Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film

Waiting for Godot in San Quentin

Documentary about the staging of 'Waiting for Godot' in prison.

Agatha Christie, the Queen of Crime

British author Agatha Christie (1890-1976) is the world's most translated author: her heroes, private detective Hercule...

Bukowski: The Last Straw

The Last Straw is a film documenting the very last live poetry reading given by Charles Bukowski at The Sweetwater, a mu...

Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women

Louisa May Alcott, author of "Little Women," leads a literary double life, writing under the pseudonym A.M. Barnard, an...

Inverosímil Jardiel Poncela

The Spanish author Enrique Jardiel Poncela (1901-1952) was one of the best comedy writers of all time, a novelist and ne...

Who's Afraid of Kathy Acker?

Documentary tracing the extreme life of outlaw writer, performance artist and punk icon, Kathy Acker. Through animation,...

Wer hat Angst vor Sibylle Berg?

With precisely articulated turns of phrase, Sibylle Berg - celebrated novelist, playwright and columnist known for her p...

Colette, l'insoumise

The incredible life of novelist, screenwriter, actress and nude dancer Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954), who led he...

The Gospel According to Philip K. Dick

Writers, publishers, fans, and friends share their perspectives and memories of sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick. In his car...

How Proust Can Change Your Life

A docu-drama portrait of the early-20th-century French author Marcel Proust, based on Alain de Botton's updated analysis...

What Was Virginia Woolf Really Afraid of?

A look back at the troubled life of genius British writer Virginia Woolf (1882-1941).

Kathy Acker

Documentary about Kathy Acker where she talks about her writing and her life in New York.

I Hate Jane Austen

While it may be universally acknowledged that she’s one of the great English writers, Giles Coren breaks down his many r...

Prisoners of Beckett

The meeting of two worlds that never met. One of poetry and freedom, and the other of silence and darkness. A story that...

The Orphan’s Kaddish

An elderly man is working tirelessly to revive the Jewish world lost in the Holocaust. His name is Aharon Appelfeld, and...

Me To Play

As their bodies give way to Parkinson's disease, two New York actors put their hearts into one final Off-Broadway produc...

Thomas Hardy: A Haunted Man

Drama documentary from 1978 exploring the private feelings of novelist Thomas Hardy through the poems of love and remors...

What The Durrells Did Next

Hosted by Keeley Hawes, star of the popular television series The Durrells, this documentary reveals the adventures of t...

Katja Mann: A Life with Thomas Mann

La dérive douce d’un enfant de Petit-Goâve