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1) Poor things
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and producer Emma Stone comes the incredible tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter. Under Baxter's protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off with Duncan Wedderburn, a slick and debauched lawyer, on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices...
Series
Criterion collection ; 394
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
日本語
Description
An amateur entomologist is left in Tokyo to study an unclassified species of beetle found in sandy locations. When he misses his bus back to civilization, he is persuaded to spend the night with a young widow in her hut at the bottom of a sand dune. What results is one of cinema's most unnerving and palpably erotic battles of the sexes, as well as a nightmarish depiction of the Sisyphean struggle of everyday life.
Author
Series
Publisher
Samuel French
Pub. Date
20230503
Language
English
Description
"Two women scientists, living hundreds of years apart, explore the meaning of love. motherhood, family, art, and science in this contemporary comedy. Legacy of Light juxtaposes the story of Emilie du Chatelet, a mathematician, scientist, and lover of the great eighteenth-century philosopher Voltaire, who became unexpectedly pregnant at forty-two, and that of a twenty-first-century physicist desperately trying to conceive a child."-- back cover.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
It is the height of the Cold War, and ex-thief Harry Palmer, now reluctantly working as a secret agent, has been called in to investigate a strange occurrence among a number of leading scientists. It seems the scientists have been kidnapped, but reappear only days after the kidnapping, brainwashed and useless. During the course of the investigation, a tape is uncovered with the word "Ipcress" on it.
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
'The Quatermass conclusion': Professor Quatermass, Joe Kapp and his wife, Clare attempt to marshal assistance from American and Russian quarters. 'The enduring mystery of Stonehenge': For 5,000 years, the sacred site of Stonehenge has stood on the plain of Salisbury, England, bearing silent witness to a myriad of mysteries.
9) Stalker
Series
The Criterion collection ; 888
Pub. Date
2017
Language
Russian
Description
At the center of an outlawed region called The Zone lies a mystical room altered by unnatural forces. Armed guards are the first in a series of lethal obstructions that prevent outsiders from reaching the place where fantastic powers can fulfill one's greatest desires. Only the Stalker can lead a scientist and writer through The Zone where an obstacle course of mental and physical barriers tests the limits of their endurance. At the end they must...
10) Tidal wave
Publisher
Magnet
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Korean
Description
After a deep-sea earthquake spawns a monster tidal wave, marine geologist Professor Kim desperately tries to warn the authorities in a popular coastal vacation town that the wave is headed straight for them.
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