This film is not a classic portrait but a documentary using fiction to bring Martin Suter’s novels to life while introducing us to the author behind the stories on a whole new level. ‘Fantasy is usually more true than reality itself’ says Suter.
In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social critici...
It's a sensitive, moving doc chronicling the life of Tétrault's brother Philip , a Montreal poet, mu...
After Portnoy's Complaint launched him as a new literary voice, not to mention a scandalous one, Phi...
How the inventor of the detective story became his own greatest mystery.
Bill Drummond, once the most notorious man in pop music, now travels around the world baking cakes, ...
In celebration of his ninetieth birthday, Sir David Attenborough shares extraordinary highlights of ...
In autumn 1944, during the Liberation of Brittany, writer Louis Guilloux worked as an interpreter fo...
A journey into the BBC archives unearthing glorious performances and candid interviews from some of ...
An elderly man is working tirelessly to revive the Jewish world lost in the Holocaust. His name is A...
Narrated by Linda Hunt, this documentary examines the life of the late author and gay rights activis...
Ron Padgett (1942- ) is a poet and editor whose artistic career took off during his teenaged years i...
Once upon a time there was a garden, a refuge, a safe haven - 'The Garden of the Finzi Continis'. It...
A portrait of the brilliant American writer Truman Capote (1924-84) and the New York high society of...
Bosnian Croat writer Miljenko Jergović and Serbian writer Marko Vidojković replace one another by th...
Documentary about the life and work of Jorge Luis Borges, from his own memories and reflections.
Chanda Chevannes follows scientist Dr. Sandra Steingraber as she makes speeches against fracking and...
Drama documentary from 1978 exploring the private feelings of novelist Thomas Hardy through the poem...
A documentary about the production of From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) and the people who made it.
One of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century, Arthur Miller created such celebrated works as ...
Griffin Dunne’s years-in-the-making documentary portrait of his aunt Joan Didion moves with the spir...