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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An award-winning author presents the history and impact of both the theatrical and cinematic versions of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and how it forced audiences to confront deeply-held concepts about relationships, sex and family.
"From its debut in 1962, Edward Albee���s Who���s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was a wild success and a cultural lightning rod. The play transpires over one long, boozy night, laying bare the lies, compromises,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Kitty accidentally becomes a social media sensation, she and Uncle Murray embark on a hilarious Hollywood adventure where she achieves stardom--and, of course, trouble!
''Kitty achieves stardom - and, of course, a bit of trouble - in the brand new Bad Kitty graphic novel IN FULL-COLOR, Bad Kitty Makes a Movie. When Uncle Murray accidentally uploads a video of Kitty to Viewtube, it goes VIRAL, and Kitty becomes a STAR...kind of. Join Uncle...
Series
Criterion collection volume 360
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A fiction/documentary hybrid that blurs the line between reality and fiction, yet remains a tightly focused movie about making movies. Bonus disc includes 2005 sequel, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take 2 1/2; a video interview with Steve Buscemi; and more!
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm take one: There have been many films about their own making, but few that examine the creative process from so many perspectives as this one. Greaves uses the shooting of one scene...
Author
Series
Publisher
Running Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Dave Karger--Turner Classic Movies on-air host, entertainment media darling, and the Oscars expert--offers a one-of-a-kind collection of original interviews with an A-list lineup of Oscar winners discussing the highs, lows, and never-before-told tales ofHollywood's most storied awards show"--
"An exclusive look behind the scenes of the Academy Awards as top stars and filmmakers discuss their Oscar wins and tell never-before-told tales of Hollywood's...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The story of the epic friendship between John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the golden era of improv, and the making of a comedic film classic that helped shape our popular culture. "They're not going to catch us," Dan Aykroyd, as Elwood Blues, tells his brother Jake, played by John Belushi. "We're on a mission from God." So opens the musical action comedy The Blues Brothers, which hit theaters on June 20, 1980. Their scripted mission was to save a local...
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Every crime has a personality, something like the mind that planned it," says Vicki Anderson, the sleek insurance investigator trying to figure out the intellect behind a bank robbery so stunning, it has Boston's finest completely baffled. Sophisticated, handsome Thomas Crow has only one worry about what persona he will take on tomorrow. But when the genius rogue pulls off a crime-of-the-century bank heist and finds himself pitted against a nemesis...
8) Pig
Publisher
Decal
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregonian wilderness must return to his past in Portland in search of his beloved foraging pig after she is kidnapped.
9) I.S.S
Publisher
Decal Bleecker Street
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Tensions flare in the near future aboard the International Space Station as a worldwide conflict breaks out on Earth. Reeling from this, the astronauts receive orders from the ground: take control of the station by any means necessary.
10) Missing
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When the mother of a young woman goes missing with her boyfriend while vacationing in Columbia, she fears the worse. Although she is thousands of miles away, she uses everything in her power to get answers. After getting stonewalled and running into miles of international red tape, the young woman relies on her wit and savvy to find the answers. As time runs out, can she get the proof she needs to find her mother?
When the mother of a young woman...
11) The beekeeper
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
One man's brutal campaign for vengeance takes on national dangers after he is revealed to be a former operative of a powerful and cover organization known as "Beekeepers".
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Joe is a career assassin who lands in Bangkok to handle some obligations and finds himself unexpectedly training a young protege and falling for a woman who has no knowledge of his true job.
Joe is a professional hit man, who, during his missions, picks someone off the street to do his errands and after he is finished kills that person. His next assignment takes him to Bangkok where he will be for a month, and as usual, he finds a street kid named...
13) American star
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
An assassin on final assignment arrives in Fuerteventura to kill a man he has never met. But the target is delayed. Instead of following protocol he stays, drawn to the island, the people, and a ghostly shipwreck. When the target returns, the world has shifted. Before everything was simple, now nothing is.
14) The beekeeper
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
One man's brutal campaign for vengeance takes on national dangers after he is revealed to be a former operative of a powerful covert organization known as 'Beekeepers.'
One man's brutal campaign for vengeance takes on national dangers after he is revealed to be a former operative of a powerful and cover organization known as "Beekeepers".
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A definitive account of Blaxploitation cinema—the freewheeling, often shameless, and wildly influential genre—from a distinctive voice in film history and criticism In 1971, two films grabbed the movie business, shook it up, and launched a genre that would help define the decade. Melvin Van Peebles’s Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, an independently produced film about a male sex worker who beats up cops and gets away, and Gordon Parks’s...
16) Seconds
Series
Criterion collection volume 667
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A sinister, science fiction dispatch from the fractured 1960s that concerns a middle-aged businessman dissatisfied with his suburban existence, who elects to undergo a strange and elaborate procedure that will grant him a new life. Starting over in America, however, is not as easy as it sounds.
A sinister thriller from the fractured 1960s that concerns a middle-aged businessman dissatisfied with his suburban existence, who is urged (and blackmailed)...
17) The hot spot
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A loner drives into a small Texas town and gets himself a job at a used car dealership. His real intentions are to rob the local bank.
18) The independent
Publisher
Relativity
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
During a crucial political election, a driven investigative journalist stumbles upon a life-altering lead that uncovers a disastrous secret. Eli risks losing everything if she reveals the awful truth that will change the course of history.
19) Drive-away dolls
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Formats
Description
The film follows Jamie, an uninhibited free spirit lamenting yet another breakup with a girlfriend, and her shy friend Marian, who desperately needs to loosen up. In search of a fresh start, the two embark on a spontaneous road trip to Tallahassee, but things quickly go awry when they cross paths with a group of incompetent criminals along the way.
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A paperback collection of five Step into Reading leveled readers featuring Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc. gang!"--
"A paperback collection of five Step into Reading leveled readers featuring Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc. gang! Children ages 4 to 6 will love reading five spooky mysteries with Scooby, Shaggy, Velma, Daphne, and Fred! Step 2 Readers use basic vocabulary and short sentences to tell simple stories. For children who recognize familiar...
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