Stanley Myers
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
George Smiley goes to the aid of his former colleague, Ailsa Brimley after she receives a letter from a woman predicting her own murder and naming her husband as the killer. After the woman is found dead, they uncover secret societies, sexual abuse, and a mysterious boy.
3) The witches
Language
English
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Formats
Description
The darkly humorous and heartwarming tale of a young orphaned boy who, in late 1967, goes to live with his loving Grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world₂s Grand High Witch has gathered her fellow cronies from around the globe,...
Series
Shout select volume 105
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Five friends work in the stifling heat and infernal din of a steel mill. They blow off steam after work at a neighborhood tavern and go deer hunting every fall. One day late in 1968, three of them leave for a tour of duty in Vietnam. Before they go the wedding of one serves as the friend's farewell party.
5) Ulysses
Language
English
Description
This film depicts a day in the life of Leopold Bloom, whose odyssey through the streets of turn-of-the-century Dublin leads him through trials that parallel those of Ulysses on his epic journey home.
Series
Criterion collection volume 566
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four unnamed people who look and sound a lot like Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio, and Joseph McCarthy converge in one New York City hotel room for a compelling, visually inventive adaptation of Terry Johnson's play. With a combination of whimsy and dread, director Nicolas Roeg creates a fun-house-mirror picture of cold war America that questions the nature of celebrity and plays on a society's simmering nuclear fears.
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In turn-of-the century Africa, colonial traders driven by greed brave forbidding dangers to exploit the continent's vast treasures. One of these is sea captain Marlow, who penetrates the Congo's jungles in pursuit of the mysterious Mr. Kurtz, deranged chief of a remote trading station.
14) Middlemarch
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Based on George Eliot's novel, Middlemarch is set in early nineteenth century England and charts the impact of the Industrial Revolution on the town as it divides its population into two opposing factions: the conservatives and the liberals.
20) Dreamchild
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The magnificent Ian Holm (The Homecoming, Alien) is renowned children's author Lewis Carroll in this poignant fantasy -a drama set in 1930s New York and populated by the fabulous special -effects creatures of Muppet master Jim Henson. To help celebrate the 100th anniversary of Lewis Carroll's birth, the real-life Alice in Wonderland 80-year-old Alice Hargreaves is baffled by her enormous public popularity. As she comes to terms with America's 'Alice...