Summary: "Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale "The Killers" is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak, in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style; and Don Siegel, in a brutal 1964 version that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY KILSummary: Max Skinner is a ruthless, successful English investment broker with no time for life outside of his job. When his uncle dies, Max inherits the chateau and vineyard in the south of France where he grew up, but he then meets a potential rival to the inheritance, a young American who claims to be his illegitimate cousin. His first intention is to sell the vineyard as quickly as possible, but...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOOSummary: A betrayed pop star, slated to marry her pop star fiancée on stage, instead marries a stranger from the audience, a high school math teacher. Against the odds, their sham relationship develops into something real, but can their love survive the limelight?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Marry 2022Summary: A man ahead of his time, Cyrano de Bergerac dazzles whether with ferocious wordplay at a verbal joust or with brilliant swordplay in a duel. But, convinced that his appearance renders him unworthy of the love of a devoted friend, the luminous Roxanne, Cyrano has yet to declare his feelings for her, and Roxanne has fallen in love, at first sight, with Christian.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2022
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CYRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CYRCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CYRCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CYRCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Cyrano 2022Summary: A hired-gun seeks revenge from a client that betrayed him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY THICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD THISummary: A down on his luck screenwriter reluctantly agrees to adapt a trashy bestseller to the silver screen. Rather than read the book himself, Steele convinces a star-struck hatcheck girl, Mildred Atkinson, to accompany him home and tell him the story in her own words. Later the night, Mildred is found murdered and Steele, who has a history of violent behavior, becomes the prime suspect. A neighbor...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA INSummary: The trailblazing Joan Micklin Silver one of only five women to direct a film for a Hollywood studio in the 1970s digs fearlessly into the psychology of a thorny relationship in this anti-romantic comedy, based on Ann Beattie's best-selling novel, about lovelorn civil servant Charles and his married-but-separated coworker Laura. Months after their affair has ended, Charles is haunted by memories...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023