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Video Spotlight October 2024 |
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Coming Soon to a Library Near You!
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Harold and the Purple Crayon
Inside of his book, adventurous Harold can make anything come to life simply by drawing it. After he grows up and draws himself off the book's pages and into the physical world, Harold finds he has a lot to learn about the real world--and that his trusty purple crayon may set off more hilarious hijinks than he thought possible. When the power of unlimited imagination falls into the wrong hands, it will take all of Harold and his friends' creativity to save both the real world and his own
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Inside Out 2
A sequel that features Riley entering puberty and experiencing brand new, more complex emotions as a result. As Riley tries to adapt to her teenage years, her old emotions try to adapt to the possibility of being replaced.
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Quiet Place: Day One
When Samira returns home to New York City, her simple trip turns into a harrowing nightmare when mysterious creatures that hunt by sound attack. Accompanied by her cat Frodo and an unexpected ally, Samira must embark on a perilous journey through the city that has suddenly gone silent, where the only rule is to stay quiet to stay alive
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Thelma
Inspired by a real-life experience of director Josh Margolin's own grandmother, Thelma puts a clever spin on movies like Mission: Impossible, shining the spotlight on an elderly grandmother as an unlikely action hero. With infectious humor, Margolin employs the familiar tropes of the action genre in hilarious, age-appropriate ways to tackle aging with agency. In the first leading film role of her 70-year career, Squibb portrays the strong-willed Thelma with grit and determination, demonstrating that she is more than capable of taking care of business despite what her daughter Gail, son-in-law Alan, or grandson Danny might believe.
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All at Once
A young artist living in New York City sees his life change suddenly when he accepts guardianship of the children of his two friends who have lost their lives in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks
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Best Offer
When a mysterious heiress asks famed but unscrupulous art appraiser and auctioneer Virgil Oldman to evaluate her late parents' collection yet remains forever unseen behind closed doors, it ignites a spark of curiosity in the normally austere Virgil that soon grows into an all-out obsession. Before long everything in Virgil's carefully constructed life threatens to come apart as he delves ever further into the world of intrigue surrounding his enigmatic employer.
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Big Eyes
The story of artist Margaret Keane, whose husband fraudulently claimed the work as his own in the 1950s and 1960s and their subsequent divorce.
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Colorblind
When a colorblind black artist moves into a new neighborhood with her young son, she faces challenges that go beyond her disability
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Daliland
In 1974 a young gallery assistant is drawn into the wild, never-ending party that is artist Salvador Dalâi's life in New York City. As he helps the aging genius prepare for an important show, he discovers not everything is as it seems
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Effie Gray
A sumptuous historical drama set against a luscious backdrop exploring the scandalous love triangle between Victorian art critic John Ruskin, his young bride Effie Gray, and his protǧ,̌ painter John Everett Millais. After marrying Ruskin, Effie quickly realizes her marriage is a lie when Ruskin refuses to consummate it. Yearning for affection, she soon falls for the charms of the charismatic Millais.
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Frida
The life of artist Frida Kahlo, from her humble upbringing to her worldwide fame and controversy that surrounded both her and her husband, Diego Rivera.
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Girl With a Pearl Earring
A poor seventeenth-century servant girl knows her place in the household of the painter Johannes Vermeer, but when he begins to paint her, nasty whispers and rumors circulate throughout the town.
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Kusama
Profiles the life and work of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, the top-selling female artist in the world. Kusama overcame impossible odds to bring her radical artistic vision to the world stage.
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Loving Vincent
The life and controversial death of Vincent Van Gogh told by his paintings and by the characters that inhabit them. The intrigue unfolds through dramatic reconstructions of the events leading up to his death.
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Maudie
An arthritic Nova Scotia woman works as a housekeeper while she hones her skills as an artist and eventually becomes a beloved figure in the community.
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Mona Lisa Smile
An art history teacher in the 1950s, who has the admiration of her students at Wellesley College, instructs them on how to be independent women. This goes against the conservative views of the school and she is chastised by the faculty.
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Mr. Turner
Explores the latter part of eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner's life
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Mrs. Lowry & Son
Beloved British artist L.S. Lowry lived all his life with his overbearing mother Elizabeth. Bedridden and bitter, Elizabeth actively tried to dissuade her bachelor son from pursuing his artistic ambitions, while never failing to voice her opinion at what a disappointment he was to her.
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Nightwatching
After Rembrandt reluctantly agrees to paint the Amsterdam Musketeer Militia in a group portrait, he discovers a murder plot involving the militia and places clues to the crime within his painting, leading to his and his family's ruin
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Rickshaw Girl
In her Bangladesh village, teen-aged Naimi excels at painting designs called alpanas, but to help her impoverished family financially she would have to be a boy--or disguise herself as one.
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Tulip Fever
In the seventeenth century Holland, a wife of a wealthy merchant falls in love with an artist commissioned to paint her portrait, and the lovers decide to risk everything they have in the bubbling tulip market in the hopes of making a fortune and building their life together
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Woman In Gold
Sixty years after she fled Vienna during World War II, an elderly Jewish woman, Maria Altmann, starts her journey to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Klimt's famous painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. Together with her inexperienced but plucky young lawyer Randy Schoenberg, she embarks upon a major battle which takes them all the way to the heart of the Austrian establishment and the U.S. Supreme Court..
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Words and Pictures
Prep school teacher Jack Marcus meets his match in Dina Delsanto, an abstract painter and new teacher on campus. He challenges her to a war between words and pictures, and in the process, sparks an unlikely romance.
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