The 1960s opened with La Dolce Vita by Federico Fellini and its unforgettable lead: Marcello Mastroianni. The actor seemed to glide effortlessly through his roles — and through life — as if to say that life is not all that serious, or perhaps that it is far too serious not to be laughed at. But what kind of man was hiding behind the actor with the handsome, boyish looks, who appeared so gentle and nonchalant?
The humorous portrait of a female artist. The film follows the career of 24-year-old Janine F. who i...

France is at the heart of Madonna's life. She is inspired by French culture and its values and has s...

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a t...

It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform...

For the first time one of Hollywood's greatest stars tells his own story, in his own words. From a c...

In this filmed version of cult film director John Waters' popular one-man show, the Pink Flamingos a...

Across two countries, France and Algeria, and five cities, Mohamed Gholam takes us south to tell us ...

Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (192...

He climbed solo, without a rope, the north face of the Eigers in 2h47. Below him the rock wall steig...

Six big north faces of the Alps. The film consists of six films: "Die Wand der Wände" (Eger by Rober...

In the austere "Horseshoe Cirque", attempts on ice are so impressive and require such a high degree ...

The film begins with a sun materializing out of the emptiness of space. In the first of three sequen...

In 1974, a group of friends, inspired by what they had seen in Italy and driven by their common pass...
Newfoundland painter Gerald Squires has referred to his portraits as "confrontations," though not in...

This documentary about legendary French chanteuse Edith Piaf begins at her birth (which was helped a...

Christian Dior, the creator of the New Look, died 60 years ago, on October 23, 1957. Frédéric Mitter...

Tony Curtis, the man who influenced Elvis Presley and James Dean. A sex symbol, a matinee idol, a po...

An enormous shroud of white cement covers a hillside in the remote of western Sicily. It is both lan...