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 WOR
Call number: DVD 709 WOR

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010

Summary: Having pulled off the heist of a lifetime, Max looks forward to spending his remaining days relaxing with his beautiful young girlfriend. But when Riton, Max's hapless partner and best friend, lets word of the loot slip to loose-lipped, two-timing Josy, Max is reluctantly drawn back into the underworld. Riton gets kidnapped by a mob boss in the hopes that there will be an exchange for the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2005

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TOU

Summary: The notorious Pepe le Moko is a wanted man--women long for him, rivals hope to destroy him and the law is breathing down his neck at every turn. On the lam in the Casbah of Algiers, Pépé is safe from the police until a Parisian playgirl compels him

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PEP

Kruger, Diane

Summary: Follows the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her servants in July 1789, the beginning of the French Revolution.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: eOne 2013

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FAR

Summary: "In 1903, in Cornwall, a group of locals discover an underwater city, dating back to 1803, that hides a society of smugglers and aquatic creatures."-- IMDb

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI WAR

Summary: When Juliette marries Jean, she comes to live with him aboard the barge "L'Atalante", where they travel along the Seine River. The bride, becomes bored and leaves the ship for Paris where she starts flirting with other men.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2003

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ATA

Summary: I walked with a zombie (69 mins.): A young Canadian nurse comes to the West Indies to care for the wife of a plantation manager, who seems to be suffering from a kind of mental paralysis. -- The body snatcher (77 mins.): A ruthless doctor and his young prize student find themselves continually harassed by their murderous supplier of illegal cadavers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005

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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR I

Summary: Set in French Indochina in the 1930s as the Vietnamese begin to rebel against French colonialism. Dramatizes the last years of French rule through the relationship between plantation owner Éliane, French by birth but born and raised in Indochina, and her adopted daughter Camille, an orphaned Annamese princess who becomes a Vietnamese revolutionary and representative at the Geneva Conference...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 1999

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IND

Summary: Jacques Rivette's two-part historical epic telling the story of Joan of Arc, and her journey from ordinary teenager to legendary figure.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JOA

Summary: Eleventh century Scottish nobleman Macbeth is led by an evil prophecy and his ruthless yet desirable wife to the treasonous act that makes him king. But he does not enjoy his newfound, dearly-won kingship.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Films 2012

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAC

Summary: Camille, a concert violinist, becomes intrigued by her lover's business partner, Stephane. She interprets his distance as a sign of intellectual seduction. The love triangle that develops reveals the complexity and imperfection of the three characters.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: KOCH Lorber Films 2006

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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HEA

Summary: Huppert plays Mika, wife of celebrated pianist André Polonski (Jacques Dutronc) and stepmother to his son, Guillaume, whose mother died in a carwreck on his sixth birthday. Their lives are interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Jeanne (Anna Mouglalis), a young woman who has learned that she was almost switched at birth with Guillaume. Also a pianist, she harbours a suspicion that she may be...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First-Run Features 2000

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MER

Summary: Carla works in a real estate office and has a hearing problem. Carla makes the acquaintance of Paul, a small-time criminal who has just been released from prison on parole. Before long, it becomes obvious that Paul is having an influence on Carla's normally stable nature. Carla and Paul's actions go from malicious to seriously criminal when Paul hatches a scheme to rob a nightclub owner to whom...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN REA

Summary: A musical set in Paris in which a girl trained as a high society courtesan falls in love with a rich and handsome boulevardier.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment/Warner Home Video 2000

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GIG

Summary: For many years, Marie and Jean have happily spent their vacations together at their country house. One day at the beach, Marie naps in the sand while Jean goes for a swim. When she awakens, he is gone. Did he drown? Did he run off? Distraught, Marie notifies the authorities. But after an extensive search, no body is found, and Marie is left in a painful limbo, unable to properly grieve for her...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN UND

Pfeiffer, Jacquy

Summary: Follows sixteen pastry chefs as they concoct a wide variety of elaborate, artistic, and delectable pastries and confections for the prestigious three-day Meilleurs Ouvriers de France competition.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.86 Kings

Summary: Joe Pendleton, a Los Angeles Rams quarterback, accidentally goes to heaven after a car accident, and returns to earth in the body of another man who was a corporate giant. After deciding to resume his place with the Rams (by purchasing the team), Pendleton must also deal with the consequences of the former businessman's actions. Loose remake of Here Comes Mr. Jordan.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 1999

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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY HEA

Summary: Costa-Gavras puts the United States' involvement in South American politics under the microscope in this arresting thriller. An urban guerilla group, outraged at the counterinsurgency and torture training clandestinely organized by the CIA in their country (unnamed in the film), abducts a U.S. official to bargain for the release of political prisoners; soon the kidnapping becomes a media...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN STA

Summary: An emotionally fragile pair of middle-aged siblings find themselves caring for each other after years apart.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA LOV

Summary: Documentary about Theodore Roosevelt. Explores the influence of Roosevelt's childhood, his rise to the U.S. Presidency, and the years after he left office.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2009

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TR

Summary: A candid portrait of one boy's journey from childhood to adulthood. A precocious fifteen-year-old boy's sexual maturation and unorthodox relationship with his free-spirited mother is both shocking and deeply poignant.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MUR

Summary: 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...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lorber Films 2011

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GEN

Summary: Schools out and Ocean Front High gym teacher Freddy has big plans: summer in Hawaii. But the school's vice-principal is going to have Freddy teach remedial English. The laid-back teacher has a class full of misfits. The no-nonsense history professor down the hall is keeping an eye on all the shenanigans.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Paramount 2004

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SUM