Edith
1) Edith Head
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
1981.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (27 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A light-hearted, toe-tapping portrait of the well-known 8 Oscar winning Hollywood costume designer filmed in her opulent house and garden. She presents some of her famous designs using glamorous models to impersonate Mae West, Barbara Stanwyck, Dorothy Lamour, Ginger Rogers, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor and Grace Kelly. They move to the music of the films for which she was the designer. Edith Head is an amusing character; she keeps this portrait...
2) Poison
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
1991.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (86 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This groundbreaking American Indie was the most fervently debated film of the 1990s and a trailblazing landmark of queer cinema. A work of immense visual invention, Haynes’ spectacular follow-up to his legendary "Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story" is audacious, disturbing and thrillingly cinematic. A runaway theatrical hit and **Sundance Film Festival** Grand Jury Prize winner, which made national headlines and the network news when it was attacked...
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
1918.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (59 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Brandeis was just 21-years-old when she wrote and directed this feature-length fairytale/fantasy about a boy who falls to earth on a star and his ensuing adventures. With a cast comprised entirely of child actors and captivating animals, THE STAR PRINCE offers lessons in kindness, humility, loyalty, and more. Music by Rodney Sauer.
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (56 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
After dancing for her life in front of Dr. Joseph Mengele, bestselling author Dr. Edith Eva Eger relays the events of her life in this striking, one-of-a-kind documentary.
6) The Prisons
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1994.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (176 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Joan the Maid: The Prisons,” the second part of Rivette’s diptych, brought leading lady Bonnaire a César Award nomination for her powerful performance, as she plays out windows in the final two years of Joan’s life, from the battlefield victory, to prison life, to the stake.
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1994.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (337 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
In the first installment of his ambitious yet restrained two-part study, director and co-screenwriter Rivette surveys the revelatory period where Joan met with royalty, joined the army, and led the French into battle against the English. As Joan, Sandrine Bonnaire gets at the reality behind the legend, showing the matter-of-fact courage of a teenage girl. The second part of Rivette’s diptych, brought leading lady Bonnaire a **César Award** nomination...
8) The Battles
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1994.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (160 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
In the first installment of his ambitious yet restrained two-part study, director and co-screenwriter Rivette surveys the revelatory period where Joan met with royalty, joined the army, and led the French into battle against the English. As Joan, Sandrine Bonnaire gets at the reality behind the legend, showing the matter-of-fact courage of a teenage girl.
9) That Summer
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (80 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Welcome to GREY GARDENS...as you've never seen it before. Discover the long-lost film featuring Big and Little Edie before they were cultural icons. With Andy Warhol.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1931.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (103 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
A sailor, who meets a lovely music hall singer during a police raid, falls in love. In a contest at a fair, he defeats a former boxing champ. The ex-champ trains the sailor to become a boxer. After he wins the French championship, the sailor is swayed by easy money and a sultry coquette. The singer goes on a singing tour, and the sailor falls into decadence. He enters the European championship spiritually empty and in bad condition.
11) Saint Frances
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (101 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Flailing thirty-four-year-old Bridget (Kelly O’Sullivan) finally catches a break when she meets a nice guy and lands a much-needed job nannying six-year-old Frances (played by a scene-stealing Ramona Edith-Williams). But an unwanted pregnancy introduces an unexpected complication. To make matters worse, she clashes with the obstinate Frances and struggles to navigate a growing tension between Frances’s moms. Amidst her tempestuous personal relationships,...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1949.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (95 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
It is 1806, and imperial St. Petersburg is in the grip of gambling fever. Each night Herman Suvorin, a poor Captain of Engineers, witnesses huge fortunes lost and won, though he dare not risk the money he has tirelessly earned and saved over these many years. But when he hears the wealthy and of course, beautiful, Countess Ranevskaya, who by selling her soul many years before obtained the secret of winning at cards, has come to town, he determines...
13) Things to come
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Nathalie is a philosophy teacher with a seemingly settled existence, juggling a rich life of the mind with the day-to-day demands of career and family. But beginning with the bombshell revelation that her husband of twenty-five years is leaving her, one by one the pillars of Nathalie's life start to crumble. For the first time in ages, she finds herself adrift, but also with a newfound sense of liberation. With nothing to hold her back, Nathalie sets...
14) The Milky Way
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1969.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (102 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Español
Description
The film is inspired by the picaresque Spanish novels of the sixteenth century. Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way to Compostello in Spain. On their way they meet a whole assortment of people - some truculent, some violent, and some bizarre; they experience many adventures - some mysterious, some erotic, some even supernatural... Winner of the Interfilm Award at the **Berlin International Film Festival.** *"Everything is photographed...
15) Shane
Language
English
Formats
Description
Acclaimed director George Stevens' legendary rendition of the quintessential Western myth earned six Academy Award nominations, and made Shane one of the classics of the American cinema. The story brings Alan Ladd, a drifter and retired gunfighter, to the assistance of a homestead family terrorized by a wealthy cattleman and his hired gun (Jack Palance). In fighting the last decisive battle, SHANE sees the end of his own way of life. Mysterious, moody...