Salman Rushdie
Know for: Acting
Born: 1947-06-19
Place of birth: Mumbai, India
Also know as:
The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch (2003)
Twenty-three years after the release of the original Beatles mockumentary, 'The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash', famous artists, actors and musicians...
Then She Found Me (2007)
A New York schoolteacher hits a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves, her adoptive mother dies and her biological mother, an...
Amos Oz: The Nature of Dreams (2009)
The film chronicles 2 years in the life of Amos Oz as he meets readers in Israel and around the world, working to promote the Two-State Solution to...
The Beatles Revolution (2000)
A primetime special celebrating The Beatles and exploring the lasting impact on pop music of Beatles innovations like stadium concerts, music videos,...
River of Fundament (2014)
Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In...
Mylène Farmer : sur les pas d'une icône (2015)
In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin (1999)
A strongly visual look at the life, work and obsessions od the writer Bruce Chatwin, who died of AIDS in 1989. Chatwin was hailed as the greatest...
The Hitch (2014)
The life of Christopher Hitchens as told through his own words and through archive footage.
On Palestinian Identity: A Conversation with Salman Rushdie (1970)
In 1986, Edward Said and Salman Rushdie sat down to talk at the ICA. Professor Said launched his book “After the Last Sky: Palestinian...
Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly (2024)
Salman Rushdie speaks to Alan Yentob about the devastating knife attack he was subjected to in 2022, losing his right eye and almost his ability to...
Knife (1970)
Gibney’s “Knife” will explore Rushdie’s recovery “in the broadest sense,” according to a press release. Through...
Einübung ins Paradies - Nachdenken über 1989 (2019)
November 9, 1989, the day the Wall came down, was one of those days when it became clear that the world had changed "immediately and without delay"...
365 Day Project (2007)
This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007...
Midnight's Children (2012)
The story of a pair of children born within moments of India gaining independence from England, growing up in the country that is nothing like their...
Concerning the Bodyguard (2015)
An anonymous henchman fulfils his role in a rigid hierarchy of power and control in this ingenious and visually dazzling film. Salman Rushdie clearly...
Bosch: The Garden of Dreams (2016)
2016 marks the 500th anniversary of the death of Hieronymus Bosch. It is almost the only information about the artist of The Garden of Earthly...
The Satanic Verses Affair (2009)
Twenty years ago, novelist Salman Rushdie was a wanted man with a million pound bounty on his head. His novel, The Satanic Verses, had sparked riots...
La Traversée du désir (2009)
What was your first desire? What did you long for most? Arielle Dombasle put these questions to a wide circle of famous people.
Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
Bridget Jones is an average woman struggling against her age, her weight, her job, her lack of a man, and her various imperfections. As a New Year's...
Angela Carter: Of Wolves & Women (2018)
A dark and delicious foray into Angela Carter's extraordinary life with animation by Peepshow Collective, rare archive and family photos, and...
Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail (2019)
An intimate portrait, in his own words, of the Indian writer Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses (1988), thirty years after the fatwa...
Der Unbequeme - Der Dichter Günter Grass (2007)
Documentary film.
Dirty Pictures (2000)
A Cincinnati museum director goes on trial in 1990 for exhibiting sadomasochistic photographs taken by Robert Mapplethorpe.
Midnight's Children (2012)
The story of a pair of children born within moments of India gaining independence from England, growing up in the country that is nothing like their...
Midnight's Children (2012)
The story of a pair of children born within moments of India gaining independence from England, growing up in the country that is nothing like their...
Midnight's Children (2012)
The story of a pair of children born within moments of India gaining independence from England, growing up in the country that is nothing like their...
Knife (1970)
Gibney’s “Knife” will explore Rushdie’s recovery “in the broadest sense,” according to a press release. Through...