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1) Take one
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In the high-powered world of filmmaking, two unknown producers, Chase Ryan and Keith Ellison, struggle to make a name for themselves. With millions of investors' dollars on the line, everything starts to fall apart and they realize they may be in over their heads--a couple of Davids in a world of Hollywood Goliaths. Is it possible to keep things above the line, to beat the odds and make a movie unlike anything ever done before? Or will they lose everything...
2) Take four
Author
Series
Baxter family series. Above the line volume 4
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
360 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Filmmakers Keith Ellison and Dayne Matthews finally ink a deal with the nation's top young actor. But the actor takes a public fall that threatens his reputation. Now the producers must act as missionaries to save the film, their families, and the young movie star.
4) 24 frames
Series
Criterion collection volume 956
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
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Filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami recreates the final three years of his life through twenty-four short films inspired by a collection of still images.
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"A debut romantic comedy set in Los Angeles where two people are brought together by a very decent proposal cooked up by a very secretive benefactor in which the strangers go on one year of dates, one date a week, for half a million dollars each if they can stand each other for the whole time"--
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Lakeshore chronicles volume 9
Publisher
Harlequin Mira Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
311 p.: maps.; 25 cm.
Description
When her mother, who is unexpectedly pregnant, receives a devastating diagnosis, Sonnet Romano must decide what really matters in life and, putting her career on hold, stays in Avalon and takes a job that forces her to work alongside her biggest mistake--award-winning filmmaker Zach Alger and Sonnet's former lover.
9) Kurosawa
Publisher
Wellspring Media
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (215 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A documentary of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa featuring his family, colleagues and critics from Japan and America commenting on the man and his films. Includes excerpts from many of his famous works.
Series
Criterion collection volume 585
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (27 p. ; 19 cm.)
Description
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.
12) Mia madre
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (1 hr., 47 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A harried filmmaker tries to juggle the demands of her latest movie with a personal life in shambles. The star of her film, a bombastic American actor imported for the production, presents nothing but headaches and her crew is close to mutiny. Away from the shoot, Margherita tries to hold her life together as her mother's illness progresses and her teenage daughter grows ever more distant.
13) Pain and glory
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Pain and Glory tells of a series of re-encounters experienced by Salvator Mallo (Antonio Banderas), a film director in his physical decline. Some of them in the flesh, others remembered: his childhood in the '60s, when he emigrated with his parents to a village in Valencia in search of prosperity; his first desire. His first adult love in the Madrid of the '80s, and the pain of the breakup of that love while it was still alive and intense. Mallo...
14) No bears
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
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One of the world's great cinema artists, Jafar Panahi has been carefully crafting self-reflexive works about artistic, personal, and political freedom for the past three decades, despite being banned from filmmaking by the Iranian government since 2010. In No Bears completed shortly before his imprisonment in 2022, Panahi plays a fictionalized version of himself, a dissident filmmaker who relocates to a rural border town to direct a film remotely...
15) Faces places
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Cohen Media Group
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Director Agnes Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.
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After Justine Nolan discovers that her mother has been pretending that Justine's favorite grandmother has been dead for ten years, she embarks on a search that takes her to Istanbul, where she discovers family secrets that go all the way back to World War II--and a chance to follow the true desires in her heart.
17) Staying vertical
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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It follows filmmaker Leo, whose amorous encounter with a free-spirited shepherdess results in a baby he's forced to raise. Through a series of unexpected and unusual encounters, while simultaneously struggling to find inspiration for his next film, Leo will do whatever it takes to stay standing.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"Felicity 'Fizzy' Chen is lost. Sure, she's got an incredible career as a beloved romance novelist with a slew of bestsellers under her belt, but when she's asked to give a commencement address, it hits her: she hasn't been practicing what she's preached.Fizzy hasn't ever really been in love. Lust? Definitely. But that swoon-worthy, can't-stop-thinking-about-him, all-encompassing feeling? Nope. Nothing. What happens when the optimism she's spent her...
19) Benjamin
Publisher
Artsploitation Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young filmmaker discovers a new love interest in the midst of the release of his second film.
20) King Kong
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 188 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Young and beautiful actress Ann Darrow is from the world of 1930s vaudeville, who is down on her luck. She meets Carl Denham, an over-ambitious filmmaker, who brings her on an exploratory expedition to Skull Island where she finds compassion and the true meaning of humanity with an ape named Kong. Together, beauty and beast finally meet their fate in New York, where the filmmaker has taken and displayed the ape in the quest of finding his fame by...
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