Music Box Films.
Publication Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A stunning documentary about the life of indigenous people living in the heart of the Siberian Taiga. Deep in the wilderness, far away from civilization, 300 people inhabit the small village of Bakhtia at the river Yenisei. There are only two ways to reach this outpost: by helicopter or boat. There's no telephone, running water or medical aid. The locals, whose daily routines have barely changed over the last centuries, live according to their own...
Formats
Description
A visually stunning journey to the end of the world with the hardy and devoted people who live there year-round. The research stations scattered throughout the continent host a close-knit international population of scientists, technicians and craftsmen. Isolated from the rest of the world, enduring months of unending darkness followed by periods when the sun never sets, Antarctic residents experience firsthand the beauty and brutality of the most...
3) Edie
Publication Date
2019
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Following the death of her husband, Edie breaks free from years of his control and rebels against her daughter's wish for her to move into assisted living by embarking on an adventure she and her father had always longed for: a trip to the Scottish Highlands to climb the world-famous Mt. Suilven. Along the way, she hires young camping shop owner Jonny to be her guide. Despite the generational differences, Jonny encourages Edie to fulfill her dream....
4) Represent
Publication Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Equal parts personal and political, it follows three women on both sides of the aisle who share the singular goal of improving their community through public service. Myya attempts to spark a youth movement and unseat the incumbent mayor of Detroit; Bryn, a farmer and working mother in Granville, OH, runs for township trustee; and Julie walks a tightrope between her identities as a Korean immigrant and Republican candidate for State Representative...
Publication Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When billionaire financier Nerio Winch and head of the W Group is murdered, his second in command must locate his only heir, a heretofore unknown adopted son, Largo. But first the heir, a twenty-something adventurer, must overcome an onslaught of drug traffickers, assassins, corporate raiders and double-dealing insiders to fulfill his destiny in this twisty, fast-paced corporate thriller.
Publication Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (86 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Melvin Van Peebles will always be known as the man who not only changed the face of black cinema, but independent cinema forever, when he made his groundbreaking (and taboo breaking) film "Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song." But’s he’s always been a lot more than that, as a playwright, actor, author, stage performer, musician and who knows what else he’s done in his 80 years. And he’s likely not through yet...But how did a guy who grew up...
7) Le Weekend
Publication Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (94 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Director Roger Michell's *Le Weekend* stars Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan as Nick and Meg, a British couple celebrating their 30th wedding anniversary with a weekend getaway in Paris. As they travel around the city, they revisit the highs and lows of their relationship, fight about their faults, and continue to run out of restaurants without paying the bill. They meet up with an old colleague of Nick's and attend a dinner party at his house, leading...
Publication Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (116 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Powered by the antics of a mischievous centenarian on the run, comic fable THE 100-YEAR-OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT THE WINDOW AND DISAPPEARED (Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann) abounds with irreverent charm.. After a long and colorful life working in munitions and getting entangled in the Spanish Civil War, the Manhattan Project, and other definitive events of the 20th century, Allan Karlsson finds himself stuck in a nursing home....
Publication Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this moving documentary, the discovery of records from WWII sparks a family's quest for answers as two brothers separated as babies reunite with each other and their elderly mother, who hid more from them than just each other.
10) Ida
Publication Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in + 1 booklet (16 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm)
Description
A moving and intimate drama about a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland who, on the verge of taking her vows, discovers a dark family secret dating from the terrible years of the Nazi occupation.
Publication Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Their crimes resemble high-octane Hollywood action movies: a sports car speeds through a Dubai shopping mall, crashing into the windows of a Graff jewelry store. In London, they took all of three minutes to make off with $30 million in diamonds. They are captured - not in person, but on surveillance tapes that record their astonishing lightning strikes with hypnotic accuracy. Includes never-before-seen interviews with key gang members.
12) Beloved sisters
Publication Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (170 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of an unconventional romance between two aristocratic sisters and rebellious poet, Friedrich Schiller, who took the European literary world by storm in the late eighteenth century. As the German Enlightenment flourishes in Weimar, vibrant Caroline von Beulwitz finds herself in an unhappy marriage to provide for her mother and shy younger sister Charlotte von Lengefeld. When both sisters fall for an outspoken writer, their desire ignites...
13) The Rose Maker
Publication Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (96 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Eve is one of France’s greatest artisanal horticulturalists, but her rose business is facing imminent bankruptcy. When her secretary hires three inexperienced ex-convicts, they must team up to rescue the business in this verdant comedy.
14) Stuffed
Publication Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Told through the eyes and hands of acclaimed artists across the world, the film explores the surprising world of taxidermy, where sculptors must also be scientists. From a studio in Los Angeles that has elevated taxidermy to the forefront of fashion to fine artists in the Netherlands, these passionate experts push creative boundaries while revealing the importance of preserving nature.
Publication Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (unpaged)
Description
Four priests exiled to a small seaside town to atone for the sins of their pasts find their fragile stability disrupted by the arrival of a newly-disgraced companion in this taut blackly comic drama.
Publication Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Germany 1772 - the young and tumultuous Johann Goethe aspires to be a poet; but after failing his law exams, he is sent by his father to a sleepy provincial court to mend his ways. Unsure of his talent and eager to prove himself, Goethe soon wins the praise and friendship of his superior Kestner. But then Lotte enters his life and nothing is the same as before. However, the young lovers are unaware that her father has already promised Lotte's hand...
Publication Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. A researcher and a Millennium journalist about to expose the truth about the sex trade in Sweden are brutally murdered, and Salander's prints are on the weapon. Her history of unpredictable and violent behavior makes her an official danger to society. Digging deeper, Blomkvist unearths evidence implicating highly placed members of Swedish society, as well as shocking details about Salander's past.
18) The Film Critic
Publication Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (98 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
This playful yet heartfelt take on the rom-com genre follows a world-weary Buenos Aires film critic who eschews romantic clichés until a chance meeting with a gorgeous thrill-seeker leads him to question his old views about life and love. Nominated for Best New Actress (Telma Crisanti), Best Screenplay - Original, and Best First Work at the **Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Argentina**.
19) Mia Madre
Publication Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (107 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Acclaimed Italian auteur Nanni Moretti finds comedy and pathos in the story of Margherita, a harried film director (Margherita Buy, *A Five Star Life*) trying to juggle the demands of her latest movie and a personal life in crisis. The star of her film, a charming but hammy American actor (John Turturro) imported for the production, initially presents nothing but headaches and her crew is close to mutiny. Away from the shoot, Margherita tries to hold...
20) A Man Called Ove
Publication Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (116 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Ove, an ill tempered, isolated retiree who spends his days enforcing block association rules and visiting his wife’s grave, has finally given up on life just as an unlikely friendship develops with his boisterous new neighbors. Based on the bestselling novel. Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year and Best Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling at the **Academy Awards.** Winner of Best European Comedy at the **European Film Awards.**...

