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Charlie Saunders Collection Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 456 Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 68 Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 749 Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 831 Criterion collection ; 306 Criterion collection ; 978 Orphic trilogy ; 2 Twilight zone 1 World class cinema collectionSummary: Set in the 1920s. A young English couple, Walter, a middle class doctor and Kitty, an upper-class woman, get married for all the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai. Kitty falls in love with someone else. When Walter discovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China that is being ravaged by a deadly epidemic. He takes his wife along and their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAISummary: An aging father summons his children home to unload a secret that will cause long hidden resentments and desires to rise to the surface - and leads to an event that will forever affect the entire family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Palm Pictures 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SEASummary: A Paris housewife begins secretly spending her afternoon hours working in a bordello in an examination of contemporary social mores and class divisions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BELSummary: JCVD is an out of luck actor. He's out of money, his agent can't find him a decent production, and a judge is inclined to give his ex-wife custody of his daughter. He returns to his childhood home of Brussels. When he goes into a post office to receive a wire transfer, he finds himself in the middle of a hostage situation. Due to an unfortunate mistake, the police believe JCVD is responsible...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Peace Arch Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JCVSummary: "A stylish and poignant film about Jewish director Lucas Steiner (Heinz Bennent), who is forced to hide in the basement of his theater during the Nazi occupation while his wife (Catherine Deneuve) stars in its latest production. Romantic tensions mount when she and her leading man (Gérard Depardieu) begin to fall in love with each other. At the same time, a pro-Nazi theater critic ensconces...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Home Video 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LASRevel, Jean François.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 128 REVDumont, Jean-Francois
Summary: A homeless bear living in a city has a hard time getting by, but when a little girl makes friends with him, his life becomes brighter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DUMSummary: 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 SOFDumont, Jean-Francois
Summary: When a friendly hedgehog visits the farm, the chickens build an enormous wall to keep out "prickly invaders."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DUMDuval, Jean-Francois.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sun Dog Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 DUVSummary: Cardinal Mazarin dies in 1661. The young Louis asserts his intention to govern as well as rule. Mazarin's fiscal advisor, Colbert, warns against Fouquet, who wants to be prime minister and is looting the treasury. Fouquet believes Louis will soon tire of exercizing power and overplays his hand. Louis' mistress reports this to the king who arrests Fouquet. Louis and Colbert design a brilliant...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TAKSummary: In the early 1960s in Paris, two young women become friends. Pomme is an aspiring singer. Suzanne is a pregnant country girl unable to support a third child. Pomme lends Suzanne the money for an illegal abortion, but a sudden tragedy soon separates them. Ten years later, they reunite at a demonstration and pledge to keep in touch via postcard, as each of their lives is irrevocably changed by...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN ONESummary: A wealthy merchant in nineteenth century Macao becomes obsessed with bringing to life an oft-related anecdote about a rich man who gives a poor sailor a small sum of money to impregnate his wife.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IMMSummary: 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: Alfred Hitchcock weaves a terrifying web of suspicion around a fragile young English bride and captures a classic suspense thriller. Joan Fontaine is the bride, a gently-reared heiress who fears she has married a murderer. Cary Grant is the husband, a dashing ne'er-do-well with a penchant for the high life--and a bank account that's strictly low-life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SUSSummary: Melanie is a young woman whose ambitions as a concert pianist were dashed as a child by the thoughtless behavior of the jury chairwoman, the famous pianist Madame Fouchecourt, during her exam. Ten years later Melanie sets up an elaborate plan for revenge and soon begins to ingratiate herself into the family. Unrecognized by Madame, Melanie becomes her trusted "page turner" as both women...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Tartan Video USA 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PAGColeman, Bill
Contents: For me and my gal -- Satin doll -- Don't blame me -- How high the moon -- If I had you -- I ain't got nobody -- I'm in the mood for love -- Rosetta -- Stairway to the stars -- I believe in miracles.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 77 Records 1969
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL JAZZ COLSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: A hired killer in a state of virtual living death goes about his business in a muted Paris, a city of shadows, only to fatally admit emotion (the love of a woman) into his life. His actions are analogous to hara-kiri committed by the solitary samurai. Melville takes the mythology of the gangster and removes all overt social comment in favour of romantic stylisation. Melville commented that his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Filmel 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SAMSummary: 1804: the hidden history of Haiti is a documentary film about the untold history of the Haitian Revolution. Produced by the creator of the best-selling Hidden Colors film series, 1804 goes in-depth about the four principal players who were instrumental in Haiti's independence: Makandal, Dutty Boukman, Toussaint Louverture, Jean-Jacques Dessalines. This documentary gives a compelling look into...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: King Flex Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EIGHandel, George Frideric
Contents: disc 1. Xerxes. Largo (Orchestre de chambre Jean-Francois Paillard; Jean-Francois Paillard) -- Concerto grosso in B flat, op. 3 no. 2. Largo (Alice Pierot, Nicolas Mazzoleni, Christian Moreaux, Jean Philippe Thiebaut, Marion Middenway) -- Concerto in F, op. 4 no. 5. Larghetto (Jean-Pierre Rampal) -- Concerto op. 4 no. 6. Larghetto (Orchestre de chambre Jean-Francois Paillard; Jean-Francois...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teldec 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL HANOrchestre de chambre Jean-François Paillard
Contents: Adagio / Albinoni -- Canon / Pachelbel -- -- Orchestral suite no. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067. Minuet ; Badinerie / J.S. Bach -- Concerto grosso in G minor, op. 6, no. 6. Musette / Handel -- Piccolo concerto in A minor, P. 83. Larghetto / Vivaldi -- Oboe concerto in C minor. Adagio / Marcello -- Badinerie & gigue / Corelli -- Wachet auf : BWV 140. Wachet auf ; Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben : BWV...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: RCA Victor Red Seal 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL PACSummary: The famed lunch scene at the Algonquin Hotel's Round Table. Home to a circle of mutually supportive young artists that defined New York sophistication and a literate era of wit and intellect.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006