The Pantheon is the final resting place for some of France's most important citizens. And yet it won't include the famed 17th-century playwright Moliere.
Noel Peacock, Honorary Professorial Research Fellow at University of Glasgow 00:40
Filmmakers have been using dreams to tell all kinds of stories. Blood of A Poet, a seminal example of such filmmaking, turns 90 years old. And in this Movie Almanac, Alican Pamir tells what purpose movies use dream logic.
Guillermo del Toro likes to take Hollywood's forgotten genres and put his own spin on them. With his new movie, Nightmare Alley, he tackles the shadow-filled world of film noir. Alican Pamir has the story.
Mark Osteen, Author of ‘Nightmare Alley: Film Noir and the American Dream’ 02:27
Millions of tourists come to Barcelona every year to see the architecture of Antoni Gaudi. But Catalonia's National Museum of Art says there's a deeper story to tell about the man. Salome van Zyl has more.
The show must go on even for the embattled Golden Globes. There were no signs of its usual glitzy lineup of Hollywood's top television and movie stars. But there were plenty of controversies.
Peter Bogdanovich emerged in the 1970s as sort of a Wunderkind who later turned into a Hollywood outcast. In the wake of his death, Alican Pamir has the story about the rise and fall of this influential director.
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