Summary: The first film version of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Count Orlok (Nosferatu, the vampire), leaves his castle in the Carpathians and travels by ship to Bremen, bringing coffins filled with dirt and plague rats.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Preservation 1997
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NOSSummary: Rather than depict Dracula as a shape-shifting monster or debonair gentleman, Murnau's Graf Orlok is a nightmarish, spidery creature with a bulbous head and taloned claws.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NOSMahler, Gustav
Summary: 1st work recorded at Glasgow City Hall, May 20, 2000.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL MAHSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: In 2026, the rich rule over the poor, who live underground. One man tries to bridge the gap between the two classes. In July 2008 a complete copy of the film was discovered with an additional 25 minutes of lost footage that had not been seen since the film's premiere in 1927. After years of restoration the sci-fi epic was re-released in theaters in 2010 as The Complete Metropolis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY SCI-FI COMSummary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISContents: Piano sonata no. 14 in C-sharp minorm, op. 27, no. 2. Adagio sostenuto / Beethoven -- Estampes, L. 100. Pagodes / Debussy -- Suite for cello solo no. 1 in G, BWV 1007. Prélude / J.S. Bach -- Piano sonata no. 12 in F, K. 332. Adagio / Mozart -- The planets, op. 32. Venus, the bringer of peace / Holst -- Consolation no. 3, S. 172. Lento placido / Liszt -- Adagio for strings, op. 11 / Barber --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Decca 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JUV CLASummary: The story of a 21st century city run by a "super trustee" and his collaborators who live in a paradise-like garden. Workers are totally enslaved by machines and condemned to live underground. In the midst of this misery, a young woman, Maria, arises and attempts to inspire the workers to throw off their oppressors.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International Corporation 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Touki bouki: "A vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. ... two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARMurnau, F.W.
Summary: The scholar Faust makes a pact with the forces of evil to gain higher truths, and must pay for what he has received.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A psychopathic murderer of young girls terrorizes a German city causing public hysteria and intense police investigations, which in turn disrupts organized crime. The contrasting worlds of the police and the underworld are juxtaposed as they both resolve to hunt, capture, and try the murderer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic-Film S.A. 1998
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MSummary: To stop a racist killer Shaft's got to track down the only eyewitness that can put the bad guy behind bars. As Shaft closes in, so does the danger. Up against corrupt cops and venomous druglords Shaft's out to make crime pay up.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2000
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SHALoop, Liza.
Summary: An expressionistic drama about authoritarianism and revolt in an industrialized metropolis of the 21st century.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Madacy Entertainment Group 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Disc one. Give me back my wig / Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers (3:31) -- I'm a woman / Koko Taylor (4:36) -- Have mercy / Big Walter Horton ; with Carey Bell (3:45) -- Somebody loan me a dime / Fenton Robinson (2:54) -- It's my fault, darling / Professor Longhair (4:54) -- Telephone angel / Son Seals (5:25) -- Lights out / Johnny Winter (2:35) -- Blue Monday hangover / Albert Collins...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES ALLBeethoven, Ludwig van
Contents: Symphony no. 5 in C minor, op. 67 -- Symphony no. 7 in A major, op. 92.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL BEESummary: A fast-paced, absurd collection of short films, parodies, animations, pranks, and musical numbers. Attempts to shock life back into the art of sketch comedy. Has grotesquely memorable characters and crude animation bits all wrapped up neatly. The apparent slipshod manner of each episode may or may not be part of the skit.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2008
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TIMWeber, Carl Maria von
Contents: Peter Schmoll. Overture, J8 (op. 8) (9:37) -- Turandot. Overture and march, J75 (6:02) -- Silvana. Overture, J87 (5:30) -- Abu Hassan. Overture, J106 (3:32) -- Der Beherrscher der Geister = Ruler of the spirits, concert overture, J122 (6:17) -- Jubel-Ouvertüre = Jubilee overture, J245 (op. 59) (7:41) -- Der Freischütz. Overture, J277 (op. 77) (9:31) -- Preciosa. Overture, J279 (op. 78) (7:43)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Chandos 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL WEBArlott, Norman
Summary: "This is a book like no other--the only truly comprehensive, one-volume illustrated guide to all of the world's birds, covering the complete International Ornithological Congress World Bird List. Featuring more than 300 stunning large-format, full-color plates, this accessible and authoritative encyclopedic reference presents incredibly detailed, accurate, and beautiful paintings of more than...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598 ARLContents: I'll come running back to you (2:10) -- Forever (2:54) -- Jesus, I'll never forget (2:37) -- Peace in the valley (2:39) -- Just another day (2:44) -- Touch the hem of His garment (2:00) -- Lovable (2:22) -- Farther away (2:27) -- Jesus gave me water (2:29) -- The last mile of the way (2:58) -- That's all I need to know (2:16) -- Any day now (2:29) -- I don't want to cry (2:42) -- I'm gonna...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006