Due to popular demand, we are now offering Kanopy for our library patrons! Hoboken Public Library Resident Library Card Holders now have access to more than 30,000 Films from Kanopy. Library card holders can access Kanopy and sign up to start streaming films instantly by visiting http://hoboken.kanopy.com. Films can be streamed from computers, televisions, mobile devices or platforms by downloading the Kanopy app for iOS, Android, AppleTV, Chromecast or Roku. Sign up should be fast and easy, but if you need help setting up an account or getting an app, please let us know.
The films include award-winning documentaries, rare and hard-to-find titles, film festival favorites, indie and classic films, and world cinema. With the motto of “thoughtful entertainment,” Kanopy provides films of unique social and cultural value; films that are often difficult or impossible to access elsewhere, and programming that features diversity.
You have five checkouts per month. Below are five choices I’m planning to checkout this May that I think will appeal to my fellow book worms.
Neruda
I’m looking forward to watching Neruda, directed by the award-winning filmmaker Pablo Larrain and staring Gale Garcia Bernal, who I am a huge fan of from his role on Mozart in the Jungle. Bernal stars as a policeman chasing Pablo Neruda, one of the most significant poets of the 20th century. The film was nominated for a Golden Globe.
This Beautiful Fantastic
Described as a “modern day fairy tale,” I’m curious to check out This Beautiful Fantastic. This is a story of a young aspiring children’s book author who finds unexpected friendship with a widower living next door, after she is forced to transform the garden in her apartment building’s backyard or face eviction.
Eleanor’s Secret (Kérity, la Maison des Contes)
Eleanor’s Secret from Academy Award-nominated director Dominique Monfery, is the animated adventure about a magical library where characters from children’s books classics are able to leave their pages and come to life. It is available in the original French or dubbed in English.
How to Publish Your Book
One thing that comes up a lot in the Hoboken Public Library’s Writer’s Groups are questions about the basics of getting a first book published. How to Publish Your Book, part of The Great Courses provides 24 informative lectures from Jane Friedman, a publishing industry expert about everything from prepping your manuscript, reviewing contracts, and even marketing your book.
Dickinson: The Life and Work of Emily Dickinson
Photograph from Kanopy.com
Emily Dickinson is one of the most beloved American poets; I’m curious to learn more about her life in 19th Century New England in Dickinson, a short documentary from 2014.
What films or documentaries are you planning to check out from Kanopy? Share your recommendations in the comments!
Hoboken Library Staff Picks 
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