Amanda Vaill
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"A spellbinding story of love amid the devastation of the Spanish Civil War Madrid, 1936. In a city blasted by a civil war that many fear will cross borders and engulf Europe--a conflict one writer will call "the decisive thing of the century"--six people meet and find their lives changed forever. Ernest Hemingway, his career stalled, his marriage sour, hopes that this war will give him fresh material and new romance; Martha Gellhorn, an ambitious...
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Wealthy Americans with homes in Paris and on the French Riviera, Gerald and Sara Murphy were at the very center of expatriate cultural and social life during the modernist ferment of the 1920s. Gerald Murphy-witty, urbane, and elusive-was a giver of magical parties and an acclaimed painter. Sara Murphy, an enigmatic beauty who wore her pearls to the beach, enthralled and inspired Pablo Picasso (he painted her both clothed and nude), Ernest Hemingway,...
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Español
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Hemingway necesitaba un éxito. Martha Gellhorn quería vivir peligrosamente. Barea sentía que su vida era una contradicción. Ilsa Kulcsar vivía para sus ideas. Gerda Taro y Robert Capa querían olvidarse de su pasado. Los seis, cada uno con su equipaje y su modo de mirar, llegan a Madrid y pasan por el hotel Florida, donde se reunían los periodistas extranjeros, los fotógrafos, los espías, los militares, bajo el estruendo de las bombas, en...
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[2009]
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Anamorphic widescreen.
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English
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Examines the life of the controversial master of the Broadway musical and ballet choreographer Jerome Robbins. Features excerpts from Robbins' work, including never-before-seen rehearsal footage, and interviews with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Jacques d'Amboise, Suzanne Farrell, Arthur Laurents, Peter Martins, Frank Rich, Chita Rivera, Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, Joseph Stein, and others.
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