Summary: Based on the 1997 Royal National Theatre production, widely considered the finest staging of King Lear in the past decade, Ian Holm 'touches greatness' (N.Y. Times) in Shakespeare's most sublime and difficult role.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Little Red Riding Hood, Granny, the Big Bad Wolf, and the Woodsman all face Detective Flippers as he attempts to determine the real events of the Little Red Riding Hood story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY HOOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Hoodwinked 2011Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOOSummary: In the small town of Norway, Iowa, the high school baseball team is led by legendary Coach Jim Van Scoyoc who has won 19 State Championships. But the small town heroes are dealt a series of unexpected blows that threaten to rob them of their 20th championship win. Talk of a school merger gets serious and Coach Scoyoc is fired. His replaced is his 24-year-old assistant coach, Kent Stock. Failure...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Final 2007Summary: "A hilarious and mysterious journey through artistic genius and sexual obsession, Crumb is a wild ride through the mind of R. Crumb--creator of Zap Comix, Mr. Natural and Fritz the Cat"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1998
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An insecure New York City ballet dancer wins the lead in Swan Lake, but slowly loses her grip on sanity when she thinks a seductive newcomer is out to steal her role.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation 2011
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVDCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BLACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Black 2011Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER BLASummary: Between 1970 and 1977, six low budget films shown at midnight transformed the way we make and watch movies: The allegorical freak-out "El topo," the graphic horror of "Night of the living dead," the outrageous filth fest "Pink flamingos," outlaw reggae's "The harder they come," the phenomenal "Rocky horror picture show," and the darkly disturbing "Eraserhead." Discover the stories behind the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Starz Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MIDSummary: There's precious little sweetness in Liam's life in the weeks before his 16th birthday: his mother is in prison, and his stepfather Stan is a bullying small-time drug dealer. Liam wants a normal life with mom, his older sister and her baby boy, in a caravan he picked out himself. Naïve, driven Liam comes to the attention of a local crime lord, who offers him employment--but with conditions that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sixteen Films 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SWESummary: When the President is caught in a sex scandal less than 2 weeks before the election, "Mr. Fix-it" decides they need a war to distract the public's attention and he calls on Hollywood's top producer to create it.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Video 1998
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Follow adventurer Jeff Johnson as he retraces the epic 1968 journey of his heroes Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins to Patagonia. Footage captures the amazing and beautiful mountain ranges and coastline along the west coast of North America, from California to deep Patagonia.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ONESummary: It's about an indie movie called "Home for Purim," a somewhat inane drama about a dysfunctional Jewish family living in the South during World War II. But while the film is still in production, a reporter for an online entertainment site drops the word -- based on a brief visit to the set -- that one of the ensemble cast performers may be an Oscar contender. It goes on to chronicle how the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FORSummary: Fact-based film about Gerry Conlon, a young Irish punk who is caught in the wrong place at the wrong time and forced to confess to a terrorist bombing. He and his father, along with friends of Gerry, are found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. There, his father shows his true strength, and Gerry works to prove their innocence and clear his father's name.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Video 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE In RATED RCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie In 1998Summary: In 1953, Desmond Doyle takes on the Irish family law system and the Catholic Church in a bid to be reunited with his children. Despite a strong work ethic, Desmond has a hard time holding on to steady work. Desmond's wife walks out on the relationship and his sporadic employment eventually attracts the attention of the law. A court order sends his two sons and young daughter to separate...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EVESummary: A beautiful woman riding in a limosine along Los Angeles' Mulholland Drive is targeted by a would-be shooter, but before he can pull the trigger, she is injured when her limo is hit by another car. The woman stumbles away from the accident and meets up with a plucky ingenue new to L.A. But are things really as they seem?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2002
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE MULSummary: Arthur's first sleepover: Arthur Read, the bespectacled aardvark, and his friends are having a sleepover, but when D.W. finds out that she's not invited she decides to have some fun of her own. -- Arthur's lost dog: When Arthur's dog, Pal, runs away, Arthur thinks that it's because he's not happy at home. -- Water and the Brain: The Brain won't go to Waterworld with the rest of his friends.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Home Video 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ARTSummary: Liz Murray was raised in poverty by drug-addicted parents. Though they loved her, they were unable to care for her and Liz ended up living on the streets by the age of 15. Profoundly affected by her mother's AIDS-related death, Liz forced herself to look at her future and make some significant changes. Her prospects were dismal, yet she turned her life around by going back to high school. While...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOMSummary: When colleagues think she's an espionage agent, a Girl Friday at a top-secret aeronautics think-tank chaotically sets out to clear her name.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY GLASummary: Bathsheba Everdene is a willful, passionate girl who is never satisfied with anything less than a man's complete and helpless adoration. She captures the lives and loves of three very different men. Gabriel Oak is a sheep farmer who is captivated by her beauty and proposes marriage. William Boldwood is an older, prosperous man who had been a confirmed bachelor. Sergeant Frank Troy is a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FARSummary: Ace Rothstein and Nicky Santoro, mobsters who move to Las Vegas to make their mark, live and work in this paradoxical world. Seen through their eyes, each as a foil to the other, the details of mob involvement in the casinos of the 1970's and '80's are revealed. Ace is the smooth operator of the Tangiers casino, while Nicky is his boyhood friend and tough strongman, robbing and shaking down the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY CASSummary: In 1975, refugee camps were set up across the deserts of the United States to house an exodus of over 100,000 Vietnamese immigrants before and immediately after the fall of Saigon. When Tai arrives at Camp Pendleton, he is confronted by a camp filled with despair. A Marine is in charge of housing the refugees until sponsors can be found to help them assimilate into American life. Tai, who...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRESummary: In 2009 Alex Gibney was hired to make a film about Lance Armstrong's comeback to cycling. The project was shelved when the doping scandal erupted, and re-opened after Armstrong's confession.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ARMSummary: Mike Tyson, one of the most controversial and misunderstood boxers to ever step inside the ring, reveals insights into his life through interviews, archival footage, and photographs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TYSSummary: Lionel and Jean were lovers many years ago at the time of the Korean War. They were separated by a misunderstanding. Forty years later, fate brings them together again with hilarious results.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2005