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Savage, AnnSavage, Ann
Summary: Through re-enactments and portrayals of both real and imagined events, filmmaker Guy Maddin takes viewers on a surreal tour of Winnipeg, the city he has lived in his entire life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Distribution 2015
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE MYSummary: Comedy about a witch who was burned at the stake 300 years ago. She plans to take revenge by marrying the descendent of her persecutors and ruining his political aspirations, but doesn't count on falling in love!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY ISummary: This eerie excursion into the Gothic recesses of Maddin's mad, imaginary childhood is a nightmare set in a lighthouse on grim Notch Island, where fictional protagonist Maddin was raised by an ironfisted, puritanical mother.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE BRASummary: A never-before-seen woodsman mysteriously appears aboard a submarine that's been trapped deep under water for months with an unstable cargo. As the terrified crew make their way through the corridors of the doomed vessel, they find themselves on a voyage into the origins of their darkest fears.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FORSummary: The Ace in the Hole, in this case, is Leo Minosa, trapped in a cliff dwelling near Albuquerque, N.M. The publicity from his situation could build a winning hand for several people: Chuck Tatum, manipulative veteran newsman; Lorraine, his bored wife who dreams of city lights; Sheriff Gus Kretzer, boosting his re-election campaign; and young Herbie, a reporter who wants to make the big leagues....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ACESummary: A dark comedy set in Winnipeg during the Great Depression, where a beer baroness organizes a contest to find the saddest music in the world. Musicians from around the world descend on the city to try and win first place--a $25,000 prize.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE SADSummary: "WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED explores the folk horror phenomenon from its beginnings in a trilogy of films - Michael Reeves' Witchfinder General (1968), Piers Haggard's Blood on Satan's Claw (1971) and Robin Hardy's The Wicker Man (1973) - through its proliferation on British television in the 1970s and its culturally specific manifestations in American, Asian, Australian and European...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021