Summary: Lucio Castro offers both a sun-soaked European travelogue and an epic, decades-spanning romance. When Ocho, a 30-something Argentine poet on vacation in Barcelona, spots Javi, a Spaniard from Berlin, the attraction is subtle but persistent. After a missed connection on the beach, a third chance encounter escalates to a seemingly random hookup. But are these two merely beautiful strangers in a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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

Contents: Disc one, Bossa Nova Brasilia. Desafinado / A.C. Jobim, Newton Mendonca (Joao Gilberto) (2:00) -- Dindi / A.C. Jobim, Aloysio de Oliveira (Sylvia Telles) (2:36) -- One Note Samba / A.C. Jobim, Newton Mendonca (Antonio Carlos Jobim) (3:20) -- Chega De Saudade / A.C. Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes (Elizete Cardoso) (3:29) -- A Felicidade / A.C. Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes (Agostinho Dos Santos) (2:47)...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN BOS

Summary: A choir of creatures introduces a world delicately constructed by fantasy, mystery, and magical realism in Francisca Alegría's poignant and stunning debut feature. It begins in a river in the south of Chile where fish are dying due to pollution from a nearby factory. Amid their floating bodies, long-deceased Magdalena bubbles up to the surface gasping for air, bringing with her old wounds and a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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

Summary: 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 PIO
1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO

Farmer, Art.

Contents: Disc 1. Isis -- Ah-leu-cha -- Love walked in -- Blue 'n' boogie -- Soul dance -- Nancy -- Au privave -- Little moon.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: C.A.M. 2010

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ FAR

Contents: Pero me acuerdo de ti / Christina Aguilera -- Por amarte asi / Christian Castro -- La bikina / Luis Miguel -- Te hice mal / Los Temerarios -- Se va el emor / Los Tri-O -- Infiel / Rocio Durcal -- Lo hare por ti / Paulina Rubio -- A puro dolor / Son by Four -- Jurame / Gisselle -- 19 de noviembre / Carlos Vives -- Que alguien me diga / Gilberto Santa Rosa -- Veneno / Limite -- Que mas tu quieres...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: BMG 2001

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN BIL

Contents: Disc one. Lolita / A.R. Kane -- Sloppy heart / Frazier Chorus -- With Louise / Area -- When I'm an astronaut / Louis Philippe -- I'll remember / The Chameleons -- In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed are kings / Dead Can Dance -- Hay fever / 14 Iced Bears -- Eden / Talk Talk -- Tar baby / Shelleyan Orphan -- A dream of love / Ultra Vivid Scene -- Drugs / This Mortal Coil -- Pop song / David...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CHE

Summary: Two families, who both grow sugar cane, have been squabbling over the ownership of a piece of land for years. The disagreement then turned violent. The Breveses, a much smaller family, have been suffering more than their rivals and a steady drop in sugar prices has also left the family with little but their pride. When the eldest son of the Breves family is killed, his father orders his...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2002

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

Summary: An overview of the worldwide political upheavals during the Sixties and Seventies. Interweaves footage from the Vietnam War and the antiwar protests in the U.S., May '68 in Paris, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Salvador Allende and the coup in Chile, Che Guevara and Regis Debray in Bolivia, the Shah of Iran, Fidel Castro, et alia. Contains official images, film clips, news coverage...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Icarus Films Home Video 2009

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

Summary: Bait: A tale of deception and seduction, directed by and starring Hugo Haas features three people searching for a lost gold mine: the dangerous Marko, young miner Ray and the comely Peggy. As Marko and Ray search for the mine, Peggy arrives, stirring Ray's passion and igniting Marko's suspicion. As months pass, the three find themselves closing in on the mine, but the tension between them is...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOI

Picastro

Contents: Mountain relief -- Two women -- Endlessly -- Vampire -- That's it I mean it -- Temur -- Judas Claim -- State man -- Baron in the trees -- February

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2014

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PIC

Summary: Set in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the film tells the story of director Mario Suarez's quest to make the ultimate tango film. Lonely after his wife (one of the film's stars) has left him, Mario must find the themes that will hold the film together, while simultaneously permitting his musicians and dancers the freedom of expression that is necessary to satisfy the tango-hungry Argentine audience....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 1999

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

Summary: A billionaire decides on a whim to create a movie, hiring a team he considers the best: a renowned filmmaker and two egotistical actors -- one from Hollywood and the other from experimental theatre -- who cannot get along. While the director creates bizarre rituals to test their abilities, the actors find themselves confronting each other as well as their pasts and their bodies of work.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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

Summary: "1969. Marighella, Brazil's number one enemy, has no time for fear. On the one hand, a violent military dictatorship, with its fear. On the one hand, a violent military dictatorship, with its heinous crimes of torture and infamous censorship. On the other, an intimidated people. Alongside guerrilleros 30 years younger than him and willing to fight, the revolutionary leader opts for action - all...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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

Summary: On the day of a huge rally celebrating Hitler's visit to Rome, which underscored the infamous alliance between the Nazis and Mussolini's fascist regime, a brief encounter between a weary housewife and a radio announcer unfolds into an intimate drama.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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

Lukid.

Contents: Bless my heart -- Manchester -- Lonely at the top -- Snow theme -- This dog can swim -- Southpaw -- Tomorrow -- Riquelme -- USSR -- The life of the mind -- Laroche -- Talk to strangers.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Werkdiscs 2012

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP LUK

Pucho.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2004

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN PUC

Castro, V.

Summary: When a peaceful settlement on a moon in the furthest reaches of the universe finds itself threatened by the armies of the tyrannical Regent Balisarius, Kora (Sofia Boutella), a mysterious stranger living among the villagers, becomes their best hope for survival. Tasked with finding trained fighters who will unite with her in making an impossible stand against the Mother World, Kora assembles a...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC CAS

Summary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLI

Summary: Amid the political turmoil during 1980's Chile, a lonely transvestite engages in a risky clandestine operation after falling in love with a guerrilla who asks her to hide dangerous secrets of the revolution at home.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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

Hammer, Armie

Summary: The son of an Italian professor forms a relationship with his father's summer research assistant.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2018

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CAL

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CAL