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Publisher
TMW Media
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
Mise-en-scene looks at how filmmakers make decisions about what is put before the camera. It includes costumes, props, set design, positioning of actors and much more. Mise en scene is a term that refers to all visual elements that appear within each frame of a motion picture. Without various features of mise en scene, a moving picture would consist of only a series of flickering black or light-infused frames, since even a colored screen would provide...
14302) War of the Arrows
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
A skilled Korean archer goes up against the mighty force of Manchus with the sole purpose of rescuing his kidnapped sister.
14303) Cymbeline
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1984.
Description
This production is part of a famous series produced by BBC of all of William Shakespeare's plays. The resulting films, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilized the best theatrical and television directors and brought highly praised performances from leading contemporary actors. Cymbeline, the King of Britain is angry that his daughter Imogen has chosen the low-born Posthumus as her husband. As the Queen tries to force Imogen to marry her own...
14304) Amar Akbar & Tony
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
A Sikh, a Muslim and an Irish Catholic take stock of their lives in contemporary London in Atul Malhotra’s coming of age romantic comedy drama. The title is an homage to a 70’s Bollywood classic and sets the tone for a unique film marrying the storytelling styles of British Independent cinema with that of the Bollywood narrative as ‘AMAR AKBAR & TONY’ come of age, cause chaos and fall in love in multicultural London.
14305) And She Could Be Next
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
AND SHE COULD BE NEXT follows a defiant movement of women of color as they transform politics from the ground up. Filmed during the historic 2018 midterm elections, the series follows organizers and candidates (including Rashida Tlaib and Stacey Abrams) as they fight for a truly reflective government, asking whether democracy can be preserved—and made stronger—by those most marginalized
14306) Breaking Free
Publisher
Virgil Films and Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Breaking Free introduces the subject of hydraulic fracturing in an easy-to-understand way, enhanced by stories of the people living in the towns, sharing the good and the bad, with the goal of informing and educating in a nonpartisan way the benefits of becoming energy independent in our lifetimes. The focus of the film is on the Shale Rock Revolution, and how hydraulic fracturing has affected the local, state and national communities at large. Its...
14307) The Witch 2: The Other One
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Sequel to the popular Korean action-thriller The Witch: Subversion. After surviving a bloody raid targeting the top-secret Witch Program, a girl goes on the run from the assassins tasked with finding and silencing her.
14308) Images of Man
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
A study of the various styles of Aboriginal rock art found in Kakadu National Park and Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. The film is narrated by a world authority on this subject, George Chaloupka, a field anthropologist with the Museum and Art Galleries Board of the Northern Territory. He takes the audience on a trip to the park and explains the background to some of the unique and beautiful rock paintings to be found in this area. Aboriginal...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
This program identifies Hawthorne and Melville as innovative symbolists whose focus on harsh realities and basic conflicts laid foundations for later development of the American novel. Readings and discussions of major works--"The Scarlet Letter," "The House Of The Seven Gables," "Moby Dick," and "Billy Budd"--are presented against the background of archival prints and paintings, original graphics and photography.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Delve into the world of pidgin languages: handy linguistic tools that consist of a few hundred words with little grammar. Focus on the Native American Pidgin English that emerged in the 1600s and helped bridge basic communication gaps (without relying on sign language) between English speakers and Native Americans.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Hear classic road stories of some great guitar players, as they point to the collaborative roles of the guitar. Learn the B7, C7, and G7 chords ("dominant seventh" chords), and grasp their role in musical harmony. Play the scale of E major across all six strings; then use your legato technique, dominant sevenths, and E major scale in accompanying a singer.
14312) Matthew Barney: No Restraint
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
How does artist Matthew Barney use 45,000 pounds of petroleum jelly, a factory whaling vessel, and traditional Japanese rituals to create an art project? Barney plowed the waters off the coast of Nagasaki to film his massive endeavor, Drawing Restraint 9 (2005). The immersive documentary Matthew Barney: No Restraint journeys to Japan with Barney and his collaborator Bjork as the visual artist creates a narrative sculpture, telling a fantastical love...
14313) Venise n'est pas en Italie
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
15-year-old Emile lives in Montargis between a sweet-crazy father and a mother who has always dyed his hair blond because "he is more beautiful like that." When the girl who pleases him more than anything invites him to Venice for the holidays, he is overjoyed--until his parents decide to accompany him. This is the story of a teenager born into an unclassifiable family; it's the story of a miraculous, fragile first love; it's the story of an initiatory,...
14314) Go further
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
GO FURTHER explores the idea that the single individual is the key to large-scale transformational change. The film follows actor Woody Harrelson as he takes a small group of friends on a bio-fuelled bus-ride down the Pacific Coast Highway. Their goal? To show the people they encounter that there are viable alternatives to our habitual, environmentally-destructive behaviours. The travellers include a yoga-teacher, a raw food chef, a hemp-activist,...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
In Holland the chefs and researchers from the Danish Nordic Food Lab cook food with farmed bugs, and visit the international conference; Insects to Feed the World. But when we talk about how bugs can be a sustainable part of our food system, we have to consider whether our own food system is sustainable at all.
14316) Forming Game
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Instructions: Open box. Unfold board. To begin play, place any shape on the board and interact with it with your hands. A series of forms will unfold. They may seem familiar or suggest a hidden order. Try to influence the shapes, or sit back and let them arise naturally. Do not be concerned with winning. Forming Game is played for creative fun. The result of several months of interplay between animation filmmaker Malcolm Sutherland and composer and...
Publisher
Davidson Films
Pub. Date
2005.
Description
Mary Ainsworth's Strange Situation is now basic to understandings of infant-parent interactions and, thus, later emotional development. Working in close collaboration with the British psychiatrist John Bowlby, Ainsworth gave us new understandings of the huge impact very early emotional experiences have on personality development across the life span. The production details the developmental course of attachment behaviors and the different patterns...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
At the Battle of Courtrai in 1302, a French army of the finest knights equipped with the best available arms and armor was beaten by what many viewed as an undisciplined rabble of Flemish shopkeepers bearing improvised weapons. Delve into the battle and learn the mistakes leading to the knights’ defeat..
14319) Take It From Me
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2000.
Description
This is the story of four women struggling against great odds to raise themselves and their families out of poverty in New York City. It is also an in-depth look at the human impact of the 1996 Personal Responsibility Act and its five-year limit on public assistance.. Has welfare reform been successful? Are former public assistance recipients better off once they no longer receive public assistance? Shot over a two-year period, "Take It From Me" lets...
14320) To get that country
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Without narration, and without identification of individual speakers, the film provides an invaluable record of two events which occurred in the final week of January 1977, and which marked “a turning point in legal recognition of Aboriginal rights to land”. The film documents discussions among traditional owners and white officials and legal advisors, at a large gathering at Batchelor, 100km south of Darwin. The first event was the meeting of...
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