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1) Ocean's 8
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2018]
Formats
Description
Debbie Ocean, the estranged sister of infamous criminal mastermind Danny Ocean, seeks to carry on the family business by plotting an enormous heist on New York's annual Met Gala. After being released from prison, Debbie recruits her best friend Lou to set out and assemble a team of larcenists. This hodgepodge, seven-member team includes everyone from a street pick-pocket, a computer hacker, and a jewelry expert. The women band together to infiltrate...
2) Black swan
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nina is a ballerina in a New York City ballet company. Her life, like most in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her mother Erica, a former ballerina who exerts a suffocating control over her. When artistic director Thomas Leroy decides to replace prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre for the opening production of their new season, Swan Lake, Nina is his first choice. But Nina has competition: new dancer Lily, who impresses...
Series
Criterion collection volume 479
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Formats
Description
An actor has dinner with his friend, a theater director, at an Upper West Side restaurant. Together they discuss everything from money to death to love and all the superstition in between. Playing variations on their own New York-honed personas, the two dive in with introspective, intellectual gusto. All captured in a delicate, but artful detachment.
4) Local color
Publisher
Monterey Video :
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1974, in the suburb of Port Chester, New York, the teenage aspirant artist John Talia has a troubled relationship with his homophobic father who does not understand John's talent. While visiting his friend Yammi, John finds that the genius Russian painter Nicoli Seroff lives nearby. He decides to pay a visit to his idol. John finds a bitter alcoholic who is still grieving the loss of his wife Anya. Somehow, he successfully befriends the master....
5) Diggers
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Four Long Island friends follow in their respective families' footsteps and become clam diggers in this touching comedy.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Alan Johnson runs into his old college roommate, Charlie Fineman, on the streets of New York City. He is surprised to find that Charlie does not remember him at all. Alan later learns that Charlie is suffering with grief over the loss of his family on 9/11. Flooded with grief, Charlie quits his job and isolates himself from everyone around him. Alan attempts to help Charlie get over his grief by rekindling their friendship. As Alan spends a lot of...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a city known for excitement, two friends are about to embark on the greatest adventure of all. Gabe and Rosemary have known each other all of their lives, but when they come face to face in a karate class, they see each other in a whole new light.
9) Arranged
Series
Film Movement volume 5, film 12
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Rachel, an Orthodox Jew, and Nasira, a Muslim of Syrian origin, are both public school teachers in Brooklyn. They also have something else in common: they are going through the process of getting arranged marriages through their respective religious and traditional customs.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment Llc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A mutually beneficial friendship develops between a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who has lived for forty years as an eccentric recluse and a young African American writer whose athletic skills and high test scores have enabled him to attend a Manhattan prep school.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 360 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two New Zealander friends experience life, love, friendship, all the usual stuff, while trying to make their lives as a rock band. Unfortunately, they're a rock band that can only schedule a performance at the local aquarium, and they have only one fan.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sometimes what's in your head isn't as crazy as you think ... that's certainly true for Craig, a stressed-out teenager who checks himself into a mental health clinic for some time out. What he finds instead is an unlikely mentor, a potential new romance and an opportunity to begin anew. Charming, witty and smart, it's a coming-of-age story that's kind of a funny story.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Carrie and Miranda wrestle with their single lifestyles. Miranda has new baby Brady and single motherhood, while Carrie finds herself in the world of publishing as the author of a real-life book of her columns. Charlotte wonders if she'd ever find another man, while Samantha finally gets rid of the one that had been vexing her far too much. From Samantha's anointment as the "Michiko Kakutani of vibrators" to Carrie's stressful book launch party. The...
14) Oliver & company
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 74 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Oliver is a homeless kitten who roams the streets of New York City. There, he is taken in by a gang of homeless mutts who survive by stealing from others. During one of these criminal acts, Oliver meets a wealthy young girl named Jenny Foxworth. This meeting will forever change his life.
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 300 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Despite living as Big Apple bohemians for over a year, Jermaine Clement and Bret McKenzie remain hopelessly out of place in Manhattan. Will Season 2 bring them excitement, romance, and the elusive music gig?
16) Midnight cowboy
Series
Criterion collection volume 925
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Formats
Description
A naive male prostitute from Texas and his sickly friend struggle to survive on the streets of New York City.
17) Whatever works
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Boris Yellnikoff is a lifelong New York resident who attempts to impress his ideologies of religion, relationships, and the randomness of existence onto anyone who will listen. But when he begrudgingly allows Melodie St. Ann Celestine, a naïve Mississippi runaway, to live in his apartment, his reclusive rages give way to an unlikely friendship and Boris begins to mold the impressionable young girl's worldly views to match his own. When it comes to...
18) Metropolitan
Series
Criterion collection volume 326
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 pamphlet (1 v. : 18 cm.).
Description
When a group of young sophisticated high society friends in New York take in a new member with more humble origins, they begin to learn what life is like outside their sheltered world.
20) Midnight cowboy
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Joe Buck moves to New York from Texas to make his fortune servicing women. Instead, he's conned into partnering up with small-time hustler Ratso Rizzo. Living together on the tattered edges of society, these two outcasts develop an unlikely bond that helps them transcend their cruel existence.
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