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1) Ghost dance
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English
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Filming a documentary in Vermont, a fly fisherman hooks a corpse
Lawton is a peaceful town, resting between the Bluekill River and the soaring heights of the Green Mountains. But eighty years ago, this bucolic New England hamlet was decimated by the Spanish influenza. Only Father D'Angelo stood in its way, healing with his hands even as the plague ravaged his body. But beneath his sinless exterior, dark secrets tormented the miracle worker.
Decades
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Pub. Date
2009
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English
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With compassion and an unswerving regard for the truth, veteran journalist Mark Seal lays bare the deeply moving, inspirational story of Joan Root, a dedicated environmentalist and Oscar-nominated wildlife filmmaker. He covers her early days in Kenya as a shy young woman with an almost uncanny ability to connect to animals; her whirlwind courtship with the dashing Alan Root, their marriage, and the twenty years of nonstop adventure and passionate...
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English
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Paul Blaisdell was the man behind the monsters in such movies as The She Creature, Invasion of the Saucer Men, Not of This Earth, It! Terror from Beyond Space and many others. Working in primarily low-budget films, Blaisdell was forced to rely on greasepaint, guts and, most importantly, an unbounded imagination for his creations.
From his inauspicious beginning through The Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow (1959), the construction
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"Winding through the nascent days of cinema in Paris and Fort Lee, New Jersey, the battlefields of Belgium during World War I, and the faded Knickerbocker Hotel in 1960s Hollywood, The Electric Hotel follows the intertwined fates of the cinematographer Claude Ballard and his muse, Sabine Montrose"--
5) Sizzle reel
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English
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"For aspiring cinematographer Luna Roth, coming out as bisexual at twenty-four is proving more difficult than she anticipated. Sure, her best friend and fellow queer Romy is thrilled for her-but she has no interest in coming out to her backwards parents, she wouldn't know how to flirt with a girl if one fell at her feet, and she has neither a gaydar nor a sexual history to speak of. Not to mention she really needs to focus her energy on escaping her...
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English
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From the National Book Award-winning author of Slaves in the Family, this book is the riveting true story of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads. Edward Ball's ability to mine history and draw out its secrets has earned him a significant critical reputation as a best-selling nonfiction writer. In The Inventor and the Tycoon, he enthralls us again with the compelling saga of an artistic...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Best possible place, worst possible time" is a collection of sometimes baffling, often enlightening, and always funny anecdotes from Barry Sonnenfeld's extensive career in film and television. From fighting with studio executives to creative problem-solving on set, Sonnenfeld provides a glimpse into what it takes to make commercial art in the face of constant human foibles.
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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A star-studded documentary about one of the greatest Oscar-winning cinematographers, who captured the beauty of such stars as Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, and Sophia Loren in such memorable classics as The African Queen; The Red Shoes; Barefoot Contessa; and Black Narcissus. With a career spanning more than 80 years, the passionate documentary reveals the craft of one of cinema's most indelible image-makers, Jack Cardiff. Includes bonus features....
9) Cameraperson
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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A boxing match in Brooklyn; life in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina; the daily routine of a Nigerian midwife; an intimate family moment at home with the director: Kirsten Johnson weaves these scenes and others into her film, a tapestry of footage captured over her twenty-five-year career as a documentary cinematographer.
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English
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The story of cinematography as seen through the lenses of the world's greatest filmmakers and captured in classic scenes from over 125 immortal movies. Traces the evolution and innovations of cinematography beginning in an era when the movie camera was a marvelous invention, and examines how the filmmaking process was complicated by new cinematic trends and technologies.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1999].
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Mountaineer and filmmaker David Breashears shares the story of his life, discussing his adventures climbing some of the world's greatest peaks, and explaining the factors that drive him to pursue such a dangerous profession.
13) Jurassic punk
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
Description
Steve 'Spaz' Williams is a pioneer in computer animation. His digital dinosaurs of Jurassic Park transformed Hollywood in 1993, but an appetite for anarchy and reckless disregard for authority may have cost him the recognition he deserved.
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Distributed by] Wellspring Media, Inc
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
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English
Description
Three contemporary fables set in Namibia, Nigeria and South Africa. Each story presents a young person with great potential who is overwhelmed by poverty and makes bad choices when tempted to do wrong. Each film is introduced by Queen Latifah.
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Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Film and television director and notable raconteur Barry Sonnenfeld's outrageous and hilarious memoir, tracing his idiosyncratic upbringing in Washington Heights, his breaking into film as a cinematographer with the Coen brothers, and his unexpected career as the director behind such huge film franchises as The Addams Family and Men in Black, and beloved work like Get Shorty and A Series of Unfortunate Events"--
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Brilliant, ambitious, and mischievous, the 19th-century San Francisco photographer Eadweard Muybridge lived the lives of a dozen men before his breakthrough photographs of running horses set the course for the development of cinema and transformed the camera into a machine of unmatched perception and persuasion. But hiding in Muybridge's work are clues that provoke an enduring question: Can we believe what we see in a photograph?
Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
From the seedy strip clubs of Chicago to the bright lights of Hollywood, award-winning director, choreographer, and cinematographer Bob Fosse boozed, pill-popped and bed-hopped his way through life, all the while creating influential and original works such as Sweet Charity, All That Jazz, Chicago, and Cabaret. The in-depth true story of the life of Bob Fosse, from his self-destructive side to his ability to adapt for each new decade, filling the...