Wallace Shawn
Author
Publication Date
2017.
Physical Desc
75 pages ; 18 cm.
Description
"In this stirring rumination, Wallace Shawn considers justice, inequality, blame, revenge, eleventh-century Japanese court poetry, decadence, Beethoven, the relationship between the Islamic world and the West--and the possibility that a better world could be created."--Back cover.
Publication Date
1984.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (122 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Boston, 1876: At a Women's Movement meeting, fiercely independent Olive (Vanessa Redgrave) becomes mentor to gifted young orator Verena (Madeleine Potter) - who soon attracts the amorous attentions of Olive's Southern cousin Basil (Christopher Reeve). The contesting demands of courtship and sapphic friendship in this love-triangle in all but name are further complicated by New York society matron Mrs. Burrage, who tries to secure Verena for her son....
Publication Date
2019
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ambientado en un mundo donde los juguetes tienen vida propia cuando la gente no está presente, emprende un fantástico viaje lleno de diversión visto principalmente a través de los ojos de dos juguetes rivales, Woody, un vaquero que habla de una cuerda y Buzz Lightyear, un figura de acción de superhéroe espacial. El dúo no emparejado aprende a dejar de lado sus diferencias cuando las circunstancias los separan de su dueño, Andy, y se encuentran...
Publication Date
2019
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mientras Andy se prepara para irse a la universidad, sus leales juguetes descubren que han sido donados a la guardería de Sunnyside, donde los niños indómitos con sus deditos pegajosos no juegan bien. Así que es todo para uno y uno para todos, ya que se unen al homólogo de Barbie, Ken, un erizo actor llamado Mr.Picklepants, y un osito de peluche rosa con aroma a fresa llamado Lots-o'-Huggin 'Bear para planificar su gran escape y asegurarse de...
5) Admission
Publication Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Princeton admissions officer, Portia Nathan, who is up for a major promotion, takes a professional risk after she meets a college-bound alternative school kid who just might be the son she gave up years ago in a secret adoption.
6) Toy story 3
Publication Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As Andy prepares to leave for college, his loyal toys find they have been donated to the Sunnyside Daycare where untamed tots with their sticky little fingers do not play nice. So, it's all for one and one for all as they join Barbie's counterpart Ken, a thespian hedgehog named Mr. Pricklepants, and a pink, strawberry-scented teddy bear called Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear to plan their great escape and ensure that no toy gets left behind.
7) The double
Publication Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 93 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Simon is a timid man, scratching out an isolated existence in an indifferent world. He is overlooked at work, scorned by his mother, and ignored by the woman of his dreams. He feels powerless to change any of these things. The arrival of a new co-worker, James, serves to upset the balance. James is both Simon's exact physical double and his opposite: confident, charismatic and good with women. To Simon's horror, James slowly starts taking over his...
Publication Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Description
Return to a time when men were men and swamps were fire swamps, full of quicksand and rodents of unusual size. Lagoons were inhabited by shrieking eels, and the most beautiful woman in the world was named ... Buttercup? Well, it's a bent fairy tale, complete with all the fencing, fighting, chases, and escapes.
Publication 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.
10) A late quartet
Publication Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After twenty-five years together, the members of a world-renowned string quartet learn that their beloved cellist may soon be forced to retire. Competing egos, harbored resentment, and irrepressible lust threaten to derail the group as they struggle to maintain harmony in their music and their lives.
12) Marriage story
Series
Publication Date
2020.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (12 unnumbered pages (folded) : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Description
A love story about divorce. A marriage coming apart and a family coming together. A hilarious and harrowing, sharply observed, and deeply compassionate film from writer-director Noah Baumbach. Charlie is a charismatic New York theater director wedded to his work. Nicole is an actor who is ready to change her own life. Their hopes for an amicable divorce fade as they are drawn into a system that pits them against each other and forces them to redefine...
13) Animal crackers
Publication Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. A family must use a magical box of animal crackers to save a run-down circus from being taken over by their evil uncle Horatio P. Huntington.
Publication Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After her father leaves town to look for work and her mother takes in boarders to make ends meet, a young girl enlists the help of her friends to solve a robbery in her home that threatens to put her family's house into foreclosure, .
15) Monte Walsh
Publication Date
[2003], c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Monte Walsh and his friends are cowboys and bronco busters, plying their trade in the Wyoming Territory of 1892. The advancement of civilization has all but rendered Monte obsolete, but Monte doesn't want to change his ways. But with the corporate buy-ups of Wyoming land, Monte and his friends may be forced to move on.
Publication Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this all-new movie, we find Morticia and Gomez distraught that their children are growing up, skipping family dinners, and totally consumed with "scream time." To reclaim their bond they decide to cram Wednesday, Pugsley, Uncle Fester, and the crew into their haunted camper and hit the road for one last miserable family vacation. Their adventure across America takes them out of their element and into hilarious run-ins with their iconic cousin,...
17) Toy story 4
Publication Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 100 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Woody has always been confident about his place in the world and that his priority is taking care of his kid, whether that's Andy or Bonnie. But when Bonnie adds a reluctant new toy called 'Forky' to her room, a road trip adventure alongside old and new friends will show Woody how big the world can be for a toy.
18) Don Peyote
Author
Description
An ordinary guy (Dan Fogler) delves deep into counterculture, conspiracy theories and the like as he tries to discern the structure of society.
19) Robo-Dog
Author
Description
He sits, plays fetch and he can move at super speed, bark at incredible volume and speak like a human being! He's Robo-Dog, the most amazing mechanical mutt ever invented. When genius scientist Tom Austin sees that his son, Tyler, needs a new best friend, he locks himself in the garage, tinkering with spare parts, and creates the most incredible canine the world has ever seen! But Tom's greedy ex-boss, Mr. Willis of Epic Industries, finds out that...