Accédez à une sélection d'ouvrages choisis en coup de cœur par les collaborateurs de la Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg.
Découvrez mensuellement les sélections de la Médiathèque et du fonds non luxembourgeois. Les sélections de Luxemburgensia et de la Réserve précieuse sont régulièrement mises à jour en fonction des coups de cœur de leurs collaborateurs.
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Finding Vivian Maier [Film]
dir. by John Maloof, Charlie Siskel"Now considered one of the 20th century's greatest street photographers, Vivian Maier was a mysterious nanny who secretly took over 100,000 photographs that went unseen during her lifetime. Vivian's strange and riveting life and art are revealed through never-before-seen photos, films, and interviews with dozens who thought they knew her."
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Ragtime [Film]
dir. by Milos Forman"The page-turning joys of E.L. Doctorow's bestselling novel Ragtime, which dizzily and entertainingly paints a kaleidoscopic panorama of the racial tensions, infidelity and violence of an early 1900s America in the midst of intense social change, have been realized almost completely in Milos Forman's superbly crafted screen adaptation. Rather than trying to cram in the entire jumble of people, places, and things from the book, Forman elects instead to concentrate on the story of Coalhouse Walker Jr., a young black pianist who becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family. The result is a beautifully mounted, graceful film that develops its characters with great clarity. Perhaps only an immigrant, and a recent one such as Milos Forman, could have made this film, which looks squarely at the social problems gnawing at America but which nevertheless finds cause for hope. A truly powerhouse cast, headed by the legendary James Cagney in his final big-screen role, includes: Pat O'Brien, Elizabeth McGovern, Mary Steenburgen, Norman Mailer, Samuel L. Jackson etc."
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Rem Koolhaas - a kind of architect [Film]
Markus Heidingsfelder„Kaum ein Architekt hat in den letzten Jahren außerhalb der Architekturszene für so viel Aufsehen gesorgt wie Rem Koolhaas. Dem Holländer ging es nie um das einzelne „masterpiece“, sondern stets darum, zu provozieren und Spannung zu erzeugen. Die Seattle Library, die Casa da Música in Porto oder die Niederländische Botschaft in Berlin sind eindrucksvolle Beispiele einer Architektur, die mehr sein will als bloße Architektur.Die Bedeutung und das internationale Renommee des (Der Spiegel) bezeugen eine Professur an der Harvard-Universität und die Verleihung des Pritzker-Preises im Jahr 2000. Die Jury würdigte Koolhaas als „Visionär und Ausführer, Philosoph und Pragmatiker, Theoretiker und Prophet.“ Rem Kohlhaas presidiert die 14. Architektur Biennale in Venedig.
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Ivory tower : is college worth the cost? [Film]
dir. by Andrew Rossi"Filmmaker Andrew Rossi asks the critical question about the value of higher education, revealing how colleges have come to embrace a business model that often promotes expansion over quality learning. With student-loan debt now over the one trillion dollar mark, the film explores the current education crisis from the halls of Harvard, to community colleges, to online learning. The most compelling story is the ongoing crisis at Cooper Union, the Manhattan college founded upon the radical notion that education should be free. In 2012, financial woes led the school to consider charging tuition for the first time in its 150-year history."
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Morte di un matematico napoletano [Film]
Mario Martone"Maggio 1959. Nella sala d'aspetto della stazione di Roma viene fermato dalla polizia per un controllo un uomo dall'aria distinta ma trasandato. Si tratta del matematico napoletano Renato Caccioppoli, un uomo geniale ed eccentrico, molto conosciuto in tutta Napoli. Il mattino successivo un commissario di polizia contatta suo fratello Luigi, che lo accoglie in casa sua e di sua moglie. Ma Renato non vuole vicino nessuno; l'unico che sopporta è Pietro, un giovane studente universitario. Nipote di Bakunin per parte di madre, e divenuto estraneo ai suoi stessi compagni di partito del PCI e ai suoi collaboratori all'Ateneo, vive la sua vita con disincantato distacco. Frutto dell'intreccio culturale e umano nato intorno all'esperienza dei Teatri Uniti di Napoli, la pellicola offre una rappresentazione di una Napoli crepuscolare, ripercorrendo la vicenda biografica del matematico napoletano."
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Space Tourists [Film]
dir. by Christian Frei"This documentary succeeds in surprising its audience with images and situations that have very little to do with the futuristic fantasy of "space tourism". The filmmaker sets up encounters with the least likely people imaginable, with places even stranger and more unknown than outer space itself. With extra-ordinary access and truly first-time images the film investigates the emotional oscillations of an expensive enterprise and questions the meaning and boundaries of the human spirit and our hunger for adventure and discovery."
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The unknown known [Film]
dir. by Errol Morris"This documentary succeeds in surprising its audience with images and situations that have very little to do with the futuristic fantasy of "space tourism". The filmmaker sets up encounters with the least likely people imaginable, with places even stranger and more unknown than outer space itself. With extra-ordinary access and truly first-time images the film investigates the emotional oscillations of an expensive enterprise and questions the meaning and boundaries of the human spirit and our hunger for adventure and discovery."