Alexandre Desplat
Author
Description
Piano solo selections from the haunting score by Oscar-nominated composer Alexandre Desplat. Desplat is highly regarded and the winner of numerous awards including 2008's "Film Score of the Year" & "Best Original Score for a Drama Film" by the International Film Critics Association for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button , winner of the 2007 Golden Globe for "Best Original Score" for The Painted Veil , and two-time Academy Award Nominee ( The Queen...
Author
Publisher
ABKCO Music & Records
Pub. Date
p2014
Physical Desc
1 CD (60 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
Soundtrack to the new film from acclaimed director Wes Anderson which features some of Hollywood's most talented actors, Ralph Fiennes, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Owen Wilson, and more. The soundtrack features original music by Grammy Award-winning, Oscar nominated composer Alexandre Desplat, who is known for scoring The King's Speech, Argo, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Also includes music by Antonia Vivaldi,...
4) The Queen
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Portrays the crisis in the British royal family immediately following the death of Princess Diana as Queen Elizabeth II reconciles her tradition-bound world with a modern Great Britain.
7) Isle of dogs
Publisher
Fox Video
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in Japan, this follows a boy's odyssey in search of his lost dog.
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Carlos Galindo always dreamed of a better life for his wife and newborn son when he crossed the border into the U.S. But when his wife left him, Carlos's only goal became to make sure his son Luis was given the opportunities he never had. A story that follows father and son as they embark on a physical and spiritual journey where they discover that family is the most important part of the American dream.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Years after being abandoned at an orphanage by her father, Gabrielle Chanel finds a job in a tailor shop where she meets, and soon begins an affair with French millionaire Etienne Balsan. Through Baron Balsan she is introduced into French society and given the opportunity to design her own style of hats. Though her career takes off, her personal life becomes more complicated when she falls in love with Balsan's former best friend Arthur Capel.
11) Army of crime
Publisher
Lorber Films
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In Paris, 1941, Armenian poet Missak Manouchian leads a motley crew of foreign-born resistance fighters in clandestine battle against the Nazi occupation. An initially reluctant Manouchian and his team must resort to guerilla tactics and radical measures in the name of liberty. News of their daring attacks, including the assassination of an SS general, eventually reaches Berlin.
12) The valet
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Pierre Levasseur is an important CEO who is photographed with his lover, Elena, a world-famous model. In an attempt to salvage his marriage, he tries to convince his wife that Elena is not his lover, but that of Franc?ois Pignon, the porter who was passing by and ended up on the photograph. To make his story believable, Levasseur convinces Pignon and Elena to move in together and to pretend to be a couple. Things get more complicated when this creates...
13) 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.
14) The Queen
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An intimate, moving portrait of Queen Elizabeth and Tony Blair following the untimely death of Princess Diana. The Queen's restrained reaction causes a public relations debacle that Prime Minister Blair must defuse. The two struggle to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public's demand for an open display of mourning.
15) Una mejor vida
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Formats
Description
Carlos Galindo siempre so?aba con una vida mejor para su esposa y su hijo reci?n nacido cuando cruz? la frontera hacia los EE.UU. Pero cuando su esposa lo dej?, el ?nico meta de Carlos se convirti? en asegurarse de que su hijo Luis le dio las oportunidades que ?l nunca tuvo. Esta es una historia que sigue a padre e hijo mientras se embarcan en un viaje f?sico y espiritual donde descubren que la familia es la parte m?s importante del sue?o americano.
Carlos...
Publisher
Wellsprihg Media
Pub. Date
c2005.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this remake of Fingers, Tom, a ne'er-do-well, works with two scheming real estate men who have little or no morals. He decides to return to the piano, practicing Bachs' Toccata in E Minor for an important audition that could be a life-changing event.
17) Carnage
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (79 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two pairs of parents, one of whose child has hurt the other at a public park, meet to discuss the matter in a civilized manner. However, the evening becomes quite chaotic as the parents become increasingly childish.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mr. and Mrs. Fox live a happy home life underground with their eccentric son Ash. Mr. Fox works as a journalist, but against the advice of Badger, his attorney, he moves his family into a larger and finer home inside a tree on a hill. The treehouse has an excellent view of the nearby farms of Boggis, Bunce, and Bean. Ash becomes hostile when his cousin, Kristofferson, joins the family for an extended stay. Mr. Fox decides to raid the farms, but this...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (165 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he ages backwards, being born an old man. He is diagnosed with several aged diseases at birth and thus given...
20) Birth
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A widow for ten years, Anna is looking forward to getting remarried when a mysterious boy appears claiming to be the reincarnation of her late husband.