’s account of the last days of the Italian auteur, played by Willem Dafoe, is beautiful and enigmatic