Dr. Ralph H. Wolfe Viewing Center

Publisher: New York : Mystic Fire Video, ©1995.

Notes: Originally produced as a documentary motion picture in 1986. Running Time: 73 min

Summary: Beginning with his impoverished Catholic boyhood, through his development as one of the most important modern American authors, to his self-destructive demise at the age of 47, Kerouac’s life is examined through rare documentary footage, including television appearances with Steve Allen and William Buckley, interviews with his contemporaries, and dramatized scenes from his life and works.

OCLC #: 35264437

Added: October 7, 2011

Publisher: Beverly Hills, CA : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2002]

Notes: 1 videodisc (total running time: 129 min.) Based upon the novel by Barry Reed. DVD release of the 1982 motion picture. Special features: commentary by Sidney Lumet and Paul Newman, featurette, trailers, behind the scenes gallery. Nominated for five Oscars and four Golden Globes.

Summary:  An alcoholic lawyer stumbles upon one last chance to redeem himself by taking on a controversial court case against seemingly insurmountable opposition.

OCLC #: 50038557

Added: October 6, 2011

Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : MGM Home Entertainment, ©2009, 1999.

Notes: 1 videodisc (total running time: 121 min.) Special features include: Original theatrical poster gallery, original theatrical trailer, 8-page booklet chronicling Hair‘s journey from stage to screen. Based on the musical play. Originally produced as motion picture in 1979. Nominated for two Golden Globes.

Summary:  Fresh from the farm, Claude Bukowski arrives in New York City for a date with the Army Induction Board, only to walk into a hippie “happening” in Central Park and fall in love with the beautiful Sheila. Befriended by the hippies’ pacifist leader, Berger, and urged to crash a formal party in order to declare his love for Sheila, Claude begins an adventure that lands him in jail, Central Park Lake and finally, in the army. But Berger’s final effort to save Claude from Vietnam sets in motion a bizarre twist of fate … with shocking consequences.

OCLC #: 41397278

Added: October 6, 2011

Publisher: Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, ©2004.

Notes: 1 videodisc (total running time: 108 min.)  Title on screen has arrows over two words and several letters have been replaced with greek symbols (theta for o, sigma for e, kappa for k, pi for n). Originally released as a motion picture in 2004. Special features: Side B. “Filmaker’s Q&A” interview session with the filmmakers from the Tinseltown 12 Theater, Vancouver, B.C., Oct. 8, 2004 (28 min.); interview clips (Will Arntz, Betsy Chasse, Mark Vincente, Marlee Matlin, John Ross Bowie, Elaine Hendrix, Robert Bailey Jr.); “Emmanuel” music video by Æon Spoke; Theatrical trailer.

Summary:  Amanda, a divorced photographer, finds herself in a fantastic Alice-in-Wonderland experience when her daily, uninspired life literally begins to unravel. Guided by leading scientists and mystics, she finds that if reality itself is not questionable, her notion of it certainly is. Plunge into a world where quantum uncertainty is demonstrated – where Amanda’s neurological processes, and perceptual shifts are engaged and lived – where everything is alive, and reality is changed by every thought.

OCLC #: 58721809

Added: October 6, 2011

Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : Weinstein Co. ; [Solana Beach, Calif.] : Distributed by Genius Products, ©2006.

Notes: 1 videodisc (total running time: 104 min.) Originally produced as a motion picture in 2005. “Enhanced for 16×9 television[s]”–Container. Special features: optional audio commentary by director Duncan Tucker; conversation with Tucker & actress Felicity Huffman; conversation with Tucker & actor Kevin Zegers; Dolly Parton music video (“Travelin’ through”) & making-of featurette; blooper reel; theatrical trailer. Won one Golden Globe and was nominated for two Oscars and one Golden Globe

Summary: A pre-operative male-to-female transsexual takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she fathered a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.

OCLC #: 68626829

Added: October 6, 2011

Call Number: DVD00761

by: (in David Copperfield) Frederick Brogger; Delbert Mann; Richard Attenborough; Cyril Cusack; Edith Evans; Pamela Franklin; Susan Hampshire; Wendy Hiller; Ron Moody; Lawrence Olivier; Robin K S Phillips; Michael Redgrave, Sir.; Ralph Richardson, Sir; Charles Dickens; Omnibus Productions (Firm); Digiview Productions. (in Oliver Twist) Isaac E Chadwick; William Joyce Cowan; Elizabeth Meehan; Dick Moore; Irving Pichel; William Boyd; Alec B Francis; Doris Lloyd; J Roy Hunt; Charles Dickens; Digiview Productions.;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: (in David Copperfield) [Dunellen, N.J.] : Digiview Productions, ©2004. (in Oliver Twist) Piscataway, N.J. : Digiview Productions, [2004]

Notes: “Double feature.” 1 videodisc (total running time: 197 min.) (in David Copperfield) Originally released as a motion picture in 1969 by Omnibus productions and Twentieth Century-Fox. Based on the novel : David Copperfield / by Charles Dickens. (in Oliver Twist) Adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens. Originally released as a motion picture in 1933.

Summary:  David Copperfield: David Copperfield’s idyllic life changes when his mother marries Mr. Murdstone. When she dies, David’s stepfather takes David from school and forces him to do back-breaking work in his winery. Eventually, David runs away to his eccentric Aunt Betsy’s home, where he might find the respect and love he never had as a child. Oliver Twist: One of the first talking versions of Charles Dickens’ classic masterpiece. Dickie Moore stars as Oliver Twist, the orphan who falls among thieves and villains but comes at last to his rightful heritage.

OCLC #: (in David Copperfield) 60382917. (in Oliver Twist) 58440962

Added: October 6, 2011

Call Number: DVD00858

by: Roman Polanski; Thom Mount; Tim Hampton; Gérard Brach; Betty Buckley; John Mahoney; Harrison Ford; Brian Dennehy; Raul Julia; Alan J Pakula;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 2008.

Notes: “Double feature.” 2 videodiscs (total running time: 247 min.) Special features for Presumed innocent : Theatrical trailer. Frantic was originally produced as a motion picture in 1987 ; Presumed innocent was originally produced as a motion picture in 1990.

Summary:  Frantic: After his wife disappears in Paris, American Richard Walker must confront a bewildering web of language, locale and bureaucracy as he scrambles to find her. Presumed Innocent: A twist-filled whodunit where Ford is pledged to uphold the law yet determined to escape it. He plays Rusty Sabich, an attorney who’s both the prosecutor of a murder case…and suspect #1!

OCLC #: 243606149

Added: October 6, 2011

Call Number: DVD00952

by:  John Calley; Julie Lynn; Diana Napper; Robin Swicord; Kathy Baker; Maria Bello; Marc Blucas; Emily Blunt; Amy Brenneman; Hugh Dancy; Maggie Grace; Jimmy Smits; Kevin Zegers; Lynn Redgrave; Karen Joy Fowler; Sony Pictures Classics (Firm); Mockingbird Pictures.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2008]

Notes: 1 videodisc (total running time: 106 min.) Based on the book by Karen Joy Fowler. Special features: Deleted scenes; Cast and crew commentary; Behind-the-scenes, the life of Jane Austen; The book club: deconstructed; Los Angeles premiere.

Summary:  A group of six friends, in Sacramento, gather to distract themselves from loss – a newly dumped Sylvia, Prudie’s repressed disappointment, or Jocelyn, who has a life of unrealized dreams. All are devoted Jane Austen fans, except the lone man, Grigg, who has an ulterior motive for joining the chick-lit gang. There’s plenty of pride (Prudie), prejudice (Jocelyn), sense (Sylvia), and sensibility (Sylvia’s daughter Allegra). Throw in a fair amount of persuasion. Relationships and alliances unfold over the months.

OCLC #: 181040148

Added: October 6, 2011

Call Number: DVD01048

by:  Michael White; Graham Chapman; John Cleese; Eric Idle; Terry Gilliam; Terry Jones; Michael Palin; John Goldstone; Mark Forstater; Connie Booth; Carol Cleveland; Neil Innes; Bee Duffell; John Young; Rita Davies; Terry Bedford; Monty Python (Comedy troupe); Python (Monty) Pictures.; Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Burbank, CA : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, ©2001.

Notes: 2 videodiscs (total running time: 89 min.) Originally released as a motion picture in 1974. Special features Disc 1. Commentary by Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones; Commentary by John Cleese, Eric Idle & Michael Palin; Read as you watch screenplay; Subtitles for people who do not like the film (taken from Henry IV pt II by William Shakespeare); Follow the killer rabbit option.
Special features Disc 2. Singalong (Knights of the round table, Sir Robin, Monks chant); The quest for the Holy Grail locations; Sacred relics (Coconuts, Japanese version, BBC film night, Old rubbish, Artefacts, Photos, Trailers, The cast); Unshot footage. (Lego knights, Location recce with directors commentaries); Unused ideas; Excommunication.

Summary:  The quest for the Holy Grail by King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table is retold in the inimitable Python fashion.

OCLC #: 48204903

Added: October 6, 2011

Call Number: DVD00812

by:  David Cronenberg; Steven Knight; Paul Webster; Robert Lantos; Viggo Mortensen; Naomi Watts; Vincent Cassel; Armin Mueller-Stahl; Sinéad Cusack; Jerzy Skolimowski; Donald Sumpter; Focus Features.; BBC Films.; Astral Media.; Corus Entertainment (Firm); Telefilm Canada.; Kudos Pictures.; Serendipity Point Films.; Scion Films.; Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: [New York, NY] : Focus Features ; Universal City, CA : Distributed by Universal Studios Home Entertainment, ©2007.

Notes: 1 videodisc (total running time: 101 min.) Special features: Secrets and stories [featurette] (11 min.); Marked for life [featurette] (7 min.). Originally released in 2007. Nominated for one Oscar and three Golden Globes.

Summary: Anna, a midwife at a North London hospital, finds the diary of a Russian teenager who dies giving birth to a baby, and resolves to find the young girls’ relatives in the hopes of providing the orphaned child with a loving family. As Anna follows the clues the diary provides, she finds evidence of a local Russian mob’s criminal activities, and meets Nikolai, a formidable mob enforcer. Anna and Nikolai find themselves growing close as the Russian mobsters behind the girl’s death become aware of Anna’s discoveries regarding their crimes.

OCLC #: 180709985

Added: October 6, 2011

Call Number: DVD01046

by:  David Starkey; David Barrie; James Burge; Rachel Bell; Simon Everson; Jamie Muir; David Sinclair; WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.); Channel Four (Great Britain); Granada Television.; Acorn Media (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: [United States] : Acorn Media, 2007.

Notes: 2 videodiscs (total running time: 239 min.) Volume 1: Episode 1, Return of the King ; Episode 2, The glorious revolution ; Episode 3, Rule Britannia. Volume 2: Episode 4, Empire ; Episode 5, Survival. Originally aired on television in 2004.

David Starkey continues his multi-part examination of the English throne, with five episodes covering nearly 250 years, from Charles II to Victoria. Replete with infidelities, betrayals, and rivalries, English history emerges as a compelling family saga.

 

Also see Monarcy set 1 on DVD01045

 

OCLC #: 179927510

Added: October 6, 2011

Call Number: DVD00867 Copy 1

DVD00867 Copy 2

by:  Terry Zwigoff; Lianne Halfon; John Malkovich; Russ Smith; Thora Birch; Scarlett Johansson; Brad Renfro; Bob Balaban; Illeana Douglas; Steve Buscemi; Daniel Clowes; United Artists Corporation.; Granada Films.; Jersey Shore (Firm); Advanced Medien (Firm); MGM Home Entertainment Inc.; Mr. Mudd (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA : United Artists ; Santa Monica, CA : Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment, ©2001, 2002.

Notes: 1 videodisc (total running time: 111 min.) Based upon the comic book by Daniel Clowes. Originally produced as a motion picture in 2001. Nominated for one Oscar and one Golden Globe in 2002.

Summary: Enid and Rebecca are social outsiders who, after graduating from high school, play a mean prank on a middle-aged geek.

OCLC #: 48922012

Added: October 6, 2011

Call Number: DVD00405

by:  Penelope Mortimer; Stephen Whittaker; Janet McTeer; David Haig; Cathryn Harrison; Nigel Nicolson; British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service.; WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.); Television New Zealand.;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher:  [Silver Spring, MD] : Acorn Media, [2006]

Notes: Originally produced in 1990 for the program Masterpiece theatre. From the book by Nigel Nicolson. Special features: Vita Sackville-West bio and cast filmographies. Vol. 1. Part 1-2; Vol. 2. Part 3-4. Total running time for 2 videodiscs (219 min.)

Summary: The true story of Vita Sackville-West’s tortured, public affair with novelist Violet Keppel. Though Vita and her husband, diplomat Harold Nicolson, knowingly cheated on each other throughout their 50-year marriage, it was her liaison with her childhood friend Violet that threatened the marriage. Frank and daring in its depiction of lesbian love, this release includes scenes cut from the original broadcast.

OCLC #: 68571814

Added: October 5, 2011

Call Number: DVD01045

by:  David Starkey; David Hutt; David Wilson; Mary Cranitch; Lucy Swingler; Steven Clarke; James Runcie; WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.); Channel Four (Great Britain); Granada Films.; Acorn Media (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher:  Silver Spring, MD : Acorn Media, ©2006.

Notes: Original Release Date: 18 October 2004 (UK). Music by Andy Price. Hosted by David Starkey. 2 videodiscs (total running time: 317 min.) Volume 1. Episodes 1-3; Volume 2. Episodes 4-6. Acorn Media from the BBC.

Summary: Vivid descriptions and analysis of historical personalities with costumed actors, historical locations, and portraits to visually enliven the story of the English crown from the fall of Rome to the 1660s.

 

Also see Monarchy set 2 on DVD01046

 

OCLC #: 70915885

Added: October 5, 2011

Scenes From A Marriage or Scener ur ett äktenskap (original title)

Call Number: DVD01135

by:  Lars-Owe Carlberg; Ingmar Bergman; Liv Ullmann; Erland Josephson; Bibi Andersson; Jan Malmsjö; Gunnel Lindblom; Sven Nykuist; Siv Lundgren; Inger Pehrsson; Björn Thulin; Criterion Collection (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: Swedish – English subtitles available

Publisher:  New York, N.Y. : Criterion Collection, 2004.

Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1973. Features: video interview with the director, interview with Bergman scholar Peter Cowie, essay. Disc 1: Television verion, scenes 1-3 ; Disc 2: Television verion, scenes 4-6 (1973 ; 297 min.); Disc 3: U.S. theatrical version. Nomiated for 2 1975 Golden Globes. Feature Running Time: 167 mins. Total Running Time for all 3 discs: 466 mins.

Summary: Ten years of Marianne and Johan’s relationship are presented. We first meet them ten years into their marriage. He is a college professor, she a divorce lawyer. They say that they are happily married – unlike their friends Katarina and Peter who openly fight, especially when under the influence of alcohol – but there is a certain detached aloofness in the way they treat each other. In the next ten years, as they contemplate or embark upon divorce and/or known extramarital affairs, they come to differing understandings at each phase of their relationship of what they truly mean to each other. Regardless of if it’s love or hate – between which there is a fine line – they also come to certain understandings of how they can best relate to each other, whether that be as husband and wife, friends, lovers or none of the above.

OCLC #: 56987169

Added: October 5, 2011

Call Number: DVD00646

by:  Ridley Scott; Steven Zaillian; Brian Grazer; Denzel Washington; Russell Crowe; Chiwetel Ejiofor; Cuba Gooding; Josh Brolin; Ted Levine; Armand Assante; John Ortiz; John Hawkes; RZA, (Rapper); Lymari Nadal; Yul Vazquez; Ruby Dee; Idris Elba; Carla Gugino; Joe Morton; Mark Jacobson; Universal Pictures (Firm); Imagine Entertainment (Firm); Relativity Media.; Scott Free Productions.; Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher:  Universal City, CA : Universal Picture : Distributed by Universal Studios Home Entertainment, ©2008.

Notes: Based on the article “The Return of Superfly” by Mark Jacobson. Originally produced as a motion picture in 2007. Special features: Deleted scenes including an alternate opening ; “Fallen empire: making American gangster” featurette ; case files ; feature commentary. Nominated for 2 Academy Awards and 3 Golden Globes in 2008. Running Time: 157 mins.

Summary: Based on a true story, American Gangster is the story of two men: Frank Lucas, former driver, bouncer, and collector for Bumpy Johnson, the so-called Robin Hood of Harlem; and Richie Roberts, night-school lawyer, detective, and honest cop. Frank is importing heroin direct from Bangkok–by-passing the Italian and Sicilian mafia–undercutting their prices, delivering superior product, and making a fortune. Richie, loathed by cops on the take for turning in a million bucks in unmarked bills found in a suspects car, is heading a newly formed Federal investigation force for narcotics, tasked with finding and arresting North American drug kingpins. These two men are destined to meet, a meeting that will change their lives.

OCLC #: 184742249

Added: October 5, 2011

Call Number: DVD00986

by:  Tim Perell; Nicola Usborne; Joel Hopkins; Dustin Hoffman; Emma Thompson; Eileen Atkins; Kathy Baker; James Brolin; Richard Schiff; Dickon Hinchliffe; Overture Films.; Process Media (Firm); Anchor Bay Entertainment, Inc.;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher:  Beverly Hills, CA : Anchor Bay Entertainment, ©2009.

Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 2008.
Special features: disc 1: An unconventional love story: the making of Last chance Harvey; audio commentary with writer/director Joel Hopkins and actors Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson; theatrical trailer. Disc 1. widescreen presentation ; special features. Disc 2. full screen presentation. Nominated for 2 Golden Globes in 2009. Running Time: 93 mins.

Summary: Harvey, a divorced, down-on-his-luck music jingle composer, and Kate, a lonely British airline employee, are brought together by chance. Harvey comes to London for his daughter’s wedding, planning only to attend the wedding ceremony. However, he ends up being let go from his job before going back to America and decides to stay for the reception, asking Kate to accompany him. Thus begins a growing connection between these two guarded strangers.

OCLC #: 311097189

Added: October 5, 2011

Call Number: DVD00813

by:  Adolph Zukor; Preston Sturges; Arthur Hornblow; Mitchell Leisen; Jean Arthur; Edward Arnold; Ray Milland; Luis Alberni; Mary Nash; Vera Caspary; Paramount Pictures, Inc.; Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm).

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Universal City, CA : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, [2008]

Notes: Based on a story by Vera Caspary. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1937. Contains special feature: Exclusive introduction by Turner Classic Movies host and film historian Robert Osborne.  Running Time: 88 mins.

Summary: Mary Smith is a poor working girl who literally has a fortune dropped in her lap when a wealthy financier tosses a sable coat out a window and it lands on her. Everyone automatically assumes she’s his mistress, and soon her fairytale-like rags-to-riches lifestyle threatens a very real romance with an inept waiter.

OCLC #: 190702348

Added: October 5, 2011