Summary: "A Swedish efficiency expert under strict orders not to interact with his subject is sent to improve a Norwegian farmer's culinary efforts. But the sly old farmer much prefers to amuse himself by impeding the timid researcher's work! Soon, in the struggle between neutral observation and the need for human interaction, the kitchen becomes a battleground!"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KITSummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A robust collection of classic film noir (black film), a genre that became a cinematic staple for American audiences during the mid 1940s through the late 1950s
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DARContents: Out of the past (fullscreen presentation, 97 min.) -- Angel face (fullscreen presentation, 92 min.) -- Home from the hill (widescreen presentation, 150 min.) -- The sundowners (widescreen presentation, 133 min.).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCMSummary: An amusing portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London, an irrepressible mum and dad and their night-and-day twins, a bookish good girl and a sneering layabout. A vivid, lived-in story of ordinary existence, in which even modest dreams (such as the father's desire to open a food truck) carry enormous weight. Perched on the line between humor and melancholy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LIFSummary: An innocent outsider to the enclosed world of a forbidding French château and its surrounding vineyards peels back layers of mystery to reveal a shocking truth. The outsider, the wife of a troubled marquis, discovers, perhaps too late, that her husband's ancestral château is home to witches, warlocks, a sinister priest, 12 hooded figures, and terror.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY EYESummary: A backup quarterback for a Texas high school football team must confront the pressures and temptations of being a sports star, including conflicts with his coach and his girlfriend, when the starting quarterback is injured.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 1999
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VARSummary: An obscure man with a vertical head of hair is living with his spaced-out girlfriend and their fetus-like child. By the end of the film, Henry is decapitated and processed into erasers in this bizarre horror film which closely approaches a nightmare.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY AVANT-GARDE ERASummary: Chris Gardner is an intelligent, energetic guy who can't catch a break. In the sluggish Bay Area economy of 1981, he's losing ground, by investing all his family's money in high cost bone-density scanners. His wife leaves him, he loses his apartment, and with his 5-year-old son in tow joins the ranks of the homeless, if not the hopeless. Bounced from shelter to shelter, he finds himself a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PURCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PURSummary: In 1862, during the Kansas-Missouri border war, Jake and Jack Bull join the Confederate-sympathizing Bushwhackers after Jack's father is killed by marauding members of the abolitionist Jayhawkers. They are aided by unusual ally, Holt, who's fighting for the South despite being a former slave.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA RIDSummary: A compelling drama about the difficulty of reconciling political ideals with personal happiness. This unforgettable film follows Witek, a medical student with an uncertain future in Communist Poland; the movie dramatizes Witek's journey as a series of different possibilities, suggesting that chance rules our lives as much as choice. First suppressed and then censored by the Polish government.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN BLISummary: In a period of great conflict, a group of unlikely heroes led by Jyn Erso, a daring fugitive, and Cassian Andor, a rebel spy, band together on a desperate mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire's ultimate weapon of destruction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY SCI-FIC ROGSummary: A scientist performs regeneration experiments on himself, and passes on the genes to his son, Bruce. Now Bruce is performing experiments that expose him to radiation and nanomeds, which combined with his unique genes, unleashes the Hulk.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE HULSummary: Kirk and other members of the crew of the original Enterprise attend the launching of the new Enterprise. The ship receives a distress call and they must try to rescue two ships engulfed in a ribbon of energy. Among those saved are Soran and Guinan. Kirk is killed in the process of saving the Enterprise from destruction. Four generations later, Picard receives a distress call and rescues Soran....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 1998
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI STASummary: Thanksgiving 1973. The climate is changing, both politically and physically. As the Watergate scandal unfolds in the background, the inhabitants of a small Connecticut town begin to slip into an existentialist void. Social taboos are shattered on whims and the line between adult authority and juvenile irresponsibility is practically nonexistant. Focuses on the Hood and Carver families....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA ICESummary: Based on the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of 1958, in which a fifteen-year-old girl and her twenty-five-year-old boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Since his beloved violin was broken, Nasser-Ali Khan, one of the most renowned musicians of his day, has lost all taste for life. Finding no instrument worthy of replacing it, he decides to confine himself to bed and await death"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CHISummary: This stirring and poetic depiction of a feud between two rival medieval clans is a fierce, epic, and meticulously designed evocation of the clashes between Christianity and Pagansim, humankind and nature, and love and violence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARSummary: 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: A rich widow is trapped in her private elevator, nine feet from the floor, for ten terrifying hours. Unable to escape, her situation becomes desperate when the emergency alarm attracts a drunken derelict and his boozy prostitute friend, both bent on robbery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER LADSummary: A famous psychotherapist is forced to steal thirteen paintings from the world's renowned museums and private collections to prevent his suffering from terrible nightmares he has as a result of subliminal messaging he received as a child. Accompanied by his four patients, he and his band of thieves strike regularly and with great success: the Louvre, Tate, Uffizi, Hermitage, the Museum of Modern...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RUBSummary: When T.S. is dumped by his girlfriend, he retreats to the mall with his comic book-loving best friend Brodie, whose girlfriend has also left him. Between brooding and visits to the food court, the unmotivated suburban New Jersey teenagers decide to win their girlfriends back with the help of Silent Bob and Jay, the ultimate delinquents, as they scheme to disrupt T.S.'s girlfriend's father's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MALSummary: Jackal--the greatest assassin in history--out to eliminate a top U.S. government official. Declan Mulqueen, an imprisoned underground operative, is the only man who can stop him. Now, the Deputy Director of the FBI is taking the biggest risk of all ... he's releasing one criminal to stop another.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1998