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Physical Desc
1 DVD (75 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fall under the glorious spell of Disney's Ultimate Princess Fairy Tale! Pageantry and power spin together as Maleficent, one of imagination's most spectacular villains, sends the kingdom's beloved Princess Aurora into an enchanted sleep. In a grand legend that transcends time, Good Fairies arm brave Prince Phillip to defeat a fearsome fire-breathing dragon and rescue Aurora. But success in battle may not be enough, for the only way to awaken the Princess...
Publisher
Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiv, 449 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Language
English
Description
Covers literary adaptations in four main categories: classic literature; contemporary bestsellers and popular fiction; nonfiction, encompassing biography, true crime, history, and memoirs; and children's and young adult literature. Sidebars will highlight people, such as authors, film directors, screenwriters, actors, producers, who are particularly identified with adaptation or a particular work.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen/full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After being dumped by her boyfriend, talk-show producer, Jane Goodale tries to figure out how men think and becomes a overnight success as a love guru.
7) The sea gull
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The story is set during two gatherings, two years apart, on the same Russian country estate and among six lovers, most of whom are not loved in return. Those who are hard-shelled and worldly shrug off romantic disappointment. Those who are not, cannot...and tragedy ensues"--Container.
8) Maleficent
Series
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A beautiful, pure-hearted young fairy, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom, until one day when an invading army threatens the harmony of the land. Bent on revenge, Maleficent faces a battle with the invading king's successor and, as a result, places a curse upon his newborn infant, Aurora. As the child grows, Maleficent realizes that Aurora holds the key to peace in the kingdom, and perhaps to Maleficent's true...
9) Rhinoceros
Publisher
Kino Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rhinoceros tells the story of a French town plagued by rhinoceri. These are not ordinary rhinoceroses, but people who have been victims of "rhinoceritis." Or is it something else entirely?
Publisher
Weston Woods
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This collection of classic Hans Christian Andersen tales includes six beloved stories brought to life on film: The Ugly Duckling, The Emperor's New Clothes, Nightingale, The Red Shoes, The Little Match Girl, and The Swineherd.
12) The fountainhead
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 112 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An uncompromising architect refuses to change his designs, and when he discovers the plans for one of his buildings has been changed, he blows up the structure and attempts to defend his actions.
13) Cinderella
Publisher
VAI
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Series
Criterion collection volume 631
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
DVD edizione, four-DVD special edizione.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (352 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (63 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm).
Language
Italiano
Description
The Decameron, transposed to Naples from Boccaccio's Florence, is a cutting takedown of the pieties surrounding religion and sex.
The Arabian nights follows the adventures of a slave girl as she rises to power over a great city. Around her revolve the stories of magic and lust, mystery and fantasy that derive from three cultures (Persia, Egypt and India) and range from the ninth century to the Renaissance.
In the Canterbury tales, Pasolini's startling...
15) Paths of glory
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
During WWI, a French battalion is ordered on a suicide mission that is likely to fail. When it does, the general that planned the mission selects three soldiers from the battalion to be executed for cowardice, and selects their leader as their attorney.
17) Bringing up Baby
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
While trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard, Baby.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Anthony Hopkins give a no-holds-barred performance as the legendary artist Pablo Picasso. The world knew his passion for canvas, color, metal and ceramics, but little was known about his other passion--women. Told from the viewpoint of his longtime mistress and mother of his children.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
[Two-DVD special edition].
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Language
English
Description
In the hands of the renowned experimental theater director Peter Brook, William Golding's legendary novel on the primitivism lurking beneath civilization becomes a film as raw and ragged as the lost boys at its center. Taking an innovative documentary-like approach, Brook shot Lord of The Flies with an off-the-cuff naturalism, seeming to record a spontaneous eruption of its characters' IDs. The result is a rattling masterpiece, as provocative as its...
20) Think like a man
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on Steve Harvey's relationship self-help book, Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man. Four women have decided to take the advice in Harvey's book and use the recommendations to get their men on track. When the men discover this, they try to turn the tables on their women.
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