Haneke, Michael

Summary: A land surveyor tries to convince the local government of a small mountain village of the legitimacy of his position, but the more he struggles, the more obstructive the village's bureaucracy becomes.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2007

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

Flier, Yakov

Contents: Chaconne from Partita in D minor for violin solo / J.S. Bach ; F. Busoni (13:49) -- Songs without words. No. 2 in A minor, op. 19, no. 2 (2:29) ; No. 10 in B minor, op. 30, no. 4 (2:55) ; No. 20 in E flat major, op. 53, no. 2 (2:53) ; No. 45 in C major, op. 102, no. 3 (1:25) ; No. 46 in G minor, op. 102, no. 4 (2:54) / F. Mendelssohn -- Nocturne in A flat major : no. 3 from cycle Romance...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: RCD 1996

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

Summary: American combat pilot Col. Joseph Ryan is shot down over Nazi-controlled Italy and joins U.S. and English WWII troops in a prison camp during the summer of 1943. Given the insulting nickname "Von Ryan" because he initially seems more concerned with surviving than escaping, the colonel eventually leads Allied prisoners, as their new top ranking officer, in a daredevil race for freedom by...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2001

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE VON

Kocsis, Zoltan.

Contents: Lyric pieces, op. 43 / Edvard Grieg -- Romanian folk dances / Bela Bart?ok -- Les jeux d'eaux a la Villa d'Este / Franz Liszt -- Deux Arabesques ; D'un cahier d'esquisses ; Suite bergamasque ; L'isle joyeuse ; Estampes / Claude Debussy -- Piano concerto no. 4 in G minor, op. 40 ; Prelude in C sharp minor, op. 3 no. 2 ; Vocalise, op. 34 no. 14 (arr. by Zoltan Kocsis) / Sergei Rachmaninoff --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Philips Classics 1998

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

Modiano, Patrick

Summary: Born at the close of World War II, 2014 Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano was a young man in his twenties when he burst onto the Parisian literary scene with these three brilliant, angry novels about the wartime Occupation of Paris. The epigraph to his first novel, among the first to seriously question Nazi collaboration in France, reads: "In June 1942 a German officer goes up to a young man...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOD

Summary: "Michael Haneke's most notorious production, Funny Games spares no detail in its depiction of the agony of a bourgeois family held captive at their vacation home by a pair of white-gloved young men. In a series of escalating 'games, ' the sadistic duo subject their victims to unspeakable physical and psychological torture over the course of a night. A home-invasion thriller in which the game's...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN FUN

Summary: At their lakeside vacation home, Ann, George and their son have unexpected visitors: two well-spoken, well-bred young men wearing polite smiles and preppy sportswear. The visitors want to play a game. "You bet that you'll be alive tomorrow at 9:00, and we bet that you'll be dead. OK?" As the terrorized family fights to survive, each plan is thwarted, each option closed, each hour closer to what...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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

Dvorak, Antonin (1841-1904)

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: London 1998

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

Summary: Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War (1914-1918), the film recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eyes of the war's 'lost generation': Anna, a bereft young German woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien, a French veteran of the war who shows up mysteriously in her town, placing...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2017

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

Schubert, Franz

Contents: An die Entfernte, D. 765 / Goethe (3:14) -- Auf dem Wasser zu singen, D. 774 / Stolberg (3:24) -- Der Schiffer, D. 536 / Mayrhofer (1:49) -- Der Wanderer, D. 649 / von Schlegel (3:46) -- Nachtgesang, D. 314 / Kosegarten (3:56) -- Das Zügenglöcklein, D. 871 / Seidl (3:54) -- Der Jüngling und der Tod, D. 545 / von Spaun (4:08) -- Das Heimweh, D. 456 / Hell (1:23) -- Das Lied im Grünen, D. 917 /...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: EMI 1988

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

Summary: Reveals politicians who lobby for anti-gay legislation while leading secret lives, the double standards the media sets for these politicians, and the harm inflicted. Includes analysis from Congressman Barney Frank, former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey, activist Larry Kramer, and others.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2009

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

Summary: Play Misty for me: A radio disc jockey becomes the victim of psychotic obsession when he tries to end a torrid love affair with a fan.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2009

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

Summary: The shop around the corner: The setting is pre-World War II Budapest. Bickering co-workers in a gift shop don't realize they're lonelyhearts penpals.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GRE

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD TCM

Stahr, Walter

Summary: "Walter Stahr, author of the ... bestseller Seward, now tells the amazing story of Lincoln's secretary of war, Edwin Stanton, the most powerful and controversial of the men close to the president. Stanton raised an army of a million men and directed it from his Washington telegraph office, with Lincoln often at his side. He arrested and imprisoned thousands for "war crimes," some serious and...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 STANTON, EDWIN Sta

Beyoncé

Contents: CD. Pretty hurts -- Haunted -- Drunk in love (featuring Jay Z) -- Blow -- No angel -- Partition -- Jealous -- Rocket -- Mine (featuring Drake) -- XO -- ***Flawless (featuring Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) -- Superpower (featuring Frank Ocean) -- Heaven -- Blue (featuring Blue Ivy) --

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Bmg Music 2013

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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES BEY

Summary: This stylish western skillfully interweaves classic real-life old west legends like Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Buffalo Bill Cody, George Armstrong Custer and Abraham Lincoln into a stunning tale as vast as the wild frontier itself.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004

Copies Available at Interlochen

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

Summary: In 1862 Paris, Emile Zola is barely scratching out a living writing muckraking articles about the poverty of the French people and the corruption of their leaders. Until "Nana," about the life of a prostitute, becomes a smash hit and turns Zola into a celebrity, champion of the people. As he churns out a string of similar books that make him quite rich, his old friend Paul Cezanne tells him "An...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2005

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

Summary: A tale of the love between ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry and nurse Catherine Barkley during World War I. The action takes place in Italy and the two fall in love during the war and will stop at nothing to be together. The film also analyzes Lt. Henry's feelings on war and the purpose of fighting.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Osiris Entertainment 2009

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

Summary: At an Army base in 1941 Hawaii, the lives of enlisted men and officers are troubled by spiteful commanders, sadistic military police, and forbidden love. Includes actual scenes of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie From 2001