In Renaissance Italy, Bianca, a young lady from a good family, is of marriage age. Her parents find her a fiancé́ to their liking: Giovanni, a rich merchant, young and pleasant. The wedding looks set to go smoothly even though Bianca cannot hide her disappointment at having to marry a man she knows nothing about. But before the marriage, she learns the secret held and bequeathed by the women of her family for generations: a "man's skin"! By donning...

A man tells the story of his boyhood in the Canadian backwoods, of his arrival in the bustling Toronto of the 1920s, and of the fabulous adventures he underwent there

A man makes the dangerous choice to leave the neo-Nazi gang he joined as a teenager. He is determined to start a new life—if he can make it out alive. Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at the **Toronto International Film Festival**. Nominated for a C.I.C.A.E. Award at the **Berlin International Film Festival**. *"Skin is the amazing story of a man who went to extreme measures to change, on the outside and within his heart." - Richard Roeper, **Chicago...

SUN AND MAN is a gripping 2-part documentary exploring the essential relationship between humans and the Sun and tracing the history of this fascinating star. Anthropologists, astrophysicists, historians and climatologists help us understand how the Sun has shaped us in many ways – from religious beliefs to our connection to time and even the color of our skin and the texture of our hair. Thanks to scientific progress, we have also learned...

In the Deep South of the 1950s, a color line was etched in blood across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. The author, a journalist decided to cross that line. Using medication that darkened his skin to deep brown, he exchanged his privileged life as a Southern white man for the disenfranchised world of an unemployed black man. What happened to him, from the outside and within himself, as he made his way through the segregated Deep South...

""If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?" England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith's son from Putney emerges from the spring's bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness...

Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape shifter, a "skin man," Roland Deschain takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast's most recent slaughter. Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, "The Wind through the Keyhole."

A memoir of the author's cursed travels through the woods of Massachusetts and coastal Maine, describing his midlife transformation from an idealistic youth to an eccentric family man.

V. S. Pritchett called her "a genius." Gore Vidal described her as a "beloved novelist of singular brilliance... Of all the Southern writers, she is the most apt to endure..." And Tennessee Williams said, "The only real writer the South ever turned out, was Carson." She was born Lula Carson Smith in Columbus, Georgia. Her dream was to become a concert pianist, though she'd been writing since she was sixteen and the influence of music was evident throughout...