Summary: From two-time Palme d'Or winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne comes the story of seventeen-year-old Lokita and twelve-year-old Tori, two immigrants to Belgium from Cameroon and Benin, respectively whose siblinglike bond is the only resource they can depend on in their struggle for survival on the margins of European society. The pair work as performers in a cheap trattoria, dealing drugs on the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN TORSummary: An absorbing drama about a Belgian teenager who is gradually coming to understand the implications of his father making a living off of abusing illegal alien workers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PRODoret, Thomas
Summary: After eleven-year-old Cyril's single father rejects him, the compassion of a stranger who agrees to take care of him helps him move forward.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KID1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF KID
Summary: The Belgian filmmaking team of brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne turned heads with Rosetta, an intense verite drama that closely follows a poor young woman struggling to hold onto a job to support herself and her alcoholic mother. It's a swift and simple tale made revelatory by the raw, empathic way in which the directors render Rosetta's desperation, keeping the camera nearly perched on...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ROSSummary: Oliver is working as a carpentry instructor in a French suburb. He develops an obsession with a new student and offers him friendship and advice with a frightening lack of affection. Oliver's connection to the boy is slowly and painfully revealed.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SONSummary: Sandra, who lives in Belgium, has just been released from a psychiatric hospital only to find that she no longer has a job. According to management, the only way Sandra can regain her position at the factory is to convince her co-workers to sacrifice their much-needed yearly bonuses. So, over the course of one weekend, Sandra must confront each co-worker individually in order to win a majority...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TWO1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TWO
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 DOCSummary: In the small Texas town of Rio Bravo, law and order is maintained by three unlikely enforcers: hard-boiled sheriff Chance; former quick draw artist Dude, now gone drunk and disheveled; and the crippled, wisecracking Stumpy, who patrols the jail with a shotgun. The arrest and incarceration of Joe Burdette for murder has set these three at odds with his brother, corrupt and wealthy landowner...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Pictures 2007
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN RIOSummary: 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 2010Summary: Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should trust nothing -- including their own search-and-rescue orders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ESSSummary: 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 UMBVernant, Jean Pierre.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 292.13 VernaPrevost, Jean Pierre.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Continuum 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 224.06 PREFlorez, Juan Diego
Summary: Count Almaviva, in love with Rosina, the ward of Dr. Bartolo, succeeds, with the help of the barber, Figaro, in defeating the doctor's attempts to separate the lovers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Decca 2005
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA BARMoullé, Jean-Pierre.
Summary: Jean-Pierre and Denise Moullé met on a street corner in Berkeley, California, in 1980; six months later they were married. French Roots is the story of their lives told through the food they cook—beginning with the dishes of old-world France, the couple’s birthplace, and focusing on the simple, pared-down preparations of French food common in the postwar period. The story then travels to the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5944 MOUDvorak, Antonin (1841-1904)
Contents: Concerto pour violoncelle et orchestre op. 104 en si mineur -- Trio no 4 "Dumky" op. 90 pour piano, violon et violoncelle en mi mineur.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harmonia Mundi France 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL DVODean, Debra 1957-
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC Dean,Mirouze, Jean-Pierre.
Contents: Together -- Sexopolis -- Tivoli Garden -- Ulla et Georgie -- Karin On the Ryke -- Lovers Party -- Tivoli By Night -- Scene du Port -- Tandoori Dance.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Born Bad Records 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC MARRampal, Jean Pierre.
Contents: Andante con variazioni (4:15) / G. Rossini -- Fantaisie, op. 124 (12:32) / C. Saint-Saëns -- Sonata concertante, op. 113: Adagio (4:39) / L. Spohr -- Berceuse, op. 16 (2:52) / G. Fauré -- Duo, op. 30: Allegro (6:52), Rondo: Allegro (3:36) / F. Petrini -- Romance, op. 37 (5:45) / C. Saint-Saëns -- Adagio für eine spieluhr, WoO 33/1 (5:27) / L. van Beethoven -- Sicilienne, op. 78 (3:25) / G....
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Classical 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL RAMSiméon, Jean-Pierre
Summary: After his mother, hurrying to her tuba lesson, tells him that a poem will cure his pet fish's boredom, a little boy tries to find out what a poem is by asking friends, neighbors, and other members of his family.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Enchanted Lion Books 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Simeon 2007Verdet, Jean-Pierre.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harry N. Abrams 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 520 VERSummary: Hercule Poirot is a dapper detective, aboard the Orient Express, for whom murder-solving is a precise, intellectual exercise. When murder occurs, Poirot agrees to interview all aboard the famous train's Calais coach, hoping to find the killer of an American millionarie before the local police arrive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2004