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Berto, Juliet Blavette, Charles Hunter, Holly Jean-Baptiste, Marianne Tierney, GeneSummary: In 1983, director Martin Bell, photographer Mary Ellen Mark, and journalist Cheryl McCall set out to tell the stories of homeless and runaway teenagers in Seattle. These two films together create a frank, empathetic portrait of lost youth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC STRSummary: A journey to the beginning of time (1955) : Youngest of four boys one day finds a fossil of trilobite. So his older friend take him on journey through prehistory, up to beginning of time, to see real live trilobites.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN THRJean-Baptiste, Marianne
Summary: After her adoptive parents die, a Black optometrist searches for her birth mother and discovers that she is a poor white factory worker.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Distribution 2021
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA SECSummary: "If you could choose only one memory to hold on to for eternity, what would it be? That's the question at the heart of Hirokazu Kore-eda's revelatory international breakthrough, a bittersweet fantasia in which the recently deceased find themselves in a limbo where they must select a single cherished moment from their life to be recreated on film for them to take into the next world. After...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In Mexico City, the lives of three strangers, a young man mixed up in the gritty underworld of dogfighting, a glamorous woman who seems to have it all, and a mysterious assassin who is desperate to reconnect with his estranged daughter, collide in a tragic twist of fate that forever alters their personal journeys. A tour de force of violence and emotion captured in a rush of kinetic handheld...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN AMOSummary: All the earnest paleontologist wants is an intercostal clavicle to complete his brontosaurus skeleton. What he gets is an out-of-control toboggan ride with a scatterbrained heiress nuts about him (or maybe just nuts). Riding along are a dog named George, a leopard named Baby, a snooty society matron with a spare million, a caretaker on the sauce, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BRISummary: Despite his lack of political convictions, photojournalist Bruno Forestier is roped into a paramilitary group waging a shadow war in Geneva against the Algerian independence movement, and becomes infatuated with a mysterious woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PETSummary: "Screwball sparks fly when Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn let loose in one of the fastest and funniest films ever made--a high-wire act of invention that took American screen comedy to new heights of absurdity. Hoping to procure a million-dollar investment from a wealthy society matron for his museum, a hapless paleontologist (Grant) finds himself entangled with a dizzy heiress (Hepburn) as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BRIHunter, Holly
Summary: After nearly dying in a car crash, a man is obsessed with recreating accidents and having sex in cars.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Distribution 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CRATierney, Gene
Summary: An alluring but possessive woman marries a man she barely knows, then eliminates anyone who may come between them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Distribution 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After he dies suddenly, the hapless advertising executive Daniel Miller finds himself in Judgment City, a gleaming way station where the newly deceased must prove they lived a life of sufficient courage to advance in their journey through the universe. As the self-doubting Daniel struggles to make his case, a budding relationship with the uninhibited Julia offers him a chance to finally feel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY DEFSummary: Sex work is portrayed with radical nonjudgment in this immersive, richly detailed look at the rhythms and rituals of society's most stigmatized profession. Inspired by the experiences of the sex workers Borden met while making her underground feminist landmark Born in Flames, Working Girls reveals the textures of a day in the life of Molly, a photographer working part-time in a Manhattan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WORSummary: "This holy grail for both documentary and theater aficionados offers a tantalizingly rare glimpse behind the Broadway curtain. In 1970, right after the triumphant premiere of Stephen Sondheim's groundbreaking concept musical Company, the renowned composer and lyricist, his director Harold Price, the show's stars, and a large pit orchestra all went into a Manhattan recording studio as part of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ORISummary: Reporter Jerry Corbett aspires to be a playwright but finds himself drinking more than writing. Everyone is stunned when heiress Joan Prentice agrees to marry him, though it initially appears that he has changed his ways. However, when his work takes the couple to New York, Jerry's bad behavior and a persistent old flame lead them to an explosive experiment with open marriage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MERSummary: In a richly textured collage of varying film stocks and newsreel footage, the recollections of a dying poet flash before the eyes, his dreams mingling with scenes of childhood, wartime, and marriage, all imbued with the mystical power of a trance. Largely dismissed by Soviet critics on its release because of its elusive narrative structure, Mirror has since taken its place as one of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MIRSummary: This compilation of five early short films by Martin Scorsese offers a fascinating window onto his artistic development. Spanning the years from Scorsese's time at NYU in the mid-1960s to the late '70s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA SCOSummary: On April 30, 1971, a standing-room-only crowd of New York's intellectual elite packed the city's Town Hall theater to see Norman Mailer, fresh from the controversy over his essay 'The Prisoner of Sex' and the backlash it received from leaders of the women's movement, tangle with a panel of four prominent female thinkers and activists: Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TOWSummary: In four late-nineteenth-century Shanghai "flower houses", courtesans live confined to opulent splendor but are forced to work to buy back their freedom, and romantic intrigue, jealousies and tensions roil around their assignations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FLOSummary: After a Prohibition-era gangster is released from prison, he longs for a simpler life, but he is lured back for one last heist by his old boss.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE HIGSummary: The revelatory and assured feature debut by Dee Rees is a coming-of-age tale of a queer Black women navigating the expression of her gender and sexual identities, built around a beautifully layered performance from Adepero Oduye.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA PARSummary: Employing a mix of documentary, performance, poetry, and music in his work, the transformative filmmaker Marlon Riggs was an unapologetic gay Black man who defied a culture of silence and shame to speak his truth with resounding joy and conviction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC SIGSummary: "In Munich in 1972, eight renowned filmmakers each brought their singular artistry to the spectacle of the Olympic Games, capturing the joy and pain of competition and the kinetic thrill of bodies in motion for an aesthetically adventurous sports film unlike any other. Made to document the Olympic Summer Games--an event that was ultimately overshadowed by the tragedy of a terrorist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC VISBerto, Juliet
Summary: When a daydreaming librarian meets a mysterious musician in Paris, they find their lives becoming a surreal adventure.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Distribution 2021