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Publisher
Sterling Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jo loves to draw and she is good enough at it to win a scholarship to come to the city from her small town to study at a special art school where more than anything else she hopes to learn to paint like her hero, Vincent Van Gogh. While randomly sketching faces one day, she encounters a mysterious European art dealer who buys a few of her drawings and commissions her to do some more. He rewards her handsomely for her work and goes back to Amsterdam....
3) Edvard Munch
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 174 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (21 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
A biography of Norwegian expressionist painter Edvard Munch and the effect his upbringing in Norway had on his work and whose raw, modern work The Scream shocked the bourgeois world.
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (94 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
WITKIN AND WITKIN explores the worlds of identical twins, Joel-Peter, a world famous photographer and Jerome, a painter and life long educator. An intensely human film that addresses the philosophy of their practices, their art and personal relationship. A film about perception and growing older, two artists who shared a childhood but whose lives took very different directions.
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (69 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
IT'S BAD FOR YA, Carlin's Emmy-nominated 14th and final HBO special from March of 2008 features Carlin's noted irreverent and unapologetic observations on topics ranging from death, religion, bureaucracy, patriotism, overprotected children and big business to the pungent examinations of modern language and the decrepit state of the American culture. Carlin once again comes up with an hour of brand new material that not only makes you laugh, but makes...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1034
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
France, 1760. Marianne is commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent. Because she is a reluctant bride-to-be, Marianne arrives under the guise of companionship, observing Héloïse by day and secretly painting her by firelight at night. As the two women orbit one another, intimacy and attraction grow as they share Héloïse first moments of freedom. Héloïse portrait soon becomes a collaborative...
7) Frida Kahlo
Series
Publisher
Kultur International
Pub. Date
[2006?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (45 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Frida began to paint in 1925. Today Kahlo's work is critically and monetarily as prized as that of her male peers, sometimes more so. Learn more about this cultural icon.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Questar Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (4.5 hrs.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Biography of the versatile Renaissance artist in the context of his times, describing some of his achievements in painting, architecture, engineering, sculpture, and science. Shows many of Da Vinci's triumphs, including the creation of The last supper and the Mona Lisa, and some of his bitter defeats including the crash-landing of his flying machine, as well as the bitterness of his rivalry with Michelangelo. DVD extras include a look at the rise...
10) Sirens
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. with 1 b&w sequence ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An idealistic young minister on a mission, must tame the wicked ways of a notorious artist whose nude paintings of his beautiful models scandalize the nation. Intent on delivering salvation, the repressed reverend and his wife instead are lead into temptation by their playfully seductive hosts and sensuous surroundings.
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (93 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
In 1973, the eleven-year-old Miguelito was discovered singing in San Juan airport by the legendary New York record producer Harvey Averne. Within a year, he went from the slums of Manuel A Perez to recording an album with the finest salsa musicians of the time, to finally performing with Eddie Palmieri at Madison Square Garden in front of 20,000 people. Every radio station played some of his tracks, like Payaso and Canto a Borinquen. A year later,...
Publisher
All Channel Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (95 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
If the musicians ain't got a chance to live, then what chance has the music got?' Dr John. This is a beautifully crafted, feature documentary, rich with colourful characters, and set in the iconic musical backdrop of New Orleans. In 2005 the music stopped, when one of the most deadly and destructive hurricanes in American history struck. The flood defences failed flooding the Crescent City for weeks. Lives were lost and shattered. Many displaced musicians...
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (76 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
His profile takes us inside the life, struggles, philosophy and humor of a man who credits his success to the deliciousness of peanut butter. Featuring delightful animated interludes and interviews from colleagues, editors and his nine children, this look at Stevenson’s life - who is also a noted writer of children's books and a columnist for The New York Times - is a testament to observing the world from an original perspective.
14) Winter Harvest
Publisher
Audiovisiva
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (40 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Fast hands, accustomed to work, mash, knead, knock. The shots are now more deaf, now more accurate, sound. It all starts from the material: clay, indeed, the "crea" what's his name in the Veneto. And like an initiation, the man, the potter goes first where everything has its origins: the quarries. Mountains of clay. It's a strange place, quiet, where everything has the same color of the moon and it looks like a different planet. Who is this old silent,...
15) That Summer
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (80 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Welcome to GREY GARDENS...as you've never seen it before. Discover the long-lost film featuring Big and Little Edie before they were cultural icons. With Andy Warhol.
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc. (83 min.) : sd., col., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 leaflet.
Description
An entertaining and revelatory 'secret history' of feminist art, !Women Art Revolution deftly illuminates the under-explored movement through conversations, observations, archival footage, and works of visionary artists, historians, curators, and critics. Starting from its roots in the 1960s antiwar and civil rights protests, the film details developments in women's art through the 1970s and explores how the pioneering artists created the most significant...
17) Genet
Publisher
Cult Epics
Pub. Date
1981.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Documentary by Antoine Bourseiler about the work of writer, director, Jean Genet.
18) The Punk Singer
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (81 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
An exciting portrait of the hugely influential rock & roll icon Kathleen Hanna, featuring intimate interviews and electric concert footage.
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (130 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Shane MacGowan’s story, from growing up in Ireland to forming The Pogues and conquering the known universe. A vision of the world through the eyes of the great punk poet himself and an intimate cast of close friends and family members.
Publisher
Annenberg Foundation
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (37 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
COUNTRY: PORTRAITS OF AN AMERICAN SOUND explores the image of country music and its evolution over 80 years, highlighting photography’s role in documenting the history and capturing the culture of this uniquely American sound.
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