Alessandro Nivola
Publisher
Bleecker Street
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (104 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
After he’s attacked on the street at night by a roving motorcycle gang, timid bookkeeper Casey (Jesse Eisenberg) joins a neighborhood karate studio to learn how to protect himself. Under the watchful eye of a charismatic instructor, Sensei, and hardcore brown belt Anna, Casey gains a newfound sense of confidence for the first time in his life. But when he attends Sensei’s mysterious night classes, he discovers a sinister world of fraternity, brutality...
2) Disobedience
Publisher
Bleecker Street
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (114 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Ronit (Rachel Weisz) returns to the Orthodox Jewish community that shunned her decades earlier for an attraction to a childhood friend Esti (Rachel McAdams). Once reunited, their passions reignite as they explore the boundaries of faith and sexuality. Winner of Best Supporting Actor (Alessandro Nivola) and nominated for Best British Independent Film at the **British Independent Film Awards.** Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film...
3) Howl
Language
English
Formats
Description
James Franco delivers a career-defining performance as poet Allen Ginsberg. Through his search for personal and creative expression, Ginsberg writes *Howl*, and must contend with attorney Jake Ehrlich (Jon Hamm) during *Howl’s* bizarre obscenity trial. Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize - Dramatic at the **Sundance Film Festival**. Nominated for the Golden Berlin Bear at the **Berlin International Film Festival**. Nominated for Outstanding Film...
5) The clearing
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Wayne and Eileen have raised two children and struggled to build a successful business from the ground up. When Wayne is kidnapped by ordinary guy, Arnold Mack, and held for ransom in a remote forest, the couple's world is turned upside down. Eileen finds her home full of FBI agents and their life under scrutiny. While Wayne is engaged in the negotiation of his lifetime, Eileen works frantically with the FBI to secure his release. The terrifying ordeal...
Publisher
The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Stanley Phillips is a sad, disconnected man unable to tell his young daughters that their mother, a soldier, has died in Iraq. Instead, he takes the girls on a road trip, where their innocent charm helps him rediscover a healing joy he thought he'd lost forever.
8) Face/off
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Special collector's edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
FBI agent Sean Archer (John Travolta) must go undercover to investigate the location of a lethal biological weapon planted by his arch rival, terrorist-for-hire Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage). After undergoing a radical surgical procedure, Archer literally "borrows" Troy's face and identity to carry out his mission. But things go awry when Troy, emerging from a coma, is transformed into Archer and wreaks havoc upon his life, both at work and at home.
9) Disobedience
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A woman returns to the community that shunned her for her attraction to a childhood friend. Once back, their passions reignite as they explore the boundaries of faith and sexuality
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Years after being abandoned at an orphanage by her father, Gabrielle Chanel finds a job in a tailor shop where she meets, and soon begins an affair with French millionaire Etienne Balsan. Through Baron Balsan she is introduced into French society and given the opportunity to design her own style of hats. Though her career takes off, her personal life becomes more complicated when she falls in love with Balsan's former best friend Arthur Capel.
11) The company
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (286 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Depicts the global power struggle between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, told from the viewpoint of CIA and KGB spies. Spans four decades, from the dawn of the Cold War in the 1950s to the downfall of the Soviet Union in the '90s. Trace the activities of the CIA's underground fight with the KGB and where three CIA agents must find out the moles in their own ranks before every operation in an unrelenting battle within the organization itself.
12) Laurel Canyon
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Harvard graduate Sam and his fiance?e, Alex, move into Sam's mother's house in upscale Laurel Canyon, thinking that she would not be there. Only problem is that she is still there, supposedly finishing up a record that she's producing for her boy toy, Ian's band. Sam's mom seems more interested in smoking pot and drinking than actually working, though. Alex doesn't mind, but Sam is quite upset. Alex starts off focused as she works on finishing a dissertation...
13) Junebug
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In an attempt to woo an artist to her gallery, art dealer Madeline and her husband go to North Carolina. While she tries to seal the deal, her husband introduces her to his family. Madeline's presence reveals family tensions and resentment.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When renowned paleontologist Dr. Grant agrees to accompany a wealthy adventurer and his wife on an aerial tour of Isla Sorna, InGen's former breeding ground for prehistoric creatures, he has no idea that he was brought along for a totally different reason. When their plane crashes and they become stranded, they discover the island's native inhabitants are smarter, faster, fiercer and more brutal than imagined.
15) The eye
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sydney is a young, blind violinist who is given the chance to see for the first time since childhood through a miraculous corneal transplant. As Sydney adjusts to a dizzying new world of colors and shapes, she is haunted by frightening visions of death which captures the doomed and dragging them away from the world of the living. Terrorized and on the brink of insanity, Sydney is convinced that her anonymous eye donor has opened the door to a terrifying...
16) Disobedience
Author
Language
English
Description
A woman returns to her Orthodox Jewish community that shunned her for her attraction to a female childhood friend. Once back, their passions reignite as they explore the boundaries of faith and sexuality.
18) Mansfield Park
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Fanny Price is sent away to live with her rich cousins, she's meant to learn the ways of proper society but manages to enlighten them as well.
19) Best laid plans
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After botching a robbery, Nick and his girlfriend Lissa target his old college chum Bryce as an easy mark for fast cash. Before long all three young people find themselves entwined in a dangerous web of betrayal and seduction.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After a roving motorcycle gang attacks him on the street, timid bookkeeper Casey joins a neighborhood karate studio to learn how to protect himself. Under the watchful eye of a charismatic instructor, Sensei, and hardcore brown belt Anna, Casey gains a newfound sense of confidence. But when he attends Sensei's mysterious night classes, he discovers a sinister world of brutality and hyper-masculinity, presenting a journey that places him squarely in...