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1) The wife
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"After nearly forty years of marriage, Joan and Joe Castleman are complements. Where Joe is casual, Joan is elegant. Where Joe is vain, Joan is self-effacing. And where Joe enjoys his very public role as Great American Novelist, Joan pours her considerable intellect, grace, charm, and diplomacy into the private role of Great Man's Wife. Joe is about to be awarded the Nobel Prize for his acclaimed and prolific body of work. Joe's literary star has...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
Set in the suburbs of Boulogne-Sur-Mer in northern France, this captures a film within a film as it follows the production of a feature whose director turns to the local Cit�e Picasso housing project for casting. Eager to capture performances of gritty authenticity, the director selects four working class teenagers to act in the film to the surprise and consternation of the local community, who question the director's choice of "the worst ones."...
4) Big eyes
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Walter Keane became a worldwide celebrity and talk show fixture in the 1950s after he pioneered the mass production of prints of big-eyed kids, and used his marketing savvy to sell them cheaply. Unfortunately, he claimed to be the artist. That role was played by Margaret, his shy wife. The ruse broke up their marriage and led to a divorce and a dramatic courtroom battle to prove authorship of the paintings"--source of summary not specified.
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A famous horror writer. That's what Zackie Beauchamp wants to be. He's writing a story about a giant blob monster. A pink slimy creature who eats up an entire town!Then Zackie finds the typewriter. In a burned-down antiques store. He takes it home and starts typing. But there's something really odd about that typewriter. Something really dangerous. Because now every word Zackie writes is starting to come true. Bonus features included.
Series
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Evan Treborn wants to be free of his disturbing childhood memories. As a young child, he often blacked out for long periods of time and would try to detail his life through journal writing. As a young adult, he revisits the journal entries to figure out the truth about his troubled childhood friends Kayleigh, Lenny, and Tommy. When he discovers he can travel back in time in order to set things right, he does so in order to save his beloved friends....
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
14-year-old Jamie is frustrated by the cruelty of the popular crowd at her school, especially nasty Sawyer; she writes about it in her journal, giving all the characters fictional names and characterizing herself as a girl who is popular and cool.
9) Anonymous
Series
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Was Shakespeare a fraud? Who really wrote about cloak-and-dagger political intrigue, illicit romances in the Royal Court, and the schemes of greedy nobles hungry for the power of the throne? Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, intrigue and suspense advance the theory that it was really Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, who penned Shakespeare's plays.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Documents the rise of Dalton Trumbo's career in Hollywood and his subsequent public humiliation for being among the 'Hollywood Ten' blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1940s for communist associations. Exiled and penniless, he wrote under various pseudonyms, and even won an Academy Award. Viewed by many as a moral and just man, Dalton stood for the American value and right of free expression.
11) Freedom Writers
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A true story about a teacher in a racially divided school who gives her students what they've always needed, a voice. Erin Gruwell comes to a southern California high school bubbling over with naive optimism. She quickly discovers that her unruly classroom is not easily won over by her good intentions. After a few floundering attempts to connect with her students, Gruwell gives them the assignment of keeping journals about their own lives, This assignment...
12) Kids and prayer
Author
Publisher
Paraclete Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Simple prayer ideas are used to encourage kids to talk with God about everyday life in everyday language." --
14) The wife
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The story of the couple's youthful passion and ambition interwoven with a portrait of a marriage, thirty-plus years later, a lifetime's shared compromises, secrets, betrayals, and mutual love." --
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A rollicking, inventive adaptation of the notoriously unfilmable British comic novel The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman, written by Laurence Sterne. Shandy's warped tales reveal far more than any conventional autobiography.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Français
Description
Celebrity has unexpected consequences for everyone who lives in its shadow, as the family, friends and hangers-on of a famous writer discover. Lolita's father is a writer whose fame has made him so self-centered he has no clue the effect his egotistical behavior has on everyone around him. Now that she has grown up, Lolita becomes even more determined to make him notice her - especially since she's discovered a talent of her own and would like his...
Publisher
123Genealogy
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Takes you through the steps of writing your family history. You are shown how to write your family history in small, manageable pieces, gather background information, blend family information with relevant historical context, and publish and distribute your family history book.
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Whether you're looking to launch into a new professional career as a creative nonfiction writer, dabble in the genre as a pastime, start a personal blog, or simply get inside the mind of a creative nonfiction writer at work, you'll find much to learn from and enjoy in Writing Creative Nonfiction. These 24 lectures by award-winning writing instructor and Professor Tilar J. Mazzeo of Colby College, a New York Times best-selling author, are a chance...
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Following on from the successful film An Introduction To Writing comes the second in the series, aimed at helping the aspiring writer to navigate the complex world of adding plots within their story so it carefully reveals certain information needed to build storylines and characters." --
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