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The Lover
ItisFrenchColonialVietnamin1929.AyoungFrenchgirlfromafamilythatishavingsomemonetarydifficultiesisreturningtoboardingschool.SheisaloneonpublictransportationwhenshecatchestheeyeofawealthyChinesebusinessman.Heoffersherarideintotowninthebackofhischauffeuredsedan,andsparksfly.Canthetorridaffairthatensuesbetweenthemovercometheclassrestrictionsandsocialmoresofthattime?Basedonthesemi-autobiographicalnovelbyMargueriteDuras.WrittenbyCalLottcal.lott@gsb.uchicago.edu
Varuhuset
Tidelands
Ex-con Cal McTeer’s return to her hometown of Orphelin Bay blows the lid off a generations-long conspiracy of silence around murder, drugs and Sirens.
Shrill
Legends of the Deep
Celine and Fabien Cousteau use cutting-edge tech to hunt for a long-lost shipwreck in the Bermuda Triangle, and if their top-secret clues are right, they might uncover new evidence that…
Take My Wife
The Royals
The Red Spectre
Inastrangegrottodeepinthebowelsoftheearthacoffinuprightsitself,dances,thenopens,andoutstepsademonicmagicianwithskeletalface,horns,andcape.Hewrapstwowomen(whoappeartobeinatrance)infabric,levitatesthem,andcausesthemtoburstintoflamesanddisappear.AshegatherstheirashesinapitcheraGoodSpirit[ayoungwomanwhoresemblesPeterPan]appears,shakesherheadNo,andrevealsthesoulsofthetwowomeninasecretcompartmentdeeperwithinthecave.TheGoodSpiritvanishesinapuffofsmoke.Themagicianthenproduces3glassbottlesonpillars,takesthemdownstageclosetothecamera,andreveals3tinywomeninthem;onewomanbeatsatambourinewhiletheothertwosway.Themagicianpoursashes(?)intothebottles,buttheGoodSpiritreappearsandmakesthesetrappedfiguresdisappearinaflash,angeringthemagician,whochasesheraway.Hemakesaneaselappear.ThereisanoddsortofscreenonitbearingthePathe…Writtenbywmorrow59
The Booze, Bets and Sex That Built America
DivulgessurprisingoriginstoriesoftheAmericanalcohol,gambling,sex,andtobaccoindustriesandtheambitiouslynotoriousentrepreneurswhobuiltsomeofhistory’sbiggestfortunesonthenation’scravings.
The Men Who Built America: Frontiersmen
A look at the lives of iconic pioneers such as Daniel Boone, Lewis and Clark, Tecumseh, Davy Crocket and Andrew Jackson as they traveled across America.