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2) Miles ahead
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the midst of a dazzling and prolific career at the forefront of modern jazz innovation, Miles Davis disappears from public view for a period of five years in the late 1970s. Alone and holed up in his home, he is beset by chronic pain from a deteriorating hip, his musical voice stifled and numbed by drugs and medications, and his mind haunted my unsettling ghosts from the past.
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Henry discovers that he has only six weeks to live, he moves to the suburbs planning to spend his final days in seclusion. However, the discovery of a "miraculous" stain on the outside of Henry's house disrupts his plans and draws Henry back towards life and involvement with his neighbors.
4) Tusk
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A wickedly funny modern-day monster movie that will hold you in terror as it keeps you in stitches. A podcaster looking for a juicy story is plunged into a bloodcurdling nightmare after he travels to the backwoods of Canada and meets an eccentric recluse with a lifetime of adventures, and a disturbing fondness for walruses.
5) Grey Gardens
Series
Criterion collection volume 123
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 leaflet (6 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Description
Portrait of the relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie, once an aspiring actress in New York who left her career to care for her aging mother in their East Hampton home, and never left again. The aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis feed their cats and raccoons and rehash their pasts behind the walls of their decaying mansion, Grey Gardens.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set against the backdrop of a beautiful London garden, the story is a contemporary fairy tale. Facing eviction in a month if she can't resurrect the dying garden in her backyard, reclusive librarian Bella Brown meets her grumpy next-door neighbor, who happens to be a talented horticulturalist. As the two form an unlikely friendship, Bella begins to wonder if she can revive both the garden, and her dreams of becoming a children's book author.
7) Jasper Jones
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"A riveting and moving Australian coming of age story about Charlie Bucktin, a bookish boy of 14. On the night that Jasper Jones, the town's mixed race outcast shows him the dead body of young Laura Wishheart, Charlie's life is changed forever. Entrusted with this secret and believing Jasper to be innocent, Charlie embarks on a dangerous journey to find the true killer. Set over the scorching summer holidays of 1969, Charlie defeats the local racists,...
8) That summer
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
For the first time ever, director Göran Olsson assembles this long lost footage of Edith and Edie Beale into a one of a kind family portrait bursting with the loving squabbles, quotable bon mots, and impromptu musical numbers that would make Big and Little Edie beloved cultural icons. Includes archival footage with Lee Radziwill, Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale, Edith Bouvier Beale, Andy Warhol, Truman Capote, Mick Jagger and others.
9) The wolfpack
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The six Angulo brothers have grown up in their Manhattan apartment, home schooled by their parents, rarely if ever leaving their apartment. Their only connection to the outside world is television and the movies they watch and act out, complete with homemade costumes, in the apartment. When one of the brothers sneaks out for a few days on his own, the whole family dynamic is changed when he returns home.
10) Labor Day
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 111 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Thirteen-year-old Henry Wheeler struggles to be the man of his house and care for his reclusive mother Adele, all the while confronting the pangs of adolescence. Henry and his mother encounter Frank Chambers, an intimidating man clearly in need of help. Frank convinces them to take him into their home and later is revealed to be an escaped convict. The events of this long Labor Day weekend will shape them for the rest of their lives.
11) Grey Gardens
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the life stories Edith "Big Edie" Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale who are the eccentric aunt and first cousin of Jackie Onassis. They were raised as Park Avenue débutantes, but withdrew from New York society. They took shelter at their Long Island summer home called 'Grey Gardens.' As their wealth and contact with the outside world dwindled, so did their grasp on reality. They were reintroduced to the world...
12) The last enemy
Pub. Date
[2009], c2008
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (330 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Stephen Ezard is a reclusive, brilliant mathematician who returns home to England to attend his brother Michael's funeral. Michael was an aid worker killed by a landmine in Afghanistan. After years of working in near-isolation in China, Stephen struggles to reconcile his carefully controlled world with a brother he did not know, in a police-state London he does not recognize. He finds himself falling in love with his brother's widow and becoming the...
13) Kings
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 87 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Millie Dunbar is a foster parent who looks after her many children in Los Angeles in 1992. After the verdict from the Rodney King Incident is revealed, the city quickly begins to descend into all-out chaos between its denizens and the police. Now, Millie must protect her children from the ensuing anarchy and erupting violence all while navigating the precarious waters of police violence and finding justice for her family.
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