Webcasts of many of the public events the NYPL has hosted in the past few years. Speakers include Umberto Eco, Werner Herzog, Ken Burns, Robert and Aline Crumb, Jan Morris, Bill Moyers, and E. O. Wilson, among many others. link
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The British Film Institute regularly hosts public forums and an interview series at the National Film Theatre in London. Here they offer transcripts from many of their choicest interviews. They include conversationswith people such as Robert Altman, Costa-Gavras, Rickey Gervais and Stephen Merchant, andSatyajit Ray. link
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Pixar short films collection Volume 1 – DVD 3411Seven years in Tibet – DVD 3409Killer of sheep – DVD 3408Heavy metal parking lot – DVD 3407Manufactured landscapes – DVD 3406The Sopranos: season 3 – DVD 3399-3402The Sopranos: season 2 – DVD 3395-3398The Sopranos: season 1 – DVD 3391-3394
Continue readingMust-See Video: Winter Soldier
This film, long unavailable, was restored and released on DVD a couple years ago by New Yorker Films. It’s a documentary about the Winter Soldier Investigation that occurred in Detroit 1971. It was comprised of the testimony of about thirty Vietnam Veterans against the War on atrocities that were being committed daily and systematically by […]
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The iron giant – DVD 3390Hamlet (1996) – DVD 3386Berlin Alexanderplantz – DVD 3385No end in sight – DVD 2786Stanley Kubrick: a life in pictures – DVD 2787300 – DVD 2788Red road – DVD 2789
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Dnevnoy dozor=Day watch – DVD 3384Paris je t’aime=Paris, I love you – DVD 3378Checkpoint – DVD 3376The wind that shakes the barley – DVD 3374Sicko – DVD 3368The life aquatic with Steve Zissou – DVD 3367The l word: season 4 – DVD 3363 – 3366The l word: season 3 – DVD 3359 – 3362The l […]
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