19 February 1996 Factual 75 mins
Women (many of them lesbian) artists, writers, photographers, designers, and adventurers settled in Paris between the wars. They embraced France, some developed an ex-pat culture, and most cherished a way of life quite different than the one left behind.
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Juliet Stevenson as Narrator (voice)
Gertrude Stein as Self (archive footage)
Janet Flanner as Self (archive footage)
Sylvia Beach as Self (archive footage)
Gisèle Freund as Self
Solita Solano as Self (archive footage)
Josephine Baker as Self (archive footage)
Paul Valéry as Self (archive footage)
Natalie Clifford Barney as Self (archive footage)
Colette as Self (archive footage)
Djuna Barnes as Self (archive footage)
Pablo Picasso as Self (archive footage)
James Joyce as Self (archive footage)
Greta Schiller Director
Andrea Weiss Writer
Andrea Weiss Producer
Greta Schiller Editor
Greta Schiller Producer
Frances Berrigan Producer
Germany 19 February 1996
United Kingdom 19 November 1995
United States 08 November 1996
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These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1996:
01 January 1996
On a supermarket shelf, a particular alarm clock keeps blaring off-hand, upsetting the staff and the customers.
13 June 1996
Mari is a high school teacher who is earnest and somewhat cold. Tired of her monotonous days, she discovered a secret game: wandering around Roppongi at night and seducing men.
24 September 1996
This is a story of Jimmy, a high school senior, who is struggling with his school life, family pressures, future choices.
25 June 1996
Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major cities.
01 October 1996
The story of a little boy named Sam, who is exploited by two evil chimney sweeps to clean narrow chimneys.
22 February 1996
Perhaps best known for his mathematic equations, Pythagoras was much more than simply a mathematician.
10 October 1996
During the general elections of 1994, Tunin, a mechanic with a firm belief in communism fears that his party is about to lose, so he journeys to a northern village to stir up trouble.
01 January 1996
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03 September 1996
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