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Action Comedy Comedy films. Crime Drama Feature films. Foreign films. Romance Thriller videorecordingSummary: "An upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DISSummary: A successful Hollywood director disguises himself as a bum and sets off to see America from the bottom up. In the midst of the brutality and despair, he makes a valuable discovery-- that what the downtrodden need most is laughter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SULSummary: A Japanese architect and a French actress engage in a brief intense affair in Hiroshima in 1959. Both deal with their personal memories of World War II--he by articulating his firsthand experience with nuclear disaster, she by remembering her traumatic affair with a German soldier.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HIRSummary: Discovering that he is in the terminal stages of cancer, a clerk spends his last months in search of the meaning to life. After his pursuit of pleasure has failed, he finds self-realization in bringing about the building of a children's playground in the slums and dies quiety fulfilled.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2004
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IKISummary: When a serial killer is stalking the children of the city, everyone, including the criminal underworld, wants to see him brought down.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MSummary: Part-time pest-control man and full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Weller) seeks escape from his troubled existence in 1953 New York and flees to Interzone (a hallucinatory version of Tangiers) where reality and fantasy have merged. It's a strange, surreal landscape inhabited by mugwumps, half-alien, half-insect creatures, man-sized centipedes, carnivorous typewriters and bizarre humans. Compelled...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE NAKSummary: Set in the Middle Ages, the nature of truth and subjective reality are probed in a series of flashbacks from four viewpoints to present the case history of a man's murder and the rape of his wife by a bandit.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RASSummary: Train engineer Jacques lusts after the wife of his co-worker Roubaud. Roubaud kills his boss and Jacques witnesses the murder. In order to keep Jacques quiet, Roubaud allows Jacques to have an affair with his wife, creating a tragic love triangle.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BETSummary: A psychopathic murderer of young girls terrorizes a German city causing public hysteria and intense police investigations, which in turn disrupts organized crime. The contrasting worlds of the police and the underworld are juxtaposed as they both resolve to hunt, capture, and try the murderer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic-Film S.A. 1998
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MSummary: Two bumbling burglars plan a robbery with a young woman they just met. Problems begin immediately when they both fall for the girl and the plan goes haywire. The jewel-heist plot is merely a jumping off point for Godard's fast-paced mix of fantasy and spoof of Hollywood crime films.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BANSummary: Five men conspire to burglarize a small-time jeweler's safe. When the time comes to carry out the scheme, the men become hopelessly clumsy and have to eventually give up and go home.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BIGSummary: A documentary-style drama chronicling the rise and fall of the title character, a real-life Mob chieftain who rose to prominence in post-WWII Sicily.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SALSummary: Follow Umberto D., an elderly pensioner, as he struggles to make ends meet during Italy's postwar economic boom. Alone, except for his dog, Flike, Umberto strives to maintain his dignity while trying to survive in a city where traditional human kindness seems to have lost out to the forces of modernization.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN UMBSummary: Disc one contains Fellini's autobiographical film about a famous film director who loses his inspiration in the midst of making of film as well as an audio essay by Gideon Bachmann and Antonio Monda, an introduction by Terry Gilliam, and the theatrical trailer. -- Disc two features Fellini's rarely seen first film for television, an imagined documentary, as well as a documentary about Nino...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EIGSummary: This four disc set features Swedish director Ingmar Bergman's work on three of his most powerful films presented as a trilogy. The films of the trilogy examine the necessity of religion and question the promise of faith. The last disc is a documentary film offering views on set construction, lighting, rehearsals, editing, as well as intimate conversations with Ingmar Bergman and members of his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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1 available in Sight and Sound Rotating Display, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FILSummary: An impoverished mother and her daughter-in-law eke out a lonely, desperate existence. In order to survive in feudal Japan, they are forced to murder lost samurai and sell their belongings for grain, then they dump their corpses down a deep, dark hole.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Homevision 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ONISummary: Modern Paris, a city of glass, steel and the encroaching age of technology. Admist the babble of tourists, the endearingly clumsy Monsieur Hulot tries to reconcile the old-fashioned ways with the confusing new ways.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When an aging couple journeys to visit with their adult children and family they find they are an intrusion on the younger generation's life style.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TOKSummary: A distinguished professor emeritus who lives alone with his housekeeper can only come to terms with his egocentricity by traveling back in time to his earliest youth, finding there the seeds of his failure as husband, lover, father. This film deals with the phenomena of old age wherein childhood memories return with ever-increasing clarity while great stretches of the prime of life vanish into...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WIL1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WIL
Summary: A drama set in 19th-century Paris, about the theater and the individuals that made the stage their life. Includes the love story of four men for one woman.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2002