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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Featuring the pioneers of LSD, this documentary chronicles its discovery by Alfred Hofmann to its prohibition in 1973. Contains interviews with groundbreaking researchers including Hofmann, Ram Dass, and Timothy Leary, and a wealth of archival footage.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Alfred Caldwell, Illinois architect, educator, landscape architect, poet, and historian (1903-1998), fought to make people aware of the need for contact with nature, even in the middle of cities. He inspired architectural students and prodded city officials for almost seventy years, interpretating and applying the revolutionary concepts of his mentors: Jens Jensen, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Mies van der Rohe.
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In 1962, Francois Truffaut persuaded Alfred Hitchcock to sit with him for a week long interview in which the great British auteur would share with his young admirer the secrets of his cinema. Based on the original recordings of this meeting--used to produce the seminal book Hitchcock/Truffaut--this film illustrates the greatest cinema lesson of all time and plunges us into the world of the creator of Psycho, The Birds and Vertigo. Hitchcock's singular...
4) Double take
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Johan Grimonprez's ingenious documentary/ fiction hybrid - a meditation on identity, filmmaking, power and paranoia - looks at Alfred Hitchcock's 50s-60s films against the climate of Cold War anxiety. Using a meticulous array of archive footage and a story by novelist Tom McCarthy, Grimonprez traces the global rise of fear as a commodity, examining modern history through the lens of mass media.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Darwin's Brave New World is the story of how four young voyagers to the Southern Hemisphere, Charles Darwin, Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley and Alfred Russel Wallace, revolutionized science and gave birth to an extraordinary theory about the evolution of life on earth. Darwin's voyage to the Southern Hemisphere in the 1830s changed him from a directionless rich kid bound for a career in the Church, into one of the most incendiary thinkers of our age....
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