Summary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In various episodes from the second season, Hank rallies the town after a lawsuit by a fundamentalist shutters the local haunted house and abolishes trick or treating. The tenacious Hank is forced to immerse himself in the world of adult video after a video store computer's falsely claims that he rented and did not return a movie and it sullies his credit rating. Hank continues to look for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 1997
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV KINSummary: A man hires a private investigator to kill his wife, who he thinks is cheating on him, and her lover, but the investigator has a plan of his own. A bad situation suddenly gets worse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BLOSummary: Brings the world of Gilbert and Sullivan to life as a dramatization of the staging of the duo's legendary 1885 comic opera, The Mikado. The world-famous Victorian librettist and composer, along with their troupe of temperamental actors, must battle personal and professional demons while mounting this major production becomes an epic about the harsh realities of creative expression.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TOPSummary: "Joel and Ethan Coen's career-long darkly comic road trip through misfit America began with this razor-sharp, hard-boiled neonoir set somewhere in Texas, where a sleazy bar owner releases a torrent of violence with one murderous thought ... Blood Simple reinvented the film noir for a new generation, marking the arrival of a filmmaking ensemble that would transform the American independent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY BLOSummary: Whether it's underage drinking, homophobia or smokers' rights, no subject is off limits for the hilariously warped gang at Paddy's Pub. The staff of this neighborhood bar takes dysfunction and political incorrectness to wickedly hilarious extremes. Knock one back with Mac, Charlie, Dennis, his sister Dee, and their nihilistic father Frank, as their twisted and self-obsessed worldviews lead to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: Step up to the bar with Mac, Dennis, Charlie, Dee and Frank, the outrageously inappropriate gang at Paddy's Pub, as they work together for a common cause, themselves! It's every man for himself as the gang tackles gay marriage, fights the class war, enjoys the high life on the high seas and does whatever it takes to figure out who knocked up Dee.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The gang returns for their most inappropriate adventures yet in season 9 of It's always sunny in Philadelphia. Once again, Paddy's Pub is the spot for clever cruelty and tasteless tomfoolery as Dee and Charlie get roped into a pyramid scheme and Dennis reveals he has super-powered erections. Season 9 also features "The Gang Saves The Day," the show's historic 100th episode. While trying to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2014
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV IT'SSummary: Go behind-the-scenes of a live sketch comedy show. Watch as Jack comes back to GE; Liz gets a visit from an adoption agency caseworker; Liz sits next to Oprah on her flight from Chicago to New York; Tracy and Jenna conduct a 'social experiment;' Jack hooks up with Liz's psycho ex-roommate; Liz thinks she has found the perfect mate; Don Geiss wakes from his coma; Jack falls in love with his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV THISummary: The story of lively and rebellious Elizabeth, one of five unmarried daughters living in the countryside of 19th century England, in a world where an advantageous marriage is a woman's sole occupation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: British Broadcasting Corp. 2001
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD PRI NOT RATEDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Pride 2001Summary: The story of a three day pass: An African-American soldier stationed in France is granted a promotion and a three-day leave from base and heads to Paris, where he finds whirlwind romance with a white woman--but what happens to their love when his furlough is over?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE MELSummary: "In this chilling adaptation of the best-selling novel by Thomas Harris, the astonishingly versatile director Jonathan Demme crafted a taut psychological thriller about an American obsession: serial murder. As Clarice Sterling, an FBI trainee who enlists the help of the infamous Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter to gain insight into the mind of another killer, Jodie Foster subverts classic gender...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY THRILLER SILSummary: After returning from World War II, a young G.I. finds he has little in common with the wife he left behind. Disillusioned, he heads north to work as a travelling salesman where he meets the daughter of a wealthy vineyard owner. On her way home, she is terrified of what her father will do when he learns she is unmarried and pregnant. The young man gallantly offers to help by posing as her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WSummary: Bob is a playboy who recklessly crashes his boat, necessitating the use of a resuscitator. While the equipment is used on Bob, a beloved physician dies of a heart atttack because the resuscitator was unavailable. To atone for this, Bob decides to become a doctor himself. He becomes involved with the doctor's widow, but an accident that causes her to go blind will shadow the rest of their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MAGSummary: With this sublimely stirring fable of desire and creativity, Jane Campion became the first woman to win a Palme d'Or at Cannes. Holly Hunter is achingly eloquent through the silence in her Academy Award-winning performance as Ada, an electively mute Scottish woman who expresses her innermost feelings through her beloved piano. When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA PIASummary: With arresting insight, vulnerability, and a delightful sense of humor, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty utilizes a mix of live action and diverse forms of animation, a collage of documentary and fantasy, and interplay of effects, voices, and music to capture the relationship between Terence and a lovely young woman (Namik Minter) as it teeters on the divide between platonic and romantic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OVESummary: In this gorgeously animated drama, the lives of several strong-willed women and a young musician intersect. Their stories reveal the hypocrisies of modern Iranian society, where sex, drugs, and corruption coexist with strict religious law. In the bustling metropolis of Tehran, avoiding prohibitions has become an everyday sport and breaking taboos can be a means of personal emancipation....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TEHSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: Pete Garrison is on the presidential protection detail when another Secret Service agent is murdered. An informer tells Garrison about an elaborate assassination conspiracy that is related to this murder and is well underway. Garrison also happens to be having an affair with the First Lady, the stress of which causes him to flunk a lie detector test when word of the plot to kill the president...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Sentinel 2006Summary: An exquisite, richly layered adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles. A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge. With its earthy visual textures it is a work of great pastoral...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Part crime thriller, part romantic comedy, Louis Garrel's The Innocent shows the dangerous and outlandish lengths two men go to for the women they love. Garrel stars as Abel, an aquarium educator whose mother, Sylvie, marries one of her drama pupils in the local penitentiary, Michel. Once on parole, Michel attempts to start a legitimate life but soon reverts to his old ways, eventually roping...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023