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Percival Everett's blistering satire about race and publishing, now adapted for the screen as the Academy Award-winning AMERICAN FICTION, directed by Cord Jefferson and starring Jeffrey Wright
Thelonious "Monk" Ellison's writing career has bottomed out: his latest manuscript has been rejected by seventeen publishers, which stings all the more because his previous novels have been "critically acclaimed." He seethes on the sidelines of
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NOW THE OSCAR-WINNING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING EMMA STONE, RAMY YOUSSEF, MARK RUFFALO, AND WILLEM DAFOE, DIRECTED BY YORGOS LANTHIMOS.
"Witty and delightfully written" (New York Times Book Review), Alasdair Gray's Poor Things echoes Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in this novel of a young woman freeing herself from the confines of the suffocating Victorian society she was created to serve.
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...3) Curiosa
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Français
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Paris 1895. Pierre Louÿs is a Parisian dandy and poet on the verge of fame. Pierre and his friend Henri De Régnier are both madly in love with Marie de Heredia (Noemie Merlant), the cheeky daughter of their mentor. Despite her feelings for Pierre, Marie eventually marries Henri who has a better situation. Badly hurt, Pierre leaves for Algeria where he meets Zohra, a bewitching local girl with whom he shares a tumultuous relationship and a passion...
4) The Paradise
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BBC Studios
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English
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Denise Lovett, a young and ambitious country girl with only her wits to live on, arrives in a booming Northern city to take up a long-held promise of work in her uncle's drapery shop. But she soon discovers that her uncle cannot afford to employ her as most of his customers have been seduced away by The Paradise, England's first department store, right across the street.
5) Mistresses
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BBC Studios
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English
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You don't wake up wanting to be someone's mistress - somehow it just happens. Mistresses follows the lives and loves of a group of thirty-something friends who met at university. Katie is a doctor who has been having an affair with one of her patients. Her best friend Trudie grieves the loss of her husband who was killed in 9/11. Then there's Jessica whose anarchic lifestyle supplies lots of gossip and humour, and the happily married Siobhan - but...
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FUNimation
Pub. Date
[2005]
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1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Ed and Al search for Doctor Marcoh, a State Alchemist who deserted during the Eastern Rebellion and is now a fugitive of the state. He possesses secrets that could prove invaluable if Ed and Al can keep him alive.
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The Shakespeare collection volume 9
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Distributed by TMW Media Group
Pub. Date
[200-?]
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1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A dramatization of Shakespeare's play about the courtship of a beautiful but sharp-tempered woman by her persistent suitor.
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2010
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4 videodiscs (489 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Bullitt: San Francisco cop Frank Bullitt is assigned to protect a mobster about to testify against his brother's crime organization. When his friend is shot and the witness is left at death's door by two hit men who seem to know exactly where the witness was hidden, Bullitt clandestinely moves the mobster while he tries to find out who is after the witness, and why it seems so easy for "them" to find him.
Papillon: Thrilling adventure of Henri Charrière's...
11) The Tree Doctor
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When the unnamed narrator of Marie Mutsuki Mockett's stirring second novel returns to Carmel, California, to care for her mother, she finds herself stranded at the outset of the disease. With her husband and children back in Hong Kong, and her Japanese mother steadily declining in a care facility two hours away, she becomes preoccupied with her mother's garden-convinced it contains a kind of visual puzzle-and the dormant cherry tree within it. Caught...
13) Suzume
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crunchyroll
Pub. Date
[2024]
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日本語
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Suzume's journey begins when she meets a young man looking for a door. Following him, she finds one and reaches for the knob. Doors open across Japan, unleashing destruction. Now Suzume must close them to prevent further disaster. On the other side of the door⁵was time in its entirety. Includes second disc of bonus material.
14) Aoashi: , part 2
Publisher
crunchyroll
Pub. Date
[2023]
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2 videodiscs (300 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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日本語
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While Aoi's skills have grown since joining the J.League youth team, his dream of being a star forward is coming to an end. Now as a defender, Aoi is learning from the back of the pitch. It's a new position, but he's got the same golden vision!
15) Aoashi: , part 1
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Crunchyroll
Pub. Date
[2023]
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2 videodiscs (300 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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日本語
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When Aoi Ashito tries out for the J.League youth team, his soccer skills are put to the test. Now, this small-town star is playing with the best up-and-comers in the country. Is his raw talent enough to go pro? Or will he be beaten out by the competition?
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Jem Starling struggles to define her place within her fundamentalist Christian community in rural Kentucky. Even her greatest joy of dancing with the church group is tempered by worry that her actions are sinful and she is caught between a burgeoning awareness of her own sexuality and her religious devotion. With the return of Owen, an enigmatic youth pastor, Jem soon finds herself attracted to his worldliness and charm. Slowly,...
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Strand Releasing Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
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1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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It is centered around Latrice Monroe, a therapist who decides to end a stalled romance with her longtime, high-profile, psychiatrist, boyfriend/business partner. She movies into a predominately African-American and psychologically ignored neighborhood and navigates her practice, he relationships, and her sanity with the town's biggest personalities Davis, Jeanette, and Theona. Her private practice is located in a vacant, street-front office space...
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The daughter of one of the South's most famous Baptist preachers discovers a shocking secret about her father that puts her at odds with both her faith and her family in this debut novel.
"Spellbinding...Revival Season should be read alongside Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus." —The Washington Post
A New York Times Book Review Editors'...
"Spellbinding...Revival Season should be read alongside Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus." —The Washington Post
A New York Times Book Review Editors'...
19) Golda
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English
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On October 6th, 1973, under cover of darkness, on Israel's holiest day and during the month of Ramadan, the combined forces of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan begin a surprise attack on the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights. Outnumbered and outgunned, Israel's only female Prime Minister, Golda Meir, confronts the immediate, clear, and present danger of a ticking timebomb that she hoped never to face. Surrounded, isolated, and frustrated by the infighting...
20) Paint
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
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1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Carl Nargle, Vermont's #1 public television painter is convinced he has it all: a signature perm, custom van, and fans hanging on his every stroke...until a younger, better artist steals everything (and everyone) Carl loves.
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