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2) Night Swim
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ray Waller, a former major league baseball player is forced into early retirement by a degenerative illness, he moves into a new home with his concerned wife Eve, teenage daughter Izzy, and young son Elliot. Secretly hoping, against the odds, to return to pro ball, Ray persuades Eve that the new home's shimmering backyard swimming pool will be fun for the kids and provide physical therapy for him. But a dark secret in the home's past will unleash...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The story of the epic friendship between John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the golden era of improv, and the making of a comedic film classic that helped shape our popular culture. "They're not going to catch us," Dan Aykroyd, as Elwood Blues, tells his brother Jake, played by John Belushi. "We're on a mission from God." So opens the musical action comedy The Blues Brothers, which hit theaters on June 20, 1980. Their scripted mission was to save a local...
Series
Criterion collection ; 394
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
日本語
Description
An amateur entomologist is left in Tokyo to study an unclassified species of beetle found in sandy locations. When he misses his bus back to civilization, he is persuaded to spend the night with a young widow in her hut at the bottom of a sand dune. What results is one of cinema's most unnerving and palpably erotic battles of the sexes, as well as a nightmarish depiction of the Sisyphean struggle of everyday life.
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"This fascinating reference explores the depiction of the LGBTQIA+ community in over 200 works from the past fifty years of American film history. It will not only educate and inform, but also help guide readers to see injustice more clearly and to inspire art that is both inclusive and thoughtful"--
7) No bears
Publisher
Janus Contemporaries
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Persian
Description
"A dissident filmmaker relocates to a rural border town to direct a film remotely in nearby Turkey and finds himself embroiled in a local scandal. As he struggles to complete his feature, Panahi must confront the opposing pulls of tradition and progress, city and country, belief and evidence, as well as the universal desire to reject oppression"--
9) Lynch/Oz
Language
English
Description
The themes, images, and cultural vernacular of Victor Fleming's The Wizard of Oz continue to haunt David Lynch's filmography from his early short The Alphabet to his recent television series Twin Peaks: The Return. Arguably, no filmmaker has so consistently drawn inspiration consciously or unconsciously from a single work. Is Lynch trapped in the Land of Oz? If so, what can we learn about his body of work by closely examining how it intersects and...
10) Saint Omer
Series
Criterion collection ; 1212
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Français
Description
"Bringing a documentarian's sense of open-ended inquiry to her first narrative feature, writer-director Alice Diop constructs a morally and emotionally layered courtroom drama unlike any other. When she travels to Saint-Omer, France, to attend the trial of a young Senegalese woman accused of murdering her infant daughter, novelist Rama finds herself shaken to the core by a case that proves to have profound resonances with her own life. Interweaving...
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Korean
Description
"Seven years after the roundup in Vietnam, Ma Seok-do joins a new squad to investigate a murder case. Soon, he finds out this case involves busting a synthetic drug, Hiper, and starts to dig deeper. Meanwhile, the Japanese mafia boss behind it all, Ichizo won't stop looking for trouble, and the Japanese drug distributors Ricky and his gang come to Korea to join the chaos. Things are just about to get out of hand..."--
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When her video about protecting their beloved state animal goes viral, 12-year-old anxiety-ridden aspiring filmmaker Olive Blackwood bands together with unexpected new friends to create a documentary that will raise awareness - and hopefully get her into Rose City Film Camp."--
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A secret agent framed for the deaths of his team struggles to find out what really happened; when renegade Sean Ambrose threatens to release the deadly "Chimera" virus into the population, it is up to IMF agent Ethan Hunt to stop him; spy Ethan Hunt is called out of retirement to track down the villainous Owen Davian, an international weapons and information provider; after breaking out of a Moscow prison, Ethan Hunt and his team track down a nuclear...
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After several high school students avoid being involved in a deadly plane crash, death hunts them down and they must find a way to survive; after being saved from a major highway accident by a girl's premonition, a group of strangers find themselves fated to die one by one; death seeks out a group of students after they escape a deadly rollercoaster ride; a group of young friends cheat death when they abandon their day at the speedway, but now they...
16) Klash
Publisher
Distributed by Xenon Pictures
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A world-weary photographer falls into the clutches of a beautiful dancehall girl and a world of crime, deceit and murder.
17) The ghost writer
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A ghostwriter hired to complete the memoirs of a former British prime minister uncovers secrets that put his own life in jeopardy.
18) Notorious
Series
Criterion collection ; 137
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The innocent daughter of a war criminal is persuaded to help a U.S. agent trap a Nazi mastermind now living in Brazil.
19) To catch a thief
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A reformed jewel thief is the prime suspect in a new rash of thefts, and in order to clear himself he sets out to find the real thief.
20) Cabin fever
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A group of friends come down with a flesh-eating disease while vacationing at a cabin in the woods.
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