Catalog Search Results
Series
Criterion collection volume 822
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Language
English
Description
When a famous actress is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years ago, she retreats to Sils Maria, in the Alps to rehearse.
A film star comes face to face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself while starring in a revival of the play that launched her career.
2) Egg
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An unflinching comedy about why women choose motherhood, why they revere it, fear it, and why some women forgo it.
3) Gloria
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 109 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
A story about a middle aged woman who gets caught up in a passionate whirlwind romance with a retired naval officer, whom she meets at a dance club for singles. But when she discovers the truth of their relationship, she takes matters into her own hands and sets forth to change her life.
4) Scumrock
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A pretentious underground filmmaker struggles with his masterpiece while his girlfriend tries to keep her band from fading into obscurity.
5) Chelsea
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (75 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Chelsea's best friend gets engaged, the disappointing aspects of Chelsea's own life become apparent, and she worries that everyone else has everything figured out.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 203 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Oscar winner Judi Dench stars in this darkly humorous drama about a meek, middle-aged divorcee who suddenly begins to behave in ways that shock her ex and her grown daughter. Extras include biographies of star Judi Dench and writer Catherine Heath.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kyra Johnson, a middle-aged divorcee, moves into her elderly mother's Brooklyn apartment while she looks for work and tries to get back on her feet. When her mother dies suddenly, Kyra is left without any support, both emotional and financial, and finds herself with very few options. Kyra can't accept that her once-tidy life has completely fallen apart. This leads her on a risky path of self-destruction that has devastating consequences.
8) Happening
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1963, student Anne has a bright future ahead of her, but her dreams of finishing her studies is shattered when she becomes pregnant. As her final exams approach, Anne decides to take matters into her own hands.
9) L'eclisse
Series
Criterion collection volume 278
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (125 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in + booklet (32 pages).
Language
Italiano
Description
A young woman, after breaking off an affair with an older man, finds herself in Rome and alone. She becomes friends with a young stockbroker, but after he has an accident, she once again finds herself alone.
10) Broken vows
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After a woman hooks up with a New Orleans bartender on her bachelorette party, he grows obsessed and follows her to California. When he learns she's about to get married, the psychotic man plots his violent revenge.
11) Jennifer 8
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Homicide investigator John Berlin believes he has made a breakthrough in a serial killing case when he discovers a witness: a blind woman named Helena.
12) Practical magic
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sally and Gillian are sisters with a bewitching gift. Unfortunately their gift also comes with a dark family curse: any man who falls in love with them meets a horrible end. When Sally meets the man of her dreams, she has one final chance to lift the curse and set their love lives free. With the help of their aunts the siblings take on the dark side.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bridget is forty-something and single again after breaking up with Mark Darcy. She decides to focus on her job and surround herself with old friends and some new ones. But her love life takes a turn when she meets a dashing American named Jack. In an unlikely twist, Bridget finds herself pregnant but she can only be fifty percent sure of the father's identity.
14) Wanda
Series
Criterion collection volume 965
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (10 unnumbered and folded pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
"With her first and only feature film--a hard-luck drama she wrote, directed, and starred in--Barbara Loden turned in a groundbreaking work of American independent cinema, bringing to life a kind of character seldom seen on-screen. Set amid a soot-choked Pennsylvania landscape, and shot in an intensely intimate vérité style, the film takes up with distant and soft-spoken Wanda (Loder), who has left her husband, lost custody of her children, and...
15) Party with me
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After the sudden death of her distant father, a young woman copes by distracting herself with alcohol, drugs, and the antics of her misguided friends.
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (52 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young woman anticipating marriage is threatened with sterilization because the moral people of the town believe her family to be degenerate. The film accuses authorities of turning a deaf ear to people condemned to be sterilized by the courts.
17) Gloria Bell
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Gloria (Julianne Moore) spends her nights joyfully letting loose at clubs around Los Angeles and finds herself thrust into an unexpected and complicated new romance. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**. "*It's a remarkably enjoyable movie, downright cathartic in its presentation of a three-dimensional character.*" - Brian Tallerico, ***RogerEbert.com***
18) Kill for me
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A pair of roommates, each with abusive men in her past, devise a plan to murder the men to solve the problem once and for all.
20) Barefoot
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The 'black sheep' son of a wealthy family meets a young psychiatric patient who's been raised in isolation her entire life. He takes the naive young woman home for his brother's wedding to convince his family that he's finally straightened out his life. She impresses his prim and proper family with her genuine (if unstable) charm, and along the way they fall into improbable love.
Looking for an older book we don’t have?
Printed books not owned by Santa Fe Public Library that were released more than 6 months ago can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup. Limit: 3 per calendar month.
Looking for a newer item we don’t have?
Suggest the library purchase a new book, DVD, audiobook, or music CD through your account. Limit: 30 active requests at a time. Submit Purchase Suggestion