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A Life For Ballet
(2012) [E]
For five decades famed choreographer and dancer Pierre Lacotte has made ballet his life. Chronicling his story and that of his wife and muse, prima ballerina Ghislaine Thesmar, A Life for Ballet pulls together rarely seen archival footage, personal testimonies and peak performances celebrating... More
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Paul Kelly: Stories of Me (Blu-Ray)
(2012) [M]
PAUL KELLY - STORIES OF ME charts the remarkable life of one of Australia s most gifted and beloved singer-songwriters. For almost 40 years, in over 350 songs, Paul Kelly has been mapping out the Australian landscape and its people. For the first time in a feature length film, the man behind the... More
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Paul Kelly: Stories of Me
(2012) [M]
PAUL KELLY - STORIES OF ME charts the remarkable life of one of Australia s most gifted and beloved singer-songwriters. For almost 40 years, in over 350 songs, Paul Kelly has been mapping out the Australian landscape and its people. For the first time in a feature length film, the man behind the... More
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The Rolling Stones: Charlie is My Darling (Blu-Ray)
(1965) [PG]
ABKCO Films presents a meticulously restored and fully-realized version of this first-ever, legendary, but never released film. Shot during a quick tour of Ireland just weeks after (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction hit # 1 on the charts, The Rolling Stones Charlie is my Darling - Ireland 1965 is an... More
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The Rolling Stones: Charlie is My Darling
(1965) [PG]
ABKCO Films presents a meticulously restored and fully-realized version of this first-ever, legendary, but never released film. Shot during a quick tour of Ireland just weeks after (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction hit # 1 on the charts, The Rolling Stones Charlie is my Darling - Ireland 1965 is an... More
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Koyaanisqatsi (Blu-Ray)
(1982) [G]
Life out of balance. Prepare to experience a truly remarkable film - a cinematic masterpiece so extraordinary that it regales the senses, stimulates the mind and actually redefines the potential of filmmaking. Unique... profound... mesmerising and thought-provoking, Koyaanisqatsi contrasts the... More
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The Tents: New York Fashion Week
(2010) [PG]
New York. The name is enough to make fashionistas weak at the knees. But only a few years ago, New York's now-famous fashion scene was a mess of mismanagement. The Tents traces the genesis of New York as a fashion powerhouse, the success of which is linked almost exclusively to the setting up of... More
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Cinema Asia
(2007)
Cinema Asia is a five-part documentary series that takes the viewer into the most dynamic film scene on the planet.
Asia houses some of the world’s biggest film industries - India boasts that it is the Number One film producing country in the world, while China, at Number Three is... More
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Woody Allen: A Documentary
(2011) [M]
Iconic writer, director, actor, comedian, and musician Woody Allen allowed his life and creative process to be documented on-camera for the first time. With this unprecedented access, Emmy-winning, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Robert Weide followed the notoriously private film legend over a year and... More
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Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back (Blu-Ray)
(1967) [M]
Portrait of the artist as a young man. In spring, 1965, Bob Dylan, 23, spends three weeks in England. Pennebaker's camera follows him from airport to hall, from hotel room to public house, from conversation to concert. Joan Baez and Donovan, among others, are on hand. It's the period when Dylan... More
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This is Not a Film
(2011) [G]
Jafar Panahi, the Iranian writer/director of internationally acclaimed films such as CRIMSON GOLD, THE CIRCLE and OFFSIDE, is under house arrest, and has been banned from filmmaking for 20 years. THIS IS NOT A FILM is a courageous effort by Panahi and his co-director Motjaba Mirtahmasb to fight... More
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Once Upon a Time in Cabramatta
(2012) [M]
"Once Upon a Time in Cabramatta" is the untold story of how the Vietnamese community overcame the odds and found their place in multicultural Australia. The story begins with the landmark decision of Prime Minister Fraser to open Australia's doors to thousands of refugees at the end of the... More
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Bill Cunningham New York
(2010) [PG]
A cinematic profile of the noted veteran New York City fashion photographer.
We all get dressed for Bill, says Vogue editrix Anna Wintour. The Bill in question is 80+ New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. For decades, this Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist has been obsessively and... More
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Peter Ustinov on the Orient Express
(1991) [G]
The pinnacle of luxury train travel, the Orient Express is renowned for its history, exuberance, class, beauty and mystery. Crime writer Agatha Christie brought the mystique of the journey to millions across the globe with her thrilling novel Murder on the Orient Express, and Peter Ustinov... More
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Position Among The Stars
(2010) [PG]
For 12 years, film maker Leonard Retel Helmrich followed an Indonesian family from the slums of Jakarta. Position Among The Stars is the culmination of a body of work.
Position among the Stars, the final part of a trilogy, follows the award- winning documentaries Eye of the Day and... More
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Shadow Play - The Making of Anton Corbijn
(2009) [M]
Internationally renowned artist and filmmaker Anton Corbijn has created some of his generation's seminal rock images. Photographing musicians as diverse as U2, The Killers and Nirvana among others, Corbijn has created an aesthetic which is as stark and uncompromising as it is beautiful. Shot as... More
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Senna (Blu-Ray)
(2010) [M]
A documentary on Brazilian Formula One racing driver Ayrton Senna, who won the F1 world championship three times before his death at age 34. More
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Federation
[E]
The challenge was not only to create a nation but to develop an enduring Australian democracy.
A remarkable investigation into the process that shaped ‘the Great Southern Land’ over a century ago, FEDERATION is the award winning three part documentary series, detailing... More
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Life in a Day
(2010) [PG]
A documentary shot by filmmakers all over the world that serves as a time capsule to show future generations what it was like to be alive on the 24th of July, 2010 More
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A Film Unfinished
(2010) [M]
Yael Hersonski's powerful documentary achieves a remarkable feat through its penetrating look at another film-the now-infamous Nazi-produced film about the Warsaw Ghetto. Discovered after the war, the unfinished work, with no soundtrack, quickly became a resource for historians seeking an... More
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George Harrison - Living In The Material World (Blu-Ray)
(2011) [M]
A unique and exclusive look into the life of the quiet Beatle. By the age of 25 George Harrison had achieved unparalleled international fame and financial success as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. He spent years navigating the Lennon-McCartney songwriting team, while quietly establishing... More
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George Harrison - Living In The Material World (2 disc set)
(2011) [M]
A unique and exclusive look into the life of the quiet Beatle. By the age of 25 George Harrison had achieved unparalleled international fame and financial success as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. He spent years navigating the Lennon-McCartney songwriting team, while quietly establishing... More
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Senna
(2010) [M]
A documentary on Brazilian Formula One racing driver Ayrton Senna, who won the F1 world championship three times before his death at age 34. More
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Discovering Hamlet
(1990) [E]
Shakespeare comes alive inside the Birmingham Rep Company in a truly fresh interpretation of a celebrated work. Join Sir Derek Jacobi, a Shakespearean actor who directs Kenneth Branagh as he rehearses this coveted role for the first time. See it played out as never before by articulate gifted... More
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Mrs. Carey's Concert
(2010) [PG]
At a Sydney girls School, Music Director Karen Carey prepares her young students for a concert at he Opera House. Believing in the trans-formative power of great music, Carey insists upon a Classical repertoire, sets a dauntingly high performance standard and requires the participation of every... More
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LennoNYC
(2010) [M]
The story of one of the most famous and influential artists of the Twentieth Century and how he found redemption not in the public adoration he craved as a youth, but in the quiet and simple pleasures of fatherhood. It is also an immigrant’s tale. For while John Lennon may not be your typical... More
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Two in the Wave
(2010) [PG]
Jean-Luc Godard was born in 1930; Francois Truffaut two years later. Love of movies brings them together. They write in the same magazines, Cahiers du Cinema and Arts. When the younger of the two becomes a filmmaker with The 400 Blows, which triumphs in Cannes in 1959, he helps his older friend... More
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Inside Job
(2010) [PG]
From Academy Award nominated filmmaker, Charles Ferguson (No End In Sight), comes Inside Job, the first film to expose the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008.
The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes... More
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Paris, The Luminous Years
(2010)
In the early decades of the twentieth century, a storm of modernism swept through the art worlds of the West, uprooting centuries of tradition in the visual arts, music, literature, dance, theater and beyond. The epicenter of this storm was Paris, France.
Paris The Luminous Years,... More
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The Elizabeth Taylor Story
(2011) [E]
When legendary actress Elizabeth Taylor tragically passed away at the age of 79, the world said goodbye to a woman whose name was synonymous with glamour, beauty and compassion. BIO Channel takes a two-hour intimate look at the private life of a woman who was always in the public eye in BIO... More
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