Summary: Follow Umberto D., an elderly pensioner, as he struggles to make ends meet during Italy's postwar economic boom. Alone, except for his dog, Flike, Umberto strives to maintain his dignity while trying to survive in a city where traditional human kindness seems to have lost out to the forces of modernization.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN UMBSummary: Greta Gerwig is radiant as a woman in her late twenties in contemporary New York, trying to sort out her ambitions, her finances, and, above all, her tight but changing bond with her best friend, Sophie (Mickey Sumner). Meticulously directed by Noah Baumbach (Kicking and Screaming) with a free-and-easy vibe reminiscent of the French New Wave's most spirited films, and written by Baumbach and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY FRASummary: Set in post-war Vienna, an American western-adventure writer searches for a friend who turns out to be the king-pin of the Austrian black market.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 1999
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY THISummary: Having promised his soul to the Devil in exchange for good fortune, Jabez Stone asks the talented lawyer Daniel Webster to get him out of the bargain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An old woman's disappearance during a train ride from Switzerland to England leads a young couple into a web of international espionage in this mystery-comedy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 1998
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER LADYSummary: Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal, had left them long ago, but now returns to make things right with his family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 2002
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3 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ROYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ROYSummary: A distinguished plastic surgeon's reckless driving is responsible for disfiguring his beautiful daughter's face; so he kidnaps young women intending to graft their features to make her a new face.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion 2004