Hopper, Dennis
Summary: When Johnny meets a woman who plays a mermaid at the local carnival, he soon begins to believe that she may be a real mermaid who murders during the full moon.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino 2013
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY THRILLER NIGSummary: Co-directors Schiller and Carson follow Dennis Hopper and capture his life and times on-film around the same time as Hopper's unsuccessful attempt to create the film The last movie, a movie about the meaning of cinema.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DOC AMESummary: The fact that John Lurie knows nothing about fishing doesn't stop him from taking his celebrity guests to exotic fishing locales for fishing and conversation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 1999
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FISSummary: A United States Army officer/trained assassin is sent into the depths of a southeast Asian jungle to seek out a renegade colonel and terminate his command during the Vietnam War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA APOSummary: David Lynch burrows deep beneath the picturesque surfaces of small-town life in his most iconic film. With intense performances by Dennis Hopper, Isabella Rosellini, Kyle MacLachlan, and Laura Dern, and hauntingly powerful scenes and images, this is one of the most influential American films of the past few decades.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BLUSummary: Two L.A. cops, one a veteran and one a rookie, try to bring peace to the war raging on the streets of L.A.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2001
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD COLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COLSummary: Two motorcyclists embark on a coast-to-coast odyssey in search of the real United States. They encounter hippies and prostitutes, make friends with an alcoholic small town lawyer, take drugs, and are harassed and attacked by rednecks.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA EASSummary: Jed Cooper is mistaken for a criminal and is unjustly hung by the ruthless Captain Wilson and his nine-man gang, who leave him for dead. Cooper escapes the lynching and sets out on a deadly rampage of revenge against his persecutors.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1998
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN HANSummary: For the first time on home video come all 43 episodes of the second season starring Reed Hadley as Bart Matthews: a tireless and dedicated public servant who earnestly defends the rights of the indigent.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PUBSummary: "In this deeply personal tale of estrangement and reconciliation between two rebellious brothers, set in a dreamlike and timeless Tulsa, Francis Ford Coppola gives mythic dimensions to intimate, painful emotions. The director's "art film for teenagers" was his second adaptation of young-adult novelist S. E. Hinton's work in a single year, after the more classically styled The Outsiders. Graced...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA RUMSummary: U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn helps a headstrong young girl find the man who murdered her father in Native American territory and fled with the family savings. When Rooster's employer insists on accompanying the old gunfighter, sparks fly. The situation goes from troubled to disastrous when an inexperienced Texas Ranger joins the party.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2011
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2 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN TRUSummary: "Home from college, Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) makes an unsettling discovery: a severed human ear, lying in a field. In the mystery that follows, by turns terrifying and darkly funny, writer-director David Lynch burrows deep beneath the picturesque surfaces of small-town life. Driven to investigate, Jeffrey finds himself drawing closer to his fellow amateur sleuth, Sandy Williams (Laura...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BLUSummary: The atomic brain: Inside an evil mansion, a mad scientist and an old woman hire three young women as servants. Grave robbing and forced brain transplants by atomic power add to the horror as the three women are chained to the devil's love lab ; The brain that wouldn't die: A crazed surgeon accidentally decapitates his attractive fiancée. He takes her head to his lab to keep if alive while he...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR CULSummary: This incisive and entertaining portrait of American poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti explores his vital role as catalyst for numerous literary careers and for the Beat movement itself. Interviews with Ferlinghetti and others reveal a rich mélange of characters and events that unfolded in postwar America. In 1953 Ferlinghetti opened City Lights Bookstore, which quickly evolved into an iconic...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FERSummary: A dramatization of the story of Dan Morgan, an adventurer whose exploits during the Australian gold rush caused him to become a wanted outlaw and the object of a manhunt.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Troma Entertainment Inc. 2009
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MADSummary: Filmmaker Chuck Workman explores the lives, works and influence of four leading lights of the "Beat Generation" of the 1950s: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Neal Cassady. Cutting back and forth between archival footage of his subjects and readings of selections from the authors' works, he creates a fast-paced collage of images that show how the Beats became the dominant...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Films 2000
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SOUSummary: Bud Johnson is an apathetic, beer drinking, lovable loser, who is coasting through a life that is passed him by. His one bright spot in his mundane existence is his precocious, over achieving twelve-year old daughter, Molly. She takes care of them both. She accidentally sets off a chain of events on Election Day, which culminates in the presidential election coming down to one vote, Bud's....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SWICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SSummary: The fourth season of this classic groundbreaking series saw the beginning of one-hour episodes. This allowed for more elaborate and detailed stories which plunged viewers even further into the twilight zone.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: The good, the bad, and the ugly: A spaghetti western tale of greed, revenge and epic warfare. Three ruthless outlaws avidly search for a treasure chest containing $200,000.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Two motorcyclists embark on a coast-to-coast odyssey in search of the real U.S. They encounter hippies and prostitutes, make friends with an alcoholic small town lawyer, take drugs, and are harassed and attacked by rednecks.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EASSummary: Donald Baines is a successful movie director nearing death whose life was filled with fame and riches but devoid of love. Haunted by the memory of the son he abandoned and never knew, he is given the chance to see three views of his son's journey. Ultimately he is offered the opportunity to alter the outcome of his son's life in this haunting yet beautiful tale of love and redemption. --Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ILLSummary: CeBe is a fifteen-year-old who idolizes Elvis, punk rock and her ex-con father, is surrounded by junkies and predators, and follows them all into oblivion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022