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(0)Philip Glass
Publisher
Distributed by E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
For 18 months, award-winning director Scott Hicks followed the legendary composer Philip Glass across three continents, creating a remarkable portrait of one of the greatest artists of all time. Allowed unprecedented access to Glass's working process and long time collaborators, Hicks provides a unique glimpse into the composer's life.
Publisher
Pacific Arts Video Records
Pub. Date
1983
Language
English
Description
Koyaanisqatsi is a Hopi Indian word meaning variously; crazy life, life in turmoil, life disintegrating, life out of balance (the subtitle for this film), and a state of life that calls for another way of life. Presented by Francis Ford Coppola, this creation of director Godfrey Reggio, cinematographer Ron Fricke, and composer Philip Glass seems to flash by your eyes but lingers in your mind
Series
Qatsi trilogy volume 1
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Koyaanisqatsi is a Hopi Indian word meaning variously: crazy life, life in turmoil, life disintegrating, life out of balance (the subtitle for this film), and a state of life that calls for another way of life. This film presents a concert of visual images set to the music of Philip Glass that progesses from purely natural environments to nature as affected by man, and finally to man's own manmade environment that is devoid of nature.
11) Naqoyqatsi
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
"In this cinematic concert, the concluding film of the Qatsi Trilogy preceded by critically acclaimed Koyaanisqatsi ("Life out of balance"), and Powaqqatsi ("Life in transformation"), mesmerizing images reanimated from everyday reality, then visually altered with state-of-the-art digital techniques, chronicle the shift from a world organized by the principles of nature to one dominated by technology, the synthetic and the virtual. Extremes of intimacy...
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
From middle-class Welsh boy and Oxford scholar, to living the high life as one of Britain's biggest marijuana smugglers, Howard Marks led an existence of rollicking, improbable adventure. The notorious drug dealer, whose legacy as an international hashish trader was elevated by stints as a spy for the British government, and his involvement with an unhinged IRS operative would eventually lead to a 25-year prison sentence.
13) Undersong
Publisher
Orange Mountain Music
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
None
Description
Pianist Simone Dinnerstein reconnects with the foundation of her musical career and what she's best known for: a solo album of J.S. Bach's keyboard works. Dinnerstein gained an international following with the remarkable success of her recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations. Commonly known as the three-part inventions, it features beautiful, well-known music by one of the most popular composers of all time, performed by the pianist that is one of...
14) Jane
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Looks back at Jane Goodall's career as a primatologist, animal rights advocate, and environmental activist. Comprised of present-day interview segments with Goodall and archival footage of her work studying chimpanzees at Tanzania's Gombe National Park shot by Hugo van Lawick in the 1960s for National Geographic.
15) Hamburger Hill
Publisher
Vestron Video
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Description
Fourteen American soldiers in Vietnam battle for a mud-covered mound of earth.
Series
The Criterion collection volume 699
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014], c1991
Language
English
Description
"Errol Morris turns his camera on one of the most fascinating men in the world: the pioneering astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, afflicted by a debilitating motor neuron disease that has left him without a voice or the use of his limbs. An adroitly crafted tale of personal adversity, professional triumph, and cosmological inquiry, Morris's documentary examines the way the collapse of Hawking's body has been accompanied by the untrammeled broadening...
17) Secret window
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Following a bitter separation from his wife, famed mystery writer Mort Rainey is unexpectedly confronted at his remote lake house by a dangerous stranger named John Shooter. Claiming Mort has plagiarized his short story, the psychotic Shooter demands justice. When Shooter's demands turn to threats, and then to murder, Mort turns to a private detective he knows. But when nothing stops the horror from spiraling out of control, Mort soon discovers he...
18) Kundun
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
An account of the life of Tibet's Dalai Lama and his struggle to rule a nation at one of the most challenging times in its history.
19) Kundun
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A dramatization of the life and work of the current (14th) Dalai Lama and his ongoing struggle to regain independence for Tibet.
20) The hours
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
Three women (Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore) in different times are related by a parallel in their personal lives. One throwing a party for a friend suffering from AIDS. Another in 1949, suffering as a young wife. The last, Virginia Woolf, writing "Mrs. Dalloway". Winner of Best Actress (Nicole Kidman) at the **Academy Awards,** the **BAFTA Awards** and the **Golden Globes.** Winner of a Silver Berlin Bear at the **Berlin International...