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Series
Studio classic volume 4
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nickie Ferrante and Terry McKay meet on an ocean liner and fall deeply in love. Though each is engaged to someone else, they agree to meet six months later at the Empire State Building if they still feel the same way about each other. But a tragic accident prevents their rendezvous, and the lovers' future takes an emotional and uncertain turn.
82) House of D
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
By working through challenges stemming from his past, Tom Warshaw, an American artist living in Paris, begins to discover who he really is and returns to his home to reconcile with his family and friends.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (773 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
While on tour in America, Charles Dickens recalls the moments that shaped his life. From his penniless childhood in Chatham and London during the 1820s to the unprecedented success he later enjoyed on both sides of the Atlantic, he traces his extraordinary experiences which influenced many of his greatest works.
84) Away from her
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fiona and Grant are an Ontario couple who have been married for over 40 years. During the twilight of their years, Grant is forced to face the fact that Fiona's "forgetfulness" actually is Alzheimer's. After Fiona wanders away and is found, the decision is made for her to go into a nursing home. For the first time in their relationship, they are forced to undergo a separation since the nursing home has a "no-visitors" policy for the first 30 days...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The world's top directors and some of America's top stars create a panoramic portrait of Paris. Find yourself transported by these sexy, romantic, haunting, dramatic, and beautiful stories.
"Stories of love from the city of love"--Container.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 186 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
American judge Daniel Haywood presides over the trial of four German jurists accused of "legalizing" Nazi atrocities. But as graphic accounts of sterilization and murder unfold in the courtroom, mounting political pressure for leniency forces Haywood into making the most harrowing and difficult decision of his career.
87) The Libertine
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
John Wilmot, a 17th century poet, is the Earl of Rochester and from the beginning he treats his wife cruelly, drinks to relentless excess, abuses his friendships, and generally wallows in dissipation, much to the dismay of King Charles II. The king hopes that Rochester will write a play glorifying his reign. But Rochester finds his true inspiration when he sees a young actress named Lizzie Barry. Rochester sets out to make her the greatest actress...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1981, Chris Gardner was a struggling salesman. His wife worked double shifts to support the family including their young son, Christopher. In the face of this difficult life, Chris has the desperate inspiration to try for a stockbroker internship where one in twenty has a chance of a lucrative full time career. Even when his wife leaves him because of this choice, Chris clings to this dream. The odds become more daunting by the day. Together, father...
89) The natural
Language
English
Description
A once-promising baseball player on his way to stardom in the big leagues, finds his dreams shattered when a mysterious woman and a silver bullet end his career prematurely. Sixteen years later, armed with his childhood bat "Wonderboy," he comes back to baseball, joins the roster of the lowly New York Knights to see if he can overcome physical pain and the nefarious forces around him to lead his team to the pennant.
Roy Hobbs' boyhood dream of being...
90) Tiptoes
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rolfe is the dwarf brother to a normal-sized Steven. When Steven's girlfriend Carol becomes pregnant, the pair are fearful that the baby will inherit the dwarfism gene. Matters are complicated still further when Carol finds herself falling in love with Rolfe.
Series
Criterion collection volume 427
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Language
Español
Description
Upper-class geometry professor Juan and his wealthy, married mistress María José, driving back from a late-night rendezvous, accidentally hit a cyclist and run. The resulting tale of guilt, infidelity, and blackmail reveals the wide gap between the rich and the poor in Spain and surveys the corrept ethics of a society seduced by decadence.
92) The hoax
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Pathological liar Clifford Irving stages a complex hoax. In the 1970's Irving managed to fool a major publisher and LIFE magazine into thinking he was writing an authorized biography of Howard Hughes. Irving and his best friend and partner, Dick Susskind, go to extreme lengths to pull off the hair-brained scheme. The more outrageous the lies they concoct, the more believable they become and the more money gets thrown at them. Inspired by the unbelievable...
93) Oliver Twist
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (69 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Recounts the adventurous life of a poor orphan who is born in the workhouse and runs away in search of a better life, only to be lured into a life of crime. Justice and truth must triumph, as Oliver discovers the true identity of his mother.
94) Whity
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (1 folded sheet ([6] pages) : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Deutsch
Description
Fassbinder's sole western is set in the late 1800s in the perverse household of Ben Nicholson, his blonde trophy wife Katherine, and two sons, the sadistic Frank and brain-damaged Davy. Whity's mother Marpessa is the family cook, singing freedom songs in the kitchen, but Whity adores the family and puts up with enslavement to please them--until he falls in love with saloon-singer Hanna. Filmed in Spain on the same sets where Sergio Leone staged Clint...
95) The country girl
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 104 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Frank Elgin is an alcoholic actor and singer who gets a second change at stardom. His long suffering wife, Georgie, and their marriage is put to the test. Frank is desperate to make a come back and Bernie Dodd is the hotshot Broadway director in need of a "name" star for his new stage production. Georgie is both weary of her husband's weaknesses and Dodd's motives. When Georgie appears to be dragging Frank down, Bernie tries to force her to leave....
96) Being Julia
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Julia is a true diva: beautiful, talented, wealthy and famous. She has a devoted husband who has masterminded her brillant career - but after years of the spotlight she begins to suffer from a severe case of boredom and longs for something new and exciting to put the twinkle back in her eye. She finds what she is looking for in a handsome young American fan, who adds a few more sparks than Julia was hoping for.
98) August Rush
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A charismatic young Irish guitarist and a sheltered young cellist have a chance encounter one magical night above New York's Washington Square. They are soon torn apart, leaving in their wake an infant, August Rush, orphaned by circumstance. Now performing on the streets of New York City and cared for by a mysterious stranger, August uses his remarkable musical talent to seek the parents from whom he was separated at birth.
99) Northanger Abbey
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"In Jane Austen's gentle parody of gothic fiction, romance novel addict Catherine Morland is invited to a medieval country house that appeals to her most lurid fantasies. She forms a close friendship with the younger son on the estate, Henry Tilney, but their budding romance is mysteriously cut short"--Container.
100) Casque d'or
Series
Criterion collection volume 270
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 98 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
In an open-air dance hall, the members of Leca's gang are relaxing with their ladies. One of the ladies, Marie, meets Manda, who is a carpenter by trade. Marie's man Roland is a jealous sort and does not like the idea of Marie and Manda becoming friendly, and Leca himself has his eye on Marie. What follows is a story of love, death, friendship and jealousy during the Belle Epoque.
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