Michael Stuhlbarg
Author
Language
English
Description
When Lars Thorvald's wife, Cynthia, falls in love with wine--and a dashing sommelier--he's left to raise their baby, Eva, on his own. He's determined to pass on his love of food to his daughter. As Eva grows, she finds her solace and salvation in the flavors of her native Minnesota. From Scandinavian lutefisk to hydroponic chocolate habaneros, each ingredient represents one part of Eva's journey as she becomes the star chef behind a legendary and...
2) Find me
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"No novel in recent memory has spoken more movingly to contemporary readers about the nature of love than André Aciman's haunting Call Me by Your Name. First published in 2007, it was hailed as "a love letter, an invocation . . . an exceptionally beautiful book" (Stacey D'Erasmo, The New York Times Book Review). Nearly three quarters of a million copies have been sold, and the book became a much-loved, Academy Award-winning film starring Timothée...
3) The silence
Author
Language
English
Description
"It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people, dinner, an apartment on the east side of Manhattan. The retired physics professor and her husband and her former student waiting for the couple who will join them from what becomes a dramatic flight from Paris. The conversation ranges from a survey telescope in North-central Chile to a favorite brand of bourbon to Einstein's 1912 Manuscript on the Special Theory of Relativity. Then something...
4) Blue jasmine
Publisher
Columbia
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
After everything in her life falls to pieces, including her marriage to wealthy businessman Hal, elegant New York socialite Jasmine moves into her sister Ginger's humble apartment in San Francisco to try to pull herself back together again.
"Want to see great acting, from comic to tragic and every electrifying stop in between? See Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine."--Rolling Stone
"Allen's story of a fictitious Ruth Madoff figure works as both a what-if...
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In Northern Italy in 1983, seventeen year old Elio begins a relationship with visiting Oliver, his father's research assistant, with whom he bonds over his emerging sexuality, their Jewish heritage, and the beguiling Italian landscape
6) Steve Jobs
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A biography of Steve Jobs, a successful entrepreneur and innovator, the founder of Apple Computer, Inc.
Publisher
Marvel Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Doctor Strange tampers with a risky forbidden spell that alters time and space and accidentally opens a gateway to the multiverse. Together with the Scarlet Witch and the unflappable Wong, Doctor Strange confronts countless dangers in strange and mysterious alternate realities to attempt to restore a single stable reality. As they travel through myriad different layers of the multiverse, they face down a new yet unsettlingly familiar adversary that...
9) Trumbo
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The successful career of 1940s screenwriter Dalton Trumbo comes to a crushing end when he and other Hollywood figures are blacklisted for their political beliefs. It tells the story of his fight against the U.S. government and studio bosses in a war over words and freedom, which entangled everyone in Hollywood from Hedda Hopper and John Wayne to Kirk Douglas and Otto Preminger.--
10) A serious man
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A Midwestern physics professor faces changes in his life when his wife prepares to leave him, his job is threatened, and different advice from three rabbis leaves him still trying to find answers to his problems.
11) Hitchcock
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Plagued by both a reckless ego and nagging self-doubt, Hollywood legend Alfred Hitchcock ... becomes obsessed with a grisly murder story that the studios won't back. Determined, he risks his reputation, his home and even the love of his wife Alma ... as he sets out to make the film"--Container.
12) Bones and all
Publisher
Warner Brothers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Maren, a young woman, learns how to survive on the margins of society.
14) The staircase
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a true story, The Staircase follows writer and war veteran Michael Peterson after the suspicious death of his wife Kathleen. On December 9, 2001, Michael makes a frantic 911 call reporting Kathleen has fallen down the stairs of their Durham, NC home. But when the district attorney brings murder charges, members of Michael's blended family must choose whose side they're on and which version of events to believe. As the case becomes engulfed...
15) Pawn Sacrifice
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
In a gripping true story set during the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire. It chronicles Fischer's terrifying struggles with genius and madness, and the rise and fall of a kid from Brooklyn who captured the imagination of the world.
"Edward Zwick's 'Pawn Sacrifice' is an enthralling piece of mainstream entertainment that captures the essence...
16) Miss Sloane
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the world of political power brokers, Washington lobbyist Elizabeth Sloane takes on the most powerful opponent of her career and will do whatever is required to win.
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Emmy and Golden Globe-winner Bryan Cranston ("Breaking Bad") returns in the explosive second season of Your Honor. Disbarred, disgraced, and all but destroyed, ex-judge Michael Desiato is offered a ray of hope when a federal agent recruits him to take down the empire of corruption and vengeance that runs New Orleans.
18) Miles ahead
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a dazzling and prolific career at the forefront of modern jazz innovation, Miles Davis disappears from public view for a period of five years in the late 1970s. Alone and holed up in his home, he is beset by chronic pain from a deteriorating hip, his musical voice stifled and numbed by drugs and medications, and his mind haunted by unsettling ghosts from the past.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Northern Italy in 1983, seventeen year old Elio begins a relationship with visiting Oliver, his father's research assistant, with whom he bonds over his emerging sexuality, their Jewish heritage, and the beguiling Italian landscape.
20) Pawn sacrifice
Publisher
Bleeker Street Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In a gripping true story set during the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire. It chronicles Fischer's terrifying struggles with genius and madness, and the rise and fall of a kid from Brooklyn who captured the imagination of the world.