Salman Rushdie
Birthday: 1947-06-19
Place of Birth: Mumbai, India
Biography: Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie FRSL is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight's Children, won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be "the best novel of all winners" on two separate occasions, marking the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize.
Movies
Can't Buy Me Lunch: Another Look at The Rutles
Twenty-three years after the release of the original Beatles mockumentary, 'The Rutles: All You Need...
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Then She Found Me
A New York schoolteacher experiences a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves,...
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Amos Oz: The Nature of Dreams
The film chronicles 2 years in the life of Amos Oz as he meets readers in Israel and around the worl...
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The Beatles Revolution
A primetime special celebrating The Beatles and exploring the lasting impact on pop music of Beatles...
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River of Fundament
Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of No...
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Mylène Farmer : sur les pas d'une icône
An exclusive documentary on a leading artist in the French music scene: Mylène Farmer. From her firs...
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In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
A strongly visual look at the life, work and obsessions od the writer Bruce Chatwin, who died of AID...
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The Hitch
The life of Christopher Hitchens as told through his own words and through archive footage....
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Writers in Conversation: Edward Said with Salman Rushdie
In 1986, Edward Said and Salman Rushdie sat down to talk at the ICA. Professor Said launched his boo...
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Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly
Salman Rushdie speaks to Alan Yentob about the devastating knife attack he was subjected to in 2022,...
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Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie
Gibney’s “Knife” will explore Rushdie’s recovery “in the broadest sense,” according to a press relea...
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Einübung ins Paradies - Nachdenken über 1989
November 9, 1989, the day the Wall came down, was one of those days when it became clear that the wo...
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365 Day Project
This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calenda...
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Midnight's Children
The story of a pair of children born within moments of India gaining independence from England, grow...
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Concerning the Bodyguard
An anonymous henchman fulfils his role in a rigid hierarchy of power and control in this ingenious a...
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Bosch: The Garden of Dreams
2016 marks the 500th anniversary of the death of Hieronymus Bosch. It is almost the only information...
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The Satanic Verses Affair
Twenty years ago, novelist Salman Rushdie was a wanted man with a million pound bounty on his head. ...
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La Traversée du désir
What was your first desire? What did you long for most? Arielle Dombasle put these questions to a wi...
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Bridget Jones's Diary
Bridget Jones is an average woman struggling against expectations. As a New Year's resolution, Bridg...
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Angela Carter: Of Wolves & Women
A dark and delicious foray into Angela Carter's extraordinary life with animation by Peepshow Collec...
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Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail
An intimate portrait, in his own words, of the Indian writer Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic V...
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Dirty Pictures
A Cincinnati museum director goes on trial in 1990 for exhibiting sadomasochistic photographs taken ...
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9/11/03: A Day in the Life of New York
New Yorkers such as novelist Salman Rushdie, Yankees manager Joe Torre and hip-hop star Russell Simm...
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The Painter & The Pest
The story of how 60-year-old abstract impressionist painter Harold Shapinsky was discovered the prev...
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Orwell: 2+2=5
George Orwell was one of the most visionary authors of the 20th century, whose novels 1984 and Anima...
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