A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother
by Janny Scott (2011-05-03)
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(63)
Barack Obama has written extensively about his father, but little is known about Stanley Ann Dunham, the fiercely independent woman who raised him, the person he credits for, as he says, "what is best in me." Here is the missing piece of the story.
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Posted: Monday, June 20, 2011 at 10:11 am by Sylvhania
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My Dinner with Andre
by Louis Malle (1998-08-25)
Fox Lorber (110 minutes)
average customer review: (124)
Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory, apparently playing themselves, share their lives over the course of an evening meal at a restaurant.
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Posted: Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 8:34 am by Sylvhania
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Bottle Shock
by (2009-02-03)
20th Century Fox (110 minutes)
average customer review: (159)
The story of the early days of California wine making featuring the now infamous, blind Paris wine tasting of 1976 that has come to be known as "Judgment of Paris".
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Posted: Friday, June 17, 2011 at 4:38 pm by Sylvhania
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Wild Strawberries “Smultronstället”
by Ingmar Bergman (2002-02-12)
Criterion (91 minutes)
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(86)
After living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence.
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Posted: Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 7:42 pm by Sylvhania
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Merle’s Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog
by Ted Kerasote ()
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Humorous, jubilant and touching by turns, this story of the relationship between man and dog is informed by the author's grasp of animal research and his attachment to Merle, a stray dog he adopted.
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Posted: Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 4:05 pm by Sylvhania
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Away We Go
by Sam Mendes (2009-09-29)
Focus Features (98 minutes)
average customer review: (104)
A couple who is expecting their first child travel around the U.S. in order to find a perfect place to start their family. Along the way, they have misadventures and find fresh connections with an assortment of relatives and old friends who just might help them discover "home" on their own terms for the first time.
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Posted: Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 12:34 pm by Sylvhania
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In The Loop
by Armando Iannucci (2010-01-12)
MPI HOME VIDEO (106 minutes)
average customer review: (62)
A British government spokesman must act quickly when a mid-level minister tells an interviewer that U.S. war in the Middle East is unforeseeable. When they are both summoned to Washington D.C., the hapless politico quickly becomes a pawn of bureaucrats, spin doctors, and military advisors.
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Posted: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 at 8:26 pm by Sylvhania
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Colonel Wolodyjowski
by Jerzy Hoffman (2002-10-25)
Polart (160 minutes)
average customer review: (7)
The Turks are invading Poland. Colonel Wolodyjowski strikes up a bargain with some local rapscallions. They mount a final defense against the massive and extremely well-armed Turkish army.
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Posted: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 at 4:27 pm by Sylvhania
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Faces of America
by John Maggio, Leslie Asako Gladsjo, Sue Williams, Stephen Ives, Amanda Pollak (2010-04-13)
PBS (240 minutes)
average customer review: (12)
Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. turns again to the latest tools of genealogy and genetics to explore the family histories of 11 renowned Americans.
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Posted: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 at 12:41 pm by Sylvhania
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Boudu Saved from Drowning “Boudu Sauvé des Eaux”
by Jean Renoir (2005-08-23)
Criterion (85 minutes)
average customer review: (10)
After well-to-do bookseller Edouard Lestingois rescues a tramp from a suicidal plunge into the Seine, his family adopts the bum and dedicates itself to reforming him. The irrepressible Boudu shows his gratitude by shaking the household to its foundations.
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Posted: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 3:46 pm by Sylvhania
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