Summary: After relocating from the whirlwind of Sydney, newspaper columnist George Turner is slowly learning what it means to be a local in the quirky New Zealand town of Weld. He wanted his kids, Shay and Arlo, to have a fresh start after the death of his wife, but not all went according to plan. Following last season's harrowing boating accident, the townsfolk of Weld mount a search-and-rescue...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV EIGSummary: Season two of the hit mockumentary looks at the exciting world of local government. Continues to be the hysterical comedy that is a definite must-have for every fan!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD PARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Pa 2Summary: The steps of the studio set towered before her like a pyramid. All Doris Day had to do was dance up and down those steps while wearing a flowing gold lame dress. "You've got to be out of your minds," Day exclaimed in a voice heard across the soundstage. But dance and sing she did. Day plays a singer who arrives in New York never dreaming it will begin an alternately funny and heartfelt shot at...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Lullaby 2005Summary: When colleagues think she's an espionage agent, a Girl Friday at a top-secret aeronautics think-tank chaotically sets out to clear her name.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY GLASummary: A lonely little boy peeks into the window of a Skid Row dive. Mesmerized by the soaring magic played by a small jazz combo, he longs to create the same sounds. So with the guidance of a brilliant bluesman, the boy develops into a superb artist but as man, struggles with an impossible note trapped in his mind.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Young 2005Aparicio, Yalitza
Summary: Looks at the life of an early-1970s, middle-class family in Mexico City through the eyes of their indigenous domestic worker who keeps the household running.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ROMSummary: In 1954, an enormous beast clawed its way out of the sea, destroying everything in its path--and changing movies forever. The arresting original Godzilla soon gave rise to an entire monster-movie genre (kaiju eiga), but the King of the Monsters continued to reign supreme: in fourteen fiercely entertaining sequels over the next two decades, Godzilla defended its throne against a host of other...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Two old friends reunite for a quietly revelatory overnight camping trip in Kelly Reichardt's breakout feature, a micro budget study of character and masculinity. As they drive from Portland into the woods in search of a secluded hot spring, expectant father Mark and nomadic Kurt make fumbling attempts to reconnect, butting up against the limits of their friendship and coming to grips with just...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA OLDDavis, Hope
Summary: A woman enlists her dysfunctional family to help her discover the truth after she finds a love letter written to her husband.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DAYDietrich, Marlene
Summary: The son of a famous sheriff becomes a deputy and comes to the lawless town of Bottleneck to settle things down.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Distribution 2020
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN DESSummary: "Perhaps no director tapped into the sense of dread and mistrust that pervaded the 1970s more effectively than Alan J. Pakula, who, in the second installment of his celebrated Paranoia Trilogy, offers a chilling vision of America in the wake of the assassinations of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, Jr., with the shock of Watergate near at hand. Three years after the murder of a leading...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA PARSummary: A presentation of William Shakespeare's chronicle play, Henry V, in which he attempted to present a full-length portrait of the ideal king in action, and used his loftiest rhetoric to this purpose.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Ambrose Video Publishing 2004
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS HENSummary: The crew of Sealab, charged with exploring the possibility of underwater colonization, find themselves in one ridiculous situation after another.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SEASummary: An acrobatically inclined free spirit, following a whirlwind engagement, literally tumbles into the lives of his fiancée's aristocratic family, setting up a clash of values with her staid father while firing the rebellious imagination of her brash, black-sheep sister. With a sparkling surface and an undercurrent of melancholy, the film is an enchanting ode to nonconformists and pie-in-the-sky...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A Hong Kong action-movie star arrives in Paris to play the latex-clad lead in a remake of Louis Feuillade's classic silent crime serial Les vampires. What she finds is a behind-the-scenes tangle of barely controlled chaos as egos clash, romantic attractions simmer, and an obsessive director drives himself to the brink to realize his vision.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In the most dazzling debut feature in cinema history, twenty-five-year-old writer-producer-director-star Orson Welles synthesized the possibilities of sound-era filmmaking into what could be called the first truly modern movie. In telling the story of the meteoric rise and precipitous fall of a William Randolph Hearst-like newspaper magnate named Charles Foster Kane, Welles not only created the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021