Anjelica Huston
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In her first, dazzling memoir, Anjelica Huston shares the story of her deeply unconventional early life-her enchanted childhood in Ireland, living with her glamorous and artistic mother, educated by tutors and nuns, intrepid on a horse. Huston was raised on an Irish estate to which-between movies-her father, director John Huston, brought his array of extraordinary friends, from Carson McCullers and John Steinbeck to Peter O'Toole and Marlon Brando.
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"Picking up where A Story Lately Told leaves off, when Anjelica Huston is 22 years old, Watch Me is a chronicle of her glamorous and eventful Hollywood years. She writes about falling in love with Jack Nicholson and her adventurous, turbulent, high-profile, spirited 17-year relationship with him and his intoxicating circle of friends. She writes about learning how to act, about her Academy Award-winning portrayal of "Maerose Prizzi" in Prizzi's Honor,...
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Caustic wit, man about town, James McNeill Whistler was the original art star. Famous for his patent leather shoes, monocle, and uptown swagger, Whistler's theatrics attracted the curiosity of buyers and the attention of the critics. But beneath the high gloss and mannered style, the struggle of this pioneering genius to find his own voice resulted in a breakaway style that moved painting towards abstraction and would revolutionize the art world in...
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Gabriel and Gretta Conroy are enjoying a holiday party when Gretta begins to have poignant memories of a former lover who is deceased. Gabriel begins to see his life in an entirely new light with the shattering revelation of Gretta's secret past.
"...great culminating work. As such, it couldn't be more perfect."--Washington Post
"...one of the great romantic films..."--Roger Ebert
8) 50/50 (DVD)
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Inspired by personal experiences, an original story about friendship, love, survival, and finding humor in unlikely places. Two best friends' lives change when one of them is diagnosed with cancer.
"Every performance in the film is flawless."--USA Today
"...there's an undercurrent of truth and real feeling."--Roger Ebert
"...a duet of outstanding loveliness between Kendrick and Gordon-Levitt..."--Entertainment Weekly
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2010
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English
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Dramatizes two of Evelyn Waugh 's darkly humorous novels. Scoop lampoons the sensationalist press, while A Handful of Dust skewers upper-crust marriage and morals.
"Provocative."--Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"Superlative."--Los Angeles Times
"Exceptionally well done."--Entertainment Weekly
"Excellent casting, superb acting...Highly recommended."--Library Journal
12) Behaving Badly
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The award winning series of classic and contemporary fiction returns with a collection of darkly funny short stories by the likes of Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Aimee Bender, A.M. Homes, Nathan Englander, Kim, Addonizio, and George Saunders. Readers include Anjelica Huston, Neil Gaiman, Michael Imperioli, Harris Yulin, Christina Pickles, Jefferson Mays, and Christine Ebersole.
13) Buffalo '66
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C.I.A. Agent Billy Brown (Vincent Gallo) brings his wife home to meet his absurdly dysfunctional family. Only Billy's not really in the C.I.A., and his "wife," Layla (Christina Ricci), is actually a young tap dancer he just kidnapped to impress his ridiculous and unloving parents (Anjelica Huston, Ben Gazzara). In reality, Billy's whole life is an empty lie. He's fresh out of prison and now on a deadly mission to hunt down and kill the Buffalo Bills...
14) Waiting For Anya
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From the author of War Horse, a shepherd-boy risks everything to help smuggle Jewish children into Spain from German-occupied France.
16) A Cat in Paris
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From the animation studio Folimage comes a beautifully hand-drawn caper set in the alleyways of Paris. Dino is a cat that leads a double life. By day he lives with a little girl named Zoe, but at night Dino works with Nico, a cat burglar.
17) The Grifters
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The Grifters are hard-playing, high-rolling con-artists out to make a fast buck the best way they know how - playing a taut game where winner takes all, and everybody has something to lose...including their lives.
18) 50/50
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A young man struggles to come to terms with his cancer diagnosis as he is forced to question everything he thought was important in life.