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21) I am yours
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Single mom, Mina, a Pakistani ex-pat in Norway, is determined to be an actress, although she routinely fails auditions and the rest of her life is crumbling. When she meets a dashing director who may change her life, it is overshadowed by her mother, who disapproves of Mina's every move.
22) Double take
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 79 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A documentary/fiction hybrid that combines archival footage with cryptic allusions to an imaginary murder plot involving Alfred Hitchcock and his double to create a portrait of American media run amok during the Cold War.
23) The visitor
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Walter Vale is a widower who teaches economics at a Connecticut university. He lives alone and is no longer motivated by his work. In New York to present a paper at a conference, he goes to the apartment that he has not visited in some time, but has kept since his wife was alive, only to discover a young couple living there. Despite their great cultural differences, Walter befriends Tarek, a Syrian citizen and drummer, and gradually builds a friendship...
24) Our Nixon
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Throughout Richard Nixon's presidency, three of his top White House aides obsessively documented their experiences with Super 8 home movie cameras. Young, idealistic and dedicated, they had no idea that a few years later they'd all be in prison.
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This film follows the story of four young Latina women -- known as the 'San Antonio Four' -- who have been fighting since 1994 to clear their names of false charges and wrongful convictions that they gang-raped two young girls in Texas. Using the women's home video footage from 21 years ago combined with recent verité footage and interviews, the film explores their personal narratives and their search for exculpatory evidence to help their losing...
26) Shadows
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004], c1959
Physical Desc
1 DVD (82 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
The story of an interracial romance and the obstacles it puts on family relationships. When appearing on Jean Shepherd's radio program Night People, Cassevetes mentioned the improvisation work he had done with his acting class, and asked for funding to film it. When listeners actually sent in money, he worked up a script based on the classwork, and with additional funding filmed his story of three siblings, two of whom can pass as white.
Publisher
Sundance Selects
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. and b&w; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-1975 mobilizes a treasure trove of 16mm material shot by Swedish journalists who came to the US drawn by stories of urban unrest and revolution. Gaining access to many of the leaders of the Black Power Movement, Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale, Angela Davis and Eldridge Cleaver among them, the filmmakers captured them in intimate moments and remarkably unguarded interviews. Thirty years later, this lush collection was...
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