Summary: After a car accident claims the life of his sister-in-law and leaves his 5-year-old nephew an orphan, a thirtysomething man named Thien leaves Saigon for a trip back to his rural hometown. During his meditative, wandering visit, Thien wrestles with his own agnosticism in the face of others' religious beliefs, summons memories of his long-disappeared brother, and reconnects with a former...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Contents: Happy Birthday Nick -- Thank God I'm a lizard -- Wear me down -- The knife -- Project cybersyn -- Family portrait -- Pale blue dot -- Back into space -- Parallel sequence -- R.A.T.S -- don't wake dad -- The beginning.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brainfeeder 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC ROSRoss from Friends
Contents: The daisy -- Love divide -- Revellers -- A brand new start -- Xxx olympiad -- Grub -- Spatter/Splatter -- Morning sun in a dusty room -- Run -- Life in a mind -- Thresho_1.0 -- Thresho_1.1.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC ROSFriendly Fires (Musical group)
Contents: Live those days tonight -- Blue cassette -- Running away -- Hawaiian air -- Hurting -- Pala -- Show me lights -- True love -- Pull me back to Earth -- Chimes -- Helpless.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: XL Recordings 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FRIFriendly Fires (Musical group)
Summary: With their first album since 2011's Pala, Friendly Fires' third full-length release mixes 80s pop and some disco with electronic rhythms and rapid beats suited to today's dance halls.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FRISummary: In 1964, author Ken Kesey and his friends, known as the Merry Pranksters, set out on a cross-country bus trip from California to New York to visit the World's Fair. They also decided to record it, with several 16 mm movie cameras and audio tape. Compiled from more than 40 hours of footage shot during the journey, it was the magical mystery tour--fueled by both the countercultural sentiments of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Pictures 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Olive is a little girl who dreams of winning the Little Miss Sunshine contest. Her family wants her dream to come true, but they are so dysfunctional that they can barely make it through a day without some disaster befalling them. Olive's father, Richard, is unsuccessful as a motivational speaker. He is barely on speaking terms with Olive's mother. Her uncle Frank has attempted suicide...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LIT1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LIT
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Little 2006Summary: In 460 A.D. Aurelius Antonius finds himself recalled to Rome and is assigned the Commander of new Caesar, Romulus Augustus' retinue of personal bodyguards. Romulus is destined to be crowned the last emperor of Rome. His reign lasts for one day and ends with Rome being run over by the savage Goths. In the resulting invasion, most of Aurelius's men are killed and the young Caesar is captured and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Genius Products 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Last 2007Summary: The story of the love affair between a beautiful retired courtesan Lea, and Chéri, the son of her old colleague and rival, Madame Peloux. After six years Madame Peloux has secretly arranged a marriage between Chéri and Edmee, the daughter of another rich courtesan. As the inevitable moment of parting approaches, Lea and Chéri begin to understand, too late, how much they mean to one another.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHESummary: The legendary "daywalker" Blade must join forces with a high-powered team of vampires to take on a fearsome threat more deadly than either has seen before. These unlikely allies must stop a race of super-vampires intent on destroying everyone in their path - human or vampire.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2004
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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR BLASummary: Blade : "Wesley Snipes stars as the tortured soul Blade -- half man, half immortal. Blade sharpens his lethal skills under the guidance of Whistler (Kris Kristofferson), his mentor, guardian, and fellow hunter of the night. When the bloodthirsty Immortals' lord, Deacon Frost (Stephen Dorff), declares war on the human race, Blade is humanity's last hope for survival." -- Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video, 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In 2025, Eastern Ukraine is a desert unsuitable for human habitation, water a dear commodity brought in by trucks. A wall is being built on the border. Sergiy, a former soldier having trouble adapting to his new reality, meets Katya while she's on a humanitarian mission dedicated to exhuming the past. Together, they try to return to some sort of normal life in which they are also allowed to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ATLSummary: "Wesley Snipes stars as the tortured soul Blade -- half man, half immortal. Blade sharpens his lethal skills under the guidance of Whistler (Kris Kristofferson), his mentor, guardian, and fellow hunter of the night. When the bloodthirsty Immortals' lord, Deacon Frost (Stephen Dorff), declares war on the human race, Blade is humanity's last hope for survival." -- Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR BLASummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Summary: Mike Regan is a successful, self-made man. But he soon finds himself in a deadly game of cat and mouse when his I.T. consultant uses his skills to endanger Mike's family, business, and life. Now Mike needs to rely on his old connections to defeat a new kind of nemesis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER I.T.Summary: When his brother disappears, mentally disabled Langston Bellows is left without a protector in Brooklyn's housing projects. Now under the control of his abusive mother, Langston must take his future into his own hands.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY KNUSummary: Is there really such a thing as a benevolent destiny that will eventually reunite true soul mates separated by time and distance? It begins at Christmastime in a New York department store, where two people meet by chance -- while shopping for their "significant others"--And are immediately attracted to each other. After spending a romantic evening together, they reluctantly part, secretly...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Serendipity 2002Summary: The thrilling exploits of Miles Challenger and his loyal canine companion Buck are followed as together they battle nature's toughest elements, stand up against hardened criminals, and rescue people in danger.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CaSummary: Four outcast high school girls a brainiac student, a scandal-ridden cynic, a tomboy, and a fashion maven join together to form their own "girl gang" and trigger a rock-'n'-roll revolution at Rydell High. Of course, the adults are in a 1950s moral panic over the burgeoning new era, but the Pink Ladies are ready to get this party started.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GRECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV GRE1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
Summary: Louis and Floyd are two former backup soul singers who have not spoken to each other in 20 years. They reluctantly agree to travel across the country together to a reunion concert to honor their recently deceased lead singer. Cleo is a beautiful young woman who is believed to be Floyd's daughter. She accompanies them as their new singer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SOUSummary: Rock star John Norman Howard has noticed that his career has begun to decline. Too many years of concerts, bad managers and life on the road have made him cynical. Then he meets the innocent, pure and very talented singer Esther Hoffman. John shows Esther the way to stardom while forsaking his own career. As they fall in love, her success only makes his decline even more apparent.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STASummary: Poland, World War II. Innocent and naive 8-year-old Bruno is bored and restless in his new home. Ignoring his mother, he sets off on an adventure in the woods. He comes across a high fence which separates him from the people he can see through it. Soon he meets a young boy in striped pajamas, and a surprising friendship develops.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BOY PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOYSummary: Now working at a private security firm in Berlin, Carrie is trying to start a new life, but she soon discovers she can't escape her past. Blindsided by stunning betrayals, and without Saul and Quinn to rely on, Carrie must uncover a deadly conspiracy that puts thousands of lives at risk, including her own.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016