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English
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In his new play, Chaucer in Rome, it is the year 2000, and Ron and his wife come to Rome to search for their son. And with his inimitable wit and understanding, Guare has written a scathingly funny satire on the warping hunger for fame, and the betrayal involved in creating art.
Publisher
Rising Sun Media Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Portuguese
Description
Obsessed with the promises of supernatural pleasure, tattoo artist Gregorio entangles two young women, Dri and Lia, into his demonic web, intent on bringing the female demon Astaroth to Earth. But their friend Mai, a skilled martial artist, is ready to fight against Hell's plans!
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English
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A brood of famous and longing-to-be-famous creative artists have gathered at their summer home during the Williamstown Theatre Festival. When the weekend takes an unexpected turn, everyone is forced to improvise, inciting a series of simmering jealousies, romantic outbursts, and passionate soul-searching. Both witty and compelling, The Country House provides a piercing look at a family of performers coming to terms with the roles they play in each...
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Claude Monet recalls the story of the Impressionists - a movement that shook the foundation of the art world. He and fellow painters Auguste Renoir and Frederic Bazille begin a forty-year struggle against the Salon, the annual state art exhibition
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A play about the imagined fault line between black and white lives by Claudia Rankine, the author of Citizen. The White Card stages a conversation that is both informed and derailed by the black/white American drama. The scenes in this one-act play, for all the characters' disagreements, stalemates, and seeming impasses, explore what happens if one is willing to stay in the room when it is painful to bear the pressure to listen and the obligation...
9) Heartland
Publisher
Wolfe Video LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Lauren, a young Oklahoma artist struggling with a recent death, finds escape in a reckless affair with her brother's girlfriend.
10) Georgia O'Keeffe
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Follows the life of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe and her tumultuous relationship with her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz. As their relationship suffers, Alfred takes a younger lover. Georgia's search for solace moves her west, where she finds new inspiration for her paintings, and ultimately her own voice, in the New Mexico landscape.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1026
Language
English
Description
A lonely shoe salesman and an eccentric performance artist struggle to connect in this unique take on contemporary life.
12) Candyman
Language
English
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Oscar' winner Jordan Peele and filmmaker Nia DaCosta unleash a fresh take on the blood-chilling urban legend: Candyman. For decades, the housing projects of Chicago's Cabrini-Green were terrorized by a ghost story about a supernatural, hook handed killer. In present day, an artist begins to explore the macabre history of Candyman, not knowing it would unravel his sanity and unleash a terrifying wave of violence that puts him on a collision course...
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English
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In the not-too-distant future, humankind is adapting to its toxic environment via mutation or surgery. Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen) and his partner Caprice (Léa Seydoux) present his mutations as performance artists, while Timlin (Kristen Stewart), a government investigator, tracks their movements. Saul's notoriety incites a mysterious group to unveil the next phase of human evolution.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Andy Warhol taped conversations he had with Truman Capote in preparation for a play they were to write; it was never made. Roth has taken the men's words from the recordings and imagined the structure of conversations to make his play "Warholcapote," which provides an intimate look at their friendship and their thoughts on life, love, art, and everything in between.
15) Flux gourmet
Publisher
IFC Midnight
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
A dysfunctional sonic collective a band devoted to the sounds of the culinary arts navigates rivalries internal and external in this absurdly original feast for the sense from the singular Peter Strickland (IN FABRIC, DUKE OF BURGUNDY).
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Thure Lindhardt (Keep the Lights On) stars in this quirky horror-comedy as Lars, a former darling of the art scene slipping away into the land of has-beens and struggling with lack of inspiration. When Lars’ art dealer Ronny arranges a teaching job in a small town as a “therapeutic measure” to stir up his creative juices, things don’t quite turn out as planned. At first, life in the peaceful small town seems rosy, as he settles in and impresses...
17) The grandmaster
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
中文
Description
The story of martial arts master Ip Man, who trained Bruce Lee.
18) Hour of the wolf
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Language
Swedish
Description
A brooding artist accompanied by his wife travels to a remote island where he hopes to escape his demons.
19) The goldfinch
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Theodore 'Theo' Decker was thirteen years old when his mother was killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The tragedy changes the course of his life, sending him on a stirring odyssey of grief and guilt, reinvention and redemption, and even love. Through it all, he holds on to one tangible piece of hope from that terrible day, a painting of a tiny bird chained to its perch.
20) The family Fang
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Adult siblings Baxter and Annie, scarred from an unconventional upbringing, return to their family home. When their parents, performance artists famous for elaborate public hoaxes, go missing under troubling circumstances, Baxter and Annie investigate. Unsure whether it's foul play or just another elaborate ruse, nothing can prepare them for what they discover.
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