Academy Awards

The Oscars are coming up on March 7th while you are waiting to see who wins big on Sunday check out some of the past award winning movies we have at the library.

Do you know who's going to win this year? Let us know.

45th anniversary of the Sound of Music

Today is the 45th anniversary for the premiere of the Sound of Music. Celebrate by watching the movie or listening to the incredible soundtrack.

If you haven't seen this film, if that's possible, Julie Andrews lights up the screen as Maria, the spirited young woman who leaves the convent to become a governess to the seven young children of Captain von Trapp, an autocratic widower whose strict household rules leave no room for music or merriment.

New Quick Flicks for the Week of 3/2/10

2012 By Emmerich, Roland 2010-03 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 1435932609 Check Our Catalog When typhoons, earthquakes and other disasters suddenly threaten to destroy the world, Jackson, his estranged wife, Kate, and others surmise that the secret may lie in ancient Mayan prophecies that describe global calamity in the year 2012. …More

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee By Miller, Rebecca 2010-03 - Gaiam Americas 0852459002537 Check Our Catalog When her husband, who's 30 years her senior, relocates the family to a retirement community, flawless wife and mother Pippa Lee slides toward a nervous breakdown as she reflects on her tumultuous past and befriends her neighbor's enigmatic son. …More

The September Issue By Cutler, R. J. 2010-02 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment 0031398117537 Check Our Catalog …More

Where the Wild Things Are By Jonze, Spike 2010-03 - Warner Home Video 1419864068 Check Our Catalog Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts -- Ira, Carol, Douglas, the Bull, Judith and Alexander -- crown him as their king, play rumpus, build forts and discover secret hideaways. …More

Import export
Olga, a nurse from the Ukraine who only knows poverty, searches for a better life in the West as Paul, an unemployed security guard from Austria, travels to the East in search of the same.

Naruto Shippuden: the movie
A powerful spirit that once threatened to destroy the world is back. Naruto's mission is to protect a priestess name Shion, who is the only one with the power to seal away the monster. She also has the uncanny ability to predict someone's fate. Her latest prediction: Naruto will soon die. Naruto's only hope is to abandon Shion, but that's not Naruto's style. He decides to face her fatal prediction head-on, and die.

Brown Bag Lunch Classic Films: Rear Window

Rear Window
Monday, March 8, 2010 at 11:00am

When a broken leg forces photographer Stewart to become wheelchair-bound in his New York City apartment, he amuses himself by spying on his neighbors and soon becomes obsessed when he thinks he has witnessed a murder. Kelly, as his fashion model girlfriend, helps with amateur detective work.

New Quick Flicks for the Week of 2/23/10

$9.99 By Rosenthal, Tatia 2010-02 - E1 1417233060 Check Our Catalog When mild-mannered Dave Peck discovers a book about the meaning of life, he snatches it up for the bargain-basement price of $9.99 and blossoms into a voracious reader -- who's determined to share the book's secrets with everyone he knows. That includes his father, with whom Dave shares an apartment, and his quirky neighbors. …More

The Box By Kelly, Richard 2010-02 - Warner Home Video BL05103DVD Check Our Catalog Norma and Arthur Lewis are a suburban couple with a young child who receive an anonymous gift bearing fatal and irrevocable consequences. A simple wooden box, it promises to deliver its owner $1 million with the press of a button. However, pressing this button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world...someone they don't know. With just 24 hours to have the box in their possession, Norma and Arthur find themselves in the crosshairs of a startling moral dilemma and face the true nature of their humanity. …More

Breakfast with Scot By Lynd, Laurie 2010-02 - E1 1417233079 Check Our Catalog The lives of an ex-hockey player and his partner are thrown into turmoil when they take in Scot, a flamboyant 11-year old who is not the sports-loving boy they were expecting. …More

Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant By Reilly, John C. 2010-02 - Universal Home Video 0025195038393 Check Our Catalog Things get freaky fast for 16-year-old Darren Shan when his friend takes him to a circus that's chockfull of sideshow oddities. There, he meets vampire Larten Crepsley and receives a life-changing bite on the neck. As the newest member of the mysterious Cirque du Freak troupe, Darren keeps company with Madame Truska and sparks a war between the vampires and their rivals. …More

The Damned United By Hooper, Tom 2010-02 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 1435996291 Check Our Catalog Arrogant Brian Clough (Michael Sheen) helms England's soccer champs Leeds United in 1974 alongside confidant and assistant manager Peter Taylor (Timothy Spall), but he manages to bungle the deal in a mere 44 days, winding up fired. …More

The End of the Line By Murray, Rupert Voice by Danson, Ted 2010-02 - New Video Group 0767685169490 Check Our Catalog Narrated by Ted Danson and based on the book by Charles Clover, THE END OF THE LINE explores the devastating effect that overfishing is having on fish stocks and the health of our oceans. Scientists predict that if we continue fishing at the current rate, the planet will completely run out of fish by 2048. …More

Everybodys Fine By Jones, Kirk 2010-02 - Buena Vista Home Entertainment 0091786560567 Check Our Catalog Frank just lost his wife, and without their mother by his side, Frank's grown children aren't compelled to visit for the holidays. So he hits the road to visit them -- collecting various revelations and learning about himself along the way. …More

The Informant! By Soderbergh, Steven 2010-02 - Warner Home Video 0883929022342 Check Our Catalog What was Mark Whitacre thinking? A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Whitacre suddenly turns whistleblower. Even as he exposes his company's multi-national price-fixing conspiracy to the FBI, Whitacre envisions himself being hailed as a hero of the common man and handed a promotion. But before all that can happen, the FBI needs evidence, so Whitacre eagerly agrees to wear a wire and carry a hidden tape recorder in his briefcase, imagining himself as a kind of de facto secret agent. Unfortunately for the FBI, their lead witness hasn't been quite so forthcoming about helping himself to the corporate coffers. Whitacre's ever-changing account frustrates the agents and threatens the case against ADM as it becomes almost impossible to decipher what is real and what is the product of Whitacre's rambling imagination. Based on the true story of the highest-ranking corporate whistleblower in U.S. history. …More

Sorority Row By 2010-02 - Uni Dist Corp (Music) 0025192049811 Check Our Catalog …More

The Vicious Kind By 2010-02 - Image Entertainment 0014381642827 Check Our Catalog …More

Adrenaline of love = Adrenalina de amor
"Ed returns home from Iraq and sees that things have changed: his girlfriend Candy is seeing someone else, and his friends have moved out and left the barrio. His only childhood friend is Art who introduces Ed to the world of illegal street racing"

Crude: real price of oil
"An inside look at the infamous $27 billion "Amazon Chernobyl" case, Crude is a real-life high stakes legal drama set against a backdrop of the environmental movement, global politics, celebrity activism, human rights advocacy, the media, multinational corporate power, and rapidly-disappearing indigenous cultures"

Examined life: philosophy is in the street
Examined Life takes philosophy into the hustle and bustle of the everyday. The "rock star" philosophers of our time take "walks" through places that hold special resonance for them and their ideas. These places include crowed city streets, deserted alleyways, Central Park, and a garbage dump.

Flame & Citron
Copenhagen, 1944. A young idealist codenamed Flame and tense family man Citron are two Resistance fighters who become the underground's most proficient killers of collaborators and sympathizers. The Nazi SS is hunting them. They trust only each other. But in a time where fear and mercy must live in the shadows, a mysterious woman and a new assignment to assassinate the head of the Gestapo may lead them to the deadliest place of all. Based on the Holder Danske's most famous agents.