Jim Broadbent
Author
Series
Harold Fry novels volume 1
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Joyce’s beguiling debut is [a] modest-seeming story of ‘ordinary’ English lives that enthralls and moves you as it unfolds.”—People (four stars)
IN DEVELOPMENT AS A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST
Meet Harold...
IN DEVELOPMENT AS A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST
Meet Harold...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Trapped in a village ruled by the meddling Kondor, Huppu the bird dreams of having the freedom to hatch her own egg. Suddenly, she, Kondor, and their friends are blasted to a distant land, and they must trust in a wise, eccentric bat to guide them on a strange, dazzling odyssey back to the tree they call home.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher, the first and only female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. One of the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male-dominated world.
4) London spy
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (290 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
What begins as a chance romance between two people from opposite walks of life - one an antisocial investment banker, the other a slacker romantic - quickly unravels when the reclusive banker disappears under suspicious circumstances, exposing his real identity as a spy and forcing his lover down a dark path to reveal the truth.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The film tells the true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who 'temporarily' parked her van in Bennett's London driveway and proceeded to live there for fifteen years.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (357 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A modern take on one of the most famous stories of all time. In 1805 when we first meet Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei, they are all part of St. Petersburg's glittering elite, but are fired up with youthful ambition to find meaning in their lives. As everything they thought they knew is questioned, Pierre, Andrei and Natasha find themselves in a time when Russian society is about to change forever.
8) Le week-end
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Long-married British couple Nick and Meg are revisiting Paris for the first time since their honeymoon in an attempt to rekindle their relationship. Diffident, wistful Nick and demanding, take-charge Meg careen from harmony to disharmony as they take stock of half a lifetime of deep tenderness, and even deeper regret. An invitation from Nick's old friend Morgan, an amusingly eccentric American academic, soon leads them to a hopeful vision of what...
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Bridget is forty-something and single again after breaking up with Mark Darcy. She decides to focus on her job and surround herself with old friends and some new ones. But her love life takes a turn when she meets a dashing American named Jack. In an unlikely twist, Bridget finds herself pregnant but she can only be fifty percent sure of the father's identity.
10) Enchanted April
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
London, the 1920s. Lottie and Rose are two married women who share the misery of empty marriages and decide to rent an Italian castle for the spring to get away. In order to save money, they advertise for two other women to join them. Mrs. Fisher is an elderly widow is struggling with a lonely and regimented existence. She jumps at the chance to join the vacation. Lady Caroline Dester is a gorgeous flapper who has been grabbed one too many times and...
11) Moulin Rouge
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 128 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (12 p. : col. ill. ; 18 cm.)
Description
Christian is an idealistic and impoverished young writer who, newly arrived in Montmartre, is haphazardly inducted into a circle of young bohemians led by Toulouse-Lautrec. A comedy of mistaken identities ensues, quickly enmeshing the young poet in a love triangle involving the unobtainable and consumptive Satine, queen courtesan of the Moulin Rouge, and the foppish Duke of Roxbury, his villainous rival for her affections.
12) Another year
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodiscs (ca. 130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A married couple who have managed to remain blissfully happy into their autumn years are surrounded over the course of the four seasons of one average year by friends, colleagues, and family who all seem to suffer some degree of unhappiness.
13) The Duke
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in 1961 when Kempton Bunton, a 60-year-old taxi driver, stole Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery's history. Kempton sent ransom notes saying that he would return the painting on condition that the government agreed to provide television for free to the elderly. What happened next became the stuff of legend. Only 50 years later did the full...
14) Closed circuit
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
One morning, a busy London market is decimated by an explosion. In the manhunt that follows, only one member of the suspected terrorist cell survives: Farroukh Erdogan, who is arrested and jailed. Martin and Claudia are lawyers and ex-lovers who find themselves bound together again and put at risk after they join the defense team for an international terrorist's trial.
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Summer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors heralding the rise of National Socialism. A teacher there sees what is coming and is trying to raise the alarm but the authorities believe he is the problem.
16) Brooklyn
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.
17) Iris
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Adapted from the memoirs of literary critic John Bayley, the film recounts his courtship of and long marriage to British novelist Iris Murdoch. The scenario tacks back and forth from the young Iris--ready to seduce one and all with her coy command of words and sex appeal--to the elder Iris--slowly giving way to the cruel erasure of Alzheimer's.
Pub. Date
c2004, c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The true story of how Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa allowed a Hollywood crew to film him in battle, altering the course of film and military history in the process. Early movie giants D.W. Griffin and Harry Aiken send Frank Thayer to Mexico to persuade the cash-strapped, publicity-hungry Villa to let them film his revolution. Stepping into the literal cross fire, Thayer's crew risk their lives in the mingling of fiction and reality. The two make...
20) Life is sweet
Series
Criterion collection volume 659
Pub. Date
[2013], ©1990
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([18] pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Description
An amusing portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London, an irrepressible mum and dad and their night-and-day twins, a bookish good girl and a sneering layabout. A vivid, lived-in story of ordinary existence, in which even modest dreams (such as the father's desire to open a food truck) carry enormous weight. Perched on the line between humor and melancholy.