Summary: Fernando, a respected university professor, and Lili, his devoted wife, have lived happily together in Buenos Aires for many years. Without warning, they find their comfortable life threatened when Fernando is forced into early retirement as a result of Argentina's economic crisis. Facing an uncertain future, the couple relocates to the countryside where they bravely set out on a new chapter of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2004

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Summary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Summary: Paris, 1930. The infamous surrealist filmmaker Luis Buñuel is left penniless after the scandalous release of L'Age d'Or leads to a falling out with collaborator Salvador Dalí. On a whim, Buñuel's good friend, sculptor Ramón Acín, buys a lottery ticket and promises to devote his winnings to fund Buñuel's next film. Incredibly, Ramón wins the 20,000-pesos jackpot, sending the two friends to the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Summary: "An upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined."--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2000

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Cuig

Contents: Hall's balls -- The prospect -- The bachelor -- The pig -- The peacock -- Bridget O'Malley -- American spire -- The mooncoin -- The American stranger -- Lucy Farr's.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Green Linnet Records 2001

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Summary: A grown man meditates on the similarities and differences between himself and his father as he raises his own son.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company 2007

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Summary: A choir of creatures introduces a world delicately constructed by fantasy, mystery, and magical realism in Francisca Alegría's poignant and stunning debut feature. It begins in a river in the south of Chile where fish are dying due to pollution from a nearby factory. Amid their floating bodies, long-deceased Magdalena bubbles up to the surface gasping for air, bringing with her old wounds and a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Summary: An ad executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2013

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Contents: The real McBot (Sandoval) (5:31) -- Eso es lo que hay (Sandoval) (5:56) -- Eastern blues (Felipe Lamoglia) (10:22) -- Blues for Diz (Sandoval) (12:50) -- A lovely one (Sandoval) (10:14) -- Sureña (Sandoval) (6:59) -- If I ain't got you (Alicia Keys) (5:05) -- Rhythm of our world (Sandoval) (15:10).

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Half Note Records, Inc. 2005

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Sandoval, Arturo.

Contents: Moontrane (5:40) -- Swingin' (8:15) -- Moment's notice (7:18) -- Streets of desire (7:43) -- Real Mcbop (6:08) -- Weirdfun (6:27) -- Dizzy's atmosphere (3:50) -- Reflection (7:32) -- Woody (7:11) -- It never gets old (5:25) -- Mack "The knife" (5:41).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: GRP Records 1996

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Sandoval, Arturo.

Contents: Luna de miel en Guama (3:58) -- Maria (2:56) -- Reggae mi lugar (4:51) -- A mi manera = My way (4:02) -- Almendra (4:27) -- Red moon (5:27) -- A night in Tunisia (15:36) -- Blues en dos partes (6:46)

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Milan Latino 1997

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Sangalli, Arturo

Summary: The celebrated mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras left no writings. But what if he had and the manuscript had never been found? Where would it be located? Two mathematicians, one American, one British, set out, unbeknownst to each other, to find the missing manuscript.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2009

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O'Farrill, Arturo.

Contents: Moment's notice / John Coltrane -- Brava / Santa Debriano -- Chinas y criollas / Rob Mounsey -- Pure emotion / Chico O'Farrill -- Ya yo / Papo Vasquez -- Little Susan / Randy Weston -- Arturo's closet / Vasquez, O'Farrill -- Siboney / Ernesto Lecuona -- Walking batterie woman / Carla Bley -- Darn that dream / Delange, Van Heusen.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Milestone 1999

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Sandoval, Arturo.

Contents: Real McBop -- Eso es lo que hay -- Eastern blues -- Blues for Diz -- Lovely one -- Sureña -- If I ain't got you -- Rhythm of our world.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Half Note Records 2005

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O'Farrill, Arturo

Summary: What does integrity do in the face of adversity/oppression? What does honesty do in the face of lies/deception? What does decency do in the face of insult? How does virtue meet brute force? These four questions posed by the great African American civil rights activist and author W. E. B. Du Bois in his 1903 book The Souls of Black Folk are expounded upon in a speech given by Dr. Cornel West...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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Santtana, Lucas

Contents: Portal de ativação / Santtana -- Ninguém solta a mão de ninguém / Santtana -- Brasil patriota / Santtana -- Um professor está falando com você / Santtana -- Meu primeiro amor / Santtana -- O melhor há de chegar / Santtana -- Todo se transfroma / Drexler -- Não vamos nos desgrudar nunca mais / Santtana -- O bem maior / Santtana -- Seu pai / Lindsay.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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Puig, Yvonne Georgina.

Summary: "Thirty-year-old Vivienne Cally is wealthy in name only. Orphaned as a child and raised by a cold but regal aunt, Vivienne was taught to rely on her beauty and Texas tradition, and is expected to marry a wealthy and respectable man who will honor the Cally name. Friends with Houston's richest and most prominent families, she's a beloved fixture at the social events big and small, and suffers no...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2016

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Pérez-Reverte, Arturo.

Summary: A hacker breaks into the pope's computer, asking him to save from demolition a 17th century church in Seville. The Vatican dispatches handsome Father Lorenzo Quart who quickly attracts the attention of an aristocratic beauty embroiled in the affair. By the author of The Flanders Panel.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace & Co. 1998

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Summary: Examines big-game hunting, breeding, and wildlife conservation in the U.S. and Africa and the consequences of treating animals as commodities.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Passion River 2017

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Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2020

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