Hampton Fancher
1) Escapes
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English
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Directed by Michael Almereyda (Experimenter) and executive produced by Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel), Escapes blazes a wild path through mid-20th-century Hollywood via the experiences of Hampton Fancher – flamenco dancer, actor, and the unlikely producer and screenwriter of the landmark sci-fi classic Blade Runner. (Fancher also penned the story for its sequel, Blade Runner 2049.) A consummate raconteur, Fancher recounts episodes from...
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Death Valley Days volume 10
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English
Description
People on the AZ frontier are terrorized by a mysterious animal with tracks three times as large as a horse's.
4) Blade runner
Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
Description
In the year 2019 in Los Angeles, replicants, genetically engineered human beings of superior strength and intelligence, commandeer a space shuttle to Earth. Blade runner, Rick Deckard, a police officer who hunts down and terminates replicants is coerced into exterminating the replicants.
5) Lethem
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English
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Fred Barney Taylor's Lethem presents a unique portrait of the life and work of Jonathan Lethem, the bestselling author of nine novels, including The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn, and a recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship "Genius Grant," through an assemblage of interviews with family members, friends, and the author himself.
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Tired of stuffy New England, Prudence Bell (Suzanne Pleshette in her first major film role) longs for a Rome Adventure. So she heads for the Eternal City and encounters a handsome student (Troy Donahue), a dashing older man (Rossano Brazzi)–and competition from a wily woman of the world (Angie Dickinson). In his fourth collaboration with Donahue (the first was A Summer Place), writer/director Delmer Daves again proves his skill at bringing the heartbreak...
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English
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When quiet and amiable Vann Siegert (Owen Wilson) drifts into town, no one suspects the evil that lies beneath the surface. When locals start to disappear, it becomes clear that an eerie subtraction is at work among the lost and lonely of this sleepy, seaside hamlet. People look toward Vann, but no one can quite put their finger on who he really is. Through it all, he carries on a surreal dialogue with imaginary detectives (Dwight Yoakam and Dennis...
