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- The Stand Up Sketch Show: S1. by Campion, Matt,film director.; Baptiste, Dane,actor.; Ward, Felicity,actor.; Graham, Ivo,actor.; Dommett, Joel,actor.; Hughes, London,actor.; Kane, Russell,actor.; Walsh, Seann,actor.; Allen, Tom,actor.; BBC Studios (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Dane Baptiste, Felicity Ward, Ivo Graham, Joel Dommett, London Hughes, Russell Kane, Seann Walsh, Tom AllenOriginally produced by BBC Studios in 2019.Takes the funniest routines from the UK’s best-loved comedians, and brings them side-splittingly to life in sketch form. Each act begins telling their story in front of a live audience. As they continue their narration on stage, there’s no need to picture the scene yourself – a surreal short-film reconstruction does the work for you. Every scene sees the comedians play the roles they were born to play – themselves. And as their voiceover describes the action, dialogue in the routines is lip-synced by the sketch performers.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Subjects: Feature films.; Television series.; Motion pictures.; Comedy films.;
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- Miss May does not exist : the life and work of Elaine May, Hollywood's hidden genius / by Courogen, Carrie,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Miss May Does Not Exist, by Carrie Courogen is the riveting biography of comedian, director, actor and writer Elaine May, one of America's greatest comic geniuses. May began her career as one-half of the legendary comedy team known as Nichols and May, the duo that revolutionized the comedy sketch. After performing their Broadway smash An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May, Elaine set out on her own. She toiled unsuccessfully on Broadway for a while, but then headed to Hollywood where she became the director of A New Leaf, The Heartbreak Kid, Mikey and Nicky, and the legendary Ishtar. She was hired as a script doctor on countless films like Heaven Can Wait, Reds, Tootsie, and The Birdcage. In 2019, she returned to Broadway where she won the Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in The Waverly Gallery. Besides her considerable talent, May is well known for her reclusiveness. On one of the albums she made with Mike Nichols, her bio is this: "Miss May does not exist." Until now. Carrie Courogen has uncovered the Elaine May who does exist. Conducting countless interviews, she has filled in the blanks May has forcibly kept blank for years, creating a fascinating portrait of the way women were mistreated and held back in Hollywood. Miss May Does Not Exist is a remarkable love story about a prickly genius who was never easy to work with, not always easy to love and frequently often punished for those things, despite revolutionizing the way we think about comedy, acting, and what a film or play can be"--
- Subjects: Biographies.; May, Elaine, 1932-; Women comedians; Women motion picture producers and directors; Women screenwriters;
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- The Stand Up Sketch Show. by Baptiste, Dane,actor.; Ward, Felicity,actor.; Graham, Ivo,actor.; Dommett, Joel,actor.; Hughes, London,actor.; Kane, Russell,actor.; Walsh, Seann,actor.; Allen, Tom,actor.; BBC Studios (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Dane Baptiste, Felicity Ward, Ivo Graham, Joel Dommett, London Hughes, Russell Kane, Seann Walsh, Tom AllenOriginally produced by BBC Studios in 2019.Takes the funniest routines from the UK’s best-loved comedians, and brings them side-splittingly to life in sketch form. Each act begins telling their story in front of a live audience. As they continue their narration on stage, there’s no need to picture the scene yourself – a surreal short-film reconstruction does the work for you. Every scene sees the comedians play the roles they were born to play – themselves. And as their voiceover describes the action, dialogue in the routines is lip-synced by the sketch performers.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Subjects: Feature films.; Television series.; Motion pictures.; Comedy films.; Comedians.; Television comedies.; Television series--Great Britain.; Comedy sketches.;
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- African Giants. by S. Kamara, Omar,film director.; Daniel Mutyaba, Dillon,actor.; Anassi, Omete,actor.; Waivers, Tanyell,actor.; Juno Films (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Dillon Daniel Mutyaba, Omete Anassi, Tanyell WaiversOriginally produced by Juno Films in 2024.Taking place over a weekend visit in Los Angeles, the film watches as two first-generation Sierra Leonean American siblings navigate the changing dynamics of brotherhood after a surprise announcement. Elder brother Alhaji (Dillon Daniel Mutyaba), an aspiring actor living in Los Angeles, is visited for a weekend by his younger brother, Sheku (Omete Anassi), a second-year law student at George Washington University. Unknown to Alhaji, Sheku has come with a specific intention: to reveal that he will be dropping out of law school and moving to LA to pursue acting, just like his older brother. As the weekend draws to a close, the two must reconcile with each other and familial expectations.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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- Silver linings playbook [videorecording] / by Cooper, Bradley.; De Niro, Robert.; Lawrence, Jennifer,1990-; Quick, Matthew,1973-Silver linings playbook.Videorecording.; Russell, David O.,1958-; Tucker, Chris.; Weaver, Jacki,1947-; Entertainment One (Firm : Canada); Weinstein Company.;
Music by Danny Elfman ; director of photography, Masanobu Takayanagi ; edited by Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers.Robert De Niro, Chris Tucker, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Jacki Weaver.Bradley Cooper is Pat, a bipolar man from Philadelphia who has spent the last eight months in a mental hospital. He was ordered there after a violent incident involving his wife and another man. Pat moves in with his father (Robert De Niro), a lifelong Eagles fan who has low-level OCD issues. Pat wants to get back together with his wife, even though there is a restraining order keeping him from contacting her. He soon befriends Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), a depressed young woman who's mourning the death of her husband by engaging in compulsive sex with almost everyone she meets; she also knows his wife and offers to deliver a letter of his to her if he acts as her partner in a local dance competition.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, widescreen presentation, Dolby digital 5.1.Winner of Academy Award for Best Actress (Jennifer Lawrence)
- Subjects: Comedy films.; Dance Competitions; Denial (Psychology); Depression, Mental; Divorced men; Fathers and sons; Feature films.; Man-woman relationships; Romantic comedy films.; Widows;
- © c2013., Weinstein Company ; Distributed by Entertainment One,
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- Parachute. by Snow, Brittany,film director.; Eaton, Courtney,actor.; Bautista, Dave,actor.; Reale, Francesca,actor.; Rodriguez, Gina,actor.; McHale, Joel,actor.; Cudi, Kid,actor.; Mann, Thomas,actor.; Vertical Entertainment (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Courtney Eaton, Dave Bautista, Francesca Reale, Gina Rodriguez, Joel McHale, Kid Cudi, Thomas MannOriginally produced by Vertical Entertainment in 2023.Riley (Courtney Eaton) is a fun and energetic young woman, but struggles with an eating disorder and body image issues. Ethan (Thomas Mann) is a once-promising musician in the end of his 20s. The two meet and just “click.” To Ethan, all of Riley’s flaws are beautiful, and he wants to help her see herself the way he does. Riley adores Ethan and is inspired by his talent and selflessness. Their relationship is a balancing act between their love for each other and their combustible personal issues. But they truly feel like soulmates and the world makes sense only when they take it on together.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; Romance.;
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- The nightingale [videorecording] / by Claflin, Sam,1986-actor.; Kent, Jennifer(Film director),film director,screenwriter,film producer.; Franciosi, Aisling,1993-actor.; Ganambarr, Baykali,actor.; Herriman, Damon,1970-actor.; Sheasby, Michael,actor.; Mongrel Media,film distributor.;
Damon Herriman, Sam Claflin, Aisling Franciosi, Michael Sheasby, Baykali Ganambarr.Set in 1825, Clare, a young Irish convict woman, chases a British officer through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. On the way she enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker named Billy, who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A.MPAA rating: R.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Thrillers (Motion pictures); Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Revenge; Irish; Rape; Women prisoners; Aboriginal Australians;
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- The general of Tiananmen Square / by Hamilton, Ian,1946-author.;
Ava Lee is in the French Riviera with Pang Fai and Lau Lau for the long-awaited premiere of Tiananmen at the Cannes Film Festival. As the film collects numerous awards and international acclaim, a distribution deal with a major American firm is arranged by the film's producer, Chen. When several months go by with no word from the Americans, Chen decides to travel to Los Angeles to determine what is preventing the film's release. En route from his home in Bangkok, Chen goes missing. Ava is called in to investigate and soon learns that Chen is being held by the Thai immigration services on orders of the Chinese government, which is unhappy with the film's depiction of the infamous massacre at Tiananmen Square and seeks to punish those responsible for its production. To protect her investment, Ava must find a way for Tiananmen to be released, while keeping secret her own involvement in the film's creation and ensuring her friends are kept safe from retribution. It's a difficult balancing act, perhaps the most difficult of her life - the stakes have never been higher nor has failure been more costly.
- Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Investigations; Lee, Ava (Fictitious character); Motion pictures; Secrecy;
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- Black Ops. by Ndifornyen, Akemnji,actor.; Ikumelo, Gbemisola,actor.; Tucker, Joe,actor.; Woolf, Lloyd,actor.; BBC Studios (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Akemnji Ndifornyen, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Joe Tucker, Lloyd WoolfOriginally produced by BBC Studios in 2023.A comedy-thriller about two likeable police community support officers who find themselves thrust into the dangerous world of undercover work.Dom and Kay are two young, black community support officers. They’ve never so much as made an arrest when they’re co-opted into an off-the-books mission by a maverick detective to infiltrate a notorious drugs gang. Once they’re in the gang, disaster strikes – they lose all protection and are tasked with burying a body. The out of their depth duo are forced to act as drug dealers while desperately trying to escape from an increasingly perilous situation. With their lives under threat, they resolve to follow a shadowy lead to track down the elusive head of the undercover operation. But will the pair stop bickering for long enough to achieve this in time?Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Subjects: Feature films.; Television series.; Motion pictures.; Comedy films.; Crime.;
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- The foreigner [videorecording] / by Brady, Orla,1961-actor.; Brosnan, Pierce,actor.; Campbell, Martin,film director.; Cheng, Long,1954-actor.; Crowley, Dermot,actor.; Fearon, Ray,actor.; Fleck Byrne, Rory,actor.; Godfrey, Wayne Marc,1981-film producer.; Kupchak, Claire,film producer.; Liu, Tao,1978 July-actor.; Lumpkin, D. Scott,film producer.; Marconi, David,screenwriter.; Marshall, Jaime(Producer),film producer.; McElhatton, Michael,1963-actor.; Murphy, Charlie,1988-actor.; Qi, Jianhong,film producer.; Sarkissian, Arthur,film producer.; Schulman, Cathy,film producer.; Williams, Lia,actor.; Zeng, John,film producer.; motion picture adaptation of (work):Leather, Stephen.Chinaman.; Entertainer Production Company Limited,production company.; Fyzz Facility (Firm),production company.; Huayi Brothers Pictures,presenter.; Sparkle Roll Media Corporation,presenter.; STX Entertainment,presenter.; Videoville Showtime,film distributor.; Wanda Media Co., Ltd,presenter.;
Director of photography, David Tattersall ; editor, Angela M. Catanzaro ; music, Cliff Martinez.Jackie Chan, Pierce Brosnan, Orla Brady, Dermot Crowley, Ray Fearon, Rory Fleck Byrne, Michael McElhatton, Charlie Murphy, Liu Tao, Lia Williams.A humble businessman with a buried past seeks justice when his daughter is killed in an act of terrorism. A cat and mouse conflict ensues with a government official, whose past may hold clues to the killers' identities.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for violence, language and some sexual material.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Fathers and daughters; Revenge; Terrorism;
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