Balio, Tino.
Summary: "Largely shut out of American theaters since the 1920s, foreign films such as Open City, Bicycle Thief, Rashomon, The Seventh Seal, Breathless, La Dolce Vita and L'Avventura played after World War II in a growing number of art houses around the country and created a small but influential art film market devoted to the acquisition, distribution, and exhibition of foreign-language and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Wisconsin Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 BALSummary: A powerful psychic force known only as Akira resurfaces in Neo-Tokyo in the 21st century. Tetsuo, a young, inexperienced motorcycle biker driven beyond the boundaries of sanity by the power of Akira, is forced to conjure up demons laying dormant within his subconscious.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pioneer 2001
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME AKISummary: Three radical activists like to make their point by breaking into the homes of the wealthy, re-arranging their belongings and leaving cryptic messages. When one such break-in goes wrong, they are forced to kidnap a wealthy businessman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2005
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EDU1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF EDU
Summary: A look at controversial director Pier Paolo Pasolini. Was his death in 1975 the work of Pino the Frog, a 17 year old male prostitute, or an assassination by right-wing fascists?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Facets Multimedia 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHOSummary: At the heart of this true story is Hossein Sabzian, an unemployed movie buff who finds himself mistaken for the enigmatic director Mohsen Makhmalbaf. The misunderstanding takes on a life of its own and Sabzian ends up in jail where his trial is filmed by Kiarostami.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Facets Video 1990
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CLOSummary: In Karachi, Pakistan, a runaway boy's life hangs on one critical question: where is home? The streets, an orphanage, or with the family he fled in the first place? Simultaneously heart-wrenching and life-affirming, the film documents the struggles of these wayward street children and the Samaritans looking out for them in this ethereal and inspirational story of resilience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC THESummary: Franȯis and his fellow teachers prepare for a new year at a high school in a tough neighborhood. Armed with the best intentions, they brace themselves to not let discouragement stop them from trying to give the best education to their students. Cultures and attitudes often clash in the classroom, a microcosm of contemporary France. As amusing and inspiring as the teenaged students can be, their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CLASummary: In 1975 Rome, Claude Lanzmann filmed a series of interviews with Benjamin Murmelstein, the last President of the Jewish Council in the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia, the only 'Elder of the Jews' not to have been killed during the war. From Nisko in Poland to Theresienstadt, and from Vienna to Rome, the film provides an unprecedented insight into the genesis of the Final Solution. It...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When the residents of Budrus learn that the Israeli army plans to build the Separation Barrier through their town, cutting them off from neighboring Palestinian villages and uprooting their precious olive groves, they decide to organize. Under the leadership of Ayed Morrar, Palestinian men of all political factions come together to wage an unarmed struggle to preserve their lands. Victory seems...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arab Film Distribution 2011
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BUDDarby, Giles
Summary: This is the memoir of Giles Darby, a British banker jailed in 2008 for his involvement in a $7m fraud against his employer, NatWest. Giles and his co-defendants, David Bermingham and Gary Mulgrew, became the subject of extensive media coverage when the US government demanded their extradition in relation to the collapse of the energy giant Enron. The NatWest Three, as they came to be known,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quiller Publishing 2020