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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Intimate stranger is a poetic and emotional jigsaw puzzle carved out of the voluminous memorabilia of his grandfather's life story. Family members try to make sense of it all in this witty, candid and cinematically inventive documentary biography. In nobody's business, Alan Berliner takes on his reclusive father as the reluctant subject of this poignant and graceful study of family history and memory.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In nobody's business, Alan Berliner takes on his reclusive father as the reluctant subject of this poignant and graceful study of family history and memory. What emerges is a uniquely cinematic biography that finds both humor and pathos in the swirl of conflicts and affections that bind father and son. Ultimately this complex portrait is a meeting of the minds - where the past meets the present, where generations collide, and where the boundaries...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A biographical study of legendary actress Charlotte Rampling, told through her own conversations with artist friends and collaborators, including Peter Lindbergh, Paul Auster, and Juergen Teller. Intercut with footage from some of Rampling's most famous films, this "self-portrait through others" is a revealing look at one of our most iconic screen stars.
4) Sink or swim
Author
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A contemporary classic and a landmark in autobiographical filmmaking, 'Sink or Swim' is an unflinching account of the highly charged relationship between a daughter and her father. Through a series of twenty-six short stories, a young girl chronicles the childhood events that shaped her ideas about fatherhood, family relations, work and play. As the stories unfold, a dual portrait emerges: that of a father who cared more for his career than for his...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Aviva Ziegler has worked in Award-winning Current Affairs television in Australia for over 20 years, observing and documenting the lives of others. In this film, Aviva turns the camera on herself to explore the essence of her own Jewishness. Being Jewish for Aviva is something of a conundrum: If you have no formal involvement in Judaism and its practices, and you don’t even believe in God, then what is it that makes you answer “yes” when asked...
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Paul Gauguin was 35 when he abandoned his successful career as a Paris stockbroker to devote himself full-time to painting. Though his years as a painter in France, and later in Tahiti, were dominated by poverty and obscurity, his bold use of flat color eventually came to be seen as the work of a post-impressionist master.
8) Derek
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton personally conducts an intimatecinematic commemoration of the life, times, and work of UK filmmaker,artist, and renegade Derek Jarman in Derek. Both a "heartbreaking and giddily alive biopic" and an "accomplished homage" (Art forum), Isaac Julien's Derek is a joyful requiem celebrating Derek Jarman's life, vision and legacy with the same maverick energy and affectionate creativity that made its subject one of the...
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Iconic ballerina Misty Copeland made history when she became the first African-American woman to be named principal dancer of the legendary American Ballet Theater. Get the incredible, behind-the-scenes story of how she overcame outmoded ballet culture stereotypes and near career-ending injuries to become one of the most revered dancers of her generation.
10) The rookie
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Fullscreen version (1.33:1).
Language
English
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history, but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
Celebrates the life and music of an icon who inspired generations through his message of love and unity. On the big screen for the first time, discover Bob's powerful story of overcoming adversity and the journey behind his revolutionary music.
13) The great Caruso
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Recreates Caruso's career, from beginning as a young cafe singer through his 18-year triumph at the Met, centering on his happy marriage to Dorothy Benjamin and his troubles with her family.
14) Born to be blue
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ethan Hawke lights up the screen as jazz legend and icon of cool, Chet Baker, whose comeback from heroin addiction is thrillingly told with wit, verve, and style to burn.
15) JFK
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
Special ed., director's cut.
Language
English
Description
Director Oliver Stone seamlessly blends archival film with acted sequences in his version of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which alleges that there was a massive plot and cover-up surrounding JFK's death.
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Emily Bronte began writing poems at an early age and published twenty-one of them, together with poems by sisters Anne and Charlotte. The slim volume only sold two copies, which led all three to begin work on novels: Emily on Wuthering Heights, Charlotte on Jane Eyre, and Anne on Agnes Grey. Emily died of tuberculosis at the age of 30, and never knew the great success of her only novel.
20) Martin Luther
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1517, power was in the hands of the few, thought was controlled by the chosen, and common people lived lives without hope. On October 31 of that year, a penniless monk named Martin Luther sparked the revolution that would change everything. He had no army. In fact, he preached nonviolence so powerfully that — 400 years later — Michael King would change his name to Martin Luther King to show solidarity with the original movement. This movement,...
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