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The film critic best known for his "Chicago Sun-Times" reviews and his thirty years as co-host of "Siskel & Ebert at the Movies" describes his life and career, including his recovery from alcoholism and the complications from thyroid cancer treatment.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 61 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
עברית
Description
"That night I just remember running. No time to catch your breath, just running, because you want to be gone from the village before the sun comes up." -Avishai Mekonen, 400 MILES TO FREEDOM. In 1984, the Beta Israel, a secluded 2,500-year-old community of observant Jews in the northern Ethiopian mountains, fled a dictatorship and began a secret and dangerous journey of escape. Co-director Avishai Mekonen, then 10 years old, was among them. In this...
3) Frida Kahlo
Series
Exhibition on screen volume EX 26
Publisher
Seventh Art Productions
Language
English
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Description
Take a journey through the life of a true icon, discover her art, and uncover the truth behind her often turbulent life. Making use of the latest technology to deliver previously unimaginable quality, we take an in-depth look at key works throughout her career. Using letters Kahlo wrote to guide us, this definitive film reveals her deepest emotions and unlocks the secrets and symbolism contained within her art. Exhibition on Screen's trademark combination...
Series
Exhibition on screen volume EX 24
Publisher
Seventh Art Productions
Language
English
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For the first time in history the Royal Academy of Arts in London, in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, brought together Lucian Freud's self-portraits. The exhibition displayed more than 50 paintings, prints and drawings in which this modern master of British art turned his unflinching eye firmly on himself. One of the most celebrated painters of our time, Lucian Freud is also one of very few 20th-century artists who portrayed...
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (128 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This thought provoking and spirited documentary, with its abundance of archival materials, offers an intimate portrait of the whole of Hannah Arendt's life.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1997.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (62 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A documentary about statesman Laurens van der Post that concentrates on some parts of his life in South Africa and his time in a World War II Japanese prison camp.
Publisher
Filmink Presents
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (82 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The intimate story of a woman with Down syndrome and her brother's quest to fulfill her dream of becoming a Hollywood diva even as it threatens his own dream of getting married.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2022.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (60 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Blonde, beautiful and talented, Marion Davies was the first and funniest screwball comedienne. Starring in some of the best comedies ever made, she combined zany slapstick with exuberant mimicry to elevate tales of romance into the heights of hilarity. Loving and insightful, CAPTURED ON FILM: THE TRUE STORY OF MARION DAVIES deploys archival film clips, rare home videos and narration by Charlize Theron to explore the young Hollywood star's life and...
Publisher
1091 Media
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (82 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The artistic journey of Chilly Gonzales from Canada to the Berlin scene of the late '90s and finally to philharmonies worldwide. The Grammy-winning eccentric inspired and collaborated with the likes of Daft Punk, Drake, Feist, Jarvis Cocker and Peaches. Criss-crossing between rap, electro and chamber music, Chilly Gonzales is the outrageous entertainer who invited himself to the ivory tower of classical music.
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (129 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Academy Award®-winning director Alex Gibney pulls no punches in his portrait of Apple founder Steve Jobs and his legacy. This probing look at the life and aftermath of this iconoclast explores what accounted for the grief of so many when he died. Official Selection at the **SXSW Film Festival** and the **San Francisco International Film Festival**.
Publisher
A&E®
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (45 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
He lived in an age of superstition and magic, and believed that he could foretell the future. Here is an in-depth look at the prophetic visions of Nostradamus.
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (76 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
His profile takes us inside the life, struggles, philosophy and humor of a man who credits his success to the deliciousness of peanut butter. Featuring delightful animated interludes and interviews from colleagues, editors and his nine children, this look at Stevenson's life - who is also a noted writer of children's books and a columnist for The New York Times - is a testament to observing the world from an original perspective.
Publisher
A&E®
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (84 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Gives viewers a front row seat at Nashville's one night only Willie Nelson tribute concert featuring an incredible line up of performers including George Strait, and many more.
15) No ordinary man
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Language
English
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Description
American jazz musician Billy Tipton developed a reputable touring and recording career in the mid-twentieth century, along with his band The Billy Tipton Trio. After his death in the late 80s, it was revealed that Tipton was assigned female at birth, and his life was swiftly reframed as the story of an ambitious woman passing as a man in pursuit of a music career. The genre-defying documentary NO ORDINARY MAN seeks to correct that misrepresentation...
16) Call me lucky
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Language
English
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"Call me lucky tells the story of Barry Crimmins, a beer-swilling, politically outspoken and whip-smart comic whose efforts in the 70s and 80s fostered the talents of the next generation of standup comedians. But beneath Crimmins' gruff, hard drinking, curmudgeonly persona lay an undercurrent of rage stemming from his long-surpressed and horrific abuse as a child, a rage that eventually found its way out of the comedy clubs and into the political...
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (104 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Romulus and his wife Christina, struggle to raise their son. Romulus struggles to make up for the absence and neglect of the boy's depressive mother, father and son build an unbreakable bond that is only strengthened with the passing of time.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (759 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Get a surprising and full portrait of a man who defies easy definition. Over 24 insightful lectures, Professor Robert J. Allison of Suffolk University explores the many facets of Ben Franklin's life and times. A pioneer in science, politics, diplomacy, and more, Franklin was truly one of the most extraordinary Americans ever to have lived.
19) Saint Judy
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (106 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The true story of immigration attorney Judy Wood, and how she single-handedly changed the U.S. law of asylum to save women's lives.
20) Acute Misfortune
Publisher
Dark Star Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (92 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The film adaptation of Erik Jensen's award-winning biography of Adam Cullen is the story of the biographer and his subject, as it descends into a dependent and abusive relationship.
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