Stanley Kubrick
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
Description
A special new Introduction by the author highlights this reissue of a classic science fiction novel that changed the way people looked at the stars--and themselves. 2001: A Space Odyssey is the classic science fiction novel that changed the way we looked at the stars and ourselves. 2001: A Space Odyssey inspired what is perhaps the greatest science fiction film ever made--brilliantly imagined by the late Stanley Kubrick.... 2001 is finally here.
Language
English
Formats
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) The shining
Language
English
Description
A writer and his family are snowbound in a hotel and are haunted by either the hotel itself or the writer's dementia.
7) Spartacus
Series
Criterion collection volume 105
Language
English
Description
Sold into slavery as a young boy and sentenced to spend out the rest of his adult life laboring in the harsh deserts of Egypt, Spartacus gets a new lease on life when he is purchased by the owner of a Roman gladiator school. Moved by the defiance of an Ethopian warrior, Draba, Spartacus leads a slave uprising which threatens Rome's status quo. As Spartacus gains sympathy within the Roman Senate, he also makes a powerful enemy in form of Marcus Lucinius...
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[1968]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
Description
The classic science fiction novel that changed the way we looked at the stars and ourselves. From the savannas of Africa at the dawn of mankind to the rings of Saturn as man ventures to the outer rim of our solar system, 2001: A Space Odyssey is a journey unlike any other. This allegory about humanity's exploration of the universe and the universe's reaction to humanity was the basis for director Stanley Kubrick's immortal film, and lives on as a...
Series
Language
English
Description
At the Dawn of Man, a group of hominids encounters a mysterious black monolith that is alien to their surroundings. A hominid discovers the first weapon, using a bone to kill prey. The bone is tossed in the air and it's a 21st century spacecraft hovering over the Earth, skipping ahead millions of years in technological development only to imply that man hasn't advanced very far at all psychologically. U.S. scientist Dr. Heywood Floyd travels to the...
10) The shining
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When a couple takes a job as hotel caretakers for the winter, their young son's psychic powers bring out the evil in the old hotel.
11) Barry Lyndon
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
The rise and fall of a young 18th century Irishman bent on achieving fame and fortune, mainly by marriage.
12) Barry Lyndon
Series
Criterion collection volume 897
Publisher
Criterion Collection Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Follows the adventures of an eighteenth-century Irish rogue whose opportunism takes him from the farm to the battlefield and ultimately into high society as the husband of a widowed aristocrat.
13) Paths of glory
Series
Criterion collection volume 538
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
During WWI, a French battalion is ordered on a suicide mission that is likely to fail. When it does, the general that planned the mission selects three soldiers from the battalion to be executed for cowardice, and selects their leader as their attorney.
14) Eyes wide shut
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Dr. William Harford, a New Yorker who plunges one fateful winter night into an erotic foray that threatens his marriage - and many even ensnare him in a lurid murder mystery - after his wife's admission of sexual longings.
17) Eyes wide shut
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Manhattan physician Bill Harford's equilibrium is disrupted by a sexual revelation. At an elegant Christmas party, two 'models' hit on him, while he watches a Lothario try to pick up his tipsy wife. The next night, his wife reveals her sexual fantasies with a stranger. Bill's dead patient's daughter throws herself at him. He has homophobic insults thrown at him by six teenage boys. A prostitute takes him to her flat. Later, he interrupts men having...
18) Killer's kiss
Publisher
Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A boxer in New York protects a nightclub dancer, not knowing that her boss is a gangster.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Being the adventures of a young man who couldn't resist pretty girls, or a bit of the old ultra-violence, who went to jail, was re-conditioned, and came out a different young man. Or was he?" So might opine your humble narrator, Alex. Alex and his droogs Georgie, Dim, and Pete are bored. Alex loves Ludwig van, milk bars, and mayhem. One night a botched burglary ends in murder. Apprehended by the police, Alex is tried, sentenced, and sent to...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A clockwork orange (widescreen, 1971, 137 min.): Depicts a harrowing journey through a near-future world of decaying cities, murderous adolescents and nightmarish technologies of punishment and crime.
2001: a space odyssey (widescreen, 1968, 148 min.): A science fiction film which moves from the pre-historic birth of intelligence toward the emergence of man as pure thought somewhere in the future.
The shining (widescreen, 1980, 144 min.): A young...