Abel Ferrara’s first dramatic feature since 2014’s Pasolini reteams the filmmaker and his frequent lead Willem Dafoe, who delivers a career-best performance as the title character, an older American expat living in Rome with his young wife and their daughter. Disoriented by his past misgivings and subsequent, unexpected blows to his self-esteem, Tommaso wades through this late chapter of his life with an increasingly impaired grasp on reality...

This is Bernard Malamud's first book of short stories. The stories are set in New York and in Italy (where Malamud's alter ego, the struggling New York Jewish Painter Arthur Fidelman, roams amid the ruins of old Europe in search of his artistic patrimony) they tell of egg candlers and shoemakers, matchmakers, and rabbis, in a voice that blends vigorous urban realism, Yiddish idiom, and a dash of artistic magic.

Twelve days of Christmas: Viewers can sing along with this holiday counting song. Great joy: A little girl expresses her compassion for the monkey and organ grinder who perform in the cold outside her window. The clown of God: a once-famous juggler gives a last, unforgettable, performance on Christmas Eve. Merry Christmas, space case: Buddy McGee eagerly awaits a Christmas visit from his friend, the thing from outer space. Sam and the lucky money:...