Summary: With this sublimely stirring fable of desire and creativity, Jane Campion became the first woman to win a Palme d'Or at Cannes. Holly Hunter is achingly eloquent through the silence in her Academy Award-winning performance as Ada, an electively mute Scottish woman who expresses her innermost feelings through her beloved piano. When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA PIASummary: Margot, a world-renowned pianist, returns to Chateau Neuhaus to spend the holidays with her family and rediscover her passion for music. While there, her ex-boyfriend and former bandmate Jackson convinces her to headline the annual Christmas Concert, and working together brings back all their old feelings.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark 2021
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD CHASummary: Presently working in an oil field, talented pianist Robert Dupea spends most of his free time downing beers, playing poker and being noncommittal with his sexy but witless girlfriend Rayette. But when he is summoned to his father's deathbed, Dupea returns home with Rayette, where he meets and falls for a sophisticated woman. Now caught between his conflicting lifestyles, the gifted but troubled...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIVSummary: Character study of a talented pianist who has given up a promising career and now works on oil rigs. After 20 years he returns home to his father's deathbed, perhaps to reconcile himself with his fear of failure and desire for greatness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 1998
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Five 1998Summary: A famous pianist struggling with stage fright late in his career finds inspiration with a free-spirited music critic.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A jazz pianist falls for an aspiring actress in Los Angeles. This original musical about everyday life explores the joy and pain of pursuing dreams.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LA RATED PG-13Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD LALCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie La La 2017Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCFF LaSummary: After the death of his mother, child prodigy Arima Kosei gave up the piano forever. That vow turned out to be no match for the persistence of sprightly violinist Kaori Miyazono, who's roped Arima back into the world of competetitive classical music.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: [Head] An exciting kaleidoscope of surreal vignettes set to music, this fast-paced film takes a psychedelic look at the pop phenomenon called the Monkees as they shatter their pre-fab image. A technically innovative rock musical.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AME1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DRAMA AME
Summary: In this remake of Fingers, Tom, a ne'er-do-well, works with two scheming real estate men who have little or no morals. He decides to return to the piano, practicing Bachs' Toccata in E Minor for an important audition that could be a life-changing event.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellsprihg Media 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BEASummary: Tells the tale of an extraordinary man who lives a remarkable life without setting foot on land. Abandoned atop a piano and raised by a lowly crew member in the bowels of a luxurious cruise ship, the boy is dubbed 1900 for the year he was born. As he grows up, he is drawn to the piano and discovers he has an amazing gift for creating music. His reputation spreads, but he refuses to leave the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2002