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Sanshiro Sugata: Akira Kurosawa's effortless debut is based on a novel by Tsuneo Tomita about the rivalry between judo and jujitsu.
The most beautiful: This portrait of female volunteer workers at an optics plant during world War II, shot on location at the Nippon Kogaku factory, was created with a patriotic agenda.
Sahshiro Sugata, part two: This sequel is a hugely entertaining adventure, reuniting most of the major players from the original and...
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"This meditation on cinema's past from Decasia director Bill Morrison pieces together the bizarre true history of a long-lost collection of 533 nitrate film prints from the early 1900s. Located just south of the Arctic Circle, Dawson City was settled in 1896 and became the center of the Canadian Gold Rush that brough 100,000 prospectors to the area. It was also the final stop for a distribution chain that sent prints and newsreels to the Yukon. The...
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Kit Kittredge (2008). "Set in Cincinnati at the height of the Great Depression, Kit Kittredge, a resourceful young girl, helps her mother run a boardinghouse after her father loses his job."--Www.imdb.com.
Samantha (2004). "Set in 1904, "American Girls" revolves around Samantha as she moves in with her grandmother and learns how to become a proper Victorian young lady."--Www.imdb.com.
Molly (2006). "Molly is a girl living in the year 1944 and WWII...
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A collection of five murder mysteries featuring trenchcoat-wearing police lieutenant Columbo.
Disc one: There's much more than meets the eye when Columbo investigates the death of a magician who supposedly was killed by one of his own clever magic tricks. Columbo searches for clues on the cutting room floor when he suspects a high powered film director of hiding evidence of murder.
Disc two: Does the heart rule the head, or vice versa? Columbo ponders...
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Film programming can seem more complicated than other kinds of programming libraries offer. Irons, development librarian for the Film and Music Collection at the Pierce County Library System in Washington State, provides inspiration on aspects such as licensing, marketing, equipment, film advisory, and film displays.