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Burroughs: The Movie

Burroughs: The Movie

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Film Age rating: 15 Year: 1984 IMDB Rating: 7

An exploration of Burroughs’ life story, as told by Burroughs himself along with many of his contemporaries, including Allen Ginsberg, Brion Gysin, Francis Bacon, Herbert Huncke, Patti Smith, Terry So...

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Stan Lee's Mutants, Monsters & Marvels

Stan Lee's Mutants, Monsters & Marvels

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Film Age rating: 8 Year: 2002 IMDB Rating: 7

Filmmaker and comic writer Kevin Smith interviews comic book legend Stan Lee about his life and work in comics across the decades.

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Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

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Film Age rating: 7 Year: 2019 IMDB Rating: 6.9

When Bruce Chatwin was dying of AIDS, his friend Werner Herzog made a final visit. As a parting gift, Chatwin gave him his rucksack. Thirty years later, Herzog sets out on his own journey, inspired b...

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Salinger

Salinger

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Film Age rating: 10 Year: 2013 IMDB Rating: 6.8

An in-depth investigation into the private world of the American writer J. D. Salinger (1919-2010), who lived most of his life behind the impenetrable wall of a self-imposed seclusion: how his dramati...

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Escapes

Escapes

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2017 IMDB Rating: 6.7

Escapes blazes a path through mid-20th-century Hollywood via the experiences of Hampton Fancher – flamenco dancer, actor, and the unlikely producer and screenwriter of the landmark sci-fi classic Blad...

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Paul Goodman Changed My Life

Paul Goodman Changed My Life

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2011 IMDB Rating: 6.6

Paul Goodman, whose best-selling 'Growing Up Absurd' made him the philosopher of the New Left in the 1960s, was also a brilliant poet, out queer (and family man) in the 1940s, radical pacifist and vis...

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Marvel's Behind the Mask

Marvel's Behind the Mask

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Film Age rating: 13 Year: 2021 IMDB Rating: 6.4

A documentary special that explores the power of identity behind the iconic superheroes we know and love today. These legendary Marvel creations and stories have not only reflected the world outside o...

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American Anarchist

American Anarchist

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Film Age rating: 16 Year: 2016 IMDB Rating: 5.9

The story of one of the most infamous books ever written, "The Anarchist Cookbook," and the role it's played in the life of its author, now 65, who wrote it at 19 in the midst of the counterculture up...

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