Russell Banks
Senarist · 1940 – 2023 · Newton, Massachusetts, U.S.A
Russell Banks was an American writer of fiction and poetry. As a novelist, Banks was best known for his detailed accounts of domestic strife and the daily struggles of ordinary often-marginalized characters. His stories usually revolved around his own childhood experiences, and often reflect "moral themes and personal relationships."
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Film6.9DramKanada'daki küçük bir dağ kasabası, bir okul otobüsü kazasında bir düzineden fazla çocuğun ölmesiyle sarsılır. Büyük şehirden gelen bir avukat, kazazedelerin ve kurbanların ailelerine toplu dava açmaları için yardıma gelir; ancak çabaları kasaba halkını birbirine daha da uzaklaştırmaktan başka bir işe yaramaz. Aynı zamanda, kazadan sağ kurtulan bir genç kız, maruz kaldığı farklı türde bir hasarın getirdiği masumiyet kaybıyla hesaplaşmak zorundadır.
Film7.5BelgeselThis artful and intimate meditation on the legendary storyteller examines her life, her works, and the powerful themes she has confronted throughout her literary career. Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers, critics, and colleagues on an exploration of race, history, the United States, and the human condition.
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
2019 · 15 votes
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This feature doc profiles acclaimed writer Alistair MacLeod. Hailed internationally as a master of the short story, MacLeod also wrote a novel, No Great Mischief, which was celebrated around the world. Depicting men and women living out their lives against the haunting landscape that surrounds them, most of MacLeod's work is firmly based in Cape Breton even if his characters stray elsewhere. Focusing on the complexities and abiding mysteries at the heart of human relationships, MacLeod maps the close bonds and impassable chasms that lie between people and invokes memory and myth to celebrate the continuity of the generations. This film portrait explores the life and work of this giant of literature.
Reading Alistair MacLeod
2005 · 2 votes
FilmDramBelgeselA performance of some of Nelson Algren's greatest and least known works, performed live at the Steppenwolf theatre in Algren's hometown, Chicago.
Film6.0BelgeselAlgren will spotlight the hard-knock life and authentic creative legacy of one of the most underrated writers of the twentieth century, Nelson Algren. Algren's brutally honest portrayal of the American underclass and his hard-nosed lifestyle became his pathway to compassion. Through interviews with Algren contemporaries, experts, and "literary soulmates," as well as through the photography of Algren's friends, Art Shay and Stephen Deutch, the film will tell his story. It will celebrate his tremendous contribution to and influence on American letters, and push Algren, champion of the marginalized, out from the margins.
Algren
2021 · 1 votes
Film8.0BelgeselAmsterdam Stories USA
2012 · 1 votes
FilmBelgeselParis Stories explores the force of fiction for a woman who left Canada and her "good job for a girl" to live in a city where writers weren't viewed with suspicion and asked for three months rent in advance. Considered by both critics and her literary peers to be one of the most talented women writing in the English language, this film offers an intimate glimpse of a fiercely private woman devoted to the compact elegance of the short story.