Killer, Trader and Psychopath: The America of Bret Easton Ellis

Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents while living on the streets of the Bronx. He accide...

Documentary about author Christopher Isherwood, in which he is interviewed about his life and work and which features extracts from films of his novel...

This documentary by independent filmmaker Ken Harrison provides a look into the contemporary Texas art world of the mid-‘70s. Shot in 1975, Jackelope...

A moving and very funny portrait of the personal and professional life of the magnificent French comedian Louis de Funès (1914-83),as well as a detai...

A look at the life and work of the iconic US actor Charlton Heston (1923-2008); the embodiment of many mythic heroes who was both a staunch defender o...

A portrait of the Spanish-German actor Daniel Brühl, a versatile performer capable of moving easily from the gentlest to the darkest role.

In his time of greatest splendor, the singer Miguel 'Bambino' Vargas Jiménez (1940-99) was the last frontier of flamenco, an immense musical genre tha...

French artist Maurice Chevalier (1888-1972),a legend of stage and screen, was an accomplished singer, actor and entertainer, who embodied the charm o...

An account of the life of the Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653),the first female artist to get international acclaim, recognized as a...

An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84),a tortured artist whose genius and inner demons changed the Western...

Spanish filmmaker David Trueba travels to New York to interview Woody Allen, who reviews his filmography and his many personal and artistic concerns.

Marco Paolini interviews Mario Rigoni Stern about—among other things—his well-known experience as a soldier on the Eastern front during WWII, culminat...

When French writer Marguerite Duras (1914-96) published her novel The Sea Wall in 1950, she came very close to winning the prestigious Prix Goncourt....

The poet and playwright Lope de Vega is already a priest officially. The love affairs of the Spanish writer and actress Lucía Salcedo, whom he nicknam...

A look at the life and work of Christina Lindberg, the most famous Swedish model of the 1970s and star of exploitation cinema.