Summary: A young dreamer whose blind father runs the bathhouse has convinced his father that the bathhouse is filled with customers. His brother is a ruthless industrialist who wants to destroy the building and erect a futuristic city in its place. But that struggle is soon replaced by the movie's dominant storyline, Anton's falling in love with a beautiful 18-year-old girl. Aside from a few random...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TUVSummary: Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War (1914-1918), the film recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eyes of the war's 'lost generation': Anna, a bereft young German woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien, a French veteran of the war who shows up mysteriously in her town, placing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FRASummary: Called to the city to stop an imminent terrorist bombing, soldier J.J. desperately seeks news of his imprisoned rebel brother, Justin, who holds knowledge that could thwart the attack. Navigating the capital's darkened streets, J.J. races to a series of ominous encounters, hoping to keep the Vatican from being blown to bits.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ZERSummary: A satirical drama reflecting the times, about the sense of community, moral courage and the affluent person's need for egocentricity in an increasingly uncertain world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SQUSummary: After her father presents her with a mysterious music box, Clare Shannon is surprised to find her every wish coming true. Her joy slowly morphs into terror as she begins to realize the bloody price of each new wish.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Broad Green Pictures 2017
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WISSummary: An acrobatically inclined free spirit, following a whirlwind engagement, literally tumbles into the lives of his fiancée's aristocratic family, setting up a clash of values with her staid father while firing the rebellious imagination of her brash, black-sheep sister. With a sparkling surface and an undercurrent of melancholy, the film is an enchanting ode to nonconformists and pie-in-the-sky...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY HOLRameau, Jean Philippe
Contents: Zais. Ouverture 5:47) -- Castor et Pollux. Scene funebre (3:25) -- Les fetes d'Hebe. Air tendre (1:53) -- Dardanus. Tambourins I & II (1:51) -- Le temple de la gloire. Air tendre pour les muses (4:25) -- Les boreades. Contredanse (3:06) -- La naissance d'Osiris. Air gracieux (2:19) -- Les boreades. Gavottes I & II (2:44) -- Platee. Orage (2:32) -- Les boreades. Prelude (1:19) -- Concert no. 6...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Archiv Produktion 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL RAMSummary: 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BABSummary: "A gripping noir crime thriller set in late 1930s Bay City centers around a brooding, down-on-his-luck detective; Philip Marlowe, played by Liam Neeson, who is hired to find the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress, daughter of a well-known movie star. The disappearance is the first twist in a series of bewildering events, and soon Marlowe is embroiled in a deadly investigation and web of lies that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD Movie MarloweSummary: The show follows Margaret and Helen Schlegel, two intelligent, idealistic sisters living together in Edwardian London with their hypochondriac brother, Tibby. Their loving but interfering Aunt Juley tries to keep the siblings in line after the death of their parents, but a series of events push the sisters to lead unorthodox lives full of romance, tragedy, and drama.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HOWSummary: In the Paris of 1978, old formulas do not charm listeners anymore in a male-dominated music industry. Until Ana uses her synthetizers to make herself heard, creating a new sound that will mark the decades to come: the music of the future.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CHOSummary: 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"...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOLPhilipps, Helen.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: David & Charles 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.443 PhilippsGlass, Philip.
Contents: Protest (Satyagraha) (4:19) -- Evening song (Satyagraha) (4:07) -- Hymn to the sun (Akhnaten) (6:16) -- Trial/Prison (Einstein) (2:47) -- Akhnaten & Nefertiti (Akhnaten) (4:15) -- Kuru field of justice (Satyagraha) (6:04) -- Knee 1 (Einstein) (3:32) -- Tolstoy Farm (Satyagraha) (4:54) -- Window of appearances (Akhnaten) (4:22) -- Bed (Einstein) (3:40) -- Epilogue (Akhnaten) (4:18) -- Knee 5...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS Records 1989
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL GLASummary: Follows the man behind the beloved children's icon, Elmo, examining the life of puppeteer Kevin Clash. Provides behind-the-scenes views of Sesame Street and the Jim Henson Workshop and featuring interviews with Frank Oz, Rosie O'Donnell, Cheryl Henson, and Joan Ganz Cooney.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docuramafilms 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BEIFhilippe, Jean
Summary: "A wildly imaginative fantasy graphic novel about the responsibilities of creation.... Leftstar can't seem to access the world they've been building. They also haven't slept in a long time. These things are almost certainly unrelated, and they should really go get the mail, anyway. But their trip to the post office is interrupted by a curious visitor: an enormous fruit bat. Whisked away in the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Sprocket 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 FHIPhilipps, David
Summary: "Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Philipps uncovers the shocking rise and fall of Eddie Gallagher, the decorated Navy SEAL accused of war crimes during his deployment to Mosul, the fellow SEALs who turned him in, and the court martial that captivated the nation"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 PHIDiederich, Phillippe
Summary: When four Mexican-American teenagers from Houston travel to Diamond Park to buy a 1959 Chevy Impala from Magaña's godfather, something goes very wrong, and one of them, Susi, ends up arrested for murder. Convinced that the real killer is a drug trafficker called Anaconda, Flaco and Magaña head to Mexico hunting for him to clear Susi's name--but in the process of kidnapping Anaconda Flaco...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DIEMeyer, Philipp
Summary: Follows the lives of two young men bound by family, inertia, and the ties of home to a dying Pennsylvania steel town, who dream of escaping to California together until one of them accidentally kills a transient and attempts to cover up the crime.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEYSummary: "When Rick and Lindsay meet at a camp for the blind, they each have a challenge to overcome. Lindsay is coping with blindness, and Rick must prove that he can be trusted. Although they clash at first, it isn't long before they are leaning on each other for strength. As Lindsay finds the courage to compete again, Rick must choose between keeping his friends and being responsible. Together,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Feature Films for Families 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BREPhilipps, Roland
Summary: Donald Maclean was one of the most treacherous spies of the Cold War era, a member of the infamous "Cambridge Five" spy ring. Yet little is known of this shrewd, secretive man. The full extent of his betrayal has never been documented; until now.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 MACLEAN, DONALD PHIPhilipps, Roland
Summary: "Donald Maclean was one of the most treacherous spies of the Cold War era, a member of the infamous "Cambridge Five" spy ring. Yet little is known of this shrewd, secretive man. The full extent of his betrayal has never been documented--until now. Drawing on the recent release of previously classified files, A Spy Named Orphan meticulously documents the extraordinary story of a man leading a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2018