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New Videos added February 2011
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Children's 
Bambi.
The Heartwarming story of the newborn "prince of the forest."
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Comedy
Entourage. The complete sixth season.
For Vince, Eric, Drama, and Turtle, life in Hollywood's fast lane can be an intoxicating roller-coaster of a ride. After hitting some speed bumps the last couple of years, Vince's career is in high gear after his role in a new Martin Scorsese film. But now that Vince is back on top, is it finally time for the entourage to step out of his shadow?
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Detective and Crime
The night of the hunter.
A self-styled preacher marries and murders the widow of an executed convict with whom he once shared a cell. He then terrorizes her two young children to force them to tell him the whereabouts of the $10,000 he knows their father hid before his imprisonment.
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Cornered.
Cornered: Ex-RCAF pilot Dick Powell stalks the Nazi collaborator who murdered his bride. NOTE = Desperate: "Steve Brodie is a postwar everyman who accepts what he thinks is an honest trucking job, only to find he's the driver in a botched heist that puts Brodie and his bride on the run from the cops and the cons who planned the job"--Container.
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The Phenix City story.
The Phenix City story: Corruption, brutality and vice plagued Phenix City, Alabama for 100 years. This is Phil Karlson's semidocumentary telling the jolting tale of those who risked their lives to bring the burg's syndicate of thugs and murderers to justice. NOTE = Dial 1119: "An asylum inmate escapes to the city where he takes hostages at a local dive, guns down a bar employee, and warns authorities his captives will be next if the doctor whose testimony first put him away doesn't arrive within the hour"--Container.
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Crime in the streets.
Crime in the streets: Following a turf rumble with a rival gang, the street gang leader tells his gang to kill the snitch. NOTE = Armored car robbery: Film about a deadly heist and the battle of wits between a fugitive gangster, his stripper moll, and a bulldog cop out to avenge his partner's death.
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Backfire.
Backfire: A war veteran, aided by his resourceful nurse, is on a quest to prove his pal innocent of murder. NOTE = Deadline at dawn: A gangster's sister lies dead. All clues point to sailor Bill Williams. He has mere hours to prove that he is innocent.
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The king of Marvin Gardens.
Jack Nicholson and Bruce Dern play estranged siblings David and Jason, the former a depressive late-night-radio talk show host, the latter an extroverted con man; when Jason drags his younger brother to a dreary Atlantic City and into a real-estate scam, events spiral toward tragedy.
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Boomerang!
When a local priest is murdered, a nervous drifter is fingered as the murderer. He denies committing the crime, but it's up to a prosecutor (Dana Andrews) who believes the man is innocent to convince the court. The film is based on a true story and was nominated for an Oscar.
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Panic in the streets.
A public health worker and a police captain have only 48 hours to stop a pneumonic plague outbreak from spreading across New Orleans.
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Documentary
Last dance.
Documentary on the genesis of A selection, a dance work created in collaboration by Pilobolus Dance Theatre and Maurice Sendak and Arthur Yorinks of the Night Kitchen Theater. Beginning with the first rehearsals for the work, the film explores the complex and occasionally troubled interaction between the dance company, known for its innovative collaborative approach to choreography, and Sendak, an eminent author and illustrator. Archival footage from Nazi Germany depicts the inspiration for the work, a dance of death evoking the evils of the Jewish Holocaust. The film follows A selection from its presentation as a work-in-progress at Purchase College's Performing Arts Center to its world premiere at the American Dance Festival in Durham, N.C., and its New York premiere at the Joyce Theater. A sequence of performance excerpts from the work conclude the film.
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Bill Moyers journal. February 13, 2009.
"Nikki Giovanni, University Distinguished Professor of English at Virginia Tech, is the author of 27 books. Her work has spanned the themes of love and sex, anger and grief, race, politics, and violence, and in this edition of the Journal, Bill Moyers and Giovanni discuss her book Bicycles : love poems. She also reads four poems from it. In addition, Moyers and Simon Johnson, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, examine President Obama's economic recovery plan, discussing the roots of the crisis, the failures of the finance industry and the Troubled Asset Relief Program, and what may not work in the government's latest attempt to fix the economy."--Container.
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A history of Scotland [the complete ten-part series].
A compelling and comprehensive series that charts the birth and growth of the Scottish nation. Each of the ten thought-provoking episodes brings a fresh perspective to Scotland's past and challenges many of the perceived notions of Scottish history. With stunning, award-winning cinematography and mesmerizing narrative, the series tells of battles and allegiances, political intrigue, and religious conflict. Includes a booklet.
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What are we doing here?
Wealthy nations have sent vast amounts of monetary, medical, and food assistance to Africa. Yet much of the continent remains mired in poverty, famine, and bloodshed. Challenging viewers to rethink traditional humanitarian approaches, this film follows four young Americans as they experience firsthand the scope and intractability of Africa's suffering. From Cairo to Cape Town, viewers are taken across war-torn, famine-ridden, and AIDS-ravaged countries in which aid workers, government officials, and ordinary individuals explore the complex issues affecting millions of Africans today. Discussions focus on HIV/ AIDS, armed conflict, child sponsorship, U.S. farm policies, and the role of NGOs.
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Planet Earth. The complete series.
A stunning 11-part series that captures rare action, impossible locations, and intimate moments with our planet's best-loved, wildest, and most elusive creatures.
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Gang of souls [a generation of beat poets].
Maria Beatty's documentary exploring the insights and influences of the American Beat Poets. The film conveys their consciousness and sensibility through interviews with William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Diane Di Prima, among others. Also weaves in additional commentary from contemporary musicians, poets and writers such as Marianne Faithfull, Richard Hell, Lydia Lunch and Henry Rollins. Also expands upon how the poets reached new levels of creativity and inspired social change.
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Earth's changing climate.
Professor Richard Wolfson lectures on the changing climate of our planet, and human's role in those changes.
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A letter to Elia.
Martin Scorsese directs and narrates this look at director Elia Kazan. From his triumphs with films such as On the Waterfront to his controversial naming of names during the McCarthy hearings, Kazan is shown in all his complexity.
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Greensboro closer to the truth.
With original footage and interviews of survivors, witnesses, and participants, this film details the story of the 1979 Greensboro Massacre, in which Klansman shot, wounded and killed various members of a protesting Communist Workers Party in broad daylight on a city street. This was eventually addressed in 2006, through the first Truth and Reconciliation Commission within the U.S., which charged police complicity in the murders through their inaction, and their failure to provide equal protection. The film explores the meaning, repercussions, and unanswered questions of this crime, and its connection to the larger struggle of social reform.
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You don't know Jack.
Angel of mercy, or murderous 'Doctor Death'? Jack Kevorkian is one of the most polarizing figures in modern American history, a man whose passionate belief that people have the right to die has brought him both praise and vilification.
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Autistic-like Graham's story.
"When their son was just 17 months old, Erik and Jennie Linthorst suspected something was not quite right. Experts and therapists told them their son was autistic. Sort of. Maybe. Some called him autistic-like. Others said he was not autistic at all. With his parents still seeking a clear diagnosis, Graham was launched into a program of behavioral therapy. Speech therapy. Occupational therapy. Soon after the therapy began, Erik and Jennie noticed something else: the treatment he was getting didn't seem to be on target. Erik took on the conundrum confronting many parents of kids who are "mildly disordered". Handed a fuzzy diagnosis, what should the treatment be? [An] intimate family portrait showing one dad's determined quest to find the right therapies, the right doctors, and even the right words to describe his son"-- Container.
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Learn to play Django-style gypsy jazz guitar. Video two, Lead soloing.
Instruction in playing guitar in the driving style pioneered by Django Reinhardt. Paul teaches the special elements that give this music its distinctive ring: sweep picking, ornaments (glissandos, trills, bends, tremolo, vibrato, etc.), diminished and augmented runs, triplets and other special sounds that put the Gypsy in Gypsy swing.
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The dreams of sparrows.
"Follows Iraqi director Hayder Mousa Daffar and his team of contributing filmmakers as they share their vision of life in Baghdad under the U.S. occupation"--container.
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The real national treasure an inside look at the Library of Congress.
Where in Washington DC is the nation's most incredible treasure chest? It's a library unlike any other in the world, the U.S. Library of Congress in Washington D.C. Modern Marvels explodes the myth that this 200 year old institution is simply "where members of Congress borrow books". Viewers are taken beyond the magnificent Jefferson Building Great Hall into the secret vaults where more than 600 miles of shelves hold 130 million items, many of them priceless treasures - from George Washington's hand-written diaries to Galileo's first images of the moon to the original camera film of the movie Frankenstein. See how a staff of 4000 catalogues, protects and preserves these treasures and distributes them globally via a new World Digital Library.
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A history of Britain.
The fifteen-part series explores the vast history of the British Empire from 3000 BC to 1965. Simon Schama's compelling storytelling skills breathe new life into the dramatic stories of lives and moments in Britain's rich and colorful past.
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On our own terms-- Moyers on dying. Living with dying.
Death, which sooner or later comes to all, is treated as a strangely taboo subject in America. In this program, Bill Moyers describes the search for new ways of thinking--and talking--about dying. Forgoing the usual reluctance that most Americans show toward speaking about death, patients and medical professionals alike come forward to examine the end of life with honesty, courage, and even humor, demonstrating that dying can be an incredibly rich experience for both the terminally ill and their loved ones.
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On our own terms-- Moyers on dying. A different kind of care.
Presents important strides being made in palliative care for the dying, bringing peace to those who fear that they will be a burden to loved ones, suffer needlessly, or be abandoned in their hour of greatest need.
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On our own terms-- Moyers on dying. A death of one's own.
More and more Americans are looking for opportunities to exert some measure of control over where and how they die. In this program, Bill Moyers unravels the complexities underlying the many choices at the end of life, including the bitter debate over physician-assisted suicide. Three patients, their families and their doctors discuss some of the hardest decisions, including how to pay for care, what constitutes humane treatment, and how to balance dying and dignity. In the end, do these patients die the way they wanted? Yes ... and no.
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On our own terms-- Moyers on dying. A time to change.
Looks at issues surrounding end-of-life care in hospitals and nursing homes. Crusading medical professionals discuss ways to improve terminal care by changing the overburdened health care system in the United States.
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Meteorology an introduction to the wonders of the weather.
Presents 24 lectures (each about 30 minutes long) by Robert G. Fovell, Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles, on meteorology.
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Neanderthals on trial.
Were Neanderthals human like us, or were they sub-human brutes? Since the discovery of the first Neanderthal skeleton in 1856, scientists have battled over exactly how we're related to these prehistoric cave-dwellers. There's plenty of new evidence, including DNA analysis, but nothing seems to settle the case. Neanderthals on trial takes a look at the debate, showing how science works, and how investigators sometimes fool themselves into seeing what they want to see.
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All power to the people! the Black Panther Party & beyond.
"Opening with a montage of four hundred years of race conflict in America, this powerful documentary provides the historical context for the establishment of the 60's civil rights movement."--Container.
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War babies.
A documentary film focusing on the lives of persons affected by wartime rape.
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Cell. The hidden kingdom.
This program relates the early history of microbiology and genetics. The discoveries of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Robert Hooke, Joseph Lister, Robert Brown, Theodor Schwann, Matthias Schleiden, and Robert Remak are included.
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Cell. The chemistry of life.
"Cells are, in a sense, just tiny bags of chemicals--so what 'instructs' them to divide and function? This program shows how biologists addressed the question during the 19th and 20th centuries. Starting with Friedrich Miescher's discovery of nuclein, or DNA, the film examines Theodor Boveri's work with sea urchins, which clarified the role of chromosomes, as well as Thomas Hunt Morgan's study of inheritance in fruit flies and his introduction of the term gene. The contributions of Frederick Griffith, Maurice Wilkins, and the under- recognized Rosalind Franklin are held up as milestones on the path to the Watson -Crick double-helix model. Walter Gehring's mutation studies are also featured." --Container.
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Cell. The spark of life.
From hydras to humans, every organism on earth can trace its ancestry back to the first primitive cell. Will biotechnology one day create a cell outside of that family tree? This program looks at 21st century genetic science and its search for the secret of life's creation. Background information highlights the Oparin-Haldane Hypothesis and its vision of a prebiotic soup as well as Stanley Miller's famous experiment, the central role of RNA in protein synthesis, and Herbert Boyer's achievement in gene splicing. A visit with Dr. Stephen del Cardayre of biotech startup LS9 reveals ways to remodel an existing cell while Dr. George Church of Harvard Medical School hints at building one from scratch.
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Beyond belief.
Susan Retik and Patti Quigley are two ordinary moms living their American dream until both husbands are killed by terrorists. Rather than turning inwards, grief compels them to travel to Afghanistan and help empower Afghan women whose lives have been ravaged by decades of war, poverty and oppression, factors they consider to be root causes of terrorism. As Susan and Patti make the courageous journey from their comfortable suburban neighborhoods to the most desperate Afghan villages, they discover a powerful bond with each other, an unlikely kinship with widows halfway around the world, and a profound way to move beyond tragedy.
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Social skills training & frustration management.
Intended for family members and professionals working with individuals with autism spectrum disorders, attention deficit disorders, learning disabilities, mood and anxiety disorders, and other issues that impact social- emotional functioning. Viewers will learn how to de-escalate meltdowns; prevent problems with comprehensive behavior plans; increase motivation to learn social skills; develop strategies to teach and generalize skills like conversation, conflict resolution, play, building relationships, dating, and employment readiness; create accepting peer environments and prevent bullying.
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Panorama of African-American theatre.
Brief comments on the history and evolution of African-American theatre and entertainment tradition are interspersed with vignettes from important African-American plays.
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August Wilson.
A conversation between television journalist, Bill Moyers, and playwright, August Wilson, in which they discuss Wilson's plays and the black experience in America.
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Last train home Gui tu lie che.
Every spring, China's cities are plunged into chaos as an astonishing 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year's holiday. This mass exodus is the largest human migration on the planet, an epic spectacle that reveals a country tragically caught between its rural past and industrial future. Working over several years in classic verite style, Chinese- Canadian filmmaker Lixin Fan travels with one couple who have embarked on this annual trek for almost two decades.
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Drama
Pre-code Hollywood collection.
Six films made before the Production Code. In 1934, Hollywood was turned upside down by the enforcement of a strict "Production Code" that would change the way movies were made for the next 34 years. But during the "pre-Code" period (1929-1934), censorship barely existed and filmmakers had free rein to make the movies they wanted and the public demanded. No subject was taboo including adultery, murder or sex. NOTE = The cheat: Tallulah Bankhead plays a spoiled socialite who borrows money from an exotic art collector to replace what she has stolen from a charity. The collateral for the loan and the penalty for default may shock even modern audiences. The cheat violated the Production Code's strictures against miscegenation, sadism, white slavery and rape. NOTE = Merrily we go to hell: A cautionary tale of a marriage wrecked by the drinking of a young husband. Has numerous scenes of drunken parties which were prohibited by the Code, as well as clinging gowns and art deco settings. NOTE = Hot Saturday: A small-town girl spends the night with a family friend in defiance of her mother, who has accused her of sleeping with the town playboy. The Code forbade seduction scenes and disapproved of the scenes in which a group of young people drive to the playboy's lakeside lodge for a drinking party that leads to worse. NOTE = Torch singer: Claudette Colbert plays a sexy radio chanteuse who passes her time with an entourage of drunken debauched friends while raising her child born out of wedlock. The Code prohibited stories of illicit love and drunkenness. NOTE = Murder at the Vanities: This film is an elaborate showcase for the female form. It violated almost every section of the Code. NOTE = Search for beauty: Con artists dupe Olympic athletes into endorsing a skin magazine. The movie was heavily censored.
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Sons of anarchy. Season two.
Reeling from the combined pressure of an ATF crackdown and an unprovoked murder, the Sons face a far more deadly threat from a cold-blooded enemy who will stop at nothing to drive them out of Charming for good. As Jax and Clay square off over questions of leadership and loyalty, lines are drawn and chaos reigns as the club threatens to destroy itself from the inside out.
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The last picture show.
Featuring evocative black-and-white imagery and profoundly felt performances, this hushed depiction of crumbling American values and dying American West remains the pivotal film in the career of the invaluable director and film historian Peter Bogdanovich.
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Drive, he said.
Sketch of the exploits of a disaffected college basketball player and his increasingly radical roommate. Jack Nicholson's directorial debut.
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Five easy pieces.
Nicholson plays the now iconic cad Bobby Dupea, a shiftless thirty- something oil rigger and former piano prodigy immune to any sense of romantic or familial responsibility, who returns to his childhood home to see his ailing, estranged father, blue-collar girlfriend (Karen Black) in tow.
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Easy rider.
As Billy and "Captain America", Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda motored down the highway on their Harley Davidsons to the roaring strains of Steppenwolf's "Born to Be Wild", and the definitive counterculture blockbuster was born.
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A safe place.
A strange young woman lives in a fantasy world where she can never grow up.
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Betty Smith's A tree grows in Brooklyn.
Based on Betty Smith's novel, the film tells the story of a girl who strives for a better life, despite her family's poverty, which is caused in part by her father's alcoholism.
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Laura Z. Hobson's Gentleman's agreement.
A journalist (Gregory Peck) pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story on anti-Semitism, and soon discovers what is to be a victim of religious intolerance.
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Pinky.
A light-skinned black woman who's been passing for white at a northern nursing school returns to the south, where she's asked to care for an ailing white woman, who wants nothing to do with her. Pinky must negotiate tricky racial politics in life and love.
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Man on a tightrope.
Fredric March stars in this story of a Czechoslovakian circus troop whose members are drafted into the military when the communists take over. But as they near the Bavarian border, they decide to make a break to escape to the West.
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Wild river.
Montgomery Clift stars as a Tennessee Valley Authority administrator who must deal with the racial politics of hiring black workers. He also must evict an old woman from her home, but then he falls in love with her daughter.
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Splendor in the grass.
Warren Beatty made his film debut in this story of a girl whose love for a local boy and pressure to be a "good girl" from her parents drives her to madness. The film won an Oscar for Best Screenplay.
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America, America.
This film is the loose adaptation of the real-life story of Elia Kazan's uncle who grew up as part of the Greek minority in Turkey. He travels to Constantinople to escape persecution, but dreams of living in America.
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Into the storm.
This sequel to the award-winning film The Gathering Storm offers an intimate look at the making of a nation's hero, when Churchill was at his most commanding and effective. It shows how his prowess as a great wartime leader ultimately undermined his political career and threatened his marriage.
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Wah do dem.
Brooklyn musician Max decides to go on a Caribbean cruise alone when his girlfriend Willow dumps him cold two days before the trip. Once in Jamaica, Max quickly escapes the tourist zone for more "authentic" surroundings and in the process is robbed of his possessions and stranded, literally missing the boat. As Max sets out for the American Embassy in Kingston on foot, Jamaica is waiting to meet him with unexpected and extraordinary encounters, including a full-moon celebration with the legendary reggae group The Congos, and a dreamy stay with a Rasta prophet.
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Wit.
An English professor, who alienates her students, has always had control over her life. That is, until she is diagnosed with a devastating illness. She agrees to undergo a series of procedures that are brutal, extensive and experimental. She finds that the fine line between life and death can only be walked with wit.
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The gathering storm.
In the mid-1930's the great politican and orator Winston Churchill was out of favor with the English people and struggling to make his voice heard. Wrestling with his personal demons, a lonely but defiant Churchill attempts to warn the world of the impending threat from Hitler's Germany.
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Death in Venice.
A composer falls in love with a young boy and becomes obsessed with his perfection.
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The trial.
A man awakens one morning to find himself arrested for undisclosed charges. To uncover the reasons behind his charges and to protest his innocence, he tries to look behind the facade of the judicial system, all to no avail.
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Enter the void.
A brother and sister are trapped in the hellish night time world of Tokyo, where he deals drugs and she works as a stripper. A crime gone bad leads to shocking violence and then moments of transcendence in which the movie plunges viewers into death and rebirth like no film has ever done before.
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Angel.
Angel Deverell fantasizes about living in the town mansion, Paradise House. After a London publisher turns her novel into a best seller, she is able to buy Paradise House and pursue the man of her dreams, a painter struggling for his own big break.
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Foreign films
Les herbes folles Wild grass.
A lost wallet opens the door to Georges and Marguerite's romantic adventure. After examining the ID of its owner, it is not a simple matter for Georges to turn the wallet he has found into the police. Nor can Marguerite retrieve her wallet without being piqued with curiosity about the person who found it. As George and Marguerite navigate the social protocols of giving and acknowledging thanks, turbulence enters their everyday lives.
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Il deserto rosso Red desert.
A neurotic young woman who is married to an engineer in the industrial wasteland of northern Italy, searches in vain to find meaning in her life.
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Dans l'empire des sens In the realm of the senses.
The story is based on the tabloid sensation of 1936, the fatal love affair of Sada Abe, a former geisha turned maid, and Kichizo Yoshida, the owner of the Tokyo ryotei (Japanese-style restaurant) at which she worked. Abandoning his wife and his business, Kichizo gives himself up to two weeks of dissipation with Sada at a nearby inn, which climaxes in sadomasochistic love games--and his strangulation and mutilation. Kichizo is tired of life, of the militarism that has everywhere suppressed Eros in favor of Thanatos, and he and Sada are escaping, protesting, testing physical and psychological limits, while resisting a social order that condemns their actions and their very being.
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Etsuraku.
Atsushi is blackmailed into watching over a convict's suitcase full of money while he serves his time. Knowing the consequences, Atsushi decides to spend all of the money in one libidinous rush.
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Hakuchu no torima.
The wife and a former victim of a murderer/rapist protect him in his horrific rape and murder spree.
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Nihon shunka ko.
When four sexually-hungry high school boys meet up with their drunk teacher, they are sent down a less-than-academic path.
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Muri shinju nihon no natsu.
A group of oddball anarchists find themselves trapped in an underground hideaway together.
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Kaette kita yopparai.
A trio of young men are mistaken for undocumented Koreans in Japan and find themselves on the run.
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House.
After learning that she will be sharing the summer with her father's new girlfriend, a young girl invites some friends to join her at her aunt's house instead. With a sick aunt, a bloodthirsty cat, and evil spirits lurking around, the girls find that it might have been better to stay at home.
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Adieu Philippine.
Michel is working with a television crew while he waits to be shipped out with the French Army to Algeria. He meets two young actresses, Liliane and Juliette, who join him as he spends his last days of liberty.
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Du coté d'Orouët Around Orouët.
Three single women from Paris take a three-week vacation in Orouët on the Atlantic coast of France.
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Les naufragés de l'ile de la Tortue The castaways of Turtle Island.
Two travel agents in Paris create a scheme to sell customers the "Robinson Crusoe" experience.
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Maine Océan.
A lawyer comes to the aid of a Brazilian woman who is having a misunderstanding with two ticket-takers on the "Maine-Océan," a train which travels from Paris to Nantes. Later on, the four meet again on an island off the coast.
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Shimotsuma monogatari Kamikaze girls.
Two young Japanese women, a self-absorbed daydreamer and a rebellious biker, form an unlikely friendship.
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Ansiktet the magician.
In 1846, Vogler's Magnetic Health Theater has developed quite a controversial reputation for its mesmerizing performances. The troupe consists of magician Dr. Albert Emanuel Vogler, his assistant Aman (his wife Manda disguised as a man), Granny the elderly potion mistress, coach driver Simson, and the sly barker Tubal. On the outskirts of Stockholm, Consul Abraham Egerman, Police Chief Starbeck, and Dr. Vergerus, the Royal Medical Adviser meet and detain them. These men believe the magician to be a charlatan, and are suspicious of his supposedly astonishing magic show, and demand to inspect it for themselves before it is shown to the general public. So a private show is performed as Vergerus and Vogler engage in their own battle of wills. Who will win this conflict between science and superstition?
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L'armée du crime.
In Paris, 1941, Armenian poet Missak Manouchian leads a motley crew of foreign-born resistance fighters in clandestine battle against the Nazi occupation. An initially reluctant Manouchian and his team must resort to guerilla tactics and radical measures in the name of liberty. News of their daring attacks, including the assassination of an SS general, eventually reaches Berlin.
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Parlez-moi de la pluie.
Feminist writer Agathe returns to France to help her sister, Florence, sort out their deceased mother's affairs. While there, Agathe decides to test the political waters and run in a local election. She also agrees to be interviewed for a documentary about successful women by two blundering reporters. As romantic entanglements, class resentments, and the uncooperative weather intrude, Agathe's life hysterically unravels, and the bumbling filmmakers are there to capture it all.
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Le grand voyage Rihlah al-kubrá.
The stern father of a Muslim family in France has his teenage son drive him to Mecca for the religious pilgrimage known as the Hajj. The son, who is not religious and has a non-Muslim girlfriend, doesn't relate to his traditionalist father, nor does the dad relate to his son -- a culture clash (and generational clash) that is the spine of their entire trip to Saudi Arabia.
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Le refuge Hideaway.
Mousse and Louis are young, beautiful, rich, and in love, but drugs have invaded their lives. After Louis' fatal overdose, Mousse soon learns she is pregnant. Feeling lost, Mousse escapes to a beautiful beach house far from Paris and is soon joined in her refuge by Louis' gay brother, Paul. The two strangers gradually develop an unusual and deeply moving relationship as Ozon continues his unique exploration of the nature of family and blood ties.
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Les liaisons dangereuses Dangerous liaisons.
The latest adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos' classic story of lust, deceit and revenge.
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L'arna coeur Heartbreaker.
Alex is a romantic for hire. If your daughter or sister or friend is falling for the wrong man, Alex will get her to fall for him, watch her dump the loser, and then break her heart by walking away. She'll be sad but wiser and lucky to have avoided a bad relationship. It's a highly profitable business with one rule: don't fall in love. When Alex is hired to woo Juliette, he breaks her heart, and his own rule.
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Musicals
Head.
A kaleidoscopic satire that's movie homage, media send-up, concert movie, and antiwar cry all at once.
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Shorts and Collections
Rentrée des classes Back to school.
Rentrée des classes: A boy manages to do all the wrong things on his first day of school: arriving late, not doing his homework and bringing a snake into the classroom. NOTE = Blue jeans: Two young men driving Vespas try to pick up girls in Cannes.
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Silent
Metropolis.
In the near future, the rich rule over the poor, who live underground. One man tries to bridge the gap between the two classes. In July 2008 a complete 16mm copy of the film was discovered with an additional 25 minutes of lost footage that had not been seen since the film's premiere in 1927. In restoration, the text of the intertitles was taken from German censorship records and translated into English. Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung in co-operation with ZDF and ARTE supported the restoration, and the sci-fi epic was re-released in 2010.
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War
Paths of glory.
During WWI, a French battalion is ordered on a suicide mission that is likely to fail. When it does, the general that planned the mission selects three soldiers from the battalion to be executed for cowardice, and selects their leader as their attorney.
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Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence.
In a Japanese prison camp on Java in 1942, two British officers, John Lawrence and Jack Celliers, encounter camp commander Yonoi and his sergeant Hara. Things had been going pretty well, until charismatic, rebellious Celliers arrived. Yonoi is a devotee of the samurai ideal; neither he nor Hara can understand the stoic way in which the British prisoners accept their situation of defeat. Lawrence speaks Japanese, and ceaselessly tries to mediate between the prisoners and their overseers, translating both the words the values of the two races. Celliers attitude, however, is more comprehensible to Yonoi. He and Celliers arrive at a sort of détente, based on an admiration for the other, but this eventually turns into a contest of wills as the camp's carefully nurtured equilibrium is destroyed.
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Generation kill.
A "fact-based dramatization" based on Evan Wright's experiences as an embedded reporter with the United States Marine Corps in 2003. Presents a uniquely epic and intimate portrait of the first 40 days of the Iraq war from the perspective of the Marines of the First Recon Battalion.
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Westerns
Viva Zapata!
Marlon Brando stars as Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata who takes on corrupt president Porfirio Diaz.
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