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Explore the concept of individual fate through the film The Adjustment Bureau and the larger concept of universal fate in Star Wars. Along the way, take a look at the ways conspiracy theories and supernatural claims invoke "fate" to explain real-world happenings and how philosophers handle these "explanations."
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Series
Great Courses volume 13
Language
English
Description
See how data from the Kepler spacecraft confirms a scenario straight out of the movie Star Wars: a planet with two suns. Investigate the tricky orbital mechanics of these systems. A double star also complicates the heating and cooling cycle on a planet. However, the view is spectacular!
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Star Wars, Jaws and The Exorcist created the multiplexes, but they were also innovative. The Story of Film: Part 11 explains how, and then travels to India where the world's most famous movie star, Amitabh Bachchan, shows how Bollywood was doing new things in the 70s. And we discover that Bruce Lee movies in Hong Kong kickstarted the kinetic films of Hong Kong, where Master Yuen Wo Ping talks exclusively about his action movies and his wire fu choreography...
64) Dante's Inferno
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English
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Based on EA's must-have game, the animated feature Dante's Inferno follows Dante on a stunning journey through the nine circles of Hell. Watch as he travels through limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery in search of his true love, Beatrice. Starring Mark Hamill (STAR WARS), Victoria Branch, Graham McTavish, and more.
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How to View and Appreciate Great Movies volume 22
Language
English
Description
Professor Williams demonstrates how all great villains are a distorted reflection of the hero, through movies including The Wizard of Oz, Star Wars, The Silence of the Lambs, and Rocky. He unpacks why the antagonist may not always be bad, but must be present. Additionally, you'll explore the four thematic groupings (pathways) and how the protagonist and antagonist are utilized in each.
66) Mad God
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English
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Follow The Assassin through a forbidding world of tortured souls, decrepit bunkers, and wretched monstrosities forged from the most primordial horrors of the subconscious mind. Directed by Phil Tippett (Star Wars, Jurassic Park), the world's pre-eminent stop motion animator, every set, creature, and effigy in this macabre masterpiece is hand-crafted and painstakingly animated using traditional stop-motion techniques.
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How to View and Appreciate Great Movies volume 15
Language
English
Description
Professor Williams demonstrates how music becomes a motif or a leitmotif, acting as a guide for our subconscious attention, escorting us from scene to scene, or carrying us across continents, providing emotional cues, and setting the stage for what to expect. Using examples from Rocky, Star Wars, and more, he demonstrates how filmmakers can use a score to adhere to - or subvert - expectations.
68) Keira Knightley
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
First seen as the tomboyish Jules in "Bend it Like Beckham," Keira Knightley has risen through the ranks to become one of the highest paid British actresses in Hollywood, according to Forbes Magazine. Her fine-boned, thin frame has allowed her to take time in evolving from playing girls on the brink of womanhood to more adult roles, such as that of Cecilia in "Atonement." Worth noting is one of Knightley's early roles was as the "decoy" for Princess...
69) Mythic journeys
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Every human being has asked the questions: who am I, what is my purpose, why am I here? The answers are in the sustaining allegories of myths that have been passed from generation to generation. With gorgeous stop-motion animation by the creators of The dark crystal and Labyrinth and stimulating interviews with Deepak Chopra and other spiritual leaders, Mythic Journeys reveals the power of myth to transform lives into journeys. With the voices of...
Publisher
levelFILM
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Originally released to critical and audience acclaim in 1999, GEORGE LUCAS IN LOVE is a hilarious satire of "Shakespeare in Love" that searches for the 'true' origins of the Star Wars saga. A young George Lucas tackles writer's block while trying to complete his final screenplay for USC Film School and the master storyteller is placed center-screen as he searches for inspiration, ultimately finding it in the colorful and ever-familiar characters that...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Drew: the man behind the poster" is a feature-length documentary film highlighting the career of poster artist Drew Struzan, whose most popular works include the Indiana Jones, Back to the future and Star wars movie posters. Telling the tale through exclusive interviews with George Lucas, Harrison Ford, Michael J. Fox, Frank Darabont, Guillermo del Toro, Steven Spielberg and many other filmmakers, artists and critics, the journey spans Drew's early...
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Hotel Secrets with Richard E Grant volume 5
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English
Description
Star Wars actor Richard E. Grant invites us to hop on his celebrity coat-tails and check into the world's most exclusive hotels. We visit London's Goring to discover the lengths it's taken to become the British Royal Family's unofficial favorite. Then it's back to LA to see how Hollywood royalty tie the knot, meeting the wedding planner who's organized weddings for Gwen Stefani and Katy Perry.
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Series
Hotel Secrets with Richard E Grant volume 6
Language
English
Description
Imagine if hotel walls could talk… Luckily they don't have to, as Star Wars actor Richard E. Grant extracts juicy details of the dangerous liaisons that have steamed up the windows of the planet's top getaways. From the secret stairway used by one of Tinseltown's most notorious ladies' men, to L'Hotel in Paris, where Serge Gainsbourg whispered more than a "je t'aime" or two.
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English
Description
In this inspiration for Star Wars, Buster Crabbe stars as Flash Gordon...Flash, Dale Arden & Dr. Zarkov visit the planet Mongo to thwart the evil Emperor Ming the Merciless, who set his planet on a collision course with Earth. The film is loaded with weird spaceships, aliens, a horned gorilla, dinosaurs, hot babes, electronic gadgets, a giant lobster monster, ray guns, secret passages, & more!
75) 5-25-77
Publisher
MVD Visual
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
During the spring of 1977, sci-fi-obsessed teenager Pat Johnson finds himself torn between making 8mm sequels to his favorite movies and pursuing the girl of his dreams, Linda. Desperate to help her son escape his likely future in Wadsworth, Illinois, (population 750), his mother Janet cold-calls the editor of 'American Cinematographer's magazine, and Pat soon finds himself on "the ultimate trip" to Hollywood, becoming the very first outsider to see...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
From King Kong to Avatar, from Star Wars to The Lord of the Rings, movie creatures have never been more popular as they are today. Yet the art of creating monsters for the big screen is as old as cinema itself. THE FRANKENSTEIN COMPLEX explores a century of cinematic thrills and wonders, focusing on the relationship between movie monsters and their makers like modern Frankensteins, special effects wizards who create life out of raw material and sheer...
77) Airborne
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English
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When a storm starts closing in, air traffic controller Malcolm (Mark Hamill, Star Wars) sends one last plane into the sky – but after takeoff, the passengers aboard discover the pilots have been brutally murdered. Suddenly the plane disappears from radar, and one by one, the people aboard turn into dangerous, bloody psychopaths. With time running out, the survivors must unlock the deadly mystery in their midst – and find a way to land the plane...
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Series
Story of Film An Odyssey volume 11
Language
English
Description
Star Wars, Jaws and The Exorcist created the multiplexes, but they were also innovative. The Story of Film: Part 11 explains how, and then travels to India where the world's most famous movie star, Amitabh Bachchan, shows how Bollywood was doing new things in the 70s. And we discover that Bruce Lee movies in Hong Kong kickstarted the kinetic films of Hong Kong, where Master Yuen Wo Ping talks exclusively about his action movies and his wire fu choreography...
Publisher
Viacom International, Inc
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"First there was The lord of the rings. Then came Star wars. The world's wish for another epic masterpiece has finally come to pass with the Fairly OddParents trilogy 'Wishology!' It's the three-part tale of how a hero--prophesized to don a pink hat and have buckteeth, and whose initials are 'T.T.'--must take on a bunch of evil robots and the ultimate evil: the darkness. Guest starring the likes of Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley of KISS, Patrick Warburton,...
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Myths and Monsters volume 1
Language
English
Description
Stories of heroes and the villains encountered on their adventures are among the most thrilling in all mythology. This episode examines the controversial theory that a common structure exists in such stories that transcends cultural and historical influences.
That was the theory of American mythologist Joseph Campbell. His work has shaped popular thinking about myth and was a key influence on icons of modern culture such as the Star Wars saga and...
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