Stanley Kubrick
Author
Series
Space Odyssey series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
A satire in which the U.S. president and his military advisors struggle ineptly to avert a holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union because he fears that the Russians are poisoning the water supply in the United States.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
"Stamping, whomping, stealing, singing, tap-dancing, violating, Derby-topped hooligan Alex has a good time -- at the tragic expense of others. His journey from amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen and back again forms the dynamic arc of Stanley Kubrick's future-shock vision of the Anthony Burgess novel"--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 821
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A satire in which the U.S. president and his military advisors struggle ineptly to avert a holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union because he fears that the Russians are poisoning the water supply in the United States.
6) Lolita
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
"Newly arrived in Ramsdale, New Hampshire, European émigré Humbert Humbert is smitten. He plans to marry Charlotte Haze. That way he'll always be close to his dear one-- Charlotte's precocious daughter!"--Container.
7) Barry Lyndon
Series
Language
English
Description
The rise and fall of a young 18th century Irishman bent on achieving fame and fortune, mainly by marriage.
8) Spartacus
Series
Criterion collection volume 105
Language
English
Description
Spartacus is the bold gladiator slave who leads a massive slave revolt against Imperial Rome in this epic true account of man's eternal struggle for freedom.
10) The killing
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A group of small-time crooks plan a daring race-track robbery--but their well-laid plans go awry.
11) Paths of glory
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
The French General Staff, safely behind the lines, sends orders for what amounts to a suicide mission. To cover up their fatal blunder, three soldiers are arrested and made scapegoats. Captures the spirit of Humphrey Cobb's novel in presenting a harsh attack on the futility of war in general and World War I in particular. A blistering indictment of military politics.