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
[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 (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.
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...
8) Revoir Paris
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three months after surviving a mass shooting at a Parisian bistro, Mia is determined to reconstruct the sequence of events by bonding with fellow survivors, and piecing together their stories to rediscover her own.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Teenaged Astrid Lindgren, future author of Pippi Longstocking, leads a carefree life in rural Sweden. Eager to break free from her conservative upbringing, she accepts an internship at a local newspaper where she attracts the attention of its married editor. After Astrid becomes pregnant, she leaves home to give birth to a son, whom she reluctantly leaves with a foster mother. When the foster mother falls ill, Astrid uses her imagination and gift...
10) Ida
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
©2014
Formats
Description
A moving and intimate drama about a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland who, on the verge of taking her vows, discovers a dark family secret dating from the terrible years of the Nazi occupation.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Formats
Description
The final installment of Stieg Larsson's 'Millennium' trilogy. Lisbeth Salander is fighting for her life in more ways than one. In an intensive care unit and charged with three murders, she will have to not only prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce the same corrupt government institutions that nearly destroyed her life. Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now, Lisbeth Salander is fighting back.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dramatic retelling of the story of Rita Atria, a 17-year-old Sicilian girl whose father and brother were both Mafia members (and victims) who break the vow of silence that enshrouds that world, and gives evidence to famed anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino. Her days are numbered from that moment on. She only has nine months to live.
13) A quiet passion
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2017
Formats
Description
The story of poet Emily Dickinson, whose genius, wit, intellectual independence, and pathos only came to be recognized after her death.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (257 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Raul Ruiz's masterful adaptation of the eponymous nineteenth-century Portuguese novel. The core story centers on Joao, the bastard child of an ill-fated romance between two members of the aristocracy who are forbidden to marry, and his quest to discover the truth of his parentage. But this is just the start of an engrossing tale that follows a multitude of characters whose fates conjoin, separate and then rejoin again over three decades in Portugal,...
Series
Mesrine saga volume pt. 2
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD videodisc (2 hr., 14 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the climactic second part of the Mesrine saga, Jacques Mesrine is back in France after his brazen assault on the maximum-security prison from which he daringly escaped. Once again in police custody and facing stern justice for his crime, 'the man of a thousand faces' escapes directly from the courtroom after kidnapping the judge at gunpoint. The life of Jacques comes once and for all to a full bloody circle.
16) Fremont
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 91 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Each morning Donya leaves her tight-knit community of Afghan immigrants in Fremont, California. She crosses the Bay to work at a family-run fortune cookie factory in San Francisco. Donya drifts through her routine, struggling to connect with the culture and people of her new, unfamiliar surroundings while processing complicated feelings about her past as a translator for the U.S. government in Afghanistan. Unable to sleep, she finagles her way into...
17) A man called Ove
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ove, a grumpy, isolated retiree who spends his days enforcing block association rules and visiting his wife's grave, decides to give up on life until an unlikely friendship develops with a boisterous young family that moves in next door.