Griffith, Andy
Summary: When a singing drifter is discovered on a radio show, fame on television follows along with his self-destructive behavior.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Distribution 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FACSummary: Beautiful, troubled Dominique Marceau came to bohemian Paris to escape the suffocation of provincial life, only to wind up in a courtroom, accused of a terrible crime: the murder of her lover. As the trial commences and the lawyers begin tangling over Dominique's fate, Henri-Georges Clouzot's Oscar-nominate film delves into her past, reconstructing her struggle to find a foothold in the city.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VERSummary: Set in 1901. After a heated misunderstanding due to poor translation leads to the death of a lawman, Mexican American farmer Gregorio Cortez sets off in desperate flight from the Texas Rangers, evading a massive manhunt on horseback for days.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN BALDunst, Kirsten
Summary: In a quiet Michigan community in the mid-1970s, neighborhood boys try to piece together the lives of the five Lisbon sisters, kept isolated by their over-protective parents.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection Inc 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA VIRSummary: In the early 1960s in Paris, two young women become friends. Pomme is an aspiring singer. Suzanne is a pregnant country girl unable to support a third child. Pomme lends Suzanne the money for an illegal abortion, but a sudden tragedy soon separates them. Ten years later, they reunite at a demonstration and pledge to keep in touch via postcard, as each of their lives is irrevocably changed by...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN ONESummary: "For her award-winning breakthrough film, director Gillian Armstrong drew on teenage author Miles Franklin's novel, a celebrated turn-of-the-twentieth-century Australian coming-of-age story, to brashly upend the conventions of period romance. Headstrong young Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis, in a star-making performance) bemoans her stifling life in the backcountry where her writerly ambitions...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MYSummary: "Home from college, Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) makes an unsettling discovery: a severed human ear, lying in a field. In the mystery that follows, by turns terrifying and darkly funny, writer-director David Lynch burrows deep beneath the picturesque surfaces of small-town life. Driven to investigate, Jeffrey finds himself drawing closer to his fellow amateur sleuth, Sandy Williams (Laura...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BLUSummary: "Michael Haneke's most notorious production, Funny Games spares no detail in its depiction of the agony of a bourgeois family held captive at their vacation home by a pair of white-gloved young men. In a series of escalating 'games, ' the sadistic duo subject their victims to unspeakable physical and psychological torture over the course of a night. A home-invasion thriller in which the game's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN FUNSummary: At their lakeside vacation home, Ann, George and their son have unexpected visitors: two well-spoken, well-bred young men wearing polite smiles and preppy sportswear. The visitors want to play a game. "You bet that you'll be alive tomorrow at 9:00, and we bet that you'll be dead. OK?" As the terrorized family fights to survive, each plan is thwarted, each option closed, each hour closer to what...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FUNSummary: In an open-air dance hall, the members of Leca's gang are relaxing with their ladies. One of the ladies, Marie, meets Manda, who is a carpenter by trade. Marie's man Roland is a jealous sort and does not like the idea of Marie and Manda becoming friendly, and Leca himself has his eye on Marie. What follows is a story of love, death, friendship and jealousy during the Belle Epoque.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After skirting the horrors of an unidentified war being waged in an anonymous countryside, a beautiful young woman takes refuge in a remote farmhouse where she becomes embroiled in the surreal domestic odyssey of a mysterious family. Evocatively shot by cinematographer Sven Nykvist, 'Black Moon' is a Freudian tale of adolescent sexuality set in a post-apocalyptic world of shifting identities...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BLASummary: A compelling drama about the difficulty of reconciling political ideals with personal happiness. This unforgettable film follows Witek, a medical student with an uncertain future in Communist Poland; the movie dramatizes Witek's journey as a series of different possibilities, suggesting that chance rules our lives as much as choice. First suppressed and then censored by the Polish government.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN BLISummary: A fastidious composer reeling from a disastrous concert, Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde) travels to Venice to recover. There, he is struck by a vision of pure beauty in the form of a young boy named Tadzio (Björn Andrésen), his infatuation developing into an obsession even as rumors of a plague spread through the city. Based on the novella by Thomas Mann, this late masterpiece from Luchino...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA DEASummary: Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardener's son is brutally beaten up by the police at a demonstration by black school children, he gradually begins to realize his own society is built on a pillar of injustice and exploitation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA DRYSummary: Tells of the journey of the well-intentioned yet naive Kaji from labor camp supervisor to Imperial Army soldier to Soviet POW. Constantly trying to rise above a corrupt system, Kaji time and again finds his morals an impediment rather than an advantage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN HUMSummary: "This wry, melancholic comedy from Aki Kaurismäki, a response to the ongoing global refugee crisis, follows two people searching for a place to call home. Khaled (Sherwan Haji), a displaced Syrian, lands in Helsinki as a stowaway; meanwhile, middle-aged Finnish salesman Wikström (Sakari Kuosmanen) leaves his wife and his job and buys a conspicuously unprofitable restaurant. Khaled is denied...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OTHCorrieri, Sergio
Summary: In the early 1960s, a Europeanized Cuban intellectual, too idealistic to leave for Miami, is also too decadent to fit into the new Cuban society.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection Inc 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MEMFalk, Peter
Summary: When Nicky goes on the run from the mob, he calls his old friend Mikey and the two men reminisce about old times while hiding out from gangsters in the streets of Philadelphia.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection Inc 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIKKiarostami, Abbas
Summary: Filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami recreates the final three years of his life through twenty-four short films inspired by a collection of still images.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection Inc 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TWESummary: A disturbed woman is receiving a radical form of psychotherapy at a remote, mysterious institute. Meanwhile, her five-year-old daughter, under the care of her estranged husband, is being terrorized by a group of demonic beings. How these two storylines connect is the shocking and grotesque secret of this bloody tale of monstrous parenthood.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR BROSummary: Comedy about a witch who was burned at the stake 300 years ago. She plans to take revenge by marrying the descendent of her persecutors and ruining his political aspirations, but doesn't count on falling in love!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013