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It's 1914, and twelve-year old Darleen Darling has the most exciting job in the world - she gets to dangle from cliffs and stop moving trains and soar through the sky in runaway balloons! Yes, that's right: Darleen is a hero and a star - in the make-believe world of the movies. But Darleen's fictional adventures collide with reality when a fake kidnapping intended as a publicity stunt becomes all too real. Now she is in the hands of the dastardly...
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English
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From the bestselling author of Baumgartner comes "an emotional puzzle of one man's broken heart that the author mends, page by ingenious page" (Elle).
A man's obsession with a silent-film star sent him on a journey into a shadow world of lies, illusions, and unexpected love.
Six months after losing his wife and two young sons in an airplane crash, Vermont professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours mired in a blur of...
A man's obsession with a silent-film star sent him on a journey into a shadow world of lies, illusions, and unexpected love.
Six months after losing his wife and two young sons in an airplane crash, Vermont professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours mired in a blur of...
3) The artist
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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In 1927, George Valentin is a silent movie superstar. However, the advent of the talkies will kill his career and he will sink into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller, it seems the sky's the limit as major movie stardom awaits. Though their careers are taking different paths their destinies will become entwined.
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Winding through the nascent days of cinema in Paris and Fort Lee, New Jersey, the battlefields of Belgium during World War I, and the faded Knickerbocker Hotel in 1960s Hollywood, The Electric Hotel follows the intertwined fates of the cinematographer Claude Ballard and his muse, Sabine Montrose"--
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ChiZine Publications
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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This is a contemporary ghost story in which former Canadian film history teacher Lois Cairns - jobless and depressed in the wake of her son's autism diagnosis - accidentally discovers the existence of lost early 20th century Ontario filmmaker Mrs. A. Macalla Whitcomb. By deciding to investigate how Mrs. Whitcomb's obsessions might have led to her mysterious disappearance, Lois unwittingly invites the forces which literally haunt Mrs. Whitcomb's films...
8) City lights
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Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A tramp wins the love of a blind flower girl and attempts to obtain money from a millionaire to help her regain her sight.
Series
Criterion collection volume 232
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004
Language
日本語
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Both films concern a troupe of travelling players visiting a remote town where the ex-mistress of the leading actor lives. She has a son by the leading actor, but hasn't told her child who his father is.
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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"This meditation on cinema's past from Decasia director Bill Morrison pieces together the bizarre true history of a long-lost collection of 533 nitrate film prints from the early 1900s. Located just south of the Arctic Circle, Dawson City was settled in 1896 and became the center of the Canadian Gold Rush that brough 100,000 prospectors to the area. It was also the final stop for a distribution chain that sent prints and newsreels to the Yukon. The...
12) The kid
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Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
The Tramp rescues an abandoned baby and raises him to become his inseparable sidekick.
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Story is set in medieval Prague. The Rabbi gives life to the Golem who falls in love with the Rabbi's daughter and brings fear to the emperor's court. He is destroyed by an innocent child. Based on the legend of the Golem, a popular figure in Jewish tradition.
14) Piccadilly
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Valentine Wilmot, the owner of the popular Picadilly Club finds his lead male attraction, Victor Smiles, has quit and that the public has judged Victor's partner Mabel as over the hill. Though they are lovers, Valentine must find another dancer to replace Mabel or face an uncertain future.
15) Wings
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman (Hollywood's first "It-girl," Clara Bow), become fighter pilots in World War I. Stunningly realistic flying sequences, all filmed without faking or processing shots, highlight this story of two airmen pals and an ambulance nurse they both love, first winner of an **Academy Award** for Best Picture. Winner of Best Picture and Best Effects, Engineering Effects at the **Academy...
Publisher
Image Entertainment Corp
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Lon Chaney stars as the gentle outcast Quasimodo in the first film version of Victor Hugo's classic novel, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame. Paris of 1482 was meticulously recreated on the back lot of Universal Studios for this powerful drama that turned Chaney into a screen legend - now presented in the ultimate special edition of this timeless classic.
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In 2026, the rich rule over the poor, who live underground. One man tries to bridge the gap between the two classes. In July 2008 a complete copy of the film was discovered with an additional 25 minutes of lost footage that had not been seen since the film's premiere in 1927. After years of restoration the sci-fi epic was re-released in theaters in 2010 as The Complete Metropolis.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
In the comedy Why change your wife, a husband is lured away from his prim wife, who transforms herself into an attractive and stylish woman to win him back. In the drama Miss Lulu Bett, a unmarried sister in law is treated as the family drudge.
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