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1) Amarcord
Series
Pub. Date
1998
Description
"In his carnivalesque portrait of provincial Italy during the Fascist period, Federico Fellini satirizes his youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals, adolescent desires, male fantasies, and political subterfuge, all set to Nino Rota's classic, nostalgia-tinged score."--Container.
3) Kaidan
Series
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
Consists of four stories of the supernatural based on Japanese folk material. In The black hair, a poor young samurai leaves his first wife to marry a rich woman. When he is unhappy in his second marriage, he returns to his first wife, who at first appears unchanged from when he last saw her. In The woman of the snow, a woodcutter is spared by a mysterious ghost-like woman in the snow, but must promise never to tell anyone what he has seen. In Hoichi,...
6) Patton
Series
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
Film biography of America's charismatic and controversial general during World War II (1943-1945). Covers both his confrontations with Eisenhower and his successes.
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Description
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington moves relentlessly towards her goal: taking the reins of power from the great actress Margo Channing. The cunning Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critics see through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit....
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
A Japanese architect and a French actress engage in a brief intense affair in Hiroshima in 1959. Both deal with their personal memories of World War II--he by articulating his firsthand experience with nuclear disaster, she by remembering her traumatic affair with a German soldier.
11) Persuasion
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Anne and Wentworth's "passion is thwarted by a scheming socialite. Eight years later, when Anne is considered an old maid and her once-rich family is on the verge of bankruptcy, Wentworth returns. Will their second chance at love be ruined by the social conventions that destroyed it once? Or will the heart be persuaded by rules of its own?"--Container.
15) Dead man's folly
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
A "murder hunt" is just a fun game played at a gracious country manor, until somebody actually turns up dead.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Rosmer Peck is an insurance agent with musical ambitions who becomes romantically involved with Norma Perry, a showgirl who has given up spangles for a stenographer's pad. Her friends Genevieve Larkin and Sally LaVerne give up their tap shoes for gold digging and take up with executives in a theatrical production company that, unbeknowst to them or the director J.J. Hobath, is going bankrupt due to poor management. Since J.J. seems to be in poor health,...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Adventures of Don Juan: The swashbuckling romantic lover Don Juan is sent back to Spain in disgrace, where he discovers the oppression of the people and wins the heart of the queen.
Adventures of Robin Hood: Lord Robin of Locksley protects the Saxon peasants from the Norman lords and wins the heart of Maid Marian.
Captain Blood: Set in seventeenth-century England, a surgeon becomes a pirate after he is arrested and condemned to slavery for caring...
