Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCall number: DVD 709 WOR
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: An intimate, moving portrait of Queen Elizabeth and Tony Blair following the untimely death of Princess Diana. The Queen's restrained reaction causes a public relations debacle that Prime Minister Blair must defuse. The two struggle to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public's demand for an open display of mourning.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA QUECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE QueenCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD QUE RATED PG-13Summary: The passionate and forbidden romance between the insane Danish King, the royal physician, and the young but strong-willed Queen leads to a revolution that changes an entire nation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ROY1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ROY
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ROYSummary: Sean Archer is a tough and rugged FBI Agent. He is still grieving for his dead son, Michael. Archer believes that his son's killer is now his sworn enemy and happens to be the very powerful criminal, Castor Troy. Archer corners Castor. Their fight knocks Troy out cold. Archer finds out that Troy has planted a bomb that will destroy the entire city of Los Angeles and all of its inhabitants. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE FACSummary: The Campbell family moves to upstate Connecticut. They soon learn that their charming Victorian home has a disturbing history. The house was once a transformed funeral parlor where inconceivable acts occurred. The owner's clairvoyant son, Jonah, served as a demonic messenger. He provided a gateway for spiritual entities to crossover. Now unspeakable terror awaits when Jonah, the boy who...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HAU RATED PG-13Summary: Two brothers discover that their local mortuary hides a legion of hooded killer dwarf creatures, a flying drill-ball, and the demonic mortician known as The Tall Man who enslaves the souls of the damned.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR PHASummary: 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: When death is your business, what is your life? For the employees at Fisher & Sons Funeral Home, the world outside continues to be at least as challenging, and far less predictable, as the one inside.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SIXSummary: When death is your business, what is your life? For the employees at Fisher & Sons Funeral Home, the world outside continues to be at least as challenging, and far less predictable, as the one inside.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SIXSummary: A look at members of a dysfunctional family that operates a funeral home in Pasadena. With the elder son returning home for the holidays to shattering news, the family must learn to deal with a death of their own, while figuring out how to go ahead with the business of the living. A funny and emotional look at a grieving American family ... that just happens to be in the grief management business.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2003
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SIXSummary: A live performance of the tragedy "Antony and Cleopatra" by William Shakespeare. Set in Roman times, the play deals with Mark Antony's obsessive passion for Egypt's Queen Cleopatra, and how it leads to the tragic downfall of both.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS ANTSummary: A switchboard operator gets caught up in the personal lives of the clients of an answering service, including that of a playboy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After the British Prime Minister passes away under mysterious circumstances, his funeral is a must-attend event for leaders of the western world. However, what starts out as the most protected event on Earth turns into a deadly plot to kill the world's most powerful leaders, and unleash a terrifying vision of the future. Only three people have any hope of stopping it: the President of the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LONSummary: Garden gnomes, Gnomeo and Juliet, recruit renowned detective Sherlock Gnomes to investigate the mysterious disappearance of other garden ornaments.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SHESummary: Since the 1960s, Nome, Alaska, has seen a disproportionate number of its population being reported missing every year. Despite multiple FBI investigations of the region, the truth has never been discovered. Psychologist Dr. Abigail Tyler begins videotaping sessions with traumatized patients and unwittingly discovered some of the most disturbing evidence of alien abduction ever documented.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER FOUSummary: Sondra Wellington is bossy, controlling, and extremely unpleasant but eveything changes when she's transformed into a chihuahua and her real body is in a coma.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: D'Artagnan is forced to join forces with Milady to save Constance, who was kidnapped before his eyes. But as war is declared and Athos, Porthos and Aramis have already joined the front, a secret from the past shatters old alliances.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Samuel Goldwyn Films 2024
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD THRSummary: Judah Ben-Hur is a young Jewish nobleman from a prominent family who is reunited with his childhood friend Messala. Messala returns to Judea as a Roman tribune. There is a genuine friendship between the two men, yet the clash of their cultures drives a wedge between them. That wedge finally drives Messala to banish Judah to the slave galleys and sends his mother and his sister to prison. From...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BENSummary: After an accident in the lab of the maniacal Dr. Barsinister, an ordinary beagle named Shoeshine finds he has some unimaginable powers, along with the ability to speak. Underdog vows to protect the citizens of Capitol City, and one beautiful spaniel named Polly Purebred.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY UNDCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Juvenile DVD, Call number: J DVD UnderdogSummary: 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: An unprecedented array of never-before-seen footage of Gould, photographs, and excerpts from his private home recordings and diaries, plus personal interviews with Gould's most intimate friends and lovers, some who have never spoken about him publicly before, to reconstruct his thoughts on music, art, society, love, and life. An enigmatic musical poet, world-renowned pianist Glenn Gould...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lorber Films 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GENSummary: On April 30, 1971, a standing-room-only crowd of New York's intellectual elite packed the city's Town Hall theater to see Norman Mailer, fresh from the controversy over his essay 'The Prisoner of Sex' and the backlash it received from leaders of the women's movement, tangle with a panel of four prominent female thinkers and activists: Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020