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The winter guest [videorecording] by Law, Phyllida,1932-; MacDonald, Sharman.; Reid, Sheila.; Rickman, Alan.(CARDINAL)344026; Thompson, Emma.(CARDINAL)348832;
Director of photography, Seamus McGarvey ; production designer, Robin Cameron Don ; editor, Scott Thomas ; music, Michael Kamen.Phyllida Law, Emma Thompson, Sheila Reid, Sandra Voe, Arlene Cockburn, Gary Hollywood, Sean Biggerstaff, Douglas Murphy.An elderly woman arrives uninvited and unexpectedly at the home of her daughter, Frances, who is still grieving over her young husband's recent death. Together, they embark on an emotional journey neither of them are ready for, but both know must be taken.MPAA rating: R.DVD, Dolby digital stereo.
Subjects: Drama.; MacDonald, Sharman; Feature films.; Film adaptations.; Mothers and daughters; Relationships; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Widows;
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Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Vera Drake [videorecording] / by Broadbent, Jim,actor.(CARDINAL)432666; Channing-Williams, Simon,film producer.(CARDINAL)847510; Craney, Heather,actor.; Davis, Philip,1953-actor.(CARDINAL)815112; Dickson, Andrew.(CARDINAL)540095; Hawkins, Sally,1976-actor.(CARDINAL)690380; Kelly, Alex,actor.; Leigh, Mike,1943-film director,screenwriter.; Marsan, Eddie,actor.(CARDINAL)342871; Mays, Daniel,actor.(CARDINAL)817569; O'Donnell, Anthony,1948-actor.; Pope, Dick,B.S.C.,cinematographer.; Sarde, Alain,1952-film producer.; Scarborough, Adrian,actor.; Sharp, Lesley,1964-actor.; Sheen, Ruth,actor.; Staunton, Imelda,1953-actor.; Wight, Peter.1950-actor.; Woolgar, Fenella,actor.(CARDINAL)782740; Fine Line Features.(CARDINAL)356392; Inside Track Films.; New Line Home Entertainment (Firm)(CARDINAL)356389; Studio Canal.(CARDINAL)548221; Thin Man Films (Firm); UK Film Council.(CARDINAL)544875;
Director of photography, Dick Pope ; film editor, Jim Clark ; music, Andrew Dickson ; research, Lucy Whitton ; sound recordist, Tim Fraser ; costume design, Jacqueline Durran ; production designer, Eve Stewart ; co-producer, Georgina Lowe.Imelda Staunton, Phil Davis, Peter Wight, Alex Kelly, Daniel Mays, Adrian Scarborough, Heather Craney, Eddie Marsan, Ruth Sheen, Sally Hawkins, Fenella Woolgar, Lesley Sharp, Anthony O'Donnell, Jim Broadbent.Vera Drake tells of a woman in 1950s England who is devoted to caring for her family, but secretly aids women who want to terminate unwanted pregnancies. When the authorities find her out, Vera's world and family life rapidly unravel.MPAA rating: R; depiction of strong thematic material.DVD; region 1, NTSC; wide screen (1.85:1) presentation enhanced for widescreen tvs; DTS surround, Dolby digital 5.1 surround, Dolby stereo surround.System requirements for DVD-ROM aspects: PC; Microsoft Windows 98 or higher; Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher; Macromedia Flash 6.0; Internet connection; DVD-ROM drive.
Subjects: Feature films.; Historical films.; Independent films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Abortion;
Available copies: 14 / Total copies: 15
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The ballad of Little Jo [videorecording] / by Amis, Suzy,actor.; Auberjonois, René,1940-actor.(CARDINAL)348964; Berner, Fred,film producer.; Chung, David,1946-2006,actor.; Goodman, Brenda,film producer.; Graham, Heather,1970-actor.(CARDINAL)342975; Greenwald, Maggie,screenwriter,film director.(CARDINAL)848024; Heald, Anthony,actor.; Hopkins, Bo,1942-actor.; Leo, Melissa,actor.(CARDINAL)343271; Maleczech, Ruth,actor.; Mansfield, David,1956-composer (expression)(CARDINAL)552049; McKellen, Ian,actor.(CARDINAL)813573; Quinn, Declan,1957-director of photography.; Reamer, Keith,editor of moving image work.; Robards, Sam,actor.; Snodgress, Carrie,actor.; Fine Line Features,presenter.(CARDINAL)356392; New Line Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.(CARDINAL)356389; PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (Firm),presenter.(CARDINAL)529424;
Director of photography, Declan Quinn ; editor, Keith Reamer ; music, David Mansfield.Suzy Amis, Bo Hopkins, Ian McKellen, David Chung, Anthony Heald, Heather Graham, Ruth Maleczech, Melissa Leo, Sam Robards, René Auberjonois, Carrie Snodgress.Based on a true story, this is the tale of Josephine Monaghan, a young woman of the mid-19th century who is thrown out of her parents' home after being seduced by the family's portrait photographer and giving birth to an illegitimate child. Josephine quickly learns that young, female, pretty, and alone are a bad combination for life in the wild west. In her desperation to survive, Josephine disguises herself as "Jo", a young man, and struggles to make a life for herself in a dingy frontier mining town. Can "Little Jo" live and love without revealing his/her secret?MPAA Rating: R; for sexuality and some violence.DVD-ROM enabled; System requirements for DVD-ROM and on-line features: Microsoft Windows 98SE or higher, the (included) InterActual player installed; Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher, Macromedia Flash 6.0 and an Internet connection, a DVD-ROM drive, and a software or hardward DVD player. This DVD will not work in a CD-ROM drive and the DVD-ROM features are not available on Apple Macintosh.DVD; Region 1; DTS surround sound; 5.1 surround sound; stereo surround sound; widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio).
Subjects: Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Western films.; Monaghan, Josephine; Frontier and pioneer life; Gender identity; Male impersonators; Women;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Pleasantville [videorecording] / by Allen, Joan,1956-(CARDINAL)288958; Daniels, Jeff,1955-(CARDINAL)366274; Maguire, Tobey,1975-(CARDINAL)342888; Ross, Gary,1956-(CARDINAL)536344;
Tobey Maguire, Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen, William H. Macy, J.T. Walsh, Don Knotts, Reese Witherspoon.Chaos ensues when 1990s teenagers David and Jennifer get zapped into the perfect suburbia of the black-and-white 1950s sitcom, Pleasantville.MPAA rating: PG-13.
Subjects: Fantasy films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Nineteen fifties; Teenagers; Television and teenagers; Television comedies;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 7
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Naked [videorecording] / by Leigh, Mike,1943-screenwriter,film director.; Channing-Williams, Simon,film producer.(CARDINAL)847510; Thewlis, David,1963-actor.(CARDINAL)531711; Cartlidge, Katrin,actor.; Sharp, Lesley,1964-actor.; Pope, Dick,B.S.C.,cinematographer.; Gregory, Jon(Film editor),editor of moving image work.; Dickson, Andrew,composer (expression)(CARDINAL)540095; British Screen,presenter.(CARDINAL)356390; Criterion Collection (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)348269; Film Four International,presenter.; Fine Line Features,presenter.(CARDINAL)356392; Thin Man Films (Firm),production company.;
Disc 1. The film ; audio commentary by Leigh and actors ; original theatrical trailer -- Disc 2. The supplements: video interview with Neil LaBute; The Art Zone: "The Conversation," a BBC program featuring author Will Self interviewing Leigh; The Short and Curlies, a short comedy from 1987 -- Booklet: essays by Derek Malcolm, Amy Taubin.Director of photography, Dick Pope ; editor, Jon Gregory ; music, Andrew Dickson.David Thewlis, Lesley Sharp, Katrin Cartlidge.A charming, eloquent, and vicious drifter on the lam in London rejects those who would care for him and hurls himself into a nocturnal odyssey through the city, colliding with a succession of desperate and dispossessed people and scorching everyone in his path.DVD, region 1, widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby Digital stereo.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Fiction films.; Feature films.; Rapists; Drifters; Fugitives from justice; Women; Rape victims;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Short cuts [videorecording] / by Altman, Robert,1925-2006,film director,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)517117; Brokaw, Cary,film producer.; Barhydt, Frank,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)376654; MacDowell, Andie,actor.(CARDINAL)809991; Davison, Bruce,1946-actor.; Moore, Julianne,actor.(CARDINAL)530996; Modine, Matthew,actor.(CARDINAL)340736; Archer, Anne,actor.; Ward, Fred,1942-2022,actor.; Leigh, Jennifer Jason,1962-actor.; Penn, Christopher,actor.; Taylor, Lili,actor.(CARDINAL)370322; Downey, Robert,Jr.,1965-actor.(CARDINAL)357184; Stowe, Madeleine,actor.; Robbins, Tim,1958-actor.(CARDINAL)844769; Tomlin, Lily,actor.(CARDINAL)327281; Waits, Tom,1949-actor.(CARDINAL)781880; McDormand, Frances,actor.(CARDINAL)815100; Gallagher, Peter,1955-actor.(CARDINAL)342771; Ross, Annie,1930-2020,actor.; Singer, Lori,1957-actor.; Lemmon, Jack,actor.(CARDINAL)131768; Lovett, Lyle,actor.; Henry, Buck,actor.; Lewis, Huey,1951-actor.; Lloyd, Walt,cinematographer.; Isham, Mark,composer.(CARDINAL)505604; Carver, Raymond,1938-1988.Short stories.Selections.(CARDINAL)727981; Carver, Raymond,1938-1988.Short cuts.; Avenue Pictures,production company.(CARDINAL)847534; Criterion Collection (Firm)(CARDINAL)348269; Fine Line Features,presenter.(CARDINAL)356392; New Line Home Entertainment (Firm)(CARDINAL)356389; Spelling Films International,presenter.;
Music producer, Hal Willner, original score composed by Mark Isham, edited by Geraldine Peroni, director of photography, Walt Lloyd.Andie MacDowell, Bruce Davison, Tim Robbins, Julianne Moore, Matthew Modine, Robert Downey, Jr., Jack Lemmon, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Anne Archer, Fred Ward, Chris Penn, Lili Taylor, Peter Gallagher, Annie Ross, Lori Singer, Lyle Lovett, Buck Henry, Huey Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Lily Tomlin, Tom Waits, Frances McDormand.Based on nine stories and a poem by Raymond Carver, Short Cuts is a many-sided, many-mood film with structured links making connections between clusters of characters in tales of modern urban isolation.Rating: R.DVD, wide screen, Dolby Digital 5.1 and stereo, NTSC.
Subjects: Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Film adaptations.; Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988; Strangers; Man-woman relationships;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Botanical line drawing : 200 step-by-step flowers, leaves, cacti, succulents, and other items found in nature / by Dean, Peggy,artist.(CARDINAL)785699;
Line Drawing is an easy art form featuring illustrative, doodle-like designs. It's used widely among artists of many types with both fine and bold lines, creating different variations. This book walks through drawing very simple doodles, into more elaborate, delicate illustrations, and is easy to follow for all skill levels.
Subjects: Botanical illustration; Drawing;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The Sweet Hereafter [videorecording] / by Banks, Russell,1940-2023.Sweet hereafter.; Chaykin, Maury.; Egoyan, Atom,1960-; Holm, Ian,1931-2020.(CARDINAL)843737; Alliance Communications.; New Line Home Video (Firm)(CARDINAL)785753;
Ian Holm, Maury Chaykin, Peter Donaldson, Bruce Greenwood, David Hemblen, Brooke Johnson, Arsinee Khanjian, Tom McCamus, Stephanie Morgenstern, Earl Pastko, Sarah Polley, Gabrielle Rose, Alberta Watson.Import Blu-Ray/Region All pressing. Includes a NTSC Region 1 DVD. A small community is torn apart by a tragic accident which kills most of the town's children. A lawyer visits the victims' parents in order to profit from the tragedy by stirring up the their anger and launching a class action suit against anyone they can blame. The community is paralyzed by its anger and cannot let go. All but one young girl, left in a wheelchair after the accident, who finds the courage to lead the way toward healing.MPAA rating: R.Blu-ray; requires Blu-Ray playerDVD, region 1, widescreen presentation"Winner 1997 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix."
Subjects: Community life; Feature films.; School bus accidents;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Shine [videorecording] / by Gielgud, John,1904-2000,actor.(CARDINAL)152365; Hicks, Scott,film director.; Hirschfelder, David,composer (expression)(CARDINAL)847881; Karmel, Pip,editor of moving image work.; Mueller-Stahl, Armin,1930-actor.(CARDINAL)777855; Redgrave, Lynn,1943-2010,actor.(CARDINAL)759403; Rush, Geoffrey,1951-actor.(CARDINAL)346574; Sardi, Jan,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)844265; Scott, Jane,1945-film producer.; Simpson, Geoffrey,director of photography.; Taylor, Noah,actor.(CARDINAL)346665; Australian Film Finance Corporation,presenter.; Fine Line Features,production company.(CARDINAL)356392; Momentum Films,production company.; New Line Home Video (Firm)publisher.(CARDINAL)785753; Pandora Cinema,presenter.;
Director of photography, Geoffrey Simpson ; editor, Pip Karmel ; music, David Hirschfelder ; production design, Vicki Niehus.Geoffrey Rush, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Noah Taylor, Lynn Redgrave, John Gielgud.The story of Australian pianist David Helfgott. Driven by his father and his teachers he experiences a nervous breakdown and is hospitalized, but later returns to the concert hall.MPAA rating: PG-13.DVD; region 1; NTSC; Dolby digital 5.1, 2.0; double-sided.Academy Award: Best Actor, Geoffrey Rush, 1996.
Subjects: Biographical films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Helfgott, David; Mentally ill; Pianists;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 8
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Mrs. Parker and the vicious circle [videorecording] / by Broderick, Matthew,1962-(CARDINAL)346894; Isham, Mark.(CARDINAL)505604; Leigh, Jennifer Jason,1962-; Rudolph, Alan,1943-; Scott, Campbell.(CARDINAL)348468; Image Entertainment (Firm)(CARDINAL)328010;
Director of photography, Jan Kiesser ; editor, Suzy Elmiger ; music, Mark Isham ; costumes, John Hay, Renée April ; production designer, François Séguin.Jennifer Jason Leigh, Campbell Scott, Matthew Broderick, Peter Gallagher, Jennifer Beals, Andrew McCarthy, Wallace Shawn, Martha Plimpton, Sam Robards, Lili Taylor, James LeGros, Gwyneth Paltrow, Heather Graham, Stephen Baldwin, Tom McGowan, Rebecca Miller.The famed lunch scene at the Algonquin Hotel's Round Table. Home to a circle of mutually supportive young artists that defined New York sophistication and a literate era of wit and intellect.MPAA rating: R; sexuality and language.DVD, region 1, widescreen (2.35:1, enhanced) presentation; Dolby Digital 2.0, surround, NTSC, digitally transferred.
Subjects: Biographical films.; Feature films.; Melodrama.; Parker, Dorothy, 1893-1967; Algonquin Hotel (New York, N.Y.); Biographical films.; Feature films.; Man-woman relationships; Melodrama.; Nineteen twenties;
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Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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