England, 1960. The Crown sues the publisher Penguin Books in order to ban the publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover, a novel by the British writer D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930), published privately in Italy in 1928, which celebrates nature and deals with sex without taboos.

From the rains of Japan, through threats of arrest for 'public indecency' in Canada, and a birthday ...

A radical cinematic investigation into the myth of Hamlet, the avenging prince of Denmark, William S...

An account of the life and work of Swiss painter, sculptor, architect and designer H. R. Giger (1940...

They have collected legends and fairy tales that have been passed down from generation to generation...

For three and a half centuries, from the same day that Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) applied his last ...

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

An installation film that consists of a six-hour-long monologue performed by Edith Clever, who reads...

A journey through the artistic life of the British-American rock band The Pretenders, formed in 1978...

An account of the life and work of the Polish writer Stanisław Lem (1921-2006), a key figure in scie...

Marco Paolini interviews Luigi Meneghello about growing up under fascism, his involvement with the I...

An intimate portrait, in his own words, of the Indian writer Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic V...

In 1847, British writer Emily Brontë (1818-48), perhaps the most enigmatic of the three Brontë siste...

The legendary British-American actress Olivia de Havilland (1916-2020), who conquered Hollywood in t...

About the poet C.A.Conrad, an eccentric Elvis worshiping poet and tarot card reader, who confronts h...

Over the course of a fifty-year career, the British band The Cure has released fourteen highly succe...

A conversation with the classical and modern musician Kalle Moraeus.

In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social critici...

The brilliant Czech writer Milan Kundera has not given an interview in thirty years; nor does he app...

THE PERFUMED GARDEN is an exploration of the myths and realities of sensuality and sexuality in Arab...

Writer, journalist, explorer, filmmaker, communist militant, freedom fighter. Truths and lies. A plo...