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And the Oscar Goes to... Oscar Worthy Books and Movies
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The big screen : the story of the movies
by David Thomson
Traces the rise, decline and influence of the film industry on the modern world, assessing its expressions in multiple media, its capacity for imitating and idealizing life and its role in the existences of everyday viewers.
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Film : an international history of the medium
by Robert Sklar
Lively text and 768 illustrations, 120 in full color, cover commercial film, animation, documentaries, art cinema, and the avant-garde the world over, to present the entire history of film from a global perspective. Includes bibliography, filmography, glossary, notes, index, and 6 timelines.
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The Great Movie Stars: The Golden Years
by David Shipman
Alphabetically listed compendium of hundreds of stars of the "golden age" of the movies, with text on their training, career backgrounds, notable roles and trivia on their lives.Hundreds of great black and white photos.
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Nashville
The drama and comedy of the lives of twenty-four major stars as seen in the five days they are in the country music capital of the world.
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Shakespeare in love
When Will Shakespeare needs passionate inspiration to break a bad case of writer's block, a secret romance with beautiful Lady Viola starts the words flowing like never before.
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Moonstruck
An Italian American widow engaged to be married, falls in love with her fiance's brother just weeks before her wedding.
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Good Will Hunting /
A young working-class genius is hauled back from the brink of self-destruction by a gifted counselor.
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Goodbye Mr. Chips
The quiet Latin teacher of an English school falls in love with a beautiful young woman he meets on a tour of the Alps.
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It happened one night /
A rich heiress running away from her father rides a bus across the country to join her new husband, and is befriended by a reporter looking for a good story.
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Dreamgirls /
Three female African American soul singers try to come to terms with fame as they become an overnight success as a pop group.
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Fish called Wanda
Double-crossing jewel thiefs use seduction and murder as weapons to find out where their ringleader has stashed the diamonds.
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Lawrence of Arabia
Cinematic account of the life of T.E. Lawrence who, as a World War I British Army officer, helped unite rival Arab tribes in their fight against the Turkish.
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Breakfast at Tiffany's /
Holly Golightly, a charming, eccentric New York City playgirl, is determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire until she meets her new next-door neighbor, a gigolo and struggling writer.
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On Golden Pond /
Norman Thayer, a cranky but loveable old man, is preoccupied with death, afraid of losing his faculties, and is emotionally distant from his daughter.
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