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Criterion collection ; 1059 Criterion collection ; 1079/1080 Criterion collection ; 1105 Criterion collection ; 1108 Criterion collection ; 1114 Criterion collection ; 1134 Criterion collection ; 1140 Criterion collection ; 1156 Criterion collection ; 1172 Criterion collection ; 1175Summary: "Cantopop superstars Anita Mui Yim-fong and Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing display their iconic androgynous magnetism as doomed lovers in this emblematic film of Hong Kong's Second New Wave, directed by pioneering queer melodrama master Stanley Kwan. Rouge bridges past and present in its tragic romance between a humble courtesan and the wayward scion of a wealthy family, who embrace death by suicide...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN ROUSummary: "This revelatory, award-winning debut feature from co-directors (and twin brothers) Arie and Chuko Esiri is a heartrending and hopeful portrait of everyday human endurance in Lagos, Nigeria. Shot on richly textured 16 mm film and infused with the spirit of neorealism, Eyimofe (This Is My Dream) traces the journeys of two distantly connected strangers--Mofe (Jude Akuwudike), an electrician...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN EYISummary: Seventeen years after his family was separated by the civil war in Angola, a New York taxi driver is reunited with his now devoutly religious wife and teenage daughter when they are finally able to follow him to America. But after living thousands of miles apart for so long, the three find they must discover one another's strengths, forgive one another's weaknesses, and bridge cultural and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA FARSummary: "In 1956, Frank Tashlin brought the talent for zany visual gags and absurdist pop-culture satire that he'd honed as a master of animation to the task of capturing, in glorious DeLuxe Color, a brand-new craze: rock and roll. This blissfully bonkers jukebox musical tells the story of a mobster's bombshell girlfriend--the one and only Jayne Mansfield, in a showstopping first major film role--and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY GIRSummary: Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda by the dictatorship of Idi Amin, twenty-something Mina spends her days cleaning rooms in an Indian-run motel in Mississippi. When she falls for the charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius, their passionate romance challenges the prejudices of both of their families and exposes the rifts between the region's Indian and African...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MISSummary: A mystery man, a murder, and a wad of missing cash in his wryly offbeat breakthrough, Wayne Wang updates the ingredients of classic film noir for the streets of contemporary San Francisco's Chinatown. When their business partner disappears with the money they had planned to use for a cab license, driver Jo and his nephew Steve scour the city's back alleys, waterfronts, and Chinese restaurants...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY CHASummary: With a poet's eye for place, light, and the spiritual dimensions of everyday existence, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese crafts a meditation on the concept of homeland and a transcendent elegy for what is lost in the name of progress. Grieving and alone following the deaths of her husband and children, elderly Mantoa (Mary Twala Mhlongo, in a soul-shaking end-of-life performance) prepares for her death...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN THISummary: A day in the life of Ming Ding begins as a pair of hammer-wielding loan sharks come to the door of Ming's squalid apartment. Their ultimatum, delivered in Mandarin, is as simple as it is virtually impossible to fulfill, needing to give them $800 by the evening or the debt will be doubled. With the family he supports half a world away, Ming has a single rain-soaked shift at his job in which to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Anguished young lovers, fallen women, wanted criminals, and all manner of social castoffs: these are the disreputable denizens of the Hôtel du Nord, an atmospherically seedy boardinghouse on the bustling banks of the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris, whose lives collide in Marcel Carné's bittersweet rhapsody of romance, betrayal, revelry, and violence. --
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HOTSummary: "It's death, Japanese style, in the rollicking and wistful first feature from maverick writer-director Juzo Itami. In the wake of her lascivious father's sudden passing, a successful actor (Itami's wife and frequent collaborator, Nobuko Miyamoto) and her husband (Tsutomu Yamazaki) leave Tokyo and return to their family house to oversee a traditional funeral. Over the course of three days of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN FUNSummary: The crowning achievement of Claude Chabrol's career is a riveting study of class dynamics and the psychology of crime, starring Isabelle Huppert and Sandrine Bonnaire as a pair of outsiders who form a mysterious alliance that gradually goes haywire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Old Hollywood collides with New Hollywood, and screen horror with real-life horror, in the startling debut feature from Peter Bogdanovich. The chillingly prescient vision of American-made carnage casts Boris Karloff as a version of himself: an aging horror movie icon whose fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man on a psychotic shooting spree around Los Angeles. Charged with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The Baby Carriage: Infused with a jazzy, nouvelle vague-inspired energy, Bo Widerberg's feature debut has the freshness of youth. Building on his film criticism's call for a socially relevant Swedish cinema, the writer turned director offers a vivid portrait of a young factory worker finding her way toward independence as she weathers unexpected pregnancy, learns hard lessons from relationships...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Gripping saga of two rival moles--played by superstars Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Andy Lau Tak-wah--who navigate slippery moral choices as they move between the intersecting territories of Hong Kong's police force and its criminal underworld. Set during the uncertainty of the city-state's handover from Britain to China and steeped in Buddhist philosophy, these ingeniously crafted tales of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Richardson, Sibil Fox
Summary: Documents the fight of Sibil Fox Richardson, also known as Fox Rich, for the release of her husband from prison where he is serving a sixty-year sentence for robbery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Distribution 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC TIMSummary: With his rousingly entertaining directorial debut, Sidney Poitier helped rewrite the history of the western, bringing Black heroes to a genre in which they had always been sorely underrepresented. Combining boisterous buddy comedy with blistering, Black Power-era political fury, Poitier and a marvelously mischievous Harry Belafonte star as a tough and taciturn wagon master and an unscrupulous,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN BUCSummary: Marguerite Duras had already established herself as one of the major figures of postwar French literature when she launched an equally fascinating and unclassifiable career in cinema, translating her elliptical, experimental style to the screen through the unprecedented fusion of hypnotic, highly stylized imagery and radically disjunctive sound. Boldly reimagining the possibilities of dialogue,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN INDSummary: 'Strange, what love does.' The role of a lifetime, a Hollywood mystery, a woman in trouble...David Lynch's first digitally shot feature makes visionary use of the medium to weave a vast meditation on the enigmas of time, identity, and cinema itself. Featuring a tour de force performance from Laura Dern as an actor on the edge, this labyrinthine Dream Factory nightmare tumbles down an endless...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY AVANT GARDE INLSummary: "Golden-age Hollywood's humanist master Leo McCarey brings his graceful touch and relaxed naturalism to this sublime romance, one of cinema's most intoxicating tear-wringers. Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer are chic strangers who meet and fall in love aboard an ocean liner bound for New York. Though they are both involved with other people, they make a pact to reconnect six months later at the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA LOVSummary: Widely hailed as the greatest film of the 1980s, this searing story charts the tortured rise and fall of middleweight boxing champion Jake 'The Bronx Bull' La Motta.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA RAGSummary: 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 STRHunter, Holly
Summary: After nearly dying in a car crash, a man is obsessed with recreating accidents and having sex in cars.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Distribution 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CRASummary: "The Danish Dogme 95 movement that struck world cinema like a thunderbolt began with The Celebration, Thomas Vinterberg's international breakthrough, a lacerating chamber drama that uses the economic and aesthetic freedom of digital videoto achieve annihilating emotional intensity. On a wealthy man's sixtieth birthday, a sprawling group of family and friends convenese at his country estate for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN CELSummary: A country's bloody history stains the present in the Guatemalan auteur Jayro Bustamante's transfixing fusion of folk horror and searing political commentary, inspired by the real-life indictment of the authoritarian Efran̕ Ro̕s Montt for crimes against humanity. A notorious, now aging former military dictator stands trial for atrocities committed against Guatemala's Mayan communities. While...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022