Basada en los escritos personales de Patricia Highsmith y en los relatos de su familia y sus amantes, la película arroja nueva luz sobre la vida y la obra de la famosa escritora de novelas de suspense, impregnada de temas relacionados con el amor y su influencia decisiva en la identidad.
The American writer Stephen King has been one of the world's best-selling authors for decades. How can the overwhelming success of his numerous works be explained? Perhaps by the boundless inventiveness of his literature? And what else is behind the longevity of his astonishing career?
En 1991, «American psycho», la tercera novela del controvertido escritor Bret Easton Ellis, provocó acaloradas discusiones entre críticos y lectores; un libro extraordinariamente perturbador que transportaba a sus lectores a la mente de Patrick Bateman, un cínico ejecutivo de fusiones y adquisiciones obsesionado con las marcas, los detalles sin importancia, la cultura pop y el asesinato brutal.
An immersion into the life and writings of the extraordinary American science fiction writer Philip K. Dick (1928-82), whose outstanding work predicted like no other the dystopian debacle toward which the chaotic world of the 21st century is inevitably heading.
La conversación más larga e íntima entre Truman Capote y Tennessee Williams. Lisa Immordino Vreeland examina a dos de los escritores más importantes del siglo pasado a través de un emotivo diálogo protagonizado por ambos que recorre desde el inicio de su amistad hasta su final, lleno de desencuentros. Para su construcción la directora se vale de las mejores entrevistas a los escritores, además de fotografías históricas e inéditas. Incluye también pasajes interpretados por Jim Parsons y Zachary Quinto que ponen voz a los dos genios en diferentes etapas de su vida para reflexionar sobre diferentes temas como su homosexualidad o su relación con el cine.El resultado es un documental sumamente atractivo en lo visual con el que revivir y examinar de cerca a estos dos genios a través de la singular amistad que los unía, repleta de momentos de amor y odio.
An unparalleled portrait of Arthur Miller (1915-2005), a major writer who left an indelible mark on the world. Miller's life is intimately connected with the great themes that marked the 20th century. Glamour, fame, social criticism and Marilyn Monroe.
At his Long Island beach house, and on the occasion of the publication of his masterful nonfiction novel In Cold Blood, reporter Karen Dennison interviews celebrated writer Truman Capote, who displays his exuberant personality, makes witty jokes, shares his thoughts on writing, reflects on various aspects of the book and, in a sweet and endearing voice, reads and explains some of its highlights.
The story of the making of The Bell Jar, the unique, semi-autobiographical novel written by American writer Sylvia Plath (1932-63), published in February 1963, shortly before her death.
A look at the intimacy of the US writer Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), a man infinitely more complex than his public image suggested, through the story of his relationship with his four wives.
The US writer Henry Miller (1891-1980), scandalous and nonconformist creator, hated by the most recalcitrant puritans, was a vilified genius, considered a threat, accused of being a sexist, of consciously pursuing the destruction of every civic principle; but he was also someone venerated as a saint, as a sex guru; and today as one of the most important characters of the twentieth century.
John Irving's literary worlds are satirically exaggerated, socially critical, unexpectedly magical. But how do these dazzling, sometimes bizarre, narrative worlds emerge? A unique insight into his writing workshop and a search of the places and people who have become part of his stories.
A look at US society through the prism of Moby Dick, the mythical novel published by Herman Melville (1819-1891) in 1851.