Summary: Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA VALSummary: Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA VALStyron, Susanna
Summary: Through interviews, cinema verite, art and animation, seeks to understand migraine and its impact on almost a billion people worldwide.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OUTSummary: The lives of two Danish families will become entwined when their sons develop an extraordinary but risky friendship. Unfortunately, loneliness, frailty, and sorrow lie in wait.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY TCFF IN1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IN
Summary: Set in a future where the Capitol selects a boy and girl from the twelve districts to fight to the death on live television. Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her younger sister's place for the latest match.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HUNSummary: Jacob runs a struggling orphanage in one of India's poorest regions. Desperate to save an orphanage from closing, he returns to Denmark to meet Jorgen, a wealthy businessman and potential benefactor. What appears to be nothing more than a friendly gesture to attend a wedding sets in motion an increasingly devastating series of surprises, revelations, and confessions that will forever change...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Products 2007
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3 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AFTSummary: Originally based on a short story from science fiction writer Harlan Ellison, this is an epic tale of a boy, Vic, and his telepathic dog, Blood, as they trudge through a post-apocalyptic world. The pair travels together on a search for food and other pleasures that leads them to an underground society where life has been preserved! While Vic finds that he has escaped the devastation of the war,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI BOYSummary: For 18 months, award-winning director Scott Hicks followed the legendary composer Philip Glass across three continents, creating a remarkable portrait of one of the greatest artists of all time. Allowed unprecedented access to Glass's working process and long time collaborators, Hicks provides a unique glimpse into the composer's life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Lorber Films 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GLASummary: ER doctor Rike (Susanne Wolff) embarks on a one-woman solo sailing trip to Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean. When Rike comes across a sinking ship of refugees, she is quickly torn out of her contented and idealized world and must make a momentous decision. Aptly named after the mythological river that separates the living from the dead, STYX is an astute modern day parable of Western...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF STYSummary: In a north German village prior to the outbreak of World War I, strange events, accidents, and deaths are occurring. The village people are beside themselves with worry and can't figure out what to do. After the school teacher starts to unravel the mystery, he discovers that the children of the town may be guilty of the crimes and have formed a secret society that the local pastor's daughter...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WHIHaneke, Michael
Summary: A land surveyor tries to convince the local government of a small mountain village of the legitimacy of his position, but the more he struggles, the more obstructive the village's bureaucracy becomes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CASSummary: Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the Capitol of the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen volunteers in her younger sister's place and must rely upon her sharp instincts when she's pitted against highly trained Tributes who have prepared their entire lives. And,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD HUNCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HuCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HUNCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Hunger 2012Summary: At their lakeside vacation home, Ann, George and their son have unexpected visitors: two well-spoken, well-bred young men wearing polite smiles and preppy sportswear. The visitors want to play a game. "You bet that you'll be alive tomorrow at 9:00, and we bet that you'll be dead. OK?" As the terrorized family fights to survive, each plan is thwarted, each option closed, each hour closer to what...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FUNSummary: "Michael Haneke's most notorious production, Funny Games spares no detail in its depiction of the agony of a bourgeois family held captive at their vacation home by a pair of white-gloved young men. In a series of escalating 'games, ' the sadistic duo subject their victims to unspeakable physical and psychological torture over the course of a night. A home-invasion thriller in which the game's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN FUNSummary: A look at five extraordinary homes and the people who inhabit them. The movie interweaves their stories in a way that makes a person think about the meaning of home and the place of individuality in society.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HOMSummary: An American writer in Italy becomes an amateur sleuth when he witnesses a failed attempt by a serial killer to take the life of the wife of a wealthy gallery owner.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BIRSummary: A washed-up porn star clashes with his estranged wife after returning to his hometown in Texas.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY REDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD REDSummary: This is the story of an 11-year-old black youngster, "Boy." When his sharecropper father is arrested and sentenced to five years at hard labor after stealing food to feed his family, Boy embarks upon a journey to find out where his father has being imprisoned. Accompanied by his dog Sounder, Boy also makes the arduous crossover from boyhood to manhood, with the help and sometimes hindrance of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SOUSummary: "The Heroic Trio and its sequel, Executioners, follow a new kind of justice league: a team of blade-throwing, shotgun-toting, kung fu-fighting heroines who join forces to battle evildoers in a dystopian, noirish city"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN HERSummary: Ingemar is a working-class 12-year old boy who is sent to live with his uncle after his mother falls ill. There, he takes refuge from his troubles with the help of the town's warmhearted eccentrics. A bittersweet evocation of the struggles and joys of childhood and the pains of coming-of-age.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Janus Films 2003
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MYSummary: Audrey Burke is reeling from the shock of the news that has just been delivered to her door by the local police - her husband, Brian, had been killed in a random act of violence. Once anchored by the love and comforts of their marriage, Audrey is now adrift. Impulsively, she turns to Jerry, a down-and-out addict who has been her husband's close friend since childhood. Desperate to fill the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THICooper, Bradley
Summary: In Depression-era North Carolina, a man struggles to maintain control of his timber empire, which becomes more complicated when he discovers his wife cannot have children.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2015
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SER RATED RSummary: In this atmospheric, nerve-straining chiller, two young twins confined to an isolated country house transform their resentment towards their mother into a fatal illusion about her identity. In the heat of the summer, a lonesome house in the countryside between woods and corn fields. Nine-year-old twin brothers are waiting for their mother. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GOODyrholm, Trine
Summary: A Danish hairdresser recovering from recent cancer treatments discovers that her husband has been cheating with a young co-worker and travels alone to her daughter's wedding in Italy where she sparks a connection with the father of the groom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2013