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Bottle rocket [videorecording]
Columbia Pictures presents a Gracie Films production.
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1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
"Three best friends try to escape their suburban boredom through a life of crime. But these bickering, bumbling thieves are no match for the local 'godfather,' who leads them into the biggest heist of their careers"--Container.
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Car of the future [videorecording] : engineering for the environment.
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1 videodisc (ca. 54 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
With soaring prices at the pump and worries about the global greenhouse, it's no laughing matter. But the car guys turn an expert, comic eye on the promise and pitfalls of tomorrow's auto tech.
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The castle [videorecording] = Das schloss
nach dem Prosafragment von Franz Kafka ; Ein Film von Michael Haneke [directed by Michael Haneke].
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1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
"A land surveyor identified simply as K is summoned to a remote mountain village by the local government, known as (and housed in) 'the castle.' Unable to convince underlings of the legitimacy of his position, he tries to take his case to castle officials. But the more K struggles to gain entrance, the more obstructive the village's provincial bureacracy becomes"--Container.
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A century of quilts [videorecording] : America in cloth
a production of Wisconsin Public Television ; producer/director/writer, Laurie A. Gorman.
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1 videodisc (ca. 77 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Celebrates the powerful stories behind quilt-making from three perspectives: records of history, symbols of family/community, and works of art. Works from major American quilt shows in Paducah, Kentucky, and Houston.
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Charlie Wilson's war [videorecording]
Universal Pictures ; Playtone ; Participant Productions ; Relativity Media ; produced by Gary Goetzman, Tom Hanks ; screenplay by Aaron Sorkin ; directed by Mike Nichols.
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1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
In the early 1980s, Charlie Wilson is best known as a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas. He seemed to be in the minor leagues, except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However, once Charlie is prodded by his major conservative supporter, Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight of the people who are suffering from the effects of the brutal Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. With the help of the maverick CIA agent, Gust Avrakotos, Wilson dedicates his canny political efforts to supply the Afghan mujahideen with the weapons and support needed to defeat the Soviet Union. Ultimately, Charlie learns that while military victory can be obtained, there are other consequences and prices to that fight that are ignored to everyone's sorrow. Based on a true story.
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Cloverfield [videorecording]
Bad Robot ; Paramount Pictures ; produced by J.J. Abrams, Bryan Burk ; written by Drew Goddard ; directed by Matt Reeves.
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1 videodisc (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Rob is getting ready to leave New York in order to take an executive job at a company in Japan. At his goodbye party in a crowded loft, Rob's brother Jason hands a camcorder to best friend Hud, who proceeds to tape the party over old footage of Rob's ex-girlfriend, Beth. Beth shows up at the party with a new beau, which upsets Rob. Then the unexpected happens: New York is suddenly under attack from a Godzilla-like monster who stomps through midtown, destroying everything and everybody in sight. Rob and his friends take to the streets, but instead of running away with the other evacuees, they head toward the center of destruction so that Rob can rescue an injured Beth.
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Coma [videorecording]
HBO Documentary Films ; produced and directed by Liz Garbus ; produced by Rory Kennedy, Jed Rothstein.
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1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Explores the mysteries of the injured brain and its ability to heal. The special goes inside a top U.S. medical facility for the treatment of head trauma and follows four coma survivors over the course of a year. Includes film not originally featured.
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The day of the locust [videorecording]
Paramount Pictures Corp. ; Long Road Productions ; produced by Jerome Hellman ; directed by John Schlesinger ; screenplay by Waldo Salt.
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1 videodisc (144 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
A naive young set designer seeks work in Tinseltown and falls in love with a wannabe actress who lives with her alcholic father, a former vaudevillian entertainer.
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Death at a funeral [videorecording]
Sidney Kimmel Entertainment ; Parabolic Pictures ; Stable Way Entertainment ; VIP 1 Medienfonds ; VIP 2 Medienfonds in co-production with Target Media Entertainment, Film Sales Financing ; produced by Sidney Kimmel, Laurence Malkin, Diana Phillips, Share Stallings ; written by Dean Craig ; directed by Frank Oz.
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1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Daniel is a decent young man who is married to Jane. They live at his father's home. When his father dies, it his up to him to organize his funeral. On the morning of the funeral, with a suitably grave expression on his face, Daniel is ready to welcome his father's friends and relatives. But preserving the dignity inherent in such a circumstance will be a hard task. Particularly with an undertaker who botches his work; his famous, but selfish brother has returned from the USA; his cousin's fiancé has accidentally ingested drugs; a man takes advantage of the sad event to win back the heart, or rather the body, of a woman who is about to marry another; a handicapped old uncle who is also the most unbearable pain in the neck. To cap it all, Daniel notices the presence among the mourners of a mysterious dwarf nobody else seems to know.
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Design e² [videorecording] : the economies of being environmentally conscious
director, Tad Fettig ; series producer, Elizabeth Westrate ; producers, Eva Anisko, Midori Willoughby ; narration writers, Mark Decena, John Kenney ; produced by kontentreal, LLC.
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1 videodisc (ca. 180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
The first season of this series examines the economies of being environmentally conscious in green building design. The first program, The green apple, uses New York City, particularly One Bryant Park and the Solaire, to demonstrates how the ubiquitous skyscraper can be a model of environmental responsibility. The second episode, Green for all, features architect and activist Sergio Palleroni as he works to provide design solutions to regions suffering from social and humanitarian crises. Shows projects in East Austin, Tex. and with the Yaqui Indians in Mexico where architecture students are helping residents build low-cost, environmentally-friendly homes using local materials. The third program, The green machine, follows Mayor Richard M. Daley as he strives to make Chicago "the greenest city in America" with numerous LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)-certified buildings, a solar-powered public transportation system, and many green roofs, including one on Chicago's City Hall. The fourth episode, Gray to green, takes the notion of the three R's (reduce, reuse, recycle) to grand proportions by turning Boston's "Big Dig" steel and concrete waste into spectacular residential design. The fifth program, China : from red to green? depicts a rapidly urbanizing country at its tipping point and finds a sustainable solution in Steven Holl's Beijing project, which will have the largest geothermal heating/cooling and greywater recycling system in the world upon completion. The sixth program, Deeper shades of green, presents three visionaries who are changing the face of architecture and environmentalism and features some of their projects. Focuses on Ken Yeang and his "bio-climatic" National Library of Singapore, Werner Sobek and R128, his energy-efficient, steel and glass box house, and William McDonough and his model sustainable village of Huangbaiyu, China.
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The dragon painter [videorecording] : The wrath of the gods/ Haworth Pictures Corporation ; directed by William Worthington ; scenario by E. Richard Schayer.
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1 videodisc (53 min.) : sd., b&w, tinted ; 4 3/4 in.
Hayakawa plays Tatsu, an artist living as a hermit in the wilds of Japan. Thought mad by the local villagers, he believes that his princess has been captured by a dragon. His obsession leads to artistic inspiration.
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Fiorile [videorecording] = Wild flower
Fine Line Features and Grazia Volpi present a film by Paolo & Vittorio Taviani ; produced by Filmtre-Gierre Film in collaboration with Penta Film S.P.A., an Italo-Franco-German co-production with Jean Claude Cecile for Florida Movies-LA Sept/Cinema, Canal+ with the participation of Luggi Waldleitner for Roxy Films, Karl Spiehs for K.S. Film ; produced by Grazia Volpi ; story by Paolo & Vittorio Taviani ; screenplay by Sandro Petraglia, Paolo & Vittorio Taviani ; directed by Paolo & Vittorio Taviani.
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1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (8 p.)
The Benedetti family has been haunted by a curse for generations. On a long drive to visit their reclusive grandfather in Tuscany, Luigi Benedetti tells his children the mysterious story of their ancestors. It is a tragic tale filled with forbidden love, passion, vengeance and betrayal.
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