Three decades after Antonio Banderas and Pedro Almodovar initiated a collaboration that would make then both international stars the duo have reunited for the complex horrors following a psychopathic plastic surgeon set on an incredible revenge.

This true giant of American independent cinema discusses this 2011 film, which stars muse Shanyn Leigh and the magnetic Willem Dafoe, and marks a comeback of sorts with his incisive look at an East Village couple facing the world’s end.

At Venice’s Excelsior Hotel Willem Dafoe discussed his role as in Abel Ferrara’s comeback drama where it was given its world premiere (and which also screens in the 2011 New York Film Festival). What would you do if you knew your end was near?

Born in 1950, China’s Tsui Hark has gained international standing as a producer of two iconic classics of Hong Kong cinema and as an intensely personal martial arts action director (Seven Swords). Detective Dee is a lush, nearly hallucinogenic epic.