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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) sd., col. 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers have nothing in common, except they both have been diagnosed with terminal illnesses. While sharing a hospital room together, they decide to make a Bucket List of all the things they have ever wanted to do before they die. In the process of completing the list, both of them heal each other, become unlikely friends, and ultimately find the joy in life.
3) Beginners
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer, and that he has a young male lover.
4) Getting lost
Author
Publisher
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
240 pages; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Getting Lost is the diary Annie Ernaux kept during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, a Russian diplomat. Her novel, Simple Passion, was based on this affair, but here her writing is immediate, unfiltered. In these diaries it is 1989 and Annie is divorced with two grown sons, living outside of Paris and nearing fifty. Her lover escapes the city to see her there and Ernaux seems to survive only in expectation...
Publisher
Wellspring Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Marc and Philippe are two camp counsellors. Marc is very virile and serves as the camps athletic director, while Philippe is more reserved and is the camps drama instructor. One night, Marc surprises Philippe dressed and made-up like a woman. From now on, these two will struggle with their sexual identities while working together at a summer camp for boys.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
One ordinary man's quest to become a serious man. Physics professor Larry Gopnik can't believe his life, his wife is leaving him for his best friend, his unemployed brother won't move off the couch, someone is threatening his career, his kids are a mystery and his neighbor is tormenting him by sunbathing nude. Struggling to make sense of it all, Larry consults three different rabbis and their answers lead him on a twisted journey of faith, family,...
7) Anomalisa
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
[Theatrical version]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Michael Stone, husband, father and noted author, travels to Cincinnati to speak at a customer service conference. But once he's separated from the routine of his daily life, a chance encounter helps him to realize just what, and whom, he's been missing.
9) Martin Eden
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
"Adapted from a 1909 novel by Jack London yet set in a provocatively unspecified moment in Italy's history, this is a passionate and enthralling story in the tradition of great Italian classics. Martin is a self-taught proletarian with artistic aspirations who hopes that his dreams of becoming a writer will help him rise above his station and marry a wealthy university student. The dissatisfactions of working-class toil and bourgeois success lead...
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Paris, 1993. Jacques is a semi-renowned writer and single father in his thirties trying to maintain his sense of romance and humor in spite of the turmoil in his life and the world. While on a work trip to Brittany, he meets Arthur, an aspiring filmmaker in his early twenties, who is experiencing a sexual awakening and eager to get out of his parochial life. Arthur becomes instantly smitten with the older man.
11) Reality
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
A darkly comic look at Luciano, a charming and affable fishmonger whose unexpected and sudden obsession with being a contestant on the reality show Big Brother leads him down a rabbit hole of skewed perceptions and paranoia. So overcome by his dream of being on reality TV, Luciano's own reality begins to spiral out of control.
"An astute, dreamlike gut-punch..."--Los Angeles Times
"Classic Fellini insanity."--Entertainment Weekly
"Dazzlingly rich."--Village...
12) Greenberg
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Roger Greenberg is single, fortyish and deliberately doing nothing. In search of a place to restart his life, he agrees to housesit for his brother in LA and tries to reconnect with his former bandmate and successful ex-girlfriend. But old friends aren't necessarily still best friends, and Greenberg soon finds himself forging a connection with his brother's personal assistant, Florence. Greenberg has come to realize that he may at last have found...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two cowboys (Heath Ledger & Jake Gyllenhaal) in a small country town grow together and develop a special relationship. Love, drama, and controversy is all here.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A historically-based fictional memoir of Dr. Maximilien Aue, a former Nazi officer who reinvents himself as a middle-class factory owner and family man in France, chronicling his work as an assassin and bureaucrat during the genocide of the Jews.
15) Defiance
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (136 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The deep forests of Poland and Belorussia are the domain of the occuping Germans during World War II. The three Bielski brothers go into the forests and find the impossible task of foraging for food, weapons and survival, not just for themselves but for a large mass of fleeing Polish Jews from the German war machine. The brothers, living with the fear of discovery must contend with neighboring Soviet partisans and deciding whom to trust. They take...
16) Milk
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
His life changed history. His courage changed lives. Harvey Milk is a middle-aged New Yorker who, after moving to San Francisco, became a Gay Rights activist and city politician. On his third attempt, he was elected to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in 1977. His election makes him the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the United States. The following year, both he and the city's mayor, George Moscone, were shot to death...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xxxvii, 294 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An exquisite new translation of Colette's tragicomic masterpiece, a pair of novels exploring the relationship between an aging courtesan and a much younger man. Chéri and its sequel, The End of Chéri, mark Colette's finest achievements, in their brilliant, subtle, and frank investigations of love and power. Set in the Parisian demimonde in the last days of the Belle Époque, Chéri tells the story of Léa, a courtesan at the end of a successful...
18) Sideways
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Miles is a divorced man and a failed writer who teaches junior high English. He decides to take his best friend, somewhat famous actor Jack, on a weeklong drive through California's wine country. There they explore their failures and question their relationships.
Publisher
[Distributed by] MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
With a contract to perform a drag show way out in the Australian desert, Tick, Adam, and Ralph each has his own reason for wanting to leave the safety of Sydney. Christening their battered pink tour bus "Priscilla," the trio heads for the outback and into crazy adventures in even crazier outfits.
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