MPI Media Group
1) Rewind this!
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the 1980s, videotape changed the world and laid the foundation for modern media culture. It traces the rise and fall of VHS from its heyday as the mainstream home video format to its current status as a nostalgic relic and prize to collectors who still cherish it. Featuring interviews with both filmmakers and enthusiasts from the VHS era.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sam is a troubled single mother who risks losing custody of her young daughter following a failed suicide attempt. Over the next few shaky weeks, Sam is released from the hospital into the care of her overbearing older sister, finds a job, makes tentative steps toward a new romance, and tries to reconnect with her child. But lives, and depression, sometimes have a way of making their own rules. Can a woman lost somewhere between hope and despair find...
3) City of gold
Publisher
Sundance Selects
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jonathan Gold pulls back the curtain on the perceived superficiality of Los Angeles to show viewers a genuine and vibrant world where ethnic cooking is a kaleidoscopic doorway to the mysteries of an unwieldy city and the soul of America.
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (69 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
IT'S BAD FOR YA, Carlin's Emmy-nominated 14th and final HBO special from March of 2008 features Carlin's noted irreverent and unapologetic observations on topics ranging from death, religion, bureaucracy, patriotism, overprotected children and big business to the pungent examinations of modern language and the decrepit state of the American culture. Carlin once again comes up with an hour of brand new material that not only makes you laugh, but makes...
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Formats
Description
After over one hundred years of service, The Yankee Pedlar Inn is shutting its doors for good. The last remaining employees--Claire (Sara Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy)--are determined to uncover proof of what many believe to be one of New England's most haunted hotels. As the Inn’s final days draw near, odd guests check in as the pair of minimum wage “ghost hunters” begin to experience strange and alarming events that may ultimately cause them...
7) Americano
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After receiving news of his mother's death, Martin leaves his girlfriend and home in Paris and sets off for L.A. to tie up the loose ends of his rocky maternal relationship. As Martin digs deeper into his mother's past, he discovers she had a hidden relationship with a beautiful woman, who he finds at a seedy strip club in Tijuana, called the Americano. Martin discovers there may be more than he ever hoped to know about his mother's sordid past and...
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1953, the ascent of Everest remained the last of Earth's great challenges. Standing at over 29,000ft, the world's highest mountain posed a fearsome challenge and had already claimed thirteen lives in previous expeditions. When Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay finally achieved the impossible and became the first men to stand atop Everest, it was an event that stunned the world and defined an era.
10) Becket
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
1964.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (149 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
One of the greatest historical dramas in motion picture history, BECKET is the moving, passionate and ultimately tragic story of King Henry II (Peter O’Toole) and his friend and confidant, Thomas Becket (Richard Burton). King Henry II is far from being a saint. He reigns over a Medieval England festering with political conflict and occupies his days with drinking, pursuing woman and wagering war. His constant cohort in these escapes is Thomas Becket....
12) Sleep Tight
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (101 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Toiling silently amongst the residents of an everyday Barcelona apartment building, doorman Cesar (Luis Tosar) harbors a dark secret: his sole desire in life is to make others unhappy. When he sets his sights on Clara (Marta Etura), one of his building’s cheeriest residents, his sick need blossoms into a full-fledged obsession. Embarking on a series of private and physical violations against Clara, Cesar becomes determined to ruin her life by any...
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
When Shizuku Tsukishima, a middle school student who loves to read, meets her classmate, Seiji Amasawa, her impression of him couldn't be worse. But as she watches him pursue his dream of becoming a cellist, she's gradually drawn closer and closer to him. Seiji himself also falls for Shizuku, when he learns about her dream to become a novelist. The two promise each other that one day they'll make their dreams come true. Ten years later, 24-year-old...
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
Tells the gripping story of a young German soldier on the Western Front of World War I. Paul and his comrades experience first-hand how the initial euphoria of war turns into desperation and fear as they fight for their lives, and each other, in the trenches. The film from director Edward Berger is based on the world-renowned bestseller of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque.
15) The waiting room
Publisher
IFC in Theaters
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Anna and Stephen are total strangers who come together by chance by an elderly man who is waiting for his wife at a station platform. The meeting makes them both examine and challenge their own relationships and come to decisions about themselves.
16) The Edge of Love
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (111 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
This beautifully drawn love story explores the bohemian underworld of war-torn London and the intimate complexities of two young couples whose lives and loves become dangerously intertwined.
17) The roundup
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Featuring international action star Don Lee, the film follows two South Korean detectives who are sent to Vietnam to extradite a suspect. They soon uncover a series of connected murders and crimes against tourists, and vow to bring down the criminals responsible. This bone-crushing, record-setting box office hit is sure to entertain audiences with adrenaline-pumping action.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (79 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mattie and James are in love and living in separate cities. As they both struggle with the distance between New York and Chicago, their visits become reminders of the difficulties rather than the pleasures of their relationship.
19) Secret zoo
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dissatisfied with his temp position at a well-known law firm, attorney Tae-su takes an unexpected assignment to help revitalize a failing zoo. Seeing this as a chance to prove himself and move up in the firm, Tae-su discovers instead that the zoo has no real animals. What's worse, he only has three months to turn around a seemingly lost cause into a golden opportunity. Enlisting the help of the zoo's bewildered staff, he comes up with an unorthodox...
20) Call me lucky
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells the story of Barry Crimmins, a beer-swilling, politically outspoken and whip-smart comic whose efforts in the 70s and 80s fostered the talents of the next generation of standup comedians. But beneath Crimmins' gruff, hard drinking, curmudgeonly persona lay an undercurrent of rage stemming from his long-surpressed and horrific abuse as a child, a rage that eventually found its way out of the comedy clubs and into the political arena.