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Series
Pub. Date
©2005
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet (25 pages ; illustrations ; 18 cm)
Description
A fictionalized account of Abraham Lincoln's early years as a lawyer in Springfield, Ill. The film is essential John Ford Americana; Fonda's Lincoln is a mythic rugged individualist.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When shy, artistic Anna moves to the seaside to live with her aunt and uncle, she stumbles upon an old mansion surrounded by marshes, and the mysterious young girl, Marnie, who lives there. The two girls instantly form a unique connection and friendship that blurs the lines between fantasy and reality. As the days go by, a nearly magnetic pull draws Anna back to the Marsh house again and again, and she begins to piece together the truth surrounding...
83) Heist
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When their attempt to rob a casino goes awry and a shootout ensues, Vaughn and Cox are forced to flee on foot and hijack city Bus 657 and take passengers hostage. Now, in a high speed chase, Vaughn will not only have to outwit the police, but he will have to contend with Pope's maniacal right hand man, Dog, in order to make it through the day alive.
84) Rememory
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Gordon Dunn, a visionary scientific pioneer, is found dead shortly after he unveils his newest work: a device able to extract, record, and play a person's memories. Soon, a mysterious man shows up at his widow's door, claiming to be a friend of her late husband. After stealing the machine from the house, the man uses it to try and solve the mystery of Gordon's death, beginning an investigation on memories that lead him to unexpected and dangers places....
86) Smile
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Barbed, merciless send-up of small-town America focusing on a group of naive California girls who compete for the 'Young American Miss' crown amid rampant commercialism.
87) The witch
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A family in 1630s New England faces destruction by the forces of witchcraft, black magic, and possession. When one of their five children goes missing and their life-sustaining crops fail, they fall victim to paranoia and fear as they begin to turn on one another.
88) Rififi
Series
Criterion collection volume 115
Pub. Date
2001, c1955
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide ([6] p. : ill.)
Description
A story of a successful jewel robbery in which the four thieves betray each other.
89) Zen noir
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (71 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A unique and original blend of Buddhist philosophy, vaudevillian comedy and surrealist art film, Zen Noir follows a nameless detective as he investigates a mysterious death in a Buddhist temple. But his logical, left-brained crime-solving skills are useless in the intuitive, non-linear world of Zen, and he finds himself drawn into a deeper, stranger, more personal mystery...the mystery of death itself.
90) Second chances
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on a true story, "Second Chances" is the uplifting tale of a little girl's physical and emotional reawakening after a car crash.
91) The edge
Pub. Date
©1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A model has her rich, much older husband come with her to a photo shoot. But when their plane crashes in the middle of nowhere, a strong mind game erupts between the jealous husband and the younger photographer as they try to get back to civilization.
92) Zardoz
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A postapocalyptic story of a privileged society separated from the mass of the population who have reverted to savagery living in a world devasted by war and pollution. When a particularly bright savage makes his way into the world of the Eternals, he discovers the truth of his reality, and change for the world begins.
93) Topper returns
Pub. Date
c2003, 2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The third in the Topper comedy-mystery series, Cosmo (Roland Young) is besieged by a wisecracking ghost (Joan Blondell) who demands that he help her find her killer. The story is set in Carrington Hall, a magnificent old haunted house, complete with a cloaked villain who comes and goes through walls. Falling chandeliers, secret passages, and a trap door with a chute that leads to an underground tunnel adds to the mystery. The cast of characters includes...
94) Five easy pieces
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Character study of a talented pianist who has given up a promising career and now works on oil rigs. After 20 years he returns home to his father's deathbed perhaps to reconcile himself with his fear of failure and desire for greatness.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Cultural historians, collectors, and various celebrity obsessives, including Tom Hanks and John Mayer, launch us into the bittersweet moment when a beloved, but dying technology, the typewriter, faces extinction.
96) Sicario
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After an idealistic FBI agent is recruited by a government task-force official to pursue a drug lord, she begins a perilous mission that forces her to question everything she believes, and pits her against a shadowy consultant with a dangerous agenda.
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After Alfie leaves his wife, Helena, to pursue his lost youth with a free-spirited call girl named Charmaine, Helena abandons rationality and surrenders her life to the loopy advice of a charlatan fortune teller. Meanwhile, daughter Sally develops a crush on her handsome boss, Greg, while her husband, Roy, becomes moonstruck over Dia, a mystery woman who catches his gaze through a nearby window. These four will find out how easy it is for their illusions...
98) Soul kitchen
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Zinos hires a gourmet chef for his struggling restaurant, it drives away his low-life regulars. In the meantime, his girlfriend, Nadine, moves back to China, but a hip new clientele brings the restaurant back to life. When he goes to China to get Nadine back, he leaves the restaurant in the hands of his criminal brother. When Zinos discovers that Nadine has a new boyfriend, and his brother has gambled away his restaurant, he knows he must work...
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Love brings together what peer pressure and lifestyles seek to keep apart. Jamie is a straight-laced preacher's daughter and Landon is an unmotivated delinquent. When events thrust him into her world, he begins an unexpected journey he'll never forget.
100) It follows
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
For nineteen-year-old Jay, the fall should be about school, boys and weekends at the lake. Yet, after a seemingly innocent sexual encounter she suddenly finds herself plagued by nightmarish visions; she can't shake the sensation that someone, or something, is following her. As the threat closes in, Jay and her friends must somehow escape the horrors that are only a few steps behind.
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