Summary: In the darkness, a clock ticks. Aging antique dealer Jesus Gris marks his time with his granddaughter Aurora, and his wife Mercedes. Señor Gris comes to possess, quite accidentally, the ancient Cronos device. The invention of a sixteenth century alchemist who fled to Mexico during the Spanish Inquisition, it grants eternal life and youthful vigor to the user. The only drawbacks are marble white...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Producciones Iguana 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CROSummary: L'Armee des Ombres is a stark and unvarnished story about Resistance fighters in Vichy France in 1942-43 when the French leadership allowed the Nazis to occupy the country. The members of this army are cold, hungry, desperate men and women, with false names and no addresses, who can be betrayed in an instant by a traitor or an accident. They know they will probably die. A meditation on the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ARMSummary: Julien is a former paratrooper, who now works for millionaire arms dealer Simon Carala. He is in love with Florence, Carala's wife. They plan to murder him and make it look like a suicide, but Julien forgets a rather important detail. Leaving the engine of his sports car running, he races up to the office to retrieve it, but fate intervenes, and Julien misses his rendezvous with Florence. She...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ELESummary: With little dialogue, this film is a meditation on the mysterious cycles of life. Set in Italy's mountainous region of Calabria, it traces the path of one goatherder's soul as it passes from human to animal to vegetable to mineral. Director Michelangelo Frammartino was inspired by Pythagoras' belief in 'four-fold transmigration' of souls, but his film is far more physical than philosophical.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Kino Lorber, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN QUASummary: The son of a sheik is lured into a thieves' trap by a beautiful girl. When he escapes, he kidnaps the girl, they fall in love, and ride off into the sunset together.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2000
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2 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SONBlake, Michael
Summary: In his New York Times bestselling novel Dances with Wolves, Michael Blake created an unforgettable saga of white and Native American cultures. Now in Marching to Valhalla, Blake unfolds the story of the final months of General George Armstrong Custer, a story that illuminates the epic sweep of his entire life--his career, his passions, his legacy to the American west. Here is Custer as we've...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BLASummary: In the late 1980s, 61-year-old former pathologist Dr. Jack Kevorkian launched a crusade to provide what he considered a humane and dignified option for the terminally ill--assisted suicide. Aided by his loyal friend Neal Nicol, and his older sister Margo Janus, Kevorkian begins offering his "death counseling" services to a grateful and burgeoning clientele. He earns the support of Hemlock...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Films 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA YOUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie You 2010Summary: From the moment the new reverend climbs the pulpit, Liz knows she and her family are in great danger.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A touching story about women whose emotional lives are as rich as their surroundings are poor. Maria is a troubled woman who drinks, smokes, and steals, desperate for oblivion and angry at the entire world. Emotional rescue comes in the form of her own mother who comes to visit while her father is in the hospital. Her mother cooks, crochets and befriends the gentlemanly neighbor who lives...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SOLSummary: A few years from now, Bacurau, a small village in the Brazilian sertô, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their village has literally vanished from online maps and a UFO-shaped drone is seen flying overhead. There are forces that want to expel them from their homes, and soon, in a genre-bending twist, a band of armed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BACSummary: A Cape Verdean woman travels to Lisbon to reunite with her husband, after two decades of separation, only to arrive mere days after his funeral. Alone in a strange, forbidding land, she perseveres and begins to establish a new life. Winner of the Golden Leopard for Best Film and Best Actress at the Locarno Film Festival, as well as an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VITSummary: The daily activities of the prisoners and employees of Emerald City, an experimental unit of Oswald Maximum Security Prison.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OZSummary: Academy Award winners Al Pacino and Helen Mirren star in this production written and directed by Pulitzer Prize-winning and Oscar-nominated playwright David Mamet. An exploration of the client-attorney relationship between legendary music producer Phil Spector and defense attorney Linda Kenney Baden, who represented Spector during his first trial for murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PHISummary: It is the headline-making true story about the deceptions, lies and betrayals of Bernie Madoff, the man who masterminded the most heinous financial swindle of our generation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2017
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY WIZCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WIZSummary: Set in 1860s New York City, the drama is centered on Kevin Corcoran, an intense, rugged, Irish-American cop working in the city's notorious Five Points neighborhood. He struggles to maintain his moral compass while embarking on a quest to learn the truth about the disappearance of his wife and the death of his daughter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide Americas 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Welcome to Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison or OZ. As run by Tim McManus and overseen by Warden Leo Glenn, Em City is about prisoner rehabilitation over public retribution. No matter how hardened a criminal or killer, whether you're in for a few years or in for life, you have a role to play. Once inside, choose your friends carefully.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2002
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OZSummary: The prison renovations following the fire are complete: the walls are cleaner, the cafeteria is bigger, and everything seems fresher ... from the outside that is. Inside the hearts and minds of the prisoners, Oz is just as dark and raw as it ever was.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OZSummary: The film centers on Joe Paterno, who, after becoming the winningest coach in college football history, is embroiled in Penn State's Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal, challenging his legacy and forcing him to face questions of institutional failure regarding the victims.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PATSummary: James Gregory is a racist South African guard whose certainties of life are shaken to the core. During a twenty year span, James spent his time as Nelson Mandela's prison warden. Shows the daily application of a major historic abonimation, known as Apartheid, as seen through the eyes of the average White South African. These are 'ordinary' people who are neither heroes nor villains, but obtuse...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COLSummary: Growing up in a culture of violence, Acerola and Laranjinha have become as close as brothers. When they find themselves on opposite sides of a gang war, the lifelong friends are forced to confront a shocking secret from their shared past.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CITSummary: A nurse, Mariana, accompanies Leao to his home on the volcanic islands of Cape Verde after an accident sends him into a coma. Yet he goes unrecognized by fellow denizens, leaving Mariana trapped with and eventually entranced by a mysterious community. Never before released in the U.S. and now beautifully restored, it foreshadows the masterful films that would follow, yet is an extraordinary,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CASSummary: Poppy is a life-loving and irrepressibly cheerful primary school teacher. She is thirty years old, single, and infinitely optimistic and accepting. She lives with her best friend and flatmate Zoe in London. She is tested by a repressed driving instructor with anger problems, and, in turn, she decides to test him. She has exciting flamenco lessons, an encounter with a homeless man, an argument...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2009
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HAPCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HAPSummary: Mariana brings her two children from Colombia to New York to reunite with her husband, only to be abandoned by him. Desperate and alone, Mariana must find a way to survive and care for her family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IndiePix 2010