Original Media
1) Half nelson
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A high school teacher with a drug habit finds a friendship in an unlikely source - one of his troubled students. Will their relationship help them or harm them?
Series
Criterion collection volume 845
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s. The patriarch of an eccentric Brooklyn family claims to once have been a great novelist, but ultimately decided to settled into a teaching job. When his wife discovers a writing talent of her own, jealousy divides the family. The two teenage sons are forced to forge new relationships...
Publisher
Discovery Communications, LLC
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Storm chasers returns to tornado alley for a second season as research meteorologist Josh Wurman, filmmaker Sean Casey, and weather expert and videographer Reed Timmer pursue deadly twisters and capture nature at its most extreme. For these guys, seeing a storm is never enough. Getting inside one is their goal."--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 845
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In his third feature, director Noah Baumbach (Frances Ha) scores a triumph with an autobiographical coming-of-age story about a teenager (Jesse Eisenberg) whose parents are divorcing. The father (Jeff Daniels) and mother (Laura Linney) duke it out in half-civilized, half-savage fashion, while their two sons adapt in different ways, shifting allegiances between parents. Nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the **Academy Awards.** Nominated for...
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"... An exciting glimpse at the world of the swamp in the off-season - in particular, the varied traditions surrounding the Thanksgiving holiday in the Atchafalaya River basin, and the ways in which all of these born hunters and fishers go about procuring their fish and fowl for the big meal."--Publisher.
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Storm chasers: Hunt for devastating, violent twisters that rip through America's Great Plains, better known as "Tornado Alley." Research meteorolgist Josh Wurman and extreme filmmaker Sean Casey put their lives on the line to capture this unprecedented footage shot from inside tornadoes tearing their way across the central U.S. Shooting from a 14,00-pound tank topped with a custom-designed filming turret, see what the team encounters as they drive...
Publisher
The Living Wake
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When self-proclaimed genius K. Roth Binew learned his life will be cut short by a grave but unnamed illness, he decides to go out in style -- with a living wake. Accompanied by his faithful assistant Mills, K. Roth spends his final day on earth revisiting all the people who touched his life.
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A coming-of-age story about a boy growing up in Astoria, N.Y., during the 1980s. As his friends end up dead, on drugs or in prison, he comes to believe he has been saved from their fate by various so-called saints. He goes back home after fifteen years when he finds out that his father is ill. There he finds old friends, lost friends, and new relationships as he comes to term with his father's rage and love.
10) August
Publisher
First Look Studios
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Tom, a dot-com business owner, fights to keep both his professional and his personal life afloat as he tries to reunite with an old flame, gain control of his company, and repair his relationship with his family.
Publisher
Casals
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Español
Description
Andres and Luis hear about a treasure hidden in their village's church, and wanting to be the first to discover it, make plans to search the church that very night. In a corner of the chapel lit only by tenuous candlelight, they meet Fatima, a poor orphan girl who possesses great common sense. Between the three of them, they discover that Jesus is the treasure himself, hidden in the sacristy.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
When you're this filthy rich, it's hard to get clean. White Mike is a young drug dealer straddling the mean streets of Harlem and the party palaces of upper Manhattan. Mike's double life comes crashing down when a highly addictive new drug called 'twelve' hits the streets, unleashing a shocking wave of passion and violence.