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1) Lullaby
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Veteran husband-and-wife acting team Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson star as a 38-year-old truck driver and a weary cigarette girl from a nightclub, who elope and discover they know very little about each other. In this bittersweet 1954 Broadway comedy from Don Appell, the truck driver is a mama's boy with a domineering mother, who gives the young couple no peace or privacy on their honeymoon - and soon the marriage turns into an eternal triangle, with...
2) Lucky Jim
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Kingsley Amis's most famous book, often considered the funniest campus novel ever written, is here adapted into a highly successful comedy. Jim Dixon, an intelligent but hapless junior lecturer, tries to please a dim senior professor and a boring girlfriend, until things change dramatically for him. His misadventures are both hilarious and pitiful. As Jim Dixon, the British actor Ian Carmichael gave what some regard as his finest performance. Also...
3) Tongpan
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The British Film Institute calls Tongpan "One of the most important "third world" films of the decade. It is based on the real life experience of a farmer from the poverty-stricken Northeast region of Thailand. Tongpan and his family are forced off their land when a dam built nearby caused their farm to be flooded and left it parched in the dry.
4) Paper Wheat
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Paper Wheat is a classic film about the play of the same name, which offers a collage of vignettes that epitomize three quarters of a century of Canadian Prairie history. This documentary describes the harsh lives of the early Saskatchewan settlers and the foundation of the co-op movement on the Prairies. With great sensitivity and ingenious staging, the 25th Street Theatre Centre troupe brings to life an era in Canadian history: the development of...
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This widely praised adaption of Somerset Maugham's novel stars Bette Davis in one of her finest roles. The protagonist is young, club-footed Philip Carey (played by Leslie Howard), who falls in love with a cold-hearted waitress. Also starring Reginald Denny, Alan Hale, Irene Rich.
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Building on critical and audience acclaim for his film Nobelity, Turk Pipkin is continuing his global journey of knowledge and action with the feature film One Peace at a Time. While Nobelity deals with global problems, One Peace at a Time focuses on specific solutions. The goal is to create a virtual roadmap to a better future. One Peace at a Time is an opportunity for individuals, businesses, and foundations to reach out and change the world....