Summary: A famous actress is stricken with psychosomatic muteness and is placed under a nurse's care in an isolated house, where the two gradually assume each other's personalities.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Staff Picks, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PERSummary: At once a rousing paean to artistic creation, a delicate evocation of divine grace, and the ultimate film about food, the Oscar-winning Babette's Feast is a layered tale of a French housekeeper with a mysterious past who brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late nineteenth-century Denmark.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BABSummary: A doctor wants to go public with his knowledge that the therapeutic springs that brought fame and commerce to his town are polluted, but the mayor and others are determined to stop him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ENEBergman, Ingrid
Summary: Collection of 5 newly restored films of Ingmar Bergman and a bonus disc of "never-before-seen materials."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN INGSummary: 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 TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WILSummary: Marianne and Johan always seemed to be the perfect couple. But when Johan suddenly leaves Marianne for another woman, they are forced to confront the disintegration of their marriage. Chronicles ten years of turmoil and love that bind the couple despite their divorce and subsequent marriages. Portrays the brutal pain and uplifting peace that accompany a lifetime of loving.--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SCESummary: A knight returning home from the Crusades encounters Death, who agrees to a chess game. In the balance hang the lives of the knight and a group of traveling players.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Classic 1998