Minear, Richard H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 MINSummary: Tells the story of Newland Archer, whose engagement to an innocent socialite binds him to the codes and rituals of his upbringing. When her cousin arrives in town on a wave of scandal after separating from her husband, she ignites passions in Newland he never knew existed. Swelling with exquisite period detail, this film is an alternately heartbreaking and satirical look at the brutality of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Modern Paris, a city of glass, steel and the encroaching age of technology. Admist the babble of tourists, the endearingly clumsy Monsieur Hulot tries to reconcile the old-fashioned ways with the confusing new ways.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PLASummary: A fastidious composer reeling from a disastrous concert, Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde) travels to Venice to recover. There, he is struck by a vision of pure beauty in the form of a young boy named Tadzio (Björn Andrésen), his infatuation developing into an obsession even as rumors of a plague spread through the city. Based on the novella by Thomas Mann, this late masterpiece from Luchino...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA DEASummary: A pair of preppy yet constitutionally mismatched American cousins, a salesman and a navy officer, argue about romance and politics while working in the beautiful Spanish city of the film's title. Set during the eighties, it explores topics both heady (American exceptionalism, Cold War foreign policy) and hilarious (the ins and outs of international dating, the proper shaving method) while...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY BARSummary: Comedy about a witch who was burned at the stake 300 years ago. She plans to take revenge by marrying the descendent of her persecutors and ruining his political aspirations, but doesn't count on falling in love!
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY ISummary: "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 MILSummary: Set in England on the cusp of World War II, the final film by Ernst Lubitsch is a zany comedy of manners that sends up British class hierarchy with his famously light touch. Cluny Brown is an irrepressible heroine with a zeal for plumbing. Sent to work as a parlormaid at a stuffy country manor, she proceeds to turn the household upside down with plenty of help from Adam Belinski, an eccentric...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY CLUSummary: Parry is a homeless history professor who lives in a fantasy world full of castles, Red Knights, and damsels in distress. Jack is New York's number one shock deejay, until the day his off-hand arrogance triggers a tragedy that ruins his career. Penniless and without prospects, Jack finds himself plucked from disaster by the most improbable of saviors, Parry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Legendary director Nicholas Ray began his career with this lyrical, dark love story, the first in a series of existential genre films overflowing with sympathy for America's outcasts and underdogs. When the wide-eyed fugitive Bowie (Farley Granger), having broken out of prison with some bank robbers, meets the innocent Keechie (Cathy O'Donnell), each recognizes something in the other that no...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY THESummary: Modern Paris, a city of glass, steel and the encroaching age of technology. Admist the babble of tourists, the endearingly clumsy Monsieur Hulot tries to reconcile the old-fashioned ways with the confusing new ways.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PLASummary: Brings the world of Gilbert and Sullivan to life as a dramatization of the staging of the duo's legendary 1885 comic opera, The Mikado. The world-famous Victorian librettist and composer, along with their troupe of temperamental actors, must battle personal and professional demons while mounting this major production becomes an epic about the harsh realities of creative expression.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TOPPhillips Collection
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 1995
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.13 TURSpecial Request
Contents: Disc 1 Forbidden -- Undead -- Cold blooded -- Body armour -- Lockjaw -- Ride VIP -- Soundboy killer -- Broken dreams -- Black Ops -- Capsules -- Deranged -- Descent -- Disc 2 -- Tessela: Hackney Parrot (Special Request VIP) -- Lana Del Rey: Ride (Special Request remix) -- Mindwash -- Alone -- Mindwash (Anthony Naples Aftermath remix) -- Lolita (Warehouse mix) -- Vapour -- Deflowered (Kassem...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Houndstooth 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC SPESpecial Request
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC SPESummary: "When a family of Trumpeter Swans make their home on the Peterson farm pond, it's love at first sight for 10-year-old daughter Frankie. But when Ginny Newsom, a no-nonsense wildlife biologist rushes in to 'save' the majestic birds, it's dislike at first sight for Frankie's dad Jack. As everyone watches nature's plan unfold for the swans, Frankie and her brothers also observe changes in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family AwaySummary: Follows the personal and professional exploits of a group of attorneys working at the law firm of Crane, Poole & Schmidt. They tackle some of today's most inflammatory, and sometimes irreverent, social and moral issues, from teen pregnancy and the death penalty to sex surrogates and Alzheimer's. Now, the firm faces financial ruin and its brilliant attorneys face chaotic caseloads filled with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BOSSummary: Follows the personal and professional exploits of a group of attorneys working at the law firm of Crane, Poole & Schmidt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BOSSummary: A famous crime and horror novelist, Rick Castle, helps Kate Beckette of the NYPD homicide department solve crimes. Castle's non-traditional approach to solving the crimes conflicts with Beckett's conservative approach, leading to much tension and a hint of romance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MOVIE CASCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CASTLESummary: "Powell's role as a television actor-producer magnate began with the formation of Four Star Productions in 1952. The debut offering of what would become a persuasive and powerful force within the newly developing television industry was the anthology series, Four Star Playhouse (1952-1956). Powell oversaw production and appeared as various characters along side alternating stars Charles Boyer,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Alpha Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FOUSummary: Based on the 1913 U.S. Open golf championship - at which two equally sympathetic young men, both of whom grew up economically and socially disadvantaged, go club to club in one of the most exciting and dramatic athletic events of the 20th century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The true story of a small-town father who must find the courage and conviction to share his son's extraordinary, life-changing experience with the world. Colton claims to have visited Heaven during a near death experience. He recounts the details of his amazing journey with childlike innocence and speaks matter-of-factly about things that happened before his birth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014