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Publisher
Monterey Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Imagine having written thirty-eight plays…being an actor who became the most popular playwright of his time…and who’s legacy was to become the most enduring playwright of all time. Imagine writing something some four hundred years ago, and having us stand here in a theatre today still exploring, enjoying, and marveling at those golden words? Join our troupe of actors in various stages of rehearsal, presenting some of the bard’s most poignant...
Publisher
Stage Russia
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Based on a short story by Anton Chekhov, Kama Ginkas’ astounding re-imagining highlights and builds off of the Chekhovian tension between the beauty of life and the tragedy of how it is lived. The story tells the the tragic tale of philosophy student Andrey Vasil'ich Kovrin (stage and screen star Sergey Makovetskiy).. On the verge of a nervous breakdown, Kovrin decides to visit his childhood friend Tanya Pesotsky at the estate of her father. As...
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
This Academy Award nominated documentary is the first authorized film look at the life and work of the controversial Russian-born author Ayn Rand. The writer of such renowned novels as The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged is the subject of Michael Paxton’s first feature film. A flux of events, ideas, emotions and accomplishments combine to make Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life a portrait of one woman’s genius and point of view. ..Narrated by Emmy Award-winning...
Publisher
Rumur Films
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
With Donald Trump's White House battling journalists and biographers, HORNS AND HALOS is a timely film that follows an author and small publisher as they fight a legal battle to publish "Fortunate Son," a damning biography of George W. Bush.. In 1999, under pressure from Bush attorneys, St. Martin's Press destroyed all copies of James H. Hatfield's unauthorized biography of "The Fortunate Son." But Hatfield found an ally in Sander Hicks, whose underground...
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
It has been fifty years since the adventures of Juan Salvo were first published in the science fiction comic El Eternauta. Some time in 1957, Argentine writer Héctor Germán Oesterheld created a highly metaphorical and political graphic novel. El Eternauta introduced a new way of understanding comic strips: it transcended the limits of mere escapism to become an adult and politically committed story. And to this day, the comic book continues to surprise...
8) Confucius
Publisher
Academy Media
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Confucius (551 - 479 B.C.) was not exactly an author in the way that other writers in the Famous Authors series are. His ideas however, expressed in his Analects, have been the backbone of the Chinese psyche ever since he uttered them. He was very concerned that people should read history and poetry, influencing China to become the most literate society on earth. This film tells what is known of his life and gives an introduction to his ideas and...
9) Janus Effect
Publisher
Academy Media
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Janus was the Roman God who looked both ways and embodies the idea of someone who appears to hold different and contradictory ideas at the same time. Filmmaker Malcolm Hossick explores how this affected the lives of three remarkable men - Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson and Charles Darwin.
Publisher
Flourishing Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A reinterpretation and exploration of William Shakespeare's intentions when writing Othello. The film examines the play's racial themes in a historical and contemporary setting, while drawing wider parallels between immigration and blackness in the UK today.
Publisher
3DD Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This series takes a look at some of the most powerful and enduring iconic figures of the 20th Century. Every Icon has classic images that encapsulate everything about them and their legacy remains enduring. For good or bad, their power has a lasting effect on people today. Each episode features key people who had direct family or working relationships with these important figures. We illustrate how the combination of events led them to become the...
12) Bertsolari
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A remarkable and educational ethnographic documentary on Bertsolaritza, an ancestral, completely improvised form of Basque poetry. This oral tradition has skillfully evolved and adapted to the times, connecting with the youngest generations with its undeniable formal similarities to rap and other improvised music and art forms.. Official Selection at the San Sebastian Film Festival. Winner of Best Cinematography at the Cine Ceará - National Cinema...
Publisher
Checkerboard Film Foundation
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The celebrated art historian John Richardson has devoted his life to writing the definitive biography of Pablo Picasso. This film captures Richardson as he is writing the fourth and final volume of his biography. He shares his insights and observations on this period in Picasso's life, whom Richardson first met in the 1950s, with Shelley Wagner, his editor at Penguin Random House.. We are given intimate tours of the three groundbreaking exhibitions...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Germany 1772 - the young and tumultuous Johann Goethe (Alexander Fehling) aspires to be a poet; but after failing his law exams, he is sent by his father (Henry Huebchen) to a sleepy provincial court to mend his ways. Unsure of his talent and eager to prove himself, Goethe soon wins the praise and friendship of his superior Kestner (Moritz Bleibtreu). But then Lotte (Miriam Stein) enters his life and nothing is the same as before. However, the young...
Publisher
Heritage Film Project
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The film is made in part of a series of in-depth, on-camera, conversations with Poet Laureate Rita Dove—conducted and recorded by Eduardo Montes-Bradley between September 2012, and October 2013. These conversations were later edited using with hundreds of still images and several hours of home movies from the Dove family's collection.. The intimacy of the dialogue accounts for a unique, and very personal insight into the wide range of Dove's artistic...
16) The Last Leaf
Publisher
Monterey Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A small New York apartment was a favorite location for an O. Henry story. He is reported to have said, "I would like to live a lifetime in each street in New York. Every house has a drama in it." Here, just around the corner from the turn of the century, in Greenwich Village, we find two young struggling artists who've become the best of friends only to have one stricken with deadly Pneumonia. And she is convinced that when the last leaf falls from...
17) Julius Caesar
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
This production is part of a famous series produced by BBC of all of William Shakespeare's plays. The resulting films, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilized the best theatrical and television directors and brought highly praised performances from leading contemporary actors.. Breaking all conventional rules of drama, Shakespeare creates neither a clear-cut hero nor a Villain. Instead, this great tragedy presents complicated human beings...
18) Hamlet
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A film of the ground-breaking Royal Exchange Theater production of Hamlet, with renowned British actress Maxine Peake in the title role. *"Peake's delicate ferocity, her particular mixture of concentration and lightness, ensure that you to follow her whenever she appears." - Susannah Clapp, **The Guardian***
19) Henry V
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
This production is part of a famous series produced by BBC of all of William Shakespeare's plays. The resulting films, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilized the best theatrical and television directors and brought highly praised performances from leading contemporary actors.. In the third play portraying England's most admired national hero, Henry V unites his people, invades France, deals with traitors and cements the peace by marrying...
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