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Estleman, Loren D. Isham, Mark. Madassane, Ahmoudou Morricone, Ennio. Wilhelm, HenrySummary: "This meditation on cinema's past from Decasia director Bill Morrison pieces together the bizarre true history of a long-lost collection of 533 nitrate film prints from the early 1900s. Located just south of the Arctic Circle, Dawson City was settled in 1896 and became the center of the Canadian Gold Rush that brough 100,000 prospectors to the area. It was also the final stop for a distribution...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DAWSummary: Jimmy ventures out to locate a rare film print. The film, once it is shown, has been known to drive its audience into a crazed frenzy before the theatre goes up in flames. Jimmy finds that the film lives up to its reputation and the results are shocking.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR CIGSummary: Austin Powers, international man of mystery: Secret agent Austin Powers is thawed back into action after being frozen for thirty years. The time-warped swinger has to battle again with his archenemy Dr. Evil and stop his plot to control the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY AUSSummary: Die hard: New York City detective John McClane is in Los Angeles to spend the holidays with his estranged wife Holly. While McClane waits for Holly's office party to end, terrorists take control of the building. As their sinister leader, Hans Gruber, and his savage henchman round up hostages, McClane gets ready to blast a few rounds of his own and launch a one-man war.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie DieSummary: Domestic disturbance: A divorced father discovers that his 11-year-old son's new stepfather is not what he made himself out to be. The father's investigation into the man's past explodes into a terrifying mission to rescue his son from danger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD TRASummary: Crocodile Dundee: A free spirited Australian who hunts crocodiles with his bare hands, stares down giant water buffaloes, and drinks mere mortals under the table, faces the ultimate torture test -- a trip to New York City. Crocodile Dundee II: Continuing the adventures of the eccentric Australian, Crocodile Dundee, he and his beautiful girlfriend are threatened by a ruthless gang of drug...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE CROSummary: Broken Trail: An aging cowboy and his nephew who transport 500 horses from Oregon to Wyoming to sell them to the British Army. Along the way, their simple horse drive is complicated when they rescue five Chinese girls from a slave trader, saving them from a life of prostitution and indentured servitude.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures 2017
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLASummary: Crocodile Dundee: A free spirited Australian who hunts crocodiles with his bare hands, stares down giant water buffaloes, and drinks mere mortals under the table, faces the ultimate torture test -- a trip to New York City. Crocodile Dundee II: Continuing the adventures of the eccentric Australian, Crocodile Dundee, he and his beautiful girlfriend are threatened by a ruthless gang of drug...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CROSummary: A rare glimpse of early Japanese anime and prewar Japanese culture, The roots of Japanese anime features the masterworks of such pioneers of Japanese animation as Noburo Ofuji, Yasuji Murata, and Kenzo Masaoka, in addition to Mitsuyo Seo's Momotaro's sea eagle, the notorious war cartoon billed as Japan's first feature anime.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zakka Films 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ROOSummary: Fistful of dollars: An anonymous, but deadly man rides into a town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojo's. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Albuquerque: When Cole Armin comes to Albuquerque to work for his successful uncle John, he soon learns that family business is out to eliminate any local competition. Tiring of his uncle's underhanded tactics, Cole switches to rival operation run by Ted Wallace and his sister, Celia. But Cole soon learns John Armin is to a man to be crossed as the trio must fight for their business, and their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLASummary: The story of the three Sackett brothers, Tye, Orrin, and Tell, who leave Tennessee to start new lives in the West; not being a man to settle down, cowhand Conn Conagher drifts in and out of widow Evie Teale's life; career outlaw Catlow attempts to take some Confederate gold, with his friend, a U.S. marshal, and a ruthless bounty hunter on his tail.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie L'Amour 2010Estleman, Loren D.
Summary: Enter Valentino, a mild-mannered UCLA film archivist, who buys a decrepit movie palace and uncovers a skeleton in the secret Prohibition basement. He then makes a second discovery: long-lost, priceless, reels of film: Erich von Stroheim's infamous Greed. The LAPD wants to take the reels as evidence, jeopardizing the precious old film.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESTSummary: Why preserve film in a world where audiovisual materials seem so readily available online? That is the key question posed in Film, the Living Record of Our Memory, which features interviews with film archivists, curators, technicians, and filmmakers including Costa-Gavras, Jonas Mekas, Patricio Guzmán, Ken Loach, Bill Morrison, Fernando Trueba, Wim Wenders, and appearances by Martin Scorsese,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FILEstleman, Loren D.
Summary: "Bela Lugosi's Frankenstein screen test puts Valentino in the picture for murder. Everyone knows the Frankenstein monster was played by Boris Karloff. His portrayal is so famous that the play Arsenic and Old Lace was filled with Karloff/monster jokes--even when the part of the monstrously deformed villain was played by another actor. But before Karloff's memorable portrayal, another famous...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Forge Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESTEstleman, Loren D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M ESTEstleman, Loren D.
Summary: Hollywood film detective and film archivist Valentino becomes embroiled in the murder of a blackmailer in this wacky comedic murder romp.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Wilhelm, Henry
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Publisher / Publication Date: Preservation Pub. Co. 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 770.28 WILEstleman, Loren D.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M ESTIsham, Mark.
Contents: At first sight (3:11) -- Simple touch (2:43) -- This is what beautiful looks like (1:53) -- Seeing celebration (1:56) -- To share a feeling (1:34) -- Seeing journey (2:40) -- You don't see me (3:35) -- This look I love (2:35) -- Our eyes aren't what make us see (3:54) -- Love is where you are (Gigi Worth) (5:38) -- Kiss to build a dream on (Louis Armstrong) (3:00) -- It never entered my mind...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Milan 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC ATMadassane, Ahmoudou
Summary: "Zerzura offered an opportunity to try something new, taking Tuareg guitar into noise, drone, and ambient. This free-form session forgoes the creation of 'songs, ' for the creation of the soundscapes. Maybe not surprisingly, these ambient pieces were already present in the genre, hiding in plain sight. Ahmoudou developed and drew on the 'practice notes' or segue that come before a song;...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC ZERContents: Disc 1. Can the circle be unbroken (Bye and bye) (The Carter Family) -- Mule skinner blues (Blue Yodel No. 8) (Jimmie Rodgers) -- Fox chase (DeFord Bailey) -- I'm thinking tonight of my blue eyes (The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) -- Mountain Dew (Grandpa Jones and His Grandchildren) -- I want to be a cowboy's sweetheart (Patsy Montana and The Prairie Ramblers) -- New San Antonio Rose (Bob Wills and...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Legacy 2019