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When we first meet Dante, he is midway through his life’s journey, seated in a dark forest sewing a red cross across his bare pecs and up the ripples of his six-pack. It’s not exactly how I envisioned ...

For a long time, Ric Burns thought he was going to be a professor of literature. Then he followed his brother, Ken, into filmmaking. Burns began his latest project, “Dante: Inferno to Paradise,” more ...

Though Scorsese has cameoed in many of his movies and occasionally performed in films by other directors – he played Vincent van Gogh in a segment of Akira Kurosawa’s 1990 film “Dreams” and also ...