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Luchini, Fabrice

Summary: A married stockbroker living in 1960's Paris has his world turned upside-down when he hires a Spanish maid who introduces him to a different reality up on the sixth floor servants' quarters.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing 2012

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WOM

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WOM RATED NR

Summary: The degradation of a great family, set against the historical background of the "Night of the long knives" and the rise of Nazism.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DAM

Summary: William Faber became a tax accountant like his father and resolved himself to a life where nothing much ever changed. At least until the beautiful Anna walked in one day and mistook his office for the therapist's down the hall. Unsolicited, Anna begins to reveal intimate details of her life which include how she is seeking security by attempting to save her tumultuous marriage. William and Anna...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2004

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN INT

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Summary: A poet and surgeon, husband and lover finds his life disrupted by war. It alters the lives of many, including Tonya, the gentle woman he marries and Lara, the woman he cannot forget.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE DOC

Richter, Sviatoslav

Contents: Sonata no. 60 in C, H. XVI/50 / Haydn -- Scherzo no. 4 in E, op. 54 ; Ballade no. 3 in A-flat, op. 47 ; Etudes, op. 10. No. 10 in A-flat ; No. 12 in C minor : Revolutionary ; Mazurka in C, op. 24 no. 2 / Chopin -- Preludes. Op. 23 no. 1 ; Op. 32 nos. 9, 10 and 12 / Rachmaninoff -- Jeux d'eau ; La vallee des cloches / Ravel -- Sonata no. 6 in A, op. 82 ; Visions fugitives, op. 22. Nos. 3, 4, 5,...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: RCA Red Seal 2001

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL Richt

Summary: The German occupation changes the life of the village of Villeneuve forever, and as its residents come under the pressures of war, they make choices that are inspiring and heartbreaking.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FRE

Summary: "A housebound trophy housewife steps in to manage the umbrella factory run by her tyrannical husband after the workers go on strike. To everyone's surprise, Suzanne proves herself a competent and assertive woman of action."--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2011

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF POT

Summary: Having moved to a rustic farm with her older husband, Gemma soon tires of their simpler life and finds distraction in a torrid affair with a handsome young aristocrat. Meanwhile, Martin, a local baker and lover of literature, becomes besotted with Gemma, but also fears she may suffer the same fate as the heroine in his favorite novel.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF GEM

Summary: A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his work, but the boy's intrusion will unleash a series of uncontrollable events.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Cohen Media Group 2013

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IN

Summary: Moliere is a down-and-out actor and playwright who is up to his ears in debt. The wealthy Jourdain offers to cover that debt so that Molière's theatrical talents might help Jourdain win the heart of a certain widowed marquise. Disguised as a priest, Molière becomes a guest in Jourdain's palace on the subtext of teaching Jourdain the craft of the stage, all this to the annoyance of Jourdain's...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MOL

Summary: After a struggling actress stands trial for the murder of a lascivious producer in 1930s Paris, she ascends to scandalous stardom with her lawyer roommate. A new life of fame, wealth, and tabloid celebrity awaits, until the truth comes out.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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L'Amour, Louis 1908-1988

Summary: Wilderness explorer Jubal Sackett was the son of Barnabas Sackett, the first of that line to come to the New World. Jubal feared no man, nor did he back away from any challenge. His determination to blaze new trails took him across the vast savage North American continent where no white man had been before. Living and fighting among the Indian tribes, Jubal forged a legend as a powerful...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2007

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LAM

Summary: "The most savagely subversive film by the iconoclastic auteur Luchino Visconti employs the mechanics of deliriously stylized melodrama to portray Nazism's total corruption of the soul. In the wake of Hitler's ascent to power, the wealthy industrialist von Essenbeck family and their associates--including the scheming social climber Friedrich (Dirk Bogarde), the conniving matriarch Sophie (Ingrid...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DAM

Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich

Contents: Pictures at an exhibition / Mussorgsky -- Etude in F major [op. 25, no. 3] ; Waltz in A minor [op. 34, no. 2] / Chopin -- Pictures at an exhibition / Mussorgsky ; arr. Ravel.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Mercury 1994

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL MUS

Summary: American judge Daniel Haywood presides over the trial of four German jurists accused of "legalizing" Nazi atrocities. But as graphic accounts of sterilization and murder unfold in the courtroom, mounting political pressure for leniency forces Haywood into making the most harrowing and difficult decision of his career.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JUD

Pavarotti, Luciano.

Contents: Turandot. Nessun dorma! / Puccini (Luciano Pavarotti) (2:58) -- Gianni Schicchi. O mio babbino caro / Puccini (Renata Tebaldi) (2:11) -- La bohème. Che gelida manina (Luciano Pavarotti) (4:47) ; Musetta's waltz song (Mirella Freni, Elizabeth Harwood, Michel Sénéchal, Rolando Panerai) (2:46) / Puccini -- Tosca. Recondita armonia (Luciano Pavarotti, Italo Tajo) (2:58) ; E lucevan le stelle...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: London 1994

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL Pavarotti 1994

Puccini, Giacomo

Contents: Manon Lescaut. In quelle trine morbide (2:56) ; Sola, perduta, abbandonata (5:53) -- Madama Butterfly. Un bel d©Ơ vedremo (4:34) ; Con onor muore (3:44) -- La Boh©·me. S©Ơ. Mi chiamano Mim©Ơ (4:48) ; Donde lieta usc©Ơ (3:32) -- Suor Angelica. Senza mamma (5:35) -- Gianni Schicchi. O mio babbino caro (2:34) -- Turandot. Signore, ascolta (2:30) ; In questa reggia (6:24) ; Tu che di gel sei cinta...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: EMI Classics 1997

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD O PUC

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Project Gutenberg 1992

Summary: The incredible true story of Olympic legend Jesse Owens. In his epic quest to be the greatest athlete in history, Owens chooses to compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where he must overcome not only elite competition, but also the brutal racial climate of Adolf Hitler's Germany. A film about courage, determination, tolerance, friendship and trust.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RAC

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RAC RATED PG13

Summary: Motivation and the will to win are portrayed in this true story of two British track athletes striving to win major events at the 1924 Paris Olympics.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Chariots 1997

Visconti, Luchino

Summary: Distraught over the fact that her lover has failed to meet her on a canal bridge, Natalia encounters Mario, who agrees to assist her in finding the man, with the objective of wooing her himself.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2005

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NOT

Summary: Germany, 1936. Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch is the king of counterfeiters. He lives a life of cards, booze, and women. Suddenly his luck runs dry when he is arrested by Superintendent Friedrich Herzog. He is immediately thrown into the Mauthausen concentration camp. There, Salomon exhibits exceptional skills and is soon transferred to the upgraded camp of Sachsenhausen. Upon his arrival, he once...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008

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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COU

Poe, Mayumi Shimose

Summary: On December 7, 1941, thirteen-year old Alice's life changes completely as she experiences an act of war, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and her father's imprisonment in a Japanese internment camp, leaving Alice and the rest of her family struggling to adjust to life without him.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a capstone imprint 2019

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED POE

Summary: This PBS miniseries tells the epic history of oil ... how it has dominated global politics, shaken the world economy, and transformed our century.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PRI

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