Summary: Fueled by a suitcase full of pharmaceuticals, journalist Raoul Duke and his sidekick Dr. Gonzo set off on a fast and furious ride through nonstop neon, surreal surroundings and a crew of crazy characters.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE FEASummary: Martha is sullen, overweight and heartbreakingly lonely. Through the Friendship Club, she strikes up a correspondence with Ray, a suave charismatic smooth-talker who could be the man of her dreams. A stark portrayal of the desperate lengths to which a lonely heart will go in order to find true love. From brutally immoral killings to a passion that transcends all bounds.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY HONSummary: One of the CIA's top international operatives is suddenly relegated to a desk job in an agency power play. Unwilling to go quietly, and with the aid of a chic Viennese widow, he puts himself back in the game by writing a memoir exposing the innermost secrets of every major intelligence agency in the world. The CIA now wants him dead, but he refuses to cooperate - because he's having to much fun!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2002
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HOPSummary: Gulley Jimson, an ill-behaved artist is in search for a perfect canvas. He is determined to let nothing come between himself and the realization of his exalted vision.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HORSummary: Before World War I in Paris, a girl alternates between a French student, Jim, and a German student, Jules. After the war, they meet again and form a constantly shifting triangle.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Janus Films 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A psychopathic murderer of young girls terrorizes a German city causing public hysteria and intense police investigations, which in turn disrupts organized crime. The contrasting worlds of the police and the underworld are juxtaposed as they both resolve to hunt, capture, and try the murderer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic-Film S.A. 1998
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MSummary: A landmark film in early sound production this is a left-wing satirical comedy about two ex-convicts, one of whom works his way up from salesman to factory owner. He oversees a highly mechanised operation where the workers are reduced to mere automatons. Blackmailed over his past, he joins up with his old cellmate, and the pair take to the road as tramps. Frequently acknowledged as the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Janus Films 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ANOSummary: Geneviève, a shop assistant, falls in love with Guy, a gas station mechanic. But a life with him will not be in her future. A tender, bittersweet love story, sung throughout in French.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN UMBSummary: A soldier-boy earns a ten-day leave to go home to his mother by performing a desperate act of bravery at the front. On the way home he has many small adventures.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BALSummary: In this classic tale of adventure, duty and honor conflict in a German prisoner-of-war camp when an aristocratic French officer becomes friends with the German commandant, a fellow aristocrat, while simultaneously cooperating in a daring escape with his French comrades, who are commoners.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "For decades, journalist Jep Gambardella has charmed and seduced his way through the glittering nightlife of Rome. Since the legendary success of his only novel, he has been a permanent fixture in the city's literary and elite social circles. But on his sixty-fifth birthday, Jep unexpectedly finds himself taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GRESummary: Left behind by the world, former hit man and union truck driver Frank Sheeran looks back from a nursing home on his life's journey through the ranks of organized crime: from his involvement with Philadelphia mob boss Russell Bufalino to his association with Teamsters union head Jimmy Hoffa to the rift that forced him to choose between the two.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2020
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3 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY IRICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD IRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD IRISummary: When a serial killer is stalking the children of the city, everyone, including the criminal underworld, wants to see him brought down.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MSummary: Part-time pest-control man and full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Weller) seeks escape from his troubled existence in 1953 New York and flees to Interzone (a hallucinatory version of Tangiers) where reality and fantasy have merged. It's a strange, surreal landscape inhabited by mugwumps, half-alien, half-insect creatures, man-sized centipedes, carnivorous typewriters and bizarre humans. Compelled...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE NAKSummary: The notorious Pepe le Moko is a wanted man--women long for him, rivals hope to destroy him and the law is breathing down his neck at every turn. On the lam in the Casbah of Algiers, Pépé is safe from the police until a Parisian playgirl compels him
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PEPSummary: A knight returning home from the Crusades encounters Death, who agrees to a chess game. In the balance hang the lives of the knight and a group of traveling players.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Classic 1998
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SEVCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SEVSummary: Hoffmann is a lovelorn young man in Nuremberg who is watching his latest love, Stella, dance in the ballet. In the interval he goes to the tavern where he tells his friends the tales of the three major loves of his life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA TALSummary: In a Paris prison cell, five inmates use every ounce of their tenacity and ingenuity in an elaborate attempt to tunnel to freedom. Four of the inmates have been together for awhile in their cell, when Gaspard, the fifth inmate, is added to the cell. The original four inmates must decide if they want to take him into their confidence or not and whether to continue tunneling or not.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In the impoverished town of Las Piedras, desperate men and women scrape out a living under the watchful eye of the ruling Southern Oil Company. When a well explodes, four workers must go on a suicide mission that is their only way out.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2005