Summary: "For her award-winning breakthrough film, director Gillian Armstrong drew on teenage author Miles Franklin's novel, a celebrated turn-of-the-twentieth-century Australian coming-of-age story, to brashly upend the conventions of period romance. Headstrong young Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis, in a star-making performance) bemoans her stifling life in the backcountry where her writerly ambitions...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MYSummary: At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's clergyman was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2010
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD AFRSummary: Writer-director Greta Gerwig has crafted a film that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott and unfolds as the author's alter ego, Jo March reflects back and forth on her fictional life. In Gerwig's take, the beloved story of the March sisters, four young women each determined to live life on her own terms, is both timeless and timely.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LITCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LITCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LITCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LiSummary: Dixon Steele is an alcoholic screenwriter who has some success but is now in the midst of a long dry spell. One of his neighbors is Laurel Gray, a would-be actress and a smart cookie. Steele is a bitter, angry man who succeeds in insulting everyone he sees while drinking at noon in his usual hangout. Dix has taken a job adapting a trashy novel for the screen--but he doesn't want to read the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Pictures Industries 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INSummary: This 1949 movie lavishly takes us on the journey of Jay Gatsby (Alan Ladd) who worked his way from poor fisherman to extravagant millionaire. Travel back in time to the roaring 20s, a time of flappers, bootlegging, art deco architecture, and jazz music, through this classic tale of love and betrayal, deception and mystery. This is the second film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous novel...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRESummary: An affair to remember: Nickie Ferrante and Terry McKay meet on an ocean liner and fall deeply in love. Though each is engaged to someone else, they agree to meet six months later at the Empire State Building if they still feel the same way about each other. But a tragic accident prevents their rendezvous, and the lovers' future takes an emotional and uncertain turn. Laura: A beautiful young...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2014