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2) Dalíland
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From acclaimed filmmaker Mary Harron, DALÍLAND stars Sir Ben Kingsley as the legendary artist Salvador Dalí, focusing on the later years of the strange marriage between Dalí and his wife. The film is told through the eyes of a young assistant keen to make his name in the art world by helping Dalí prepare for a big gallery show.
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"'Out in the ring' explores the rise and history of LGBTQ+ professional wrestlers and representation in the sport. Using a combination of interviews with LGBTQ+ wrestling talents (past and present), allies & historians, archival footage, and rare photos, 'Out in the ring' uncovers the history of the pro wrestling industry and the rise of visibility for performers and fans worldwide."
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"The extraordinary story of Amy Winehouse's early rise to fame from her early days in Camden through the making of her groundbreaking album, Back to Black that catapulted Winehouse to global fame. Told through Amy's eyes and inspired by her deeply personal lyrics, the film explores and embraces the many layers of the iconic artist and the tumultuous love story at the center of one of the most legendary albums of all time"--
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The extraordinary story of Amy Winehouse's early rise to fame from her early days in Camden through the making of her groundbreaking album, Back to Black that catapulted Winehouse to global fame. Told through Amy's eyes and inspired by her deeply personal lyrics, the film explores and embraces the many layers of the iconic artist and the tumultuous love story at the center of one of the most legendary albums of all time.
9) Ennio
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Italiano
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Director Giuseppe Tornatore turns his camera on his longtime collaborator Ennio Morricone in a moving and comprehensive portrait of the prolific composer, capturing the breadth of the maestr'₂s career across the hundreds of unforgettable film scores that he wrote.
10) England Is Mine
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Seventeen-year-old Steven Patrick Morrissey is a shy dreamer amid the tough, macho world of 1970s Manchester; a world away from the life he’ll one day lead as the frontman for seminal 80’s band The Smiths. He spends most of his time writing savage music letters to the NME to avoid his parents’ deteriorating relationship until he reluctantly takes an office job he hates to support the family. His dream of being the lead singer of a band is put...
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In October 1965, The Beatles were faced with an impossible task -- produce a new album of original music for a Christmas release. Within one month, The Beatles had emerged with what many consider to be one of their greatest albums-- Rubber Soul. They even had time to create a double A-side single, "We Can Work It Out" backed by "Day Tripper." In Deconstructing The Beatles' Rubber Soul, a multimedia lecture, composer/producer/"Beatleologist" Scott...
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"The Beatles' Abbey Road is a masterpiece filled with classic Beatles songs, such as 'Come Together, ' 'Something, ' and 'Here Comes the Sun." George Martin told the Beatles to think 'symphonically, ' and they responded by creating the remarkable Side Two song suite. Abbey Road was the last time that the Beatles recorded together at EMI Studios-- soon-to-be-christened Abbey Road Studios after the album's release. Despite the bittersweet atmosphere...
13) Dance first
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"Samuel Beckett lived many lives: WW2 resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering husband, recluse. Titled for his famous ethos "Dance First, Think Later", the film is a sweeping account of Beckett's life"--
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"In 1967, The Beatles embarked on an ambitious project: writing and directing a one-hour film, Magical Mystery Tour. The film itself was widely panned at the time, a rare critical rebuke for the band. However, the music that accompanied the film is some of The Beatles' psychedelic best. In Deconstructing The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour, Scott Freiman delves into the creative process behind many of the tracks recorded by the Beatles in late 1966...
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"Scott Freiman is back with TWO new films covering the exuberant years of 1964 and 1965, whose centerpieces were "A Hard Day's Night" and "Help!" 1964 was a critical year in Beatles history. After being ignored by Capitol Records in America, the Beatles finally broke through, releasing several hit singles and albums and making a triumphant debut on the Ed Sullivan Show. Later that year, they created the groundbreaking film, A Hard Day's Night, for...
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"In August, 1966, the Beatles layed their final concert (at San Francisco's Candlestick Park). They had decided to stop touring - and no one knew how to be a band without playing gigs. After that last show, George Harrison said, "Well, I guess I'm not a Beatle anymore." Of course, we now know they more than met the challenge, producing one of rock's greatest albums, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. In Deconstructing The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper,...
17) One Life
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Anthony Hopkins stars as Nicholas Winton in this remarkable true story of a young London stockbroker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued over 600 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. The film alternates between Winton’s younger years, where he's portrayed by Johnny Flynn, as he navigates personal risks and bureaucratic hurdles to save lives, and his later years, reflecting on his legacy.
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Chelly Wilson escaped the Holocaust and built a porn cinema empire in New York City in the 1970s as a Greek-born, Christmas-celebrating, Jewish grandma, who married men but was openly gay. This documentary charts her unlikely rise to wealth as a shrewd businesswoman on 'The Deuce,' aka New York's infamous 42nd Street.
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Italiano
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From one of Italy's most revered directors, Marco Bellocchio, comes Kidnapped, the true story of Edgardo Mortara. Mortara was a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, when in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family by the Pope, to be raised Catholic. His parents' struggle to free their son became part of a larger political battle that pitted the papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification.
20) The lady
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"The extraordinary true story of Aung San Suu Kyi ... the woman who is at the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her husband, Michael Aris. ... Despite distance, long separations, and a dangerously hostile regime, their love endures until the very end. A story of devotion and human understanding set against a background of political turmoil that continues today"--Container.
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