Literature Movies

An account of the life of the French poet Jean de la Fontaine (1621-95), author of more than one hundred fables and a model for many other European...

Borrowing from an anthropological study initiated through the University of California in 1969, The Taste of The Name is a fantasia on universality....

A professional novelist struggles to resolve an increasingly burdensome family situation, and his relationship with his partner, all the while...

Pai Hsien-yung has lent Chinese-language literature some of its most colorful and most memorable characters, and served as the inspiration of...

Sylvia Plath Read 18 Poems From Her Final Collection, Ariel, in a 1962 Recording

A Documentary about poet, novelist Leung Ping-kwan (Yesi).

San Francisco's North Beach in the 50's - A mix of jazz, poetry and art - The Beach recreates the atmosphere that prevailed through first-hand...

Beatriz Portinari is not only the name of the inspiring muse of Dante Alighieri, but also the pseudonym with which the Platense writer Aurora...

A cinematic exploration of the life, literature, and ideological journey of Jaswant Singh Kanwal, one of Punjab’s most powerful progressive...

Takes students to England to show them the land that inspired many great writers... the London of Chaucer, Dickens and Browning...the countryside...

BBC Documentary about the most famous Norwegian writer, Karl Ove Knausgård, author of My Struggle.

Emmy and Tony winner Christine Baranski makes her West End debut alongside Academy Award-nominated stage and screen legend Richard E. Grant in...