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Wear and Tear: The Threads of My Life
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“Tracy Tynan uses the universal medium of clothing to tell the highly specific story of her bohemian British upbringing, and she does so with wit, candor, and yes—style” (Lena Dunham).Tracy Peacock Tynan grew up in London in the 1950’s and 60s, privy to her parents’ glamorous parties and famous friends—Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, and Orson Welles. Cecil Beaton and Katharine Hepburn were her godparents. These stylish showbiz people were role models for Tracy, who became a clotheshorse at a young age. Tracy’s father, Kenneth Tynan, was a powerful theater critic and writer for the Evening Standard, The Observer, and The New Yorker. Her mother was Elaine Dundy, a successful novelist and biographer, whose works have recently been revived by The New York Review of Books. Both of Tracy’s parents, particularly her father, were known as much for what they wore as what they wrote. In her “moving, candid, and often hilarious” memoir (Wall Street Journal), Tracy recalls her father’s dandy attire and her mother’s Pucci dresses, as well as her parents’ rancorous marriage and divorce, her father’s prodigious talents and celebrity lifestyle, and her mother’s lifelong struggle with addiction. She tackles issues big and small—relationships, marriage, children, stepchildren, blended families, her parent’s decline and deaths, and her work as a costume designer—with humor, insight, and with the special joy that can only come from finding the perfect outfit. “A powerful concoction of famous names, famous fashions, and famous psychiatric disorders…Wear and Tear is just the thing for a weekend in the Hamptons” (New York Post).
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- Checked on 19/03/2023
- Based on 32 Reviews
Hamilton: One Shot to Broadway
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- Checked on 19/03/2023
- Based on 77 Reviews
The World of The Orville
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Four-time Emmy Award winner Seth MacFarlane creates a new sci-fi dramedy universe on the Fox Network with his new show, The Orville. MacFarlane plays Captain Ed Mercer, an officer in the Planetary Union in the 25th century who gathers a crew from the farthest reaches of the galaxy—his ex-wife included—to man the exploration vessel Orville and patrol the mysteries of deep space. Filled with alien species, exotic worlds, futuristic technology and awe-inspiring spaceships, this lavish companion to The Orville takes you behind the scenes through concept art, on-set photography and technical schematics to explore the show’s production design, costumes, makeup prosthetics and visual effects. This is the ultimate guide to this new space-faring epic adventure.
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- Checked on 19/03/2023
- Based on 65 Reviews
The Greatest Showman
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- Checked on 19/03/2023
- Based on 40 Reviews
A Quiet Passion
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- Checked on 19/03/2023
- Based on 98 Reviews
Der Ring Des Nibelungen [Blu-ray]
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- ISBN: 978-0-7697-9238-5
- Color
- Running Time: 917 minutes
- Subtitles: English, German, French, Italian,
- Sound: LPCM/Dolby 5.1/DTS
The production of Wagner's Ring at the Bayreuth Festival is an event that takes place only once every six years. Bayreuth recordings of the complete cycle are very rare; this being only the second filmed version. The Kupfer/Barenboim Ring was performed over a five-year period and recorded at the conclusion when the Bayreuth Workshop had raised the quality of the performance to an almost unsurpassable level (Der Tagesspiegel) In going back to the original high definition video masters and using cutting edge encoding technology, we are able to maximize the quality of this new presentation of the Ring. This, along with the larger 11 disc transfer, allows us to exploit the DVD standard to its fullest, and to also include three audio streams, LPCM, Dolby 5.1 and DTS 5.1. Das Rheingold John Tomlinson: Wotan Bodo Brinkmann: Donner Kurt Schreibmayer: Froh Graham Clark : Loge Gunter von Kannen: Alberich Helmut Pampuch: Mime Matthias Halle: Fasolt Philip Kang: Fafner Linda Finnie: Fricka Eva Johansson: Freia Annette Kattenbaum: Wellgunde Jane Turner: Flosshilde Die Walkure Poul Elming: Siegmund Nadine: Secunde Sieglinde Matthias Halle: Hunding John Tomlinson: Wotan Anne Evans: Brunnhilde Linda Finnie: Fricka/Siegrune Eva Johansson: Gerhilde Ruth Floeren: Ortlinde Shirley Close: W altraute Hitomi Katagiri: Schwertleite Eva-Maria Bundschuh: Helmwige Birgitta Svendann: Grimgerde Hebe Dijkstra: Roaweiae Siegfried Siegfried Jerusalem: Siegfried John Tomlinson: Der Wandererv Gunter von Kannen: Alberich Philip Kang: Fafner Graham Clark: Mime Anne Evans: Brunnhilde Birgitta Svendan: Erda Hilde Leidland: Waldvogel Gotterdammerung Siegfried Jerusalem: Siegfried Bodo Brinkmann: Gunther Philip Kang: Hagen Gunter von Kannen: Alberich Anne Evans: Brunnhilde Eva-Maria Bundschuh: Gutrune Waltraud Meier: Waltraute Birgitta Svendan: 1. Norn Linda Finnie: 2. Norn Uta Priew: 3. Norn Hilde Leidland: Woglinde Annette Kattenbaum: Wellgunde Jane Tur... [Read More]
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- Best Choice - #6 Art Critic Costumes
- Checked on 19/03/2023
- Based on 75 Reviews
Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman, Vol. 12 - Zatoichi and the Chess Expert
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With 25 film sequels and upwards of 100 TV episodes, Shintaro Katsu is the legendary Zatoichi! He’s a low-ranking blind masseur who lives by the Yakuza code and answers his foes with a deadly cane sword. By far one of Japan’s most time-honored screen personas, Zatoichi is to this day the ultimate everyman anti-hero. Zatoichi and the Chess Expert is a visual feast of swordplay and relentless action. The blind swordsman befriends a wandering, chess-loving, battle-thirsty samurai and helps a young girl who has been accidentally wounded in a brutal sword fight. This spectacular film, photographed in gorgeous color and directed by samurai specialist Kenji Misumi, shows Zatoichi at his best: battling rival yakuza and angry relatives seeking retribution.
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- Checked on 19/03/2023
- Based on 29 Reviews
Josie and the Pussycats
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- Best Choice - #8 Art Critic Costumes
- Checked on 19/03/2023
- Based on 49 Reviews
V for Vendetta
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Set in a futurist totalitarian England, a country without freedom or faith, a mysterious man in a white porcelain mask strikes back against the oppressive overlords on behalf of the voiceless. Armed with only knives and his wits, V, as he’s called, aims to bring about change in this horrific new world. His only ally? A young woman named Evey Hammond. And she is in for much more than she ever bargained for… A visionary graphic novel that defines sophisticated storytelling, this powerful tale detailing the loss and fight for individuality has become a cultural touchstone and an enduring allegory for current events. Master storytellers Alan Moore and David Lloyd are at the top of their craft in this terrifying portrait of totalitarianism and resistance. This paperback edition collects the classic graphic novel, which served as inspiration for the hit 2008 film from Warner Bros.
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- Checked on 19/03/2023
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Whoopee!
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She asks for a ride. He obliges, ever the gentleman despite being a nervous hypochondriac come west to Arizona to take a cure. Now everyone thinks they’ve eloped, and a passel of angry folks is in pursuit! As the health worrywart, irrepressible Eddie Cantor is in a hilarious fix all the way up to his famed banjo eyes in this adaptation of his Broadway smash that’s the first of Cantor’s highly successful partnerships with producer Samuel Goldwyn. The songs include the ribald “Makin’ Whoopee” and “My Baby Just Cares for Me,” the dance sequences are staged with pizzazz by first-timer Busby Berkeley, the leggy Goldwyn Girl chorines include young Betty Grable, and the photography is a then-rare Technicolor® -- all perfectly paired with Cantor’s exuberance and warmth. Some of the film’s attitudes and insensitivities are reflective of its time, but there’s much for classics fans to enjoy again and again in Whoopee!
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- Best Choice - #10 Art Critic Costumes
- Checked on 19/03/2023
- Based on 82 Reviews
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