Summary: "Cantopop superstars Anita Mui Yim-fong and Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing display their iconic androgynous magnetism as doomed lovers in this emblematic film of Hong Kong's Second New Wave, directed by pioneering queer melodrama master Stanley Kwan. Rouge bridges past and present in its tragic romance between a humble courtesan and the wayward scion of a wealthy family, who embrace death by suicide...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN ROUSummary: Tharlo is a Tibetan shepherd, used to living with little human contact. Visiting a Tibetan town in Qinghai province to obtain a proper ID card from the local police station, Tharlo surprises Police Chief Dorje by reciting from memory a lengthy excerpt from one of Chairman Mao's essays. But things develop in a romantic rather than a political direction. To prepare for his ID photo, Tharlo needs...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN THASummary: Is there really such a thing as a benevolent destiny that will eventually reunite true soul mates separated by time and distance? It begins at Christmastime in a New York department store, where two people meet by chance -- while shopping for their "significant others"--And are immediately attracted to each other. After spending a romantic evening together, they reluctantly part, secretly...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Serendipity 2002Summary: It's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn't been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the working girl and her best friend, Alexandra, embark on a mission to get to the bottom of the scandalous rumor. Their rip-roaring odyssey leads them through various subcultures of Los Angeles.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TANSummary: Fresh from the farm, Claude Bukowski arrives in New York City for a date with the Army Induction Board, only to walk into a hippie "happening" in Central Park and fall in love with the beautiful Sheila. Befriended by the hippies' pacifist leader, Berger, and urged to crash a formal party in order to declare his love for Sheila, Claude begins an adventure that lands him in jail, Central Park...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS HAISummary: International superstar Maggie Cheung embodies tragic screen siren Ruan Lingyu, known as the "Greta Garbo of China," in this unconventional biopic by Hong Kong New Wave master Stanley Kwan. Praised for her moving and emotive onscreen presence, Ruan's private life, which was frequent fodder for the vicious Shanghai tabloids, began to mirror the melodramas which brought her fame, culminating in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CENSummary: Harry, Arch, and Dan head into Del Norte, a small town in the middle of nowhere. Harry decides to return home after a seven-year absence, but not before Dan runs afoul of a group of unsavory characters and Harry vows vengeance for the lad's death. Harry and Arch flee from the town. Harry's wife, Hannah, is none too pleased to see her wayward husband at her doorstep. Taking his wife's anger in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Showtime Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN HIRSummary: Ben is a 23-year-old slacker who meets up and coming career girl Alison at a bar. They end up having a one night stand. Eight weeks later, Ben is shocked when Alison meets him and reveals that she is pregnant. Despite having little in common, the two decide that they have to at least try to make some kind of relationship work for the baby's sake.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY KNOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KNOSummary: Nearly a thousand miles away from their beloved Moscow, three sisters live in virtual exile. Olga attempts to support her family and home that is the sole legacy from their late father. Masha finds relief from an empty marriage by being involved with a passionate young colonel. Irina wills herself to return the affections of an ardent suitor in the hope that he will whisk her off to the city....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THRSummary: Jack Malik was just another struggling songwriter... but that was yesterday. After a mysterious blackout, Jack discovers he is the only person on earth who remembers The Beatles! As he rockets to fame by passing off the Fab Four's songs as his own, Jack risks losing Ellie--the one person who has loved him and believed in him from the start. Before the door to his old life closes forever, Jack...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY YESCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE YESCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD YESCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD YESCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD YeSummary: The fictionalized biography of composer Cole Porter from his days at Yale in the 1910s through the height of his success to the 1940s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2004
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS NIGSummary: Chelsea inherits a house in Vail. She meets Owen and gets a much needed break. Together, they put on Strudelfest to highlight the charm of Old Vail.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark 2020
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WINCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HALSummary: "A passionate filmmaker, creating a film based upon a true crime, casts an unknown mysterious young woman bearing a disturbing resemblance to the femme fatale in the story. He finds himself unsuspectingly drawn into a complex web of haunting intrigue, obsessed with the woman, the crime, her possibly notorious past, and the disturbing complexity between art and truth."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Monterey Media 2011
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ROASummary: The story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around, and falling in love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LICCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LICCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Licorice 2022Summary: A washed-up porn star clashes with his estranged wife after returning to his hometown in Texas.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY REDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD REDSummary: When Fred Flarsky reunites with his first crush, one of the most influential women in the world, Charlotte Field, he charms her. As she prepares to make a run for the Presidency, Charlotte hires Fred as her speechwriter and sparks fly.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LONCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LONCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LONSummary: In the near future, humanoid servants called Synthetics have been created to help busy families simplify their lives. When Joe Hawkins buys synth Anita, he hopes it will relieve the pressure on his wife, Laura.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HUMSummary: When veteran comedy writer Charlie Burnz meets New York singer Emma Payge, they form an unlikely yet hilarious and touching friendship that kicks the generation gap aside and redefines the meaning of love and trust.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HERCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HERCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HERCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HERCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie HereSummary: Roger and his friend Charlie audition at a saloon in San Francisco's Barbary Coast. The number "Alexander's ragtime band" proves to be a sensation. Charlie soon falls in love with Stella who is the singer of the band. When Roger returns from World War I, he meets Stella and learns she and Charlie have married.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ALESummary: Snow White is the only person in the land fairer than the evil queen who is out to destroy her. But what the wicked ruler never imagined is that the young woman threatening her reign has been training in the art of war with a huntsman who was dispatched to kill her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Robin Hood attempts to save England from Prince John and the Sheriff of Rottingham, while also winning the heart of Maid Marian.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ROBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Robin 2006Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROBSummary: Babo 73: The president of the United Status, who, when he isn't at the White House conducts his top-secret affairs on a deserted beach.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY UPSummary: "For her award-winning breakthrough film, director Gillian Armstrong drew on teenage author Miles Franklin's novel, a celebrated turn-of-the-twentieth-century Australian coming-of-age story, to brashly upend the conventions of period romance. Headstrong young Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis, in a star-making performance) bemoans her stifling life in the backcountry where her writerly ambitions...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019