Summary: Levi, an intellectual exiled by the Fascist government during World War II to a mountain village in southern Italy, discovers the resilience and dignity of people who live close to the land.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Facets Video 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CHRSummary: Morvern Callar is greeted with a startling surprise, her boyfriend has committed suicide. He has left her a cryptic message on his computer and a manuscript for a novel. She changes the author's name to her own and begins a re-birth of self discovery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Palm Pictures 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MORSummary: A look into the Source Family cult, its spiritual leader, Father Yod, and 1970s California, told through home movies and photographs from Source Family archivist Isis Aquarian and accompanied by original Source Family music.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Drag City, Inc. 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SOUSummary: This is the shocking and incredibly true story of the brutal massacre of 11 Israeli athletes by a team of extreme Palestinian terrorists during the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany. From terrorist training in Libya to the terrorists sneaking into the Olympic Village to the tension-filled negotiations to the shocking conclusion at a German airport. Told with actual video shot during the crisis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ONESummary: Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, this piece documents the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust and contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps' quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NIGMoore, Alan
Summary: Documents the life and career of comic book author Alan Moore.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disinformation 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MINSummary: Faced with a fatal disease, a professor agrees to an operation that restores his sight and after he returns to his family he discovers that he is unhappy with his life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Films 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WILSummary: When Yvette's second husband suddenly dies days before Christmas, she turns to her three daughters from her first marriage to console her during the holidays. Not wanting their father to be alone, one of the girls invites him to Christmas dinner, forcing their parents to speak to eachother for the first time in 25 years. As their complicated lives converge, secrets are revealed that will test...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Films 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BUCSummary: The rollicking adventures of Tom Jones, as he romps across 18th century England. From bedrooms to rural inns to London's dangerous streets. Cast out from his home and forbidden his true love, Tom must overcome the charms of an older seductress and the sinister plot of a nefarious rival to win his lover's heart.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV TOMSummary: A chance encounter with struggling B-movie star Ronnie Bostock opens up a whole new world to buttoned-up British author Giles De'Ath. Focuses on the genteel obsession of an older man for a younger man.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Universal Studios Home Video 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LOVSummary: In a land torn apart by war, two men on opposite sides are about to find out they have one thing in common. Wounded and emotionally tortured, they are taken in by Anni, a young war widow. None of them understands the others' languages, but it doesn't seem to matter. After a hard day at work on Anni's farm, who needs words?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CUCSummary: A "farewell cruise" takes a luxury ship up the vast Yangtze River shortly before completion of the massive Three Gorges Dam. The passengers glimpse a rapidly changing countryside, while the local people struggle to adapt as their lives are irrevocably altered.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UP1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF UP
Summary: The city of London is preparing for Christmas. Two nine-year-old boys, Tom and Thomas are unaware of each other's existence, yet they have always somehow sensed that the other is there. Tom runs away from the Boys Home where he was brought up. Child smugglers come after him, but he manages to escape. He goes into the Science Museum where he meets Thomas visiting the place with his father. The...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Phase 4 Films 2009
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Tom 2009Summary: The great Agnes Varda's film career began with this graceful, penetrating study of a marriage on the rocks, set against the backdrop of a small Mediterranean fishing village. Both a stylized depiction of the complicated relationship between a married couple and a documentary-like look at the daily struggles of the locals, Varda's discursive, gorgeously filmed debut was radical enough to later...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007