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An intimate and candid look at the life and art of legendary composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim, as revealed through the creation and performance of six of his songs. Told primarily in Sondheim's own words from dozens of interviews, the film includes archival performance footage and original staged productions created for the film. The documentary reveals how art and life have been intertwined for Sondheim since childhood, when his mother's friendship...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Conductor and violinist Scott Yoo is on the road again, for Season 4 of Now hear this. Join him in Buenos Aires, to learn the tango and Piazzolla's conflicted relationship with it. In Scotland and Germany, explore the connection between mental health and creative genius. In the boroughs of New York, meet a dynamic new composer pointing classical in a new direction. And in Spain, discover the breathtaking musical portraits of Albeniz.
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Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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Description
A celebration of the life and work of one of Broadway's greatest legends, Stephen Sondheim. For the composer and lyricist's 80th birthday in March 2010, many of musical theater's brightest stars gathered to perform more than two dozen numbers from Sondheim's illustrious career.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Kids can tackle potty training with some of their favorite PBS Kids friends. Come along as Daniel Tiger's friend Prince Wednesday learns how important it is to stop and go potty right away, Peg and Cat show Big Mouth the six steps of going potty, and Buddy and Tiny discover that all creatures poop, even really big dinosaurs!
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In this collection of 24 lectures (30 min. each), Joel Sartore lectures on the basics of operating a camera, the elements of a photograph and composition and lighting, as well as analyzing real-life photo opportunities and selecting and preparing photographs for photographic essays.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
One evening after work hours, Jenny, a young doctor, allows the door buzzer at the small clinic where she works to go unanswered. It's only later that she learns that the person ringing was an unidentified African woman found dead shortly after by the side of a road. Consumed by the thought that she is to blame, Jenny embarks on an obsessive crusade to discover who the anonymous woman was and to see to it that she is not forgotten.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Calling all Pups! Join Chase and the pups as they save a runaway stargazer! Next, the pups try to crack the mysterious case of a missing cellphone, and things get freaky when Chase and Chickaletta switch bodies. Then join Marshall, Skye, Zuma, and the whole team as they celebrate Chase's birthday and rescue Captain Gordy!
Pub. Date
[Date of publication not identified]
Language
English
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Description
A documentary film about Alejandro Jodorowsky's attempt to make a film adaptation of Frank Herbert's 1965 science fiction novel, Dune, starring Jodorowsky's own 12-year-old son, as well as Orson Welles, Mick Jagger, David Carradine and Salvador Dali with music by Pink Floyd; film includes interviews with Jodorowsky and others.
12) Aladdin
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English
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In the heart of an enchanted city, a commoner named Aladdin and his mischievous monkey, Abu, battle to save the free-spirited Princess Jasmine. Aladdin's life changes with one rub of a magic lamp as a fun-loving, shape-shifting Genie appears and grants him three wishes. Through his adventures, Aladdin proves that he is a prince where it truly matter most - on the inside.
13) 45 years
Series
Criterion collection volume 861
Language
English
Description
"In this exquisitely calibrated film, Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay perform a subtly off-kilter pas de deux as Kate and Geoff, an English couple who, on the eve of an anniversary celebration, find their long marriage shaken by the arrival of a letter to Geoff that unceremoniously collapses his past into their shared present. Director Andrew Haigh carries the tradition of British realist cinema to artful new heights in 45 Years, weaving the...
Series
Shout select volume 15
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the not-so-distant future, strong-willed and beautiful Kate possesses a precious commodity that most women have lost and most men want to control: fertility. Forced into a brain-washing boot camp that turns fertile women into surrogate mothers for social-elite men and their infertile wives, Kate thinks she's made out well when she's assigned to an eminent party leader. But when she learns that he's sterile, she's faced with an impossible choice:...
15) Frost/Nixon
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Richard Nixon is the disgraced president with a legacy to save. David Frost is a jet-setting television personality with a name to make. This is the legendary battle between the two men and the historic encounter that changed both their lives. For three years after resigning from office, Nixon remained silent. But in the summer of 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-chief agreed to sit for one all-inclusive interview to confront the questions...
18) Weiner
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
An examination of disgraced New York Congressman Anthony Weiner's disastrous 2013 mayoral campaign.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen format (16:9).
Language
English
Description
Director Steven Cantor examines the life and work of photographer Sally Mann in a follow-up documentary to his earlier "Blood Ties", also included on this disc.
What remains: Depicts Mann's latest work, a photo series revolving around various aspects of death and decay. As with her earlier series, this new effort features imagery taken directly from Mann's own life, mixing the traditional boundaries between art and photojournalism- amplified by the...
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