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"A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists. Like Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson's brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, remembrances, tributes, and critical essays, as well as several conversations with friends and idols, bring to life Nelson's passion for dialogue and dissent. The range of subjects is wide--from Prince to Carolee Schneemann to Matthew...
2) All fours
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2024.
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"A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to NY. Twenty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel, and immerses herself in a temporary reinvention that turns out to be the start of an entirely different journey"--
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"When Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker's art critic and the leading art writer of his generation, published his eye-opening autobiographical essay, 'The Art of Dying,' in December 2019, he reported that he had lung cancer and had been given six months of life. Fortunately, his treatment was showing some improvement, and so, he wrote, 'These extra months are a luxury that I hope to have put to good use.' And he did. The Art of Dying begins with that...
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Utopia
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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A homage of one of the most influential bands of Alternative Music, which inspired the rock scene in the 1990s - including Nirvana. It is also the story of the eccentric guitarist and bandleader J Mascis, bass player Lou Barlow and drummer Murph not communicating with each other.A tragically funny and sometimes noisy rollercoaster ride by a dysfunctional family: Dinosaur Jr.
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Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Special 20th Anniversary of this award-winning doc reveals the making of indie classic "Firecracker" with Karen Black, Mike Patton (Faith No More, Mr. Bungle), and other celebrities, icons, and artists taking part in cult director Steve Balderson's process.
8) Lynch/Oz
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The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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The themes, images, and cultural vernacular of Victor Fleming’s The Wizard of Oz continue to haunt David Lynch’s filmography. Arguably, no filmmaker has so consistently drawn inspiration—consciously or unconsciously—from a single work. Through six distinct perspectives, Alexandre O. Philippe’s LYNCH/OZ helps us reexperience and reinterpret The Wizard of Oz by way of David Lynch, delivering new appreciations of both.
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Auditorium Films
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2024.
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English
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Al Jarreau travels across a part of the American territory, looking for his past with emotion. We meet very closely a man, but also an artist, as Al Jarreau gives us new versions of his musical standards. A church, a basketball court, an old jazz club, a center for impoverished people… leads us to a memory and to a song important to Al Jarreau’s life and career.
11) Fire Music
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Submarine Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Although the free jazz movement of the 1960s and ‘70s was much maligned in some jazz circles, its pioneers – brilliant talents like Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, and John Coltrane – are today acknowledged as central to the evolution of jazz as America’s most innovative art form. Fire Music showcases the architects of a movement whose radical brand of improvisation pushed harmonic and rhythmic boundaries.
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Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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A documentary immersion into all things Eco, Davide Ferrario’s film takes us on a tour of Umberto Eco’s private library, guided by the author himself. Combining new footage with material he shot with Eco in 2015 for a video installation for the Venice Biennale, Ferrario documents this incredible collection and the man who amassed it. As Eco leads us among the more than 50,000 volumes, we also gain insight into the library of the mind of this vastly...
13) Cinematographer
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MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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A fascinating look at the art of filmmaking, including stories and clips from the making of some of the greatest films of the 70's and 80's. Focuses on several men who made a huge impact on a craft that's vital to the making of any film.
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MVD Entertainment Group
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2021.
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Fashion Designer and Mogul Elie Tahari has lived the American Dream for over 50 years. He came to New York in 1971, from Israel, with less than {dollar}100 in his pocket, slept on benches in Central Park, and went on to build a billion-dollar fashion empire. Only 3 fashion companies have lasted for more than 45 years and still run by their founders: Giorgio Armani, Ralph Lauren, and Elie Tahari.
15) Hey, Boo
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The Film Sales Company
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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An exploration into the relationship between Scout’s fictional experiences and Harper Lee’s life, including her relationship with her father, with Truman Capote and others on whom the characters in the fictional Macomb, Alabama were based.
16) Anvil
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Utopia
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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In 1982, heavy-metal band Anvil delivered a seminal album and then fell off the radar. Now, we follow the band as they reflect on failure, friendship and following an impossible dream.
17) Jerry Lee Lewis
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A24
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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From director Ethan Coen. Jerry Lee Lewis is a paradox: the Killer who’s also a survivor; the choir boy who transformed into The World’s Greatest Sinner. But of all the tensions embodied by a man who was, at his peak, arguably both the greatest and most dangerous popular musician of his generation, the most compelling of all may be musical. What does it mean for somebody to be both a traditionalist and an innovator? To define their time while...
18) Radical Dreamer
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Shout Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Documentary filmmaker Thomas von Steinaecker spoke to people who have worked with Herzog over his long career. We also hear from Herzog himself, with extraordinary anecdotes about film locations and shoots, his admiration for Lotte Eisner, and his eternal search for beauty.
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"His name is Joshua Knight. Once a respected explorer, the press now calls him the Tarnished Knight. He took the fall for a disaster in the Underworld that destroyed his career. The devastating event occurred in the newly discovered sector known as Glass House-a maze of crystal that is rumored to conceal powerful Alien antiquities. The rest of the Hollister Expedition team disappeared and are presumed dead. Whatever happened down in the tunnels scrambled...
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PBS
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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A primetime PBS miniseries that brings the greatest music ever written to millions of viewers, with modern storytelling that captivates. NOW HEAR THIS opens the world of classical music to new audiences, while giving existing fans new ways to love their music. Now Hear This is presented by Great Performances, celebrating its 50th season on PBS, and this year begins international distribution.
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