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22) Poland
Publisher
Pilot Film & Television Productions
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Arriving via the Czech border town of Czermna, Megan visits the skull-laden crypt of a church once served by a young Pope John Paul II. Then, in Wroclaw she goes hunting for "krasnale" (dwarves), albeit of the sculpture kind. North to Kashubia, she discovers the unique Kashubian language and people before heading to the Pomeranian coast to go hunting for amber, or "Baltic Gold".
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"The author of The Butler and Showdown examines 100 years of Black movies--using the struggles and triumphs of the artists, and the films themselves, as a prism to explore Black culture and the civil rights movement in America. Beginning in 1915 with D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation--which glorified the Ku Klux Klan and became Hollywood's first blockbuster--Wil Haygood gives us an incisive, fascinating, little-known history, spanning more than...
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Highlights key moments from seventy-two movies during more than a century of film history; with 250 illustrations, including scenes from "Citizen Kane," "Sunset Boulevard," "The Red Shoes," "The Piano Teacher," and "Burn After Reading".
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In a tiny village in Italy, the self-appointed mayor (and vacuum cleaner repairman) Signor Speranza will do anything he can to save his beloved town. When he learns that the water is going to be cut off in sixty days unless he can come up with some quick cash, he tries to boost tourism by spreading a harmless rumor that major movie star Dante Rinaldi is planning to film a movie in the village. The plan works a little too well, and soon everyone wants...
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Series
Language
English
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Hannah takes a break from sifting through her multiple marriage proposals. Hollywood has come to Lake Eden and The Cookie Jar is serving as snack central for the movie crew--Hannah's cherry cheesecake is demanding director Dean Lawrence's favorite. But no one seems to like Lawrence, so when he turns up dead, there's a baker's dozen suspects. It seems someone switched the movie's prop gun with a real gun, and the director's acting demonstration turned...
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Language
English
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"Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten Tomatoes or IMDB. You asked whether Siskel & Ebert had given it “two thumbs up.” On a cold Saturday afternoon in 1975, two men (who had known each other for eight years before they’d ever exchanged a word) met for lunch in a Chicago pub. Gene Siskel was the film critic for the Chicago Tribune. Roger Ebert had recently won the Pulitzer Prize—the...
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Long before home video there flourished an alternative cinema culture on college campuses and around art theaters, where foreign film fare was often accompanied by a short subject. As reliable 16mm film equipment became available to non-professionals, artists independent of film centers began experimenting with cinema. Serious film societies sprang up in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, holding semi-private screenings of non-commercial...
Author
Publisher
Smith Street Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Beginning with early trailblazers like Different from the Others, Kyle Turner has selected 100 of cinema's greatest queer films to guide you through the eras. From Hitchcock's Rope and cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show through the New Queer Cinema movement of the 90s to the present day, where LGBTQIA+ narratives have increasingly made their way into the mainstream and dominated award seasons with films like Carol, Tangerine, and Moonlight"--
"Enjoy...
37) Midnight eagle
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
日本語
Description
A gifted photographer witnesses the crash of a U.S. bomber in Japan's snowy Northern alps, he becomes a reluctant hero who must defy the odds to protect the plane's lethal contents from getting into the wrong hands.
38) My cousin Vinny
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Two carefree pals traveling through Alabama are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer, a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who just passed his bar exam after his sixth try. Bonus features included.
Author
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From a New York Times bestselling author, this groundbreaking book celebrates and examines the history of Asian Americans on the big screen, exploring how iconic films have shaped Hollywood, representation, and American culture. In 2018, the critical and financial success of Crazy Rich Asians ignited new fires in Hollywood to create and back Asian-centric stories. Since then, the number of movies featuring Asian Americans, either in front or behind...
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