Catalog Search Results
U.S. and world cinema, selections from the Criterion Collection, award-winning documentaries, and more. This streaming video service also includes Kanopy Kids for favorites to watch again and again.
2) Blackfly
Description
This Oscar-nominated animated short is a breakneck romp based on the song of the same title, written and sung by Canadian folk singer Wade Hemsworth, with back-up vocals by Kate and Anna McGarrigle. This animated film recounts Hemsworth's battles with this quintessential "critter" during a summer of surveying in Northern Ontario.
3) Low Down
Description
Based on the memoir by Amy-Jo Albany, LOW DOWN is a compassionate, tender look at the complex relationship between Amy-Jo (Elle Fanning) and her father Joe (John Hawkes), a man torn between his musical ambition, his devotion to his teenage daughter, and his suffocating heroin addiction.. Set against a sensuously textured 1970s Hollywood, the film beautifully evokes a colorful, seedy world of struggling musicians, artists, and vagabonds, in which Joe...
Description
Ken Cooper was a successful comedian in the 1990’s, but his single-guy jokes are irrelevant twenty years later. Now he's an anxiety ridden, stay-at-home dad, clinging to a TV show dream that his breadwinner wife doesn't believe in.. Tonight could be a big break for Ken - a final shot at selling his pitch. But after an epic fight with his wife, Ken is no longer welcome home. Their clash alters everything, on stage and off. Ken is crushed, with nowhere...
Description
An award-winning Australian drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.....
6) TRI
Description
Natalie, an ultrasound tech with a history of not finishing things, is inspired by a cancer patient to sign up for a Triathlon. Natalie is introduced to the strange (and aerodynamic) world of triathletes and meets a colorful cast of characters as she trains for the nation's triathlon. With the support of her new teammates, she digs deep to discover just how far she can push her mind and body.. . "Winner! Film of the Year" - Northern Virginia International...
Description
In EXTERIOR NIGHT, there is no past. There is no present. There is only the inevitable now.. Using rear-screen process plates from classic Warner Bros. film noirs, a young man (in color) searches for his past through black-and-white scenes from classic Hollywood movies like "The Big Sleep," "Mildred Pierce," and "Strangers on a Train". Filmmaker Mark Rappaport evocatively plays with the themes of noir while contemporizing the stakes involved by utilizing...
Description
Red Crow Mi'gMaq reservation, 1976: By government decree, every Indian child under the age of 16 must attend residential school. In the kingdom of the Crow, that means imprisonment at St. Dymphna’s, where students are under the mercy of "Popper," the sadistic agent who runs the school.. At 15, Aila is the weed princess of Red Crow. Hustling with her uncle Burner, she sells enough dope to pay Popper her “truancy tax”, keeping her out of St.Ds....
9) Toe to Toe
Description
Jesse (Louisa Krause of The Girlfriend Experience) is a privileged but troubled white girl whose promiscuous tendencies pull her towards self-destructive behavior. Tosha (Sonequa Martin Green of Star Trek: Discovery) is a fiercely determined African-American from Anacostia, one of DC's most impoverished areas. Both new seniors and star players on their school's lacrosse team, the two girls click despite their differences. Their fledgling friendship...
10) The Inland Road
Description
After falling out with her Mom, sixteen-year old Tia hitchhikes down the country to find her father. But her plans are thwarted when she gets caught up in a nasty car accident. Her father refuses to take her in, instead telling her to go home and sort things out with her mother. But Tia has other plans.. She seeks out the strangers involved in the car accident and moves onto their farm, but relationships blur and boundaries are tested as the family...
11) Green is Gold
Description
A thirteen year old boy is forced to live with his estranged brother after their father is sent to prison. Their relationship is soon tested when the older brother's occupation as a marijuana dealer infringes on his ability not only to raise his brother, but to even take care of himself. However,through constant tribulation, they discover the only way to get through the difficulties of life, is to work together and try to beat the odds.. Audience...
12) Fugitive Pieces
Description
A powerful and unforgettably lyrical film about love, loss and redemption, FUGITIVE PIECES tells the story of Jakob Beer, a man whose life is transformed by his childhood experiences during WWII. The film is based on the beloved and best-selling novel by Canadian poet Anne Michaels.. Jakob’s story begins in Poland in 1942, when he is nine years old. Nazi soldiers have murdered his parents and abducted his teenage sister, Bella. Traumatized by this...
13) Yosemite
Description
It's the autumn of 1985. In intertwining tales written by Oscar nominated actor James Franco, three 5th grade friends - Chris, Joe and Ted - unfold in the suburban paradise of Palo Alto.. Chris drives up to Yosemite for the weekend with his dad (James Franco, 127 Hours) and discovers a corpse in the woods. Joe, left to his own devices by his babysitter, befriends a lonely drifter who shares his love of comic books. Meanwhile, a mountain lion is spotted...
14) Francesco
Description
Nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival and based on Herman Hesse's Francis of Assisi, FRANCESCO depicts the life and times of St. Francis of Assisi and the rise of the Franciscan order that he founded. Following his death, Francis' devoted followers recall the saint's life and chart his transformation from the pampered son of an aristocrat into a selfless man of faith devoted wholly to a life of apostolic poverty.. Directed by Italian...
15) Dark Night
Description
A haunting, artfully understated critique of American gun culture, Tim Sutton’s third feature is loosely based around the 2012 massacre in Aurora, Colorado that took place during a multiplex screening of The Dark Knight Rises.. Employing a mesmerizing documentary-style technique and a cast of non-professional actors, DARK NIGHT follows the activities of six strangers over the course of one day, from sunrise to midnight, the shooter among them. Shot...
17) The Arbalest
Description
A successful toy inventor reflects on his lifelong obsession with a woman who apparently hates him.. Winner of the Grand Jury Award for Narrative Feature at the SXSW Film Festival.. "A piercingly original and very funny debut feature, the picture takes no prisoners as it constantly changes shapes and form." - John Fink, The Film Stage
18) Lake Los Angeles
Description
An award-winning narrative that tackles human trafficking with a sensitive style and dreamlike cinematography, LAKE LOS ANGELES is the story of two unlikely companions, a lonely Cuban exile and an undocumented Mexican girl struggling to survive in an unforgiving environment.. Nominated for Best Narrative Feature at the Los Angeles Film Festival and the Cine Latino Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.. "[With] captivating performances...
19) Blame
Description
It’s the start of a new year at a small suburban high school. Abigail (Quinn Shephard) is an outcast who seeks solace in the worlds of the characters she reads about, much to the amusement of her manipulative classmate, Melissa (Nadia Alexander). When an intriguing new drama teacher, Jeremy (Chris Messina) casts Abigail over Melissa in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Abigail’s confidence blooms, and soon her relationship with Jeremy begins to...
Description
A dark, romantic character-driven drama directed by and starring Oscar-nominated actor, Michael Keaton (Batman, Birdman, Spotlight) and featuring Emmy Nominated Actress Kelly Macdonald (Boardwalk Empire, No Country for Old Men). THE MERRY GENTLEMEN received its world premiere at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and was a New York Times Critics' Pick.. A woman leaves an abusive relationship to begin a new life in a new city, where she forms an unlikely...
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Catamount Library Network can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request