What Are You Watching? is a weekly space for The A.V Club’s staff and readers to share their thoughts, observations,…

Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They…

“The information highway is leading straight to hell…”
—Abel Ferrara

Organized since 1969 by the French Directors’ Guild, Directors’ Fortnight (officially The Directors’ Fortnight, but…

1996 was a good year for popcorn blockbusters and hip French movies. It was the year that a bunch of great or at least…

Sure, a movie directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Willem Dafoe on the subject of dreams sounds more like a nightmare.…

“No one wants to be saved. No one.” Abel Ferrara’s take on the Dominique Strauss-Kahn scandal, Welcome To New York, is…

The New York Festival hasn’t even officially started, and it’s already turned self-reflexive. This year’s “spotlight on…

Pasolini—Abel Ferrara’s murky recreation of the last few days in the life of the iconoclastic Italian writer and…

Money, debauchery, abuse of power—the story of disgraced IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn and his sex scandal involving…