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Carrington
Rated R
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| Dora Carrington was an artist and graduate of the Slade Art School in London. During the 1920s the became associated with the famous Bloomsbury Group, a group of artists and writers that included Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West. "Carrington" depicts the life of this talented and strong willed woman and explores her role and relationships with the Bloomsbury Group. |
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Georgia O'Keefe
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| Georgia O'Keefe is perhaps the most well-known woman artist of all times. Her striking paintings of nature and the desert are familiar to people around the world. In this made-for-television film that is one of the Women in Art series, O'Keefe talks candidly about her life and her work, describing what is really outside of Sante Fe. Other artists in the series include: Impressionist Mary Cassatt and sculptor Louise Nevelson. |
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Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision
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| This award-winning documentary is about architect/artist Maya Lin, who at the age of 20 designed the controversial Vietnam Veteran's Memorial in Washington, D.C.. A portrait of an artist at work, the film gives a wonderful feeling for the creative process of this person. It also shows some of her other work--a house, an installation at a museum and the Civil Rights Memorial in Alabama. |
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Orlando
Rated PG-13
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| Written and directed by Sally Potter, Orlando brings the classes gender-bending Virginia Woolf novel to the screen. During the course of the movie Orlando not only travels through time (from the eighteenth century to the present) but also manages to change genders (from male to female). He (or is it she?) is very imaginative. |
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Directed by Sally Potter
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Selena
Rated PG
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| Selena was topping the dance charts when her untimely death became a tragic moment in many people's lives and turned her into a martyr for the chicano and latino communities. This documentary examines the cultural forces that surrounded her death. |
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The Turning Point
Rated PG
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| Anne Bancroft stars as Emma, an aging ballet dancer who meets up with her old rival, Deedee is showing incredible promise as a ballerina. The film has beautiful dance sequences with Mikhail Baryshinikov also. |
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