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Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The true tale of a Jewish family who fled the Nazi regime in 1938 for a remote farm in Kenya. As the war rages on the other side of the world, the trio's relationships to their strange environment become increasingly complicated as Jettel grows more self-assured and Walter more haunted by the life they left behind while five-year old Regina befriends a local boy.
82) Black Beauty
Pub. Date
©1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Faithfully based on Anne Sewell's classic novel, this beloved horse story is told by its hero, the gallant Beauty, whose joyous and heartbreaking life takes him from idyllic days on a country squire's estate to London's hard, cobblestoned streets, through decades of owners both kindly and harsh.
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (105 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold-out insert
Description
Opposites attract with magnetic force in this romantic road-trip delight, about a spoiled runaway socialite and a roguish man-of-the-people reporter who is determined to get the scoop on her scandalous disappearance. The first film to accomplish the very rare feat of sweeping all five major Oscar categories (best picture, best actor, best actress, best director, and best screenplay), is among the most gracefully constructed and edited films of the...
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Harry and his best friend, Tyrone, are impoverished heroin addicts living in Coney Island, NY. Harry's girlfriend, Marion, is a fellow addict trying to distance herself from her wealthy father. Harry's mother, Sara, spends her days watching television and wants to lose weight to go on a game show. She visits a sleazy doctor who prescribes her amphetamines and soon Sara has a drug habit of her own.
86) Evita
Pub. Date
[1998?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
True-life story of Eva Peron, who rose above childhood poverty and a scandalous past to achieve fortune and fame.
Series
Criterion collection volume 973
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Description
"For her award-winning breakthrough film, director Gillian Armstrong drew on teenage author Miles Franklin's novel, a celebrated turn-of-the-twentieth-century Australian coming-of-age story, to brashly upend the conventions of period romance. Headstrong young Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis, in a star-making performance) bemoans her stifling life in the backcountry where her writerly ambitions receive little encouragement, and craves independence over...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mr. and Mrs. Fox live a happy home life underground with their eccentric son Ash. Mr. Fox works as a journalist, but against the advice of Badger, his attorney, he moves his family into a larger and finer home inside a tree on a hill. The treehouse has an excellent view of the nearby farms of Boggis, Bunce, and Bean. Ash becomes hostile when his cousin, Kristofferson, joins the family for an extended stay. Mr. Fox decides to raid the farms, but this...
89) Man on fire
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (146 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Hard-drinking, burnt-out CIA operative John Creasy (Washington) has given up on life -- until his friend Rayburn ... gets him a job as bodyguard to nine-year-old Pita Ramos... Bit by bit, Creasy begins to reclaim his soul, but when Pita is kidnapped, Creasy's fiery rage is released and he will stop at nothing to save her"--Container.
91) Ministry of fear
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert.
Description
En route to London after being released from a mental institution, Stephen Neale stops at a seemingly innocent village fair, after which he finds himself caught in the web of a sinister underworld with possible Nazi connections.
92) Blade II
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The legendary "daywalker" Blade must join forces with a high-powered team of vampires to take on a fearsom threat more deadly than either has seen before. These unlikely allies must stop a race of super-vampires intent on destroying everyone in their path - human or vampire.
93) Gambit
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An art curator decides to seek revenge on his abusive boss by conning him into buying a fake Monet, but his plan requires the help of an eccentric and unpredictable Texas rodeo queen.
95) Death in Venice
Series
Criterion collection volume 962
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (131 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (6 unnumbered pages ; 19 cm)
Description
A fastidious composer reeling from a disastrous concert, Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde) travels to Venice to recover. There, he is struck by a vision of pure beauty in the form of a young boy named Tadzio (Björn Andrésen), his infatuation developing into an obsession even as rumors of a plague spread through the city. Based on the novella by Thomas Mann, this late masterpiece from Luchino Visconti is a meditation on the nature of art, the...
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 169 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Fourteen-year-old Grace MacLean and her friend Judith go horseback riding in upstate New York on a winter morning, but their horses lose their footing on ice and slide onto a road, where Judith and her horse are killed by a jackknifing truck. Grace has her right leg amputated, and the frightening incident leaves a lasting trauma not only on Grace but also on her horse, Pilgrim. Grace's mother, seeking Grace's recovery, feels there's a link between...
97) Marnie
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Marnie, a compulsive thief and liar is caught. Her captor impulsively marries the frigid, disturbed girl in an attempt to discover the reasons for her ongoing anti-social behavior.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dr. Meacham is chosen, along with others, to do research that will help save the dying planet Metaluna. However, an evil scheme is uncovered by the suspecting Dr. Meacham when he discovers the Metalunan's plan to take over Earth.
100) Carmen
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 155 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Film version of the classic opera, with Migenes-Johnson as Carmen, and Domingo as Don José. Carmen seduces Don José who then deserts his post, his family and his honor. When the dashing toreador Escamillo wins Carmen's affections, the spurned Don José is filled with rage and jealousy, and tragedy ensues.
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