Iain Canning
1) Mr. Holmes
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 105 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1947, an aging Sherlock Holmes returns from a journey to Japan, where, in search of a rare plant with powerful restorative qualities, he has witnessed the devastation of nuclear warfare. Now, in his remote seaside farmhouse, Holmes faces the end of his days, with only the company of his housekeeper and her young son, Roger. Grappling with the diminishing powers of his mind, Holmes comes to rely upon the boy as he revisits the circumstances of the...
3) Tracks
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It tells the remarkable true story of Robyn Davidson, a young woman who leaves her life in the city to make a solo trek through almost 2,000 miles of sprawling Australian desert. Accompanied by only her dog and four unpredictable camels, she sets off on a life-changing journey of self-discovery. Along the way, she meets National Geographic photographer Rick Smolan who begins to photograph her voyage.
4) Lion
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 118 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Five-year-old Saroo gets lost on a train which takes him thousands of kilometers across India, away from home and family. Saroo must learn to survive alone in Kolkata, before ultimately being adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty-five years later, armed with only a handful of memories, his unwavering determination, and a revolutionary technology known as Google Earth, he sets out to find his lost family and finally return to his first home.
5) Ammonite
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the 1840s, acclaimed self-taught palaeontologist Mary Anning works alone on the wild English coastline. She hunts for common fossils to sell to rich tourists to support herself. When one such tourist arrives in Lyme, he entrusts Mary with the care of his young wife Charlotte, who is recuperating from a personal tragedy. Despite their differences, it is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming love affair that will defy all social bounds...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1158
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (12 panels : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Description
Jane Campion returns to the kind of mythic frontier landscape--pulsating with both freedom and menace--that she previously traversed in The Piano in order to plumb the masculine psyche in The Power of the Dog, set against the desolate plains of 1920s Montana and adapted by the filmmaker from Thomas Savage's novel. After a sensitive widow and her enigmatic, fiercely loving son move in with her gentle new husband, a tense battle of wills plays out between...
8) Widows
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Description
The story is about four women who do not share anything in common apart from the debts their dead husbands left behind. They all take fate into their own hands concerning all the criminal activities their husbands were involved in. The four women become close friends and find a way that will give them a secure and a conducive environment. They end up working together and conspires to collaborate a future on their rapports to avoid being involved in...
9) Hunger
Series
Pub. Date
©2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([16] pages ; illustrations ; 19 cm).
Description
In Northern Ireland's Maze prison in 1981, 27-year-old Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands went on a hunger strike to protest the British government's refusal to recognize him and his fellow IRA inmates as political prisoners. A transcendent depiction of what a human being is willing to endure in order to be heard.
10) One life
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells the truet story of Nicholas Winton, who organized the rescue of hundreds of predominantly Jewish children from the Nazis on the verge of World War II. Half a century later, he is haunted by the memory of those he could not save.
11) Slow west
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 84 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A sixteen-year-old boy heads west on a journey across nineteenth century frontier America in search of the woman he loves. He encounters a mysterious traveler named Silas, who protects him from the savage elements and outlaws in a lawless land. But is Silas really watching out for him, or is he tied to the band of thieves tracking their every step?
12) Macbeth
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A thrilling interpretation of one of Shakespeare's most famous and compelling characters, Macbeth is a dramatic re-imagining of the realities of war-torn times and a tale of all-consuming passion and ambition.
13) LIFE
Author
Description
Dennis Stock (Robert Pattinson, The Twilight Saga, Cosmopolis, Maps to the Stars) was only 26 when he was commissioned to photograph James Dean (Dane DeHaan, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, The Place Beyond the Pines), Hollywood's rebellious free spirit on the verge of superstardom, for LIFE Magazine in 1955. In the months leading up to the premiere of Dean's infamous role in East of Eden and filming Rebel Without a Cause, Stock and Dean took a photographic...
14) Macbeth
Author
Description
Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard star in this thrilling adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy about betrayal, war, and madness.