Mira Nair
Author
Publisher
Newmarket Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
This exclusive companion book to The Namesake features a foreword by Pulitzer-Prize winning author Jhumpa Lahiri about the experience of seeing her novel "transposed" into film, an essay by acclaimed director Mira Nair about the critical influence of photography on her filmmaking, and an amazing panoply of images from photographers on the scene during production in New York and Calcutta. Brilliantly illuminating the immigrant experience and the tangles...
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Free-spirited Dottie Perez is leaving Cuba for America, her head filled with dreams of movies, mascara and dates with John Wayne. Strait-laced Juan Perez is headed for a reunion with Carmela, the wife he hasn't seen in 20 years. But when an overworked immigration officer mistakes Dottie and Juan for husband and wife, the stage is set for a merry marital mix-up, and some very unpredictable romances.
5) Amelia
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Kansas-born girl, Amelia Earhart discovers the thrill of aviation at age 23. Within 12 years she goes on to win the Distinguished Flying Cross for being the first woman to pilot a plane solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Amelia and her husband/business partner George Putnam have an enduring marriage that could not be broken by her determination to fly, nor her passionate affair with Gene Vidal. At age 39, she sets out on an attempt to circumnavigate...
6) Vanity fair
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Becky is determined to make something of herself. She accepts a job as a nanny for the children of Sir Pitt Crawley. Becky catches the eye of Crawley's son Rawdon. Becky is introduced to London's most exclusive social circle, where she becomes re-acquainted with Amelia. Becky weds Rawdon, but the social and economic stability she dreamed of begins to collapse when he begins drowning his troubles, and soon she turns to the powerful Marquess of Steyne...
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the vibrant true story of a young girl from the streets of rural Uganda whose world rapidly changes when she is introduced to the game of chess, and, as a result of the support she receives from her family and community, is instilled with the confidence and determination she needs to pursue her dream of becoming an international chess champion.
8) The namesake
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The son of Indian immigrants born in America wants to fit in with fellow New Yorkers, but his family is unwilling to let go of their traditional ways.
Publisher
Indiepix Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Français
Description
"A grieving teenager discovers he has a superpower, an old fisherman thinks the cure for his ailing wife can be found in the sea, and a muse struggles to exit the story her author is penning, in this magical neorealist fable set in a coastal village Haiti, five years after a devastating earthquake." --
11) Amelia
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Kansas-born girl, Amelia Earhart discovers the thrill of aviation at age 23. Within 12 years she goes on to win the Distinguished Flying Cross for being the first woman to pilot a plane solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Amelia and her husband/business partner George Putnam have an enduring marriage that could not be broken by her determination to fly, nor her passionate affair with Gene Vidal. At age 39, she sets out on an attempt to circumnavigate...
Series
Criterion collection ; 1127
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"An African-American businessman falls in love with an East Indian immigrant in Mississippi, and they are both shocked by the reactions of their families."--
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When an American academic in Pakistan is kidnapped by anti-American radicals, the CIA thinks popular young Pakistani professor Changez is involved. But as Changez tells his story about his life in the US to an American foreign correspondent, the truth becomes harder to pin down.
Publisher
Empire Pictures
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Eleven filmmakers from eleven countries reflect on the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in short films each lasting 11 minutes, 9 seconds and 1 frame. Samīrā Makhmalbāf presents a female teacher, at an Afghani refugee camp in Iran, organizing the children for a minute's silence; meanwhile the adults express fears of an American bombardment. Claude Lelouch presents the tale of a World Trade Center tour guide who is on the verge of a breakup...
Publisher
Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In the city that never sleeps, love is always on the mind. Those passions come together as they create a kaleidoscope of the spontaneous, surprising, electrifying human connections that pump the city's heartbeat. Sexy, funny, haunting and revealing encounters unfold beneath the Manhattan skyline. From Tribeca to Central Park to Brooklyn, the story weaves a tale of love as diverse as the very fabric of New York itself. A collection of 10 different...
Publisher
Cranston Public Library
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge: Rahul and Simran fall in love while travelling in Europe on an inter-rail holiday. Simran's father, settled in London for twenty-two years, is determined that his daughter should marry a family friend, back in their homeland of rural Punjab. All his plans undergo serious revision once the family travels to India and Rahul also shows up.
Jab We Met: Heartbroken when the girl he loves marries someone else, Aditya boards...
