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Imagine: The Man Who Forgot How to Read (2011) #816
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1 hour. BBC. Presenter Alan Yentob meets clinical neurologist and author Dr Oliver Sacks to investigate the myriad ways we experience the visual world and the strange things that can happen when our mind fails to understand what our eyes see. In the course of this investigation, Yentob tells the life story of Dr Oliver Sacks, the man who would become one of the world's most famous scientists. Alan delves into this world by going to meet several of the case studies from Sacks latest book, The Mind's Eye. He meets Stereo Sue, neurobiologist Sue Barry, who always saw the world as a flat 2D image until she suddenly acquired stereoscopic 3D vision in her late forties; Canadian crime writer Howard Engel, the man who forgot how to read, who remarkably continues to write despite a stroke that destroyed his reading ability; Chuck Close, the renowned portrait artist, who cannot recognise or remember faces and Danny Delcambre, an extraordinary and spirited man who, although having a condition which means he was born deaf and is gradually going blind, lives life to the full and uses close-up photography to record the world around him. Often overlapping with these case studies is Sacks' own story. Here, doctor and patient combine as he talks about his childhood, his own struggle with face blindness, and the loss he felt when eye cancer recently destroyed his 3D vision. |
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This Green and Pleasant Land: The Story of British Landscape Painting (2011) #823
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90 mins. BBC. 400 years of art history in 90 minutes? This film takes an eclectic group of people from all walks of life, including artists, critics and academics, out into the countryside to take a look at how we have depicted our landscape in art, discovering how the genre carried British painting to its highest eminence and won a place in the nation's heart. From Flemish beginnings in the court of Charles I to the digital thumbstrokes of David Hockney's iPad, the paintings reveal as much about the nation's past as they do the patrons and artists who created them. Famous names sit alongside lesser-known works, covering everything from the refined sensibilities of 18th-century Classicism to the abstract forms of the war-torn 20th century with a bit of love, loss, rivalry and rioting thrown in. Contributions come from a cast as diverse as the works themselves, including filmmaker Nic Roeg, historian Dan Snow and novelist Will Self, who offer a refreshingly wide range of perspectives on a genre of art which we have made very much our own. |
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Gershwin's Summertime (2011) #1303
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1 hour. BBC. The song "Summertime" was written by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward and although not thought to be directly involved, Ira Gershwin gets an official credit. The song soon developed a life of it's own beyond the original opera and has been recorded and adapted into many different styles of music from jazz to opera, rock to reggae, soul to samba. It has been recorded and performed in many different languages around the world and remains one of the most famous and best loved songs ever written. This documentary looks at its history, how it came to be created, and its subsequent history as it traveled through time and around the world. "Summertime" is the most covered song on the planet. At least 25,000 versions of it exist. |
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Romancing the Stone: The Golden Ages of British Sculpture (2011) #1369
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Romancing the Stone: The Golden Ages of British Sculpture: With Alastair Sooke. Alastair Sooke examines three periods in the history of British sculpture and the masterpieces they produced 3x1 hour. BBC. Series which reveals how sculpture communicates our most cherished beliefs and values - the British soul captured in three dimensions. 1/3 Masons of God. A look at how the era's sculpture casts a new light on medieval times in Britain. 2/3 Mavericks of Empire. Alastair Sooke looks at the maverick sculptors working in the 18th and 19th centuries. 3/3 Children of the Revolution. Alastair Sooke looks at the 20th century's mixture of innovation, scandal and creativity. |
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The Harmony Game (2011) #1389
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The Harmony Game: Directed by Jennifer Lebeau. With Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, Mort Lewis, Roy Halee. 40 years after the release of Bridge Over Troubled Water, Simon, Garfunkel and the principles involved with it reflect on the making of the album |
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The Gruffalo's Child (2011) #1555
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27mins. A little Gruffalo ignores her father's warnings and tiptoes out into the snow in search of the Big Bad Mouse. |
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Knight and Day (2010) #13
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Directed by James Mangold. With Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Peter Sarsgaard, Jordi Mollà. A young woman gets mixed up with a disgraced spy who is trying to clear his name. |
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Devil (2010) #13
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Directed by John Erick Dowdle. With Chris Messina, Caroline Dhavernas, Bokeem Woodbine, Logan Marshall-Green. A group of people are trapped in an elevator and the Devil is mysteriously amongst them. |
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010) #16
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Directed by Jon Turteltaub. With Nicolas Cage, Jay Baruchel, Alfred Molina, Teresa Palmer. Master sorcerer Balthazar Blake must find and train Merlin's descendant to defeat dark sorceress Morgana la Fée. |
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Death at a Funeral (2010) #20
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Directed by Neil LaBute. With Chris Rock, Martin Lawrence, Keith David, Loretta Devine. A funeral ceremony turns into a debacle of exposed family secrets and misplaced bodies. |
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How to Train Your Dragon (2010) #22
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Directed by Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders. With Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Craig Ferguson. A hapless young Viking who aspires to hunt dragons becomes the unlikely friend of a young dragon himself, and learns there may be more to the creatures than he assumed. |
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Cop Out (2010) #24
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Directed by Kevin Smith. With Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan, Juan Carlos Hernández, Cory Fernandez. Jimmy's rare baseball card is robbed. Since it's his only hope to pay for his daughter's upcoming wedding, he recruits his cop partner Paul to track down the robber, a memorabilia-obsessed gangster. |
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Get Him to the Greek (2010) #27
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Directed by Nicholas Stoller. With Jonah Hill, Russell Brand, Elisabeth Moss, Rose Byrne. A record company intern is hired to accompany out-of-control British rock star Aldous Snow to a concert at L.A.'s Greek Theater. |
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4.3.2.1. (2010) #28
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Directed by Noel Clarke, Mark Davis. With Emma Roberts, Tamsin Egerton, Ophelia Lovibond, Shanika Warren-Markland. 4 girls out on a 3 days trip in to 2 cities, if they survive. While Jo is working in a supermarket, her 3 friends are all out on their adventures. A chance encounter with diamond thieves sends them on a collision course with fate itself. |
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Legion (2010) #30
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Directed by Scott Stewart. With Paul Bettany, Dennis Quaid, Charles S. Dutton, Lucas Black. When a group of strangers at a dusty roadside diner come under attack by demonic forces, their only chance for survival lies with an archangel named Michael, who informs a pregnant waitress that her unborn child is humanity's last hope. |
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Date Night (2010) #31
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Directed by Shawn Levy. With Steve Carell, Tina Fey, Mark Wahlberg, Taraji P. Henson. In New York City, a case of mistaken identity turns a bored married couple's attempt at a glamorous and romantic evening into something more thrilling and dangerous. |
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From Paris with Love (2010) #34
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Directed by Pierre Morel. With John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Kasia Smutniak, Richard Durden. In Paris, a young employee in the office of the US Ambassador hooks up with an American spy looking to stop a terrorist attack in the city. |
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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010) #35
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Directed by Mike Newell. With Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Ben Kingsley, Alfred Molina. A young fugitive prince and princess must stop a villain who unknowingly threatens to destroy the world with a special dagger that enables the magic sand inside to reverse time. |
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Remember Me (2010) #35
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Directed by Allen Coulter. With Robert Pattinson, Emilie de Ravin, Caitlyn Rund, Moisés Acevedo. A romantic drama centered on two new lovers: Tyler, whose parents have split in the wake of his brother's suicide, and Ally, who lives each day to the fullest since witnessing her mother's murder. |
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The Debt (2010) #127
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Directed by John Madden. With Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington, Tom Wilkinson, Ciarán Hinds. In 1965, three Mossad agents cross into East Berlin to apprehend a notorious Nazi war criminal. Thirty years later, the secrets the agents share come back to haunt them. |
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