Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISSummary: Based on the memoirs of an imprisoned French resistance leader, this unbelievably taut and methodical marvel follows the fictional Fontaine's single-minded pursuit of freedom, detailing the planning and carrying out of his escape with gripping precision.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MANContents: CD 1: Monks and troubadours I. Antiphons: Hosanna (0:48) ; Pueri Hebraerorum (2:56) -- En mai, quant rosier sont flouri (2:07) -- Antiphon: Cum audisset (5:51) -- Alle, psallite cum luya (1:07) -- Antiphons: Coeperunt omnes (1:34) ; Occurrunt turbae (1:18) ; Cum angelis (0:37) ; Ante sex dies (2:53) -- S'on me regarde (2:23) -- Hymnus: Gloria, laus et honor (6:41) -- El mois de mai (1:35) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1995
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Detective Salvo Montalbano solves crimes in Vigata with his always loyal and sometimes effective police squad.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Detective Salvo Montalbano solves crimes in the town of Vigata, crossing paths with Mafia dons, priests, housewives, liars and saints.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In 1943 a French Resistance fighter is sent to an infamous Lyon prison, where 7,000 of the 12,000 prisoners died either by natural means or by execution. Lt. Fontaine, certain that execution awaits him, meticulously plans his escape.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MANStilton, Geronimo
Summary: When Geronimo Stilton and his friends time travel to three different centuries seeking artifacts missing from the mouseum, they meet Alexander the Great, Queen Cleopatra, Francis Drake, and Mozart.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC STISummary: Set within the vibrant dancehalls and historic crime corridors of 1940s Paris, a singer with "stars in her eyes" ignores the protest of her covetous husband and pursues a meeting with a lecherous movie financier. When her husband attempts to crash the rendevous, murder ensues. Enter the detective, whose seasoned instincts lead him down a circuitous path of alibis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN QUASummary: "Xavier is a strait-laced French college senior who moves to Barcelona as part of a student exchange program, much to the dismay of his beautiful girlfriend. But sharing cramped quarters with students from all over Europe quickly leads to multi-cultural chaos as Xavier gets an eye-opening lesson on how to live, love, laugh-- and party!"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN L'AUSummary: After nearly half a century of communist rule, poverty stricken Albania falls subject to the invasion of two exploitive capitalists looking to prosper within the changing economy. As Albania's people try desperately to flee destitution, Gino and Fiore arrive from Italy with plans to use a makeshift manufacturing plant to front their next scam. Forced to name an Albanian as their company's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by New Yorker Films 2004
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LAMSummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN RANSummary: A 1950 update of the Orphic myth by Jean Cocteau that depicts a famous poet scorned by the Left Bank youth, and his love for both his wife Eurydice and a mysterious princess. Seeking inspiration, the poet follows the princess from the world of the living to the land of the dead through Cocteau's famous mirrored portal. Orpheus represents the legendary Cocteau at the height of his abilities for...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ORP1 available in Staff Picks, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ORP
Contents: Disc 1. The camp meeting jubilee (Unknown) -- My man rocks me (Trixie Smith) -- Kansas city blues (Jim Jackson) -- Going to move to Alabama (Charley Patton) -- Move it on over (Hank Williams) -- It's tight like that (Tampa Red) -- Pinetop's boogie woogie (Clarence "Pinetop" Smith) -- Jimmy's blues (Jimmy Blythe) -- Crazy about my baby (Blind Roosevelt Graves) -- Tiger rag (Washboard Rhythm...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Famous Flames Recording 2011
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES FIRSummary: Xavier, now thirty, reunites again with his old friends from his time in Barcelona when William marries a Russian dancer in Saint Petersburg. Although he is working as a writer, Xavier has been unable to publish his serious novel. He is ghostwriting celebrity memoirs and writing scripts for corny TV soap operas. His love life is a series of short-term encounters. When he loses his apartment,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RUSSummary: 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. --
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HOTSummary: Die hard (1988): NYPD police officer John McClane tries to save his wife and several others taken hostage by terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE DIECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DIEKing's Noyse (Musical group)
Contents: Galliard III based on La Mantoana / Giovanni Maria Trabaci (2:55) -- Galliard / Giovanni Leonardo dell'Arpa (2:41) -- Non ha'l ciel cotanti lumi = Heaven hath not so many stars / Claudio Monteverdi (3:01) -- Qual cadavero spirante = Like a dying corpse / Jacopo Peri (4:34) -- Pavane II / Carlo Farina (12:52) -- Se pur è ver = If it be true / Filippo Vitali (5:14) -- Dances from Il scolaro. Aria...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harmonia Mundi France 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL KINSummary: A band of Spanish conquistadors, led by Pizarro, go up the Amazon in search of gold. As the soldiers battle starvation, Indians, the forces of nature and each other, Don Lope de Aguirre (the self-styled "Wrath of God") is consumed by visions of conquering all of South America and leads a revolt, but Aguirre's megalomania turns the expedition into a doomed quest.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000