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2) Song of love
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The music, composed long ago, still speaks to us. It reaches out to tell us of profound struggles and great genius, of aching setbacks and glorious triumphs, of three people whose names, like their music, echo across the years: Clara Wieck, Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms. The intertwined lives of the three musical legends form a sumptuously produced and skillfully played biopic set to 11 musical pieces that include Schumann's poignant Arabeske,...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Norman Thayer, a prickly retired professor visits his Maine summer home with his loving wife Ethel. Soon after they are joined by their daughter Chelsea, her fianc�ee Bill, and his son Billy. The cantankerous Norman's unlikely bond with young Billy provides the framework for an emotional summer in which the Thayers' strained familial relationships are finally allowed to heal and take wing.
Series
Criterion collection volume 901
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"With this furiously witty comedy of manners, Katharine Hepburn revitalized her career and cemented her status as the era's most iconic leading lady--thanks in great part to her own shrewd orchestrations. While starring in the Philip Barry stage play The Philadelphia Story, Hepburn acquired the screen rights, handpicking her friend George Cukor to direct. The intoxicating screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart pits the formidable Philadelphia socialite...
Series
Criterion collection volume 867
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"George Stevens' Woman of the Year, conceived to build on the smashing comeback Katherine Hepburn had made in The Philadelphia Story, marked the beginning of the personal and professional union between Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, who would go on to make eight more films together. This tale of two newspaper reporters, who wed and then discover that their careers aren't so compatible, forges a fresh and realistic vision of what marriage can be. The freewheeling...
7) The holiday
Language
English
Formats
Description
Iris and Amanda are both coming out of long term relationships and looking for a change. They meet online on a home exchange website and impulsively decide to switch homes for the Christmas holidays. Unexpectedly, and quite to their surprise, not only do they find a new home but a new love.
10) One Christmas
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Buddy finds himself in New Orleans spending the holidays with his estranged father. Buddy dreams of finding Santa, a snow-covered New Orleans and a new relationship with his father.
12) Bringing up Baby
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
An heiress determined to catch a zoologist uses her pet leopard, Baby, to get his attention.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
From the award winning, 10 part archival program series, "Filmmakers on Film." There were more women directors before 1920 than at any other time in history. The first director to put a narrative story on celluloid was, Alice Guy Blaché in 1896. Few people know that Lillian Gish became a director in her own right in 1920. Ida Lupino directed over a hundred episodes of "Have Gun, Will Travel," "Thriller," "Gunsmoke," and many independent features....
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