James Fox
Author
Language
English
Description
An 11-year-old boy believes that his mother (Fanny Ardant- - "Elizabeth ," "8 Women") has been targeted by a serial killer who preys upon the blind. The young boy becomes obsessed with his mother's blindness -- and with finding the serial killer who has eluded his policeman father (James Fox -- "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," "Mickey Blue Eyes"). Has this boy discovered a lethal plot, or are his fears the product of a disturbed young mind with...
2) Life
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Autobiography of the guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards. With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards lived the original rock and roll life. He tells his story of life in the crossfire hurricane; his listening obsessively to Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records, learning guitar and forming a band with Mick Jagger and Brian Jones, the Rolling Stones' first fame and the notorious drug busts that led to...
3) Pretty Slick
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 71 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Pretty Slick is the first film to fully reveal the devastating, untold story of BP's Corexit coverup following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The spill is well-known as one of the largest environmental disasters in U.S. history. But what is not well-known is that BP, with U.S. government approval, attempted to sink the oil rather than clean it up, using the controversial dispersant Corexit -- and then covered up the...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 300 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A kaleidoscopic exploration that traverses history, literature, art, and science to reveal humans' unique and vibrant relationship with color. We have an extraordinary connection to color-we give it meanings, associations, and properties that last millennia and span cultures, continents, and languages. In The World According to Color, James Fox takes seven main colors-black, red, yellow, blue, white, purple, and green-and uncovers behind each a root...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 25 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Indonesian
Description
This traditionally ethnographic sequence film focuses on the negotiations betwen representatives of two families during a payment of bridewealth. In the past the husband's group would carry a spear and a sword to hang in the wife's house. Now, a payment is made as a substitute for the spear and sword.
Language
English
Description
Adela Quested is a plucky young woman who journeys from England with the free-spirited Mrs. Moore. Flouting convention, the two women accompany the handsome Dr. Azis on a tour of the mysterious Marabar Caves. But things turn ugly when Adela returns scratched and bloodied from the expedition. As British authorities urge her to press charges against Aziz, the line separating truth and fantasy begin to blur.
7) Colditz
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 184 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This films tells a remarkable story of the prisoners in the German POW camp called Colditz.
Language
English
Description
His days as an intelligence agent behind him, former CIA analyst Jack Ryan has traveled to London to vacation with his wife and daughter. Meeting them outside Buckingham Palace, Ryan is caught in the middle of a terrorist attack on a member of the Royal Family. But Ryan's courageous act marks him as a target in the sights of the terrorists.
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
After finally catching serial killer and occult 'sorcerer' Lord Blackwood, legendary sleuth Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson can close yet another successful case. After his execution, Blackwood mysteriously returns from the grave and resumes his killing spree, Holmes must take up the hunt once again. Contending with Watson's new fiancée and the dimwitted head of Scotland Yard, the determined detective must unravel the clues that will...
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
Special edition ; widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of blind devotion and repressed love between a fanatically proper butler and a high-spirited, strong-minded young housekeeper employed by a British lord who is an unwitting Nazi sympathizer.
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
[Widescreen version].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (152 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
'Thoroughly modern Millie' is the story of an innocent country girl who comes to the big city in search of a husband. Along the way she becomes the secretary of the rich and famous Trevor Graydon, befriends the sweet Miss Dorothy, fights off white slaver Mrs. Meers and hooks up with a lively paper clip salesman, Jimmy. In the end it takes a rich and nutty jazz baby like Muzzy to unravel all these complications, give a great party, and match up lovers....
12) The prince & me
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
Special collector's edition ; widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A University of Wisconsin college student meets a playboy heir-to-the-throne from Denmark who's gone incognito in order to find himself.
13) The Mighty Quinn
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When police officer Xavier Quinn learns that his childhood friend has become the prime suspect in a murder case, he also discovers that he's the only one who feels that his friend was framed to protect the local tourism business.
15) The chase
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(approximately 133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The moral foundation of a small Texas town is torn apart by power, violence and greed.
18) Pretty Slick
Author
Language
English
Description
Pretty Slick is the first film to fully reveal the devastating, untold story of BP's Corexit coverup following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The spill is well known as one of the largest environmental disasters in U.S. history. But what is not well-known is that BP, with U.S. government approval, attempted to sink the oil rather than clean it up, using the controversial dispersant Corexit -- and then covered up the practice....
19) Crypto Shadows
Author
Language
English
Description
After a mental breakdown from her toxic city job, a young female game developer finds solace as a rural cryptominer in California. While coding, she stumbles upon a mysterious message from an unknown origin. In her investigation, she faces cyberattacks and ominous encounters which turn into a fight for her life, forcing her to her secret bunker where she takes drastic action.
Author
Language
English
Description
After achieving a dream retirement with his wife of 50 years to a condo in the South of France, Joseph (James Fox) finds himself utterly miserable. Bored, lonely, and tired of his wife's incessant nagging and slow onset of Alzheimer's, he finds himself gazing hopelessly at the younger women that pass by and catching unflattering looks from the locals his own age. Brenda (Brenda Fricker) eventually begins to sense her husband's loss of enthusiasm...