Summary: Legendary Beat poet and jazz performer ruth weiss (deliberately lowercase) grew up in 1920s Vienna, escaped the Nazis in 1938, hung with Jack Kerouac in the 50s, and was still on stage on her 90th birthday in San Francisco. Filmmaker Thomas Antonic accompanied the poetess during her last years, tracing her life as a grand collage that transcended the Beat.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Summary: The Chelsea murders: A serial murderer is on the loose in the bohemian borough of Chelsea and the police race the press to find the killer.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2009

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New College (University of Oxford)

Contents: The Beatitudes (adagio) / Albinoni (6:10) -- Geistliches Lied / Brahms (4:35) -- Agnus Dei / Martin (4:21) -- Ave verum corpus / Byrd (4:29) -- Libera me (requiem) / Faure (4:37) -- Ave verum corpus / Faure (3:36) -- Agnus Dei / Bizet (4:44) -- Gott ist mein Hirt / Schubert (4:32) -- Crucifixus a 8 / Lotti (2:53) -- Beatus Vir / Monteverdi (7:16) -- Christus factus est / Bruckner (4:58) -- Pie...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Erato Disques 1998

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Verdi, Giuseppe

Summary: The four parts of the opera have the titles The Duel, The Gypsy, The Gypsy's Son and The Execution. Ferrando tells the story of the revenge taken by a gypsy for the death of her mother, the apparent destruction in the fire of the son of the old Count di Luna. In the palace gardens Leonora waits for her lover, the troubadour Manrico, mistaking the Count di Luna, who also loves her, for him, an...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2009

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Summary: After his wife leaves him, a film director finds himself drawn into affairs with two enigmatic women, while at the same time searching for the right subject (and actress) for his next film.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011

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Albinoni, Tomaso.

Contents: Adagio in G minor -- Concerto in B flat, op. 7 no. 3 -- Concerto in C major, op. 7 no. 5 -- Concerto in D major, op. 7 no. 6 -- Concerto in G major -- Concerto in F major, op. 7 no. 9 -- Concerto in C major, op. 7 no. 11 -- Concerto in C major, op. 7 no. 12 -- Concerto a 5 in D minor, op. 9 no. 2.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2001

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Summary: Ignoring the eerie warning of a troubled mother suspected of child endangerment, a social worker and her small kids are soon drawn into a frightening supernatural realm. Their only hope to survive the deadly wrath may be a disillusioned priest and the mysticism he practices to keep evil at bay, on the fringes where fear and faith collide.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Cinema/Warner 2019

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Summary: Ingemar is a working-class 12-year old boy who is sent to live with his uncle after his mother falls ill. There, he takes refuge from his troubles with the help of the town's warmhearted eccentrics. A bittersweet evocation of the struggles and joys of childhood and the pains of coming-of-age.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Janus Films 2003

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Summary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Summary: Barely surviving an expedition to the Amazon, working class biologist William Adamson returns home, where he is forced to accept the charity of an affluent, upper-class family. Falling deeply in love with his benefactor's captivating daughter, he sees his fondest wish come true when she agrees to become his wife. Unwittingly attracting the affections of a bright household servant, William tries...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002

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Summary: Shaun's proposed treatment for a homeless patient puts him and Jared in Andrews' crosshairs. Meanwhile, Claire tries to overcome Melendez' reluctance to do a risky heart operation while Glassman must overcome his personal feelings about his oncologist, Dr. Marina Blaize, and face a difficult decision about his health.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Summary: Fueled with its usual irreverent humor, the second season of Misfits has an array of new characters crashing into the Misfits' world, and is even bigger, bolder and brasher than the last. The second series kicks off where the first ended, with Alisha, Simon, Nathan, Kelly, and Curtis still on community service and still trying to adapt to their new lives.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013

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Summary: Kelly, Nathan, Curtis, Alisha, and Simon are five unruly teenagers forced to do community service as payback for their crimes. But when a freak electrical storm hits their town, strange things begin to happen to them that are way out of their control. In fact, they have no idea that they've actually turned into superheroes, each with a power they didn't choose or want. They must save their town...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2012

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Summary: Set in 1985. Revolves around two very different men with AIDS, one fictional, one fictionalized. Roy Cohn personifies all the hypocrisy, delusion and callousness of the official response to the plague. Nothing shakes Roy's lack of empathy: even on his death bed, he's fighting with his gay nurse and taunting the woman he helped put to death, Ethel Rosenberg. The other patient is Prior Walter,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2004

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Summary: The show is about a young surgeon with autism who is recruited to work at a pediatric unit of a hospital. The hospital is prestigious with many of the toughest cases a surgeon could ever see, but with autism comes clarity that most surgeons will never have. The television series focuses on the relationship between the doctor and patient, and how a man who cannot relate to the people who he...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Summary: Nineteenth century poet John Keats and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne, started out as unlikely lovers who were totally at odds with each other. However, when Brawne offers to help Keats nurse his seriously ill brother, the two soon became involved in an unstoppable romance that only his untimely death at age 25 could bring to a shattering end.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010

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Tonic

Contents: Future says run -- You wanted more -- Knock down walls -- Mean to me -- Sugar -- Stronger than mine -- Queen -- Waiting for the light to change -- Waltz with me -- Sunflower -- Drag me down -- Top falls down -- Love is a diamond.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 1999

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Summary: Shaun Murphy, a young surgeon with autism and savant syndrome, relocates from a quiet country life to join a prestigious hospital surgical unit. Alone in the world and unable to personally connect with those around him, Shaun uses his extraordinary medical gifts to save lives and challenge the skepticism of his colleagues.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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Summary: Simon, Kelly, Alisha and Curtis acquired new powers following their encounter with Seth; Nathan goes to Las Vegas; and Seth finds the power of resurrection.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013

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Summary: A highly-acclaimed production from the Bayerische Staatsoper, a powerful and fascinating reinterpretation of Dvorak's fairy-tale opera Rusalka. The young, up-and-coming Latvian soprano, Kristine Opolais's performance was rightly praised by the press. With her supple and velvety soprano voice, captivating physical beauty, and hauntingly moving stage presence, Opolais perfectly embodies the role...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2012

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