Attal, Yvan
Summary: After a wealthy industrialist is kidnapped, he deteriorates physically and emotionally as he is mistreated and the unsavory details of his private life become public.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2011
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RAPLucas, George
Summary: Jedi knights Anakin Skywalker and Obi Wan Kenobi battle against evil forces with the help of the clone army.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2012
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV St 4Summary: Marguerite Duras had already established herself as one of the major figures of postwar French literature when she launched an equally fascinating and unclassifiable career in cinema, translating her elliptical, experimental style to the screen through the unprecedented fusion of hypnotic, highly stylized imagery and radically disjunctive sound. Boldly reimagining the possibilities of dialogue,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN INDLucas, George
Summary: Jedi knights Anakin Skywalker and Obi Wan Kenobi battle against evil forces with the help of the clone army.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV SCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV STAMarinelli, Luca
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2021
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MARSummary: Seven-time Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti's long career was dogged by persistent accusations of conspiracy, Mafia connections and state-sponsored terror. This compelling film explores the shocking political machinations and shady criminal underworld surrounding this fascinating and controversial figure.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2009
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DIVSummary: Regarde la mer: "During a summer escape to the beautiful island of Yeu, Sasha's beginning to grow bored. She's been spending her days tending to her new baby daughter while awaiting the arrival of her husband from his office on the mainland. Her charming seaside cottage rests in perfect isolation for Tatiana, a brooding teen-aged backpacker in desperate need of a place to pitch her tent....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Video 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SEESummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Summary: Rose, an alluring young woman, is hired by a Southern family to care for their children, and changes their lives forever. She is an innocent who relates to everyone she meets in the only way she knows how-- with sexuality she cannot restrain. The mother of the family takes Rose under her wing, offering love and protection, while the teenaged son finds Rose both his fantasy and a profound mystery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY RAMSummary: When the husband of a high-society woman is killed in an accident, she realizes she has nothing left except a house in rural Georgia that is being used as a foster home. Moving in with the intentions of selling it, she finds a new meaning and purpose to her life when she ends up helping to care for the rebellious teenagers who live there that have issues of their own.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LOSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD LOSSummary: "A camera crew follows a serial killer/thief around as he exercises his craft. He expounds on art, music, nature, society, and life as he offs mailmen, pensioners, and random people. Slowly he begins involving the camera crew in his activities, and they begin wondering if what they're doing is such a good idea, particularly when the killer kills a rival and the rival's brother sends a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MANSummary: The true story of the Mighty Mites, the football team of a Fort Worth orphanage who, during the Great Depression, went from playing without shoes, or even a football, to playing for the Texas state championships. Over the course of their winning season, these underdogs and their resilient spirit became an inspiration to their city, state, and an entire nation in need of a rebound, even catching...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TWECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie 12 2021Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TWESummary: From dusk till dawn (107 min.): The notorious Gekko Brothers, Seth and Richard, are on the run and headed for Mexico to meet with the mysterious "Carlos." Their simple bank robbery ended up killing multiple Texas Rangers. They hijack the mobile home of Minister Jacob Fuller and his family to ensure their safe passage. Their appointed destination is a neon-covered topless bar catering to bikers...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Dimension Home Video 2000
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FROSummary: There's trouble as well as fun in paradise in this collection of the smash-hit series about the restless lives of Orange County's haves and have-nots. The romances of Ryan-and-Marissa and Seth-and-Summer go from very over to very on, Sandy and Kirsten face choices that could trainwreck their 20-year marriage, felon (and Ryan's brother) Trey gives Newport Beach living a try, Julie's past comes...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OCSummary: In London in 1973, Willie Parker informed on his gangster colleagues. Ten years later he is violently snatched from his Spanish tranquil village retreat by hit men who are surprised to find out they have a completely willing victim on their hands.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER HITSummary: "Shideh and her young daughter, Dorsa, are left alone in a war-torn city when her husband is drafted and sent to the front lines. After a dud missile strikes their apartment building, a neighbor mysteriously dies and Dorsa's behavior becomes erratic. Shideh scoffs at her superstitious neighbor's warning that the missile carries an ancient curse, Shideh now realizes that the malevolent force in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR UNDSummary: 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: Produced with the purpose of alleviating the stigma associated with dyslexia, The big picture features the testimony of individuals from various backgrounds diagnosed with dyslexia (including investment advisor Charles Schwab and billionaire Richard Branson) describing how they learned to live with and overcome their disability. Medical experts explain the neurological causes of the condition.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BIG1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 616.8 BIG
Summary: In this steamy, intriguingly complex, psychological thriller the line between reality and fantasy is hopelessly blurred. CGesar tries to make sense of his life after a car crash leaves his once-handsome face grotesquely disfigured. After he is placed into a psychiatric penitentiary for a murder he doesn't remember committing, CGesar's only hope is to delve into the depths of his subconscious...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2001
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN OPESummary: Xavier, now thirty, reunites again with his old friends from his time in Barcelona when William marries a Russian dancer in Saint Petersburg. Although he is working as a writer, Xavier has been unable to publish his serious novel. He is ghostwriting celebrity memoirs and writing scripts for corny TV soap operas. His love life is a series of short-term encounters. When he loses his apartment,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RUSSummary: Krypto the Super-Dog and Superman are inseparable best friends, sharing the same superpowers and fighting crime side by side in Metropolis. However, Krypto must master his powers for a rescue mission when Superman is kidnapped.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2022
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LEACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV LEACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LEACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LEASummary: This documentary examines why hundreds of American POWs from the Korean and Vietnam wars were abandoned and why our government doesn't demand their repatriation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Bill Dumas Productions 2005