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1) Bulrusher
Author
Publisher
Samuel French
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Samuel French acting ed.
Physical Desc
82 p. : music ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1955, in the redwood country north of San Francisco. Bulrusher is the name given to a baby girl found floating in a basket on the river. As the girl grows up she develops a gift for clairvoyance that makes her feel isolated until a new girl moves into town.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (136 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Spike Lee's adaptation of the Broadway show "Passing Strange" presents the portrait of a musician as a young man. In 1970s Los Angeles, a talented but rebellious middle-class African-American discovers punk rock. Through the intervention of a sincere choir director, the young man travels to Europe, where his talents blossom, but at the expense of those who care for him. The film is based on the life of musician Stew, who appears as narrator and commentator...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young man leaves behind his mother and life in a Los Angeles neighborhood and sets out on a journey of self-discovery in Europe during the 1970s in order to find his purpose in life through his music.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This film chronicles the life of young college professor Angela Davis, and how her social activism implicates her in a botched kidnapping attempt that ends with a shootout, four dead, and her name on the FBI's 10 most wanted list.
Publisher
New Yorker Films
Pub. Date
[2013], c2011
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (169 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ((unpaged) : ill. ; 17 cm.)
Language
English
Description
Chip Hines, a precocious six-year-old, has only known life with his two dads, Cody and Joey. And a good life it is. When Cody suddenly dies in a car accident, Joey and Chip struggle to find their footing again. Just as they begin to, Cody's will reveals that he named his sister as Chip's guardian. The years of Joey's acceptance into the family unravel as Chip is taken away from him. Now Joey searches for a solution in order to find peace with the...
8) The Letter
Author
Language
English
Description
A writer/director begins to crumble under the pressure of the approaching opening night of her latest play. Plagued by strange dreams and visions, she starts to question if she is being followed or if it is all in her head.
