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(2000)., Adult, New Line Home Entertainment : distributed exclusively in Canada by Alliance Atlantis Call No: DVD Fic Before Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Episodic look at the life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990), from his childhood in Oriente province to his death in New York City. He joins Castro's rebels. By 1964, he is in Havana. He meets the wealthy Pepe, an early lover; a love-hate relationship lasts for years. Openly gay behavior is a way to spite the government. His writing and homosexuality get him into trouble: he spends two years in prison, writing letters for other inmates and smuggling out a novel. He befriends Lázaro Gomes Garriles, with whom he lives stateless and in poverty in Manhattan after leaving Cuba in the Mariel boat-lift. When asked why he writes, he replies cheerfully, "Revenge.".
![Before night falls [DVD] (2000). Directed by Julian Schnabel.](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Before night falls [DVD] (2000). Directed by Julian Schnabel.")
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[2006]., Adult, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Capote Edition: Widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In 1959, Truman Capote was a popular writer for The New Yorker. He learns about the horrific and senseless murder of a family of four in Halcomb, Kansas. Inspired by the story, Capote and his partner, Harper Lee, travel to the town to do research for an article. However, as Capote digs deeper into the story, he is inspired to expand the project into what would be his greatest work, "In Cold Blood." He arranges extensive interviews with the prisoners, especially with Perry Smith. However, his feelings of compassion for Perry conflicts with his need for closure for his book which only an execution can provide. That conflict and the mixed motives for both interviewer and subject make for a troubling experience that would produce an literary account that would redefine modern non-fiction.
![Capote [DVD] (2006). Directed by Bennett Miller.](/Library/images/~imageCT71032.JPG "Capote [DVD] (2006). Directed by Bennett Miller.")
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(2007, p1995)., Adult, distributed exclusively in Canada by Alliance Films Call No: DVD Fic Total Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Leonardo DiCaprio (Titanic, The Man in the Iron Mask, Romeo and Juliet) and David Thewlis (Besieged, The Big Lebowski, The Island of Dr. Moreau) offer a tour-de-force lesson in the seductive strength of art and the destructive power of genius. DiCaprio plays Arthur Rimbaud - a remarkable but rebellious teenage poet in 19th Century France whose philosophy of living life to the extreme inspired Jim Morrison and the rock generation. Thewlis is Paul Verlaine, a writer of lesser talent who is torn between his growing infatuation with Rimbaud and the domestic demands of his patient wife (Romane Bohringer). Together, these two men feed each other's insatiable hunger for life and love, trying desperately to straddle the lines between knowledge and self-destruction, creativity and delusion. Director Agnieszka Holland (The Secret Garden) and screenwriter Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons) have lovingly re-created this true story of one man's search for the ultimate poem, another man's search for the ultimate soulmate, and the brilliant madness they find together."--Container (US ed.).
![Total eclipse [DVD] (1995). Directed by Agnieszka Holland.](/Library/images/~imageCT71772.JPG "Total eclipse [DVD] (1995). Directed by Agnieszka Holland.")