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Part One of this story takes place in 1947. A troubled soldier, returning from the war, meets his talented five-year-old nephew, leaves an indelible impression, and then disappears for twenty-three years. Cut to 1970: The nephew, now drawing underground comic books in Oakland, California, reconnects with his uncle and, remembering the comic book he saw when he was five, draws a new version with his uncle as a World War II fighting hero. Cut to the...
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Harper Design, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
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207 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
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Created in conjunction with Paramount Pictures and authorized by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey (via his Estate), the creators of the original musical stage play, Grease: The Director's Notebook features rare and never-before-seen imagery from the studio's archives, as well as Kleiser's production notes, dialogue changes, and more. The book's heart is Kleiser's own heavily annotated shooting script, along with his storyboards and sketches-including lines...
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Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
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The production of a play is frought with drama and romance in and of itself, from its writing and casting to rehearsals and staging. Onstage, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events while each attendee and their family members deal with their own interpersonal issues.
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SDS
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Mike Lane takes to the stage again after a lengthy hiatus, following a business deal that went bust, leaving him broke and taking bartender gigs in Florida. For what he hopes will be one last hurrah, Mike heads to London with a wealthy socialite who lures him with an offer he can't refuse, and an agenda all her own. With everything on the line, once Mike discovers what she truly has in mind, will he, and the roster of hot new dancers he'll have to...
5) No bears
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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...
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Only Murders in Gotham, the smash hit streaming show, is famous for filming in authentic New York City locations and using real New Yorkers as extras. For their latest episode, they've chosen to spotlight the century-old Village Blend and its quirky crewof baristas. But when the film crew's week of shooting delivers an actual shooting, Clare Cosi and her staff find themselves at the scene of a true crime.
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Kino Lorber, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A half-century after its release, Midnight Cowboy remains one of the most original and groundbreaking movies of the modern era. With beguiling performances from Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman as two loners who join forces out of desperation, blacklist survivor Waldo Salt's brilliant screenplay, and John Schlesinger's fearless direction, the 1969 film became the only X-rated film to ever win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Its vivid and compassionate...
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Page Street YA
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 22 cm
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"When Sophia Galich was twelve, she starred in her older sister Layla's amateur horror movie Vermillion, which recorded raw footage of her very real reactions to scenes her sister concocted in their old Californian house on the coast--Cashore House. In the years after the film's release, Sophia's relationship with her sister became more strained, while her memories of the now-infamous house fueled her nightmares. Vermillion amassed an army of fanatical...
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Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
243 pages ; 22 cm
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Lamar can’t wait to start his filmmaking career like his idol Spike Lee. And leave behind his small town of Morton, Louisiana. But for now, Lamar has to learn how to be a filmmaker while getting to know his grandfather. When Gramps talks about his activism and Black history, Lamar doesn’t think much about it. Times have changed since the old Civil Rights days! Right? He has a white friend named Jeff who wants to be a filmmaker, too,...
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Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
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1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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"A modern-day movie musical about the making of a network TV special, Dolly Parton's Mountain Magic Christmas is the frenetic backstage story and delightful on-camera results of Dolly's desire to uplift an exhausted world's spirits by sharing the unique "mountain magic" she has always found in and around Dollywood at Christmas. Throughout the movie's production numbers and rehearsal chaos, Dolly finds herself taking a private journey into her past,...
11) Kids vs. aliens
Publisher
RLJE Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
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All Gary wants is to make awesome home movies with his best buds. All his older sister Samantha wants is to hang with the cool kids. When their parents head out of town on one Halloween weekend, an all-time rager of a teen house party turns to terror when aliens attack, forcing the siblings to band together to survive the night.
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Christmas Notch volume 2
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
422 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
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Kallum Lieberman is the funny one™. As the arguably lesser of the three former members of the boy band INK, he enjoyed his fifteen minutes of fame and then moved home where he opened a regional pizza chain called Slice, Slice, Baby! He’s living his best dad bod life, hooking up with bridesmaids at all his friends’ weddings. But after an old one-off sex tape is leaked and quickly goes viral, Kallum decides he’s ready to step into the spotlight...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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314 pages ; 22 cm
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In 1915, "missing" heiress Victorine Berryman, aka "Bella Mae Goodwin," along with her film star best friend, arrives in Hollywood where she experiences the magic of the movie business as well as its dark side as she figures out who she truly wants to be.
14) Acting the part
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Publisher
Harperteen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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278 pages ; 22 cm
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Queer actor Lily Ashton has found fame playing lesbian warrior Morgantha on the hit TV show Galaxy Spark. Lily knows how little representation queer girls have, so when the showrunners reveal that Morgantha's on-screen love interest, Alietta, is going tobe killed off, Lily orchestrates an elaborate fake-dating scheme with the standoffish actress who plays her, to generate press and ensure a happy ending for the #Morganetta ship. But while playing...
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Christmas bookshop volume 2
Pub. Date
2023
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In this sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller The Christmas Bookshop, an American production company decides that McCredie’s is the perfect location to film a very cheesy Christmas movie and Carmen, the bookshop’s manager, uses this unexpected windfall to fend off a buyout offer from an obnoxious millionaire.
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Reaktion Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
336 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
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Hollywood cinema and Los Angeles cannot be understood apart. Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles traces the interaction of the real city, its movie business, and filmed image, focusing on the crucial period from the construction of the first studios in the 1910s to the decline of the studio system fifty years later. As Los Angeles gradually became one of the ten largest cities in the world, the film industry made key contributions to its rapid...
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Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm
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"To save the Clarktown Community Center, which houses her parents' Chinese school, Lily and her fellow students must master a traditional Chinese dance in time for the center's first showcase and receive some unexpected help from her rival, Max Zhang"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
RP Kids
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
ix, 132 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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"Girls belong in the world of filmmaking. While we see them acting on-screen, there are also countless women working every single job possible behind the scenes as part of the film's crew. Are you a girl who is interested in film making? Do you wonder howyou actually make a movie? Well, this is the book for you. Girls Make Movies puts you in the driver's seat as you create a fictitious zombie blockbuster and are guided through each stage of production...
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Mayor Good Boy volume 2
Publisher
RH Graphic
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
211 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
Mayor Good Boy is to star in his very own movie but when a stolen pizza and other things go missing across town, interns Abby and Aaron help the mayor save the day.
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