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Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (143 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (4 unnumbered pages (folded) : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Description
The struggle between the strictures of religion and humankind's brute animal nature plays out amid the beautifully forbidding landscapes of remote Iceland in this stunning psychological epic from director Hlynur Palmason. In the late nineteenth century, Danish priest Lucas made the perilous trek to Iceland's southeastern coast to establish a church. There, the arrogant man of God finds his resolve tested as he confronts the harsh terrain, temptations...
Author
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
336 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Description
Hollywood cinema and Los Angeles cannot be understood apart. Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles traces the interaction of the real city, its movie business, and filmed image, focusing on the crucial period from the construction of the first studios in the 1910s to the decline of the studio system fifty years later. As Los Angeles gradually became one of the ten largest cities in the world, the film industry made key contributions to its rapid...
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Part One of this story takes place in 1947. A troubled soldier, returning from the war, meets his talented five-year-old nephew, leaves an indelible impression, and then disappears for twenty-three years. Cut to 1970: The nephew, now drawing underground comic books in Oakland, California, reconnects with his uncle and, remembering the comic book he saw when he was five, draws a new version with his uncle as a World War II fighting hero. Cut to the...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
8 CDs (570 min.) ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 computer disc (PDF ; 4 3/4 in.)
Description
A definitive and surprising exploration into the Black journey in modern horror cinema, from the fodder epitomized by Spider Baby to the Oscar-winning cinematic heights of Get Out and beyond. This eye-opening book delves into the themes, tropes, and traits that have come to characterize Black roles in horror since 1968, a year in which race made national headlines in iconic moments from the enactment of the 1968 Civil Rights Act and Martin Luther...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 inches.
Description
Guy Haines, a tennis star who hates his wife, is approached on a train by a stranger, Bruno Anthony, who hates his father. Anthony offers a plan: each could kill the other's victim. No motive, no clue would link the two murders save the casual meeting of strangers on a train.
Author
Publisher
Harper Design, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
207 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Description
Created in conjunction with Paramount Pictures and authorized by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey (via his Estate), the creators of the original musical stage play, Grease: The Director's Notebook features rare and never-before-seen imagery from the studio's archives, as well as Kleiser's production notes, dialogue changes, and more. The book's heart is Kleiser's own heavily annotated shooting script, along with his storyboards and sketches-including lines...
Series
Criterion collection volume 181
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide.
Description
This sequel to I am curious - yellow follows young Lena on her continuing journey of self-discovery. In Blue, Lena confronts issues of religion, sexuality and the prison system, while at the same time exploring her own personal relationships. Like I am curious - yellow, Blue freely traverses the lines between fact and fiction, employing a mix of dramatic and documentary techniques.
9) No bears
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
One of the world's great cinema artists, Jafar Panahi has been carefully crafting self-reflexive works about artistic, personal, and political freedom for the past three decades, despite being banned from filmmaking by the Iranian government since 2010. In No Bears completed shortly before his imprisonment in 2022, Panahi plays a fictionalized version of himself, a dissident filmmaker who relocates to a rural border town to direct a film remotely...
10) ¡Doble o nada!
Author
Publisher
Molino/Penguin Random House Grupo editorial
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
217 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Description
"The pressure's really piling up on Greg Heffley. His mom thinks video games are turning his brain to mush, so she wants her son to put down the controller and explore his creative side. As if that's not scary enough, Halloween's just around the corner and the frights are coming at Greg from every angle. When Greg discovers a bag of gummy worms, it sparks an idea. Can he get his mom off his back by making a movie...and will he become rich and famous...
Publisher
Kino Lorber, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A half-century after its release, Midnight Cowboy remains one of the most original and groundbreaking movies of the modern era. With beguiling performances from Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman as two loners who join forces out of desperation, blacklist survivor Waldo Salt's brilliant screenplay, and John Schlesinger's fearless direction, the 1969 film became the only X-rated film to ever win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Its vivid and compassionate...
Author
Publisher
Page Street YA
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"When Sophia Galich was twelve, she starred in her older sister Layla's amateur horror movie Vermillion, which recorded raw footage of her very real reactions to scenes her sister concocted in their old Californian house on the coast--Cashore House. In the years after the film's release, Sophia's relationship with her sister became more strained, while her memories of the now-infamous house fueled her nightmares. Vermillion amassed an army of fanatical...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xiii, 334 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
The behind-the-scenes story of the larger-than-life action stars who ruled '80s and '90s Hollywood-Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Jackie Chan, Steven Seagal, Chuck Norris, Dolph Lundgren, and Jean-Claude Van Damme-and the beloved films that made them stars, including Die Hard, Rambo, and The Terminator. The Last Action Heroes opens in 1990, at the Cannes film festival, where Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone finally...
14) Master gardener
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
Directed by Academy Award nominee Paul Schrader based on his original screenplay, Master Gardener follows Narvel Roth, the meticulous horticulturist of Gracewood Gardens. He is as much devoted to tending the grounds of this beautiful and historic estate, to pandering to his employer, the wealthy dowager Mrs. Haverhill. When Mrs. Haverhill demands that he take on her wayward and troubled great-niece Maya as a new apprentice, chaos enters Narvel's spartan...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
Keyana's latest big idea is to have a backyard movie soiree for all her relatives; but when her twin cousins' fighting knocks over the projector, movie night seems heading for disaster--until Keyana comes up with an even better idea.
16) The equalizer 3
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
"Since giving up his life as a government assassin, Robert McCall has struggled to reconcile the horrific things he's done in the past and finds a strange solace in serving justice on behalf of the oppressed. Finding himself surprisingly at home in Southern Italy, he discovers his new friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do: become his friends' protector by taking on the mafia." --container...
Series
Criterion collection volume 181
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide.
Description
Tells the tale of Lena, a young woman on her personal quest to understand the social and political conditions in 1960's Sweden, as well as the exploration of her own sexual identity. She shatters taboos as if there are no lines between fact and fiction.
18) Maggie Moore(s)
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
The movie takes place in a dusty desert town where nothing ever happens, as a police chief is suddenly faced with the back-to-back murders of two women with the same name.
19) Full contact
Pub. Date
1992.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Betrayed by both his partner and his girl, and persecuted by a rival smuggling ring, a daredevil adventurer turns into a lonely gunman seeking bloody revenge from the suburbs of Bangkok to the streets of Hong Kong.
20) Kandahar
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
An undercover CIA operative gets stuck in hostile territory in Afghanistan after his mission is exposed. Accompanied by his translator, he must fight enemy combatants as he tries to reach an extraction point in Kandahar.
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