Julia Phillips
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On the island off the coast of Washington where Sam and Elena were raised, they watch their mother struggle and dream of another life. They both work for the vacationers and rich people on the island, but can't get enough to get by, stirring their frustration about the limits shaping their existence. One night, Sam spots a bear swimming in the dark waters of the channel, and when the bear turns up by their home, she is terrified and more convinced...
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"One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the Kamchatka peninsula at the northeastern edge of Russia, two girls -- sisters, eight and eleven -- go missing. In the ensuing weeks, then months, the police investigation turns up nothing. Echoes of the disappearance reverberate across a tightly woven community, with the fear and loss felt most deeply among its women. Taking us through a year in Kamchatka, Disappearing Earth enters with astonishing emotional...
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Roy Neary witnesses the arrival of flying saucer from an alien world. Thus begins an incredible series of events, culminating in the ultimate encounter with other-worlders as Neary is led aboard the awesome Mothership.
Disc one: Widescreen presentation ; scene selections with motion images -- Disc two: Making-of documentary ; 1977 featurette "Watching the skies" ; 11 deleted scenes ; filmographies ; Theatrical trailers.
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2002
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1 videodisc (approx. 137 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Roy Neary witnesses the arrival of flying saucer from an alien world. Thus begins an incredible series of events, culminating in the ultimate encounter with other-worlders as Neary is led aboard the awesome Mothership.
6) The sting
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[2012]
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1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A young con man teams up with a seasoned con man to win money from a criminal banker in 1930s Chicago.
7) Taxi driver
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[1999]
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1 videodisc (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A New York cab driver is driven to obsession when he attempts to save a teenage prostitute and embarks on a violent rampage against a world of filth and corruption.
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2025.
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240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 33 cm
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"Over the last five decades, Martin Puryear (b. 1941) has pioneered an influential sculptural language that integrates wide-ranging aesthetic traditions and techniques of production with roots around the world. Through his innovative use of form, materials, and process, Puryear's work exemplifies the expressive potential for abstraction in our time. This book highlights the global histories that have shaped Puryear's practice, offering a fresh and...
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2007.
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3 videodiscs (approximately 404 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm), 1 fold-out poster (38 x 56 cm)
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Roy Neary is a cable worker who, along with several others, become stunned bystanders who have experienced a close encounter of the first kind - witnessing UFOs soar across the sky. After this life-changing event, the inexplicable vision of a strange, mountain-like formation haunts him. He becomes obsessed with discovering what it represents. Meanwhile, bizarre occurrences are happening around the world. Government agents have close encounters of...
