The film tells of the radical life-search by the Swiss writer Paul Nizon, born 1929 in Bern, Switzerland, who became what “he was meant to be” in Paris. Now 90-year-old, Paul Nizon grants insights into his life and work in a self-ironic, direct manner. The intimate portrait of a great literary outsider emerges, for whom the risk of life and the risk of writing merge into one and the same work of art.

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

After Portnoy's Complaint launched him as a new literary voice, not to mention a scandalous one, Phi...

When Danish filmmaker Lea Glob first portrayed Apolonia Sokol in 2009, she appeared to be leading a ...

A documentary short by Barbara Bingley-Verseman about the creation of a monumental outdoor mural by ...

Gustave Folcher, a French farmer, wrote in his 1939 diary that the summer had been long and hot. He ...

Documentary about Moa Martinson.

One of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century, Arthur Miller created such celebrated works as ...

Literary icon Joan Didion reflects on her remarkable career and personal struggles in this intimate ...

In this special documentary that inspired a two-season television series, scientists and other exper...

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

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"... It's heartening to see so much talent and dedication at work in the under-appreciated medium of...

In the heart of the Jura mountains, a call resounds through the forest. The silhouette of a Eurasian...

A fascinating account of the presidency of Andrew Jackson, who was both one of America's great presi...

Hauntology of the Retrodromomania is an essayistic motion picture, a locomotory legwork, a deambulat...

In David Grubin's NAPOLEON watch Napoleon's rise from obscurity to victories that made him a hero to...

At age 25, Olivier Rousteing was named the creative director of the French luxury fashion house, Bal...