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Vinylmania : quando la vita corre a 33 giri al minuto / when life runs at 33 revolutions per minute
Paolo Campana"A trip into the grooves, a documentary about an object that has never lost its soul: the vinyl record."
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Manbiki kazoku / Shoplifters / Familienbande
written and dir. by Hirokazu Koreeda"The subject of belonging is at the center of the work of Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda, whose film “Shoplifters” won the Palme d’Or. His films are often about family, in its multiple and often compromised forms. With “Shoplifters,” he introduces more heartrending moral complexities than ever in an emotional story about a family that does the wrong things for the right reasons."
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Julie Cohen, Betsy West"The exceptional life and career of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who has developed a breathtaking legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon."
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Big little lies
David E. KelleyA compelling melodrama revolving around the rivalries between a group of northern-California mothers and their children at a posh Monterey elementary school.
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Tous les hommes n'habitent pas le monde de la même façon de Jean-Paul Dubois
« Paul Hansen est superintendant dans la résidence L'Excelsior. Quand il n'est pas occupé par ses fonctions de concierge ou de gardien, il apprécie s'occuper des habitants. Mais quand un nouveau gérant arrive, les conflits éclatent.. »
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Civilizations de Laurent Binet
« L'auteur réinvente l'histoire du monde en imaginant notamment que l'Europe a été envahie par les Incas, dans une version inversée de la conquête du Pérou par Pizarro. De Cuzco à Aix-la-Chapelle, et jusqu'à la bataille de Lépante. Il déroule ainsi le récit d'une mondialisation renversée telle qu'elle aurait pu avoir lieu dans d'autres conditions.. »
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La panthère des neiges de Sylvain Tesson
« En 2018, l'écrivain accompagne l'équipe du photographe V. Munier sur les hauts plateaux tibétains pour photographier les dernières panthères des neiges. Il relate cette aventure dans un environnement inhospitalier mais grandiose et livre ses réflexions sur la menace que représente l'homme pour le règne animal, sur la raréfaction des espèces et sur la spiritualité asiatique. »
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La petite Russie de Francis Desharnais
« C'est une histoire de la colonisation de l'Abitibi. Un portrait d'hommes et de femmes qui ont tout quitté pour aller s'installer dans le Nord. Le récit d'un petit village qui s'appelle Guyenne. Sauf que Guyenne n'est pas une paroisse comme les autres. C'est une coopérative. »
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Nothing left unsaid : Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper / directed by Liz Garbus
Born into one of the wealthiest and best-known families in American history, Gloria Vanderbilt has lived in the public eye for more than 90 years, unapologetically pursuing love, family and career, experiencing extreme tragedy and tremendous success side by side...
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Lo straniero / regia Luchino Visconti ; sceneggiatura Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Georges Conchon, Luchino Visconti ; dal romanzo di Albert Camus
Dal romanzo (1942) di Albert Camus: nel 1935 ad Algeri l'impiegato Mersault uccide un arabo, accanendosi a revolverate sul cadavere. Condannato a morte, non si difende durante il processo, estraneo al proprio caso. Il più opaco film di Visconti che rincorre una fedeltà illustrativa alla lettera di Camus, la poetica dell'assurdo in silenziosa rivolta contro l'inumanità dell'uomo.
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Ek din achanak [Film] = Eka dina acānaka = Suddenly, one day / directed by Mrinal Sen ; based on the Bengali novel "Beej" (Bīja) by Ramapada Chowdhury
Ek Din Achanak is based on a Bengali story titled Beej. The movie is directed by veteran Mrinal Sen and has won a lot of awards national and international awards...
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Harold and Lillian [Film] : a Hollywood love story / written and directed by Daniel Raim
Chronicles the lives and careers of Harold Michelson, a storyboard artist and production designer, and his wife Lillian, a film researcher, who eloped to Hollywood in 1947 and worked for six decades, their combined filmography totaling hundreds of movies for which their contributions went mostly uncredited.
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Edith Wharton [Film] : the sense of harmony / written and directed by Elizabeth Lennard
A definitive look at one of the greatest visionaries of the Gilded Age, a literary genius, cosmopolitan and activist, whose vivid portrayal of society still resonates today: Edith Wharton. This documentary portrait takes a sweeping look at the life and legacy of the literary master, and includes the only known film footage of Wharton in existence
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Tina Barney [Film] : social studies / directed by Jaci Judelson
Tina Barney has recorded her world for 25 years - American east coast old money society. This film follows Barney as inspiration at home waned, and she set out to photograph the same upper class milieu in Europe, in and out of grand apartments, country chateaux, hunts and parties populated by the eccentric wealthy....
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David Lynch : someone is in my house / ed. by Stijn Huijts
David Lynch has always been in the spotlight as a filmmaker, directing some of the most iconic movies ever made, but as a visual artist, he is less widely known. Lynch delights in the physicality of painting and likes to stimulate all the senses in his work. This book brings together Lynch’s paintings, photography, drawings, sculpture and installation, and stills from his films....
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Pre-Raphaelite girl gang : fifty makers, shakers and heartbreakers from the Victorian era / Kirsty Stonell Walker ; illustrations by Kingsley Nebechi
An introduction to the remarkable women of the Pre-Raphaelite art movement which began in the second half of the nineteenth century and continued through the early part of the twentieth. From models to artists, these women all contributed something personal and incredible towards the most beautiful and imaginative art movement in the world.....
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Half-blood blues / Esi Edugyan
Afro-Germans don't usually get a look-in when the narratives of Nazi Germany are told, yet the black presence in Germany goes back to at least the 18th century, and later waves of African immigrants produced German-born offspring who, by the interwar years, numbered several thousand.....
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L'insomnie : roman / Tahar Ben Jelloun
“A Tanger, un scénariste commet des meurtres afin de soulager son insomnie. Sa mère est sa première victime. Il s'associe à un infirmier et sévit dans les hôpitaux auprès de malades condamnés. En tuant un ancien tortionnaire du régime d'Hassan II, ses crimes prennent de l'ampleur. Plus la victime est importante, plus il dort. Il ignore quel crime lui permettrait de vaincre enfin son insomnie. »
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The future of capitalism : facing the new anxieties / Paul Collier
“Paul Collier is one of the world’s most influential development economists […]. In this personal, passionate and original book, he has taken on the discontent of contemporary high-income western countries. His target is the failures of contemporary capitalism.” FT
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Le tour de l'oie / Erri De Luca ; traduit de l'italien par Danièle Valin
“Un soir d'orage, un homme lit un conte pour enfant à son fils, dans la pénombre. Le narrateur rêve cette scène et un fils qui n'a jamais existé. Il imagine qu'il lui parle de sa vie, de son enfance napolitaine et, au fur et à mesure, la parole intime donne consistance à ce fils imaginaire.” Electre
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