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1) Fatima
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Lawson McGhee Library - Foreign Films - Overflow; ask at Sights & Sounds desk
DVD FOREIGN FATI
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DVD FOREIGN FATI
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Lawson McGhee Library - Foreign Films - Media collection
DVD FOREIGN END
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DVD FOREIGN END
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When Ocho, a 30-something Argentine poet on vacation in Barcelona, spots Javi, a Spaniard from Berlin, the attraction is subtle but persistent. After a missed connection on the beach, a third chance encounter escalates to a seemingly random hookup. But are these two merely beautiful strangers in a foreign city, or are they part of each other's histories, and maybe even their destinies.
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Lawson McGhee Library - Biography - Media collection
DVD B ATWO
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DVD B ATWO
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The film explores Atwood's 'backstory,' her early days in the Canadian wilderness and as a poet. Atwood's novels are explored, including her latest, The Testaments, the sequel to The Handmaid's Tale. Personal stories are shared by friends, family, and, of course, directly by Atwood herself.
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Lawson McGhee Library - Feature Films - Media collection
BLU-RAY FEATURE IN
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BLU-RAY FEATURE IN
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A Washington Post journalist and an Afrikaans poet strike up a friendship and become romantically involved as they try to come to terms with their feelings about what they've learned at the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings.
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A celebration of Irish punk poet Shane MacGowan, composer and lead singer with The Pogues, combining unpublished archive footage and family footage with animation.
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Lawson McGhee Library - Feature Films - Media collection
DVD FEATURE ALL
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DVD FEATURE ALL
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Chronicles the life and legacy of Tupac Shakur, including his rise to superstardom as a hip-hop artist, actor, poet and activist, as well as his imprisonment and prolific, controversial time at Death Row Records. Against insurmountable odds, Shakur rose to become a cultural icon whose career and persona both continue to grow long after his passing.
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Lawson McGhee Library - Biography - Media collection
DVD B SENE
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DVD B SENE
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Narrates the remarkable journey of Hannah Senesh, a young Hungarian poet and diarist, paratrooper and resistance fighter. Told through Hannah's letters, diaries, poems, and the recollections of those who knew her, the film traces Hannah's life from childhood in Palestine to her daring WWII mission to rescue Jews in her native Hungary. Narrated by Joan Allen.
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Lawson McGhee Library - Foreign Films - Media collection
DVD FOREIGN HOUS
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DVD FOREIGN HOUS
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This film about the leprosy colony in Tabriz, Iran is a compassionate portrait of forgotten people. Straightforward yet sympathetic, the film affords dignity to its subjects, particularly through Farrokhzad's striking poem read by the poet herself. The House Is Black has heavily influenced the modern Iranian cinema of such great filmmakers as Abbas Kiarostami and Mohsen Makhmalbaf, who called it "the best Iranian film." It provides, in the film's...
9) Agee
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Lawson McGhee Library - Biography - Media collection
DVD B AGEE
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DVD B AGEE
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AGEE is the story of James Agee, one of the most talented writers of our time. A quintessentially American writer, driven by passions for work, friends, films, and ideas, Agee established a reputation as both a warm-hearted genius and as "a soverign prince of the English language." In his short, luminous career, James Agee worked as a poet, journalist, film critic, screenwriter, and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist whose works include "Let Us Now Praise...
10) Neruda
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Lawson McGhee Library - Foreign Films - Media collection
DVD FOREIGN NERU
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DVD FOREIGN NERU
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An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.
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Lawson McGhee Library - Biography - Media collection
DVD B ANGE
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DVD B ANGE
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Examines the life and legacy of African American poet, memoirist, and civil rights worker Maya Angelou, from her upbringing in the Depression-era South to her work with Malcolm X in Ghana to the recitation of her inaugural poem for President Bill Clinton. Includes Angelou's own words woven together with archival photographs and videos as well as interviews with Angelou's friends and family.
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Lawson McGhee Library - Feature Films - Media collection
DVD FEATURE BARR
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DVD FEATURE BARR
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A dramatic portrayal of the romance of poets, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. The invalid poetess who regains her health after falling in love with the famous poet elopes with the poet against the wishes of her tyrannical father, who exhibits an incestuous attachment for Elizabeth, as well as an over domineering control of all the Barrett siblings in their personal adult relationships. The story is set in London, England, starting in the year...
13) testament of orpheus or don t ask me why le testam
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14) Love & savagery
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Lawson McGhee Library - Feature Films - Media collection
DVD FEATURE LOVE
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DVD FEATURE LOVE
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In 1968, Newfoundland geologist and poet Michael McCarthy travels to Ballyvaughan to examine the 'Burren, ' a geological wonder. There he meets Cathleen, a beautiful woman who captures his heart, but because of the path she chose when she was young she cannot allow him to capture hers.
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Lawson McGhee Library - Feature Films - Media collection
DVD FEATURE REAC
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DVD FEATURE REAC
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Based on the true love story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares. This sumptuous English-language '50s period piece recounts the years of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop when she left America to live and write in Rio de Janiero, where she would fall in love with well-off architect Lota de Macedo Soares.
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Lawson McGhee Library - Feature Films - Media collection
DVD FEATURE NIGH
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DVD FEATURE NIGH
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Latin teacher Raimund Gregorius finds a book by Portuguese poet and doctor Amadeu de Prado and his life is irrevocably changed. Determined to learn more about the author, Gregorius boards the night train to Lisbon and begins to piece together an epic story of oppression and revolution, loyalty and betrayal, love and jealousy, played out against the backdrop of a brutal fascist dictatorship. In his exploration of Amadeu de Prado's life, Gregorius finds...
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Lawson McGhee Library - Feature Films - Media collection
DVD FEATURE BLAC
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DVD FEATURE BLAC
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Poetry, politics, madness, and desire collide in the true story of the woman hailed as South Africa's finest poet. In 1960s Cape Town, as Apartheid steals the expressive rights of blacks and whites alike, young Ingrid Jonker finds her freedom scrawling verse while frittering through a series of stormy affairs. Amid escalating quarrels with her lovers and her rigid father, a parliament censorship minister, the poet witnesses an unconscionable event...
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Heartworn Highways was a film that captured the nascent roots of the Outlaw Country movement in the mid-70s. Today, this new exploration celebrates the authenticity and spirit of that legendary film via a community of contemporary musicians creating music in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Lawson McGhee Library - TV Shows - Media collection
DVD TV ED V.1
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DVD TV ED V.1
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Lawson McGhee Library - TV Shows - Media collection
DVD TV ED V.2
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DVD TV ED V.2
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Lawson McGhee Library - TV Shows - Media collection
DVD TV ED V.3
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DVD TV ED V.3
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Historic performances that aired on the Ed Sullivan Show.
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Lawson McGhee Library - TV Shows - Media collection
DVD TV HULL
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DVD TV HULL
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Transporting viewers back to the days of the go-go dancers, mod-miniskirts and swinging pop-rock sounds. The top singers and groups of the hippest decade ever present their biggest songs, blending the British invasions with Broadway and folk-rock with rhythm and blues. Fondly remembered and highly influential 1965-1966 NBC-TV prime time series offers a treasure trove of music that remains just as popular today.