Wallace Shawn
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English
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Final Edition is a one-issue-only political magazine written by people who are aesthetes and literary writers and edited by Wallace Shawn, who seriously believes that part of our national problem is that the people who run the country have a crude and minimal imaginative life and are too little acquainted with the quartets of Beethoven.
The issue consists of five pieces:
"Before the Election-Fragments from a Diary 2004" by Wallace Shawn The diarist...
Author
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English
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Writer and performer Wallace Shawn's landmark 1996 play features three characters-a respected poet, his daughter, and her English-professor husband-suspected of subversion in a world where culture has come under the control of the ruling oligarchy. Told through three interwoven monologues, the Orwellian political story is recounted alongside the visceral dissolution of a marriage. The play debuted at the Royal National Theatre in London, in a production...
Author
Language
English
Description
Wallace Shawn's OBIE Award-winning, never before published Our Late Night premiered in New York in 1975 under direction of André Gregory, and was revived in London in 1999 under direction of Caryl Churchill. A Thought in Three Parts-currently out of print-created an uproar with its 1977 London premiere, investigated by the vice squad for its allegedly pornographic content. Wallace Shawn is a noted actor and writer. His politically charged and controversial...
Author
Language
English
Description
The unconventional plays of Wallace Shawn are predictable in their inherent unpredictability…and their tendency to shock and thrill. Evening at the Talk House is a murder mystery with the same Shawn guarantee: there are no guarantees. Premiered at the National Theatre in London in the fall of 2015.
Author
Language
English
Description
Beloved actor and Obie Award—winning playwright Wallace Shawn has been an incisive commentator on civilization and its discontents for decades. Now, having recently passed the age of seventy and watched Donald Trump claim the presidency, he offers a late-stage critique of his species, which he sees as being divided between the lucky and the unlucky.
In Night Thoughts, Shawn takes the lucky-himself included-to task for their complacency while offering...
Publisher
GKIDS Films
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (92 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Featuring the voices of Oscar-winner Whoopi Goldberg and Oscar-nominee James Woods, "Mia and the Migoo" is a stunningly beautiful, hand-painted animated feature film. Pedro leaves his poor village and finds work drilling a tunnel through an area of exceptional natural beauty that is to become a luxurious hotel complex. But mysterious forces are working against the project. When a landslide blocks the entrance to the tunnel, Pedro is left trapped....
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1984.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (122 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Boston, 1876: At a Women's Movement meeting, fiercely independent Olive (Vanessa Redgrave) becomes mentor to gifted young orator Verena (Madeleine Potter) - who soon attracts the amorous attentions of Olive's Southern cousin Basil (Christopher Reeve). The contesting demands of courtship and sapphic friendship in this love-triangle in all but name are further complicated by New York society matron Mrs. Burrage, who tries to secure Verena for her son....
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 22 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
During one of Bonnie's post-Christmas playdates, the Toy Story crew find themselves in uncharted territory when the coolest set of action figures ever turn out to be dangerously delusional. It's all up to Trixie, the triceratops, if the gang hopes to ever return to Bonnie's room.
10) Vamps
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (93 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Two socialite vampires in New York City (Krysten Ritter of TV’s DON’T TRUST THE B and Alicia Silverstone of CLUELESS) fall in love while being pursued by vampire hunters.
11) The Double
Language
English
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Description
Simon is a timid man, scratching out an isolated existence in an indifferent world. He is overlooked at work, scorned by his mother, and ignored by the woman of his dreams. He feels powerless to change any of these things. The arrival of a new co-worker, James, serves to upset the balance. James is both Simon’s exact physical double and his opposite - confident, charismatic and good with women. To Simon’s horror, James slowly starts taking over...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1987.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (113 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Looking through her lover's bedroom window, Sylvia (Isabelle Huppert) sees a girl being attacked. The attacker flees and his victim is saved. But later that night, another girl is found murdered. Sylvia cannot give evidence, for that would reveal her affair with Terry (Steve Guttenberg), so he gives evidence in Sylvia's place, but when it is found that he is not telling the full truth, he becomes the main suspect... "*The Bedroom Window is a diligent,...
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English
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Description
Jim Evers is a real estate agent whose latest project is to find a buyer for a huge but dilapidated old house in New Orleans. However, when Evers and his family visits the property before their family vacation, he discovers it's already inhabited by 999 ghosts, none of whom are interested in sharing the space. As the spirits make their displeasure known, Evers and his family, with the help of an eccentric medium named Madame Leota, try to get the...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this all-new movie, we find Morticia and Gomez distraught that their children are growing up, skipping family dinners, and totally consumed with 'scream time.' To reclaim their bond they decide to cram Wednesday, Pugsley, Uncle Fester, and the crew into their haunted camper and hit the road for one last miserable family vacation. Their adventure across America takes them out of their element and into hilarious run-ins with their iconic cousin,...
15) Clueless
Series
Language
English
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Description
Cher Horowitz and her friend Dionne, two of the most popular sophomores in school, play matchmakers for two teachers. Inspired by their success, Cher takes under her wing Tai, a clueless transfer student. While trying to make an advantageous match for Tai, Cher attempts to find a boyfriend of her own. Several misfires take place, due to poor communication, before she finds the Baldwin of her dreams. Inspired by Jane Austen's Emma.
16) Toy story 3
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Andy prepares to leave for college, his loyal toys find they have been donated to the Sunnyside Daycare where untamed tots with their sticky little fingers do not play nice. So, it's all for one and one for all as they join Barbie's counterpart Ken, a thespian hedgehog named Mr. Pricklepants, and a pink, strawberry-scented teddy bear called Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear to plan their great escape and ensure that no toy gets left behind.
17) Vegas vacation
Language
English
Description
When Clark Griswold puts his mind to something, we soon realize he hasn't got one. Still, nothing stops him when the vacation bug hits. This time, he's chosen Las Vegas, the new family entertainment capital of America!
18) Monte Walsh
Language
English
Description
Times change. Monte Walsh doesn't. For him, being a cowboy isn't a job, it's a life. And that's something the fenced-in, corporate-bean-counting ways of the onrushing 20th century must never alter.
19) Robo Dog
Publisher
Rlje Films
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
He sits, plays fetch and he can move at super-speed, bark at an incredible volume, and speak like a human being! He's the most amazing mechanical mutt ever invented. When genius scientist Tom Austin sees that his son, Tyler, needs a new best friend, he locks himself in the garage, tinkering with spare parts, and creates the most incredible canine the world has ever seen!
20) Admission
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Year in and year out, Princeton admissions officer Portia Nathan has lived her life by the book. But during her annual recruiting trip, she finds herself reconnecting with a former college classmate, free-spirited teacher John Pressman. As she bends the entrance rules for one of his very unconventional students, Portia puts at risk the future she thought she always wanted.