Inc Kino Lorber
1) Tower
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English
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On August 1st, 1966, a sniper rode the elevator to the top floor of the iconic University of Texas Tower and opened fire, holding the campus hostage for 96 minutes in what was a previously unimaginable event. This documentary combines archival footage with animated re-enactments of the dramatic day, based entirely on first person testimonies from witnesses, heroes, and survivors, in a seamless and suspenseful retelling of the unfolding tragedy.
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English
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The inspiring story of Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Harry Chapin. Chapin sold over sixteen million albums and was one of his generation's most beloved artists and activists who spent his fame and fortune trying to end world hunger before his tragic passing. The film features a myriad of other performers intimately reflecting on Chapin's larger-than-life impact on music and the world.
3) Ali & Ava
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English
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Sparks fly as two people develop a deep connection despite the lingering legacy of past relationships. A compelling love story enveloped in music and imbued with humor. BAFTA nominee for Best British Film.
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English
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The rags to riches story of Ted Ngoy, a Cambodian refugee arriving in America in 1975 and building a multi-million-dollar empire baking America's favorite pastry, the donut. His story is one of love, hard knocks, survival, and redemption. Ted sponsored hundreds of visas for incoming refugees and helped them get on their feet teaching them the ways of the donut business. By 1979 he was living the American Dream, but a great rise can come with a great...
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English
Description
The Wiggles are having a Halloween Party and everyone is invited! Get ready for a spooktacular celebration. There's dress-ups aplenty, a Halloween feast, thirsty little vampires wanting cranberry juice, and, of course, lots of dancing including colorful skeletons doing the skeleton scat! Wiggle Town is decorated like never seen before with cobwebs, pumpkins, bats, and spiders. All the wiggly friends are there to join the party and sing and dance along...
6) Party time!
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English
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Emma, Anthony, Simon, and Lachy are planning to have a party, and all are invited! Enter the perfectly playful Master of the Australian Ballet, Mr. Paul Knobloch. Immaculate and classically impeccable, Paul the Party Planner helps the Wiggles create this interactive and entertaining release. Children will love to play and have fun with a collection of the most popular party songs, including Hokey Pokey; What's the Time, Mr Wolf?; Happy Birthday; and...
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English
Description
Director Carolyn Jones looks at how the USA's biggest public health challenges, from the COVID-19 pandemic to the opioid crisis to gun violence and lack of insurance, collide in emergency departments. She follows emergency nurses and their patients in seven unique settings across the U.S., shedding light on some of the biggest health care crises facing Americans today, and the opportunity that emergency nurses have to help break a vicious cycle for...
8) Deerskin
Language
Français
Description
In this black comedy of middle-aged masculinity gone awry, a recent divorcee who becomes obsessed with a vintage fringed deerskin jacket that begins to exert an uncanny hold on him.
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English
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Invisible Valley weaves together the disparate stories of undocumented farmworkers, wealthy snowbirds, and music festival-goers over the course of a year in California's Coachella Valley. In exploring the Valley's history as well its imperiled future, this riveting documentary uncovers an imminent environmental and social crisis, and the looming consequences for the people who call it home.
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Español
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Middle-aged Magdalena has lost contact with her son after he took off with a friend from their town of Guanajuato to cross the border into the U.S., hopeful to find work. Desperate to find out what happened to him, and to know whether or not he's even alive, she embarks on an ever-expanding and increasingly dangerous journey to discover the truth. At the same time, a young man named Miguel has returned to Mexico after being deported from the U.S.,...
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English
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THE AMERICAN NURSE is a heart-warming film that explores some of the biggest issues facing America - aging, war, poverty, prisons - through the work and lives of nurses. It is an examination of real people that will change how we think about nurses and how we wrestle with the challenges of healing America. THE AMERICAN NURSE is an important contribution to America's ongoing conversation about what it means to care. The film follows the paths of five...
12) Synonyms
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Français
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Yoav, a disaffected young Israeli who flees Tel Aviv for Paris to start a new life. Desperate to erase his origins, Yoav sees France as his only hope for salvation. He vows not to utter a single word of Hebrew, his French dictionary becoming his constant companion. He is swiftly befriended by a strange young French couple who enmesh him in a very Parisian love triangle.
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English
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A documentary about legendary photographer Bill Cunningham features photographs chosen from over three million previously unpublicized images and documents from the iconic street photographer and fashion historian. Told in Cunningham₂s own words from a 1994 interview, the photographer chronicles moonlighting as a milliner in France during the Korean War, his unique relationship with First Lady Jackie Kennedy, his four decades at The New York Times...
14) The chambermaid
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Español
Description
In her feature debut, theater director Lila Avilés turns the monotonous work day of Eve (Gabriela Cartol), a chambermaid at a high-end Mexico City hotel, into a beautifully observed film of rich detail. Set entirely in this alienating environment, with extended scenes taking place in the guest rooms, hallways, and cleaning facilities, this minimalist yet sumptuous movie brings to the fore Eve’s hopes, dreams, and desires. As with Alfonso Cuarón’s...
15) Close to Vermeer
Language
Nederlands
Description
Go behind the scenes of the largest Vermeer exhibition ever mounted, now on view at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Capturing the imagination of the art world – with glowing reviews, global publicity, and tickets sold out through the entirety of its run – the Rijksmuseum's Vermeer retrospective is nothing short of an historic event. Suzanne Raes’s film follows curators, conservators, collectors, and experts in their joint mission to shine a new...
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English
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A master thief conceives a brilliant plan to steal a fortune in gold bars from a railroad payroll car. To pull off the most daring heist in history, he must join forces with a safecracker and his own beautiful girlfriend in a series of intricately plotted thefts that will test all of their nerve, camaraderie, and larcenous skill.
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English
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Jackson Pollock said, “he makes the rest of us look academic,” Mark Rothko acknowledged him as a “myth-maker” and Clement Greenberg called him “a highly influential maverick and an independent genius.” Clyfford Still, one of the strongest, most original contributors to abstract expressionism, walked away from the commercial art world at the height of his career. Extremely disciplined, principled, and prolific, Still left behind a treasure...
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English
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A brand new portrait of the late Grammy Award-winning musician, Harry Nilsson, who the Beatles once proclaimed as their favorite artist. This gripping retrospective traces Nilsson's rise and his turbulent life as seen by many friends, including Ringo Starr, John Lennon, Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Brian Wilson, Randy Newman, Richard Perry, Robin Williams, and more.
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English
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Kids can sing and dance together and have some Wiggly Halloween fun as they listen to the spooky sounds of Halloween. They will dance like a jiggly skeleton and get their Zombie Feet moving to the beat wearing their favorite Wiggly Halloween costume, watch the adventures of the Furry Wolfman, Hey, Billy Bat! and more!
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English
Description
A music-based narrative about the day The Wiggles (Simon, Emma, Lachy, and Anthony) looked after baby Dorothy the Dinosaur for a day. Babysitting a dinosaur isn't that much different from babysitting a baby and The Wiggles are up for the challenge. Filmed on a brand-new Wiggle Town set complete with a road with a crossing, a pirate ship, The Wiggles' House, a beach, a dog kennel, and a rose garden, the adventure takes in much colorful scenery. Full...