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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Assumpta Serna stars as the brilliant and beautiful poet Sister Juana Ines de la Cruz in this magnificent portrayal of 17th Century Mexico. In order to pursue her love of writing, Juana enters the convent and gains international renown. When the Inquisition comes, the local Vicereine (Dominique Sanda) becomes Juana's protectress and erotic muse, and soon begins a thrilling romance of startling passion and intensity.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
A young woman who escapes from her group home hoping to get her Star Trek script produced in Hollywood. With her sister and psychiatrist at her heels, she must conquer a new world full of challenges.
6) Her
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
A withdrawn writer, Theodore Twombly, falls in love with his computer's highly advanced operating system named Samantha.
Series
Criterion collection volume 301
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Special edition; widescreen.
Language
English
Description
The true-life story of Janet Frame, New Zealand's most distinguished author. The film follows Frame along her inspiring journey, from a poverty-stricken childhood to a misdiagnosis of schizophrenia and electroshock therapy to, finally, literary fame.
8) Best sellers
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
In a last-ditch effort to save her father's publishing house, an ambitious young editor goes on a book tour with an author who put the publishing house on the map decades before but is now bitter, booze-addled and hasn't written a new book since.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë face a bleak future, with their father half-blind, and troubled brother Branwell in decline. As their situation worsens, Charlotte sees that writing could offer a way out. This is the story of the sisters' great novels and their extraordinary battle for recognition.
Publisher
A24
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, right after the publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest.' Based on David Lipsky's critically-acclaimed memoir 'Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace.'
"It's a movie that makes thoughtful drama out of the essential insanity of celebrity journalism, wherein...
11) Lady on a train
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Full screen.
Language
English
Description
A young woman is witness to a murder outside her train compartment window. She sets out to solve the case after police refuse to believe her story.
Series
Criterion collection volume 856
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2017.
Edition
Blu-ray 3-disc director-approved edition.
Language
English
Description
This celebrated three-part romance captures a relationship as it begins, begins again, deepens, strains, and settles over the course of almost two decades. The trilogy includes: Before Sunrise (1995); Before Sunset (2004); and Before Midnight (2013).
13) The wife
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
While traveling to Stockholm with her husband, where he'll be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, a woman confronts the sacrifices she's made on his behalf.
Series
Criterion collection volume 856
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
This celebrated three-part romance captures a relationship as it begins, begins again, deepens, strains, and settles over the course of almost two decades. The trilogy includes new, restored 2K digital transfers of: Before Sunrise (1995); Before Sunset (2004); and Before Midnight (2013).
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
A 21st-century romantic thriller centered around a relationship that gets taken too far, When a brilliant bookstore manager crosses paths with an aspiring writer, his answer becomes clear: anything. As he uses the internet and social media to gather the most intimate of details to get close to her, a charming and awkward crush quickly becomes obsession when he quietly and strategically begins to remove every obstacle, and person, between them.
16) Scre4m
Publisher
distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
[Widescreen format].
Language
English
Description
The newest installment in the acclaimed franchise that ushered in a new wave of horror in the 1990s. In Scream 4, Sidney Prescott, now the author of a self-help book, returns home to Woodsboro on the last stop of her book tour. There she reconnects with Sheriff Dewey and Gale, who are now married, as well as her cousin Jill. Unfortunately, Sidney's appearance also brings about the return of Ghost Face, putting her friends and the whole town of Woodsboro...
18) Martin Eden
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
Adapted from a 1909 novel by Jack London yet set in a provocatively unspecified moment in Italy’s history, MARTIN EDEN is a passionate and enthralling narrative fresco in the tradition of the great Italian classics. Martin (played by the marvelously committed Luca Marinelli) is a self-taught proletarian with artistic aspirations who hopes that his dreams of becoming a writer will help him rise above his station and marry a wealthy young university...
19) Mother!
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem deliver unforgettable performances in MOTHER!, director Darren Aronofsky's praised opus. experience the visually arresting psychological thriller that will leave your heart pounding and your mind blown!
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