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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In addition to being among the most celebrated of contemporary filmmakers, Quentin Tarantino is possibly the most joyously infectious movie lover alive. For years he has touted in interviews his eventual turn to writing books about films. Now, with Cinema Speculation, the time has come, and the results are everything his passionate fans--and all movie lovers--could have hoped for. Organized around key American films from the 1970s, all of which he...
3) Still Alice
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Harvard psychologist suddenly diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease struggles to find meaning and purpose in her life.
4) The shack
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
After the presumed death of his daughter, a man receives a letter he suspects is from God, telling him to return to the Shack where his daughter may have been murdered.
6) Memento
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Three-time Oscar nominee Christopher Nolan (Interstellar, Inception) directs this critically acclaimed mystery. Leonard (Guy Pearce) is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty, however, of locating his wife's killer is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago,...
8) Shrek
Series
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Shrek, an ogre, agrees to rescue a beautiful princess and bring her back to Lord Farquaad, in exchange for the return of his land.
9) Wonder
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A boy with a facial deformity, who enters a middle school after being homeschooled for his whole life, struggles to fit in and get accepted by his classmates.
12) Open range
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Two cattlemen run into trouble with a local rancher when he considers their free grazing to be stealing.
13) The door
Publisher
Network Ireland Television
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Russian
Description
This Oscar-nominated film opens with an absurd act: stealing a door. Then, what had seemed an absurd act turns into a simple statement of human dignity, of people making sense of loss through ritual. THE DOOR reflects on the fact that it is based on someone's testimony. Images are impressionistic, haunting, like fragments of memories which the viewer must piece together. Although the main character, Nikolai, gives us the facts, he himself is trying...
14) Divergent
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In a society that has organized itself into five factions, a teenage girl learns that she is a Divergent, and when she chooses to join a warring faction she discovers that her personality type is seen as a danger to other factions.
18) The dark knight
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Batman has had success in facing criminals in Gotham City, but when a vicious criminal calling himself the Joker comes on the scene Batman must walk a fine line between being a hero or a vigilante.
19) Spider-man 2
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Peter Parker's adventures as Spider-man continue as he battles Dr. Otto Octavius.
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