Summary: "This collective of progressive bands started [the RIO] movement that remains one of the reference points that many listeners, musicians, and distributors use to describe a cooperative approach of making and distributing non-mainstream music"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Media 2012
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC ROMSummary: Featuring live action and animation, this movie examines the history and current state of the living organic matter that we come from and will later return to.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Video Group 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DIRSummary: The captivating look at the unconventional life of beloved performer Chavela Vargas, whose passionate renditions of Mexican popular music and triumphant return to the stage late in life brought her international fame.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CHASummary: Darwin meets Hitchcock in this true-crime tale of paradise found and lost. A extraordinary documentary portrait of a 1930s murder mystery as strange and alluring as the famous archipelago itself. Fleeing conventional society, a Berlin doctor and his mistress start a new life on uninhabited Floreana Island. But after the international press sensationalizes the exploits of the island's 'Adam and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GALSummary: Over the course of a summer day in Los Angeles, the lives of 25 young Angelenos intersect. Through poetry they express life, love, heartache, family, home, and fear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY SUMSummary: Don't know who Tom Shadyac is? As a writer and a director, Shadyac first unleashed Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and The Nutty Professor remake on the world, and then a string of film fiascoes, but that's all behind him now. A bike accident left him with a host of debilitating maladies and brought him to the verge of suicide, so he took stock of his life and set out on a quest to answer some of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shady Acres, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ISummary: A portrait of contemporary Iran, as seen through the eyes of one woman as she drives through the streets of Tehran over a period of several days. Her journey is comprised of ten conversations with various female passengers, and shed light on the lives of these women whose voices are seldom heard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Video 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TENSummary: Hiroshima. Nagasaki. Mercury, Nevada? The latter was the site for the testing of 928 large-scale nuclear weapons from 1951 to 1992. Martin Sheen narrates this harrowing exposé of the United States' disregard for everyone living downwind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DOWSummary: A definitive exploration of singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen as seen through the prism of his internationally renowned hymn, "Hallelujah." Approved for production by Leonard Cohen just before his 80th birthday in 2014, the film accesses a wealth of never-before-seen archival materials from the Cohen Trust including Cohen's notebooks, journals and photographs, performance footage, and extremely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC HALSummary: In 1971, author and film scholar Donald Richie published a poetic travelogue about his explorations of the islands of Japan's Inland Sea, recording his search for traces of a traditional way of life as well as his own journey of self-discovery. Twenty years later, filmmaker Lucille Carra undertook a parallel trip inspired by Richie's by-then-classic book, capturing images of hushed beauty and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC INLSummary: Through private letters, unpublished memoirs, performances, and TV interviews, this documentary is the first to tell the life story of the Greek-American opera soprano completely in her own words.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MARSummary: Kenny Scharf arrived in New York City during the early 80s and quickly befriended Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, forming a trio that would take the creative yet depressed downtown art scene by storm. Unlike his friends who died tragically young, Scharf lived to face setbacks while remaining true to his high-tone Technicolor artistic vision which has cemented his place as a pop art icon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KENSummary: Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established himself overnight as a cinematic rebel and symbol for the era's progressive and anti-war youth. Sixty-two years and 140 films later, Godard is among the most renowned artists of all time, taught in every film school yet still shrouded in mystery. One of the founders of the French New Wave,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Insiders' observations of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq and the subsequent occupation, featuring commentary from high-ranking officials, Iraqi civilians, American soldiers and prominent analysts. Examines the U.S. policy decisions surrounding the invasion and their consequences in Iraq, including such issues as low U.S. troop levels, the uncontrolled looting of Baghdad, the purging of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NO1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF NO
Summary: Carl Boenish is the father of the BASE jumping movement, whose early passion for skydiving led him to ever more spectacular and dangerous feats of foot-launched human flight. Experience his jaw-dropping journey in li fe and love, to the pinnacle of his achievements when he and wife Jean broke the BASE jumping Guinness World Record in 1984. Incredibly, within days, triumph was followed by...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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3 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SUNSummary: Restaurant kitchens are a pressurized stew of brutal hours and high stress. Acting out goes with the territory and anyone is fair game. But the familiar macho posturing of celebrity chefs has reached a tipping point. Now with an influx of women at the helm of restaurants, and a younger generation unwilling to submit to the brutal conditions once considered the norm, the rules of "kitchen...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HEASummary: A look at controversial director Pier Paolo Pasolini. Was his death in 1975 the work of Pino the Frog, a 17 year old male prostitute, or an assassination by right-wing fascists?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Facets Multimedia 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHOSummary: "Composed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community, HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING allows the viewer an emotive impression of the Historic South - trumpeting the beauty of life and consequences of the social construction of race, while simultaneously a testament to dreaming - despite the odds"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HALSummary: Along with being a filmmaker, Deren was a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer and photographer, and she brings all of these disciplines together in her dreamlike and ecstatic films. Her most famous and influential is Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), co-directed with Alexander Hammid, which depicts a surrealist slippage in reality as a woman's home becomes a shifting landscape of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE MAYSummary: Comprised of a miniseries featuring three 46 minute episodes, the group of filmmakers interview the global community, ranging from political figures to on-the-street citizen dialogue, in the Western, European, and indigenous Arabic communities. Examines the dominant discourse on terrorism in the United States and Europe, and offers critics an opportunity to respond. The film casts a critical...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Arab Film Distribution 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ARASummary: Beautiful and full of life, Helena Citron, is taken to Auschwitz as a young woman and soon finds unlikely solace under the protection of Franz Wunsch, a high-ranking SS officer who falls in love with her and her magnetic singing voice. Risking execution if caught, they went on with their forbidden relationship until the war ended and the camp was liberated. Thirty years later, a letter arrives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LOVSummary: La historia verdadera de Pablo Escobar, el jefe del cartel de drogas de Medellín, relatado por la primera vez por su hijo Sebastián y su viuda María Isabel Campos.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Maya Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SINSummary: Exposing the deadly toll from the Flint water crisis. A two-year FRONTLINE investigation uncovers the roots and extent of a deadly Legionnaires' outbreak during the water crisis, and how officials failed to stop it.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019