Homer Library DVD Wish List

Do you have any of these movies on DVD
and don’t watch them any more?

Consider donating them to the Library!

Don’t forget….. Donations to the Library may be tax deductible!

13 Assassins 2010

1984 (which came out in 1984)

A Christmas Story 1983

A The Artist 2011

About Schmidt 2002

African Queen

Aliens 1986

American Splendor 2003

Anastasia (Disney)

Annie Hall 1977

Apocalypse Now 1979

Before Sunset 2004

Being John Malkovich 1999

Big 1988

Blade Runner 1982

Bloody Sunday 2002

Boys Don’t Cry 1999

Brazil 1985

Cape Fear 1962

Children of Men 2006

Chinatown 1974

Citizen Kane 1941

City of God 2002

Dirty Dancing

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 2007

Do the Right Thing 1989

Duck Soup (the Marx Brothers) 1933

The English Patient 1996

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004

The French Connection 1971

Fargo 1996

From Here to Eternity

The Godfather 1972

Gorillas in the Mist

Gandhi 1982

Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2001

House of Flying Daggers 2004

Home Alone 1990

In the Heat of the Night

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Jaws 1975

The Joy Luck Club

Key Largo

The Kid (Charlie Chaplin) 1921

The Kids Are All Right 2010

The Lives of Others 2006

La Dolce Vita 1960

Lawrence of Arabia 1962

Lonesome Dove

The Muppet Movie 1979

Memento 2000

Metropolis 1927

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Monty Python and the Holly Grail 1975 (we don’t have any Monty Python)

Old Yeller

On the Waterfront 1954

The Producers 2005

Pan’s Labyrinth 2006

Patton 1970

Persepolis 2007

The Red Balloon 1956

Rainman

Raging Bull 1980

Rio Grande

Rushmore 1998

Rocky 1976

The Silence of the Lambs 1991

Say Anything 1989

Seven Samurai 1954

Shakespeare in Love 1998

Some Like it Hot 1959

Stand By Me 1986

Star Wars – the only one we have on DVD is Revenge of the Sith (episode 3)

Steel Magnolias

The Straight Story 1999

The Ten Commandments

The Thorn Birds

The Tree of Life 2011

The Triplets of Belleville 2003

The Truman Show 1998

Taxi Driver 1976

Thelma & Louise 1991

There Will Be Blood 2007

Titanic 1997

Tuck Everlasting

Vertigo

Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988

The Yearling

Yellow Submarine (the Beatles) 1968

Also, if you have movies  you'd consider donating but want to see if we have them first you can check our on-line card catalog (you can also use this to see if we have items you are looking for

and even put a hold on them) go to: 

     opac.libraryworld.com

     library name: Homer Library 

     no password required

Help Us Replace Our VHS Movies!

Thank you to those who have responded to our DVD donation request. If you didn't see the flyer, we are trying to replace any movies that we still only have on VHS with DVDs. You'd be surprised at some of the titles we don't have on DVD (like Titanic - whaaaaat?). HERE is how you can help -- if you have movies on DVD that are just cluttering up your house, please consider donating them to the library. We also have a list of 'wish list' movies if you'd like to look to buy a specific movie for us or if you'd like to give us money (we LOVE money) we will use it to order movies on our wish list. The librarians have a copy of our list at the circulation desk. We couldn't be as good a library as we are without the help of our generous donors, so THANK YOU for your help!

Arts Education Week at the Library!

Did you know this is Arts Education Week? Did you know you can find many arts education resources at the library? Of course, when you think of arts education you first think of those really thick art history books that we have in the reference section or those really overwhelming (some would say boring) classic books of literature. But there is a lot more to the arts than those intimidating art history tomes or really long books by the Bronte sisters. 

For instance, did you know we have a whole collection of music cd's that showcase many of the different musical styles that have been popular over the years? We have classical, jazz, ragtime, blues, reggea, country, rock and even some more recent alternative music. We even have a small selection of different music styles from around the world. We also have many cd's of early American music which has been saved and reissued by a local St. Joseph company, Archeophone Records.  

For the more serious music student, we have books and audiobook lectures on how to appreciate classical music as well as a few books on how to teach your children about music.  We even have a 20-volume Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 

Aside from fine art, literature and music, film is one of the most popular art forms of today.  We currently have around 2000 movies available for our patrons to check out.  Some are just fun entertainment but many are good examples of film as art. You may have seen our recent flyer asking for donations of some of the classics that we currently only have on old VHS tapes.  The reason we are requesting help updating these is because certain movies are such a part of our culture that it seems like we would be doing our community a disservice by not having them available to future film enthusiasts.  While we try to get in many of the popular new movies, having a well-rounded cultural collection is just as important for film as it is for books.  We believe our library should be a place to find not just classics in literature, but classics in all art forms.  Because of this, we hope to enlighten and educate our patrons on the arts and hope that in many cases we are doing so while they think they are just being entertained by some fun music cd or movie. 

We hope that you will take advantage of your local library and bone up on your arts education this week - even if it is just watching an old movie or listening to some Ella Fitzgerald. 

March 2015 Events

Oops............. it looks like it has been a while since I posted anything. I guess I need to put this on my weekly to-do list so I don't forget about it.  We really are doing lots at the library - maybe that is why I run out of time and forget to update the blog! Well, here are the upcoming events for March - hope we see  you.

March 11 at 1pm 

Movie Matinee: The Theory of Everything

The Theory of Everything is the story of the most brilliant and celebrated physicist of our time, Stephen Hawking, and Jane Wilde the arts student he fell in love with whilst studying at Cambridge in the 1960s. Little was expected from Stephen Hawking, a bright but shiftless student of cosmology, given just two years to live following the diagnosis of a fatal illness at 21 years of age. He became galvanized, however, by the love of fellow Cambridge student, Jane Wilde, and he went on to be called the successor to Einstein, as well as a husband and father to their three children. Over the course of their marriage as Stephen's body collapsed and his academic renown soared, fault lines were exposed that tested the lineaments of their relationship and dramatically altered the course of both of their lives.Written by Spencer Higham

PG-13   123m

March 20 at 7pm 

Family Movie Night: Big Hero 6

From Walt Disney Animation Studios, the team behind "Frozen" and "Wreck-It Ralph," comes "Big Hero 6," an action-packed comedy-adventure about the special bond that develops between Baymax, a plus-sized inflatable robot, and prodigy Hiro Hamada. When a devastating event befalls the city of San Fransokyo and catapults Hiro into the midst of danger, he turns to Baymax and his close friends adrenaline junkie Go Go Tomago, neatnik Wasabi, chemistry whiz Honey Lemon and fanboy Fred. Determined to uncover the mystery, Hiro transforms his friends into a band of high-tech heroes called "Big Hero 6."Written by Walt Disney Animation Studios

PG  102m