Frances McDormand
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 73 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A stunningly beautiful film narrated by Frances McDormand, Rebels With a Cause spotlights a battle over land that changed the American landscape forever. Beginning in the 1950s, a national movement was born of principles that may seem obvious today. Unconvinced by land developers who promoted residential construction as unmitigated progress, citizens began banding together to preserve open spaces near urban areas for parks and farms — and took the...
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
1990.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (109 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Frances McDormand and Brian Cox confront danger and deception at every turn in this chilling and explosive story set in strife-torn Northern Ireland. American activist Paul Sullivan (Brad Dourif) and his fiancé Ingrid Jessner (McDormand) journey to Belfast to probe allegations of human rights abuses by British security forces. Now, with their safety in jeopardy, they must decide whether to risk everything to uncover a shocking high-level conspiracy....
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Corporate salesman Steve Butler has been dispatched to the rural town of McKinley with his sales partner to offer much-needed relief to the economically hard-hit residents in exchange for drilling rights to their properties. As they grapple with a surprising array of both open hearts and closed doors, the outsiders soon discover the strength of an American small town at a crossroads.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Cinderella story about friendship and finding true love. A middle-aged London governess is dismissed from her job and now is attempting to find new employment in a glamorous world and a dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer.
6) Fargo
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (98 mins.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A persistent, pregnant police chief tries to solve the disappearance of a wife and mother from Fargo.
7) Fargo
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005, c1996
Physical Desc
1 digital videodisc (98 mins.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A midwestern policewoman investigates a series of brutal and interconnected crimes. Steadily, she tightens the net on the killers and their accomplices in a kidnapping scheme gone wildly wrong.
Series
Publisher
[Kino Lorber, Inc.]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In Jessup County, 1964, as three civil rights activists drive down a desolate stretch of highway, headlights ominously draw near. Telling each other to stay calm, they have no way of knowing that in minutes they will disappear into the night and spark one of the most explosive murder investigations in history. Enter straight-laced Ward and deceptively easy-going Anderson.
10) North country
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the U.S. - Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won a landmark 1984 lawsuit.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A dissatisfied barber in the 1940s decides to blackmail his wife's lover in order to get startup capital for a new dry-cleaning business. The scheme begins to unravel and, in the end, everyone gets what's coming to them.
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4in.
Language
English
Description
An aged music industry exec enjoys younger women. While at his latest girlfriend's mother's beach house he has a heart attack, and ends up being nursed by the mother. He is surprised to find he is attracted to her, as is his doctor.
As dazzlingly enjoyable as it is deeply intelligent.--Denver Post
December-December romance between Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson is a funny and warm look at just how scary love can be.--Netflix
Sharp, witty, and...
13) Moonrise kingdom
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore, and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.
14) Almost famous
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (162 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
It's the backstage pass of a lifetime when teenage reporter William Miller lands an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine.
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Autobots learn of a Cybertronian spacecraft hidden on the moon and race against the Decepticons to reach it and to learn its secrets.
...delivers the popcorn in gigantic fist-fulls of fun.--Orlando Sentinel
...among Mr. Bay's best movies...--A.O. Scott
...sensations are undeniable...--New York Times
16) Blood simple
Series
Criterion collection volume 834
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded booklet.
Language
English
Description
"Joel and Ethan Coen's career-long darkly comic road trip through misfit America began with this razor-sharp, hard-boiled neonoir set somewhere in Texas, where a sleazy bar owner releases a torrent of violence with one murderous thought ... Blood Simple reinvented the film noir for a new generation, marking the arrival of a filmmaking ensemble that would transform the American independent cinema scene"--Container.
18) Women talking
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Do nothing. Stay and fight. Or leave. In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling a brutal reality with their faith.
The women of an insular, ultraconservative religious community grapple with reconciling a brutal reality with their faith. Through the backstory, we see a community of women come together in the aftermath of pervasive sexual assault to figure out how they might move forward to build a better world...
19) Hail, Caesar!
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An all-star comedy set during the latter years of Hollywood's Golden Age. It follows a single day in the life of a studio fixer who is presented with plenty of problems to fix.
20) Short cuts
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 183 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A look at human life and American culture with over 20 characters' lives interweaving. Includes a new widescreen restored transfer of the film, a making-of documentary, interviews, deleted scenes, and much more.