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Series
Criterion collection volume 549
Language
English
Description
Featuring evocative black-and-white imagery and profoundly felt performances, this hushed depiction of crumbling American values remains the pivotal film in the career of the invaluable director and film historian Peter Bogdanovich.
Author
Series
English ballad mysteries volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
215 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
386 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The year is 1901. England's beloved queen has died, and her aging son has finally taken the throne. In the eastern city of Norwich, bright and inquisitive young Edith Holler spends her days among the boisterous denizens of the Holler Theatre, warned by her domineering father that the playhouse will literally tumble down if she should ever leave its confines. Fascinated by tales of the city she knows only from afar, she decides to write a play of her...
246) Death on the aisle
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Mr. and Mrs. North live as quiet a life as a couple can amidst the bustle of New York City. For Jerry, a publisher, and Pamela, a homemaker, the only threat to their domestic equilibrium comes in the form of Mrs. North's relentless efforts as an amateur sleuth, which repeatedly find the duo investigating murders and sundry other crimes. So when the wealthy backer of a play is found dead in the seats of the West 45th Street Theatre, the Norths aren't...
247) The Marvels
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
The journey begins on a ship at sea in 1766, with a boy named Billy Marvel. After surviving a shipwreck, he finds work in a London theatre. There, his family flourishes for generations as brilliant actors until 1900, when young Leontes Marvel is banished from the stage. Nearly a century later, Joseph Jervis runs away from school and seeks refuge with a reclusive uncle in London. Albert Nightingale's strange, beautiful house, with its mysterious portraits...
248) The projectionist
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The documentary portrait of theater operator Nicolas "Nick" Nicolaou moves from the 1970s Times Square adult film houses through decades of city regulation, chain takeovers, and cultural shifts, charting the history of film exhibition and New York City. Abel Ferrara traces the life and work of friend and fellow cinephile Nicolaou, a Cypriot immigrant who began working as a teenager in small neighborhood movie theaters around Manhattan, defying gentrification,...
Author
Publisher
Athenaeum of Philadelphia
Pub. Date
[1994]
Physical Desc
xxii, 90 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
In over 130 photographs and drawings, this superb book celebrates the architecture of Philadelphia's theaters from the candlelight and gaslight eras to the fabulous legitimate theaters and movie palaces of the 20th century. Moving from one landmark to another, it explores the vigorous, often controversial role theaters played in the growth and life of this historic city. Captions supply important details such as the architect, seating capacity, architectural...
Author
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (448 pages)
Language
English
Description
This book is the definitive study of the life and works of one of Britain's most important inventors who, due to a cruel set of circumstances, has all but been overlooked by history. Alan Dower Blumlein led an extraordinary life in which his inventive output rate easily surpassed that of Edison, but whose early death during the darkest days of World War Two led to a shroud of secrecy which has covered his life and achievements ever since. His 1931...
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Various characters, including a waterman, an actor, a gallant, and an apple seller, from Shakespeare's London describe the Globe Theatre from their own perspective.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Physical Desc
13 Blu-rays (approximately 1,501 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 volume (45 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 19 cm)
Language
Deutsch
Description
Even dwarfs started small: The inmates have taken over an institution in a bleak and savage world in which everyone's a dwarf.
Land of silence and darkness: Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since adolescence, and her work on behalf of other deaf and blind people, this film shows how the deaf and blind struggle to understand and accept a world from which they are almost wholly isolated.
Fata morgana: Herzog...
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