Summary: In the 1980s, videotape changed the world and laid the foundation for modern media culture. This film traces the rise and fall of VHS from its heyday as the mainstream home video format to its current status as a nostalgic relic and prize to collectors who still cherish it. Features interviews with both filmmakers and enthusiasts from the VHS era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC REWSummary: Following a tragic schoolbus accident, high-profile lawyer Mitchell Stephens descends upon a small town. With promises of retribution and a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of the grieving community, Stephens begins his investigation into the details of the crash. But beneath the town's calm, he uncovers a tangled web of lies, deceit and forbidden desires that mirrors his own troubled...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Video 1998
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SWESummary: A suspense-filled story of Zev, an Auschwitz survivor who discovers that the Nazi guard who murdered his family some seventy years ago; is living in America under an assumed identity. With the aid of a friend, Zev sets out on a gripping journey that tests both his will and his fading memory as it brings him closer to the retribution he seeks.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA REMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE REMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ReSummary: At a neon-drenched Toronto strip club, a coterie of lost and damaged souls-- including a man haunted by grief, a young woman with whom he shares an enigmatic bond, an obsessive emcee, and a smuggler of rare bird eggs-- search for redemption as they work through the traumas of their mysteriously interconnected histories in an obsessive cycle of sex, pain, jealousy, and catharsis. One of the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022