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1) Get Shorty
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Series
Language
English
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Chili Palmer, a Miami loan shark, pursues a mark, who's behind in payments, to Las Vegas and then to Hollywood where Harry Zimm has gambled away the $200,000 earmarked for his next production.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Kolyma Highway, otherwise known as the Road of Bones, is a 1200 mile stretch of Siberian road where winter temperatures can drop as low as sixty degrees below zero. Under Stalin, at least eighty Soviet gulags were built along the route to supply the USSR with a readily available workforce, and over time hundreds of thousands of prisoners died in the midst of their labors. Their bodies were buried where they fell, plowed under the permafrost, underneath...
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Series
Texas murder files volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
When the shocking discovery of a murdered woman’s body disturbs the tranquility of tourist season, the police detective in charge of the puzzling case must work alongside the new filmmaker in town to pursue every lead in the new romantic thriller from New York Times bestselling author Laura Griffin.
After a scandal derails her television reporting career, Macey Burns comes looking for a change of pace in Lost Beach, Texas....
After a scandal derails her television reporting career, Macey Burns comes looking for a change of pace in Lost Beach, Texas....
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 240 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Walt Disney was uniquely adept at art as well as commerce, a master filmmaker who harnessed the power of technology and storytelling. This new film examines Disney's complex life and enduring legacy. Features rare archival footage from the Disney vaults, scenes from some of his greatest films, interviews with biographers and animators, and the designers who helped turn his dream of Disneyland into reality.
Series
Criterion collection volume 118
Language
English
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Description
A successful Hollywood director disguises himself as a bum and sets off to see America from the bottom up. In the midst of the brutality and despair, he makes a valuable discovery-- that what the downtrodden need most is laughter.
7) Whiskey in a teacup: what growing up in the South taught me about life, love, and baking biscuits
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Witherspoon's grandmother Dorothea always said that a combination of beauty and strength made Southern women "whiskey in a teacup." Now Witherspoon invites you into her world, where she infuses the Southern style, parties, and traditions she loves with contemporary flair and charm. She shares delicious recipes, favorite Southern traditions, magical Christmas mornings, and more. She shows you that there can be a Southern side to every place in the...
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Language
English
Description
Tallie Jones is happy with life. She's at the top of her career as a hugely successful, renowned movie director, she's in a relationship with a handsome producer and her personal assistant is also her devoted best friend. But Tallie's perfect life comes crumbling down around her when she discovers that her boyfriend's been unfaithful and, worse yet, someone's been stealing from her for years.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Fourteen years ago, he had two names: Harry Caine, the pseudonym he used for his literary works, and Mateo Blanco, his real name which he used to direct films. But that was before the accident when he lost his sight and his beloved Lena. Now he goes by Harry Caine. If he can't direct films, he can only survive with the idea that Mateo Blanco died on Lanzarote with his Lena. When he is given the chance to tell his story, he can't refuse.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Special edition collector's set.
Physical Desc
15 Blu-rays (approximately 1,885 min.) : sound, color, and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 booklets.
Language
Italiano
Description
Variety lights: A beautiful and ambitious young woman joins a traveling troupe of third-rate vaudevillians and inadvertently causes jealousy and emotional crises.
The white sheik: During a day in their honeymoon, a couple is separated by the city's lust and the desires it produces.
I vitelloni: Details a year in the life of five young men lingering in post-adolescent limbo, dreaming of adventure and escape from their small town and struggling to...
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