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Publisher
distributed by New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (145 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a remote mountain monastery above a bustling city lives Hyegok, an old Zen master, his conflicted young apprentice Kibong, and Haejin, an orphaned boy studying to be a monk. The old master, nearing his end, wishes to make the ceremony of his death his final lesson to his apprentice, who is struggling to come to terms with the worldly life he left behind. Meanwhile the young boy has his own awakening to mortality as he attempts to nurse a bird he...
44) Hello, Hemingway
Series
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Havana 1950s. Larita loves Elvis, Ernest Hemingway and her rebellious friend Victor. But Victor is more concerned with the turbulent political situation in Cuba than Larita's likes and dreams. Hoping to study in the United States, she quickly discovers that her origins and poverty work against her. In spite of her obstacles she is inspired by her own rich fantasy world. A story written by Hemingway becomes her own story of striving for a better future....
45) The ice storm
Series
Criterion collection volume 426
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([15 p.] ; 18 cm.)
Description
Thanksgiving 1973. The climate is changing, both politically and physically. As the Watergate scandal unfolds in the background, the inhabitants of a small Conneticut town begin to slip into an existentialist void. Social taboos are shattered on whims and the line between adult authority and juvenile irresponsibility is practically nonexistant. Focuses on the Hood and Carver families. Chronicles a brief period of rapid moral deterioration. Their actions...
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (235 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jean de Florette: Set amidst the rugged hills of Provence, this epic saga follows the heroic efforts of Jean Cadoret, who inherits a farm from his mother, Florette, and leaves his city job behind, hoping to create a "new Eden" with his wife and daughter. But, unbeknownst to Jean, his greedy neighbor, Ce?sar Soubeyran, is plotting to steal the land out from under him with a wicked scheme that drives Jean to the brink of madness.
Manon of the spring:...
47) Rich and famous
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The long-standing friendship between two women is threatened when one becomes immediately successful as a writer while the other continues to strive for literary recognition.
48) The good soldier
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the decade preceding World War I, two wealthy, handsome couples--English Captain Edward Ashburnham and his wife Leonora, and American John Dowell and his wife Florence--meet at a German spa and forge an immediate bond. Through nine seasons at various spas, the splendid foursome lives elegant, perfect lives. But nothing is as it seems. As John says at one point, "My wife and I knew the Captain and his wife Mrs. Ashburnham as well as was possible...
49) Mother of mine
Series
Film Movement volume 5, film 4
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During World War II, more than 70,000 Finnish children were evacuated to neutral Sweden to avoid the conflict. 9-year-old Eero increasingly feels abandoned by his biological Finnish mother and not yet attached to his Swedish surrogate mom. When Eero is returned to Finland, his confusion intensifies.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 300 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Television series about three high-powered women who support each other through the triumphs and tears of big-city life. Nico is an editor-in-chief with an eye on becoming CEO; Wendy is a movie executive juggling career and family; and Victory is the fashionista looking for success and Mr. Right. Armed with strength, style and a wicked sense of humor, these women show that it takes a lot to make it in the Big Apple-- especially good friends.
51) Romeo + Juliet
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Description
Baz Luhrmann's dazzling and unconventional adaptation of William Shakespeare's classic love story is spellbinding. The setting has been moved from its Elizabethan origins to the futuristic backdrop of Verona Beach with these star-crossed lovers.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sylvia Barrett is a rookie teacher with a can-do attitude at New York's inner city Calvin Coolidge High. Crowded classes, broken windows, lack of chalk and books are only a few of the problems she will have to face.
53) Lillie
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 672 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Portrays the acclaimed British actress and courtesan Lillie Langtry from the blush of youth to the blight of old age. At a time when society expected women to be docile and demure, Lillie posed for celebrity endorsements, conducted her own business affairs, and paid her first husband to keep his distance. Even more scandalously, she openly entertained a string of lovers among Europe's elite, including the very married Prince of Wales.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (ca. 955 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the small town of Dillon, Texas, everyone comes together on Friday nights when the Dillon High Panthers play. But life is not a game and the charismatic football players, their new coach Eric Taylor, and the passionate fans find that their biggest challenges and obstacles come off the field.
55) Brooklyn rules
Publisher
City Lights Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in Brooklyn in 1985 against the backdrop of John Gotti's rise to power. Three lifelong friends' different ambitions threaten to shake their enduring bond.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 118 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of the five Bennett sisters living in early 19th century England. Their mother is scheming to make prestigious marriages for them. Focuses on Elizabeth Bennett, who mistakenly finds the rich Mr. Darcy an oaf, even as he sets all the other fair maidens' hearts aflutter.
57) A nos amours
Series
Criterion collection volume 337
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (35 p. : col. ill. ; 18 cm.)
Description
A fifteen-year-old Parisian girl embarks on a sexual rampage in an effort to separate herself from her overbearing father, ineffectual mother, and brutish brother.
58) King Creole
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A New Orleans teenager struggles to graduate from high school while working at a sleazy French Quarter club to support his family.
59) Candy
Publisher
Thinkfilm
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dan is a poet who falls in love with two kinds of Candy: a woman of the same name and heroin. As Dan goes from a smart-aleck to someone trying to find a vein to inject, Candy changes from an actress to a streetwalker and then a madwoman. Starting in Sydney, the two eventually end up in Melbourne to try and go clean, but they fail. This leads them to turn to finding money and heroin, while other posessions and attachments become unimportant.
Series
Criterion collection volume 392-395
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (521 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (61 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Pitfall: When a miner leaves his employer and treks out with his young son to become a migrant worker, he finds himself moving from one eerie landscape to another, intermittently followed (and photographed) by an enigmatic man in a clean, white suit, and eventually coming face-to-face with his inescapable destiny.
Woman in the dunes: An amateur entomologist leaves Tokyo to study an unclassified species of beetle that resides in a remote, vast desert....
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