Summary: Shows Camille Claudel, a protégé and mistress of Auguste Rodin, in 1915 when she was imprisoned in an insane asylum. Camille was also the sister of the Christian mystic poet Paul Claudel, the last of her family to pay her regular visits. Inspired by the correspondence between Paul and Camille, the movie focuses on Camille 's struggle to maintain a sense of normalcy in a crowd of schizophrenics....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CAMSummary: Monte and his baby daughter are the last survivors of a damned and dangerous mission to deep space. The crew, death row inmates led by a doctor with sinister motives, has vanished. As the mystery of what happened onboard the ship is unraveled, father and daughter must rely on each other to survive as they hurtle toward the oblivion of a black hole.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HIGCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI HIGSummary: Marguerite Duras had already established herself as one of the major figures of postwar French literature when she launched an equally fascinating and unclassifiable career in cinema, translating her elliptical, experimental style to the screen through the unprecedented fusion of hypnotic, highly stylized imagery and radically disjunctive sound. Boldly reimagining the possibilities of dialogue,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN INDSummary: Thrown into a political marriage of convenience by her ruthlessly power-hungry family, the beautiful Margot soon finds herself hopelessly drawn into their murderous affairs. It's then she realizes her only hope of escape lies somewhere between the heroic soldier who loves her and the enemy husband who could save her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 1995
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN QUESummary: A remarkable imagining of the historic voyages of sixteenth-century explorer and writer Fernao Mendes Pinto, one of the first Europeans to sail to and travel the Orient, Inda, Japan, and places in between. Choral renditions of Portuguese singer-songwriter Fausto's progressive '80s pop album Por Este Rio Acima add inspiration to a lush period drama.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PILSummary: "The Benedetti family has been haunted by a curse for generations. On a long drive to visit their reclusive grandfather in Tuscany, Luigi Benedetti tells his children the mysterious story of their ancestors -- a tragic tale filled with forbidden love, passion, vengeance and betrayal"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Koch Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FIOGuilbert, Jean-Claude
Summary: Teenaged Mouchette finds solace in nature and routine as she takes care of her baby brother while her mother lies dying and her alcoholic father is absent.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN MOUSummary: Twelve-year-old Abe is an aspiring chef who wants his cooking to bring people together, but his half-Israeli, half-Palestinian family has never had a meal that didn't end in a fight. Ditching his traditional summer camp, Abe begins working with Chico, an adventurous street chef who encourages him to think outside his old cuisines. However, when Abe's deceit is uncovered, he must grapple with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Breaking Glass Pictures 2020
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ABESummary: Nineteenth century poet John Keats and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne, started out as unlikely lovers who were totally at odds with each other. However, when Brawne offers to help Keats nurse his seriously ill brother, the two soon became involved in an unstoppable romance that only his untimely death at age 25 could bring to a shattering end.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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2 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE BRISummary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. 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: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A waggish, free-wheeling bachelor and a bookish law student take a madcap trip from Rome to Tuscany. This unpredictable journey careers from slapstick to tragedy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SORSummary: Horror film about an American student enrolled in a German dance academy. A series of bizarre incidents and brutal murders puts the academy in chaos.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Underground 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SUSSummary: When Flynn, the world's greatest video game creator, sends out a secret signal from an amazing digital realm, his son discovers the clue and embarks on a personal journey to save his long-lost father. With the help of the fearless female warrior Quorra, father and son venture through an incredible cyber universe and wage the ultimate battle of good versus evil.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY SCI-FI TROCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TROCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TRO RATED PGSummary: When Death comes for Gramps Northrup, Gramps isn't ready to go because that would leave his grandson alone, so he uses magic to trap Death in a tree. But with Death on hiatus, others whose time has come and who are ill and in pain, cannot be released from their suffering. Gramps begins to wonder if he has done the right thing.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ONSummary: A celebrated literary scholar, seemingly happily married, embarks on an affair with a gorgeous stewardess, who is captivated by his charm and reputation. As their romance gets serious, the film grows anxious, leading to a wallop of a conclusion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: the Criterion Collection 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SOFSummary: A young farmer named Wang Lung marries a selfless, loyal slave girl, O-Lan. Wang is initially devoted to the land and rises to prosperity. Later, however, Wang deserts the land and takes a second wife and tragedy threatens to overwhelm him. Eventually Wang realizes that the land and O-Lan mean more to him than his wealth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GOOSummary: When Susan moves with her father from America to England, she ends up falling in love with and marrying Sir John Ashwood, an English baronet. But, before their son is born, Susan loses her husband to World War I. When World War II breaks out years later, her son's own tour of duty begins. Finding out whether he will return home safely or not makes for some of the most dramatic moments in motion...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: To escape the civil war in Sri Lanka, a former soldier, a young woman and a little girl pose as a family. They end up settling in a housing project outside Paris. Even though they barely know one another, they try to build a life together.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF DHESummary: A Paris housewife begins secretly spending her afternoon hours working in a bordello in an examination of contemporary social mores and class divisions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BELSummary: Members of an African American family living in a cramped Chicago apartment, in this deeply resonant tale of dreams deferred. Following the death of their patriarch, the Youngers await a life insurance check they hope will change their circumstances, but tensions arise over how best to use the money.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA RAISummary: Splendor in the grass: Two 1920s Kansas teenagers find their intense sexual feelings for each other are putting them at odds with their families and the rigid respectability of the town they live in.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE GRESummary: JCVD is an out of luck actor. He's out of money, his agent can't find him a decent production, and a judge is inclined to give his ex-wife custody of his daughter. He returns to his childhood home of Brussels. When he goes into a post office to receive a wire transfer, he finds himself in the middle of a hostage situation. Due to an unfortunate mistake, the police believe JCVD is responsible...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Peace Arch Home Entertainment 2009