Here is a new DVD list highlighting various titles recently added to the library’s collection.
“The Bad Kids”
Website / Reviews / Trailer
Presented at the True/False Film Fest in 2016, this film is an observational documentary that chronicles one extraordinary principal’s mission to realize the potential of students whom the system has deemed lost causes. The film follows Principal Vonda Viland as she coaches three at-risk teens through the traumas and obstacles that rob them of their spirit and threaten their goal of a high school diploma.
“To Walk Invisible”
Website / Reviews / Trailer
Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë face a bleak future, with their father half-blind and troubled brother Branwell in decline. As their situation worsens, Charlotte sees that writing could offer a way out. Based largely on Charlotte’s letters, the film follows the Brontë sisters in the eventful three-year period that saw them rise from ordinary, unmarried women to the secret authors of the world’s most sensational literature.
“Silicon Valley”
Season 3
Website / Reviews
From Mike Judge and Alec Berg comes a new season of the Emmy-nominated comedy that takes viewers inside Silicon Valley’s high-tech gold rush in a land of big ideas and bigger egos. This season of Silicon Valley continues to probe the ripe-for-comedy world of tech as our heroes grow bolder, if not always wiser.
Other notable releases:
“The Affair” – Season 3 – Website / Reviews
“All the Way” – Website / Reviews / Trailer
“Disturbing the Peace” – Website / Reviews / Trailer
“Dr. Feelgood” – Website / Reviews / Trailer
“The Living and the Dead” – Miniseries – Website / Reviews
“Ornette, Made in America” – Website / Reviews / Trailer
“Sound of Redemption” – Website / Reviews / Trailer
“Speed Sisters” – Website / Reviews / Trailer
“Wolf Creek” – Season 1 – Website / Reviews