De La Sierra, Jordan

Contents: Temple of aesthetic-action -- Music for sacred gymnastics -- Sphere of sublime dances -- Music for devotional pastimes.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Summary: When several diamonds are stolen from a jewelry store in Marseilles, the heist bears the hallmarks of the supposedly retired Pink Panther gang. After a child is accidentally killed in their getaway, the thieves resort to desperate measures to fence the jewels. This sparks a series of events that set a British insurance-loss adjuster, a French-Algerian cop, and a Serbian soldier turned diamond...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010

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Summary: Based on a true story about revenge, fear and redemption. In 19th century St. Pierre, a convict sentenced to death strives to better himself in the eyes of the police chief's beautiful wife and that of the town that she has him working in. Since there is no guillotine or executioner, one of each has to be sent for from France.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2001

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Summary: Oliver is working as a carpentry instructor in a French suburb. He develops an obsession with a new student and offers him friendship and advice with a frightening lack of affection. Oliver's connection to the boy is slowly and painfully revealed.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2004

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Summary: "A young man embarks on an obsessive search for the girlfriend who mysteriously disappeared while the couple were taking a sunny vacation trip, and his three-year investigation draws the attention of her abductor, a mild-mannered professor with a diabolically clinical mind. An unorthodox love story and a truly unsettling thriller."--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Summary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2004

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Summary: "Son is Cuba's principal dance and song form and the root of salsa. Fusing African and Spanish elements, it ranges in style from simple, rustic bands to the brassy arrangements of New York salsa. This rough guide, literally a 'who's who' in Cuban music, explores this rich tradition, from its conception in the early 1900s to the present day big-band revival"--Container verso.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: World Music Network 2000

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Contents: Priere devant le repas, O sourverain Pasteur / Clemens non Papa -- En tour la feste Saint Martin / Decarella -- En languissant avoir secours j'attens / Pierre Certon -- C'est tout abus ; Trequedon daine / Anon. -- Hau, hau je boys / Claudin de Sermisy -- Je pers espoir / Benopit Appenzeller/Benedictus -- Aupres de vous : a 2 voix / Sermisy -- Secouez moy / Dambert -- Si vous n'avez madame /...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Harmonia Mundi France 2001

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Summary: L'Armee des Ombres is a stark and unvarnished story about Resistance fighters in Vichy France in 1942-43 when the French leadership allowed the Nazis to occupy the country. The members of this army are cold, hungry, desperate men and women, with false names and no addresses, who can be betrayed in an instant by a traitor or an accident. They know they will probably die. A meditation on the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007

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Gómez de la Serna, Ramón

Contents: "That youthful genius who fills the showcase of the world" : essay / by Ramón Gómez de la Serna -- Ramón Gómez de la Serna and Dalí : note / by Sebastiano Grasso -- The life and works : chronology / by Eleonora Bairati -- Art for looking at one's soul : 68 works / by Salvador Dalí -- The Dalí Theater Museum at Figueras : note / by Eleonora Bairati -- Inventiveness-the key to survival : an...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wellfleet Press 1979

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Libert, Steve

Summary: "In 1679, the French ship Le Griffon mysteriously vanished. Was it lost in a violent storm or robbed of its valuable cargo of furs and set ablaze? No one knows, but historians are quite certain the ship found its final resting place on the bottom of the Great Lakes. Now after centuries of mystery and misinformation, Steve and Kathie Libert reveal that Le Griffon likely met her final fate among...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 2021

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Summary: From two-time Palme d'Or winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne comes the story of seventeen-year-old Lokita and twelve-year-old Tori, two immigrants to Belgium from Cameroon and Benin, respectively whose siblinglike bond is the only resource they can depend on in their struggle for survival on the margins of European society. The pair work as performers in a cheap trattoria, dealing drugs on the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Summary: In season three Malotru has been taken hostage by the Islamic State. Moved from camp to camp, tortured and weakened, he's close to despair. In Paris, the Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE) faces a dilemma: should they use all of their resources to save Malotru, who betrayed the service, his country and friends when he became a double agent working for the CIA?

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2017

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Summary: This historical drama tells the story of Juana Inés de la Cruz, one of the greatest poets of the Spanish Siglo de Oro. In order to pursue her passion for writing, Juana enters the convent. There, she develops an intimate relationship with the vicereine, who inspires her poetry. But when the forces of the Inquisition invade the convent, the women have only each other to turn to.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2003

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Summary: Continental drift: explosive musical connections.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: World Music Network 2001

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Summary: An elegy of exile and an epic immersion into the world of rural Italy during the Mussolini years, Francesco Rosi's sublime adaptation of the memoirs of the painter, physician, and political activist Carlo Levi brings a monument of twentieth-century autobiography to the screen with quiet grace and solemn beauty. Banished to a desolate southern town for his anti-Fascist views, the worldly Levi...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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Summary: Cardinal Mazarin dies in 1661. The young Louis asserts his intention to govern as well as rule. Mazarin's fiscal advisor, Colbert, warns against Fouquet, who wants to be prime minister and is looting the treasury. Fouquet believes Louis will soon tire of exercizing power and overplays his hand. Louis' mistress reports this to the king who arrests Fouquet. Louis and Colbert design a brilliant...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008

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Summary: Levi, an intellectual exiled by the Fascist government during World War II to a mountain village in southern Italy, discovers the resilience and dignity of people who live close to the land.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Facets Video 2003

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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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Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da

Contents: Plainchant, Benedicta es (2:24) -- Motet, Benedicta es / Josquin des Prés (6:55) -- Missa Benedicta es / Palestrina (41:15) -- Plainchant, Nigra sum (1:31) -- Motet, Nigra sum / Lhériter (5:07) -- Missa Nigra sum (35:20) ; Missa Papae Marcelli (36:49) ; Missa brevis (21:24) / Palestrina -- Madrigal, Nasce la gioja mia / Primavera (2:30) -- Missa Nasce la gioja mia / Palestrina (24:22) --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Gimell 1993

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Sun Ra.

Contents: Priest (4:01) -- Discipline ; Tall trees in the sun (8:26) -- 'S wonderful (5:32) -- Hole in the sky (7:31) -- Somewhere else, part 1 (8:38) -- Somewhere else, part 2 (2:41) -- Stardust for tomorrow (4:56) -- Love in outer space (12:01) -- Everything is space (3:57) -- Tristar (3:31).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 1993

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