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Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 237 Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 277 Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 321 Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 329 Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 477 Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 620 Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 621 Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 677 Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 831 Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 836Summary: An enterprising gambler and a bordello madam, both newcomers to the raw Pacific Northwest mining town of Presbyterian Church, join forces to provide the miners with a superior kind of whorehouse experience. The appearance of representatives of a powerful mining company with interests of its own, however, threatens to be the undoing of their plans.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN MCCSummary: Based on one of the most controversial plays of its time, shows how a disaffected teenager finds her way amid the economic desperation of industrial Manchester, and despite an absent, self-absorbed mother. With its unapologetic identification with social outcasts and its sensitive, modern approach to matters of sexuality and race, a classic that is still a startling benchmark work of realism.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TASSummary: "Ousmane Sembène ... made his feature debut in 1966 with the brilliant and stirring Black Girl. Sembène, who was also an acclaimed novelist in his native Senegal, transforms a deceptively simple plot--about a young Senegalese woman who moves to France to work for a wealthy white family and finds that life in their small apartment becomes a prison, both figuratively and literally--into a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BLASummary: A boxing match in Brooklyn; life in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina; the daily routine of a Nigerian midwife; an intimate family moment at home with the director: Kirsten Johnson weaves these scenes and others into her film, a tapestry of footage captured over her twenty-five-year career as a documentary cinematographer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CAMSummary: 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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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CASSummary: A young woman, after breaking off an affair with an older man, finds herself in Rome and alone. She becomes friends with a young stockbroker, but after he has an accident, she once again finds herself alone.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ECLSummary: This heartrending masterpiece by Kenji Mizoguchi about the give-and-take between life and art marked the director's first use of the hypnotic long takes and eloquent camera movements that would come to define his films. The adopted son of legendary kabuki actor Kikunosuke, who is striving to achieve stardom by mastering female roles, turns to his infant brother's wet nurse for support and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN STOSummary: A one-night stand develops into a weekend-long idyll for two very different young men in the English Midlands, in an emotionally naked film that's both a snapshot of the complexities of contemporary gay living, and a portrait of a love affair.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WEESummary: Two-bit hustler Harry Fabian aches for a life of ease and plenty. Trailed by an inglorious history of go-nowhere schemes, he stumbles upon a chance of a lifetime in the form of legendary wrestler Gregorius the Great. But there is no easy money in this underworld of shifting alliances, bottomless graft, and pummeled flesh, and soon Fabian learns the horrible price of his ambition.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2005
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY NIGSummary: Northern England, the early 1960's. Frank Machin is a coal miner who is mean, tough and ambitious enough to rise up and become an immediate professional rugby star. The rugby league team is run by local employer Weaver. Machin lodges with Mrs Hammond, whose husband was killed in an accident at Weaver's, but his impulsive and angry nature stop him from being able to reach her as he would like....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THISummary: After the death in 2004 of American theater actor and monologist Spalding Gray, director Steven Soderbergh (Traffic) pieced together a narrative of Gray's life to create the documentary And Everything is Going Fine. Brilliantly and sensitively assembled entirely from footage of Gray, taken from interviews and one-man shows from throughout his career, it is a rich, full portrait, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ANDSummary: A withdrawn couple's isolated house is infiltrated by a rude, burly American gangster on the run. The three engage in role-playing games of sexual and emotional humiliations. An evocative, claustrophobic, and morbidly funny tale of the modern world in chaos.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CULSummary: A wealthy merchant in nineteenth century Macao becomes obsessed with bringing to life an oft-related anecdote about a rich man who gives a poor sailor a small sum of money to impregnate his wife.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IMMSummary: A small town in the south-west of France, summer of 1944. Having failed to join the resistance, the 18 year old Lucien Lacombe, whose father is a prisoner in Germany and whose mother dates her employer, works for the German police.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LACSummary: A pair of siblings from London purchases a surprisingly affordable, lonely cliff-top house in Cornwall, only to discover that it actually carries a ghostly price. Soon they're caught up in a bizarre romantic triangle from beyond the grave. A tragic family past, a mysteriously locked room, cold chills, bumps in the night--this gothic Hollywood classic has it all.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR UNISummary: Filmed over several weeks, "Bergman Island" is an impressively intimate look at the waning hours of one of cinema's true legends. Granted unprecedented access to the man himself, Marie Nyreröd captures stories from Bergman that cover his entire life to that point. Bergman is remarkably candid, whether he's discussing his abusive father or his last directorial effort, Saraband. Even those not...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Mike - a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him - and Scott - the rebellious son of a prominent family and the object of Mike's desire - embark on a quest from the grungy streets of Portland to the open highways of the Pacific Northwest, in search of an elusive place called home.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MYSummary: A peasant girl is raped and murdered in 14th century Sweden. When her killers seek shelter in her father's house, he kills them to avenge her death. Soon a spring appears from where the girl was killed and her father sees this as a sign from above.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "In 1970, Twentieth Century-Fox, impressed by the visual zing 'King of the Nudies' Russ Meyer had been bringing to bargain-basement exploitation fare, handed the director a studio budget and the title to one of its biggest hits, Valley of the Dolls. With a satirical screenplay by Roger Ebert, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls follows three young female rockers going Hollywood, in hell-bent sixties...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BEYSummary: An absorbing drama about a Belgian teenager who is gradually coming to understand the implications of his father making a living off of abusing illegal alien workers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012