Summary: Free Cinema consisted of a group of young film-makers who decided to rebel against the stifling conformity of British cinema in the late fifties and to make their own films outside the confines of 'the system'. This 50th-anniversary compilation of short films about British working class life shows directors expressing personal viewpoints without obligation to subscribe to the technical or...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Facets Multimedia 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FRESummary: ATL refers to the airport designation for Atlanta. That's where orphaned 17-year-old Rashad lives with his younger brother Anton and uncle George. They're poor like most Southside families, but they're making ends meet, caring for each other and forging life-long friendships with guys like the smart, ambitious Esquire, transplanted New Yorker Brooklyn, and likable homeboy Teddy. On Sunday...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD ATLSummary: For old friends Roger and Frank and their wives, it was supposed to be the best vacation they ever had. But their RV road trip takes a deadly detour at a secluded campsite when they accidentally witness a satanic sacrifice. Now horror hits the highway as the couples are pursued by satanic cultists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2011
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE RACSummary: 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 DARSummary: Dramatizes the friendship between an aging alcoholic jazz musician and a young French jazz fan. Inspired by the real-life friendship between jazz pianist Budd Powell and Francis Paudras.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ROUSummary: A 30-year-old writer spends a wild weekend in Palm Springs and wakes up to find she has magically transformed into her inner 70-year-old.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MACCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MACCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MACCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie MackWagner, Richard
Summary: The four operas of The Ring Cycle.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2012
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA RINSummary: Upon learning that their mother has been lying to them for years about their allegedly deceased father, two fraternal twin brothers hit the road in order to find him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FaSummary: For 46 years, Caroll Spinney has been beloved by generations of children as the man behind Sesame Street's Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, and at 80 years old, he has no intention of stopping. A loving portrait of the man in the yellow suit, features extraordinary footage of Spinney's earliest collaborations with Jim Henson as it traces his journey from bullied child to childhood icon.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ISummary: A film about a weathered repo man in desolate downtown Los Angeles, and the nihilistic middle-class punk he takes under his wing. The job becomes more than either of them bargained for when they get involved in reclaiming a mysterious, and other worldly, Chevy Malibu with a hefty reward attached to it. Featuring the ultimate early-eighties L.A. punk soundtrack, this grungily hilarious odyssey...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: One of the earliest and best-loved films of this period in his career, which balances a realistic depiction of tormented romance with staging that remains true to the director's roots in experimental theater. This unforgettable, unforgiving dissection of the imbalanced relationship between a haughty fashion designer and a beautiful but icy ingenue, based, in a sly gender reversal, on the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BITSummary: This sitcom follows the exploits of Lister, a deep-space miner who emerges from stasis 3 million years in the future to find that his only companions are Rimmer, a hologram of his dead bunkmate, Cat, a humanoid who evolved from his pet cat, and Holly, the ship's computer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV REDSummary: Discover the stories, ideas, and methods behind today's most compelling artists; features sixteen artists from North America (Chicago, Mexico City, Los Angeles, and Vancouver).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ARTSummary: In 1940, the merchant ship Glencairn rolls and shivers in the black North Atlantic. On board, her anxious crewmen search the sky for German planes and hope they'll survive "The long voyage home."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LONSummary: This sitcom follows the exploits of Lister, a deep-space miner who emerges from stasis 3 million years in the future to find that his only companions are Rimmer, a hologram of his dead bunkmate, Cat, a humanoid who evolved from his pet cat, and Holly, the ship's computer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2003
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV REDSummary: The nanobots have populated the ship with its original crew. This is especially good news for Rimmer, who is now a lot less dead, but is extremely bad news for everyone else.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2006
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV REDSummary: Nanni Moretti recounts three entries from his 'diary' in the hilarious and intimate self-reflective comedy which follows the filmmaker's musing on cinema atop a Vespa, a trip to the Aeolian Islands to work on his new screenplay, and his search for health and wellness after breaking out in a nagging skin rash.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CARCagney, James
Summary: Three buddies return home from World War I and begin a profitable bootlegging operation, until romance and rivalry get in the way of business.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Distribution 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Danner, Matt
Summary: Four racers join forces and become Team Hot Wheels to save their town from a mysterious black car that comes to town.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2014
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV TEACanner, Elizabeth
Summary: Documents the efforts of drug companies to find a cure for the phenomenon known as female sexual dysfunction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2011