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1) The Witches
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Anjelica Huston stars in this fantasy based on a Roald Dahl book about a little boy and his kindly grandmother thwarting a coven of witches who want to rid Britain of children by turning them into mice. Vacationing at a seaside hotel with his grandmother, a young boy discovers that a convention of witches is also staying there and finds out about the evil plans of their Grand High Witch (Huston). Jim Henson devised the creature effects in his last...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Richard Wright - Black Boy is an Emmy Award winning film -- the first documentary film on the life, work and legacy of Richard Wright. Born outside Natchez, Mississippi in 1908, Wright overcame a childhood of poverty and oppression to become one of America's most influential writers. His first major works, Native Son and Black Boy, were runaway best sellers which are still mainstays of high school and college literature and composition classes. According...
3) White Shadow
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In this stylish Ryan Gosling-produced drama, Alias, a young albino boy, goes on the run when witch doctors arrive to harvest his organs for their potions.. Winner of the Luigi De Laurentiis Award at the Venice Film Festival. Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Nominated for the New Director's Prize at the San Francisco International Film Festival.. “[WHITE SHADOW] herald[s] the arrival of a brave, totally uncompromising...
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A young wild girl Fanchon (Mary Pickford) lives in a forest with her eccentric grandmother who is suspected by the villagers of being a witch. The unkempt Fanchon suffers from her grandmother's sorceress reputation. One day the girl rescues a boy from drowning, and they fall in love, but Fanchon won't agree to marry him unless his father asks her.
Publisher
Frameline
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 1955, a gay sex scandal erupted in the unassuming, wholesome and "vice-less" town of Boise, Idaho, as teenage boys who had prostituted themselves to older men began to disclose their dalliances to authorities. Overnight, Boise's gay underworld-comprised mostly of married family men-was splashed onto headlines and thrust into the spotlight. Reputations were shattered and lives ruined as the rumors and accusations flew. What followed...
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