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Summary: Winner of the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes, the new film from Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Once Upon A Time In Anatolia) is an immersive and provocative drama. Set in the picturesque and striking landscape of Cappadocia in Central Anatolia, Winter Sleep focuses on a small village, half-empty, in the wintry off-season. The film follows a local celebrity, Aydin, an actor who runs a small...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: Touki bouki: "A vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. ... two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. finds out who we are and where we come from.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FIN

Summary: A rundown diner bakes in the Arizona heat. Inside, fugitive killer Duke Mantee sweats out a manhunt, holding disillusioned writer Alan Squier, young waitress Gabby Maple, and a handful of others hostage.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Doret, Thomas

Summary: After eleven-year-old Cyril's single father rejects him, the compassion of a stranger who agrees to take care of him helps him move forward.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KID
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF KID

Feret, Marie

Summary: Maria Anna "Nannerl" Mozart looks on as her younger brother Wolfgang gains fame as a musical prodigy, while she must hide her musical talent when she comes of age and is forbidden by her father from writing or playing music.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: Death In a strange country. The body of a young man found floating in a Venetian canal has been stripped of all valuables, except for a very visible packet of cocaine. When the man is identified as a health inspector at the U.S. military base in nearby Vicenza, Brunetti's boss Patta gets worried about political reverberations and is eager to dismiss the case as a drug-related murder.--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Bavaria Media 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DON

Summary: A portrait of contemporary Iran, as seen through the eyes of one woman as she drives through the streets of Tehran over a period of several days. Her journey is comprised of ten conversations with various female passengers, and shed light on the lives of these women whose voices are seldom heard.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Video 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: The girl of his dreams : A ten-year-old Roma girl is found dead in a Venetian Canal. Commissario Brunetti goes to the encampment where she lived, but his attempts to speak with the community there are futile. When he learns who had befriended the victim and her little brother, he begins to understand the community's silence. It also explains why he's hit obstacles preventing the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DON

Summary: Willful behavior : A young woman is murdered, but Brunetti can find no sexual or financial motive. She was set to inherit a fortune from her grandmother, a woman very much alive and obsessed with clearing her husband's name from the accusation of art theft during the Mussolini years. The case draws Brunetti into a search for lost art and buried secrets from the bleakest days of modern Italian...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Bavaria Media 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DON

Summary: Doctored evidence. Signora Battestini is dead and to everyone who knew her, it wasn't a moment too soon. Her impoverished Romanian cleaning lady gets pegged for the crime and Brunetti's boss declares the case closed. What continues to mystify Brunetti is why the old woman had so much money with no visible means of income. And what exactly has her lawyer done with her many scattered bank...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Bavaria Media 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DON

Summary: Through a glass darkly : The Venetian island of Murano is known for its artisans who specialize in the traditional craft of glass making. When the owner of a glass factory is found murdered, Commissario Brunetti uncovers a connection between the colorful, filigree glass products that he made and some very toxic poisons. How else to explain the colorful slime containing arsenic oozing out from...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Bavaria Media 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DON

Mulroney, Dermot

Summary: A disillusioned journalist traveling by train from Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles, reconnects with a former lover along the way.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Cinedigm 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY CHR

Summary: "The public enemy": A young hoodlum rises up through the ranks of the Chicago underworld, even as a gangster's accidental death threatens to spark a bloody mob war. "White heat": A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. Shortly after the plan takes place, events take a crazy turn. "Angels with dirty...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment/Warner Bros. Entertainment 2016

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY GAN

Summary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWI

Kiarostami, Abbas

Summary: Filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami recreates the final three years of his life through twenty-four short films inspired by a collection of still images.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection Inc 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: An alcoholic, failed attorney is reduced to ambulance chasing. A friend gives him a supposedly easy malpractice case which becomes a last chance to redeem himself and his career.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY VER

Summary: "Following a bloody conflict between her clan and that of the "men from the land of ice", Maïna (Roseanne Supernault) the daughter of Grand Chief Mishtenapuu (Graham Greene), sets off on a mission to rescue a captured boy - little knowing her actions will result in the poignant meeting of two of America's founding nations. A truly epic tale of adventure and romance in a time before European...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MAI

Summary: Alcoholic lawyer finds a chance to redeem himself by accepting an unwinnable case.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS/Fox Video 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY VER

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Summary: Fatal remedies : In nighttime Venice, a woman shatters the window of a travel agency. When the police arrive, she puts up no resistance. The woman is Paola Brunetti, Inspector Brunetti's wife. She is convinced that the agency caters to paedophiles seeking sex in poor Asian and African countries.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MHz Networks Home Entertainment 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DON

Summary: Quietly in their sleep : Mysterious deaths in a Venice retirement community are brought to Inspector Brunetti's attention by a young nun who is then nearly killed herself. Brunetti's investigation turns up some unsettling connections to a secret church organization and to one of its charismatic members, a priest who is the community's resident confessor.--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MHz Networks Home Entertainment 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DON

Summary: Vendetta : A high profile attorney and a prominent tax adviser are murdered within days of each other, and Brunetti's investigation leads to Senora Ceroni, and a human-trafficking syndicate within the cream of Venetian society.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MHz Networks Home Entertainment 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DON

Summary: Death at La Fenice : After a famous conductor dies from cyanide poisoning during the intermission of his concert, Brunetti probes into the maestro's past, and uncovers a shocking picture of immorality and ruthlessness, as well as a legion of bitter enemies, some of whom have held a grudge for many decades. Based on Donna Leon's first Comissarrion Brunetti novel which introduced Guido Brunetti...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MHz Networks Home Entertainment 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DON

Summary: Documentary of the Voudoun religions of Haiti. Presents rituals performed by the Rada, Petro, and Congo cults, whose devotees commune with cosmic powers through invocations, sacrifices, and possession.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Mystic Fire Video 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

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