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Based on the incredible true story, Meryl Streep delivers a hilarious and touching performance as a New York socialite who dreams of becoming a great opera singer despite having a hilariously awful singing voice. Her husband and biggest fan, St. Clair Bayfield (Hugh Grant) is determined to protect his beloved Florence from the truth, but when Florence stages a huge concert at Carnegie Hall, he faces his greatest challenge to make sure her performance...
Publisher
Paramount Home Media Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (885 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The famed detective Sherlock faces the possibility of losing his one of a kind deductive skills when he is diagnosed with Post-Concussion Syndrome, a disorder that causes physical and cognitive symptoms including memory loss. With his career, calling and sobriety all at stake, he must rely even more on his steadfast partner Dr. Joan Watson. Together, they continue in their mission to crack the NYPD2s most baffling crimes and puzzling cases.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (105 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Neil Simon has a special genius for finding the great hilarity in ordinary people doing everyday things. Like two divorced men who decide to share a New York apartment. That's the premise of The Odd Couple, though there's nothing odd in the casting of two Oscar®-winning talents like Jack Lemmon and Walter Mathau. The two veteran funnymen work together with the precision timing of a vaudeville team, but always with bright spontaneity. Lemmon plays...
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (88 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This film captures two years in the lives of four disadvantaged fathers in New York City as they fight to defy the odds against them. And the odds are real - men living in poverty are more than twice as likely to become absent fathers than their middle-class peers (U.S. Census Bureau). DADDY DON'T GO is a tough but tender journey that aims to illuminate the everyday struggles of disadvantaged fathers. Alex, Nelson, Roy and Omar shatter the deadbeat...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 92 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
For the first time, the greatest singer-songwriters, authors and performers from Greenwich Village reflect on how they collectively became the voice of a generation. Through poignant interviews with the likes of Pete Seeger, Carly Simon, Judy Collins, Kris Kristofferson, Arlo Guthrie, Peter Yarrow, Michelle Phillips, and many more, plus rare archival footage and new live performances, Greenwich Village: music that defined a generation tells a story...
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
1993.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (56 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The compelling stories of factories that flourish in Brooklyn, NY, challenge the notion that manufacturing is dead in America. Workers reveal how their jobs bring not only regular pay checks, but meaningful relationships, enhanced self-esteem, and pride in themselves and their products. Made in Brooklyn has lessons about the economy for the entire nation.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 104 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. Llewyn Davis (Oscar Issac) is at a crossroads and struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles- some of them of his own making. Living at the mercy of both friends and strangers, Llewyn's misadventures take him from the basket-houses of Greenwich Village to an empty Chicago club- on an odyssey to audition for...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 80 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Anthropological in scope, sensuous in detail and emotionally resonant throughout, Foreign parts is an exemplary social record of Willets Point, an industrial graveyard of scrap heaps and auto shops in Queens, New York, that is scheduled to be demolished and redeveloped. Filled with scrapyards and auto salvage shops, lacking sidewalks or sewage lines, the area seems ripe for urban development. But Foreign parts discovers a strange community where wrecks,...
9) Ocean's 8
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 videodisc (110 min. : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
Debbie Ocean, the estranged sister of infamous criminal mastermind Danny Ocean, seeks to carry on the family business by plotting an enormous heist on New York's annual Met Gala. After being released from prison, Debbie recruits her best friend Lou to set out and assemble a team of larcenists. This hodgepodge, seven-member team includes everyone from a street pick-pocket, a computer hacker, and a jewelry expert. The women band together to infiltrate...
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 720 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Several crises threaten Tony and his crew. Rival boss Johnny Sack is in prison, and the always tense relations between the New Jersey and New York families are strained through the unpredictable behavior of Sack's surrogates.
11) In the Heights
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (143 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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The scent of a cafecito caliente hangs in the air just outside the 181st Street subway stop. The likeable, magnetic bodega owner Usnavi saves every penny from his daily grind as he hopes for, imagines, and sings about a better life.
Publisher
Paramount Home Media Distribution
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (9 hours and 9 minutes min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The famed detective Sherlock faces the possibility of losing his one of a kind deductive skills when he is diagnosed with Post-Concussion Syndrome, a disorder that causes physical and cognitive symptoms including memory loss. With his career, calling and sobriety all at stake, he must rely even more on his steadfast partner Dr. Joan Watson. Together, they continue in their mission to crack the NYPD2s most baffling crimes and puzzling cases.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 81 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
An astonishing documentary about a man who overcomes his disability one day at a time, Alan Govenar's new film reveals the extraordinary life of African immigrant Sidiki Conde. Sidiki lost the use of his legs to polio at age fourteen. Today, he balances his career as a performing artist with the almost insurmountable obstacles of day-to-day life in New York City. From his fifth-floor walk-up apartment, he traverses down the stairs on his hands and...
14) The restaurateur
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 60 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This intimate documentary follows Danny Meyer, one of America's preeminent restaurant owners, over a 12 year span as he struggles to open not one but two ambitious restaurants next to New York's Madison Square Park. Tabla and Eleven Madison Park, if successful, will join Union Square Café and Gramercy Tavern as the jewels in Meyer's crown. We follow the restaurateur and his team as they experience gut-wrenching construction delays, missed deadlines,...
15) Begin again
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
British songwriter Gretta is adrift in Manhattan after getting dumped by her philandering rock star boyfriend. While playing at an open mic night at a local bar, she is discovered by struggling music producer Dan. Sensing her songwriting potential, Dan pushes Gretta to sign with him and record an ambitious outdoors album all across the city.
16) Brooklyn matters
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (57 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Brooklyn Matters reveals how a few powerful men tried to tilt the Brooklyn landscape in favor of big real estate at the expense of urban livability. Disregarding time-honored urban planning principles and manipulating a desperate need in the African-American community for jobs and affordable housing, they pushed their own interests forward--luxury housing and a 20,000 seat sports arena. The film poses vital, timely questions that are relevant to cities...
17) The witness
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (89 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The name "Kitty Genovese" became synonymous with urban apathy after The New York Times printed an article stating that she was stabbed to death during an attack that lasted more than half an hour, while 38 witnesses did nothing. Fifty years later, her brother uncovers a lie that transformed his life, condemned a city, and defined an era.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (96 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In this extraordinarily intimate film, seven years in the making, we are taken into the depths of the Hasidim's joyous, sometimes harsh, and often beautiful world. With their use of the Yiddish language, their distinctive clothes and their strict observance to Jewish ritual and law, the Hasidim are considered by many an insular people with little connection to mainstream America. And yet their values are those that many Americans find most precious:...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 60 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
NOVA returns to Ground Zero to witness the final chapter in an epic story of engineering, innovation, and the perseverance of the human spirit. Ground Zero Supertower examines the new skyscraper, One World Trade Center, rising up 104 stories and 1,776 feet from the site where the Twin Towers once stood. NOVA also goes underground to see another engineering marvel taking shape here: the construction of the National September 11 Memorial Museum that...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (8 hr., 19 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A period of immense economic change, of huge fortunes made and lost, and the rise of disparity between old money and new. A wide-eyed young scion of a conservative family, Marian, embarks on a mission to infiltrate the wealthy neighboring clan or her aunts Agnes van Rhijn and Ada Brook, dominated by ruthless railroad tycoon George Russell, his rakish son, Larry, and his ambitious wife, Bertha. In this exciting new world that is on the brink of the...
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