Summary: In this controversial movie, Jesus, as both fully human and fully divine, is viewed as free of sin but subject to all temptations, including sexual ones.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LASSummary: A brilliant, moving portrayal of an aristocratic American family in what many critics consider a masterpiece equal to Citizen Kane. Based on a novel by Booth Tarkington, the drama begins in the 1870s when the Amberson family is at the height of its wealth and prestige. But the day arrives when all the Ambersons are stunned by the truth of their financial ruin.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAGSummary: Melodramatic thriller based on the Hemingway story about two hit men who become curious about the life and death of the man they were hired to kill.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY KILSummary: Conceived as the ultimate road movie, this decades-in-the-making science-fiction epic from Wim Wenders follows the restless Claire Tourneur across continents as she pursues a mysterious stranger in possession of a device that can make the blind see and bring dream images to waking life. This breathless adventure in the shadow of Armageddon takes its heroes to the ends of the earth and into the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1991
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI UNTSummary: A story of four women's search for spiritual peace. Agnes, a spinster who lives with her housekeeper, is dying of cancer, and is visited one last time by her two sisters, Karin and Maria. These two become entangled in feelings of jealousy, manipulation and selfishness. Yet Agnes, tortured by cancer, is able to transcend her sisters' pettiness to remember moments of staggering beauty as well as...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection/Janus Films 2001
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CriSummary: Trickery. Deceit. Magic. In this free-form documentary, the legendary filmmaker gleefully engages the central preoccupation of his career: the tenuous line between truth and illusion, art and lies.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion collection 2005
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE FSummary: The story is simple: a quartet of college kids head out to a cabin in the woods and stumble across a dusty old manuscript that conjures demons. "Equinox" is noteworthy as a missing link of sorts between the fantastic cinema of "Jason and the Argonauts" and "Star Wars," marking the transition from artisans like Harryhausen to a new breed of special effects artist. Made by in 1967 for a mere...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR EQUBresson, Robert
Summary: Tells the story of Balthazar, a donkey whose grim life reflects the human nature around him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2005