Summary: 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 VAISummary: The prolific, ever-provocative Joseph Losey, blacklisted from Hollywood and living in England, delivered a coolly modernist shock to the system of that nation's cinema with this mesmerizing dissection of class, sexuality, and power. A dissolute scion of the upper crust finds the seemingly perfect manservant to oversee his new London townhouse. But not all is as it seems, as traditional social...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA SERSummary: Guiliana is the wife of Ugo, a plant manager in Ravenna. Recently released from the hospital after a car accident, Giuliana is in dire straits mentally, but Ugo thinks she's just hysterical. When she meets the charming Corrado, he seems sympathetic, shares her feeling of being lost, but he doesn't fully understand and his amatory advances are not what she needs. Living in the shadow of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN REDSummary: "Set amid a soot-choked Pennsylvania landscape, the film takes up with a distant and soft-spoken woman, who has left her husband, lost custody of her children, and now finds herself alone, drifting between dingy bars and motels, where she falls prey to a series of callous men, one being a bank robber who ropes her into his next criminal scheme"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY WANSummary: Just as Guei, a bicycle messenger, makes his final payment for the silver mountain bike loaned by his company, he finds it stolen. After endless searching Guai discovers his bicycle is now in the hands of Jian, who bought the bicycle with stolen money. The bicycle represents an escape for both from the competitive pressures of their lives. For Guei, it means access to a job, an income, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Arc Light Films 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BEISummary: 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: Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardener's son is brutally beaten up by the police at a demonstration by black school children, he gradually begins to realize his own society is built on a pillar of injustice and exploitation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA DRYSummary: Set at the height of World War II, this story follows the lives of a Brooklyn man and his wife as they become the victims of their bigoted community, who mistakenly believe them to be Jewish.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FOCCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Focus 2002Summary: The Hiltons are an average family living in a Midwestern town. The father of the household has waived his 3A status and enlisted to go overseas. His wife must now act as father and mother to their two daughters and keep their father's memory alive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SINSummary: In a racially divided Alabama town in the 1930s, widowed lawyer Atticus Finch agrees to defend a young black man accused of raping a white woman, teaching his children valuable lessons about prejudice and empathy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie To Kill 2012Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TO NOT RATEDSummary: Svetla, a strong-willed widow, lives alone in a small Bulgarian village close to the Turkish border. She has recently lost her job as a teacher due to the lack of families with young children. One day, while hunting in a forest, she encounters an African refugee, Bamba, who is trying to reach Germany, and will bring about a dramatic turn in her life. Reluctantly, she offers him hospitality, but...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FEASummary: A classic tale is reborn through the inspired imagination of cinematic dream-weaver Guillermo del Toro, directing alongside Mark Gustafson. Realized through boundary-pushing, breathtakingly intricate stop-motion animation, this dark rendering of the fable of the puppet boy and his maker, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, daringly transfers the story to Fascist Italy, where...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GUICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GUISummary: On the day of a huge rally celebrating Hitler's visit to Rome, which underscored the infamous alliance between the Nazis and Mussolini's fascist regime, a brief encounter between a weary housewife and a radio announcer unfolds into an intimate drama.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SPESummary: Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BANCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie BansheesSummary: Wayne Wang's follow-up to his watershed indie Chan Is Missing is a family portrait that gracefully combines the director's signature gentle humanism and eye for poignant detail. Offering another fresh perspective on San Francisco's Chinese American community, Wang takes a bittersweet look at the generational pas de deux between an aging immigrant widow and her devoted daughter, torn between...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY DIMSummary: Based on one of the most controversial plays of its time, shows how a disaffected teenager finds her way amid the economic desperation of industrial Manchester, and despite an absent, self-absorbed mother. With its unapologetic identification with social outcasts and its sensitive, modern approach to matters of sexuality and race, a classic that is still a startling benchmark work of realism.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TASSummary: "The most savagely subversive film by the iconoclastic auteur Luchino Visconti employs the mechanics of deliriously stylized melodrama to portray Nazism's total corruption of the soul. In the wake of Hitler's ascent to power, the wealthy industrialist von Essenbeck family and their associates--including the scheming social climber Friedrich (Dirk Bogarde), the conniving matriarch Sophie (Ingrid...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DAMSummary: Set in 1901. After a heated misunderstanding due to poor translation leads to the death of a lawman, Mexican American farmer Gregorio Cortez sets off in desperate flight from the Texas Rangers, evading a massive manhunt on horseback for days.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN BALSummary: Josey Aimes needs a job and goes to work at a Minnesota iron mine after splitting with her violent husband. But the job proves to be almost as harrowing as her marriage. The male miners are resentful of women taking their jobs, so the men verbally abuse and play humiliating pranks on the female miners. After being physically assaulted by a coworker, Josey tries to fight against the harassment,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NOR RATED RSummary: An adventure set in South America's rugged Andes Mountains. The Duke has been assigned by a powerful U.S. mining magnate to build a railroad to his newest mines. His romance with the boss's daughter only complicates matters.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TYCSummary: When their dad dies on his 55th birthday, Beverley Hills sisters Mary and Nora find themselves destitute, forced by a grasping sister-in-law to move in with their aunt in East L.A. Younger sister Mary is mortified, without Spanish, and scared of the vatos. Her sister convinces her to finish college, where she promptly decides that one of her T.A.s will be her ticket back to Rodeo Drive. Elder...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: OddLot Films 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRASummary: Alex Fletcher is a washed-up 80s pop star who has been reduced to working the nostalgia circuit of county fairs and amusement parks. The charismatic and talented musician gets a chance at a comeback when reigning pop diva Cora Corman invites him to write and record a duet with her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MUSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MUSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie MusicSummary: Seventeen-year-old Jem Starling struggles with her place within her Christian fundamentalist community. But everything changes when her magnetic youth pastor Owen returns to their church.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Decal Releasing 2023