Jeremy Thomas
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Description
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set against the romantic desolation of Detroit and Tangier, an underground musician, deeply depressed by the direction of human activities, reunites with his resilient and enigmatic lover. Their love story has already endured several centuries at least, but their debauched idyll is soon disrupted by her wild and uncontrollable younger sister. Can these wise but fragile outsiders continue to survive as the modern world collapses around them?
2) Antlers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a remote Oregon town, a middle-school teacher and her sheriff brother become entangled with her enigmatic student, whose dark secrets lead to horrifying encounters with a legendary ancestral creature who came before them.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a marketing executive for a huge burger chain finds a nasty secret ingredient in their burger recipe, he goes to the ranches and slaughterhouses of Colorado to investigate and finds that the truth is sometimes difficult to swallow.
4) The dreamers
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a brother and sister invite a man to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in which nothing is off limits and anything is possible.
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The relationship between fledgling psychiatrist Carl Jung and his mentor Sigmund Freud is torn apart when Sabina Spielrein, a troubled but beautiful young woman, comes between them and forever changes the face of modern thought.
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Vivienne Le Coudy is a fiercely independent woman who embarks on a relationship with Danish immigrant Holger Olsen. After meeting Olsen in San Francisco, she agrees to travel with him to his home near the quiet town of Elk Flats, Nevada, where they start a life together. The outbreak of the civil war separates them when Olsen makes a fateful decision to fight for the Union. This leaves Vivienne to fend for herself in a place controlled by corrupt...
7) Crash
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Film producer and sexual adventurer James Ballard's life is transformed by a car crash. It introduces him to Dr. Helen Remington, as her husband is propelled through the windshield and into James' car, dead. No sooner are Helen and James both out of the hospital than they show up together at a late-night show staged by Vaughan, whose near-fatal accident left him obsessed with the erotic possibilities of crashes. Vaughan savors crash data and presides...
8) Franklyn
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Preest is a masked vigilante detective who is searching for his nemesis on the streets of Meanwhile City, a monolithic metropolis ruthlessly governed by faith and religious fervor. Esser is a broken man who is searching for his wayward son amongst the rough streets of London's homeless. Milo is a heartbroken thirty-something desperately trying to find a way back to the purity of first love. Emilia is a beautiful art student whose suicidal art projects...
9) Kon-Tiki
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (96 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Norwegian
Description
Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Pacific Ocean in a balsa wood raft in 1947, together with five men, to prove that South Americans back in pre-Columbian times could have crossed the sea to settle on Polynesian islands. After gathering financing for the trip with loans and donations, they set off on an epic 101-day-long journey across eight thousand kilometers, all while the world was watching. This feature film is based on Heyerdahl's...
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The Sex Pistols star in director Julien Temple's bizarre and hilarious fictional documentary charing the rise and fall of punk's most notorious band. The film presents the band's success as an elaborate scam perpetrated by its calculating manager, Malcolm McLaren, to make 'a million pounds.'" -- container.
11) The hit
Series
Criterion collection volume 469
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In London in 1973, Willie Parker informed on his gangster colleagues. Ten years later he is violently snatched from his Spanish tranquil village retreat by hit men who are surprised to find out they have a completely willing victim on their hands.
13) Sexy beast
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
High voltage crime thriller that crackles with chilling style and wit. A savage gangster named Don Logan is met with resistance when he tries to recruit a retired pal for "one last job". But Logan just won't take no for an answer--Container.
14) Creation
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Gives viewers a unique inside look at Charles Darwin, his family, and his love for his deeply religious wife, as he is torn between faith and science. Darwin struggles to finish his legendary book, On the Origin of Species, which goes on to become the foundation for evolutionary biology.
15) Bad timing
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Amid the decaying elegance of cold-war Vienna, psychoanalyst Dr. Alex Linden becomes mired in an erotically charged affair with the elusive Milena Flaherty.
16) Tideland
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After her mother dies from a heroin overdose, Jeliza-Rose is taken from the big city to live in a rural farmhouse with her father. She tries to settle into a new life in a house her father had purchased for his now-deceased mother. Jeliza-Rose's attempts to deal with her life change, but the result is her increasingly odd behavior. Jeliza-Rose begins to communicate with her bodiless Barbie doll heads and Dell, a neighborhood woman who always wears...
Series
Criterion collection volume 535
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
British army officer Jack Celliers is sentenced to a Japanese P.O.W. camp in Java where he engages in a private war of wills with the camp's commander and a belligerent sergeant. Despite the gruesome setting, Celliers and his fellow prisoner John Lawrence come to understand and respect the special Japanese code of honor.
18) The last emperor
Series
Criterion collection volume 422
Language
English
Description
A dramatic history of Aisin-Gioro "Henry" Pu Yi, who at the age of three became the last of the Emperors of China. Chronicles his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, as the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; and his exploitation by the invading Japanese as the ruler of Manchukuo from 1932 to 1945. He returned to public life in 1959, just another peasant worker in...
19) Insignificance
Series
Criterion collection volume 566
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
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.
20) Naked lunch
Series
Criterion collection volume 220
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (31 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
Part-time pest-control man and full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Weller) seeks escape from his troubled existence in 1953 New York and flees to Interzone (a hallucinatory version of Tangiers) where reality and fantasy have merged. It's a strange, surreal landscape inhabited by mugwumps, half-alien, half-insect creatures, man-sized centipedes, carnivorous typewriters and bizarre humans. Compelled to make sense of this alien territory, he writes a book...