Summary: In the early decades of cinema, some of the most innovative and celebrated filmmakers in America were women. Alice Guy-Blaché helped establish the basics of cinematic language, while others boldly continued its development: slapstick queen Mabel Normand (who taught Charlie Chaplin the craft of directing), action star Grace Cunard, and LGBTQ icon Alla Nazimova. Unafraid of controversy,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Classics 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIOSummary: Set in England on the cusp of World War II, the final film by Ernst Lubitsch is a zany comedy of manners that sends up British class hierarchy with his famously light touch. Cluny Brown is an irrepressible heroine with a zeal for plumbing. Sent to work as a parlormaid at a stuffy country manor, she proceeds to turn the household upside down with plenty of help from Adam Belinski, an eccentric...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY CLUContents: Disc 1. The camp meeting jubilee (Unknown) -- My man rocks me (Trixie Smith) -- Kansas city blues (Jim Jackson) -- Going to move to Alabama (Charley Patton) -- Move it on over (Hank Williams) -- It's tight like that (Tampa Red) -- Pinetop's boogie woogie (Clarence "Pinetop" Smith) -- Jimmy's blues (Jimmy Blythe) -- Crazy about my baby (Blind Roosevelt Graves) -- Tiger rag (Washboard Rhythm...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Famous Flames Recording 2011
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES FIRStach, Reiner
Summary: "How did Kafka become Kafka? This eagerly anticipated third and final volume of Reiner Stach's definitive biography answers that question with more facts, detail, and insight than ever before, describing the complex personal, political, and cultural circumstances that shaped the young Franz Kafka (1883-1924). It tells the story of the years from his birth in Prague to the beginning of his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KAFKA, FRANZ STASummary: Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic, Rome is the wealthiest city in the world, a cosmopolitan metropolis of one million people, epicenter of a sprawling empire. The Republic was founded on principles of shared power and fierce personal competition, never allowing one man to seize absolute control. But now, those foundations are crumbling, eaten away by corruption and excess....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROMJimmy Rogers All-Stars
Contents: Blow wind blow (featuring Jeff Healey) (5:00) -- Blues all day long (featuring Eric Clapton) (4:46) -- Trouble no more (featuring Mick Jagger & Keith Richards) (4:23) -- Bright lights big city (featuring Taj Mahal) (3:43) -- Ev'ry day I have the blues (featuring Lowell Fulson) (5:09) -- Sweet home Chicago (featuring Stephen Stills) (4:09) -- Don't start me to talkin' (featuring Mick Jagger &...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic 1999
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES ROGSummary: In the year 44 B.C., Julius Caesar has been assassinated and civil war threatens to destroy the Republic. In the void left by Caesar's demise, egos clash and numerous players jockey for position. The brutally ambitious Mark Antony attempts to solidify his power, aligning himself with Atia, but coming to blows with her cunning son Octavian, who has been anointed in Caesar's will as his only son...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROMSummary: The white princess is a tale of power, family, love and betrayal, charting one of the most tumultuous times in British history uniquely from the point of view of the women. The tempestuous marriage between Elizabeth of York and King Henry VII officially marks of the conclusion of the War of the Roses, but the real battle for the throne is far from over.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WHIStach, Reiner.
Summary: This volume of Reiner Stach's acclaimed and definitive biography of Franz Kafka tells the story of the final years of the writer's life, from 1916 to 1924--a period during which the world Kafka had known came to an end. Stach's riveting narrative, which reflects the latest findings about Kafka's life and works, draws readers in with a nearly cinematic power, zooming in for extreme close-ups of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 833.912 STAShellac
Contents: Dude incredible -- Compliant -- You came in me -- Riding bikes -- All the surveyors -- The people's microphone -- Gary -- Mayor/Surveyor -- Surveyor.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wea Corp 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SHESummary: The Tony-nominated Broadway phenomenon comes to the big screen. Composer-lyricist Sara Bareilles is Jenna Hunterson, a waitress and expert pie maker stuck in a small town and a loveless marriage. When a baking contest offers her a chance at escape, Jenna fights to reclaim part of herself. Waitress celebrates the power of friendship, dreams, the family we choose and the beauty of a well-baked pie.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDBrecht, Bertolt
Summary: Play concerning the latter period of the life of Galileo Galilei. Unrelenting in his search for "simple truth", Galileo shatters beliefs held sacred for two thousand years. Under threat of torture by the Holy Inquisition, he argues for his very life in a passionate debate over science, politics, religion and ethics that resonates to this day.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: L. A. Theatre Works 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 832.912 BRESummary: Follows the follies of a stressed-out guy in a dead-end job who is told he has a terminal "brain cloud." A zany jillionaire then makes him an offer that gives him a fleeting taste of the good life. In exchange, he must journey to a Pacific Island and leap into a volcano. Is Joe doomed to be the last of the red-hot lovers? Not if the forces of imagination, romantic comedy, and the charm of Ryan...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JOESummary: A prequel set in the 1990s that will chronicle the early years of Kanan Stark, the character first played by executive producer Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV POWContents: Let me roll it (Robyn Hitchcock) -- Hazel eyes (Redd Kross) -- Shake some action (Flamin' Groovies) -- When you find out (The Nerves) -- It all comes down (Nick Piunti) -- Pulling mussels from a shell (Squeeze) -- Tea (Jim Noir) -- I am your singer (Kelley Stoltz) -- Lily dreams on (Cotton Mather) -- On my way (Kevin Tihista) -- The summer sun (Chris Stamey and Yo La Tengo) -- Nineteen hundred...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mojo 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOJBaker, Chet.
Contents: Loaded / Bernie Miller (7:50) -- I'll remember April / Raye, DePaul, Johnson (11:51) -- Winter wonderland / Smith, Bernard (4:20) -- Pirouette / Shorty Rogers (7:47) -- Witch doctor / Bob Cooper (9:09).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ BAKStamp, Terence.
Contents: V. 1. Origins -- soccer cultures (141 min.) -- v. 2. Evolution of the European game -- European superpowers (142 min.) -- v. 3. Brazil -- South American superpowers (139 min.) -- v. 4. For club and country -- The dark side (137 min.) -- v. 5. Superstars -- The media (145 min.) -- v. 6. Africa -- A game for all -- v. 7 Futures (210 min.).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2001
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV HISSummary: This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, trying to live off jobs which don't interfere with his primary interest, which is writing.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Disc one. Lolita / A.R. Kane -- Sloppy heart / Frazier Chorus -- With Louise / Area -- When I'm an astronaut / Louis Philippe -- I'll remember / The Chameleons -- In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed are kings / Dead Can Dance -- Hay fever / 14 Iced Bears -- Eden / Talk Talk -- Tar baby / Shelleyan Orphan -- A dream of love / Ultra Vivid Scene -- Drugs / This Mortal Coil -- Pop song / David...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CHELee, Christopher
Summary: The story of Rasputin, an eccentric monk who had great power over the Czarina of Russia.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cinedigm 2020
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY HORROR RASSampa
Contents: Mwana (ft. Mwanje Tembo, Theresa Mutale Tembo, Sunburnt Soul Choir) -- Freedom -- Wake up (interlude) -- Time's up (ft. Krown) -- Grass is greener -- Dare to fly (ft. Ecca Vandal) -- Any day (ft. Whosane) -- OMG -- Light it up (interlude) -- Final form -- Heaven (ft. Whosane) -- Diamond in the ruff (ft. Thando, Krown) -- Leading us home -- Summer (ft. Steam Down) -- Brand new (ft. Silent Jay)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP SAMHalley.
Contents: Adventures of George and the robbers -- Heart attack on a one way street -- Movie song (trailer theme) -- Peninsula Pomegranate Pendegrass -- Redlightgreenlight -- As cheap as fake -- ... -- Herkimer battle jettne -- Living from a heart palpatation -- The last word is a silent vowel -- Movie song (love theme) -- Kites are slow downers.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hooked on Songs 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HALSummary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATSummary: "Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale "The Killers" is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak, in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style; and Don Siegel, in a brutal 1964 version that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015