Abel Ferrara’s movies are often driven by the consequences of addictive behavior. The director’s memoir confronts his own appetites with candor.

Ferrara, which grew up around a ford over the River Po, became an intellectual and artistic centre that attracted the greatest minds of the Italian Renaissance in the 15th and 16th centuries. Here, ...

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Ten years ago, Abel Ferrara ...

The signs of the Renaissance are everywhere in Italy. Grand piazzas and palazzos. Metal-spiked doors. Looming archways. And, of course, all that ever-present art in the churches and galleries. But in ...

Joseph Ornelas is a former freelance features writer at Collider, where he explored the worlds of film and television through in-depth essays, lists, and analysis. Passionate about storytelling across ...