Debbie Harry
1) Face it
Author
Language
English
Description
Harry recounts her path from glorious commercial success to heroin addiction, the near-death of partner Chris Stein, a heart-wrenching bankruptcy, and Blondie's breakup as a band to her multifaceted acting career in more than thirty films, a stunning solo career and the triumphant return of her band, and her tireless advocacy for the environment and LGBTQ rights.
6) Videodrome
Series
Criterion collection ; 248
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Max Renn goes looking for edgy new shows for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyperviolent torture show called Videodrome. As he struggles to unearth the origins of the program, he embarks on a hallucinatory journey into a shadow world of right-wing conspiracies, sadomasochistic sex games, and bodily transformation." --
7) Downtown 81
Publisher
Metrograph Pictures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In 1981, writer and Warhol associate Glenn O'Brien, Swiss photographer Edo Bertoglio, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, a graffiti innovator and noise music artist, hit the streets of lower Manhattan to make a movie about their bombed-out bohemia. Left incomplete due to money problems and assembled for release in 2000, the film, which follows Basquiat trying to move a painting while hustling for a place to sleep, became a window on a lost world of life on...
8) Elegy
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his state of 'emancipated manhood' thrown into tragic disarray. David is a renowned college professor whose life is turned inside out when he becomes involved in a passionate relationship with Consuela. Consuela is a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher. As their sexual relationship evolves, an incredible love story is born.
9) Union City
Publisher
Fox Lorber Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Harlan, an accountant, lives a repressed life with his sexually unfulfilled wife Lillian, who has her eye on the building's superintendent Larry. Harlan's obsession with catching the thief who steals sips of milk from his morning delivery ends in an act of irrational violence. In the aftermath, while Lillian and Larry make their secret plans, Harlan is overwhelmed by guilty paranoia with bizarre consequences. Set in the 1950s.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Foreword by Debbie Harry "A Downtown Memory" by Romy Ashby Debbie Harry defined iconic band Blondie's look. Chris Stein-her performing partner, lover, and lifelong friend-was its architect and defined its sound. "Parallel Lines", their third album, catapulted to #1, sold 20 million copies, and launched singles like "Heart of Glass", "Rapture," and "One Way or Another", providing the beat when Bianca Jagger and Halston danced at Studio 54 and the...
15) Full grown men
Publisher
Liberation Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
After Alby Cutrera is kicked out by his wife, he joins his boyhood pal Elias on a nostalgic trip to Diggityland, their favorite childhood place.
19) Ghostlight
Publisher
Palisades Tartan
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The story of Martha Graham's life and art is told through the eyes of a fictitious documentary filmmaker Barbara Rosen. Martha, notoriously camera shy in real life, reluctantly agrees to let Barbara be the first person to film her creating her new ballet Phaedra, mainly because her new dance company desperately needs money to stage her new season. Initially resistant, she slowly opens up to Barbara, inviting her into her tempestuous world, and letting...
20) Hairspray
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's 1962 Baltimore and change is in the air. Tracy Turnblad, a plus-sized girl with big hair and big dreams, has only one passion in life - to dance on the 'The Corny Collins Show.' When her chance arrives, she grooves her way into instant stardom and the eyes of teen dream Link Larkin. But with the program's scheming stage manager against her, trend setting Tracy will need the help of her best friend Penny, her big hearted mom and sassy co-host...