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Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just…
Jun 2
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About 30 minutes into Abel Ferrara’s Tommaso comes a scene in which the title character, a sixtyish American…
May 7 2019
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The murder of the Italian director and writer Pier Paolo Pasolini on November 2, 1975—just weeks before the…
Jun 30 2018
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What Are You Watching? is a weekly space for The A.V Club’s staff and readers to share their thoughts, observations,…
Aug 14 2017
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Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They…
Apr 25 2017
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“The information highway is leading straight to hell…”
—Abel Ferrara
Apr 21 2017
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Organized since 1969 by the French Directors’ Guild, Directors’ Fortnight (officially The Directors’ Fortnight, but…
Aug 9 2016
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1996 was a good year for popcorn blockbusters and hip French movies. It was the year that a bunch of great or at…
May 14 2015
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Sure, a movie directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Willem Dafoe on the subject of dreams sounds more like a…
Mar 26 2015
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“No one wants to be saved. No one.” Abel Ferrara’s take on the Dominique Strauss-Kahn scandal, Welcome To New York,…
Sep 24 2014
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The New York Festival hasn’t even officially started, and it’s already turned self-reflexive. This year’s “spotlight…
Sep 9 2014
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Pasolini—Abel Ferrara’s murky recreation of the last few days in the life of the iconoclastic Italian writer and…
May 6 2014
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Money, debauchery, abuse of power—the story of disgraced IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn and his sex scandal…