Music Box Films
1) Seasons
Publisher
Music Box Films
Formats
Description
After traveling the world alongside migrating birds and diving the oceans with whales and manta rays, Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud return to more familiar ground: the lush green forests and megafauna that emerged across Europe following the last Ice Age.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A documentary about the life of indigenous people living in the heart of the Siberian Taiga, some 300 villagers that live according to their own values and cultural traditions, and whose daily routines have barely changed over the last century.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A visually stunning journey to the end of the world with the hardy and devoted people who live there year-round. The research stations scattered throughout the continent host a close-knit international population of scientists, technicians and craftsmen. Isolated from the rest of the world, enduring months of unending darkness followed by periods when the sun never sets, Antarctic residents experience firsthand the beauty and brutality of the most...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (167 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Examining the most powerful movie images of the last decade, filmmaker Mark Cousins updates his classic documentary with a coda that includes the ongoing pandemic, explores the role of technology in modern movies, and considers how moviegoing will continue to change in the digital century.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When billionaire financier Nerio Winch and head of the W Group is murdered, his second in command must locate his only heir, a heretofore unknown adopted son, Largo. But first the heir, a twenty-something adventurer, must overcome an onslaught of drug traffickers, assassins, corporate raiders and double-dealing insiders to fulfill his destiny in this twisty, fast-paced corporate thriller.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
At a Montreal public grade school, an Algerian immigrant is hired to replace a popular teacher who committed suicide in her classroom. While helping his students deal with their grief, his own recent loss is revealed.
7) Last ride
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Kev, a fugitive who has committed a violent crime, takes his 10-year old son Chook on the run from the law. As father and son journey into the outback and an unknown future, Chook is forced to make the choice between what is right and the love of his father.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Walter is a professional killer and has bungled a job. Now he has to leave the city and takes up an offer from crime boss Berger to protect his house in a remote region of the Carpathian Mountains. At his side is his old friend Mickey. By accident Berger's young and pretty wife, Sybille is killed and fearing Berger's vengeance, Walter and Mickey decide to hide her body. What at first seemed to be a nice holiday trip for Walter and Mickey soon become...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hester Collyer is the wife of an upper-class judge and a free spirit trapped in a passionless marriage. Her encounter with Freddie Page, a troubled former Royal air force pilot, throws her life in turmoil, as their erotic relationship leaves her emotionally stranded and physically isolated.
10) Little Girl
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (88 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
LITTLE GIRL is the moving portrait of 7-year-old Sasha, who has always known that she is a girl. Sasha’s family has recently accepted her gender identity, embracing their daughter for who she truly is while working to confront outdated norms and find affirmation in a small community of rural France. Realized with delicacy and intimacy, Sébastien Lifshitz’s documentary poetically explores the emotional challenges, everyday feats, and small moments...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (48 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
THE ATLANTA CHILD MURDERS was the sensational case that rocked the nation in the early 1980’s with rumors of Ku Klux Klan serial murders of at least 28 black children, adolescents and adults. The inability of the authorities to stop the murders and solve the cases over a two-year period and the controversial trial of Wayne Williams were the biggest media event in America at the time, with the Governor of Georgia, Vice President George Bush, Muhammad...
12) Le week-end
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Long-married British couple Nick and Meg are revisiting Paris for the first time since their honeymoon in an attempt to rekindle their relationship. Diffident, wistful Nick and demanding, take-charge Meg careen from harmony to disharmony as they take stock of half a lifetime of deep tenderness, and even deeper regret. An invitation from Nick's old friend Morgan, an amusingly eccentric American academic, soon leads them to a hopeful vision of what...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2012, c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1772 Germany, the young and tumultuous Johann Goethe aspires to be a poet. After failing his law exams, he is sent by his father to a sleepy provincial court to mend his ways. Unsure of his talent and eager to prove himself, Goethe soon wins the praise and friendship of his superior, Kestner. But then Lotte Buff enters his life and nothing is the same as before. However, the young lovers are unaware that her father has already promised Lotte's...
14) Augustine
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In nineteenth-century Paris, a kitchen maid suffers a seizure and is sent to a psychiatric hospital where a renowned neurologist takes both a professional and personal interest in her case.
16) Nomad
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (89 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Told in Werner Herzog’s inimitable style and bursting at the seams with unforgettable characters and encounters, NOMAD takes the viewer on a journey through the creative and personal vision Herzog shared with iconic travel writer Bruce Chatwin, the prolific author of In Patagonia and a champion of the nomadic lifestyle.
17) Blood Ties
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
1994.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (30 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Artfully explores the world of the prominent and controversial photographer, Sally Mann. With her own children as subjects, Mann has been exploring the subtle truths of childhood in an ongoing series. It’s a fascinating visit to the rural bohemia of the photographer and her main models: her eerily self-possessed children.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
Leonor Reyes was once a groundbreaking figure in the Filipino film industry during its ragtag action cinema glory days, but now she struggles with old age, mounting bills, and the untimely death of her son. While revisiting an unfinished script about a fearless protagonist trying to avenge his brother's murder, Leonor is struck on the head by a falling television set and knocked into a coma. As she lays unconscious in the hospital, fantasy and reality...
19) Shepard & Dark
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark met in the early '60s and remained close friends despite living very different lives. Shepard became a Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and an Academy Award-nominated author while Dark was a homebody with a penchant for photography and letter writing.
20) Tell no one
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Eight years after the heinous murder of his wife, pediatrician Alex Beck still grieves for his beloved wife, Margot. When two bodies are uncovered near where Margot's body was found, the police reopen the case and Alex becomes a suspect again. The mystery deepens when Alex receives an anonymous e-mail with a link to a video clip that seems to suggest Margot is somehow still alive.