Wallace Shawn
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English
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Beloved actor and Obie Award—winning playwright Wallace Shawn has been an incisive commentator on civilization and its discontents for decades. Now, having recently passed the age of seventy and watched Donald Trump claim the presidency, he offers a late-stage critique of his species, which he sees as being divided between the lucky and the unlucky.
In Night Thoughts, Shawn takes the lucky-himself included-to task for their complacency while offering...
Author
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English
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The unconventional plays of Wallace Shawn are predictable in their inherent unpredictability…and their tendency to shock and thrill. Evening at the Talk House is a murder mystery with the same Shawn guarantee: there are no guarantees. Premiered at the National Theatre in London in the fall of 2015.
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Language
English
Description
Final Edition is a one-issue-only political magazine written by people who are aesthetes and literary writers and edited by Wallace Shawn, who seriously believes that part of our national problem is that the people who run the country have a crude and minimal imaginative life and are too little acquainted with the quartets of Beethoven.
The issue consists of five pieces:
"Before the Election-Fragments from a Diary 2004" by Wallace Shawn The diarist...
Author
Language
English
Description
Wallace Shawn's OBIE Award-winning, never before published Our Late Night premiered in New York in 1975 under direction of André Gregory, and was revived in London in 1999 under direction of Caryl Churchill. A Thought in Three Parts-currently out of print-created an uproar with its 1977 London premiere, investigated by the vice squad for its allegedly pornographic content. Wallace Shawn is a noted actor and writer. His politically charged and controversial...
Author
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English
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Writer and performer Wallace Shawn's landmark 1996 play features three characters-a respected poet, his daughter, and her English-professor husband-suspected of subversion in a world where culture has come under the control of the ruling oligarchy. Told through three interwoven monologues, the Orwellian political story is recounted alongside the visceral dissolution of a marriage. The play debuted at the Royal National Theatre in London, in a production...
7) Essays
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Language
English
Description
A collection of "deceptively simple, profoundly thoughtful, fiercely honest" essays on art, life, and politics by the acclaimed actor and playwright (Howard Zinn, author of Political Awakenings and Indispensable Zinn).
Whether writing about the genesis of his plays, such as Aunt Dan and Lemon; discussing how the privileged world of arts and letters takes for granted the people who serve our food and deliver our mail; describing his upbringing in...
Publisher
GKIDS Films
Language
English
Description
Featuring the voices of Oscar-winner Whoopi Goldberg and Oscar-nominee James Woods, "Mia and the Migoo" is a stunningly beautiful, hand-painted animated feature film. Pedro leaves his poor village and finds work drilling a tunnel through an area of exceptional natural beauty that is to become a luxurious hotel complex. But mysterious forces are working against the project. When a landslide blocks the entrance to the tunnel, Pedro is left trapped....
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator and Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new employee. One night, the office goes to a magic show and the two get hypnotized for the magician's own schemes. Will they end up investigating themselves?
10) The prime gig
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002, c2001
Language
English
Description
When a small-time scam artist teams up with a legendary con man his sexy young associate for the opportunity of a lifetime, he loses sights of rule number one: never trust another con.
11) Mr. St. Nick
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Take one Santa who’s losing his powers, a Santa-to-be who is addicted to Miami nightlife, and a scheme to bring a totally unexpected new demographic to Christmas, and you have a wildly funny holiday romp from Sonar Entertainment.
12) The Bostonians
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
Boston, 1876: At a Women's Movement meeting, fiercely independent Olive (Vanessa Redgrave) becomes mentor to gifted young orator Verena (Madeleine Potter) - who soon attracts the amorous attentions of Olive's Southern cousin Basil (Christopher Reeve). The contesting demands of courtship and sapphic friendship in this love-triangle in all but name are further complicated by New York society matron Mrs. Burrage, who tries to secure Verena for her son....
13) Toy story 3
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Andy's toys are accidently donated to Sunnyside Daycare when he leaves for college, and while Buzz and the others are first excited by the prospect of kids to play with, they find that being thrown, smashed, and slobbered on is not a lot of fun.
14) Duplex
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Young and vibrant New Yorkers Alex (Ben Stiller) and Nancy (Drew Barrymore) have just found the perfect place to settle down and share a bright future. But their new home comes with a permanent fixture they didn't expect. Pushed to the edge of insanity as their dream home turns into a nightmare, it's only a matter of time before Alex and Nancy begin to entertain some truly sinister solutions to the problem.
15) Vegas vacation
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
When Clark Griswold (Chase) puts his mind to something, we soon realize he hasn't got one. Still, nothing stops him when the vacation bug hits. This time, he's chosen Las Vegas, the new family entertainment capital of America!
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
Looking through her lover's bedroom window, Sylvia (Isabelle Huppert) sees a girl being attacked. The attacker flees and his victim is saved. But later that night, another girl is found murdered. Sylvia cannot give evidence, for that would reveal her affair with Terry (Steve Guttenberg), so he gives evidence in Sylvia's place, but when it is found that he is not telling the full truth, he becomes the main suspect... "*The Bedroom Window is a diligent,...
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Cinema devotee Mort Rifkin accompanies his publicist wife Sue to the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain, worried that her fascination with her young film director client, Philippe, might be more than professional. In addition, Mort hopes the change of scenery will provide a respite from his struggle to write a first novel that lives up to his impossibly exacting standards.
19) Book club
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Four friends' lives are turned upside down to hilarious ends when their book club tackles the infamous "Fifty Shades of Grey." From discovering new romance to rekindling old flames, they inspire each other to make their next chapter the best chapter.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this all-new movie, we find Morticia and Gomez distraught that their children are growing up, skipping family dinners, and totally consumed with 'scream time.' To reclaim their bond they decide to cram Wednesday, Pugsley, Uncle Fester, and the crew into their haunted camper and hit the road for one last miserable family vacation. Their adventure across America takes them out of their element and into hilarious run-ins with their iconic cousin,...