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1) Beat hotel
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
1957, Paris. A cheap no-name hotel becomes a haven for a new breed of artists struggling to free themselves from the conformity and censorship of America. Called the Beat hotel, it soon became an epicenter of the beat generation. This revelatory new documentary delves deep into this amazing place and time. Fleeing the obscenity trials surrounding the publication of Howl, Allen Ginsberg, along with Peter Orlovsky and Gregory Corso, happened upon the...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Agatha Christie ranks as one of the most successful writers of all time. Combining rare access to Christie's family and her personal archive, the show gives viewers a never-before-seen look into the late crime writer's fascinating life story.
Retraces the celebrated English writer's footsteps across the England. With access to both her family and those who lived with her and knew her best.
3) LennoNYC
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
As the world remembered John Lennon on what would have been his 70th birthday, and the 30th anniversary of his death, a new film takes an intimate look at the time Lennon, Yoko Ono, and their son, Sean, spent living in New York City during the 1970s. Featuring never-before-heard studio recordings and never-before-seen outtakes from Lennon in concert and home movies.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Documents the first residence and workplace Wright designed for himself, including his home and studio in Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago. Here is where he envisioned and tested many of the basic principles that he would develop through his career, principles now synonymous with organic architecture. Part two features an interactive tour of the home and studio. Includes interviews and a slide show.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Archival films and photographs are used to describe Wright's childhood homes, as well as the homes of his early adult life in Illinois and later adult life in Wisconsin and Arizona. Discusses how his development as an architect is best seen in the three homes he built for himself. Includes commentary by experts.
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"In 1965, Wendell Berry returned home to Henry County, where he bought a small farm house and began a life of farming, writing and teaching. This lifelong relationship with the land and community would come to form the core of his prolific writings. A half century later Henry County, like many rural communities across America, has become a place of quiet ideological struggle. In the span of a generation, the agrarian virtues of simplicity, land stewardship,...
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