Abel Ferrara’s 'Padre Pio' stars Shia LaBeouf as an Italian friar who rose to prominence at a time when fascist powers began to take over the country.

Abel Ferrara, the rascally perennial New York filmmaker behind seminal tales of urban grime like “Bad Lieutenant” and “The Funeral,” has never taken kindly to the idea of compromise.

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The offbeat historical drama “Padre Pio” bears the stamp of writer-director Abel Ferrara, a maverick filmmaker known for brutish, feverish genre pictures like “Bad Lieutenant” and “The ...

Abel Ferrara has made a career out of staring unflinchingly into the abyss, interrogating man’s weakness and depravity and daring his audiences to look away. Faced with the catastrophic violence ...

Director Abel Ferrara gestures during an interview with the Associated Press on his latest movie "Padre Pio" in Rome, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022. Abel Ferrara, whose gritty New York exploitation films ...

Abel Ferrara isn't scared of AI. In fact, he is embracing how "cool" the technology is, especially when it comes to dubbing. Ferrara, who recently directed "Padre Pio," told Deadline while at the ...

Abel Ferrara's 'Turn in the Wound' combines footage of war-torn Ukraine and a portrait of Patti Smith. The 'Bad Lieutenant' director's latest, a non-fiction portrait of ...

Abel Ferrara, whose gritty New York exploitation films of the 1980s and 1990s delved into the soulless evils of drug addiction, corruption and sexual violence, pays homage to one of Italy's best-known ...

Padre Pio, playing in Venice Days at the Venice Film Festival, is more restrained than a normal Ferrara joint (notably 2019’s Siberia, with its talking fish), and the sober, borderline-amateur ...

Abel Ferrara is perhaps best known for his gritty New York exploitation films of the 1980s and 1990s that delved into the soulless evils of drug addiction, corruption and sexual violence.

Abel Ferrara is perhaps best known for his gritty New York exploitation films of the 1980s and 1990s that delved into the soulless evils of drug addiction, corruption and sexual violence.