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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
New York in the 90s: Joanna (Margaret Qualley) gets hired as an assistant to Margaret (Sigourney Weaver), the stoic and old-fashioned literary agent of J. D. Salinger. Joanna's main task is processing Salinger's voluminous fan mail, but as she reads the heart-wrenching letters, she impulsively begins personalizing the responses. The results are both humorous and moving, as Joanna, while using the great writer's voice, begins to discover her own. Based...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
[English/French/Spanish version].
Language
English
Description
Lee Israel who made her living in the '70s and '80s profiling the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estee Lauder and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen. When Lee is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception, abetted by her loyal friend Jack. An adaptation of the memoir, the true story of best-selling celebrity biographer (and friend to cats).
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Band, one of rock's superstar groups, decided to call it quits after sixteen grueling years on the road. The group held this farewell concert on Thanksgiving Day, 1976, at San Francisco's Winterland, the site of their first performance. The performance is interspersed with interview footage.
4) Shirley
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
While writing a new work of horror fiction, Shirley Jackson's creative process and marriage are disrupted by the arrival of a newlywed couple who will be staying with her and her husband.
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Join our hosts as they take the mystery out of Shakepeare's language. Students will see how words are strung together into lines of prose and verse, including Shakespeare's beautifully written sonnets, their structure, metaphors and the stories they tell.
6) Le testament d'Orpheé, ou, Ne me demandez pas pourquoi: Testament of Orpheus, or, Do not ask me why
Series
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
Français
Description
In his last film Cocteau portrays an 18th century poet who travels through time on a quest for divine wisdom. In a mysterious wasteland, he meets several symbolic phantoms that bring about his death and resurrection. The film finished the circle of the journey begun in Blood of a Poet, exploring the torturous relationship between the artist and his creations.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Agatha Christie ranks as one of the most successful writers of all time. Combining rare access to Christie's family and her personal archive, the show gives viewers a never-before-seen look into the late crime writer's fascinating life story.
Retraces the celebrated English writer's footsteps across the England. With access to both her family and those who lived with her and knew her best.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
From real-life friends Annie Clark (a.k.a. GRAMMY award-winning recording and touring artist St. Vincent) and Carrie Brownstein (Portlandia, Sleater-Kinney) comes the metafictional account of two creative forces banding together to make a documentary about St. Vincent's music, touring life, and on-stage persona. But they quickly discover unpredictable forces lurking within subject and filmmaker that threaten to derail the friendship, the project,...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
Roland can't wait for Christmas Day, and when the morning finally arrives he races downstairs to see what is waiting for him. What he sees stops him in his tracks. Could that tiny present really be what he had waited all year for?
"This story of 'good things come in small packages' and the value of family is a welcome offering."--School Library Journal.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The New York Times sent shockwaves through the literary world when it unmasked JT LeRoy, whose tough prose about a sordid childhood had captivated icons and luminaries internationally. It turned out LeRoy didn't actually exist. He was the creative expression of 40-year-old San Francisco housewife, Laura Albert. Now viewers can journey down the infinitely fascinating rabbit hole of how Laura Albert breathed not only words, but life, into her avatar...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Wide screen.
Language
English
Description
Filmed with five hidden cameras, this documentary totally immerses viewers in the creative process behind legendary British theater director Peter Brook's work, focusing on the "Tightrope," a special exercise he has perfected over decades of experimentation and practice into a process of transformation that revitalizes the theatrical experience for actors and audiences alike.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Lee Israel made her living in the 1970s and 1980s profiling the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estee Lauder and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen. Though Lee Israel has undeniable profiling skills, her work has grown stale and hackneyed, rendering her profession unnecessary and insignificant. Now in times of financial hardship, Israel must find other ways to make a living. With assistance from her steadfast friend, Jack, the two endeavor...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Joyce's famous boast that, if Dublin one day suddenly disappeared from the earth, it could be reconstructed out of his book has been quoted so often that it has taken on the force of a truism. With the passing of a century, we can separate Joyce's Dublin from the present entity and view it in perspective more easily than previous Joyceans, especially as the Dublin that Joyce knew has largely and gradually disappeared. This film takes viewers on...
Series
Criterion collection volume 288
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
Trickery. Deceit. Magic. In this free-form documentary, the legendary filmmaker gleefully engages the central preoccupation of his career: the tenuous line between truth and illusion, art and lies.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Acclaimed actor John Rhys-Davies visits landmarks, explains relics, and leads us back into a darker time to discover this fascinating tale of saints and sinners, power and passion, as the greatest translation of Holy Scripture emerges into a world and culture that would never be quite the same again"--Container.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In 1962 Hitchcock and Truffaut locked themselves away in Hollywood for a week to excavate the secrets behind the mise-en-scène in cinema. Based on the original recordings of this meeting, used to produce the mythical book, Hitchcock/Truffaut, this film illustrates the greatest cinema lesson of all time and plummets us into the world of the creator of Psycho, The Birds, and Vertigo. Hitchcock's incredibly modern art is elucidated and explained by...
Series
Criterion collection volume 177
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Set in 1975. When a young woman spends the night with an alleged terrorist, her quiet, ordered life falls into ruins. The film shows an anxious era in West Germany amid a crumbling postwar political consensus. Katharina, though innocent, suddenly becomes a suspect, falling prey to a vicious smear campaign by the police and a ruthless tabloid journalist that tests the limits of her dignity and her sanity.
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