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Criterion collection volume 11
Description
An allegory on man's search for meaning. Von Sydow stars as a medieval knight returning from the Crusades. He encounters Death, and plays a chess game with him, with his life and soul as the stakes.
2) Finding Joy
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"A self-absorbed writer, stuck in more ways than one, rediscovers himself, his offbeat family, and what it means to be happy when he meets Joy, a spirited young woman who asks him to write her obituary"--www.imdb.com.
3) Coda
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A lost soul stumbles drunkenly through the city. In a park, Death finds him and shows him many things. A beautiful animated short film from Ireland.
Series
Criterion collection volume 616
Description
When their new roommate dies with a suitcase full of cash under the bed, Juliet, David & Alex have no trouble about taking the money, but disposing of the body brings out the worst in them. And then there is the problem of the men who want the money back.
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Disillusioned and exhausted after a decade of battling in the Crusades, a knight (Max von Sydow) encounters Death on a desolate beach and challenges him to a fateful game of chess. Much studied, imitated, even parodied, but never outdone, Bergman's stunning allegory of man's search for meaning, The seventh seal (det sjunde inseglet), was one of the benchmark foreign imports of America's 1950s art-house heyday, pushing cinema's boundaries and ushering...
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From euthanizing a sick dog to slaughtering cows for food, how do we reconcile our feelings about killing when it comes to the non-human animals around us? Ponder the moral and spiritual dimensions of the death of other animals--and what that might reveal about our views of our own mortality.
11) Petite maman
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Description
Céline Sciamma's follow-up to Portrait of a Lady on Fire transcends time and space to weave a delicately emotional fable about grief, family, and connection across generations. In the wake of her grandmother's death, eight-year-old Nelly accompanies her distraught mother to her childhood home. There, Nelly's encounter with another young girl brings mother and daughter together in a way neither could have ever imagined. Evoking childhood's perpetual...
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An intimate look at the death penalty in the state of Texas through the eyes of Pastor Carroll Pickett, who served 15 years as the death house chaplain to the infamous 'Walls' prison unit in Huntsville. During Pickett's remarkable career he presided over 95 executions, including the world's first lethal injection. After each execution, Pickett recorded an audiotape account of his trip to the death chamber.
Description
In 1988, in Saint-¡lie-de-Caxton, an eleven years old boy is worried for his grandmother's life. Worn out by illness, the old storyteller tries to convince her grandson that the Death no longer exists. Her story will bring back to life the extraordinary people from the village in 1927 who, by using rocambolesque tricks, will eliminate the Death that threatens them. From now on, death will coincide with the birth of legends.
16) The perfect wave
Description
When a surfer is stung by a deadly jellyfish he finds himself in heaven where he is forgiven and given the option to either remain in paradise, or return to earth and tell his story.
17) Dawn patrol
Description
"A surfer-turned-Marine held at gunpoint in a distant desert tells his tragic story of revenge gone wrong to stall his execution"--From www.imdb.com.
18) 25 hill
Description
Twelve year-old Trey Caldwell (Nathan Gamble) and the local Fire Chief, Roy Gibbs (Corbin Bernsen) embark on a journey of building a soapbox car to compete in the derby. Along the way, they form a strong friendship and learn that together, they can mend old wounds and accomplish more then they could ever imagine.
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