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Series
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Confirmed bachelor Don has just been dumped by his latest lover, Sherry. Don begins to resign himself to being alone and left to his own devices. However, he becomes compelled to reflect on his past when he receives a mysterious pink letter by mail. It is from an anonymous former lover and informs him that he has a 19-year-old son who may be looking for his father. Don is urged to investigate the contents of the letter by his closest friend and neighbor,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"This course explores the history of how humans have produced, cooked, and consumed food--from the earliest hunting-and-gathering societies to the present. This course examines how civilizations and their foodways have been shaped by geography, native flora and fauna, and technological innovations."--Page 1 of guidebook.
Publisher
Five2Nine Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Profiles creative thinkers across a variety of disciplines and finds common methods, habits and neuroses that lead to breakthrough ideas. This is a thoughtful, intimate, often funny look at the creative process - straight from the brains of some of our culture's most inspiring and accomplished talents" --
Publisher
Burning Heart Productions
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
"The true story of fair trade entrepreneur Tamara Johnston, who, devastated by the death of her fiance, makes a bargain with God:'"show me a life worth living or I'm out of here.' She quits her dream job to become an activist for social justice causes, but her despair remains. As she nears the deadline of her bargain, a trip to Africa reveals what else is required of her in exchange for a sustainable life."--Container.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gloria Swanson, as Norma Desmond, an aging silent-film queen, and William Holden, as the struggling young screenwriter who is held in thrall by her madness, created two of the screen's most memorable characters in SUNSET BOULEVARD. Winner of three **Academy Awards**, director Billy Wilder's powerful orchestration of this bizarre tale is a true cinematic classic. From the unforgettable opening sequence - a body found floating in a decayed mansion's...
Publisher
Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A brand new portrait of the late Grammy Award-winning musician, Harry Nilsson, who the Beatles once proclaimed as their favorite artist. This gripping retrospective traces Nilsson's rise and his turbulent life as seen by many friends, including Ringo Starr, John Lennon, Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Brian Wilson, Randy Newman, Richard Perry, Robin Williams, and more.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Kleinman, a cowardly clerk recruited to help find a murderer, meets a woman and her boyfriend, a clown, running away from the circus. Kleinman decides to help them escape, abandoning the search for the murderer, but his choice only gets them all involved.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2002
Language
English
Description
Rebecca Carlson (Madonna) is on trial for the murder of her older, wealthy lover. The victim's secretary (Archer) is a witness for the prosecution. As Rebecca's attorney (Dafoe) attempts to prove her innocence, he becomes entangled in her web of erotic game playing.
9) Escape plan
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ray Breslin, one of the world's foremost authorities on structural security, agrees to take on one last job: breaking out of an ultra-secret, high-tech facility called The Tomb. Deceived and wrongly imprisoned, Ray must recruit fellow inmate Emil Rottmayer to help devise a daring, nearly impossible plan to escape from the most protected and fortified prison ever built.
10) Happiness
Publisher
Trimark Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
A dark comedy that centers around three sisters struggling to achieve happiness and middle class perfection.
11) The cathedral
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
A course on the cathedral in Western civilization.
Publisher
Palm Pictures
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
"As a musician, Townes Van Zandt was legendary, perhaps one of the greatest who ever lived, inspiring artists from Bob Dylan to Norah Jones to Steve Earle. As a man, a husband, and a father his life was as tragic and as beautiful as the songs he wrote. Townes was an enigma to his family, pinned between a deep longing for home and nomadic lifestyle that was necessary for his livelihood."--Container.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"Wars of the future will be fought over water, as they are today over oil, as the source of all life enters the global marketplace and political arena. Corporate giants, private investors, and corrupt governments vie for control of our dwindling fresh water supply, prompting protests, lawsuits, and revolutions from citizens fighting for the right to survive. Past civilizations have collapsed from poor water management. Will ours too?"--container.
Publisher
Docuramafilms
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Follows the man behind the beloved children's icon, Elmo, examining the life of puppeteer Kevin Clash. Provides behind-the-scenes views of Sesame Street and the Jim Henson Workshop and featuring interviews with Frank Oz, Rosie O'Donnell, Cheryl Henson, and Joan Ganz Cooney.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Neo, Trinity, and Morpheus continue to lead the revolt against the Machine Army. In their quest to save the human race from extinction, they gain greater insight into the construction of The Matrix and Neo's pivotal role in the fate of mankind.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A group of James Dean devotees reconvene at their teenage hangout, a rural Texas drugstore, twenty years after the death of their beloved idol. But much has changed in the intervening years, and the reunion provides them one final opportunity to expose the secrets and heal the emotional wounds that have lingered among them for two decades.
19) Museum hours
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mesmerizing tale of two adrift strangers who find refuge in Vienna's grand Kunsthistorisches Art Museum. A chance meeting sparks a deepening connection that draws them through the halls of the museum and the streets of the city. Nominated for Best Editing and the John Cassavetes Award at the **Film Independent Spirit Awards**. Nominated for a SXGlobal Award at the **SXSW Film Festival**. *"Sommer is perfect. So is O'Hara. This is the "Before Sunrise"...
20) Vanilla sky
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2002, 2001
Language
English
Description
In this steamy, intriguingly complex, psychological thriller the line between reality and fantasy is hopelessly blurred. David tries to make sense of his life after a car crash leaves his once-handsome face grotesquely disfigured. After he is placed into a psychiatric penitentiary for a murder he doesn't remember committing, David's only hope is to delve into the depths of his subconscious mind where the answer to ending his living nightmare lies...
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