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Movies

Problems with Indieflix

The other day I was checking out Indieflix and as I was trying to login a pop up appeared on my screen.  It was telling me to check my email to authorize the mobile app but I was on my computer.  Here is what I found out:

IndieFlix has expanded library patron access to mobile devices and smart TV devices such as Roku. This enhancement increases the ways library patrons may view the films across many devices.

The Righteous Among the Nations - Polish Film Festival

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The film by Michal Szczerbic, “The Righteous”, tells the story of the hiding of a Jewish orphan girl, Hania, during the holocaust by a Polish couple. Many years after the war Hania, now an adult, returns to Poland to find the family of her saviours and asks them to accept the honorific title “The Righteous Among the Nations”. 

A Love Story in Ancient Rome - Quo Vadis, Polish Film Festival

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Quo Vadis movie is based on the novel under the same title by Henryk Sienkiewicz, renown Polish writer laureate of a 1905 Nobel Prize in literature . The book had several screen adaptations in the past but Jerzy Kawalerowicz film from 2001 is the first done by a Polish director.

The Roots of the Evil-The Red Spider

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The Red Spider has been called an unconventional serial killer movie, crime thriller that succeeds in holding the attention despite ignoring the genre's rules, metaphysical or psychological thriller. Even its director Marcin Koszalka called it “neither a thriller nor a crime movie”.

Do You Like European Cinema?

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Do you like  European cinema? Do you like biographical films, films about painters? Are you interested in primitivism, art naïve? Do you like stories of people’s lives?

Cowboys

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When I was a kid we had one black and white television that probably had a total of 3 channels and service was only a few times a week. 

Chasing It!

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Director, Buck Heller and producer, Stephen Velichko's documentary Chasing It caught me off guard because I did not instintively know what it meant

The "Miracle on Ice"

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The newly released DVD Of miracles and men is your chance to watch one of the greatest games in sports history.

The movie book

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Stuart Neilson and Helen Ridge are the editors of The movie book : big ideas simply explained which profiles 100 of the best movies ever made