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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 91 min.
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Plot: Chronicles artist and activist Ai Weiwei as he prepares for a series of exhibitions and gets into an increasing number of clashes with the Chinese government.
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Cast: Ai Weiwei, Danqing Chen, Ying Gao. Directed by Alison Klayman.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Art ∙ Biography |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (4 disc set) 12 hours, 58 min.
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Plot: Investigates the high-profile thefts of some of the world's greatest pieces of art.
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Cast: Narration by Dion Graham and Eric Myers. Directed by Boise Vincent.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Art ∙ Criminal Procedure |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 101 min.
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Plot: Follows the struggle for control of Dr. Albert C. Barnes' 25 billion dollar collection of modern and post-impressionist art.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Don Argott.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Art ∙ Politics |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 111 min.
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Plot: A look at the life of painter Vincent van Gogh during the time he lived in Arles and Auvers-sur-Oise, France.
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Cast: William Dafoe, Rupert Friend, Oscar Isaac. Directed by Julian Schnabel.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Drama ∙ Art |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 106 min.
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Plot: The success of the painter Margaret Kean and the subsequent legal difficulties with her husband, who later claimed credit for her works.
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Cast: Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz, Danny Huston, Jon Polito. Directed by Tim Burton.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Art ∙ Marital Relations |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 108 min.
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Plot: A psychological thriller set in the world of New York City ballet. A Swan Lake dancer slowly loses her grip on sanity when a newcomer sets out to steal her role.
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Cast: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Winona Ryder, Vincent Cassel, Barbara Hershey. Directed by Darren Aronofsky.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Art ∙ Mental Health |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 82 min.
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Plot: This candid love story explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of famed boxing painter Ushio Shinohara and his wife, Noriko.
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Cast: Ushio Shinohara, Noriko Shinohara. Directed by Zachary Heinzerling.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Art ∙ Biography |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 87 min.
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Plot: An eccentric French shop keeper and amateur film maker attempted to locate and befriend a famous graffiti artist, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Banksy.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ Art |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 89 min.
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Plot: Director Agnes Varda and photographer/muralist J.R. journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship. In French with English subtitles.
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Cast: Jean-Paul Beaujon, Amaury Bussy, Yves Boulen. Directed by JR and Agnes Varda.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Art ∙ Foreign |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 136 min.
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Plot: A young writing prodigy finds a mentor in a reclusive author.
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Cast: Sean Connery, Rob Brown, F. Murray Abraham. Directed by Mike Rich.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Art |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 108 min.
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Plot: The heroes of the hereafter once again answer the call when an underground river of ghoulish goo threatens to rot the Big Apple to the core.
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Cast: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts. Directed by Ivan Reitman.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Comedy ∙ Art |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 109 min.
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Plot: An aging gambler on a losing streak attempts to rob a casino in the South of France. Someone, however, has tipped off the cops before he even makes a move.
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Cast: Nutsa Kukhianidze, Ouassini Embarek, Marc Lavoine, Nick Nolte. Directed by Neil Jordan.
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Categories: Art ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Fraud |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 100 min.
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Plot: The adventures of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel.
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Cast: Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe. Directed by Wes Anderson.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Art |
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Rated: G Stars: ****
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Format: DVVD 123 min.
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Plot: A woman must steal a statue from a Paris museum to help conceal her father's art forgeries.
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Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Charles Boyer. Directed by William Wyler.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Art ∙ Family |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 115 min.
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Plot: Indiana Jones embarks on an incredible worldwide quest for the mystical Ark of the Covenant.
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Cast: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, Ronald Lacey, John Rhys-Davies. Directed by Steven Spielberg.
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Categories: Action ∙ Art ∙ Religion |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 98 min.
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Plot: A wacky Los Angeles t.v. weatherman tries to get his love life in order, guided by an electronic freeway sign.
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Cast: Steve Martin, Victoria Tennant, Richard E. Grant, Marilu Henner, Sarah Jessica Parker, Susan Forristal, Kevin Pollak, Sam McMurray, Patrick Stewart. Directed by Mick Jackson.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Romance ∙ Art |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 116 min.
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Plot: A quirky assistant DA and a plucky defense attorney are paired in a complicated art theft case.
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Cast: Robert Redford, Debra Winger, Daryl Hannah, Brian Dennehy, Terence Stamp, Steven Hill, Jeannie Dundas, Roscoe Lee Browne. Directed by Ivan Reitman.
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Categories: Art ∙ Criminal Law ∙ Romance |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 94 min.
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Plot: Illegal performance of what some consider, "the artistic crime of the century."
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Cast: Philipe Petit, Jean Francois Heckel, Jean-Louis Blondeau, Annie Allix. Directed by James Marsh.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Drama ∙ Art |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 85 min.
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Plot: A man steals the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911. His 84-year-old daughter thought he did it for patriotic reasons. A filmmaker spends more than 30 years trying to find the truth.
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Cast: Audio voice of Joe Medeiros. Directed by Joe Medeiros.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Art ∙ History |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 116 min.
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Plot: A wealthy art gallery owner is haunted by her ex-husband's novel, a violent thriller she interprets as a symbolic revenge tale.
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Cast: Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon. Directed by Tom Ford.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Art ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 125 min.
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Plot: Story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist.
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Cast: Emma Bell, Sara Vertongen, Rose Williams. Directed by Terence Davies.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Drama ∙ Art |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: A police detective discovers a killer's methods mirror the twisted writings of Edgar Allan Poe.
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Cast: John Cusack, Luke Evans, Alice Evans, Kevin R. McNally. Directed by James McTeigue.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Criminal Procedure ∙ Art |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****1/2
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 110 min.
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Plot: Documents 40 years of photographs by Sebastião Salgado in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed some of the major events of our recent history; international conflicts, starvation and exodus.
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Cast: Sebastião Salgado. Directed by Juliano Ribeiro Salgado.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ Art |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 82 min.
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Plot: Documentary of Richard Hambleton, a founder of the street art movement in New York City.
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Cast: Richard Hambleton, Paul DeRienzo . Directed by Oren Jacoby .
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Art |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 151 min.
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Plot: A museum's chief art curator attempts to set up a controversial new exhibit. In Swedish and English, with English subtitles.
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Cast: Claes Bang, Elisabeth Moss, Dominic Wes, Terry Notary . Directed by Ruben Östlund.
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Categories: Art ∙ Ethics ∙ Foreign |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 133 min.
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Plot: A stalwart member of the French Resistance tries to stop a fanatical German commander with a trainload of stolen art treasures bound for Berlin.
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Cast: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Michel Simon, Suzanne Flon, Wolfgang Preiss, Richard Munch, Jeanne Moreau. Directed by John Frankenheimer.
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Categories: War ∙ History ∙ Art |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 105 min.
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Plot: Three children living in a displacement camp in northern Uganda compete in their country's national music and dance festival.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Sean Fine and Andrea Nix.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ War ∙ Art |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 99 min.
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Plot: Highlight the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit.
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Cast: Narration by Vik Muniz. Directed by Lucy Walker and Karen Harley.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Art ∙ Employment |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 109 min.
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Plot: An octogenarian Jewish refugee takes on the Austrian government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family.
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Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Helen Mirren, Daniel Brühl. Directed by Simon Curtis.
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Categories: Drama ∙ War ∙ Art |
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The Wolf Law Library welcomes your suggestions for additions to the Feature Film Collection! If there is a law-related movie you feel we might be missing, please submit your suggestion to the Circulation & Reserve Desk at lawcir@wm.edu.
You can view a list of all law library movies in the
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