Mann’s cinema is that of love and longing on a life-and-death scale—all that matters are the compressed moments we have in which to share it.

Summer of Sam uses the Son of Sam as a kind of roving metaphor, the face of the toxicity that beats in Vinny’s heart and the conflict that troubles Ritchie’s soul, the name of the lusts and fears that...

"He’s backsliding. Falling into old, bad habits. And he has to admit, he more than kind of loves it. It’s almost as if, during these last three months—the sobriety, the no smoking, the celibacy—he was...

Abel Ferrara recently spoke with Bright Wall/Dark Room from Rome about his new memoir, Scene, his films, and his life as an artist.