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For most of her adult life, Frances has colored within the lines, her life made hollow by a complete lack of companionship. When she arrives on assignment to study the architecture at Lyntons, a decaying estate in the English countryside, she discovers an unexpected bonus, friendship with the young hedonistic couple Peter and Cara. Peter has been assigned to inventory the valuables on site, while the tempestuous Cara keeps him company. Over the heady...
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A young man's quest for eternal youth and beauty ends in scandal, depravity and death. Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life, indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. The picture of Dorian Gray was a...
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SHORTLISTED for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction
An intense psychological drama that echoes sophisticated entertainments like Gorky Park and The Talented Mr. Ripley.
Nick Platt is a British lawyer working in Moscow in the early 2000s—a place where the cascade of oil money, the tightening grip of the government, the jostling of the oligarchs, and the loosening of Soviet social mores have led to...
4) Logan's run
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English
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The year is 2274, civilization exists in a vast, bubbled metropolis, where computerized servo-mechanisms provide all needs so everyone can pursue endless hedonism. Endless, that is, until Lastday, when anyone who's 30 must submit to Carousel, a soaring, spinning trip to eternity and supposed rebirth. Logan 5 is a Sandman authorized to terminate Runners fleeing Carousel. But, Logan is almost 30 himself and will not go to Carousel himself willingly....
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Publisher
Bangtail Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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A study of political manners and debauchery masquerading as pulp fiction, this novel shows us a world inhabited by the likes of Luther Penrose, a 290-pound, drug-dependent novelist with marital fidelity problems, and Luther's old army buddy, J. P. Morgan, an insurance fraud investigator who has reluctantly agreed to lend his friend a hand. Given the tumultuous, bloody, and unpredictable events that follow, it's a decision that Morgan will come to...
6) Animals
Publisher
Freestyle Digital Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Laura and Tyler have been flatmates and best friends for ten years, marauding around the streets of Dublin, rejecting the expectations that bombard modern women and acting purely on desire. For Tyler, this is the best version of life, even with the inevitable hangovers, but when Laura's younger sister Jean gets pregnant on purpose Laura panics. Should she still be partying into her mid-thirties? And where has her supposed talent as an aspiring writer...
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Italiano
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The biggest hit from the most popular Italian filmmaker of all time, the film rocketed Federico Fellini to international mainstream success, ironically, by offering a damning critique of the culture of stardom. A look at the darkness beneath the seductive lifestyles of Rome's rich and glamorous; the film follows a notorious celebrity journalist during a hectic week spent on the peripheries of the spotlight.
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Fantoma Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
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2 DVDs (approximately 179 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (19 cm)
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English
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Collection of films by Kenneth Anger. "A major influence on everything from the films of Martin Scorsese, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and David Lynch to the pop art of Andy Warhol to MTV, Anger's work serves as a talisman of universal symbols and personal obsessions, combining myth, artifice and ritual to render cinema with the power of spell or incantation."--Container.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2020.
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Special edition collector's set.
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15 Blu-rays (approximately 1,885 min.) : sound, color, and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 booklets.
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Italiano
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Variety lights: A beautiful and ambitious young woman joins a traveling troupe of third-rate vaudevillians and inadvertently causes jealousy and emotional crises.
The white sheik: During a day in their honeymoon, a couple is separated by the city's lust and the desires it produces.
I vitelloni: Details a year in the life of five young men lingering in post-adolescent limbo, dreaming of adventure and escape from their small town and struggling to...
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