Thelma Schoonmaker
1) GoodFellas
Language
English
Description
Details the rise and fall of Henry Hill, a Brooklyn kid who grows up idolizing the "wise guys" from his neighborhood. He begins hanging around the mobsters and doing odd jobs until he gains the notice of local chieftain Paulie Cicero. In his teens, Hill distinguishes himself as a "stand-up guy" by choosing jail time over ratting on his accomplices. From that moment on, he is a part of the family. Along with his partner Tommy, he rises through the...
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 179 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sex. Money. Power. Drugs. Brace yourself for an outrageous true story from legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese. Jordan Belfort, a young stockbroker, is hungry for fame and glory in New York City, where corruption is king and more is never enough.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1846, waves of Irish immigrants poured into the New York neighborhood of Five Points. "Billy the Butcher" bands his fellow "Native Americans" into a gang to take on the Irish gang "The Dead Rabbits," organized by Priest Vallon. After an bloody clash Vallon is dead and his son ends up in a brutal reform school. In 1862, that boy returns to seek vengeance against the man that killed his father.
4) Silence
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (160 mins.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two Catholic missionaries face the ultimate test of faith when they travel to Japan looking for their missing mentor, at a time when Catholicism was outlawed.
5) Kundun
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 135 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A dramatization of the life and work of the current (14th) Dalai Lama and his ongoing struggle to regain independence for Tibet.
Publisher
Broad Green Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Wendy is a fiery Manhattan author whose husband has just left her for another woman; Darwan is a soft-spoken taxi driver from India on the verge of an arranged marriage. Wendy sets out to reclaim her independence, but as a lifelong New Yorker, she's never learned to drive -- so she hires the calm, restrained Darwan to teach her. As Darwan shows her how to take control of the wheel, Wendy coaches him on how to impress a woman, and their unlikely...