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Beck, Martha Jule Seabrook d. 1951 Drama Criminal behavior Drama Drug abuse Drama Fernandez, Raymond Martinez 1914-1951 Drama Hiroshima-shi (Japan) Drama Man-woman relationships Drama Motion pictures, Canadian Motion pictures, French Playwriting Drama World War, 1939-1945 Motion pictures and the war DramaFilter By Subjects
Beck, Martha Jule Seabrook d. 1951 Drama Criminal behavior Drama Drug abuse Drama Fernandez, Raymond Martinez 1914-1951 Drama Hiroshima-shi (Japan) Drama Man-woman relationships Drama Motion pictures, Canadian Motion pictures, French Playwriting Drama World War, 1939-1945 Motion pictures and the war DramaSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HIRSummary: Martha is sullen, overweight and heartbreakingly lonely. Through the Friendship Club, she strikes up a correspondence with Ray, a suave charismatic smooth-talker who could be the man of her dreams. A stark portrayal of the desperate lengths to which a lonely heart will go in order to find true love. From brutally immoral killings to a passion that transcends all bounds.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY HONSummary: Part-time pest-control man and full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Weller) seeks escape from his troubled existence in 1953 New York and flees to Interzone (a hallucinatory version of Tangiers) where reality and fantasy have merged. It's a strange, surreal landscape inhabited by mugwumps, half-alien, half-insect creatures, man-sized centipedes, carnivorous typewriters and bizarre humans. Compelled...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003