Letty Aronson
1) Wonder wheel
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1950s Coney Island, a waitress trapped in a loveless marriage (Kate Winslet) has a fling with a lifeguard who dreams of becoming a playwright (Justin Timberlake). Meanwhile, she and her husband (Jim Belushi) must protect the latter's estranged daughter (Juno Temple), who is on the run from the mob. Written and directed by Woody Allen.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Woody Allen's romantic comedy tells the story of college sweethearts, Gatsby and Ashleigh, whose plans for a romantic weekend together in New York City are dashed as quickly as the sunlight turns into showers. When Ashleigh gets an assignment from the school paper to interview celebrated film director Roland Pollard in Manhattan, Gatsby seizes the opportunity to show Arizona-bred Ashleigh his favorite haunts in his home city.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in the 1920s, Stanley, an Englishman posing as an Asian magician, attempts to debunk fake spiritualists. He then travels to the south of France to unmask a supposed medium named Sophie as a good-looking fake, but he ends up falling for her real-world charms instead.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Philosophy professor Abe Lucas is at rock bottom emotionally, unable to find any meaning or joy in life. He feels that everything he's tried to do from political activism to teaching hasn't made any difference. Abe gets involved with two women: Rita Richards, a lonely professor who is unhappy in her marriage; and Jill Pollard, his best student, who becomes his closest friend. Pure chance changes everything when Abe and Jill overhear a stranger's conversation...
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After Alfie leaves his wife, Helena, to pursue his lost youth with a free-spirited call girl named Charmaine, Helena abandons rationality and surrenders her life to the loopy advice of a charlatan fortune teller. Meanwhile, daughter Sally develops a crush on her handsome boss, Greg, while her husband, Roy, becomes moonstruck over Dia, a mystery woman who catches his gaze through a nearby window. These four will find out how easy it is for their illusions...
7) Blue Jasmine
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After everything in her life falls to pieces, including her marriage to wealthy businessman Hal, elegant New York socialite Jasmine moves into her sister Ginger's humble apartment in San Francisco to try to pull herself back together again.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Vicky is a smart, sensible brunette. Cristina is an amorous, freethinking blonde. They've just arrived in Barcelona, where they will be spending the summer. Sultry Spanish painter Juan Antonio introduces himself and immediately offers to whisk them away for a weekend of sightseeing and threesomes. But there is an ex-wife, who soon appears. Maria Elena is wildly beautiful, wildly brilliant, wildly moody, and wildly wild. There is wine, melancholy music,...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Set in the 1930s, Woody Allen's bittersweet romance Café Society follows Bronx-born Bobby Dorfman to Hollywood--where he falls in love--and back to New York, where he is swept up in the vibrant world of high society nightclub life"--Container.
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Fanny and Jean look like the ideal married couple: they're both professionally accomplished, they live in a gorgeous apartment in an exclusive neighborhood of Paris, and they seem to be in love just as much as they were when they first met. But when Fanny accidentally bumps into Alain, a former high school classmate, she's swept off her feet. They soon see each other again and get closer and closer.
Pub. Date
[2013], c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in the romantic city of Rome. The intertwining stories of a worker who wakes up to find himself a celebrity, an architect who takes a trip back to the street he lived on as a student, a young couple on their honeymoon, and a frustrated opera director who has a talent for discovering talented singers.
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"This is a romantic comedy set in Paris about a family that goes there because of business, and two young people who are engaged to be married in the fall, have experiences there that change their lives. It's about a young man's great love for a city, Paris, and the illusion people there have that a life different from theirs would be much better." -- Container.
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Cinema devotee Mort Rifkin accompanies his publicist wife Sue to the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain, worried that her fascination with her young film director client, Philippe, might be more than professional. In addition, Mort hopes the change of scenery will provide a respite from his struggle to write a first novel that lives up to his impossibly exacting standards.