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Criterion collection volume 942
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English
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The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950's that follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith. Bonus features included.
Publisher
Home Box Office, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
New Orleans, 38 months after. The city's musicians, chefs, Mardi Gras Indians, and others continue to rebuild their lives in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. But the promise of recovery, heightened by the historic election of a new president, is tempered by sobering economics, continued police corruption, and the ongoing specter of violence and crime. In these five final episodes of Treme, New Orleans' protagonists strive to build their own legacy...
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Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Presumed dead by the Stockholm police -- with a couple of notable exceptions, including homicide detective Ewert Grens -- master criminal and undercover informant Piet Hoffmann is now on the run from the Swedish authorities, living with his wife and two young sons under an assumed name in South America. Hoffmann stays in touch with his former police handler, Erik Wilson, but unfortunately there is no money to be had in maintaining his unofficial...
4) The tree
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A mystical drama of loss and rebirth in the Australian countryside. Blindsided with anguish after her husband’s sudden death, Dawn (Charlotte Gainsbourg)—along with her four young children—struggles to make sense of life without him. Eight-year-old Simone becomes convinced that her father is whispering to her through the leaves of the gargantuan fig tree that towers over their house. The family is initially comforted by its presence, but then...
5) Tread
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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The documentary looks back at the 2004 incident where a Colorado man destroyed a small town with a fortified bulldozer.
6) The trench
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
A group of young British soldiers are on the eve of the Battle of the Somme, the worst defeat in British military history. At the center of the troops is 17-year-old Billy Macfarlane with his older brother Eddie who have volunteered for service. Like their fellow squad members, they are boys dressed as men. Their survival is in the hands of war-hardened Sergeant Winter and bookish Lieutenant Harte. When word comes the squad will join the first wave...
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A behind-the-scenes film that pulls back the curtain and takes fans inside the world of Green Day, from the various spontaneous live performances in select cities across the U.S., to the chronicling of their creative process while conceptualizing and recording their recent trilogy of albums.
Publisher
Distributed by Koch Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Italiano
Description
The Benedetti family has been haunted by a curse for generations. On a long drive to visit their reclusive grandfather in Tuscany, Luigi Benedetti tells his children the mysterious story of their ancestors. It is a tragic tale filled with forbidden love, passion, vengeance and betrayal.
10) Sacred country
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Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
"I have a secret to tell you, dear, and this is it: I am not Mary. That is a mistake. I am not a girl. I'm a boy." In 1952 at the age of six the child of a poor farming family in Suffolk has a revelation. She isn't Mary. She's a boy. An inexplicable mistake has been made and will have to be rectified. So begins Mary's heroic struggle to change gender, while around her others fight to discover a place of meaning in a savage and confusing world. Mary's...
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