Summary: Set in the 15th century, two strangers dressed as minstrels arrive at a castle in advance of court festivities, and it is revealed that they are actually emissaries of the devil himself, dispatched to spread heartbreak and suffering. Their plans, however, are thwarted by an unexpected intrusion: human love. Often interpreted as an allegory for the Nazi occupation of France, during which it was...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012

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

Summary: A 1950 update of the Orphic myth by Jean Cocteau that depicts a famous poet scorned by the Left Bank youth, and his love for both his wife Eurydice and a mysterious princess. Seeking inspiration, the poet follows the princess from the world of the living to the land of the dead through Cocteau's famous mirrored portal. Orpheus represents the legendary Cocteau at the height of his abilities for...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ORP
1 available in Staff Picks, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ORP

Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010

Summary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HIS

Summary: Based on the memoirs of an imprisoned French resistance leader, this unbelievably taut and methodical marvel follows the fictional Fontaine's single-minded pursuit of freedom, detailing the planning and carrying out of his escape with gripping precision.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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

Summary: Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardener's son is brutally beaten up by the police at a demonstration by black school children, he gradually begins to realize his own society is built on a pillar of injustice and exploitation.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA DRY

Summary: The extraordinary story of the iconic poet, musician and folksinger Violeta Parra, whose songs have become hymns for Chileans and Latin Americans alike. Director Andres Wood traces the intensity and explosive vitality of her life, from humble origins to international fame, her defense of indigenous cultures and devotion to her art.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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

Summary: An orphan comes to live with a foster family in a Canadian mining village, and becomes a part of the comical foibles and heartbreaks of a small French-Canadian town.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008

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

Summary: A robust collection of classic film noir (black film), a genre that became a cinematic staple for American audiences during the mid 1940s through the late 1950s

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DAR

Fraction, Matt

Summary: After the fall of Attilan and the Terrigen Bomb explosion, thousands of people across the globe have transformed into Inhumans Their new powers are dangerous and terrifying, making them targets. With Black Bolt believed dead, who can these new Inhumans turn to? As the Avengers face Karnak, who has discovered the Inhumans' secret, Medusa struggles to rule her vastly increased population, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 INH

Summary: A 17-year-old Kurdish refugee, Bilal, has struggled his way through Europe in an attempt to reunite with his girlfriend, who has emigrated to England. When he is stopped in France, he decides to swim the English Channel to complete his journey. While training at a local swimming pool he meets Simon, a middle-aged swim instructor, who agrees to help Bilal, in order to regain the affection of...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2010

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

Rodrigues, André

Summary: "Unhappy with Lion, the king of the jungle, the animals hold an election to choose a new leader"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROD

Summary: Set in Sao Paulo's House of Detention. An oncologist arrives at the jail to test patients for HIV infection. Seeing the disease, overcrowding, and rampant circulation of drugs, the doctor comes to realize the internal power structure among the prisoners. Narratives develop, including the attempted murder of Dagger, the solitary confinement of Chico, and the romance between Lady Di and Too Bad....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004

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

Summary: Allie Fox is fed up. Angered by an America that "buys junk, sells junk, eats junk," and a world whose nuclear doomsday clock is always two minutes away from midnight, the brilliant inventor leads his trusting wife and four children into the remote Central American jungles to carve out a new society.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1999

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Mosquito

Lloyd Webber, Andrew

Contents: Phantom of the opera (4:35) -- Take that look off your face (3:27) -- All I ask of you (4:08) -- Don't cry for me Argentina (5:25) -- Magical Mr. Mistoffeles (3:28) -- Variations 1-4 (2:57) -- Superstar (4:15) -- Memory (4:14) -- Starlight express (5:03) -- Tell me on Sunday (3:28) -- The music of the night (5:13) -- Another suitcase in another hall (2:58) -- I don't know how to love him (3:34)...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: MCA 1988

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC LLO

Summary: "For a young girl living a 'hard-knock life' in a children's orphanage, things may seem pretty bad -- especially at Christmas. But feisty Annie carries a song in her heart and hope in her locket -- the only thing she has from her parents. One day, fed up with the dastardly Miss Hannigan, Annie escapes the run-down orphanage determined to find her mom and dad. Her adventure takes her from the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 2002

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ANN

Summary: The world's most notorious slum is Rio de Janeiro's City of God, where combat photographers and police rarely go. Presents the true story of a young man who grew up on those streets and whose ambition as a photographer is our window in and his only way out.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2003

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

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE CIT

Contents: Just a little while to stay here (Eureka Brass Band) (3:56) -- Shine-hambone (Shoeshine boy) (1:02) -- Tiger rag (Freddie L. Small) (1:42) -- Blackberries! (Dora Bliggen) (:18) -- Red white and blue got the golden band (Mardi Gras Indians) (5:07) -- Times done changed (Sister Dora Alexander) (1:24) -- Dark was the night (Rev. Lewis Jackson and Charlotte Rucell) (:52) -- Back to the time (Choir...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways 2010

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES CLA

Willey, Paula

Summary: "Passive programming is a cheap, quick, fun way to make all library customers feel like part of the community. It can support reading initiatives, foster family engagement, encourage visit frequency, and coax interaction out of library lurkers-while barely making a dent in your programming budget. Passive programming can be targeted at children, adults, seniors, or teens; used to augment...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Libraries Unlimited, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC 2021

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1 available in Reference Office, Call number: OFC 025.5 WIL

Aciman, André

Summary: In this follow-up to Call Me By Your Name, Elio has become a classical pianist in Paris, while Oliver, now a college professor, finds himself contemplating a return trip across the Atlantic.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2019

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