Summary: 1921 not far from Paris. It is party day at Marguerite Dumont's castle. Nobody knows much about this woman except that she is rich and that her whole life is devoted to her passion: music. When a young, provocative journalist decides to write a rave article on her latest performance, Marguerite starts to believe even further in her talent. This gives her the courage she needs to follow her dream.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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

Summary: Aliens from the planet Hondo cancel their plans of world domination to form a bluegrass band and fall in love in this wonderfully odd, surprisingly sweet sci-fi musical comedy. A FilmBuff Presentation.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: FilmBuff 2013

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

Summary: A rediscovered treasure of 1990s DIY filmmaking, Cauleen Smith's Drylongso embeds an incisive look at racial injustice within a lovingly handmade buddy movie/murder mystery/romance. Alarmed by the rate at which the young Black men around her are dying, brash Oakland art student Pica attempts to preserve their existence in Polaroid snapshots, along the way forging a friendship with a woman in an...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA DRY

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Summary: The mighty warrior god Thor does battle against the evil Loki who plots to destroy the universe.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Invincible Pictures 2020

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE THO

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

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

Summary: Bonus features (all on disc 2): Backstage at the Met with host Renée Fleming: interviews with Patricia Racette, Marcello Giordani, Maria Zifchak and Carolyn Choa; Anthony Minghella talks about Madama Butterfly.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Classical 2011

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2 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA MAD

Summary: Based on the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of 1958, in which a fifteen-year-old girl and her twenty-five-year-old boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY BAD

Summary: A black comedy in which a young man's sexual impulses go haywire when he discovers that the woman he has just slept with happens to be his mother's lesbian lover. Set against Reykjavik's swinging nightlife, Hlynur soon finds that he can't continue resisting adulthood.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2003

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

Summary: Rahul and Simran fall in love while travelling in Europe on an inter-rail holiday. Simran's father, settled in London for twenty-two years, is determined that his daughter should marry a family friend, back in their homeland of rural Punjab. All his plans undergo serious revision once the family travels to India and Rahul also shows up.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Yash Raj Films 2001

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

Summary: Amidst a worldwide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia, middle-aged Aris finds himself enrolled in a recovery program designed to help unclaimed patients build new identities. Prescribed daily tasks on cassette tapes so he can create new memories and document them on camera, Aris slides back into ordinary life, meeting Anna, a woman who is also in recovery. Through images deadpan, strange and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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

Summary: The youngest of King Triton's daughters, and the most defiant, Ariel longs to find out more about the world beyond the sea, and while visiting the surface, falls for the dashing Prince Eric. While mermaids are forbidden to interact with humans, Ariel must follow her heart. She makes a deal with the evil sea witch, Ursula, which gives her a chance to experience life on land, but ultimately...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV LIT

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

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

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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD

Summary: Grammy-nominated film that chronicles the life and career of Arif Mardin, the man who produced more than 50 gold and platinum records and won twelve Grammys. Featuring interviews and/or studio footage with Willie Nelson, Carly Simon, Jewel, Daryl Hall, Phil Collins, Norah Jones and many others. The Greatest Ears in Town is one of the most insightful, inspirational and enjoyable documentaries...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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

Summary: In war-torn medieval Japan, a military hero is sent to a small village to dispatch a malevolent spirit that has been ripping out the throats of itinerant samurai. and discovers that he must face his own personal demons as well.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011

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

Summary: Percy Jackson is no ordinary teenager, he's the son of Poseidon and is accused of stealing Zeus' lightning bolt, the most powerful weapon ever created! With storm clouds brewing, Percy embarks on an incredible cross-country journey to prove his innocence, recover the bolt, and prevent a war among the gods that could destroy our world!

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Percy 2010

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

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV PER

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PER RATED PG

Summary: Every police precinct has a case that defies explanation and evades solution. Recently promoted Captain Yohan Vivès faces such an elusive mystery when he investigates the gruesome murder of a young woman named Clara in the French town of Grenoble. It is clear that the attack was premeditated, and the violent nature of the crime suggests revenge. All the evidence points towards a scorned...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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

Summary: A Paris housewife begins secretly spending her afternoon hours working in a bordello in an examination of contemporary social mores and class divisions.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012

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

Summary: A stirring look at three women striving to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer who finds herself contending with both office sexism and a hostage situation; a wife and mother whose determination to build her dream home puts her at odds with the men in her life; and a young law student who forms an ambiguous bond with a lonely ranch hand. A...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2017

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CER
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CER

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

Summary: Viewers will see the nail-biting behind-the-scenes story that traces the marriage equality movement's historic progress and reveals the masterminds who fought.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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

Summary: Aaron has built an obsession around unexplained occurances in the Bermuda Triangle. One of the Triangle's most intriguing victims, the cruise ship Corona Queen, suddenly emerges after disappearing more than twenty-five years ago. Aaron joins a team of journalists in the hope of uncovering the mysterious phenomenon. The ship seems to come alive as the team faces unearthly forces of horrific nature.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2002

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

Summary: God lives in human form as a cynical writer with his young opinionated daughter in present day Brussels, Belgium. She concludes that her dad is doing a terrible job and decides to rewrite the world, which leaves God angry, powerless and adamant to get his power back.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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

Summary: An elegy of exile and an epic immersion into the world of rural Italy during the Mussolini years, Francesco Rosi's sublime adaptation of the memoirs of the painter, physician, and political activist Carlo Levi brings a monument of twentieth-century autobiography to the screen with quiet grace and solemn beauty. Banished to a desolate southern town for his anti-Fascist views, the worldly Levi...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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

Summary: In 2015, a fire at Bucharest's Colectiv club leaves 27 dead and 180 injured. Soon, more burn victims begin dying in hospitals from wounds that were not life-threatening. Then a doctor blows the whistle to a team of investigative journalists. One revelation leads to another as the journalists start to uncover vast health care fraud. When a new health minister is appointed, he offers...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC COL

Summary: A simple worker causes a strike on the Gdansk shipyard which leads to the creation of the first free unions and ultimately the downfall of the Soviet system.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2007

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