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Summary: 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...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Summary: Tess Darbeyville, a beautiful young peasant, seeks her fortune with the wealthy D'Urbervilles, whom her family believes to be distant relatives.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Pictures 2004

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Summary: Every year Scranton High's 1957 champion basketball team reunite to relive the glory and reinvent the myths. At their twenty-fourth reunion the coach is rallying his boys. Friendship and betrayal, success and failure, past and present--the dreams and realities of the game of life are explored in a moving experience.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video 1983

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THA

Summary: A true story of the brutal murder of a policeman and the slow process of justice.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2002

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ONI

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Summary: Mildly retarded killer Karl Childers is released from a mental hospital, where he was placed for killing his mother and her lover, after 25 years.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax 2005

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SLI

Summary: The contemporary version of the classic true story of Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 2001

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Miracle 2004

Summary: Two recent high school graduates wreak havoc on all who cross their path, until an oddball loner looking for Miss Right comes into their lives. These social misfits learn the hard way that life after high school gets even weirder than they thought it would.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY GHO

Layton, Bart

Summary: A young Frenchman convinces a Texas family that he is their teenage son who has been missing for three years.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Vivendi Entertainment 2013

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD IMP

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

Summary: East Hampton, the mid-1970's: documentary filmmakers Albert and David Maysles set up camp in a decrepit mansion known as Grey Gardens, where the eccentric Edith "Big Edie" Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale live amid piles of trash and mounds of cats. The film becomes an instant cult classic. Fast forward to the present day: "Grey Gardens" has inspired a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006

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

Dench, Judi

Summary: A woman searches for her lost son, who was taken away from her many years ago after she was forced to live in a convent after she became pregnant.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay 2014

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

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PHI

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PHI RATED PG-13

Lennon, Seán.

Contents: Dead meat -- Wait for me -- Parachute -- Friendly fire -- Spectacle -- Tomorrow -- On again off again -- Headlights -- Would I be the one -- Falling out of love.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Capital Records 2006

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

Summary: This is the story of Marlon Cruz, a young Colombian man who, motivated by his beautiful girlfriend Reina leaves his life in Colombia to illegally cross the border and find fortune in New York. Marlon's journey, which takes him to through seedy strip clubs, dance halls, homeless hostels, and the streets of Jackson Heights, ultimately takes him to a place he could have never predicted.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distibuted in the USA by Phase 4 Films 2009

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

Summary: When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy. Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon realizes just how daunting the journey will be, and employs a low-life drifter, George Briggs to join her.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOM

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

Summary: An Indian woman's visions and a geologist's investigation of an earthquake come together to reveal secrets about the atrocities that took place at a Native American boarding school.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2010

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

Summary: Carol is a fragile, frigid young Belgian beauty cracking up over the course of a terrifying weekend. Left alone by her vacationing sister in their London flat, she finds herself haunted by specters, real and imagined, as her insanity grows to a violent pitch.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2009

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA REP

Phoenix, Joaquin

Summary: Follows Joaquin Phoenix as he transitions from a career in acting to attempting a career as a rapper.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY I'M

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Summary: Portrait of the relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie, once and aspiring actress in New York who left her career to care for her aging mother in their East Hampton home, and never left again. The aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis feed their cats and raccoons and rehash their pasts behind the walls of their decaying mansion, Grey Gardens.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2001

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

Summary: On the verge of making it big, long-struggling musician Jack Frost suddenly realizes he's missing something vital: time with his wife and young son Charlie. But before Jack can make up for lost time, he swerves off an icy mountain road. Then, one cold winter's night, Jack magically returns as a walking, talking, ski-slope-shredding snowman. Determined to be the father he always wanted to be,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1999

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

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

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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: DVD MOVIE JAC

Summary: When a man shaves off his mustache, a trademark he's had for years, no one around him notices, instead insisting he's never even had one. Is he going insane, or is this some kind of strange conspiracy?

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Lorber Films 2007

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

Summary: A 17-year-old Kurdish refugee, Bilal, has struggled his way through Europe in an attempt to reunite with his girlfriend, who has emigrated to England. When he is stopped in France, he decides to swim the English Channel to complete his journey. While training at a local swimming pool he meets Simon, a middle-aged swim instructor, who agrees to help Bilal, in order to regain the affection of...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2010

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

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Summary: Glyndebourne Festival Opera's 1972 production of Verdi's opera, based on Shakespeare's tragic play which studies the all consuming ambition of Macbeth and his wife.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Arthaus Musik 2005

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Summary: Bourgeois couple Hélène and Paul witness Malika, a young prostitute, being attacked by thugs and Paul immediately speeds off. Remorseful, Hélène tracks down Malika in the hospital. As she nurses Malika back to health, Malika tells Hélène a shocking story of how she was turned into a sex slave by a vicious criminal organization. Hélène and Malika join forces to double-cross her pimps and gets...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2003

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

Summary: A withdrawn couple's isolated house is infiltrated by a rude, burly American gangster on the run. The three engage in role-playing games of sexual and emotional humiliations. An evocative, claustrophobic, and morbidly funny tale of the modern world in chaos.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2011

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CUL

Summary: After his wife leaves him, a film director finds himself drawn into affairs with two enigmatic women, while at the same time searching for the right subject (and actress) for his next film.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011

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

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