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Jewish musicians Poland Warsaw Biography Man-woman relationships Drama Motion picture producers and directors Murder Drama Polanski, Roman Poor families England Drama Social stratification England Drama Trials (Statutory rape) United States Wessex (England) Drama Young women England DramaSummary: Carol is a fragile, frigid young Belgian beauty cracking up over the course of a terrifying weekend. Left alone by her vacationing sister in their London flat, she finds herself haunted by specters, real and imagined, as her insanity grows to a violent pitch.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA REPSummary: Two pairs of parents, one of whose child has hurt the other at a public park, meet to discuss the matter in a civilized manner. However, the evening becomes quite chaotic as the parents become increasingly childish.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CARSummary: A withdrawn couple's isolated house is infiltrated by a rude, burly American gangster on the run. The three engage in role-playing games of sexual and emotional humiliations. An evocative, claustrophobic, and morbidly funny tale of the modern world in chaos.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CULSummary: When a gifted ghostwriter is hired to write the memoirs of former British Prime Minister Adam Lang, he quickly finds himself trapped in a web of political and sexual intrigue. Lang is implicated in a scandal over his administration's harsh tactics, and as the ghostwriter digs into the politician's past, he discovers secrets that threaten to jeopardize international relations forever. Bonus...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GHOCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER GHOSarde, Philippe.
Contents: Main title -- The church -- The tooth -- Delirium -- Empty window -- The bouncing ball -- They're after him -- To Stella -- Solitude -- Running away -- Hotel room -- The tenant -- They tried to kill me -- The audience is ready -- I'll show you blood -- The final scream -- Epsilon -- Letter -- Cigarettes -- Epsilon (alternative mix) -- The park -- Dance at Robert's -- L'Appel du verre --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Quartet 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC TENSummary: Private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California is hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair. Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together for one, unforgettable night in Chinatown.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 1999
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY CHISummary: A husband, a wife, a stranger, a knife: Roman Polanski sets them all adrift on a weekend filled with simmering resentments and gut-churning suspense in his seminal psychological thriller.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KNISummary: When the wife of an American cardiologist is kidnapped in Paris, he sets out to find her but encounters a web of language, locale, and bureaucracy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1998
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER FRASummary: Legendary Hollywood producer Robert Evans, the man behind such films as Rosemary's baby, Love story, Chinatown, and The Godfather - tells it like it is and was in Hollywood. Includes his appeal to the Board of Directors short film that saved Paramount Pictures in 1970. Also, includes archival interviews about Evans with stars and filmmakers. Includes an Evans gag reel.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KIDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KIDSummary: A rare book dealer is hired to locate the remaining copies of a demonic manuscript that can summon the devil.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NINCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER NINSummary: A quiet, timid file clerk whose unremarkable life begins to be increasingly overshadowed with dread and fear after he moves into his new home - an apartment building with an unhappy past. Adding to his paranoia are the building's other occupants, who do nothing to alleviate his growing obsession with the untimely, tragic fate of the apartment's previous tenant.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TENSummary: Tess Darbeyville, a beautiful young peasant, seeks her fortune with the wealthy D'Urbervilles, whom her family believes to be distant relatives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Pictures 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In a Parisian theatre after a day of auditioning actresses for the play he is preparing to direct, Thomas is distraught that none has what it takes to play the lead female character. He is getting ready to leave when Vanda appears: an unbridled and brazen whirlwind of energy. Vanda embodies everything Thomas hates. She is crude, idiotic, and will stop at nothing to get the part. But when Thomas...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VENSummary: Based on the memoirs of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew, who was a brilliant pianist. He watched as his family was shipped off to Nazi labor camps. He managed to escape and lived for years in the ruins of Warsaw, hiding from the Nazis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PIACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PIACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE Pianist 2003Summary: An exquisite, richly layered adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles. A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge. With its earthy visual textures it is a work of great pastoral...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Zenovich, Marina.
Summary: Examines the legal proceedings surrounding the 1977 case of Roman Polanski after he pleads guilty to having sex with a minor during a photo shoot in Los Angeles.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: ThinkFilm 2009