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by Don DeLillo
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Film presented by author Don DeLillo, in which he explores the relationship between words and images, and between gunmen and the novelist, covering themes and events against which he sets his own fiction, including revolutions, natural disasters, toxic fall-out, plane crashes.
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Famous recluse J.D. Salinger has hidden from the world since "The Catcher in the Rye" took the world by storm.
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A 90-minute color documentary on the life of the colossus of Big Sur at work, living and revisiting old haunts in Paris and Brooklyn, talking with such friends as Lawrence Durrell, Anais Nin, Alfred Perles, Brassai and Jakob Gimpel.
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by Hunter S. Thompson
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Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood, also known as Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision, is a documentary film produced by BBC Omnibus in 1978 on the subject of Hunter S. Thompson, directed by Nigel Finch.
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was an American writer. His works, such as Cat's Cradle (1963), Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), and Breakfast of Champions (1973), blend satire, gallows humor, and science fiction.
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by J.K. Rowling
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This film follows J.K. Rowling from October 2006 - October 2007; the year in which she completed the final novel in the Harry Potter series: 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.' The documentary features an intimate, personal look at a very private woman.
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by William Burroughs
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A vibrant portrait of a Beat Generation icon, WILLIAM S BURROUGHS: A MAN WITHIN explores the brilliant and troubled world of one of our greatest authors.
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A half-hour television documentary about Ray Bradbury (1963) by David L. Wolper. Included is Bradbury's "Dial Double Zero," a short story about intelligence within a telephone system.
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A 1994 documentary which goes on an imaginative tour from the Colorado grave where Dick is buried to the suburbs of California where he lived and worked. Talks to his ex-wives, friends and biographers - directed by Nicola Roberts for BBC Arena.
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A celebration of Douglas Adams, the genius behind The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy who died in May 2001, aged just 49.
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