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Publisher
Espn Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Before his association with the Alabama Crimson Tide, 'Bear' Bryant was at Texas A & M University. See how he took 100 potential football players and narrowed it down to the best 35 for the team. He put them through grueling workouts in 120-degree heat.
2) Afire
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
Deutsch
Formats
Description
While vacationing by the Baltic Sea, writer Leon and photographer Felix are surprised to encounter Nadja, a mysterious young woman staying as a guest at the holiday home of Felix's family. Nadja soon distracts Leon from finishing his latest novel, not only because of her passionate liaison with lifeguard Devid but also because her brutal honesty forces Leon to confront his artistic inadequacies. As Nadja and Leon grow closer, an encroaching forest...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
6 Blu-rays + 8 4K UltraHD Blu-rays (ca. 619 min.) : sd., black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this volume: His Girl Friday (1928), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), Starman (1984), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
4) Our Town
Publisher
Classicflix
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Touching, yet unsentimental tender, yet heart-breaking, Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Our Town is a pensive look surrounding the lives of two families in the fictitious hamlet of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire. While a literal time capsule of early 20th-century America, the story's power transcends era and locale with its universally timeless themes of love, loss, and the fleeting nature of life. When independent producer Sol Lesser...
6) Mutt
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fena, a young trans guy bustling through life in New York City, is afflicted with an incessantly challenging day that resurrects ghosts from his past. Laundromats, subway turnstiles, and airport transfers are the hectic background to this emotional drama that overlaps past, present, and future. Settling the disharmony of transitional upheaval in relationships familial, romantic, and platonic is Fena's task at hand, and his resulting juggling act is...
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Language
English
Formats
Description
The singular fantasia from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger is cinema's quintessential backstage drama, as well as one of the most glorious Technicolor feasts ever concocted for the screen. Moira Shearer is a rising star ballerina torn between an idealistic composer and a ruthless impresario intent on perfection. Featuring outstanding performances, blazingly beautiful cinematography by Jack Cardiff, Oscar-winning sets and music, and an unforgettable,...
9) Magoado
Publisher
Buffalo 8
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 76 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Peio lives in hiding in Brazil, something is tormenting him. The unexpected appearance of his adolescent son whom he did not know, makes him rethink his life. Quite a challenge for him, who neither knows nor wants to act as a father. In Portuguese and Spanish with English closed captions.
10) Waikiki
Publisher
Level 33 Entertainment
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 83 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a Native Hawaiian hula dancer escaping her abusive boyfriend crashes her van into a mysterious homeless man, she finds herself flung into a surrealistic journey of self-exploration and reconnection to nature within the shadows of commercial Waikiki. This intimate narrative breaks down the enduring, stereotypical image of paradise to reveal a vulnerable and authentic portrait of indigeneity.
11) Drylongso
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 81 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A rediscovered treasure of 1990s DIY filmmaking, Cauleen Smith's Drylongso embeds an incisive look at racial injustice within a lovingly handmade buddy movie/murder mystery/romance. Alarmed by the rate at which the young Black men around her are dying, brash Oakland art student Pica attempts to preserve their existence in Polaroid snapshots, along the way forging a friendship with a woman in an abusive relationship and experiencing love, heartbreak,...
12) Return to Dust
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
In rural Gaotai County, two lonely, middle-aged outcasts are pushed into an arranged marriage by their families. Ma is a humble farmer with little to offer his timid and sickly wife, Cao, except for a small, abandoned house on a barren patch of land. From just a few seeds, their newly planted crops take root and flourish; similarly, an unexpected bond between them starts to blossom. As seasons pass, their dedication to each other grows stronger, but...
13) Fremont
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Afghan refugee Donya lives in Fremont but works at a fortune cookie factory in San Francisco. Seeking connection, she decides to send a message out to the world through a cookie in this offbeat vision of the universal longing for home.
14) Nil by Mouth
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Against the dreary backdrop of Southeast London's concrete housing estates, the lives of three underclass Brits come crashing down. Gary Oldman's conversational, improvisatory script follows his characters' wretched lives in crowded council flats, tawdry Piccadilly strip joints, with truly outstanding acting and honesty.
15) White Building
Publisher
Kimstim Collection
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Central Khmer
Description
Aspiring dancer Samnang and his family are part of a close-knit community in the White Building--a prominent apartment block and cultural landmark of the Cambodian capital. They find their lives suddenly shattered by the news of their home's impending demolition to make way for a new development.
Publisher
Freestyle Digital Media
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Eileen is grieving. She needs to get away. She rents a house in a remote corner of New Hampshire, in the dead of winter, where no one is likely to bother her. But wouldn't you know it? Someone does. Jesse is young, impetuous, charismatic, and evasive. He claims to be the son of the couple who own the house, but Eileen isn't inclined to believe him. She's a brilliant writer with her own demons and secrets; she knows a fellow lost soul when she sees...
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A seemingly simple taxi ride across Paris evolves into a profound meditation on the realities of the driver and his fare, a 92-year-old woman whose warmth belies her shocking past. Charles is a taxi driver in Paris, and he is having a very bad day. Enter Madeleine, an immaculately groomed nonagenarian, who informs Charles that the trip today will not be a direct one. She is moving into a nursing home and would like to make some stops along the way...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After a devastating loss, an unexpected invitation launches Tana on a solitary road trip through the Midwest, reconnecting with family, seeking closure, and making unexpected connections along the way.
19) No Bears
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Persian
Description
One of the world's great cinema artists, Jafar Panahi has been carefully crafting self-reflexive works about artistic, personal, and political freedom for the past three decades, despite being banned from filmmaking by the Iranian government since 2010. In No Bears completed shortly before his imprisonment in 2022, Panahi plays a fictionalized version of himself, a dissident filmmaker who relocates to a rural border town to direct a film remotely...
20) Delicious
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films, Llc
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
France, 1789, just before the Revolution. A chef who has been sacked by his master finds the strength to free himself from being a servant to open the first restaurant.
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