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1) Cupcake
Publisher
University of Southern California Cinematic Arts
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A teenage girl struggles to reconcile her self-worth with the beliefs of her conservative community after her first sexual experience.
Language
English
Description
An epic fantasy adventure based on the timeless Arthurian legend, THE GREEN KNIGHT tells the story of Sir Gawain (Dev Patel), King Arthur's reckless and headstrong nephew, who embarks on a daring quest to confront the eponymous Green Knight, a gigantic emerald-skinned stranger and tester of men. Gawain contends with ghosts, giants, thieves, and schemers in what becomes a deeper journey to define his character and prove his worth in the eyes of his...
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Based on the best selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth. Set in the 1950s, this six part series is a moving and intimate insight into the colourful world of midwifery and family life in London's East End. We are introduced to the local community through the eyes of young nurse Jenny Lee as she lives and works as a midwife alongside the Nuns of the Order of St. Raymond of Nonnatus.
5) The Rebel
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
1961.
Language
English
Description
Anthony Hancock sets out for Paris in an effort to prove his worth as an artist. He becomes friendly with a young English artist, Paul, and agrees to share his studio. He makes statements about art which are absolute nonsense, but are so convincing, he is dubbed a genius. Paul returns to London, leaving all his work at Anthony's disposal. When Anthony's fame spreads, an art connoisseur visits the studio and notices Paul's paintings and, overwhelmed...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
One man's wild, lifelong adventure of testing society's boundaries through his subversive art, FAR OUT ISN'T FAR ENOUGH combines traditional documentary storytelling with original animation culled from seven decades worth of art from the renegade children's book author and illustrator. Using a palette of 20th century events to paint an artist's epic yet controversial life story, the film offers a retrospective of Ungerer's life and art, and ponders...
7) Final Cut
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Français
Description
The opening night selection of last year’s Cannes Film Festival was this wacky horror comedy, a remake of Shin’ichirô Ueda’s cult hit One Cut of the Dead. It follows a director making a live, single-take, low-budget zombie flick in which the cast and crew, one by one, actually turn into zombies. Oscar® winner Michel Hazanavicius milks the film’s hilarious and meta-to-the-max premise for all it’s worth, while also crafting a sly love letter...
Publisher
Seventh Art Productions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Award-winning filmmakers Phil Grabsky and Shoaib Sharifi release a real-life epic of boyhood and manhood – they follow Mir and his familyfilmed across twenty years in one of the most embattled corners of the globe. They form a portrait of embattled Afghanistan that no other film has ever captured. War, politics, poverty, and heartbreak – all seen from the level of a child frolicking in a muddy, bullet-laden pool, playing soccer on a dirt pitch,...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A half century after its release, Midnight Cowboy remains one of the most original and groundbreaking movies of the modern era. With beguiling performances from Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman as two loners who join forces out of desperation, blacklist survivor Waldo Salt's brilliant screenplay, and John Schlesinger's fearless direction, the 1969 film became the only X- rated film to ever win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Its vivid and compassionate...