Alexandre Desplat
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Piano solo selections from the haunting score by Oscar-nominated composer Alexandre Desplat. Desplat is highly regarded and the winner of numerous awards including 2008's "Film Score of the Year" & "Best Original Score for a Drama Film" by the International Film Critics Association for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button , winner of the 2007 Golden Globe for "Best Original Score" for The Painted Veil , and two-time Academy Award Nominee ( The Queen...
Author
Publisher
ABKCO Music & Records
Pub. Date
p2014
Physical Desc
1 CD (60 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
Soundtrack to the new film from acclaimed director Wes Anderson which features some of Hollywood's most talented actors, Ralph Fiennes, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Owen Wilson, and more. The soundtrack features original music by Grammy Award-winning, Oscar nominated composer Alexandre Desplat, who is known for scoring The King's Speech, Argo, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Also includes music by Antonia Vivaldi,...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Years after being abandoned at an orphanage by her father, Gabrielle Chanel finds a job in a tailor shop where she meets, and soon begins an affair with French millionaire Etienne Balsan. Through Baron Balsan she is introduced into French society and given the opportunity to design her own style of hats. Though her career takes off, her personal life becomes more complicated when she falls in love with Balsan's former best friend Arthur Capel.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mr. and Mrs. Fox live a happy home life underground with their eccentric son Ash. Mr. Fox works as a journalist, but against the advice of Badger, his attorney, he moves his family into a larger and finer home inside a tree on a hill. The treehouse has an excellent view of the nearby farms of Boggis, Bunce, and Bean. Ash becomes hostile when his cousin, Kristofferson, joins the family for an extended stay. Mr. Fox decides to raid the farms, but this...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (165 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he ages backwards, being born an old man. He is diagnosed with several aged diseases at birth and thus given...
10) The tree of life
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[c2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (139 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950's that follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
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Description
In the epic finale, the battle between the good and evil forces of the wizarding world escalates into an all-out war. The stakes have never been higher and no one is safe. But it is Harry who may be called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice as he draws closer to the climactic showdown with Lord Voldemort. It all ends here.
12) The Queen
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An intimate, moving portrait of Queen Elizabeth and Tony Blair following the untimely death of Princess Diana. The Queen's restrained reaction causes a public relations debacle that Prime Minister Blair must defuse. The two struggle to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public's demand for an open display of mourning.
13) Isle of dogs
Publisher
Fox Video
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in Japan, this follows a boy's odyssey in search of his lost dog.
14) Julie & Julia
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Julie Powell is a frustrated insurance worker who wants to be a writer. Trying to find a challenge in her life, she decides to cook her way through Julia Child's 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' in one year, and to blog about it. As Julie begins to find her groove as a cook, and her voice as a writer, the project takes on a life of its own. The project provides the struggling young woman with her life's purpose, to her very pleasant surprise....
15) The valet
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Pierre Levasseur is an important CEO who is photographed with his lover, Elena, a world-famous model. In an attempt to salvage his marriage, he tries to convince his wife that Elena is not his lover, but that of Franc?ois Pignon, the porter who was passing by and ended up on the photograph. To make his story believable, Levasseur convinces Pignon and Elena to move in together and to pretend to be a couple. Things get more complicated when this creates...
16) Moonrise kingdom
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore, and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.
17) The painted veil
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in the 1920s. A young English couple, Walter a middle class doctor and Kitty, an upper-class woman, get married for all the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai. Kitty falls in love with someone else. When Walter discovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China that is being ravaged by a deadly epidemic. He takes his wife along and their journey brings meaning to their relationship and gives them...
18) A better life
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Carlos Galindo always dreamed of a better life for his wife and newborn son when he crossed the border into the U.S. But when his wife left him, Carlos's only goal became to make sure his son Luis was given the opportunities he never had. A story that follows father and son as they embark on a physical and spiritual journey where they discover that family is the most important part of the American dream.
19) Carnage
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (79 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two pairs of parents, one of whose child has hurt the other at a public park, meet to discuss the matter in a civilized manner. However, the evening becomes quite chaotic as the parents become increasingly childish.
20) Una mejor vida
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Formats
Description
Carlos Galindo siempre so?aba con una vida mejor para su esposa y su hijo reci?n nacido cuando cruz? la frontera hacia los EE.UU. Pero cuando su esposa lo dej?, el ?nico meta de Carlos se convirti? en asegurarse de que su hijo Luis le dio las oportunidades que ?l nunca tuvo. Esta es una historia que sigue a padre e hijo mientras se embarcan en un viaje f?sico y espiritual donde descubren que la familia es la parte m?s importante del sue?o americano.
Carlos...
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