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Publisher
Opus Arte
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A modern Mexican classic provides the basis for a theatrical tale of love, jealousy, repression, and revolution. The Royal Ballet's 2022 production reunited Artistic Associate Christopher Wheeldon with the stellar creative team who transformed Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and The Winter's Tale into dance, composer Joby Talbot and designer Bob Crowley. Inspired by Laura Esquivel's novel, the central character's emotions spill out through cooking...
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation, PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In Egypt's Sahara Desert, there is a fossil graveyard, millions of years old, is known as the Valley of the Whales. Among the skeletons, paleontologists have found a species of ancient whale with four legs that allowed it to walk on land.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In the final season of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, Jack is promoted to the new CIA Acting Deputy Director and finds himself on his most dangerous mission yet! He is appointed with the daunting task of unearthing internal corruption. As he investigates, Jack discovers the convergence of a drug cartel with a terrorist organization, ultimately revealing a conspiracy much closer to home and testing our hero's belief in the system he has always fought to protect....
44) Samson et Dalila
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Français
Description
Pious restraint comes face to face with sensuous hedonism in Camille Saint-Saens's grand opera retelling of the Bible story of Samson and Delilah. Multi-Olivier Award-winning director Richard Jones returns to The Royal Opera to stage this spectacular fin-de-siecle masterpiece, not performed at Covent Garden since 2004. Elina Garanca stars as the Philistine Dalila, SeokJong Baek as the inspiring Jewish hero Samson, and Antonio Pappano conducts the...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1215
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Hungarian
Description
The mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. Adapted from a novel by László Krasznahorkai, Werckmeister Harmonies unfolds in an unknown time in an unnamed village, where, one day, a mysterious circus completed with an enormous stuffed whale and a shadowy, demagogue-like figure known as the Prince arrives and appears to awaken a kind of madness in the citizens that builds inexorably...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Français
Description
After a struggling actress stands trial for the murder of a lascivious producer in 1930s Paris, she ascends to scandalous stardom with her lawyer roommate. A new life of fame, wealth, and tabloid celebrity awaits, until the truth comes out.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Patrick Dykstra is a man who has dedicated his life to his great passion - diving with and filming whales. Over the years, Patrick has learned how whales communicate, how they perceive other creatures in the water, and how they behave in his immediate presence.
Publisher
Greenwich
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The never-before-told story of folk-rock icon Judee Sill, who in just two years went from living in a car to appearing on the cover of Rolling Stone. The documentary charts her troubled adolescence through her meteoric rise in the music world and her early tragic death. Featuring Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Fleet Foxes, David Geffen, and more.
49) Burning days
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Türkçe
Description
Emre, a young and dedicated prosecutor, is newly appointed to a small town hit by a water crisis and political scandals. After an initial welcome, he experiences an increasing number of tense interactions and is reluctantly dragged into local politics. When Emre forms a bond with the owner of the local newspaper pressure escalates under heated rumors.
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A coming of RAGE love story about a teenager and her infatuation, who happens to be a corpse. After a set of horrific circumstances bring him back to life, the two embark on a journey to find love, happiness, and a few missing body parts.
51) 18 1/2
Publisher
MVD Visual
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In 1974, a White House transcriber is thrust into the Watergate scandal when she obtains the only copy of the infamous 18 1/2 minute gap in Nixon's tapes.
52) Night swim
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Ray Waller, a former major league baseball player is forced into early retirement by a degenerative illness, he moves into a new home with his concerned wife Eve, teenage daughter Izzy, and young son Elliot. Secretly hoping, against the odds, to return to pro ball, Ray persuades Eve that the new home's shimmering backyard swimming pool will be fun for the kids and provide physical therapy for him. But a dark secret in the home's past will unleash...
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Was Roy Lichtenstein a great artist, a thief, or both? This is the question addressed by the feature documentary. Along with Andy Warhol, Lichtenstein created the Pop Art movement of the 1960s. His comic-based paintings reside in the greatest art galleries and can fetch more than $150 million. But some view this renowned artist as a plagiarist. WHAAM! BLAM! focuses upon the last living comic artists whose work was 'appropriated' by Lichtenstein, and...
Publisher
MHZ Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Français
Description
It's Christmas Eve and an unidentified corpse is discovered in the Bois de Boulogne gardens and Inspector Antoine Jouin investigates the murder. Or was it suicide? It's a case that takes him deep into Paris₂ secret underbelly and into the heavily wooded park on the outskirts of Paris. In this place, people go to seek out and satisfy their darkest desires surreptitiously. This time, Jouin must venture off the beaten track, but at what cost? Under...
57) Mambar Pierrette
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Français
Description
Over the past decade, Cameroonian filmmaker Rosine Mbakam has distinguished herself for her quietly observational documentary portraits of African women. With Mambar Pierrette, her feature narrative debut, Mbakam turns her documentarian's eye to the eponymous Pierrette, a gifted & beloved neighborhood seamstress who works to support her young children and mother. As a rainstorm threatens to flood her workshop one of many misfortunes Pierrette will...
58) Acorn
Publisher
BayView Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
After a terminal cancer diagnosis, a young woman filmmaker makes one last picture, a movie about a movie about her life. Everything that can go wrong, does. But some kind of strange magic watches over the production, in the form of a sinister tree that shouldn't be there.
Publisher
EPF Media
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Arabic
Description
Sara Mardini, once a competitive swimmer in Syria, became Europe's most celebrated refugee after saving 18 people's lives. After working as a rescue volunteer in the Mediterranean, she is accused of people smuggling and faces a 25-year prison sentence. We follow her fight for justice and journey of self-discovery against the backdrop of Europe's refugee 'crisis.'
60) Signs of war
Publisher
EPF Media
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Français
Description
After years of working in the Dutch parliament, photographer Pierre Crom decides that "it might be more interesting to follow the results of their political decisions instead of making propaganda for politicians". In February 2014, he travelled to Crimea in Ukraine on a one-way plane ticket, one day before its annexation by Russia. From then on, he found himself in the middle of a rapidly escalating conflict and decided to stay. The start of the war...
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