Ethan Coen
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (74 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
From director Ethan Coen. Jerry Lee Lewis is a paradox: the Killer whoās also a survivor; the choir boy who transformed into The Worldās Greatest Sinner. But of all the tensions embodied by a man who was, at his peak, arguably both the greatest and most dangerous popular musician of his generation, the most compelling of all may be musical. What does it mean for somebody to be both a traditionalist and an innovator? To define their time while...
2) True grit
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mattie Ross is determined to avenge her father's blood by capturing Tom Chaney, the man who shot and killed him for two pieces of gold. Just fourteen, she enlists the help of Rooster Cogburn, a one-eyed, trigger-happy U.S. Marshall with an affinity for drinking, and hardened Texas Ranger LaBoeuf to track the fleeing Chaney. Despite their differences, their ruthless determination leads them on a perilous adventure that can only have one outcome: retribution....
3) Fargo
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In this seven-time OscarĀ®-nominated film, things go terribly awry when small-time Minnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) hires two thugs (Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare) to kidnap his wife so he can collect the ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. Once people start dying, the very chipper and very pregnant Police Chief Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand, who won an OscarĀ® for her performance) takes the case. Is she up for...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. He is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles; some of them of his own making.
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A lazy, unemployed Southern Californian stoner who loves bowling gets mistaken for a millionaire with the same name. He's beaten up by men looking for money from the rich man's wife and gets drawn into the kidnapping of the millionaire's wife.
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (105 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A Coen Brothers film about a week in the life of a young folk singer navigating the music scene of Greenwich Village in 1961 who, with his guitar in tow, struggles to make it against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, some of them of his own making.
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (121 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Set against a romantic Parisian backdrop, this delightful anthology explores the many faces of love. Featuring Natalie Portman, Elijah Wood and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival** and **Toronto International Film Festival**.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (ca. 122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Llewelyn Moss is a Vietnam vet who could use a break. One morning while hunting antelope, he spies several trucks surrounded by dead bodies. He decides to examine the site. He finds a case filled with $2 million and a truck loaded with heroin. Moss takes it with him, tells his wife he's going away for awhile, and hits the road until he can determine his next move. On his the way from El Paso to the Mexican border, he discovers he's being followed...
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (122 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, acclaimed filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen bring to the screen Cormac McCarthy's sizzling bestseller with heart stopping thrills. When a man stumbles on a bloody crime scene containing a pickup truck loaded with heroin and two million dollars in irresistible cash, his decision to take the money sets off an unstoppable chain reaction of violence. Tommy Lee Jones leads a powerful cast that includes...
10) Blood simple
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Marty, the owner of a Texas backwoods bar, hires a man to kill his cheating wife and her boyfriend, he opens a door into the criminal world that he'll never be able to shut. The sleazy hit man decides instead to shoot Marty, thereby collecting his unearned fee and eliminating the only person who could implicate him-- or so he thinks.
11) Bridge of spies
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
James Donovan is a Brooklyn lawyer who finds himself thrust into the center of the Cold War when the CIA sends him on the near-impossible task to negotiate the release of a captured American U-2 pilot.
12) Drive-away dolls
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jamie, an uninhibited free spirit lamenting yet another breakup with a girlfriend, decides to tag along on vacation with her shy friend Marian, who desperately needs to loosen up. Things quickly go awry when they accidentally rent the car some incompetent criminals are using for a drop. Pursued across state lines by goons, and aided by Jamie's ex, who is a cop, the two are oblivious to the happenings around them, their own developing feelings, and...
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Miles Massey is a high-powered Los Angeles divorce lawyer nearing a midlife crisis. While representing his wealthy client Rex Rexroth, Miles meets his match in Rex's gold-digging wife, Marilyn. He's impressed by her similarly heartless ways of using marriage to fuel an expensive lifestyle, but Miles still manages to defeat her in court. With Marilyn looking to get her revenge and Miles finding himself attracted to her, the two engage in a ruthless...
14) Hail, Caesar!
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (1 hr. 46 mins.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An all-star comedy set during the latter years of Hollywood's Golden Age. It follows a single day in the life of a studio fixer who is presented with plenty of problems to fix.
15) Unbroken
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Olympian and war hero Louis Zamperini survived in a raft for 47 days after a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.