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.

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 ...

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 ...