OUR DVD & VIDEO COLLECTON

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
The Queen,
Happy Feet,
Children of Men,
The Last King of Scotland

Pirates of the Caribbean I
Pirates of the Caribbean II,
Flushed Away (children)
The Constant Gardener,
Cinderella III,
Peter Pan (Two disc platinum)
The Departed,
On the Waterfront,
East of Eden,
The Philadelphia Story,
Bringing up Baby,
Flags of Our Fathers,
A Streetcar Named Desire.

Two of these movies, The Philadelphia Story and Bringing up Baby (both with Katherine Hepburn are recommended in “Old Movies to watch with Children”.

DVD COLLECTION
We have added "Eight Below", an action adventure Disney family film about a team of sled dogs stranded in Antarctica and their guide who will stop at nothing to rescue them. For adults: Local Hero, a disarming, funny movie about a tycoon's (Burt Lancaster) attempt to buy a sleepy Scottish seaside village to replace with an oil refinery. Lawrence of Arabia with Peter O'Toole, Bing Crosby in "Pennies from Heaven", "How Green was my Valley", the inspiring yet heartbreaking story of young parents struggling to keep their family together as they endure severe hardship in a Welsh mining town. "How to Marry a Millionaire" with Marilyn Monroe, War and Peace with Audrey Hepburn and MacArthur with Gregory Peck

New Vermont VHS tapes

We have three VHS tapes from Vermont ETV. Discovering Lake Champlain, Vermont Memories III (vanished images of the history of our state) and Rural Free Delivery (A seasonal 'how to' series celebrating Vermont's rural past. Vermont in the Civil War is backordered to December.

New DVDs: Narnia, Rent, Memoirs of a Geisha, Good Night and Good Luck, Brokeback Mountain, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and Chicken Little.

Hey Guys!:
We now have the entire Dirty Harry series: Dirty Harry, Magnum Force, The Enforcer, Sudden Impact and the Dead Pool. On the other hand, we also added "Fiddler on the Roof" to our collection of DVD musicals.

"Million Dollar Baby".
"Kundun" which is about the life of the Dali Lama.

Hollywood comes to North Hero, at least in the form of new DVDs and VHS of several Oscar Winners. So far we have "Capote" and "Walk the Line". We will be purchasing "Brokeback Mountain, "Good Night, and Good Luck" and "Crash".

We are also adding the films of Vermont film maker, John O'Brien: Spread Fred, Nosey Parker and Vermont is for Lovers. John is offering Libraries a reduced price and sending all the films in both VHS and DVD format.

We have War of the Worlds, 40-Year Old Virgin and Broken Flowers in VHS format.

Our latest new film is Sideways. Two men go on an excursion and end up inducing midlife crises in this comedy-drama that won six indepent Spirit Awards, including best Feature and Best Director.
We replaced Gone With the Wind and Chicago.

New Collections: We have a new collection of family films on VHS. We also have a collection of Classic Films on VHS (look on the bottom shelf of the VHS shelf or ask us). Some of the oldies but goodies are: Night of the Living Dead, Scarlet Pimpernel, Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon, Snows of Kilmanjaro.

New independent and foreign films on DVD include: Sunset Story, Weeping Camel, The Station Agent, The Little Chinese Princess, Garden State.

The Librarian of the year is Rivkah Sass who, has pushed the Omaha Library toward greatness (From Library Journal VOl. 131 No. 1). She made several changes "very aggressive weeding and rearrangement of the collection. The libraries were too full of the old stuff. The collection is now more visible", Sass stated. In addition she "put money into our DVD collection.

I think we (Judy, Eva, Jack-our 'regular volunteers and myself) have stumbled on the right track. Last year we did a very aggressive weeding and inventory of what we have. The card catalog is in much better shape. We have room to display books now.

For several years, we have been building our DVD and VHS collection (mostly DVD). Like Sass, the DVD collection is a mixture of classic films and 'new' films. We strive to have something for everyone and the quality of the film is a big consideration. Sass asserts, "You many not find 'Legally Blonde' in the DVD collection, but you will find last year's Sundance winners and other important movies."

However, we do have problems with DVDs. They are fragile. Please take care of them. When important DVDs are either lost or damaged, we replace them. This means that we will have to order fewer new films.

Garden State, Hotel Rwanda, Lemony Snicket's A Series of...., The Story of the Weeping Camel, Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Ladies, Phantom of the Opera, and Sunset Story.