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Blues (Music) Detective and mystery films New York (N.Y.) Drama New York (N.Y.) Social life and customs 19th century Drama New York (State) New York Stalkers Drama Stalking victims Drama Triangles (Interpersonal relations) Drama Upper class New York (State) New York Drama Wharton, Edith 1862-1937 Film adaptationsSummary: Chuck D and Marshall Chess return to Chicago to explore the heyday of Chicago blues. They bring together artists from the past with musicians from today's music scene.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Music Video 2003
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BLU V5Summary: Explores how in the 1960s the combination of traditional jazz, folk music and the influence of the black blues of the USA created the British blues movement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Music Video 2003
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BLU V6Summary: Ace Rothstein and Nicky Santoro, mobsters who move to Las Vegas to make their mark, live and work in this paradoxical world. Seen through their eyes, each as a foil to the other, the details of mob involvement in the casinos of the 1970's and '80's are revealed. Ace is the smooth operator of the Tangiers casino, while Nicky is his boyhood friend and tough strongman, robbing and shaking down the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY CASSummary: Scorsese winds his way from the banks of the Niger River in Mali to the cotton fields and juke joints of the Mississippi Delta to trace the origins of the blues in lyrical combination of original performances.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vulcan Productions, Inc. 2003
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BLU V1Summary: Using rare historical acts and interviews and performances by living legends, Clint Eastwood explores piano blues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Manufactured by Columbia Music Video 2003
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BLU V6Summary: Sammy is a single mom living in a small Catskill town with her eight-year-old son. A lot happens all at once to Sammy as she, sort of, picks up with an old boyfriend, gets a new boss and her wayward brother finally shows up after months of no communication. A crisis of sorts ensues when the son meets his estranged father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Classics 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA YOUSummary: Martin Scorsese takes an in-depth look at the careers of great Italian filmmakers such as Rossellini, De Sica, Fellini, Visconti, and Antonioni, and their art's profound influence on him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MYSummary: Mixing fictional storytelling and documentary footage of blues legends tells the tale of a young boy, in 1956 Mississippi, who is torn between an uncle who loved the blues and a mother who thought that the blues was the devil's music.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Music Video 2003
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BLU V4Summary: Scott is 15 and growing up in suburban Long Island. While caught up in his first love, Scott watches the relationships of his parents and neighbors slowly crumble as they try to keep up with the changing times.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Screen Media Films 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LYMSummary: "A ravishing romance about three wealthy New Yorkers caught in a tragic love triangle, the ironically-titled story chronicles the grandeur and hypocrisy of high society in the 1870's"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Tells the story of Newland Archer, whose engagement to an innocent socialite binds him to the codes and rituals of his upbringing. When her cousin arrives in town on a wave of scandal after separating from her husband, she ignites passions in Newland he never knew existed. Swelling with exquisite period detail, this film is an alternately heartbreaking and satirical look at the brutality of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Fourteen years after being imprisoned, psychopath Max Cady emerges with a single-minded mission: to seek revenge on his attorney Sam Bowden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 2001