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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In this issue of Videofashion Collections, we are delighted by Parisian innovations. Carven drew bright inspirations from bold graphic and Japanese sensibilities. Dive into the deep blue with designer Elie Saab for Spring/Summer 2015 as he shows a stunning collection at Paris Fashion Week! Inspired by a Kazimir Malevich exhibition at the Tate in London, Albert Kreimler took the idea of the square to new fashionable places for Akris! Plus, Sharon Wauchob...
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Hidden deep below the ocean surface is one of the greatest mysteries of all time--the Lost City of Atlantis. Join the world's most highly qualified crew of experts led by "adventure capitalist" Commander Rourke (Garner) and Milo Thatch (Fox), a linguist who knows the ancient Antlantean language, as they board the incredible 1,000-foot submarine, the Ulysses, and head deep into the mysteries of the sea, hoping to reveal the secrets of Atlantis.
3) Super 8
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witnesses a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon they suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local deputy tries to uncover the truth, something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined.
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this issue of Videofashion Collections, we reach the final stop of the fashion month tour: the glamorous and ultra chic Paris! For his final collection for the house of Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs dedicates the collection to the many women who have inspired him, and "to the showgirl in all of us." Welcome to the Chanel Art Gallery! Karl Lagerfeld takes Chanel's signature tweeds to colorful new places, and crafted a plethora of accessories to go...
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Andalucia, Spain. One of the world's worst places to fight fire, where temperatures of up to 45º c meet with vast vegetation, creating 50 meter walls of flames that threaten the whole region. 'Life in Flames' follows a team of elite firemen over the course of a summer. Gustavo leads the team. He's 41, at the peak of his career, and driven by one obsession - to keep his men alive. One mistake, one wrong choice and someone dies. But now he's starting...
Pub. Date
1972.
Language
English
Description
At work on his Elegies and Windows series, Motherwell examines his place in the Abstract Expressionist movement, which he calls the first original American movement in the "mainstream," and its practitioners "the last romantics." He distinguishes between his large paintings and his intimate papier collé.. Motherwell recollects the state of American art in the 1940s and the impact of European emigré painters on the younger generation of emerging...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Tibetan
Description
Filmed in the high grasslands of eastern Tibet, Summer pasture offers an intimate glimpse into the life of a young nomad couple and their infant daughter. Locho and his wife Yama live in Dzachukha, eastern Tibet - nicknamed '5-most' by the Chinese for being the highest, coldest, poorest, largest, and most remote county in Sichuan Province. They depend on their herd of yaks for survival, much as their ancestors have for generations. In recent years...
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The distinguished German writer Uwe Johnson (1934-1984) lived for several years in the 1960s on Manhattan's Upper Westside. His publisher, Harcourt Brace, had hired him as a textbook editor for their German-language school book editions, which allowed him to stay in New York and also tend to his own writing. In his spare time he got to know his neighborhood very well, observing the goings on in the streets, cafeterias, and parks. In 1968 German Television...
10) Come Undone
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
After their award-winning collaboration in Wild Side, screenwriter Stephane Bouquet and screenwriter/director Sebastien Lifshitz come together again to create the sensual and meditative COME UNDONE, which explores a young boy's homosexual awakening and the turbulence of first love. Taking place at a seaside town near western France, Mathieu (Jeremie Elkaim), a quiet 18-years-old spending the summer with his troubled family, meets the handsome and...
11) The Swan
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Icelandic
Description
In contemporary rural Iceland, a wayward 9-year old girl, Sól, is sent to distant countryside relatives for a summer to work and to mature. Nature seems endless there, the animals soulful but the people harsh. All except the mysterious farmhand Jón, who - as Sól herself - likes words better than people. But the farmers' daughter Ásta has a claim on Jón as well, and soon Sól becomes entangled in a drama she hardly can grasp. This summer marks...
12) Woodbine place
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This fascinating documentary will give anyone who works with or is interested in children, an insight into children's social lives. Filmed over the summer holidays, the result is a revealing study of the street play of young children (3 to 7 years) living in a cul-de-sac in a North-East town. Through their games, fantasies and interactions we get a revealing and unsentimental view of children's society, showing the importance of the peer group in...
13) Suburbicon
Language
English
Formats
Description
A peaceful, idyllic suburban community with affordable homes and manicured lawns, the perfect place to raise a family, and in the summer of 1959, the Lodge family is doing just that. The tranquil surface masks a disturbing reality, as husband and father Gardner Lodge must navigate the town's dark underbelly of betrayal, deceit, and violence. This is a tale of very flawed people making very bad choices.
14) Stand by me
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
Widescreen version, special edition.
Language
English
Description
This film about friendship and the indelible experiences of growing up takes place in a small Oregon town as four boys set out on a two-day search for a missing teenager's body, a search that turns into an odyssey of self-discovery.
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
日本語
Description
In a small town with a big red bridge, a run-down apartment, which everyone calls a haunted house, stands still. A few days before the summer break begins, two high school girls, Kaede and Azusa, find a boy living in the abandoned place by himself. Naming him "Mon", they take care of him without being noticed by anyone. One day, they meet Sugai, an officer of the child support center of the town, telling them that Mon may have been neglected by his...
16) Chile '76
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Set during the early days of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, CHILE '76 builds from quiet character study to gripping suspense thriller as it explores one woman's precarious flirtation with political engagement. Carmen (Aline Kuppenheim) leads a sheltered upper middle class existence. She heads to her summer house in the off-season to supervise its renovation, while also performing local charitable works through her church. Her husband, children,...
17) Raised by Wolves
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1973, dozens of teenagers were lured to a remote plantation by a charismatic cult leader and brainwashed into attacking anyone outside their group. What followed was a killing spree of unimaginable brutality. The horrendous crimes were covered up and the only survivor locked away. The secrets of the Plainsong Massacre remained hidden... until now. Seven teenage tearaways - looking for a place to skateboard, drink beer and raise hell...
18) Blessings
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 2005, renowned Buddhist teacher, Tsoknyi Rinpoche III, accompanied by a handful of western students, traveled to the Nangchen region in Eastern Tibet. The purpose of the trip was to meet the Tsoknyi Nangchen Nuns - 3000 remarkable women who live and practice an ancient yogic tradition in nunneries and hermitages scattered across this remote, mountainous region. Blessings: The Tsoknyi Nangchen Nuns of Tibet tells the story of this...
19) The Giants
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Slovak
Description
A moving coming-of-age film about small kids with enormous hearts. Brothers Seth and Zak are two young teens left to their own devices when their mother abandons them at their dead grandfather's house. As money grows thin during the long summer days, they befriend another loner, Danny who hooks them up with a small time drug dealer interested in renting their place. When that goes violently wrong, the ragged trio hits the road on a Huck Finn-style...
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
This film was a project that was supervised by the British Ministry of Information and the American Office of War Information. And during that summer of 1945 some of the documentary editing was done under the direction of Alfred Hitchcock.. "At the time we found the film, it was not entirely clear what role Hitchcock played in its development," says David Fanning, executive producer of FRONTLINE. "Moreover, one reel of the original six, shot by the...
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