Wallace Shawn
1) Essays
Author
Publisher
Haymarket
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
167 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In these bold essays---including a new essay for the paperback edition---Wallace Shawn takes us on a revelatory journey through high art, war, culture, politics, and privilege. With his distinctive humor and insight, Shawn invites us to look at the world with new eyes, the better to understand ...and hange it." -- P. [4] of cover.
2) The fever
Author
Language
English
Description
"On a visit to a beautiful but tormented place, where the most basic of political struggles is being enacted right outside the window, the narrator of Wallace Shawn's "The fever" falls ill. Slumped on the floor of a hotel bathroom, the traveller is visited by cherished memories of a priviledged past. But as the night wears on, the bathroom floor becomes a battlefield on which an internal struggle wages."--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
103 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
75 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this stirring rumination, Wallace Shawn considers justice, inequality, blame, revenge, eleventh-century Japanese court poetry, decadence, Beethoven, the relationship between the Islamic world and the West--and the possibility that a better world could be created."--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
1985.
Edition
First Grove Press edition.
Physical Desc
107 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Aunt Dan & Lemon takes us into the world of a young recluse named Lemon (alias Leonora) who spends her nights reading chronicles of Nazi atrocities. Lemon tells the audience about the overwhelming influence in her life of her parents' friend "Aunt Dan," an eccentric, passionate professor whose stories and seductive opinions enthrall Lemon from the time she is a young girl. The relationship that develops between Lemon and Aunt Dan and the conversations...
10) Admission
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Princeton admissions officer, Portia Nathan, who is up for a major promotion, takes a professional risk after she meets a college-bound alternative school kid who just might be the son she gave up years ago in a secret adoption.
11) A master builder
Series
Criterion collection volume 762
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A visionary yet tyrannical middle-aged architect is haunted by figures from his past.
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
An exploration of the life and work of groundbreaking director, actor and artist Andre Gregory. A witty raconteur, Gregory looks back on a career that spanned decades, broke boundaries and established him as a cultural icon. He recalls the making of My Dinner with Andre, the Louis Malle-directed classic in which he starred and co-wrote, reflects on his pivotal role in American theatre, his brief sojourn in Hollywood, and about the discovery that led...
13) Marie and Bruce
Series
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A serio-comic trip through a day in the lives of a dysfunctional married couple.
14) Book club
Language
English
Description
Four lifelong friends' lives are turned upside down when their book club attempts to shake things up by tackling 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.
15) Robo-dog
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Tyler's furry best friend tragically dies, his inventor dad, Tom, creates a new 'Robo-Dog' out of spare parts and his technologically advanced 'super battery.' But Tom's old boss, Mr. Willis, wants the super-battery for himself and will stop at nothing to get it. When Mr. Willis uses his own unstable version of the super-battery, it threatens to blow up the town, and Robo-Dog must help his new family save the day.
Publisher
Hallmark Channel
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
With the holiday season at hand, single mom Nicky Talbot is unemployed and struggling to afford a nice Christmas with her eight-year-old daughter. Hearing that Cartwright's Department Store is hiring temporary holiday help, Nicky rushes in to apply, but is rejected by Senior VP Fiona Aldrich, who considers Nicky a threat to the relationship she hopes to have with Bill, a charming and handsome store manager.
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
18) Clueless
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Still as smart and charming as ever, Clueless gets a fresh, sassy makeover for this new 'Whatever!' Collector's Edition. Alicia Silverstone sparkles as Cher, the matchmaking 15-year-old Beverly Hills High schooler who has shopping and boys on her mind.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From actor Cary Elwes, who played the iconic role of Westley in The Princess Bride, comes a first-person account and behind-the-scenes look at the making of the cult classic film filled with never-before-told stories, exclusive photographs, and interviews with costars Robin Wright, Wallace Shawn, Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest, and Mandy Patinkin, as well as author and screenwriter William Goldman, producer Norman Lear, and director Rob Reiner.
