Summary: A stirring look at three women striving to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer who finds herself contending with both office sexism and a hostage situation; a wife and mother whose determination to build her dream home puts her at odds with the men in her life; and a young law student who forms an ambiguous bond with a lonely ranch hand. A...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CER1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CER
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CERSummary: Told from the perspectives of eight different Pacific Island cultures, directed by eight different female Pacific filmmakers, and starring eight different indigenous actresses as the title character, this portmanteau film about female empowerment tells the story of one fictitious woman's life in eight separate vignettes, each segment advancing a decade or so forward, deploying a single...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VAIFujitani, Ayako
Summary: An aimless artistic couple try to make their names and works known in Tokyo; a homeless person periodically emerges from the Tokyo sewers to terrorize people; an agoraphobe meets a beautiful pizza delivery woman just as an earthquake strikes Tokyo.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Liberation Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TOKSummary: 1994. After the discovery of a mysterious VHS tape, a brutish police swat team launch a high-intensity raid on a remote warehouse, only to discover a sinister cult compound whose collection of pre-recorded material uncovers a nightmarish conspiracy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shudder, RLJE Films 2022
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR VHSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VSummary: A story that goes beyond the boundaries of the Supernatural to the half-world of the living dead. Where a woman's soul inhabits the body of a fly, where Vengeance is only a voice and where vampires suck only the blood of those they love dearest. Not Since 'FRANKENSTEIN' Have You Seen Such Horror!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BLASummary: A group of strangers mysteriously gathered at an isolated country estate, recount chilling tales of the supernatural. But even after these frightening tales are told, does one final nightmare await them all?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR DEASummary: A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional 20th-century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in 'The French Dispatch.'
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FRECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FRECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FRESummary: Witness a hellish vision of 1999, as social isolation, analog technology, and disturbing home videos fuse into a nightmare of found footage savagery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shudder 2023
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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR V/HCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VSummary: Vulnerable in the face of a reality that shifts and suddenly turns unpredictable, the characters cross the thin line that divides civilization and barbarism. A lover's betrayal, a return to the repressed past and the violence woven into everyday encounters drive the characters to madness as they cede to the undeniable pleasure of losing control.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WIL1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WIL
Summary: The lives of an actor, a television game show personality, and a videogame designer are intertwined, and the lines between fantasy and reality become blurred. Three linked stories that exist in distinct but overlapping parallel universes, each challenging the other's claim to reality.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NINSummary: When a young woman applies for a job in a decrepit mortuary, an eccentric undertaker gives her a tour of the facility and tells her a series of twisted tales about the people he buried.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MoSummary: Academy Award-winning director Akira Kurosawa, whose cinematic genius has inspired such classic films as 'Star Wars' and 'The Magnificent Seven', presents his 28th, and most personal film. Visually splendid, Kurosawa's film consists of eight powerful vignettes, one of which features acclaimed director Martin Scorsese as painter Vincent Van Gogh.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DREDouchet, Jean
Summary: A collection of vignettes which take place in various sections of Paris.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Icarus Films 2021