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Summary: Fueled by a suitcase full of pharmaceuticals, journalist Raoul Duke and his sidekick Dr. Gonzo set off on a fast and furious ride through nonstop neon, surreal surroundings and a crew of crazy characters.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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2 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE FEASummary: A beautiful woman riding in a limosine along Los Angeles' Mulholland Drive is targeted by a would-be shooter, but before he can pull the trigger, she is injured when her limo is hit by another car. The woman stumbles away from the accident and meets up with a plucky ingenue new to L.A. But are things really as they seem?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2002
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE MULSummary: Part-time pest-control man and full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Weller) seeks escape from his troubled existence in 1953 New York and flees to Interzone (a hallucinatory version of Tangiers) where reality and fantasy have merged. It's a strange, surreal landscape inhabited by mugwumps, half-alien, half-insect creatures, man-sized centipedes, carnivorous typewriters and bizarre humans. Compelled...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE NAKSummary: Follow a gangster with a talent for violence and intimidation, on the run and looking for a place to hide. He ends up hiding out with a reclusive rock superstar. It all leads up to a shocking final performance for the rock star.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE PERSummary: Join Wiley Wiggins as he searches for answers to the question of whether we are sleepwalking through our waking state or wake-walking through our dreams.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2002
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2 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE WAKBrown, Nathaniel
Summary: After a man is shot while dealing drugs in Tokyo, his spirit journeys through an unfamiliar world and tries to protect his sister, who is working as a stripper.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2011
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE ENTJodorowsky, Axel
Summary: A young man who was traumatized as a child by his family of circus performers escapes the mental hospital he is in to rejoin his armless mother and, with the son becoming his mother's arms, the two go on a murderous campaign of revenge.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Severin Films 2011