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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Intimate stranger is a poetic and emotional jigsaw puzzle carved out of the voluminous memorabilia of his grandfather's life story. Family members try to make sense of it all in this witty, candid and cinematically inventive documentary biography. In nobody's business, Alan Berliner takes on his reclusive father as the reluctant subject of this poignant and graceful study of family history and memory.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In nobody's business, Alan Berliner takes on his reclusive father as the reluctant subject of this poignant and graceful study of family history and memory. What emerges is a uniquely cinematic biography that finds both humor and pathos in the swirl of conflicts and affections that bind father and son. Ultimately this complex portrait is a meeting of the minds - where the past meets the present, where generations collide, and where the boundaries...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A biographical study of legendary actress Charlotte Rampling, told through her own conversations with artist friends and collaborators, including Peter Lindbergh, Paul Auster, and Juergen Teller. Intercut with footage from some of Rampling's most famous films, this "self-portrait through others" is a revealing look at one of our most iconic screen stars.
4) Sink or swim
Author
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A contemporary classic and a landmark in autobiographical filmmaking, 'Sink or Swim' is an unflinching account of the highly charged relationship between a daughter and her father. Through a series of twenty-six short stories, a young girl chronicles the childhood events that shaped her ideas about fatherhood, family relations, work and play. As the stories unfold, a dual portrait emerges: that of a father who cared more for his career than for his...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Aviva Ziegler has worked in Award-winning Current Affairs television in Australia for over 20 years, observing and documenting the lives of others. In this film, Aviva turns the camera on herself to explore the essence of her own Jewishness. Being Jewish for Aviva is something of a conundrum: If you have no formal involvement in Judaism and its practices, and you don’t even believe in God, then what is it that makes you answer “yes” when asked...
7) Derek
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton personally conducts an intimatecinematic commemoration of the life, times, and work of UK filmmaker,artist, and renegade Derek Jarman in Derek. Both a "heartbreaking and giddily alive biopic" and an "accomplished homage" (Art forum), Isaac Julien's Derek is a joyful requiem celebrating Derek Jarman's life, vision and legacy with the same maverick energy and affectionate creativity that made its subject one of the...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the early 1970s, Sixto Rodriguez was a Detroit folksinger who had a short-lived recording career. Unknown to him, his musical story continued in South Africa where he became a pop music icon. Long rumored there to be dead, two fans, record store owner Stephen Segerman and journalist Craig Bartholomew-Strydom, decided to seek out the truth of his fate.
Series
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
c1996.
Language
English
Description
Verdi was the most important figure in the succession of 19th-century Italian opera composers. He led a dramatic life which included political involvement and personal tragedy. His life manifested itself through his work, highlights of which include Nabucco, the opera that brought him his first great success. Other works of his were La Forza del Destino, La Traviata, Aida, and after a brief retirement, Otello and Falstaff. These operas were indicative...
12) Peaceful warrior
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
An arrogant college gymnast, poised to make the Olympic team, finds his life drastically changed when his leg is shattered in a motorcycle accident.
13) Mahomet
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the life of Mohammed and his legacy. Comprised primarily of interviews with Imams, scholars, and individual believers, as well as footage of some of Islam's most significant historic places.
14) The five pennies
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Semi-biographical story of jazz coronet player Loring "Red" Nichols and his band, The five pennies.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
Tells the compelling story of the author's life. Through dramatic reenactments and interviews with top Mitchell scholars, Margaret Mitchell emerges as a complex and fascinating woman who had much in common with her iconic creation, Scarlett O'Hara.
Publisher
White Star
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Language
English
Description
The authorized video biography, this is the portrait of Loretta Lynn, from rural Kentucky to the clubs of the northwest, from her first performance on the Grand Ole Opry to the 1970's country music entertainer of the decade. Features rare footage from home movies and more than 20 classic songs and performances.
Publisher
Xenon Pictures
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Follows the course of Mahalia's life, from her humble beginnings as a sickly child singing in the churches of New Orleans, through her years in relative obscurity stubbornly refusing to adopt a more "commercial" sound, to her breakthrough with Columbia Records and her ascendancy to Carnegie Hall and the great stages of Europe.
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