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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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WOR
Call number: DVD 709 WOR

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

Summary: "Proud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire (Michel Simon) has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns up dead in the Paris suburb where he lives, he feels drawn to a pretty young newcomer to town (Viviane Romance). [He] discovers that his neighbors are only too ready to suspect the worst of him, and is framed for the murder. Based on a novel by Georges Simenon, Julien Duvivier's...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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

Summary: A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempts to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them. Operatic and disturbing, it deftly examines the lasting social and psychological effects of the Nazi regime.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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

Summary: L'Armee des Ombres is a stark and unvarnished story about Resistance fighters in Vichy France in 1942-43 when the French leadership allowed the Nazis to occupy the country. The members of this army are cold, hungry, desperate men and women, with false names and no addresses, who can be betrayed in an instant by a traitor or an accident. They know they will probably die. A meditation on the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007

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

Summary: After a bad storm blows across Mars Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead and left behind. Now stuck on a hostile planet, he must find a way to signal to Earth and in the meantime, survive on limited supplies. When NASA realizes he is alive, they must devise a rescue mission.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY SCI-FI MAR

Summary: Set within the vibrant dancehalls and historic crime corridors of 1940s Paris, a singer with "stars in her eyes" ignores the protest of her covetous husband and pursues a meeting with a lecherous movie financier. When her husband attempts to crash the rendevous, murder ensues. Enter the detective, whose seasoned instincts lead him down a circuitous path of alibis.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2003

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

Summary: 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 UMB

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

Summary: When a female college student goes missing, a popular professor is the prime suspect. Suddenly, the questions he faces aren't merely academic, they're a matter of life and death.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2018

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SPI

Summary: 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

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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MUR

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Murder 2004

Summary: "Twenty years after their first epic pub crawl attempt, the 'five musketeers' reunite in their home town to complete the ultimate challenge--one night, five friends, twelve bars--a boozy quest on which only the strongest will survive. But after a bizarre series of encounters with the out-of-this-world locals, they soon realize that reaching their final pub, The World's End, may be the least of...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2013

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY COMEDY WOR

Summary: Alfred Hitchcock weaves a terrifying web of suspicion around a fragile young English bride and captures a classic suspense thriller. Joan Fontaine is the bride, a gently-reared heiress who fears she has married a murderer. Cary Grant is the husband, a dashing ne'er-do-well with a penchant for the high life--and a bank account that's strictly low-life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2004

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

Summary: The story of a three day pass: An African-American soldier stationed in France is granted a promotion and a three-day leave from base and heads to Paris, where he finds whirlwind romance with a white woman--but what happens to their love when his furlough is over?

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE MEL

Summary: Simone Bitton, a Jewish woman born in Morocco who identifies with both Arab and Jewish cultures, examines the personal, cultural, and monetary costs of the Israeli West Bank Barrier, a wall being built to separate Israelis and Palestinians.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Life Size Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WAL

Summary: V.3 Goldfinger : From the opening bomb blast outside a steamy nightclub to a last-minute escape from the president's personal jet, James Bond's third screen adventure is an exhilarating, pulse-pounding thrill-ride! Sean Connery returns as Agent 007 and faces off with a maniacal villain bent on destroying all the gold in Fort Knox - and obliterating the world economy.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Danjaq LLC, and United Artists 2006

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

Summary: The story of renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde. Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. With Jane fighting tirelessly by his side, Stephen embarks on his most ambitious scientific work, studying the very thing he now has precious little of: time. Together, they...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2015

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

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Theory 2015

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD THE

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD THE RATED PG-13

Summary: The red balloon: A French boy named Pascal discovers a stray red balloon in the streets of Paris. Pascal and the balloon become fast friends and share many adventures.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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

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: When a mysterious Cossack crime lord gains control of a powerful satellite laser weapon, James Bond is sent to Russia to stop him, at all costs.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video 1996

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

Summary: A Scottish soldier is assigned the task of disarming a bomb in a small French town at the close of World War I. The townspeople have deserted the town leaving behind the inmates of the local insane asylum who embrace the soldier as their king.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001

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

Summary: In pre-World War II France, a father is torn between his sense of honor and his deep love for his saintly daughter when she gets in trouble with a dashing air force pilot.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

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

Ruiz, Raul

Summary: An art collector guides an unseen interviewer around six paintings by Frédéric Tonnerre, a fictitious 19th century painter, in an attempt to solve the mystery of a missing seventh painting, the disappearance of which has provoked a major scandal.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Facets Video 2006

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