Summary: Set in 1940 London, the story is an ode to how women played a major role in boosting national morale during the Blitz of London in the second World War.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY THE

Summary: A billionaire decides on a whim to create a movie, hiring a team he considers the best: a renowned filmmaker and two egotistical actors -- one from Hollywood and the other from experimental theatre -- who cannot get along. While the director creates bizarre rituals to test their abilities, the actors find themselves confronting each other as well as their pasts and their bodies of work.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN OFF

Summary: Federico Fellini's look at the many layers of Rome-- ancient, his own past, and the present day. A semi-autobiographical, poetic comedy-drama film.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2001

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ROM

Summary: Toby is a disillusioned director, currently heading commericals, who becomes pulled into a world of fantasy and memory when he's reunited with a Spanish cobbler he cast as Don Quixote in a student film years earlier. The old man now believes himself to be the legendary character, and Toby to be Sancho Panza, who must play along with the delusion as he also attempts to fulfill his professional...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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3 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MAN

Summary: Okinawa 1946, occupied by American troops whose assignment is to bring democracy to the inhabitants. The captain in charge, Captain Fisby (Glenn Ford), is a well-meaning but inept loser, and faces a wily Okinawan interpreter, Sakini (Marlon Brando), and a determined geisha girl, Lotus Blossom (Machiko Kyo), along with villagers who know how to take advantage of foreign occupation!

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by Warner Home Video 2006

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TEA

Summary: Watch John 'Four Leaf' Tayback as he fights a gruesome battle during the Vietnam War. But, this is actually a scene from 'Tropic Thunder, ' a big-budget adaptation of Tayback's wartime memoir. Starring as the central platoon are Speedman, Lazarus, Chino and Portnoy, as well as young character actor Kevin Sandusky. To play the character of African American Sgt. Osiris, Lazarus dyes his skin dark...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks/Paramount Home Entertainment 2008

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TRO

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD T

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TRO

Summary: Three films featuring Audrey Hepburn. In Breakfast at Tiffany's she plays Holly Golightly, the girl on a quest to marry a millionaire, in Roman Holiday, she's a rebellious modern-day princess who inadvertently falls in love with an American newspaperman, in Sabrina, she returns home from Paris all grown up and ready to beguile the Larrabee brothers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2007

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BRE

Summary: During the spring of 1977, sci-fi-obsessed teenager Pat Johnson finds himself torn between making 8mm sequels to his favorite movies and pursuing the girl of his dreams, Linda. Desperate to help her son escape his likely future in Wadsworth, Illinois, (population 750), his mother Janet cold-calls the editor of 'American Cinematographer's magazine, and Pat soon finds himself on "the ultimate...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FIV

Summary: Jean, a 40-year old unemployed actor, has hit rock bottom. Insufferably clueless and egotistical, his over-the-top acting and high-maintenance personality have gotten him fired from countless jobs. At the unemployment office, his counselor sets him up with a rather odd job: helping the police reconstruct crime scenes by standing in for the dead victim.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PLA

Summary: When P.L. Travers travels from London to Hollywood in 1961 to finally discuss Walt Disney's desire to bring her beloved character, Mary Poppins to the motion picture screen (a quest he began in the 1940s as a promise to his two daughters), Disney meets a prim, uncompromising sexagenarian not only suspect of the impresario's concept for the film, but a woman struggling with her own past. During...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SAV

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Saving

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SAV

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SAV

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SAV RATED PG-13

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Sa

Summary: An all-star comedy set during the latter years of Hollywood's Golden Age. It follows a single day in the life of a studio fixer who is presented with plenty of problems to fix.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2016

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HAI

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HAI

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HAI

Summary: Raya and Victor built a shared career as the Soviet Union's most beloved film dubbers, translating the work of Federico Fellini and Stanley Kubrick into Russian over the decades. Upon the collapse of the USSR in 1990, the Jewish couple must immigrate to Israel and reinvent their talents to find employment. As they strive to acclimate to their adopted home, opportunities for first-rate vocal...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GOL

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOL

Summary: Best friends Nick and Darryl are a New York film editing duo, hired to salvage a botched comedy from a manic director gone AWOL. But what starts as a simple job quickly sends their relationships with their significant others and each other, reeling. Amidst trouble with his fiancee Nick finds himself falling for the film's flirtatious ingenue. Darryl, meanwhile, struggles to focus on his editing...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Video Group 2013

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SUP

Summary: Caught up in a criminal enterprise, Ashley and her young daughter turn to her estranged father, Matt, for help. Retired and living a beach bum's life in The Caymans, her dad's secret past is revealed as the Mob tracks them down on the island.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY RET

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE RET

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RET

Summary: Pierre and his snobbish friends have a standing date for dinner. Every week, they compete to see who can bring the biggest idiot to the party.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DIN

Summary: "Mabel and Rosenthal are the two stars of a pretentious art-horror film directed by an unhinged tyrant who may or may not be German (he goes by 'Herr Director'). Mabel is playing a blind woman while Rosenthal, who has facial tumors caused by neurofibromatosis, is essentially playing a version of himself. Both their characters are part of a mad doctor's plot to 'cure' disabilities. But while...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHA

Summary: The story of a master chef and his three adult daughters, all of whom are seeking love and happiness in different ways.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EAT

Summary: From 1958 to 1963, American actor Rick Dalton knew the height of fame and fortune as the lead in the television series Bounty Law. Yet, Rick wasn't satisfied with the work and used his popularity to try to become a movie star. By 1969, Rick's career has stalled so much that he takes jobs as a guest star on various shows. He even starts wondering if the only way he can make a comeback is by...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ONC

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ONC

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Once

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ONC

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ONC

Summary: Stoner icons Jay and Silent Bob embark on a cross-country mission to stop a Hollywood reboot of an old movie based on them.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JAY

Summary: From real-life friends Annie Clark and Carrie Brownstein comes the metafictional account of two creative forces banding together to make a documentary about St. Vincent's music, touring life, and on-stage persona. But they quickly discover unpredictable forces lurking within subject and filmmaker that threaten to derail the friendship, the project, and the duo's creative lives. From first-time...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC NOW

Summary: An idyllic family skiing vacation takes a stunning turn when an avalanche threatens the ski lodge restaurant, sending people fleeing and demanding quick decisions that change the course of the family dynamics and trust.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FOR

Summary: Nicole is adrift after college graduation, working a dead-end summer job and spending evenings with her best pal, Veronique. When her older brother Remi unexpectedly returns with his bandmates in tow, disrupting the girls' half-baked summer, it becomes clear to Nicole that something must and will change.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TU

Summary: A satirical comedy about a down-on-his-luck publicist who discovers a recently released mental health patient who looks just like a misbehaving movie star. The publicist subs him into a film, creating a new star. But fame and fortune are not all they are cracked up to be.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FOO

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FOO

Kelly, Gene

Summary: A Hollywood actor who has risen from vaudeville to become a silent film star must make the difficult transition to sound films.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2012

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SIN

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS SIN

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SIN RATED PG