Kore-eda, Hirokazu

Summary: Follows one day in the life of the Yokoyamas, as they gather for a commemorative ritual.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011

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

Summary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006

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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWI

Kor, Eva Mozes

Summary: Eva Mozes Kor and her twin Miriam were ten years old when they were subjected to the medical experiments of the Auschwitz Angel of Death, Dr. Josef Mengele. The story of their fight for survival, recovery, and forgiveness are told again and updated here in this new edition with interesting details and important context in a new afterword. Eva turned her triumph over pain and suffering into a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tanglewood Publishing, Inc. 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 KOR

Kor, Eva Mozes.

Summary: "A memoir of a young girl's childhood in wartime Romania, unlikely survival as a "Mengele twin" subjected to cruel Nazi medical experiments in Auschwitz, and postwar journey to forgiveness"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 KOR

Tierney, Peggy

Summary: "How to Change the World in 12 Easy Steps was inspired by Eva Kor, a child survivor of Auschwitz. She always stressed to young audiences that even though a child, they had the power to change the world. Easy, simple gestures from picking up a piece of trash on the sidewalk, tidying a bedroom, accepting someone who is different, along with other gestures of kindness and thoughtfulness can make a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tanglewood 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 155.9 TIE

Summary: "If you could choose only one memory to hold on to for eternity, what would it be? That's the question at the heart of Hirokazu Kore-eda's revelatory international breakthrough, a bittersweet fantasia in which the recently deceased find themselves in a limbo where they must select a single cherished moment from their life to be recreated on film for them to take into the next world. After...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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

Contents: Disc 1, Films 1-3. Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi (1962 ; 96 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kenji Misumi -- Zoku Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi continues (1962 ; 72 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kazuo Mori -- Shin Zatōichi...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN BLI
1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC BLU-RAY FOREIGN BLIN

Summary: In Kore-eda's thought-provoking vision, the newly deceased find themselves in a way station somewhere between Heaven and Earth. With the help of dedicated caseworkers, each soul is given three days to choose one cherished memory for their life that they will relive for eternity. As the film reveals, recognizing happiness and finding a life's worth of meaning in a single event is no simple task.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2000

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

Kort

Contents: Incredibly lonely -- Eyes look away -- A special day -- Pickin' wild mountain berries -- Yours forever -- He's only a memory away -- She came around last night -- Penetration -- April's fool -- I can't sleep with you -- Let's think about where we're going -- Who's gonna love me now

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: City Slang 0000

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY KOR

Summary: "Melodrama casts noirish shadows in this portrait of maternal sacrifice from Hollywood master Michael Curtiz. Its iconic performance by Joan Crawford as Mildred, a single mother hell-bent on freeing her children from the stigma of economic hardship, solidified Crawford's career comeback and gave the actor her only Oscar. But as Mildred pulls herself up by the bootstraps, first as an unflappable...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MIL

Summary: A gritty look at the mean streets of South London, where drug addiction, poverty and abuse are common, and hope is not.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003

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

Edan

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Five Day Weekend 2009

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP EDA

Summary: The Boss (1956): Political corruption is vividly depicted as a ruthless WWI veteran takes almost complete control of a state with the help of a crooked lawyer. The film is enhanced by John Payne's persuasive performance as "The Boss."

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY FIL

Summary: Eva Kor, who along with her twin sister endured the experiments of Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, decides to forgive him and other perpetrators in order to help herself emotionally heal.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2007

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

EMA

Contents: 7 years -- Breathalyzer -- I wanna destroy -- Blood and chalk -- Down and out -- Fire water air LSD -- Aryan nation -- 33 nihilistic and female -- Receive love -- Always bleeds -- Where the darkness began.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK EMA

Summary: In 1920s China, nineteen year old Songlian is forced to marry Chen Zuoqian, the lord of a powerful family. Fifty year old Chen has already three wives, each of them living in separate houses within the great castle. Competition between the wives is fierce, as their master's attention carries power, status and privileges. Each night Chen must decide which wife to spend the night with and a red...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Razor Digital Entertainment 2005

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

Ida

Contents: Zydeco -- Gator Man -- C'est moi -- Love is the answer -- La bas 2 step -- I-10 express -- Dancing on the bayou -- The rangers waltz -- Hard headed woman -- Lady be mine.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: GNP Crescendo 1990

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/NORTH AMERICAN QUE

Edan.

Contents: Polite meeting -- Funky voltron -- I see colours -- Fumbling over words that rhyme -- Murder mystery -- Torture chamber -- Making planets -- Time outt -- Rock and roll -- Beauty -- The science of the two -- Smile -- Promised land.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Lewis Recordings 2005

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP Edan

Summary: Show Boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009

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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GRE

Bryant, Kobe

Summary: Gus channels all his emotions-about his older brother and his death by suicide-into training to earn a spot on the Olympic swim team.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Granity Studios 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BRY

Ida

Contents: Capitaine Gumbo (3:35) -- Grand Basile (2:58) -- Mazuka (2:55) -- La Louisiane (2:58) -- P'tit fille O'Paradis (3:08) -- Madame Ben (2:33) -- Bayou polka (2:56) -- Corps solide (2:29) -- Frisco Zydeco (4:02) -- La vierge (2:57) -- La femme du Doight (3:08) -- Vieux Paris (3:39) -- C'est la vie (4:35).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 1986

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/NORTH AMERICA QUE

Summary: View all 10 short films nominated for the 79th annual Academy Award. Includes the live action short winner and the animated short winner.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Magnolia Home Entertainment 2007

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

Summary: Wayne Wang's follow-up to his watershed indie Chan Is Missing is a family portrait that gracefully combines the director's signature gentle humanism and eye for poignant detail. Offering another fresh perspective on San Francisco's Chinese American community, Wang takes a bittersweet look at the generational pas de deux between an aging immigrant widow and her devoted daughter, torn between...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY DIM