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1) Deep blues
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English
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"In 1990, commissioned by Dave Stewart of Eurythmics, veteran music film director Robert Mugge and renowned music scholar Robert Palmer ventured deep into the heart of the North Mississippi Hill Country and Mississippi Delta to seek out the best rural blues acts currently working. Starting on Beale Street in Memphis, they headed south to the juke joints, lounges, front porches, and parlors of Holly Springs, Greenville, Clarksdale, Bentonia, and Lexington....
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Film Movement
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English
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This documentary was the first film to explore Frantz Fanon, the pre-eminent theorist of the anti-colonial movements of this century. Fanon's two major works, *Black Skin, White Masks* and *The Wretched of the Earth*, were pioneering studies of the psychological impact of racism on both colonized and colonizer. This innovative film biography restores Fanon to his rightful place at the center of contemporary discussions around post-colonial identity....
3) Marquise
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Publisher
Film Movement
Language
Français
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Description
Born into poverty, MARQUISE (Sophie Marceau) is a promiscuous young woman who uses her exquisite beauty and seductive dancing to earn a living. When the distinguished Molière (Bernard Giraudeau) and his theatre troupe come to town, MARQUISE mesmerises the men, especially the lead actor, nicknamed Gros René, (Patrick Timsit), who falls in love with her and asks for her hand in marriage. She agrees on condition that she joins the group to become an...
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
日本語
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Description
For kids around the world, music is often the only salvation when the pain and anxiety of teenage life becomes too much to bear. Yuichi is in the 8th grade and he worships Lily Chou-Chou, a Bjork-like chanteuse whose epic music is lush and transcendent. Yuichi only lives for Lily Chou-Chou's big Tokyo concert, where the lies and violence can be washed away by the presence of his goddess and her powerful music. But fate has yet another obstacle in...
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 4
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
Portuguese
Description
Based on a true story. A man and his family on a journey 2000 miles across the hinterlands of Brazil on bicycle in search for a good life.
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Film Movement volume 2, film 10
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2004, [2003]
Language
English
Description
Three sisters come of age in a wildly dysfunctional family in the 1960s.
7) Morlang
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
English
Description
"Julius Morlang is a successful art photographer who has moved on after the tragic suicide of his first wife, Ellen. He has found a new muse and lover in Ann, a younger version of Ellen. With the expected success of his new exhibition a near certainty, life for Morlang seems almost perfect - for now. But the past still haunts him. The voice of his dead wife appears on his answering machine - someone sends him her funeral announcement. Paranoia grows,...
8) OT, our town
Series
Film Movement volume 1, film 8
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
English
Description
Against all odds, the students at Dominguez High School set out to put on the school's first theatrical production in more than 20 years. But what does Thornton Wilder's famous play about life in rural Grover's Corners have to do with Compton, California? This film follows the students on their discovery of the power of art and the human spirit.
9) Buddy
Series
Film Movement series. v. 2 volume film 9
Publisher
RB Media
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Norwegian
Description
"Kristoffer's love life is on the rocks. But what can you expect from a guy who likes to videotape himself and his friends pulling outrageous stunts? When Kristoffer's video diary winds up at a popular TV show, it's not just his love life that turns upside down. A vibrant young cast explores the true meaning of friendship and love in a heart-warming story about high jinks, crazy roommates and reality television"--Container.
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 8
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Français
Description
Antoine has been cuckolding Lucie for years. A violent argument results in Antoine's death. After lying about his whereabouts, Lucie discovers that he had a secret life involving gangsters, money laundering and violence. Followed, threatened and badgered by the gangsters, Lucie becomes trapped by her deceit. The body of Antoine disappears, other corpses appear, and, very quickly, the money becomes only the pretext of an alarming turn of events, in...
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 6
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Portuguese
Description
Maiquel lost a bet and had to dye his hair blonde. This triggers a head-on collision with destiny in which Maiquel goes from nobody to hero to outlaw-- all in 24 hours.
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 6
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
Portuguese
Description
Maiquel loses a bet and has to dye his hair blond. This trivial event triggers a collision with destiny in which Maiquel will go from nobody to hero to killer -- all in 24 hours.
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 3
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
Français
Description
Raja is a nineteen year old orphan literally and figuratively scarred by life. Fred is an emotionally bankrupt westerner living amid his plush gardens and palm trees. Set against the backdrop of contemporary Marrakech, Raja is a cross-cultural drama about a wealthy middle-aged Frenchman's complex relationship with local youth. Fred's attempts to seduce Raja, and their mutual attempt at manipulation, are fractured by their gross disparity of income,...
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 7
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
A romantic comedy about the barriers facing lovers in the 21st century.
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 2
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Español
Description
Carol, a 12-year-old Spanish-American girl from New York, travels with her mother to Spain in the spring of 1938, at the height of the Spanish Civil War. Separated from her beloved father, she arrives in her mother's home village and transforms the secretive family environment. Her innocence and rebellious nature drive her at first to reject a world that is both new and foreign. But she soon journeys into adulthood through a friendship with the village...
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 12
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Français
Description
"Three women: a mother, her daughter, and a prostitute have been living in a hotel in the center of town amid creeping fundamentalism. Goucem, the daughter, has chosen a modern, emancipated life, spending steamy weekends in nightclubs. Fifi, her faithful friend, prostitutes herself under the thumb of a local protector. Papicha, the mother, eats pizzas in front of the television, torn between fear and nostalgia"--Container.
17) Witnesses
Series
Film Movement series. V. 2 volume film 11
Publisher
RB Media [distributor
Pub. Date
2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
The stories of the people in a small town in the Balkans confronting ethnic hatred and deep moral ambiguities, focusing on the various character's viewpoints and the complexities of war and humanity.
Series
Film Movement volume 3, film 7
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Italian
Description
When Agata, the popular bookshop proprietor and dispenser of sunny wisdom is suddenly wooed by a man almost half her age, her electricity hits high-voltage. Yet it is Agata's joy and magnetism in the face of life in all its irony that eventually offers the eye of the storm.
Series
Film Movement volume 3, film 1
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
English
Description
It's Steve's birthday, and things can't seem to get better. After receiving a much awaited promotion, Steve returns home expecting to find his wife Alexandra and his two children waiting to surprise him. Instead, he discovers an abandoned house and a mysterious video tape that he is forced to watch.
20) Antares
Series
Film Movement volume 3, film 3
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2005
Language
German
Description
"Antares skillfully interweaves the stories of three couples at crossroads over three momentous days."--Container.
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