Williams, Robin

Summary: A divorced man takes a job in disguise as his ex-wife's housekeeper to be near his children.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 1999

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MRS

Summary: Federico Fellini satirizes his youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals in this portrait of provincial Italy during the Fascist period.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AMA

Summary: A princess must escape across enemy lines with the royal treasure, guarded only by a loyal general and two greedy peasants.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HID

Summary: Comedy-drama about a young trainmaster employed in a tiny station during World War II. He becomes involved in a plot to blow up a German ammunition train, but when the plan backfires, he is forced to commit the ultimate act of courage.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CLO

Summary: A comedy in which the vague and clumsy M. Hulot, in contrast to his more wealthy sister and brother-in-law, is constantly at odds with the modern world.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN Mon

Summary: An old woman's disappearance during a train ride from Switzerland to England leads a young couple into a web of international espionage in this mystery-comedy.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 1998

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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER LADY

Summary: Examines the American consciousness that led to involvement in Vietnam. Includes interviews with General William Westmoreland; former Secretary of Defense, Clark Clifford; Senator William Fulbright; Walt Rostow; and Daniel Ellsberg.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2002

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HEA

Summary: A witty, delightful story about a lovestruck suitor named Jack whose fiancee can only love a man named Ernest.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2002

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY IMP

Summary: A comedy-drama about life aboard a Navy cargo ship in Pacific waters during World War II. The monotonous non-combat duty of a fun-loving crew is enlivened by a feud between the petty, intolerant captain and an impetuous, highly-respected cargo officer whose continuous efforts to get a transfer to combat duty are blocked by the captain.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1998

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MIS

Summary: A member of the House of Lords dies in a shockingly silly way, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son is insane: he thinks he is Jesus Christ. He is "cured" of that affliction, only to become Jack the Ripper incarnate, blood thirsty Tory who is therefore sane and eminently acceptable to the House of Lords. An irreverant look at Britain's class system that peers behind the closed...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY RUL

Summary: Coined impersonator extraordinaire, Hartman is responsible for some of SNL's favorite characters and sketches: Admiral James Stockdale (Ross Perot's running mate), the Sinatra Group, President Clinton at McDonald's. Other memorable impersonations and characters include Phil Donahue, Barbara Bush, Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump, Jim Baker, Jesus, Frankenstein, and, of course, the Anal Retentive...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2004

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SAT

Summary: In a small provincial town, arrangements and events surrounding the firemen's annual ball, honoring a retiring firechief, go wrong at every turn.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2002

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FIR

Summary: Modern Paris, a city of glass, steel and the encroaching age of technology. Admist the babble of tourists, the endearingly clumsy Monsieur Hulot tries to reconcile the old-fashioned ways with the confusing new ways.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PLA

Summary: Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal, had left them long ago, but now returns to make things right with his family.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 2002

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3 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ROY

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ROY

Streisand, Barbra

Summary: A free-spirited woman picks up a befuddled musicologist who has a red plaid traveling bag like hers. Two other hotel guests also own identical bags, one holding jewelry, and the other, top secret government documents. When the bags get mixed up, the result is hilarious chaos.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WHA

Summary: Fueled by a suitcase full of pharmaceuticals, journalist Raoul Duke and his sidekick Dr. Gonzo set off on a fast and furious ride through nonstop neon, surreal surroundings and a crew of crazy characters.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003

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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE FEA

Summary: One of the CIA's top international operatives is suddenly relegated to a desk job in an agency power play. Unwilling to go quietly, and with the aid of a chic Viennese widow, he puts himself back in the game by writing a memoir exposing the innermost secrets of every major intelligence agency in the world. The CIA now wants him dead, but he refuses to cooperate - because he's having to much fun!

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2002

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HOP

Summary: Gulley Jimson, an ill-behaved artist is in search for a perfect canvas. He is determined to let nothing come between himself and the realization of his exalted vision.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion 2002

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HOR

Summary: T. S. Garp is a sweet-natured writer whose life is a weird minefield of violence, adultery, fatherhood, feminism, and eerie coincidences.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WOR

Summary: The complications of love and friendship among three New Jersey comic book artists: Holden, his partner Banky, and Alyssa, the woman Holden falls in love with only to be thwarted by her sexuality.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2000

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CHA

Summary: Greta Gerwig is radiant as a woman in her late twenties in contemporary New York, trying to sort out her ambitions, her finances, and, above all, her tight but changing bond with her best friend, Sophie (Mickey Sumner). Meticulously directed by Noah Baumbach (Kicking and Screaming) with a free-and-easy vibe reminiscent of the French New Wave's most spirited films, and written by Baumbach and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY FRA

Summary: In the period of several days, Katharina's privacy and her honor are destroyed, first by the police who terrorize her, and then by the yellow press, which creates in her name the image of a politicized Bonnie Parker.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LOS