Sam Shepard
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
82 pages ; 19 cm
Description
"In searing, beautiful prose, Sam Shepard's extraordinary narrative leaps off the page with its immediacy and power. It tells in a brilliant braid of voices the story of an unnamed narrator who traces, before our rapt eyes, his memories of work, adventure, and travel as he undergoes medical tests and treatments for a condition that is rendering him more and more dependent on the loved ones who are caring for him. The narrator's memories and preoccupations...
2) Blackthorn
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Years after being thought to have died, Butch Cassidy, living in Bolivia under the name James Blackthorn, makes the dangerous decision to return home to the United States.
3) Ithaca
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Fourteen-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has ever seen. His older brother has gone to war, leaving Homer to look after his widowed mother, his older sister and his four-year-old brother, Ulysses. And so it is that as spring turns to summer, 1942, Homer Macauley delivers messages of love, hope, pain, and death, to the good people of Ithaca. And Homer Macauley will grapple with one...
4) Frances
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
p2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (173 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This biopic explores the true story of Frances Farmer, a mold-breaking actress from Seattle who moved to Hollywood, Calif., and gained notoriety for her unconventional attitude. After being lured to New York under false pretenses, dealing with her overbearing mother and an addiction to alcohol lead to a mental collapse. Institutionalized, Farmer is abused by patients and staff alike. Following her release, Farmer hosts a local Indianapolis TV show...
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Cultural historians, collectors, and various celebrity obsessives, including Tom Hanks and John Mayer, launch us into the bittersweet moment when a beloved, but dying technology, the typewriter, faces extinction.
7) Country
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this gritty, gut-wrenching account of rural America, Jewell and Gil Ivy work the land in America's heartland, on a farm that has bound their family together for generations. For Jewel and Gil, the land has always been their life, so when government bureaucrats decide to take it all away, the Ivy's decide to stay on their land and fight the greedy land grabbers.
Publisher
Turner Pictures Worldwide
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's the early 1900s, and weather-beaten cowhand Hewey Calloway rides in from the vast Texas range after learning his brother's farm is in danger of foreclosure. Arriving in a nearby town, what the middle-aged roughrider finds amazes yet threatens him - automobiles and civilized society.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (144 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Details the near-disastrous mission in Somalia on October 3, 1993 where nearly 100 U.S. Army Rangers, commanded by Capt. Mike Steele. The troops were dropped by helicopter deep into the capital city of Mogadishu to capture two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord. The resulting action lead to a large and drawn-out firefight between the Rangers and hundreds of Somali gunmen. The battle led to the destruction of two U.S. Black Hawk helicopters and to...
10) Days of heaven
Author
Series
Criterion collection volume 409
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the early twentieth century, a fugitive from the slums of Chicago becomes pitted against a shy, rich Texan for the love of Abby in the wheatfields of Texas.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (454 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nights in Rodanthe: Adrienne Willis is a woman with her life in chaos. She retreats to the small coastal town in the Outer Banks where she hopes to find the tranquility she so desperately needs. She has a wayward husband who has asked to come home and a teen-aged daughter who resents her every decision. Upon arrival, a major storm is forecast and a guest named Dr. Paul Flanner arrives. Paul is the only guest at the inn, and he is facing his own crisis...