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Follow the tale of the soul's transformation in St. John of the Cross's celebrated poem, The Living Flame of Love. The spiritual journey described reveals something about the relationship of happiness to goodness; the necessity of detachment from self; the proper order and meaning of love for neighbor in a framework presuming a committed overarching love of God; and the intimate link between the transformation of the self in goodness and the transformation...
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Held at the Kölner Philharmonie during the MusikTriennale Köln 2000, Boulez conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Alban Berg's Sinfonische Stücke aus der Oper Lulu (1934), Claude Debussy's Le jet d'eau (1907) and Trois ballades de Villon (1910), and Igor Stravinsky's Firebird.
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"In Greek mythology, brave Odysseus ruled the kingdom of Ithaca with his clever and beautiful queen Penelope. After leading his troops to victory in the Trojan War, this revered hero began a long and treacherous journey home--an "odyssey" recounted in Homer's epic poem of the same name. In The Journeys of Odysseus, students discover how Odysseus learned to overcome adversity and his own weaknesses in his adventures with the dreaded Cyclops, the mischievious...
5) Dead man
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On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange North American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.
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Visionary, radical, spiritual seeker, renowned poet, founding member of a major literary movement, champion of human rights, Buddhist, political activist and teacher – Allen Ginsberg’s remarkable life shaped the very soul of American counterculture. For 25 years, Academy Award®-nominated director Jerry Aronson accumulated more than 60 hours of film on Allen Ginsberg, resulting in this comprehensive portrait of one of America’s greatest poets,...
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Presents timeless treasures from the world of poetry, including classics by William Shakespeare, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Langston Hughes and William Carlos Williams. Let the rhymes and rhythms transport you and encourage your child to develop a lifelong love of the music of words.
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Reality and fantasy collide in the story of a family-owned circus spanning five generations of decadence, love and loss. Starring Vincent Cassel, based on a poem by Jorge de Lima. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival**. “*One of the Cinema Novo’s founding fathers and perhaps its most interesting exponent.*” – ***Film Comment***
11) Lucky life
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A group of friends travels to the beach to encourage Jason, recently diagnosed with terminal cancer. The journey is rooted in nostalgia and desire for a meaningful farewell, although the friends avoid the subject of Jason's illness. Some time later, as Mark and Karen plan to have a child, the beach trip lingers as a haunting memory in their new phase of life ... Inspired by the poetry of Gerald Stern. From the director of the award-winning film MINARI....
13) A quiet passion
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Cynthia Nixon delivers a triumphant performance as Emily Dickinson as she personifies the wit, intellectual independence and pathos of the poet whose genius only came to be recognized after her death. Acclaimed British director Terence Davies (*House of Mirth, The Deep Blue Sea*) exquisitely evokes Dickinson’s deep attachment to her close knit family along with the manners, mores and spiritual convictions of her time that she struggled with and...
14) Candy
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Dan is a poet who falls in love with two kinds of Candy: a woman of the same name, and heroin. As Dan goes from a smart-aleck to someone trying to find a vein to inject, Candy changes from an actress to a streetwalker and then a madwoman. Starting in Sydney, the two eventually end up in Melbourne to try and go clean, but they fail. This leads them to turn to finding money and heroin, while other possessions and attachments become unimportant.
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The night before Christmas: Clement C. Moore's classic poem about a visit from St. Nicholas. Max's Christmas: Max is told he can't stay up to see Santa, but he sneaks downstairs anyway. Will Santa still come if Max is awake? Morris's disappearing bag: Morris thinks his brother and sister have better Christmas presents, but then he finds something very special in the last box under the tree. Owl moon: A young girl and her father take a magical night-time...
16) The royal road
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A cinematic essay in defense of remembering, THE ROYAL ROAD offers up a primer on Junipero Serra’s Spanish colonization of California and the Mexican American War alongside intimate reflections on nostalgia, the pursuit of unavailable women, butch identity and Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo — all against a contemplative backdrop of 16mm urban California landscapes, and featuring a voice-over cameo by Tony Kushner.. This bold, innovative film from...
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Her life was no children's book. Louisa May Alcott's story is as full of incident, surprise, and heroism as any plot she invented; her childhood was one of high ideals, low finances, and some thirty household moves. The daughter of philosopher-educator Bronson Alcott, she was home schooled by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, served as a nurse in the Civil War, fought for women's suffrage, and lived a secret literary life as a writer of...
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