Tilda Swinton
1) Deep water
Publisher
Distributed by Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
True story of the first solo, non-stop, round-the-world boat race, and the psychological toll it took on its competitors. Sponsored by the Sunday Times of London, the much-ballyhooed event attracted a field of nine, including amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst, who set out to circumnavigate the globe in late 1968. Battling treacherous seas and his own demons, Crowhurst almost immediately comes apart as he faces the isolation of nine months on the high...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set against the romantic desolation of Detroit and Tangier, an underground musician, deeply depressed by the direction of human activities, reunites with his resilient and enigmatic lover. Their love story has already endured several centuries at least, but their debauched idyll is soon disrupted by her wild and uncontrollable younger sister. Can these wise but fragile outsiders continue to survive as the modern world collapses around them?
Publisher
Columbia
Pub. Date
©2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set against the romantic desolation of Detroit and Tangier, an underground musician, deeply depressed by the direction of human activities, reunites with his resilient and enigmatic lover. Their love story has already endured several centuries at least, but their debauched idyll is soon disrupted by her wild and uncontrollable younger sister. Can these wise but fragile outsiders continue to survive as the modern world collapses around them?
"Ms....
Publisher
National Gallery of Art
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"The impresario Serge Diaghilev was the creator and driving force of the Ballets Russes. He persuaded, cajoled, and charmed the greatest talents of the early twentieth century to join his company. Artists (Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse), composers (Igor Stravinsky and Erik Satie), choreographers (Michel Fokine and George Balanchine), and dances (Vaslav Nijinsky and Anna Pavlova) all collaborated to realize Diaghilev's dream of a seamless fusion...
8) The souvenir
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A shy, ambitious film student from a privileged background begins an intensely emotional relationship with a charismatic man who nearly destroys her dreams.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's the story of a famous rock star vacationing with her lover on a remote Italian island. While the couple basks in the foreshadowing heat of the Mediterranean sun, their lives are soon disrupted by the unexpected visit of an old flame and his seductive daughter, creating a whirlwind of jealousy, passion and, ultimately, danger for everyone involved.
10) Strange culture
Publisher
Docurama Films
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approx. 75 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Told through a blend of interviews, documentary footage, and reconstructed scenes, this film examines the true story of art professor Steve Kurtz, who called the police when his wife died and was detained and questioned as a bioterror suspect due to materials found in his house. On May 11, 2004, police responding to his distressed 911 call became suspicious of biological equipment in his house and contact the FBI. Only hours after his wife's death,...
11) 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.
12) Trainwreck
Publisher
Universal Studios Canada, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Since she was little, it's been drilled into Amy's head by her dad that monogamy isn't realistic. Now a magazine writer, Amy lives by that credo; enjoying what she feels is an uninhibited life free from stifling, boring romantic commitment, but in actuality, she's kind of in a rut. When she finds herself starting to fall for the subject of the new article she's writing, a charming and successful sports doctor named Aaron Conners; Amy starts to wonder...
13) Pinocchio
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A classic tale is reborn through the inspired imagination of cinematic dream-weaver Guillermo del Toro, directing alongside Mark Gustafson. Realized through boundary-pushing, breathtakingly intricate stop-motion animation, this dark rendering of the fable of the puppet boy and his maker, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, daringly transfers the story to Fascist Italy, where the irrepressible Pinocchio gradually learns what it means...
14) Thumbsucker
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
At 17, Justin Cobb releases his anxiety by sucking his thumb, which makes him more of an outcast than he already is. As he seeks treatment for his habit, it causes big changes for him and those around him.
15) Hail, Caesar!
Formats
Description
An all-star comedy set during the latter years of Hollywood's Golden Age. It follows a single day in the life of a studio fixer who is presented with plenty of problems to fix.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (ca. 113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Lucy and Edmund Pensive, along with their cousin Eustace, are swallowed into a painting and transported back to Narnia, they join King Caspian and a noble mouse named Reepicheep aboard the magnificent ship The Dawn Treader. The courageous voyagers travel to mysterious islands, confront mystical creatures, and reunite with the Great Lion Aslan and a mission that will determine the fate of Narnia itself!
17) Snowpiercer
Formats
Description
The film is set in the future (AD 2031) where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an ice age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. Its inhabitants are divided by class; the lower-class passengers in one of the last cars stage an uprising, moving car by car up to the front of the train, where the oppressive...
18) Vanilla sky
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this steamy, intriguingly complex, psychological thriller the line between reality and fantasy is hopelessly blurred. David tries to make sense of his life after a car crash leaves his once-handsome face grotesquely disfigured. After he is placed into a psychiatric penitentiary for a murder he doesn't remember committing, David's only hope is to delve into the depths of his subconscious mind where the answer to ending his living nightmare lies...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the sleepy small town of Centerville, something is not quite right. The moon hangs large and low in the sky, the hours of daylight are becoming unpredictable, and animals are beginning to exhibit unusual behaviors. No one quite knows why, and no one foresees the strangest and most dangerous repercussion that will soon start plaguing the town. The dead rise from their graves and savagely attack and feast on the living, and the citizens of the town...
20) Okja
Series
Criterion collection volume 1133
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2022
Formats
Description
Mija is a South Korean girl growing up on an Edenic mountainside with her grandfather and best friend: Okja, a giant, empathetic "super pig" created as part of a secret GMO experiment. When Okja is abruptly torn away from her, Mija embarks on a perilous rescue mission that places her at the center of a sinister corporate conspiracy. While Bong's trademark virtuosic set-pieces dazzle, Okja's beating heart is the connection between a girl and her super...