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In his new play, Chaucer in Rome, it is the year 2000, and Ron and his wife come to Rome to search for their son. And with his inimitable wit and understanding, Guare has written a scathingly funny satire on the warping hunger for fame, and the betrayal involved in creating art.
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Andy Warhol taped conversations he had with Truman Capote in preparation for a play they were to write; it was never made. Roth has taken the men's words from the recordings and imagined the structure of conversations to make his play "Warholcapote," which provides an intimate look at their friendship and their thoughts on life, love, art, and everything in between.
6) Disgraced
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Amir Kapoor is a successful Pakistani-American lawyer who is rapidly moving up the corporate ladder while distancing himself from his cultural roots. Emily, his wife, is white; she's an artist, and her work is influenced by Islamic imagery. When the couple hosts a dinner party, what starts out as a friendly conversation escalates into something far more damaging.
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Adult siblings Baxter and Annie, scarred from an unconventional upbringing, return to their family home. When their parents, performance artists famous for elaborate public hoaxes, go missing under troubling circumstances, Baxter and Annie investigate. Unsure whether it's foul play or just another elaborate ruse, nothing can prepare them for what they discover.
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Theodore 'Theo' Decker was thirteen years old when his mother was killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The tragedy changes the course of his life, sending him on a stirring odyssey of grief and guilt, reinvention and redemption, and even love. Through it all, he holds on to one tangible piece of hope from that terrible day, a painting of a tiny bird chained to its perch.
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Lu is a large lovable panda who is the sixth generation owner of the Tae Kwon Do dojo. What Lu doesn't know is that buried beneath the dojo is the ancient Amulet of Fury. The mythical amulet gives its owner ultimate power and protection. When the villainous tiger warrior Kudo terrorizes the small village in pursuit of the amulet, it's up to Lu and his ragtag team of martial artists to stop him!
10) Miss Hokusai
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As all of Edo flocks to see the work of the revered painter Hokusai, his daughter O-Ei toils diligently, creating the paintings sold under her father's name. Shy in public, in the studio O-Ei is brash and uninhibited. Seeking to come into her own as an artist, O-Ei sets out into the bustling city of Edo (present-day Tokyo), where she encounters spirits, dragons, con-men and traders.
11) Sakra
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Based on the classic wuxia novel Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils by Louis Cha (known worldwide by his pen name Jin Yong), this stars Donnie Yen as Qiao Feng, the respected leader of a roving band of martial artists. After he is wrongfully accused of murder and subsequently exiled, Qiao Feng goes on the run in search of answers about his own mysterious origin story, and the unknown enemies working to destroy him from the shadows.
12) Take this waltz
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Michelle Williams plays twenty-eight-year-old Margot, happily married to Lou (Seth Rogen), a good-natured cookbook author. But when Margot meets Daniel (Luke Kirby), a handsome artist who lives across the street, their mutual attraction is undeniable. Swelteringly hot, bright and colorful, TAKE THIS WALTZ leads us, laughing, through the familiar, but uncharted question of what long-term relationships do to love, sex and our image of ourselves. ....
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Collection of films of O. Henry's two most published stories and a third tape telling O. Henry's story. In The gift of the Magi, a husband and wife sacrifice treasured possessions in order to buy each other Christmas presents. In the last leaf, an artist forfeits his life while painting the last leaf on a vine, giving hope to a girl who has lost the will to live.
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""In his carefully built play, Fugard broadens the meaning of [outsider artist] Nukain's masterpiece by placing that powerful symbol of a man's human dignity in a modern-day context."--Variety "Tender, ruminative. Fugard has been anatomizing the evils of apartheid, and the troubling legacies it left behind, throughout his long and distinguished career."--The New York Times A touching portrayal of compassion passed down through two generations in a...
15) Maze
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When obsessive, introverted, Tourette syndrome afflicted artist Lyle wants to broaden his work, his best friend's girlfriend agrees to pose for him. As the paint dries, they both begin to realize that there is more to their relationship than meets the eye. Now both are faced with the question ... can a man and woman remain just friends?
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Walt Disney visited New York in an attempt to secure a deal for his company, but failed. On a train ride back with his wife Lillian Disney he created the concept of a mouse named Mortimer, which would become Mickey Mouse. Upon arriving in Los Angeles, Walt Disney gave the draft to Ub Iwerks who then completed the design for Mickey Mouse.
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Miyagi returns with Daniel to his Okinawa home for the first time in 45 years. Miyagi encounters Yukie, the woman he left behind when he immigrated to America. And just as Daniel falls in love with her teenage niece Kumiko, two enemies arise to challenge both couples' happiness. Sato is the man whom Yukie was once supposed to marry, and Chozen, his vicious nephew who's taken an instant dislike to Daniel. Now, to satisify their family honor, they've...
18) Vincent & Theo
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This is a passionate story of an obsessive artist driven by inexorable demons and his alternately devoted and despairing younger brother, who seems unable to live with him or without him.
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Thure Lindhardt (Keep the Lights On) stars in this quirky horror-comedy as Lars, a former darling of the art scene slipping away into the land of has-beens and struggling with lack of inspiration. When Lars’ art dealer Ronny arranges a teaching job in a small town as a “therapeutic measure” to stir up his creative juices, things don’t quite turn out as planned. At first, life in the peaceful small town seems rosy, as he settles in and impresses...
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