Summary: Based on a true story about revenge, fear and redemption. In 19th century St. Pierre, a convict sentenced to death strives to better himself in the eyes of the police chief's beautiful wife and that of the town that she has him working in. Since there is no guillotine or executioner, one of each has to be sent for from France.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WIDRameau, Jean Philippe
Contents: Zais. Ouverture 5:47) -- Castor et Pollux. Scene funebre (3:25) -- Les fetes d'Hebe. Air tendre (1:53) -- Dardanus. Tambourins I & II (1:51) -- Le temple de la gloire. Air tendre pour les muses (4:25) -- Les boreades. Contredanse (3:06) -- La naissance d'Osiris. Air gracieux (2:19) -- Les boreades. Gavottes I & II (2:44) -- Platee. Orage (2:32) -- Les boreades. Prelude (1:19) -- Concert no. 6...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Archiv Produktion 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL RAMContents: 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: The lady, Grace Elliot, was once the mistress of the Prince of Wales. She left him for Philippe, Duc d'Orleans, a cousin of Louis XVI. The film opens a year after the fall of the Bastille, and while their affair is over, Grace and the Duc have stayed close friends. But just because they're friends doesn't mean they can't (and don't) have powerful political arguments. Organized around five...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LADDe Vosjoli, Philippe.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Advanced Vivarium Systems 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 639.392 DEVSummary: In the Paris of 1978, old formulas do not charm listeners anymore in a male-dominated music industry. Until Ana uses her synthetizers to make herself heard, creating a new sound that will mark the decades to come: the music of the future.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CHOSummary: Marianne is the wife of a famous diamond jeweler. When he suddenly commits suicide, she learns that the business is in shambles and she is drawn back into the jewel dealing world. Forced to sell a cache of stolen gems her husband hid in their home, she finds herself confronted by plenty of would-be suitors, including the Russian mafia and the De Beers diamond cartel.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Films 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PLASummary: Set in Cornwall in 1820, du Maurier's classic gothic tale of romance, intrigue, and murder on the moors comes to vivid life in this enchanting production that aired on the BBC in 2014.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV JAMPiffaro
Contents: Adieu mes amours (1:26) ; Se j'ay perdu mon amy (1:56) ; Baisez-moy, ma doulce amye (2:12) / Josquin Desprez -- Musae Jovis / Nicolas Gombert (4:31) -- Bransles de village / anon. ; arr. Piffaro (5:00) -- Prélude ; Languir me fais / anon., Claudin de Sermisy (5:13) -- Allemandes / ed. Claude Gervaise ; arr. Piffaro (3:17) -- Pavane "Dellestarpe" ; Basse dance / ed. C. Gervaise, anon. (2:55) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Archiv Produktion 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL PiffaSummary: "Ludovic is waiting for a miracle. With seven-year-old certainty, he believes he was meant to be a little girl and that the mistake will soon be corrected. But where he expects the miraculous, Ludo finds only rejection, isolation and guilt--as the intense reactions of family, friends, and neighbors strip away every innocent lace and bauble"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MYSummary: A celebrated literary scholar, seemingly happily married, embarks on an affair with a gorgeous stewardess, who is captivated by his charm and reputation. As their romance gets serious, the film grows anxious, leading to a wallop of a conclusion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: the Criterion Collection 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SOFSummary: Alex Beck is a kindhearted pediatrician in Paris who goes out of his way to help the poor in the clinic where he works. Blissfully married to his childhood sweetheart Margot, she disappears (and he is left in a coma) while on vacation. On the eighth anniversary of her death, the police interrogate Alex after two bodies are unearthed near the site of her murder, along items that seem to connect...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed in the U.S. by] Music Box Films 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TELCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TELSummary: Season two begins with a burnt corpse found in the trunk of a car, a seemingly isolated case of urban violence. Prosecutor Pierre Clement, Police Captain Laure Berthaud and examining magistrate Judge Roban investigate the murder and soon find themselves up against the criminal machine that lies behind it. It's a furiously-paced season with characters that become increasingly dark, disillusioned...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SPIFat Freddy's Drop (Musical group)
Contents: Side A: Blackbird remix / Kings -- Russia remix (10th Anniversary) / Nightmares On Wax -- Clean the house remix / Christoph El Truento & Lucky Lance --- Side B: Silver & gold remix / Yarni & Liv East -- Bare bones dub / Philippa -- Soldier remix / Jazzanova --- Side C: Mother mother remix / Feiertag -- Blackbird remix / Marcus Worgull -- Blackbird remix / The KCBS --- Side D: Bones remix /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL POP/ROCK FATSummary: Once upon a time in China: The legendary martial arts teacher Wong Fei-hung, with a band of disciples, battles a host of nefarious forces--foreign and local--who are threatening Chinese sovereignty as British and American imperialists encroach upon the Mainland.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ONC1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD FOREIGN ONC
Summary: Liu Jin-xi is a village craftsman whose quiet life is irrevocably shattered by the arrival of two notorious gangsters in the local general store. When Liu single-handedly saves the shopkeeper's life, he comes under investigation by detective Xu Bai-jiu. Convinced that Liu's martial arts mastery belies a hidden history of training by one of the region's vicious clans, Xu doggedly pursues the shy...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WUSummary: Set in Mississippi in 1964, this controversial film is based on the true story of the case of three young civil rights workers (in real life they were named James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner) who were brutally murdered in June of 1964. The chaotic aftermath was dubbed Mississippi Burning. This movie is told from the perspective of the FBI's operations to uncover evidence...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MISCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MISSummary: "A French village ... chronicles the impact of World War II on a small village in central France. The series follows the lives of the villagers during the war as their lives become irrevocably changed by the German occupation and its aftermath. The Germans arrive in June 1940; the occupation will go on for five years and will reveal the strengths, weaknesses and secrets of the characters as...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FRESummary: 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 2010Rameau, Jean-Philippe
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Opus Arte 2007
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA ZORSummary: 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