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1) Tesla
Author
Language
English
Description
Tesla jolts and flows between the extraordinary life of the inventor Nikola Tesla, the making of a feature film about him by the celebrated director Michael Almereyda, and episodes from the filmmaker's own restless, quixotic career.
In these pages, we encounter Tesla's colleagues and friends intermingling with Almereyda's collaborators and influences: Thomas Edison and David Lynch, Mark Twain and Sam Shepard, Sarah Bernhardt and Ethan Hawke, J.P....
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In 2050, 86-year-old Marjorie has a holographic companion who resembles her dead husband and is programmed to feed her the story of her life. With Lois Smith, Jon Hamm and Geena Davis. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival** and **San Francisco International Film Festival**.
3) Experimenter
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard) designs a psychology experiment that remains relevant to this day, in which people think they're delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger (Jim Gaffigan) strapped into a chair in another room. Disregarding his pleas for mercy, the majority of subjects do not stop the experiment, administering what they think are near-fatal electric shocks, simply because they've been told to....
4) Tesla
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ethan Hawke stars as iconic inventor Nikola Tesla, fighting an uphill battle to bring his revolutionary electrical system to fruition. Increasingly displeased by the greed of fellow inventor Thomas Edison (Kyle MacLachlan), Tesla forges his own path toward creating the innovative alternate-current motor. In this biopic, director Michael Almereyda weaves together a portrait of a rebel ahead of his time through all his controversies, legal battles,...
5) Hamlet
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Ethan Hawke headlines an inspired update of Shakespeare's tragedy, set in the sleek Manhattan HQ of Denmark Corp.
6) Tesla
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brilliant, visionary Nikola Tesla fights an uphill battle to bring his revolutionary electrical system to fruition, then faces thornier challenges with his new system for worldwide wireless energy. The film tracks Tesla's uneasy interactions with his fellow inventor Thomas Edison and his patron George Westinghouse. Another thread traces Tesla's sidewinding courtship of financial titan J.P. Morgan, whose daughter Anne takes a more than casual interest...
8) Escapes
Author
Language
English
Description
Directed by Michael Almereyda (Experimenter) and executive produced by Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel), Escapes blazes a wild path through mid-20th-century Hollywood via the experiences of Hampton Fancher – flamenco dancer, actor, and the unlikely producer and screenwriter of the landmark sci-fi classic Blade Runner. (Fancher also penned the story for its sequel, Blade Runner 2049.) A consummate raconteur, Fancher recounts episodes from...
9) Tesla
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
[English/French dialogue version].
Language
English
Description
A freewheeling take on visionary inventor Nikola Tesla, his interactions with Thomas Edison and J.P. Morgan's daughter Anne, and his breakthroughs in transmitting electrical power and light.
10) Marjorie Prime
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
in the near future where artificial intelligence has brought about holographic reconstructions of loved ones, 86-year old Marjorie gains a holographic companion in the form of her late husband, but will she take advantage of this opportunity to recreate their life as she wished to have lived it?
11) Marjorie Prime
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In the near future, 86-year-old Marjorie, who is plagued by fading memories, has received a new AI companion who looks like her deceased husband and is programmed to feed the story of her life back to her, raising questions of what would one want to remember and what would one forget if given the chance.
12) Cymbeline
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When extortion, betrayal, and fiery passions threaten his criminal empire, a drug kingpin is driven to desperate measures in this explosive, modern retelling of Shakespeare's timeless tragedy.
13) Cherry 2000
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
When Sam Treadwell permanently short circuits his Cherry 2000 on a wet kitchen floor, he promptly sets out to find replacement parts to reincarnate his perfect man-made woman. Enlisting the aid of a strong-willed, red-headed female tracker, E. Johnson, the two set off for the feared "lawless zone"--The only place where Cherry 2000 parts still exist.
Series
Criterion collection volume 647
Language
English
Description
Marlon Brando gives the performance of his career as the tough prizefighter-turned-longshoreman Terry Malloy in this raggedly emotional tale of individual failure and institutional corruption. This film charts Terry's deepening moral crisis as he must choose whether to remain loyal to the mob-connected union boss Johnny Friendly and Johnny's right-hand man, Terry's brother, Charley, as the authorities close in on them.
15) Marjorie Prime
Author
Language
English
Description
In the near future, a time of artificial intelligence: 86-year-old Marjorie (Lois Smith) -a jumble of disparate, fading memories-has a handsome new companion (Jon Hamm) who looks like her deceased husband and is programmed to feed the story of her life back to her. What would we remember, and what would we forget, if given the chance? Also starring Oscar-winners Geena Davis and Tim Robbins.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The true life story of controversial psychologist Stanley Milgram, whose legendary experiment tested ordinary people's willingness to obey orders from an authority figure, even if they felt what they were doing was wrong. This led Milgram's whirring mind to delve into a parade of human behavior inquiries, including the Six Degrees Of Separation theory.
17) Search & destroy
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
[Full screen edition].
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by a late-night cable-TV philosopher, Martin is convinced that his destiny involves producing an overblown screen epic even as his life is falling apart around him. Still, hounded, hassled, and harassed, Martin heads for Manhattan and hooks up with a wacky screen writing receptionist, a mysterious businessman, and a street king"--Container.
18) Tesla
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Brilliant, visionary Nikola Tesla fights an uphill battle to bring his revolutionary electrical system to fruition, then faces thornier challenges with his new system for worldwide wireless energy. The film tracks Tesla's uneasy interactions with his fellow inventor Thomas Edison and his patron George Westinghouse. Another thread traces Tesla's sidewinding courtship of financial titan J.P. Morgan, whose daughter Anne takes a more than casual interest...
19) Experimenter
Author
Language
English
Description
Stanley Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard) designs a psychology experiment in which people think they're delivering painful electric shocks to strangers in another room. Ignoring pleas for mercy, most subjects don't stop with the experiment because they've been told to continue. Milgram's exploration of authority and conformity remains relevant to this day. With Winona Ryder and Jim Gaffigan.
20) The uninvited
Series
Criterion collection volume 677
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Description
A pair of siblings from London purchases a surprisingly affordable, lonely cliff-top house in Cornwall, only to discover that it actually carries a ghostly price. Soon they're caught up in a bizarre romantic triangle from beyond the grave. A tragic family past, a mysteriously locked room, cold chills, bumps in the night-this gothic Hollywood classic has it all.
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