Harris Yulin
Author
Language
English
Description
The final work of fiction from Norman Mailer, a defining voice of the postwar era, is also one of his most ambitious, taking as its subject the evil of Adolf Hitler. The narrator, a mysterious SS man in possession of extraordinary secrets, follows Adolf from birth through adolescence and offers revealing portraits of Hitler’s parents and siblings. A crucial reflection on the shadows that eclipsed the twentieth century, Mailer’s novel...
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Set in New York in the late 1950s, the biographical drama Fur explores an unlikely romance that leads Diane Arbus (**Academy Award** winner Nicole Kidman - The Hours, Birth) into a strange new world, sparking her evolution into one of the most provocative and visionary photographers of all time. As a photographer, she seeks out "the forbidden" in New York City's most sordid haunts, transmuting her own terror into art. Her unsettling photographs make...
3) Wanderland
Publisher
The Orchard
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
To escape his isolated life in New York City, Alex impulsively accepts an email invitation to house-sit a picturesque “Enchanted Cottage" on Long Island in the off-season. Left with a broken USB cord and no cellphone coverage, he ventures out to find a working charger, only to end up hopelessly lost on a surreal all-night odyssey of misadventures. Forced to finally connect face to face with the eccentric characters he encounters, Alex discovers...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
When a new student starts in Professor Hundert's class, little does the professor know that this student will change his life forever. They start out butting heads and end up forming a friendship that will shake the controlled world of the professor. The lessons learned will last a lifetime.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Norman Oppenheimer is a small time operator who befriends a young politician at a low point in his life. Three years later, when the politician becomes an influential world leader, Norman's life dramatically changes for better and worse.
6) Loch Ness
Series
Publisher
Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A thrilling and magical adventure about a skeptical American scientist attempting to solve the mystery of the Loch Ness monster.
7) The gin game
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The quiet porch of a rest home for the aged explodes with emotion when prim Fonsia Dorsey sits down to play gin rummy with the cynical Weller Martin. Fonsia is drawn to Weller, but she just can't stop winning at cards, while Weller bemoans the bad luck that is ruining his game and has dogged him throughout his life. Tragic yet uproariously funny, this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama examines themes of individual responsibility and society's mistreatment...
8) Training day
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Jake Hoyt, a fresh-faced rookie in the Los Angeles Police Department, gets a chance to join the elite narcotics squad headed up by 13-year veteran Detective Sergeant Alonzo Harris. Jake is to prove himself during a one-day ride-along. As the day wears on, it becomes increasingly clear that Detective Harris has blurred the line between right and wrong to an alarming degree, enforcing his own code of ethics and street justice. Eventually, Hoyt begins...
9) Multiplicity
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A comedy about a man who clones himself to save his marriage and then almost loses his wife to himself.
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Turning her back on her wealthy, established family, Diane Arbus falls in with Lionel Sweeney. Sweeney is an enigmatic mentor who introduces Arbus to the marginalized people who help her become one of the most revered photographers of the twentieth century. Diane's strange, new world unlocks her deepest secrets, awakens her remarkable artistic genius, and launches her path to becoming the artist she is meant to be.
11) Rush hour 2
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
It's vacation time for Det. Carter and he finds himself alongside Det. Lee in Hong Kong wishing for more a little more excitement. Lee is out to track down a Triad gang lord who may be responsible for killing two men at the American Embassy in Hong Kong. Things get complicated as the pair stumble onto a counterfeiting plot between a L.A. crime boss and a Triad leader. A trip back to the U.S. may provide the answers about the bombing, the counterfeiting,...
12) Game 6
Publisher
Hart Sharp Video
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Playwright Nicky Rogan is a die-hard Red Sox fan who has lived his entire life in NYC. The opening of his new play is on the same day as the historic sporting event, Game 6 of the 1986 World series.
Publisher
Ardustry Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Fiftysomething and still clueless Leo Spivak is drifting through life without a compass. Among his problems are his rebelling teenage daughter, a gravely ill father, a work protege after his job, and his wife is loing her patience and his own judgment are sinking fast. It's going to take a bizarre twist of fate and some twisted wisdom from a "freelance rabbi" to help Leo navigate the murky waters of middle age and turn his midlife crisis into a midlife...
14) Another woman
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2001
Language
English
Description
When a distinguished philosophy professor turns 50, she feels compelled to take emotional stock of her life. But the deeper she digs the more her life seems to unravel, until she realizes that her search for truth is a personal odyssey of self-examination, discovery and acceptance.
15) Truman
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
President Truman led the nation through the end of World War II, the beginning of the Cold War, the struggle for civil rights and the creation of the United Nations.
16) Doc
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Exploring a darker side of gunslinger Doc Holliday, Marshal Wyatt Earp, and Katie Elder, this examines these heroes from the Old West from a moody psychological angle, painting a portrait of them-and the actions that led them to the infamous showdown in Tombstone-that is at once familiar and shocking.
17) Mailer on Mailer
Publisher
Distributed by WinStar TV & Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
A candid and comprehensive biographical portrait of the novelist, essayist, journalist and activist, Norman Mailer. Compiled from over 20 hours of exclusive interviews with the writer, this profile includes rare archival footage, photographs and original manuscripts from the Mailer archives. Both fascinated by and at odds with his country, in this unprecedented film Norman Mailer both explores and personally embodies the tensions that exist between...
18) Loch Ness
Author
Language
English
Description
Dr. Dempsey, a discredited, financially strapped and harassed research scientist, is bundled off to Loch Ness to disprove Nessie's existence. Although he fails in his task, the Dr. finds something even yet more unlikely during his adventure - the unconditional love of a little girl and her innkeeper mother.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
A motorcycle stunt rider turns to robbing banks as a way to provide for his lover and their newborn child, a decision that puts him on a collision course with an ambitious rookie cop navigating a department ruled by a corrupt detective.