Duras and Cinema

Miguel Gila (1919-2001) was a Spanish actor and stand-up comedian, famous for his surreal phone conv...

A conversation with the classical and modern musician Kalle Moraeus.

In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of F...

Composed of archives and animated sequences, this documentary sheds light on the genesis of the mast...

A portrait of Spanish comic book author Paco Plaza.

In the sixties, Peter Handke was one of the first to show how the business works: the writer as angr...

A bitter postcard of the town of the Buenos Aires countryside that Argentinean writer Manuel Puig (1...

An immersive look at the eventful life and brilliant artistic career of visionary American jazz trum...

Sicilian photojournalist Letizia Battaglia began a long battle against the ruthless Cosa Nostra when...

Macario 'Mac' Gómez talks about his long career as a film poster designer.

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

In 1818, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, a powerful and timelessness nov...

An account, in his own words and those of his relatives, of the life and work of the brilliant Manue...

On the occasion of awarding the Cervantes Prize to the Catalan writer Juan Marsé on 23 April 2009, f...

Anolan is a soloist in a string orchestra, lives with her mother and dedicates every minute to his p...

Between 1967 and 1976, Italian writer Goliarda Sapienza (1924-76) wrote The Art of Joy, a subversive...

An account of the life and work of the charismatic and seductive Spanish singer Julio Iglesias, from...

It all begins with a childhood memory: that day when the father of the future filmmaker Sebastiano d...

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

A joyful tale filled with music. The rise of radio. The jazz big bands. The legendary clubs and ball...