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1) CREED
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Simon & Schuster
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2023
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The legend and saga of Creed continues in graphic novels, under the creative direction of director and star Michael B. Jordan and Outlier Society!
Ten years after the events of the blockbuster film, Creed 3, Amara Creed is on her own path, weaving outside her father Adonis Creed?s shadow, training like there?s no tomorrow.
But when her division opponents no longer present a challenge, Amara's drive will have her follow in her father's footsteps...
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Showcasing 52 Essential films from the silent era through the 1980s, Turner Classic Movies invites you into a world filled with stirring performances, dazzling musical numbers, and bold directorial visions that mark the greatest moments in film history.
Since its inception on Turner Classic Movies in 2001, The Essentials has become the ultimate series for movie lovers to expand their knowledge of must-see cinema and discover or revisit landmark films...
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It wasn't the first or last of the disaster pictures, but it was the best of them all, yet its producer had no way of knowing that his career would never again reach those heights.The Towering Inferno (1974) was the crowning achievement of über-producer Irwin Allen, the self-proclaimed "Master of disaster." Crafted from two best-selling books and with a budget-busting cast headed by two mega-stars, it took two studios to bring it to the screen.In...
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"Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn't check out Rotten Tomatoes or IMDB. You asked whether Siskel & Ebert had given it 'two thumbs up'"--
When Gene Siskel, a film critic for the Chicago Tribune, and Roger Ebert, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his work at the Chicago Sun-Times, reluctantly agreed to collaborate on a new movie review show with PBS, there was at least as much sparring off-camera as on. Their...
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St. Francis of Assisi was an extraordinarily complex and difficult figure whose effect on his contemporary society was electrifying. Even today, many people are moved by his visionary message of universal toleration. Twelfth-century Italy had an exceptionally grim and regimented society, but the barefoot monk from Assisi undoubtedly had the courage that comes from deep faith and was able to transcend the oppressiveness of the time. In this Italian/British-produced...
6) Swing Kids
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It's 1939 and Nazi Germany has declared war on freedom, demanding conformity from its youth. But a group calling themselves SWING KIDS rebel with their "swing" music from America and dare to stand up against the powerful forces around them. Robert Sean Leonard and Christian Bale deliver gripping performances as two friends who must choose between their individual freedom or loyalty to the murderous Third Reich. Also featuring Barbara Hershey, SWING...
8) Pretty Baby
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Internationally acclaimed director Louis Malle has taken a taboo subject - child prostitution - and has created in Pretty Baby a film of humanity and beauty. E.J. Bellocq (Keith Carradine) is a photographer obsessed with the prostitutes in New Orleans' red-light district. Violet (12-year-old Brooke Shields), a young girl in 1917, bewitches Carradine with her curiosity and naive coquettishness. Malle's level-headed treatment of this controversial theme...
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A behind-the-scenes account of life at Ealing Studios-one of the great cinematic success stories of post-war Britain, and a byword for a particular strain of comic film-making that continues to inspire imitators over half a century on.
This is the only full narrative history of Ealing, focusing on its output in the 1940s and '50s, when the movies made there were in astonishing (and revealing) synchronicity with the national mood. Told through the...
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Despite the heroic efforts of John Connor and Kate Webster, and the ultimate sacrifice of a T-850 terminator, Skynet became operational and mobilized its machine forces in all-out war against its prime enemy: mankind. More than twenty years later the war continues, fought by human resistance forces led by John and Kate, and by people in secret enclaves around the world. Raiding machine facilities, using small guerrilla forces to sabotage and destroy...
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Vestida de azul de Antonio Giménez-Rico fue el primer documental español protagonizado por seis mujeres transexuales que se estrenó en salas comerciales. Hoy, 35 años después y con la perspectiva que da el paso del tiempo, la periodista Valeria Vegas analiza cómo los medios y el cine abordaban la transexualidad en una época verdaderamente hostil para un colectivo tan expuesto como minoritario. A través de las circunstancias que rodearon a...
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Little Shoppe of Horrors magazine #15The Making of THE CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF The 1960 Hammer Horror that is probably the best werewolf film ever made. Full of exclusive interviews and behind-the scenes information. Read what Yvonne Romain thought about Reed and her role in the film!"Interview with the Werewolf – Or How Day Turned into Night in the Company of Oliver Reed"Want to know all about Reed's thoughts on CURSE and Hammer - and what happens...
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One of the most critically acclaimed war films in recent memory, The Hurt Locker is a riveting, extraordinary tale of courage and survival on the Baghdad bomb squad, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, from a script by Mark Boal, who researched the material by traveling to the war in Iraq. Boal's screenplay follows the layered, complex relationship between three soldiers who are thrown together in the crucible of combat-with only 38 days left in their tour....
15) Shooting to Kill
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Complete with behind-the-scenes diary entries from the set of Vachon's best-known fillms, Shooting to Kill offers all the satisfaction of an intimate memoir from the frontlines of independent filmmakins, from one of its most successful agent provocateurs -- and survivors. Hailed by the New York Times as the "godmother to the politically committed film" and by Interview as a true "auteur producer," Christine Vachon has made her name with such bold,...
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Legendary film director Robert Wise called the Whistler features, "examples of budget filmmaking at its very best." Noted B movie historian Don Miller cited them as, "the best B pics of the period from Columbia." Famed film critic/historian Leonard Maltin referred to the series as "one of the most unusual- and one of the best mystery series of the 30's and 40's. . ." Based on J. Donald Wilson's hit radio suspense program featuring ironic tales of...
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An analysis of Hollywood films that blend elements of musicals and film noir, from the author of Blackout: World War II and the Origins of Film Noir.
Welcome to the world of "noir musical" films, where tormented antiheroes and hard-boiled musicians battle obsession and struggle with their music and ill-fated love triangles. Sultry divas dance and sing the blues in shrouded nightclubs. Romantic intrigue clashes with backstage careers.
In her pioneering...
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Cinema has always engaged with the experiences, hopes, fears, and anxieties of-and about-adolescents, teenagers, and young people. This book is a comprehensive and accessible history of the depiction of teenagers in American film, from the silent era to the twenty-first century.
Timothy Shary explores the development of teenage roles across eras and industrial cycles, such as the juvenile delinquent pictures of the 1950s, the beach movies of the...
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Interesting publication by Denisa Jánská and Monika Horsáková mapping part of the Czech tradition of animated film, the history of the Ostrava studio of the Short Film Prométheus and its current successor QQ studio Ostrava. You will find not only information about the flagship films and rich image material, but also a biography and personal memories of the creators from Ostrava, who left an indelible mark in the history of Czech animated film....
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Los films analizados en este libro constituyen un campo de análisis con el que los "momentos de memoria" guardan una estrecha relación con las políticas memorísticas, ya que se vinculan con los diferentes modos de representación de esa memoria.
A partir de ello, se avanza sobre la elección en el tratamiento del tema y sus representaciones, muchas de ellas en consonancia con la estrategia política de cada período, otras, en cambio, conforman...
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