Karen Black
Author
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Amanda wants to be a writer and receives an antique ink pen from a stranger. She believes it will make her wish come true and it does. Her creativity flourishes and she becomes a bestselling author. Twenty years later, she learns that her gift has a cost. The price, however, is not one that she is willing to pay. When she turns to her childhood friend for help, together they discover that love has many forms and that sometimes death is...
Author
Language
English
Description
For Juan Velasquez, crime is a way of life, even though the law of justice is sacred. This short story follows a teenager from the gang-controlled streets of Mexico into new direction. Loyalty is a family trait for Juan, even when devotion and deception are confused. After all, his life is a masquerade. An introduction to Deadly Repercussions, this short story is the beginning of Juan's journey into the next generation.
Author
Language
English
Description
Dylan doesn't want a permanent relationship and Jamie has sworn off romance. With an unspoken agreement that their friendship will remain platonic, the two become inseparable. But a kiss changes everything. Their ecstasy is short-lived, however, when Jamie tells Dylan the truth about her past. Confusion, anger, and misunderstanding rock their world and send them in different directions. Will time apart bring them back together or will it cement their...
Author
Language
English
Description
A career thief, Adam has never been caught or even suspected of a burglary. But that could change when Darla, his former partner, recognizes him during a random robbery at a local store. Adam has been looking for her for quite a while and expects her to pay a debt he thinks she owes him. Without considering the consequences when Darla refuses to leave with him, Adam kidnaps her along with another customer, Anna, who he threatens with violence if Darla...
6) Blood Money
Author
Language
English
Description
John Saxon (Wings Hauser), an L.A. cop, teams with an F.B.I. agent to track down the boss of a counterfeiting plot. The counterfeiter turns out to be the man who rescued Saxon from certain death in Vietnam.
Author
Language
English
Description
A dark and funny tale of an ambitious young woman at a crucial turning point in her career and her relationship with her bi-polar mother. Louise (Julia Garcia Combs) is an insurance underwriter living in Los Angeles with her mother, May (Karen Black), who has recently been evicted from her Section 8 apartment after the building was condemned. Throw into the mix a budding romance between Louise and the local bartender, and we find ourselves in the...
9) Rhinoceros
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 104 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The film version of Eugene Ionesco's absurdist play tells of a French city where the citizens begin to turn mysteriously into rhinoceroses. Zero Mostel creates his Tony-winning Broadway role. Includes the marvelous Karen Black.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1982.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (110 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The Disciples of James Dean meet up on the anniversary of his death and mull over their lives in the present and in flashback, revealing the truth behind their complicated lives. Who is the mysterious Joanne and what's the real story behind Mona's son, James Dean Junior? Nominated for one **Golden Globe** for Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Cher. *"Dreamlike and bleakly real, fantastical and humorous, it sucks us into a vortex for two hours where...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (89 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Helmed by Rob Zombie, this gore fest follows two young couples on their quest to find the truth about a mythical character known only as "Dr. Satan." Set in rural Texas in the 1970s, the group gets more than they bargained for when they find themselves stranded in an all-too-realistic house of horrors.
Publisher
Cinema Libre Studio
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (86 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond escaped from Hungary in 1956 and immigrated to the United States to toil in the underbelly of Hollywood. Suddenly, after ten years, Laszlo’s camera broke the rules of cinema with *Easy Rider* and Vilmos poured “poetic realism” into *McCabe & Mrs. Miller*, ushering a new wave of American cinema. Combined with interviews from some of Hollywood's biggest names including: Sandra Bullock, Peter Fonda, Denis Hopper...
13) Five easy pieces
Series
Criterion collection volume 546
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
[Special] DVD edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nicholson plays the now iconic cad Bobby Dupea, a shiftless thirty-something oil rigger and former piano prodigy immune to any sense of romantic or familial responsibility, who returns to his childhood home to see his ailing, estranged father, with his blue-collar girlfriend (Karen Black) in tow.
14) Nothing special
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The film features a Golden Globe winning actor in her last starring role, making it an exciting and original film. The film shows an in-depth exploration of a mother-daughter relationship living in the shadow of the Hollywood sign.
15) Nashville
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (160 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nashville interweaves the stories of 24 characters over 5 days during a political rally in the capital of country music.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A group of James Dean devotees reconvene at their teenage hangout, a rural Texas drugstore, twenty years after the death of their beloved idol. But much has changed in the intervening years, and the reunion provides them one final opportunity to expose the secrets and heal the emotional wounds that have lingered among them for two decades.
17) Rhinoceros
Series
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a satire on conformity, protagonist Stanley, clinging to his individuality with the help of alcohol, watches as everyone around him metamorphises into a rhinoceros.
18) The great Gatsby
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (143 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1920s Long Island, a mysterious American millionaire's efforts to recapture the sweetheart of his youth result in tragedy.
Publisher
Trimark Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two young couples take a misguided tour onto the back roads of America in search of a local legend known as Dr. Satan. Lost and stranded, they are set upon by a family of psychotics. Murder, cannibalism, and satanic rituals are just a few of the horrors that await them.