Independent Spirit Awards

The Independent Spirit Awards annually recognize the best in independent filmmaker. Check out these award winners:

BEST ACTRESS: MELISSA LEO Frozen River By Hunt, Courtney 2009/02 - Sony Pictures BL10879DVD Check Our Catalog On a Mohawk reservation on the Canadian border, Ray teams with widowed tribe member Lila to smuggle illegal immigrants into the United States. Although the work provides the women with much-needed money, each trip puts them in danger. ...More

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE Man on Wire By Marsh, James 2008/12 - Magnolia BL01092DVD Check Our Catalog Philippe Petit captured the world's attention in 1974 when he successfully walked across a high wire between New York's Twin Towers. This documentary explores the preparations that went into the stunt as well as the event and its aftermath. Obsessed with the towers even before they were fully constructed, Petit sneaked into the buildings several times to determine the equipment he needed to accomplish his daring feat. ...More

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: JAMES FRANCO BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY: DUSTIN LANCE BLACK Milk By Van Sant, Gus 2009/03 - Focus BL04090DVD Check Our Catalog Sean Penn stars in this fact-based drama about Harvey Milk, the openly gay activist and San Francisco politician who was murdered along with mayor George Moscone by disgruntled city employee Dan White in 1978. ...More

BEST FIRST FEATURE FILM Synecdoche, New York By Kaufman, Charlie 2009/03 - Sony Pictures BL06877DVD Check Our Catalog After his painter wife leaves him and takes their daughter to Berlin, theater director Caden Cotard stages a new autobiographical play in a massive warehouse amid a life-size replica of Manhattan. ...More

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: PENELOPE CRUZ BEST SCREENPLAY: WOODY ALLEN Vicky Cristina Barcelona By Allen, Woody 2008/11 - Weinstein Company BL13161DVD Check Our Catalog Academy Award winner Javier Bardem stars in the latest effort from legendary filmmaker Woody Allen as a flamboyant painter who finds himself in the middle of a unique relationship with Vicky and Christina, a pair of American tourists. ...More

BEST DIRECTOR: THOMAS MCCARTHY The Visitor By McCarthy, Thomas 2008/10 - Overture Films BL10088DVD Check Our Catalog Widowed professor Walter Vale discovers an immigrant couple, Tarek and Zainab, squatting in his Manhattan flat and becomes wrapped up in their lives when Tarek is thrown into a detention center. ...More

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Stand By Me & Different Seasons by Stephen King



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Adaptation & the Orchid Thief


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Absolute Power


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American Film Institute: 100 Years... 100 Movies

Looking for the best movies out there? Check out one of AFI's top 100 movies.

Citizen Kane By Welles, Orson 2001/09 - Turner Home Ent. BL08900DVD Check Our Catalog An all-powerful press magnate, Kane, dies in his fabulous castle Xanadu, his last word being "Rosebud", which leads a reporter to seek the meaning behind the word and find the meaning of Kane. Prominent publisher, William Randolph Hearst, saw the film as a thinly disguised version of his career and attempted to suppress it ...More

The Godfather By Coppola, Francis Ford 2004/05 - Paramount Home Video BL05037DVD Check Our Catalog The Corleone family nearly falls from power in America but rises to observe the passage of rites from father to son. There is a balance between family life and the ugly business of crime in which they are engaged. ...More

Casablanca By Curtiz, Michael 2004/02 - Warner Studios BL07049DVD Check Our Catalog Set in World War II, a bitter nightclub owner helps his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis. Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman star in this romantic film that won the Academy Award for best picture in 1943. ...More

Raging Bull By Scorsese, Martin Niro, Robert de Moriarty, Cathy 2008/05 - Tcfhe/MGM 0792865367 Check Our Catalog Graphic biography of 1949-51 WBA middleweight boxing champion Jake LaMotta. Directed by Martin Scorsese. Best actor Oscar for De Niro. ...More

Singin' in the Rain By Donen, Stanley 2000/06 - Warner Home Video BL03010DVD Check Our Catalog Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds and Donald O'Connor combine their talents in one of the best musicals ever made. When Hollywood attempts the transition from silent movies to talkies, matinee idol Kelly hopes to make the cut. ...More

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Kate Winslet

Kate Winslet won two Golden Globe awards last night for Best Actress in the movie Revolutionary Road and Best Supporting Actress for the movie The Reader. View some of this talented actresses other performances in these movies available for check out at the Gail Borden Public Library.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind By Gondry, Michel 2004/09 - Umvd BL05040DVD Check Our Catalog A man goes in for a procedure to erase his memory of his ex-girlfriend, after she erased her memory of him, but changes his mind during the procedure and fights to keep their relationship in his mind. ...More

Finding Neverland By Forster, Marc Winslet, Kate Christie, Julie 2006/08 - Buena Vista Home Entertainment 5559226599 Check Our Catalog Set in early 20th century England, the story follows J.M. Barrie and his quest to breathe life into Peter Pan. From the moment of inspiration to the debut of the play, Barrie's life mirrors the action of the story he has written and vice versa. ...More

Flushed Away By Bowers, David 2007/02 - Paramount Home Video BL03072DVD Check Our Catalog London high-society mouse Roddy is flushed down the toilet by Syd, a common sewer rat. Hang on for a madcap adventure deep in the bowels of Ratropolis, where Roddy meets the resourceful Rita, the rodent-hating Toad and his faithful thugs Spike and Whitey. ...More

Hamlet By Zeffirelli, Franco 2004/02 - Warner Home Video BL05044DVD Check Our Catalog From director Franco Zeffirelli this two-hour version of Shakespeare's play stars Mel Gibson as the Danish prince. The supporting cast is outstanding, including Glenn Close as Gertrude, Alan Bates as Claudius, Ian Holm as Polonius, and Helena Bonham Carter as Ophelia. ...More

The Holiday By Meyers, Nancy Diaz, Cameron Law, Jude 2007/10 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 1424840392 Check Our Catalog Two women on opposite sides of the globe, Amanda Woods (Diaz) and Iris Simpkins (Winslet) find themselves in a similar predicament. Desperate for a change of scenery, the two women meet on the internet and swap houses for the Christmas holiday discovering that a change of address really can change your life. ...More

Iris By Eyre, Richard Fox, Robert Rudin, Scott 2005/05 - Buena Vista Home Entertainment 5554183883 Check Our Catalog The true life story of novelist-philosopher Iris Murdoch. A young idealist with aspirations of writing meets and falls in love with her soulmate, John Bayley. But it's Bayley who stands in the shadows and supports his wife through everything, including her battle with Alzheimer's Disease. ...More

Little Children By Field, Todd 2007/05 - New Line Home Video BL06079DVD Check Our Catalog The lives of several adult suburbanites, who have yet to surpass adolescence, intersect on the streets of their small town in unexpected ways. While on-the-go wife and mother Kathy is preoccupied with her career, Sarah, a mother who does not know how to mother, is busy having an affair with stay-at-home dad Brad—Kathy's husband. ...More

Quills By Kaufman, Phillip Kaufman, Philip Rush, Geoffrey 2003/06 - Twentieth Century-Fox 5554455964 Check Our Catalog A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the asylum's resident priest. The titillating passages whip all of France into a sexual frenzy, until a fiercely conservative doctor tries to put an end to the fun, inadvertently stoking the excitement to a fever pitch. ...More

Sense and Sensibility By Lee, Amy Lee, Ang Various Artists 2005/11 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 5555283687 Check Our Catalog Adapted from Jane Austen's novel, "Sense And Sensibility" is the romantic story about a mother and her three daughters, the eldest two of which are searching for true love in a straitlaced high-society. This highly acclaimed cinematic success portrays how the lives of the characters intertwine and exhibits the most triumphant finale ever seen on screen. ...More

Titanic By Cameron, James DiCaprio, Leonardo Winslet, Kate 2007/01 - Paramount Home Video 1415713634 Check Our Catalog Two and a half miles beneath the waves of the North Atlantic, a mystery is unfolding. A secret love, bravery, treasure and treachery, hidden by time but never forgotten. A beautiful socialite. A penniless artist. A priceless diamond. A romance so passionate that nothing on earth could stop it. A destiny so incredible that no one could have imagined it. A collision of lives that could only happen on Titanic, the ship of dreams. ...More

Rolling Stone's Best DVDs 2008

Rolling Stone magazine has released a list of their favorite DVDs of 2008. See if your favorite makes the rank.

The Dark Knight By Nolan, Christopher 2008/12 - Warner Home Video 1419861220 Check Our Catalog The follow-up to the action hit Batman Begins, The Dark Knight reunites director Christopher Nolan and star Christian Bale, who reprises the role of Batman/Bruce Wayne in his continuing war on crime. With the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to destroy organized crime in Gotham for good. The triumvirate proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a rising criminal mastermind known as the Joker, who thrusts Gotham into anarchy and forces the Dark Knight ever closer to crossing the fine line between hero and vigilante. ...More

WALL-E By Stanton, Andrew 2008/10 - Disney Pixar BL12083DVD Check Our Catalog In a futuristic world, human beings have destroyed Earth and evacuated the planet, leaving the cleanup to an army of robots they've programmed to do their dirty work. Due to a mishap, the dutiful WALL-E is the only one left. But with the arrival of a female probe named EVE, the monotony of WALL-E's existence is broken -- and he experiences love for the first time. ...More

The Godfather DVD Collection By Coppola, Francis Ford 2004/04 - Paramount Home Video BL05027DVD Check Our Catalog Director Francis Ford Coppola brings Mario Puzo's epic saga of the Corleone crime family to the screen in stunning fashion. ...More

Iron Man By Favreau, Jon 2008/08 - Paramount BL09084DVD Check Our Catalog After ultra rich inventor and weapons maker Tony Stark escapes from kidnappers using makeshift power armor, he turns his invention to good by using it to fight crime. But when he must face the evil Iron Monger, his skills are stretched to the limit. Based on the Marvel comic. ...More

Rolling Stones: Shine a Light By 2008/07 - Paramount Home Video 5557378081 Check Our Catalog A feature-film spanning the career of the Rolling Stones, with concert footage from their ¢¬Bigger Bang¢¬ tour; the highest grossing tour in music history. ...More

Wanted By Bekmambetov, Timur 2008/08 - Universal BL11086DVD Check Our Catalog Wesley Gibbon is just an ordinary guy, unaware that his long-lost father is one of the world's most notorious assassins. But when his father is killed, a mysterious associate named Sloan arrives, offering Wesley the chance to fill dad's shoes. Mentored by Sloan's deputy, Fox, Wesley carries out the will of the mythological Fates, who see Wesley's targets in a magical loom. ...More

Man on Wire By Marsh, James 2008/12 - Magnolia BL01092DVD Check Our Catalog Philippe Petit captured the world's attention in 1974 when he successfully walked across a high wire between New York's Twin Towers. This documentary explores the preparations that went into the stunt as well as the event and its aftermath. Obsessed with the towers even before they were fully constructed, Petit sneaked into the buildings several times to determine the equipment he needed to accomplish his daring feat. ...More

Hancock By Berg, Peter 2008/09 - Sony Pictures BL10081DVD Check Our Catalog Will Smith stars as Hancock, a down-and-out superhero forced to employ a PR expert, Ray Embrey, to help repair his image when the public grows weary of all the damage he has inflicted during his life-saving heroics. Ray's idea of imprisoning the antihero to make the world miss him proves successful, but will Hancock stick to his new sense of purpose or slip back into old habits? ...More

Mad Men: Season One By 2008/07 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment 5557420843 Check Our Catalog It's 1960, and ad executive Don Draper rules the roost at New York's Sterling Cooper Advertising Agency in this Emmy winner for Best Drama Series. Living a glamorous existence of never-ending cocktail hours, worry-free smoking and ego-stroking power, ladies' man Draper makes numerous conquests both at work and in his personal life. But the world is beginning to change, and Draper will have to use all his smarts to stay one step ahead of the game. ...More

John Adams By Hooper, Tom Giamatti, Paul Linney, Laura 2008/06 - HBO Home Video 1419868772 Check Our Catalog John Adams is a sprawling HBO miniseries event that depicts the extraordinary life and times of one of Americas least understood, and most underestimated, founding fathers: the second President of the United States, John Adams. Starring Paul Giamatti (Sideways, Cinderella Man, HBOs American Spendor) in the title role and Laura Linney (You Can Count on Me, Kinsey) as Adams devoted wife Abigail, John Adams chronicles the extraordinary life journey of one of the primary shapers of our independence and government, whose legacy has often been eclipsed by more flamboyant contemporaries like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton and Benjamin Franklin. Set against the backdrop of a nations stormy birth, this sweeping miniseries is a moving love story, a gripping narrative, and a fascinating study of human nature. Above all, at a ...More

The Wire: The Complete Fourth Season By 2007/12 - HBO Home Video 078314993X Check Our Catalog ...More