Paul Giamatti
1) The Congress
Publisher
Drafthouse Films
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
An aging actress decides to take her final job: preserving her digital likeness for a future Hollywood. Through a deal brokered by her loyal, longtime agent, her alias will be controlled by the studio and will star in any film they want with no restrictions. In return, she receives healthy compensation so her digitized character will stay forever young.
2) Love & Mercy
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
An unconventional portrait of Brian Wilson (portrayed by both John Cusack and Paul Dano), singer and songwriter for The Beach Boys. The film intimately examines the unique journey and ultimate salvation of this musical icon, whose success came at an extraordinary personal cost. Also starring Elizabeth Banks and Paul Giamatti.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Benjamin Franklin leaves London and returns to wartime Philadelphia where he joins Congress and helps Thomas Jefferson craft the Declaration of Independence. In Paris, he wins French support for the American Revolution then negotiates a peace treaty with Britain. He spends his last years in the new United States, working on the Constitution and unsuccessfully promoting the abolition of slavery.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein’s three-part, six-hour documentary series, The U.S. and the Holocaust, examines how the American people and our leaders responded to one of the greatest humanitarian disasters of the twentieth century, and how this catastrophe challenged our identity as a nation of immigrants and the very ideals of our democracy.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After Kristallnacht, Jews are desperate to escape Hitler’s expanding reach. Americans are united in their disapproval of Nazi brutality but divided on whether or how to act even as World War II begins. Charles Lindbergh speaks for isolationists while FDR tries to support the European democracies. The Nazis invade the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust begins in secret.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After decades of open borders, a xenophobic backlash prompts the United States to pass laws restricting immigration. In Germany, Hitler finds support for his antisemitic rhetoric and the Nazis begin their persecution of Jewish people, causing many to flee to neighboring countries or America. FDR and other world leaders are concerned by the growing refugee crisis but fail to coordinate a response.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The first reports of the killing reach the United States. A group of dedicated government officials form the War Refugee Board to finance and support rescue operations. As the Allies advance, soldiers uncover mass graves and liberate German concentration camps, revealing the sheer scale of the Holocaust. The danger of its reverberations becomes apparent.
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
It follows a curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them a damaged, brainy troublemaker, and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
Publisher
Showtime
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
It takes one to break one in a final season like no other. Bobby Axelrod and Chuck Rhoades have been both adversaries and allies, but when Axe returns with a score to settle, the stakes escalate beyond Wall Street and their game of one-upmanship threatens to topple empires. It'll be a triumph for some, and a tumble for others. This four-disc collection includes every episode and exclusive special features.
10) Love & Mercy
Author
Language
English
Description
John Cusack stars in the "BEST BIOPIC IN DECADES"...as the fascinating & reclusive musical genius Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys
11) Cosmopolis
Author
Language
English
Description
Eric Packer (Robert Pattinson), a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager, heads out in his tricked-out stretch limo, while remotely wagering his company's massive fortune on a bet against the Chinese Yuan. His trip across the city quickly turns into a wild, hypnotic odyssey as he encounters explosive city riots and a parade of provocative visitors. Having started the day with everything, Packer's perfectly ordered, doubt-free world is about to implode....
12) Storytelling
Author
Language
English
Description
From the director of Happiness and Welcome to the Dollhouse comes the comedy that shines a light on the dark side of human behavior. Take a journey from innocence to experience, kindness to cruelty and love to hate with an emotionally needy college student (Selma Blair) and a dysfunctional family man (John Goodman) as they learn some of life's most difficult lessons. Masterfully balancing both fact and fiction, acclaimed writer-director Todd Solondz...
13) Duets
Author
Language
English
Description
Road-trip comedy which revolves around the little-known world of karaoke and the whimsical characters who inhabit it. All roads lead to Omaha, site of a national karaoke competition where this motley choir come together for a the ultimate sing-off.