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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCall number: DVD 709 WOR
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: [Disc 1]: Star trek: the motion picture: A massive alien presence of enormous power enters Federation space, destroying three powerful Klingon cruisers and neutralizing everthing in its path and Admiral James T. Kirk returns to the helm of an updated U.S.S. Enterprise and sets course to meet the aggressor head-on. [Disc 2]: Star trek II: the wrath of Khan: On a routine inspection of the U.S.S....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI STASummary: Snoopy tabloid magazine editor Bob Weston wants to know if author Helen Gurley Brown based her book on, as he believes, personal research. He tries to parley an interview with the author who made headlines and sales. So he decides to get very personal to find out for himself.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: DVD Movie Sex 2009Summary: The Federation Starship U.S.S. Enterprise is on routine training maneuvers, and Admiral James T. Kirk seems resigned to the fact that this may be his last space mission. But Khan--a brilliant renegade of 20th Century Earth--is back with his exiled band of genetic supermen and setting a deadly trap for his old enemy Kirk ... with the threat of a universal Armageddon!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUSummary: Aliens are everywhere, attacking Planet Earth! Rockets sent into space to probe for future space flights, but the rockets keep disappearing. They are being intercepted by an army of space aliens, who must be stopped.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY SCI-FI EARSummary: Brides of Dracula: "Marianne is traveling to Eastern Europe from Paris for a teaching post. She gets stranded at an inn after her stagecoach mysteriously leaves her. She is persuaded to stay at Baroness Meinster's chateau. During her stay Marianne meets the Baroness's son who is chained to a wall. Feeling bad for the son, Marianne frees him, only to discover that he is a vampire. Luckily for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY HORROR HAMSummary: After a nervous breakdown, Chief Inspector Dreyfus builds a criminal organization devoted to the extermination of Inspector Clouseau.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PINSummary: Three student filmmakers set out into the forest to film a documentary on a legend known as The Blair Witch.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR BLASummary: Play Misty for me: A radio disc jockey becomes the victim of psychotic obsession when he tries to end a torrid love affair with a fan.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A domestic drama which reveals the corrosive effects of alcoholism on a hardened young advertising executive and his attractive young wife, both of whom drink heavily to compensate for their insecurity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD DAYCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DAYSSummary: Set in contemporary Moscow where 12 men must decide the fate of a young man accused of murdering his step-father. Consigned to a makeshift jury room, one by one each man takes center stage to confront, connect, and confess while the accused awaits a verdict and revisits his heartbreaking journey through war in flashbacks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TWELeonardi, Marco
Summary: In turn of the century Mexico, a young woman loves a boy whom her mother forces to marry her sister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LIKCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Like 2011Summary: After explorer Meriwether Lewis suffers an untimely death, a messenger from the President is sent to investigate. A tense encounter with the only witness begins to unravel the mystery. Was it suicide, an accident, murder, or conspiracy?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MYSSummary: A touching story about women whose emotional lives are as rich as their surroundings are poor. Maria is a troubled woman who drinks, smokes, and steals, desperate for oblivion and angry at the entire world. Emotional rescue comes in the form of her own mother who comes to visit while her father is in the hospital. Her mother cooks, crochets and befriends the gentlemanly neighbor who lives...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SOLSummary: Danny Archer is an ex-mercenary turned smuggler. Solomon Vandy is a local Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join together for two dangerous missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son. The son was conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BLOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BLOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Blood 2007Summary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Best selling crime novelist Charles suffers from terrible writer's block and is struggling to finish his first screenplay. His picture-perfect new wife Ruth is doing her best to keep him focused so they can fulfill her dream of leaving London for Hollywood. Charles' quest for inspiration leads him to invite the eccentric mystic Madame Acarti to perform a séance in his home. He gets more than he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BLICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BLICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BLISummary: Robocop: "Set in Detroit sometime in the near-future, the film is about a policeman killed in the line of duty, who the department decides to resurrect as a half-human, half-robot supercop. The robocop is indestructible, and within a matter of weeks he has removed crime from the streets of Detroit. However, his human side is tortured by his past, and he wants revenge on the thugs who killed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM 2014
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI ROBSummary: He has survived on the streets for twenty years. He's a gambler-- a thief-- a killer and a cop. Now he's investigating the most shocking case of his life, and as he moves closer to the truth, his self-destructive past is closing in.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE BADSummary: The documentary uses Graham Greene's own words from his books and recordings, as well as photographs and clips from his many films, to reveal the fascinating life of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. The cast includes John Le Carre, psychologist Kay Jamison, critic David Lodge, Time correspondent Bernard Diederich, former CIA Inspector General Fredrick Hitz, and Greene's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2013
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DANDiCaprio, Leonardo
Summary: In the 1990s a wealthy stockbroker becomes involved in a securities scam that leads him to a life of crime and corruption.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2016