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Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Explore the life of Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning novelist Philip Roth. He steadily earned his reputation as a man of letters, commanding ownership of the Jewish-American novel and making Newark New Jersey, a literary destination, while practically inventing the genre of factual-fictional autobiography.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 106 min.) : anamorphic, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A romance writer sets off to Colombia to pay the ransom of her kidnapped sister, and soon finds herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure. Thrown into a jungle full of gunfire, mud slides and poisonous snakes, Joan's only hope lies with Jack Colton, a rugged wanderer straight out of her novels. Together, they'll have to outwit the bandits and survive the jungle if they're to save her sister.
4) 1408
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Renowned horror novelist Mike Enslin only believes what he can see with his own two eyes. After a string of bestsellers discrediting paranormal events in the most infamous haunted houses and graveyards around the world, he scoffs at the concept of an afterlife. Enslin's phantom-free run of long and lonely nights is about to change forever when he checks into suite 1408 of the notorious Dolphin Hotel for his latest project. Defying the warnings of...
5) Misery
Series
Language
English
Description
After his car crashes in the mountains during a blinding snowstorm, famous novelist Paul Sheldon is "rescued" by Annie Wilkes, a fan obsessed with the main character in his series of novels. But when Wilkes reads his latest book and learns he has killed her favorite character, she teaches Sheldon the real meaning of "misery." Injured and isolated far from help, Sheldon engages in a desperate battle of wits with Wilkes as she becomes ever more deranged...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Description
Born to Chinese immigrant parents into 1950's America, it would be decades before Ms. Tan would come to fully understand how her mother's self-destructive tendencies were rooted in watching her own mother kill herself after being forced into the former marital system of concubinage. This painful family legacy inspired her stories of women without the power to choose their lives. An interweaving of archival imagery, artful animation and live performance...
Publisher
Outcast Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jennifer Kroot's documentary about the creator of Tales of the city moves nimbly between playful and poignant and laugh-out-loud funny. Maupin offers a disarmingly frank look at the journey that took him from the jungles of Vietnam to the bathhouses of '70's San Francisco to the front line of the American culture war.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (72 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
New York in the Fifties is the story of a unique time and place, when New York was the hotbed of new artistic expressions, free love, drinking, hot jazz, and radical politics. The film combines archival footage of New York with interviews and footage of icons of the day: Kerouac, Ginsberg, Baldwin, Mailer, Basie, etc. Offering modern day perspective and reminiscences are writers, actors, and artists such as Joan Didion, Robert Redford, Nat Hentoff,...
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Novelist Ayn Rand is attracted to her brilliant, young and handsome new protege. She convinces their spouses to tolerate an affair. This arrangement lasts for fifteen years, with devastating consequences for all, until her protege's interest turns to a young student of his own.
10) Basic instinct
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nick Curran is a boozy San Francisco police detective who finds himself drawn to the prime suspect in a murder case. She is manipulative, sexually uninhibited novelist Catherine Tramell. Catherine's latest book features a murder uncannily similar to the one Nick is investigating and as the pair engage in a mating dance of dangerous one-upmanship more murders occur, all are exactly as described in her current work about a boozy cop in love with a killer....
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