Bruce Beresford
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (119 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
An award-winning Australian drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.....
2) Evelyn
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (95 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
It’s 1953 and times are tough in Dublin, Ireland. But no one has it tougher than Desmond Doyle (Pierce Brosnan) when his wife runs off and his beloved daughter EVELYN and two young sons are sent to an orphanage by the government. Enlisting the help of friends Bernadette and Michael Beattie (Julianna Margulies, Stephen Rea) and feisty American lawyer Nick Barron (Aiden Quinn), he takes his case to Ireland’s Supreme Court in a quest to topple an...
3) Don's Party
Publisher
Umbrella Entertainment
Pub. Date
1976.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (87 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
When you mix a left-wing teacher, a loud-mouthed sex maniac, a mild-mannered accountant, a failed philosopher, a promiscuous 19-year-old, a frustrated wife, a drunken pornographer, a sexy temperamental artist and an arrogant dentist with a lot of booze...anything can happen! Adapted by David Williamson from his own hit stage play and directed by acclaimed filmmaker Bruce Beresford (*Breaker Morant, The Club*). Nominated for a Golden Bear at the **Berlin...
4) Black Robe
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
1991.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (101 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In the 17th century, a Jesuit missionary nicknamed BLACK ROBE by the natives and his small party of companions try reaching the Huron tribe in Canada all while facing mistrust, Iroquois warring parties and harsh winter conditions.
5) The Club
Publisher
Umbrella Entertainment
Pub. Date
1980.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (95 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
It's tough enough on the Australian Rules Football field, but in the boardroom it's a battle ground! In this club nobody plays by the rules. Outside the fans are cheering the high marks and the low tackles as their team battles towards the premiership. Inside, the executives are wheeling and dealing, back slapping and back stabbing. The club buys a talented young player, Geoff, for a record sum of money and, not surprisingly, the team members do not...
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 87 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color.
Language
English
Description
Puberty Blues traces the lives of two adolescent females who have spent the first part of their lives in a group by themselves, while desperately trying to break into the "in" crowd who dominate the Greenhill beach. Once they are accepted into the group, they realise that the group's laid-back, ultra-cool facade is just that: a glossy cover-up. The main protagonist, Debbie (Nell Schofield) and her life-long companion Sue (Jad Capelja) fall into all...
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 101 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color.
Language
English
Description
"A ghastly, vulgar film" - George Hannan, Liberal Senator for Victoria 1970-74. Reviled by the critics! Adored by fair-dinkum Aussies!In this fan-bloody-tastic classic, Australia's favourite wild colonial boy, Barry McKenzie, journeys to the old country accompanied by his Aunt Edna Everage to take a Captain Cook and further his cultural and intellectual education. Faster than a rat up a drainpipe, Bazza heads for Earls Court to catch up with a...
8) Aria
Publisher
The Orchard
Pub. Date
1987.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
Ten of the world's greatest directors (including Derek Jarman, Jean-Luc Godard, Ken Russell, and Robert Altman) were commissioned to create short pieces based on the world's greatest opera music. The result is erotic, demented, funny, poignant, extravagant, outrageous, breathtaking and totally unique.