Jennifer Beals
Author
Appears on list
Description
Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go-Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it's the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she's twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Another band getting noticed is The Six, led by the brooding Billy Dunne....
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Lovely and quietly intelligent, French chambermaid Hélène ... comes upon a couple ... engaged in an intensely sensual chess match and discovers she has a knack for the game. This obsession, much to the chagrin of her husband and teenage daughter, leads her to seek the clandestine tutelage of a reclusive American doctor ... a liaison that radically transforms both of their lackluster lives"--Container.
3) Caro diario
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
1993.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (101 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Director Nanni Moretti plays himself in this beloved comedy, told as three chapters from the filmmaker's diary: musing on cinema atop a Vespa, exiling himself to the Aeolian Islands to work on a new screenplay, and mourning his ailing health. Winner of the Best Director award at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, and two David di Donatello Awards, including Best Film.
4) Flashdance
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Alex Owens is a fiercely determined and beautiful 18-year-old woman who works as a welder by day and as a dancer at a local bar at night. Alex struggles to gain independence, finds love, and realize her dream--to dance at the Pittsburgh Conservatory of Dance.
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows Nanni Moretti as he recounts three entries from his diary which include traveling through Rome on a Vespa, journeying to the Aeolian Islands to work on an idea for a new movie, and visiting a variety of doctors as he tries to find a proper diagnosis and cure for a medical condition.
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Novelist Joe and his actress wife Sally throw a party to celebrate the sixth anniversary of their turbulent marriage. At the party both guests and hosts start telling each other the truth-- something rarely heard in Hollywood.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (115 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Following a year long separation, a successful British novelist and his American movie-actress wife mark their sixth wedding anniversary with a gathering at their exquisite Neutra-designed mountaintop home overlooking Los Angeles. Sally and Joe seem to be the perfect Hollywood couple, but they teeter on the brink of disaster, as do most of their guests. Party favors, in the form of the drug Ecstasy, cause emotions, painful truths and unforeseen incidents...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1135
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Easy Rawlins, a tough World War II veteran and detective, is hired by a financier and gangster to locate Daphne Monet, a search that leads him from elegant boardrooms to the raucous jazz joints of late 1940s Los Angeles.
10) The book of Eli
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Eli walks alone in post-apocalyptic America. He heads west along the Highway of Death on a mission he doesn't fully understand but knows he must complete. In his backpack is the last copy of a book that could become the wellspring of a revived society. Or in the wrong hands, the hammer of a despot. Eli keeps his blade sharp and his survival instincts sharper as his quest thrusts him into a savage wasteland.
11) Before I fall
Pub. Date
[2017]
Formats
Description
After one fateful night, Sam wakes up with no future at all. Trapped reliving the same day over and over, she begins to question just how perfect her life really was. And as she begins to untangle the mystery of a life suddenly derailed, she must also unwind the secrets of the people closest to her, and discover the power of a single day to make a difference, before she runs out of time for good.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (73 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the ancient city of Baghdad, a shy shoemaker named Tack falls in love with the adventure-loving Princess Yum-Yum. When an evil wizard threatens their beloved city, it's up to Tack and the Princess to defeat him.
Series
Criterion collection volume 485
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 pamphlet.
Description
Depicts the 'last days' at a disco palace, where drugs, sex and weirdness ran rampant. Icy Charlotte and demure Alice toil by day as publishing house assistants and by night the two look for romance and entertainment at a premier disco club. But, as the disco is closed, they wonder if disco can ever really be dead?
14) Fame: Flashdance
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (227 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Fame: Tells the story of various students at the High School of Performing Arts in New York City.
Flashdance: Alex Owens is a woman who works as a welder by day and as a dancer at a local bar at night. Her dream is to dance at the Pittsburgh Conservatory of Dance.
15) Manhattan night
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Reporter Porter Wren meets attractive widow Caroline and she asks him to solve the bizarre death of her filmmaker husband, Wren is unable to refuse, or resist her. But when a rich mogul blackmails him into investigating Caroline, the reporter realizes this job could cost him everything.