The Pulitzer At 100 (2017)
Género : Documental
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 30M
Director : Kirk Simon
Sinopsis
The Pulitzer at 100, by Oscar and Emmy winning director Kirk Simon, is a ninety-minute independent documentary released in conjunction with the Pulitzer Centennial in April 2016. This film is told through the riveting stories of the artists that have won the prestigious prize. With Pulitzer work read by Helen Mirren, Natalie Portman, Liev Schreiber, John Lithgow and Yara Shahidi; journalists include Carl Bernstein, Nick Kristof, Thomas Friedman, and David Remnick; authors include Toni Morrison, Michael Chabon, Junot Díaz, Tony Kushner, and Ayad Akhtar; and musicians Wynton Marsalis, David Crosby, and John Adams also share their stories.
Conocido en su barrio por su condición de huraño solitario,... Forrester es un hombre cuyo misterio y excentricidad son casi míticos. Cuando Jamal, un destacado estudiante negro, logra colarse en su apartamento con una cartera repleta de trabajos literarios, de manera inesperada e insólita, se establece entre ellos una relación altamente provechosa.
Miss Daisy (Jessica Tandy), una antipática profesora jubilada de 72 años, decide comprarse un coche. Su hijo (Dan Aykroyd), temiendo un posible caos circulatorio o, peor aún, un accidente, contrata a un chófer negro (Morgan Freeman) para que conduzca el vehículo. Al principio, la anciana y el tranquilo conductor no se llevan demasiado bien.
Sydney es un periodista del "The New York Times" enviado a Camboya en 1972 como corresponsal de guerra. Una vez allí, conoce a Dith Pran, un nativo que le sirve de guía e intérprete durante la guerra. En 1975, al caer el gobierno camboyano, los EE.UU. se retiran del país, y toda la familia de Pran emigra a Norteamérica excepto él, que decide quedarse con el periodista para seguir ayudándole. Ambos viven refugiados en la embajada francesa, pero cuando deciden abandonar Camboya, el ejército revolucionario prohíbe salir del país a Pran, que es recluido en un campo de concentración.
Un viejo pescador cubano, Santiago, sale a la mar todos los días, aunque la mala suerte le persigue y no consigue regresar con una buena captura. Una mañana sale a navegar en su pequeña barca y, mientras espera con el cebo en el agua, un pez, aparentemente enorme, pica el anzuelo. A partir de ahí se entabla una durísima lucha entre el viejo pescador y el pez.
Jessie es una mujer de mediana edad cuya vida es una pesadilla: la epilepsia la incapacita para conservar cualquier trabajo, tiene un hijo drogadicto y su matrimonio es un fracaso. Un día, antes de acostarse, le confiesa a su madre que ha decidido quitarse la vida.
In 1953, Horace Carter earned a Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service for his reporting on the Ku Klux Klan. Carter persevered in the face of death threats, including those against his family, and used the editorial authority of North Carolina's TABOR CITY TRIBUNE to protest the Klan's racist rhetoric and vigilantism. Carter's bold reporting and the unwavering integrity of his editorials helped lead to the first federal intervention in the south during that era and to the arrest and conviction of nearly 100 klansmen.
An unparalleled portrait of Arthur Miller (1915-2005), a major writer who left an indelible mark on the world. Miller's life is intimately connected with the great themes that marked the 20th century. Glamour, fame, social criticism and Marilyn Monroe.
The life story of Pulitzer Prize winning author John Kennedy Toole as told by friends and colleagues. Legacy format production, representational photography and an original music score combine to bring the author's life into focus. His personal triumphs, his untimely death and the publication of the novel, 'A Confederacy of Dunces,' years after his suicide are all explored in this darkly beautiful first person narrative.
This first cinematic version of the classic book is a part-talkie, although the only surviving print is silent (housed in the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY). It is a straight-forward telling of the intermingled lives of a group of strangers doomed to die in a collapsing bridge accident. The Art Direction, paltry and unremarkable, surprisingly won an Oscar over the far more remarkable work nominated in THE IRON MASK. The special effect scene of the lovers plummeting with the bridge into the chasm is unforgettable and remarkably done.
Heidi Holland is a woman on the long and often bumpy road of self-discovery from the 1960s to 1990s. The movie follows her path from high-school egghead, to feminist supporter, to intellectual art dealer/mother, and chronicles her ups and downs and revelations.
Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs, hosted by Sam Waterston, tells the compelling stories behind some of the world's most memorable photographs. Returning to the scene of the action, each photographer describes, in a gripping first-hand account, how they took their prize-winning photographs. The moments they captured forged history and changed lives - including the photographers own. The stories of these unforgettable photographs' own. The stories of these unforgettable photographs - many of them shown here for the first time - are as compelling and long lasting as the images themselves.
Ben Jordan runs away after accidentally setting fire to a barn in his small New England community. He returns when his mother dies to find that she has left everything to her ward, Jane Crosby.
