RECENT LIBRARY VIDEO ACQUISITIONS by classification number-- August 2012
A - general
B - philosophy, psychology, religion
C - biography
D - history
E - history - United States
F - history - individual states, other North American countries
G - anthropology and geography
H - business and economics
J - political science
K - law
L - education
M - music
N - art
P - literature and film
Q - sciences
R - medicine
S - agriculture
T - engineering and technology
U - military science
V - naval science
W - medicine (NLM classification)
Z - library science
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Facebook's Adorno changed my life [videorecording] : a film / directed by Georg Boch ; producers, Heidi Gronauer, Lorenzo Paccagnella ; Zelig.
Brooklyn, NY : Icarus Films, 2011.
"Theodor Adorno was an influential member of the Frankfurt School of social theory, a German-born intellectual who fled Nazi German for American, and whose work anticipated and informed much of post-modern theory. In this revolutionary 'participatory documentary,' digital filmmmaker Georg Boch, one of more than 200 people who belong to a Facebook group called, "Adorno Change My Life," sets out to learn how Adorno's work has touched the members' lives. For the film, Boch solicits videos and Skype converstions. Unlike the traditional documentary, this approach allows each of the participants to frame how they want to be perceived and to direct their own conversations."--Container
B3199.A34 F3 2010B.
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An Empire conquered [videorecording] / Marca-Relli Productions ; produced by Robert Marcarelli.
Worcester, PA : Vision Video [distributor], 2006, 1990.
Looks at the roots of the early Christian Church in Rome and the time when one of the most powerful governments was changed from the inside out through passive resistance, focusing on five Christian martyrs : Augustus, Clement, Cecilia, Apollonius, and Agnes. Includes a number of dramatic reenactments
BR165 .E48 1990B.
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Pandora's box [videorecording] / written, produced and directed by Adam Curtis.
[United States] : PD Productions ; [s. l.] : distributed by Kunaki, LLC, [2010?].
Pandora's box is a six-part documentary which examines the consequences of political and technocratic rationalism. The episodes deal, in order, with communism in The Soviet Union, systems analysis and game theory during the Cold War, the economy in the United Kingdom during the 1970s, the insecticide DDT, Kwame Nkrumah's leadership in Ghana during the 1950s and 1960s, and the history of nuclear power
CB478 .P3392 1992B.
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Byzantium [videorecording] : the lost empire / directed by Ron Johnston ; written and presented by John Romer ; produced by ABTV in association with IBIS Films for the Learning Channel ; executive producer and co-writer, Elizabeth Romer.
Bethesda, MD : TLC (The Learning Channel), c2003.
Examines the history and culture of the Byzantine Empire
DF552 .B99 1997C.
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37 uses for a dead sheep [videorecording] : the story of the Pamir Kirghiz / a Tigerlily Films Production for BBC and ARTE France.
London : Tigerlily Films, c2006.
Focuses on the Pamir Kirghiz, a tribe that was forcibly removed from their homeland in the Pamir Mountains in Central Asia. Combines documentary footage with dramatic recreations shot with the cooperation and acting talent of Kirghiz survivors
DS59.K97 T485 2005B.
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Syria [videorecording] : the Assads' twilight / Bonne Compagnie, Arte France, INA present ; a film by Vincent de Cointet and Christophe Ayad ; directed by Vincent de Cointet.
New York, N.Y. : Icarus Films, [2011].
Told through interviews, archival footage, and analysis, presents a history of Syria under the Assads, and their influence on the region between the 1970s and 2011
DS98.6 .S976 2011B.
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High steel [videorecording] / produced by the National Film Board of Canada.
Montreal : National Film Board of Canada, c 2006.
Describes the work of Indians from the Caughnawaga Reserve in Quebec as they erect the skyscrapers of New York, showing how they rivet in place the ribs of steel that form the framework of the tallest buildings. Includes views of the Indian community of Caughnawaga near Montreal
E99.M8 H545 1965B.
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Palmour Street [videorecording] / produced by Southern Educational Film Production Service ; direction, Bill Clifford, George Stoney.
[S.l.] : Quality Information Publishers, c2006.
Provides a look at African-American life and culture in the 1950s as seen through the life of a family in Gainesville, Georgia
F292.H25 P36 1957B.
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When all the people play [videorecording] / National Film Board of Canada ; directed and produced by Evelyn Cherry.
[Toronto, Canada] : National Film Board of Canada, c2009.
When the people of Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, and the surrounding district decided that something was missing from their lives, they got together to plan and start a recreation center with activities ranging from softball to library services
F1039.5.A16 W48 1948B.
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Climate refugees [videorecording] : the human face of climate change / a Michael P. Nash film ; [presented by] L.A. Think Tank, Trulight Pictures, in association with Yarmony Foundation... [et al.] ; writer-director, Michael P. Nash ; producer[s], Michael P. Nash, Justin Hogan.
[San Francisco] : Video Project, c2010.
Explores the global human impact of climate change and its serious destabilizing effect on international politics as a result of rising sea levels and increasing extreme weather events, droughts and desertification. Features a variety of leading scientists, relief workers, security consultants, and major political figures
GF71 .C58 2010B.
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Les raquetteurs [videorecording] / Office national du film du Canada ; realisation, Michel Brault, Gilles Groulx ; production, Louis Portugais.
[Montreal] : ONF NFB , [200-?].
Records the celebration and ritual surrounding a snowshoe competition in Sherbrook, Quebec, in 1958
GV853 .R366 1958B.
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Oil on ice [videorecording] / a Dale Djerassi/Bo Boudart Production in association with Lobitos Creek Ranch ; produced and directed by Dale Djerassi and Bo Boudart ; writer, Stephen Most.
[Woodside, CA] : Oil On Ice Partners ; [United States] : Distributed by Warner Home Video, c2005.
A documentary connecting the fate of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to decisions America makes about energy policy, transportation choices, and other seemingly unrelated matters. Caught in the balance are the culture and livelihood of the Gwich'in people and the migratory wildlife in this fragile ecosystem. Discusses the conflict between the oil industry and environmentalists over the future of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
HD9567.A4 O385 2004B.
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The interrupters [videorecording] / Kartemquin Films presents ; for WGBH /Frontline, The Independent Television Service (ITVS) and BBC Storyville ; in association with Rise Films ; a film by Steve James and Alex Kotlowitz ; directed and photographed by Steve James ; produced by Alex Kotlowitz and Steve James.
New York, NY : Cinema Guild, c2011.
Follows three young volunteers with a history of violence as they work on the streets of Chicago to intervene in conflicts before violence errupts
HN80.C5 I58 2011.
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The price of sex [videorecording] / Violeu Films and A Moment in Time productions ; present a film by Mimi Chakarova ; written, directed and produced by Mimi Chakarova.
New York, NY : Women Make Movies, c2011.
This inquiry into a dark side of immigration reveals the experiences of Eastern European women forced into prostitution abroad. Mimi Chakarova traveled from post-communist Eastern Europe to Turkey, Greece, and Dubai to uncover the harrowing personal accounts of women trafficked into modern-day sexual slavery
HQ281 .P75 2011.
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Made in India [videorecording] = Meda ina Indiya / co-produced by Rebecca Haimowitz, Vaishali Sinha ; co-directed by Rebecca Haimowitz, Vaishali Sinha.
New York, NY : Women Make Movies, [2010].
Explores the human experiences behind the growing practice of using Indian women as surrogate mothers through the lives of an infertal American couple, an Indian surrogate, and the expanding international industry
HQ759.5 .M33 2010B.
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Selbe et tant d'autres [videorecording] / de Safi Faye ; production, Pierre Hoffman.
New York, N.Y. : Women Make Movies, [2000?].
Due to economic constraints, women in Senegal are often left with the sole responsibility of raising their families. Depicts one such woman's struggles under these trying circumstances
HQ1814.5 .S45 1983B.
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Shulie (Motion picture : 1997). TITLE = Shulie [videorecording] / [directed by] Elizabeth Subrin.
Chicago, Ill. : Video Data Bank, [2002?], c1997.
In this re-presentation of a 1967 documentary on Shulamith Firestone, the film maker questions the boundaries of fiction and documentary. She explores the conditions of a woman's representation and comments on the impact of feminism today
HQ1413.F54 S582 1997B.
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Paradise lost 3 [videorecording] : purgatory / a @Radical.Media production ; directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky ; produced by Joe Berlinger.
[United States] : Docurama Films : Distributed by New Video, c2012.
A further investigation into the arrest of three teenagers, convicted of killing three young boys in Arkansas, who spent nearly 20 years in prison before being released after new DNA evidence indicated they may be innocent
HV6533.A7 P37 2011B.
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Voices heard, sisters unseen [videorecording] / SHaKTI Productions ; written, produced & directed by Grace Poore.
New York, NY : Distributed by Women Make Movies, [200-?].
Shows how survivors of domestic violence are working to change the way the system treats battered women in search of justice and safety. Interviews, poetry, dance and music combine to present a feminist analysis about how courts, police and social services 're-victimize' battered women who are deaf, disabled, lesbians, prostitutes, HIV-positive and without official immigrant status
HV6626.2 .V65 1995B.
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El Sicario [videorecording] : Room 164 / a production by Robofilms, Les Films d'Ici in association with ARTE France ; a film by Gianfranco Rosi and Charles Bowden.
Brooklyn, NY : Icarus Films, 2011.
A hitman known as El Sicario, who was simultaneously on the payroll of the Mexican drug cartels and a commander of the Chihuahua State Police and currently lives as a fugitive, relates his life of murder, torture, and kidnapping in the motel room he used for many of his crimes
HV6535.M42 S53 2010B.
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El velador [videorecording] = The night watchman / co-production of Altamura Films and American Documentary ; POV in association with Latino Public Broadcasting (LPB) ; a film by Natalia Almada ; director / producer, Natalia Almada.
Brooklyn, NY : Icarus Films, [2011].
Set in a massive cemetery, documents the ordinary life of the watchman who guards the extravagent mausoleums of Mexico's most notorious drug lords
HV5840.M4 V45 2011B.
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How's your news? [videorecording] / a Grainy Pictures & Sunbrock production ; producers, Doug Stone, Arthur Bradford ; director, Arthur Bradford.
Los Angeles, CA : Marketed by Shout! Factory ; New York, NY : Manufactured and distributed by Sony Music Entertainment, c2004.
A documentary about five disabled adults who travel across the country as news reporters, exploring honky-tonk bars, alligator farms, the Grand Canyon, and wild city streets
HV3023 .H69 1999B.
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Lives worth living [videorecording] / a Storyline Motion Pictures, LLC and the Independent Television Service (ITVS) co-production ; a film by Eric Neudel.
[Natick, MA] : Storyline Motion Pictures, c2011.
Documents the Disability Rights Movement with narrations from the leaders and the story of Fred Fay who survived spinal cord injury when he was 16
HV1553 .L57 2011.
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War Don Don [videorecording] / HBO Documentary Films presents ; Racing Horse Productions ; Salone Films ; Naked Edge Films ; director, Rebecca Richman Cohen.
[S.l.] : Salone Films LLC, c2010.
Documents the trial of Issa Sesay, former general of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), accused of war crimes in the Special Court for Sierra Leone. The film explores perspectives of prosecutors, defense attorneys, victims, and Sesay himself, revealing conflicting views of Sesay and his actions. While prosecutors regard him as a war criminal, defenders see him as a protector of civilians who played an important role in bringing peace to Sierra Leone
KZ1208.S53 S47 2010B.
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The light in her eyes [videorecording] / Clockshop and Felt Films present ; directed and produced by Julia Meltzer and Laura Nix.
New York, NY : Cinema Guild, c2012.
"Shot on the eve of the Syrian uprising, profiles Houda al-Habash, a conservative Muslim preacher who 30 years ago founded one of the first religious schools for girls in Syria, insisting that education for women is a form of worship that can challenge extremism
LC910.S95 L545 2012.
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Chorus line (Motion picture). TITLE = A chorus line [videorecording] / Columbia Pictures presents ; Embassy Films Associates and PolyGram Pictures ; a Feuer and Martin production ; Richard Attenborough's film ; screenplay by Arnold Schulman ; produced by Cy Feuer and Ernest H. Martin ; directed by Richard Attenborough.
Santa Monica, CA : MGM Home Entertainment, c2003.
In preparation for a Broadway musical, a group of aspiring stage performers is put through their paces by a veteran stage director using some singular techniques
M1500.H345 C46 2003.
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Jazz on a summer's day [videorecording] / a New Yorker Films release ; presented by Galaxy Attractions ; Raven Films ; produced and directed by Bert Stern.
New York, NY : New Yorker Films : Distributed by New Yorker Video, c2000.
Enshrined in the National Film Registry in 1999, Bert Stern's 1959 film offers precisely what its title promises. Along with a wealth of great music, the film subtly conveys the economic differences between the music's origins and Newport's wealthy citizens, and highlights the concentration and playfulness of great musicians by photographing them as intimately as possible. Despite the title, this concert film's performances--captured over the course of a weekend during the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival--really shine when night falls. As a documentary, it stylishly immortalizes transcendently beautiful music played on a glorious day, suggesting in the process that film might have no higher purpose
M1366 .J384 2000.
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Blue Note [videorecording] : a story of modern jazz / EuroArts Entertainment presents a film by Julian Benedikt ; a co-production of EuroArts Entertainment OHG and SDR/Arte in association with Bravo and Danmarks Radio ; produced by Ulli Pfau ; written and directed by Julian Benedikt.
[Germany] : EuroArts Music International, c2007.
Documents the history of Blue Note Records, set up by two German Jewish immigrants in 1939, which became the recording label for Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey, Dexter Gordon and Sonny Rollins among others
ML3792.B58 B58 1997B.
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Kinngait [videorecording] : riding light into the world / produced by Site Media Inc. ; director, Annette Mangaard ; producer, David Craig.
Toronto, Ont. : Site Media, Inc : V tape (distributor) ;, c2010.
Marks the 50th anniversary of Kinngait Studios, which turned printmaking into a multi-million dollar co-operative business owned and operated by Inuit artists and which took a formative role in developing Inuit art. Illustrated with works spanning the history of the studio, also reflects the immense changes to the Inuit way of life and the arctic environment
NE543.3.I55 K56 2010B.
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Hearat shulayim [videorecording] / Sony Pictures Classics ; Westend Films, United King Films and Movie Plus ; producers, David Mandil, Moshe Edery, Leon Edery ; written and directed by Joseph Cedar.
Culver City, CA : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2012].
Eliezer and Uriel Shkolnik are father and son as well as rival professors in Talmudic Studies. When both men learn that Eliezer will be lauded for his work, their complicated relationship reaches a new peak. NOTE = Special feature include behind the scenes footage, an evening with Joseph Cedar, theatrical trailer and footnote soundtrack
PN1997.2 .H432 2011B.
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L'appat [videorecording] = Fresh bait / Hachette Première et Little Bear présentent un film de Bertrand Tavernier ; une coproduction Hachette Première & Cie -- Little Bear Productions -- France 2 Cinéma -- M6 Films ; avec la participation de Canal+ ; un film écrit par Colo Tavernier O'Hagan et Bertrand Tavernier ; produit par René Cleitman et Frederic Bourboulon ; réalisé par Bertarnd Tavernier.
[United States] : Koch Lorber Films : Distributed by Koch Vision LLC, [2005].
A shocking true story of greed and murder. Getting rich quick is the idea; robbery, torture, and murder are the plan. Nathalie, Eric, and Bruno lure men with the promise of sex with Nathalie. Two men enter the apartment, never to be seen alive again
PN1997 .F746X 2005.
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Play Misty for me [videorecording] / a Jennings Lang presentation ; a Malpaso Company production ; a Universal-Malpaso Company Picture ; screenplay by Jo Heims and Dean Riesner ; directed by Clint Eastwood ; produced by Robert Daley.
Universal City, CA : Universal, c2001.
A popular DJ's life and happiness are threatened when he rejects the advances of an infatuated, emotionally disturbed fan
PN1997 .P63 2001.
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Once upon a time in Anatolia [videorecording] / directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan ; producer, Zeynep Ozbatur Atakan ; screenwriter, Ebru Ceylan, Ercan Kesal, Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
[United States] : Cinema Guild, [2012].
In the dead of night, a group of men - among them, a police commissioner, a prosecuter, a doctor and a murder suspect - drive through the Anatolian countryside, the serpentine roads and rolling hills lit only by the headlights of the cars. They are searching for a corpse, the victim of a brutal murder. The suspect, who claims he was drunk, can't remember where he buried the body. As night wears on, details about the murder emerge and the investigators' own hidden secrets come to light. In the Anatolian steppes, nothing is what it seems, and when the body is found, the real questions begin
PN1997.2 .O53 2012.
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Sybil [videorecording] / Lorimar Productions presents ; produced by Jacqueline Babbin ; screenplay by Stewart Stern ; directed by Daniel Petrie.
Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, 2006.
A landmark, classic drama depicting the extraordinary real life of a young woman suffering from multiple personality disorder. Includes the full 3- hour broadcast version (aired over two nights), along with over an hour of new exclusive special features
PN1995.9.S87 S9355 2006.
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Long hot summer (Motion picture). French & English. TITLE = William Faulkner's the long, hot summer [videorecording] / Twentieth Century-Fox presents ; Jerry Wald production ; screenplay by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank, Jr. ; Jerry Wald Productions, Inc. ; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation ; directed by Martin Ritt.
Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2003].
Ben Quick, an industrious con artist who's known throughout the country as a barn burner, gets run out of a Mississippi town. He meets up with Clara Varner, whose father is pressuring her to get married and provide him with grandchildren. It isn't long before he decides Ben and Clara should marry, and when she resists, it sets up a dramatically escalating clash of wills
PN1995.9.D7 L65322 2003.
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'Round midnight [videorecording] / Warner Bros. presents ; written by David Rayfiel, Bertrand Tavernier ; produced by Irwin Winkler ; directed by Bertrand Tavernier.
Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c2008.
Dramatizes the friendship between an aging alcoholic jazz musician and a young French jazz fan. Inspired by the real-life friendship between jazz pianist Bud Powell and Francis Paudras
PN1997 .R675 2008.
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New York, New York (Motion picture). TITLE = New York, New York [videorecording] / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; United Artists ; a Robert Chartoff-Irwin Winkler production ; a Martin Scorsese film ; directed by Martin Scorsese ; produced by Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff ; screenplay by Earl Mac Rauch and Mardik Martin.
Beverly Hills, CA : Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2007].
A musician meets and falls in love with a lounge singer at the end of World War II. The couple struggles to balance their passions for music and each other under the pressures of show biz
PN1997 .N49 2007.
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The Turin horse [videorecording] / director, Bela Tarr.
[United States] : Cinema Guild Home Video, 2011.
On January 3, 1889 in Turin, Italy, Friedrich Nietzsche steps out of the doorway of number six, Via Carlo Albert. Not far from him, a cab driver is having trouble with a stubborn horse. The horse refuses to move, whereupon the driver loses his patience and takes his whip to it. Nietzsche puts an end to the brutal scene, throwing his arms around the horse's neck, sobbing. Afterwards, he lies motionless and silent for two days on a divan, until he loses consciousness and his mind
PN1997.2 .T87 2011.
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La promesse [videorecording] / Eurimages, Les Films du Fleuve, Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF), Samsa Film and Touza Productions presents ; distributed New Yorker Films ; produced by Luc Dardenne, Claude Waringo and Hassen Daldoul ; written and directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne.
[United States] : Criterion Collection, 2012.
The breakthrough feature from Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne. The brothers brought their unerring eye for detail and their compassion for those on society's lowest rungs developed in their earlier documentary work to an absorbing drama about a teenager who is gradually coming to understand the implications of his father making a living off of illegal alien workers
PN1997 .P744 1996.
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Le Havre [videorecording] / Sputnik Oy ; avec Pyramide Productions et Pandora Film présentent ; en coproduction avec Arte France Cinéma, ZDF /Arte ; un film de Aki Kaurismäki ; écrit, réalisé et produit par Aki Kaurismäki ; une production Sputnik Oy, Aki Kaurismäki ; Pyramide Productions, Fabienne Vonier ; Pandora Film, Reinhard Brundig.
[New York] : Criterion Collection, [2012].
Marcel Marx, an old bohemian living in the French harbor city of Le Harve, stands up for a young African refugee when officials begin to pursue the boy for deportation
PN1997.2 .H38 2011B.
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Lonesome [videorecording] / Carl Laemmle Jr. presents ; story, Mann Page ; adaptation and scenario, Edward T. Lowe Jr. ; directed by Paul Fejos.
[Irvington, NY] : The Criterion Collection, [2012].
The early Hollywood gem, Lonesome, is the creation of a little-known, but audacious and one-of-a-kind auteur, Paul Fejos, who bridged the gap between the silent and sound eras. Fejos pulled out all the stops for his lovely New York symphony set in antic Coney Island during the Fourth of July weekend, employing color tinting, superimposition effects, experimental editing, and a roving camera, plus three dialogue scenes, added because of the craze for talkies
PN1997 .L685 1928.
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Rosetta [videorecording] / Les Films du Fleuve/Arp present ; produced by Michelle Pétin, Lauren Pétin, Arlette Zylberberg ; produced, written and directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne.
[United States] : Criterion Collection, 2012.
This intense verite drama closely follows a poor young woman struggling to hold onto a job to support herself and her alcoholic mother
PN1997 .R6747 1999B.
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Jodái-e Náder az Simin [videorecording] = A separation / a Sony Pictures Classics release ; written and directed by Asghar Farhadi.
Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2012.
Divided over whether to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease, lives spiral out of control when the wife leaves and the husband hires a very religious woman to care for his father
PN1997.2 .J636 2011B.
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Weekend [videorecording] / a Glendale Picture Company production ; with the Bureau Film Company ; and Syncronicity Films ; in association with EM Media ; written, edited & directed by Andrew Haigh ; produced by Tristan Goligher.
[New York?] : Criterion Collection, [2012].
A one-night stand develops into a weekend-long idyll for two very different young men in the English Midlands in a film that's both a snapshot of the complexities of contemporary gay living and a portrait of a love affair
PN1997.2 .W444 2011B.
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Avant-garde 1927-1937 [videorecording] : suréalisme et expérimentation dans le cinéma belge = Surrealisme en experiment in de Belgische cinema = Surrealism and experiment in Belgian cinema / [editor in chief, Erik Martens ; translation, Vincent Coen, Jean-François Herbecq, Christine Lepiez].
Brussel : Koning Boudewijnstichting : Koninklijk Belgisch Filmarchief, [2009].
A collection of silent experimental Belgian films from Henri Storck, Charles Dekeukeleire, Henri D'Ursel and Ernst Moerman, some of which flirt with surrealism
PN1993.5.B4 A95 2009.
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Hans Scheugl [videorecording] : the seconds strike reality / [Regie] Hans Scheugl ; Redaktion, Dietmar Schwärzler.
Wien : ARGE Index, [2008?].
A collection of eight films directed by Scheugl that have a precise observation of spacial structures
PN1998.3.S3465 H36 2008.
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Decasia [videorecording] / Hypnotic Pictures presents a film by Bill Morrison, a Michael Gordon symphony.
[New York, NY : Plexifilm], 2004.
"Decasia is an experimental feature which sets decayed archival film footage to an original symphonic score"--Container
PN1995.9.E96 D43 2002B.
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Kleine Freiheit [videorecording] = Küçük özgürlük / ein Cotta Media Entertainment und Peter Stockhaus Filmproduktion in co-Produktion mit ZDF, das kleine Fernsehspiel ; ein Film von Yüksel Yavuz.
[S.l.] : Absolut Medien, [2005].
Baran is a young Kurd living illegally in Hamburg after his asylum application is rejected. He meets seventeen-year old Chernor, also an illegal and stateless immigrant. The two become friends, struggling to survive in Altona, the immigrant neighborhood which is also home to the Reeperbahn red light district
PN1997.2 .K647 2002B.
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Salmon fishing in The Yemen (Motion picture). TITLE = Salmon fishing in The Yemen [videorecording] / CBS Films presents in association with BBC Films, Lionsgate UK and The UK Film Council ; a Kudos Pictures production in association with Davis Films productions ; produced by Paul Webster ; written by Simon Beaufoy ; directed by Lasse Hallström.
Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment : BBC, 2012.
A London fisheries expert is approached by a consultant to help realize a sheik's vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert and embarks on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible possible
PN1997.2 .S25 2012.
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Something the Lord made [videorecording] / HBO Films presents a Cort/ Madden production, a Joseph Sargent film ; producer, Julian Krainin ; produced by Mike Drake ; written by Peter Silverman and Robert Caswell ; directed by Joseph Sargent.
New York, NY : HBO Video, c2004.
Tells the emotional true story of two men who defined the rules of their time to launch a medical revolution, set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow south. Working in 1940s Baltimore on an unprecedented technique for performing heart surgery on "blue babies", Dr. Alfred Blalock and lab technician Vivien Thomas form an impressive team. As Blalock and Thomas invent a new field of medicine, saving thousands of lives in the process, social pressures threaten to undermine their collaboration and tear them apart
PN1997 .S677818 2004.
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Too big to fail [videorecording] / HBO Films presents ; Spring Creek Productions ; produced by Ezra Swerdlow ; written by Peter Gould ; directed by Curtis Hanson.
New York, NY : HBO Home Entertainment ; Burbank, CA : distributed by Warner Home Video, c2012.
Offers an intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a few weeks. Centering on Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, the film goes behind closed doors to examine the symbiotic relationship between Wall Street and Washington
PN1992.77 .T66 2012.
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Cat on a hot tin roof (Motion picture). TITLE = Cat on a hot tin roof [videorecording] / M-G-M presents an Avon production in Metrocolor ; produced by Lawrence Weingarten ; screen play by Richard Brooks and James Poe ; based on the play "Cat on a hot tin roof" by Tennessee Williams ; directed by Richard Brooks.
[Burbank, Calif.] : Distributed by Warner Home Video, c2006.
A story of deception which is destroying a patriarchal Southern family as its members gather for the imminent demise of their "Big Daddy.
PN1997.85 .C386 2006.
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Being John Malkovich [videorecording] / Gramercy pictures presents a Propaganda Films/Single Cell Pictures production ; produced by Michael Stipe ... [et al.] ; written by Charlie Kaufman ; directed by Spike Jonze.
[United States] : Criterion Collection : [distributed by Image Entertainment, 2012].
An out-of-work puppeteer takes a filing clerk job on the cramped seventh floor of an office building where he discovers a hidden tunnel allowing him to enter the mind and life of actor John Malkovich for 15 minutes before being ejected onto the New Jersey Turnpike
PN1997 .B45 2012.
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On the ice [videorecording] / director, Andrew Okpeaha MacLean.
[United States] : Nemours Marketing : Naedomi Media, 2012.
Two teenage boys who have grown up like brothers go about their lives in the comfortable claustrophobia of an isolated Alaskan town. Early one morning, on a seal hunt with another teenager, an argument between the three boys quickly escalates into a tragic accident. Bonded by their dark secret, the two best friends are forced to create one fabrication after another in order to survive
PN1997.2 .O5 2012.
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The complete Metropolis [videorecording] / an UFA production, distributed by Parufamet ; director, Fritz Lang ; screenplay, Thea von Harbou.
New York, NY : Kino International, 2010.
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
PN1997 .M4362 2010C.
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Le gamin au vélo [videorecording] / les Films du Fleuve, Archipel 35, Luck Red présentent ; en coproduction avec France 2 cinéma, RTBF (Télévision belge), BELGACOM ; un film écrite et réalisé par Jean-Pierre et Luc Dardenne.
[Montréal, QC] : Les Films Séville, c2012.
Abandoned by his father, a young boy is left in a state-run youth farm. In a random act of kindness, the town hairdresser agrees to foster him on weekends
PN1997.2 .G356 2011B.
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Saideke, Balai [videorecording] : Seediq Bale / Central Motion Picture Corporation, ARS Film production present ; written and directed by Wei Te-Sheng ; producers John Woo, Terence Chang, Jimmy Huang.
[United States] : Well Go USA, [2012].
Set during the Japanese rule of Taiwan, dramatizes the rebellion of the native Seediq people in 1930
PN1997.2 .S2453 2011C.
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Baby doll [videorecording] / Castle Hill Productions ; Warner Bros. Pictures presents an Elia Kazan production ; original screenplay, Tennessee Williams ; directed by Elia Kazan.
Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c2006.
Two middle-aged businessmen compete for control of the local cotton- milling trade and for the affections of spoiled but beautiful "Baby Doll," who is in an unconsumated marriage with one of them
PN1997 .B334 1956B.
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Exotica [videorecording] / Miramax Films and Alliance Communications Corporation present an Ego Film Arts Production.
[S.l.] : Miramax Home Entertainment ; Burbank, Calif. : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video, [1999?].
An erotic table dancer at a strip club has sex with two mysterious, obessive strangers and gets involved in a deadly plot
PN1997 .E96 1999.
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Mapantsula [videorecording] / Haverbeam and David Hannay present a Max Montocchio production ; produced by One Look Productions (Pty) Ltd. in association with David Hannay Productions (PTY), Ltd. and Haverbeam, Ltd. ; an Oliver Schmitz and Thomas Mogotlane film ; screenplay by Oliver Schmitz, Thomas Mogotlane ; produced by Max Montocchio ; directed by Oliver Schmitz.
[San Francisco] : California Newsreel, [2008?].
Set in South Africa, tells the story of a petty crook (mapantsula in Zulu) who is imprisoned with Anti-apartheid activists and transformed into a man willing to become involved with social change
PN1997 .M3613 1988B.
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Ici et ailleurs [videorecording] = Here and elsewhere / an Olive Films release ; Gaumont Dassault Multimedia ; writers/directors, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean -Pierre Gorin, Anne-Marie Miéville ; producers, Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville, Jean-Pierre Rassam.
[Saint Charles, Ill.] : Olive Films, c2012.
In this meditation on how cinema records history, the filmmakers, members of the "Dziga Vertov Group," contrast a French family's life with an impressionistic portrait of war in Palestine, as reflected through television, books, and other media
PN1995.9.S6 I35 2012.
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Rio Grande [videorecording] / an Argosy production ; screenplay by James Kevin McGuinness ; produced by John Ford & Marian C. Cooper ; directed by John Ford.
[United States] : Olive Films : Republic Pictures, [2012].
John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara are embroiled in an epic battle with the Apaches and each other. Wayne leads his Cavalry troops to the Rio Grande to fight a warring tribe. His toughest battle lies ahead when his unorthodox plan to outwit the elusive Apaches leads to a possible court-martial. Locked in a bloody war, he must fight not only to save his family, but also to redeem his honor
PN1997 .R56 2012.
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Gabriel García Márquez [videorecording] : la magia de lo real / producción, dirección y guión, Ana Cristina Navarro ; productor ejecutivo, Harold Mantell ; montaje, Arshes Anasal August Films.
Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2003.
Film essay on the works of García Márquez and the source of his characters, the people of Colombia. Includes an interview with the author
PQ8180.17.A73 Z6739 1991B.
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Emma Zunz [videorecording] / coproducida por Television Española, S.A. ; Iberoamericana Films Internacional, S.A. ; Sociedad Estatal Quinto Centenario ; direccion, Benoit Jacquot.
Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2008.
A dramatization of the short story by Jorge Luis Borges. Beneath the timid personality of 19-year-old Emma Zunz there lurks a thirst for vengeance. In this tale, Emma's father, wrongly accused of a crime, commits suicide, sending her on a search for the real culprit
PQ7797.B635 E462 1993B.
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Love in the afternoon [videorecording] / Allied Artists Pictures Corporation ; screen play by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond ; produced and directed by Billy Wilder.
Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c2002.
Frank Flannegan, an American playboy infamous for his scandalous affairs is smitten by Ariane, the beautiful, innocent daughter of the worldly detective, hired by a man who believes that Frank is carrying on with his wife. Frank turns out to be no match for Ariane and they stumble through one of the funniest seductions
PQ2637.C63 A72 1957.
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El Evangelio segun San Marcos [videorecording] / coproducida por Television Española, S.A.
Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2008.
A dramatization of the short story by Jorge Luis Borges that captures a man's journey to the mystical house of a father, son and daughter where strange events bring the traveler to a better understanding of the redemptive power of Christ's suffering and death
PQ7797.B635 E932 1993B.
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La intrusa [videorecording] / coproducida por Television Española, S.A. ; Iberoamericana Films Internacional, S.A. ; Sociedad Estatal Quinto Centenario ; director, Jaime Chavarri.
Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2008.
A dramatization of the short story by Jorge Luis Borges, a drama of passion involving two brothers inseparable in work and play, and a woman who comes between them. Soon all three are trapped in their own hell of jealousy and death
PQ7797.B635 I582 1993B.
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La muerte y la brujula [videorecording] / coproducida por Television Española, S.A. ; Iberoamericana Films Internacional, S.A. ; Sociedad Estatal Quinto Centenario.
Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2008.
A dramatization of the short story by Jorge Luis Borges. This mystery revolves around a series of three identical assassinations, each committed on the third day of the month, for three consecutive months, in three different locations. Following the clues, a clever detective stumbles into the perfect trap
PQ7797.B635 M8282 1992B.
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La otra historia de Rosendo Juarez [videorecording] / coproducida por Television Española, S.A. ; Iberoamericana Films Internacional, S.A. ; Sociedad Estatal Quinto Centenario.
Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2008.
A dramatization of the short story by Jorge Luis Borges. Set in 1930s Spain amidst the politics of the right and the left, this is the tale of a man of humble origins who kills the town bully in a just fight. His life then takes a sudden turn, entangling him in a spiral of violence and suspicion
PQ7797.B635 O872 1992B.
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El sur [videorecording] / coproducida por Television Española, S.A. ; Iberoamericana Films Internacional, S.A. ; Sociedad Estatal Quinto Centenario ; Aries Cinematografica Argentina S.A.
Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2008.
A dramatization of the short story by Jorge Luis Borges. In this story, a descendant of famous ancestors dreams of more heroic times ... until a serious accident takes him to the doors of death, where the past and the present mingle -- and where he meets his final destiny
PQ7797.B635 S872 1992B.
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Alfie (Motion picture : 1966). TITLE = Alfie [videorecording] / a Paramount picture ; a Lewis Gilbert production ; screenplay by Bill Naughton ; produced and directed by Lewis Gilbert.
Hollywood, CA : Paramount, c2000.
A young man in 1960s London is a shallow womanizer trying to figure out what life is all about
PR6027.A9 A782 1965.
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The hunger games [videorecording] / directed by Gary Ross ; screenplay by Gary Ross and Suzanne Collins and Billy Ray ; produced by Nina Jacobson, Jon Kilik ; a Lionsgate presentation ; a Color Force/Lionsgate production ; a Gary Ross film.
Santa Monica, Calif. : Lions Gate Home Entertainment, [2012].
Set in a future when the Capitol selects a boy and girl from the twelve districts to fight to the death on live television, Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her younger sister's place for the latest match
PS3603.O4558 H862 2012B.
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Klassenverhältnisse [videorecording] / Film von Danièle Huillet und Jean-Marie Straub ; deutsch-französische Coproduktion der Janus mit dem Hessischen Rundfunk und der NEF Diffusion.
München : Film & Kunst, c2007.
Set at no specific time or place, provides an allegory about class relations and a society shaped by capitalism that is cruel, ludicrous, and capricious
PT2621.A26 A82 1984B.
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King gimp [videorecording] / directed and photographed by William A. Whiteford ; produced by Susan Hannah Hadary, William A. Whiteford ; written by Daniel Keplinger ; a Whiteford-Hadary, University of Maryland, Tapestry International production.
Baltimore, Md. : University of Maryland School of Medicine : Video Press [2000].
Dan Keplinger was born with cerebral palsy. Filmed over thirteen years, the film chronicles his life from his years in a special school to his college graduation
RC388 .K564 1999B.
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Bitter seeds [videorecording] / Teddy Bear Films presents ; a film by Micha X. Peled ; written, directed, produced by Micha X. Peled ; a co-production of Teddy Bear Films and the Independent Televison Service (ITVS).
Oley, PA: Bullfrog Films, [2012?].
Examines the effects on Indian farmers when foreign seed vendors such as Monsanto provided only genetically altered seed. The annual purchase of seed, irrigation, fertilizers, and pesticieds have driven many small cotton farmers into rising debt and often to suicide
S471.I42 B58 2011B.
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Two films by Omar Amiralay [videorecording].
Seattle, WA : Arab Film Distribution, [2010].
Two documentary films by Syrian director Omar Amiralay about the dam built on the Euphrates River in the early 1970s. The first film, the director's first, was filled with youthful enthusiasm for the engineering project and hopeful for the benefits it would bring to his country. The second film, made thirty years later after a devastating flood resulted from the collapse of the Zayzyn Dam, is a more cynical look at the ruling Baath party now that construction flaws have been revealed
TC558.S97 T88 2010.
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Dirty business [videorecording] : "clean coal" and the battle for our energy future / directed, written and produced by Peter Bull ; narrator/ editorial consultant Jeff Goodell.
Berkeley, CA : Center for Investigative Reporting ; Oley, PA. : Bullfrog Films, c2011.
Travels to China, Saskatchewan, Kansas, West Virginia, Nevada, and New York to reveal the true social and environmental costs of deriving half our electricity from coal. Explores innovations in alternative energy for the future, examines efforts to make coal a cleaner fuel, and looks at whether renewables can be produced on a scale large enough to replace coal
TD195.C58 D568 2011B.
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Paul Tomkowicz [videorecording] : street railway switchman.
[Montreal] : National Film Board of Canada, [2000?].
Presents a Polish-born Canadian railway switchman in Winnipeg, who cleans the streetcar tracks that are often jammed by freezing mud and snow. He talks about his work and the retirement he is looking forward to after 23 years on the job and compares his life in Canada to what he left behind in Poland
TF727.W5 P38 1953B.
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Jiro dreams of sushi [videorecording] / Magnolia Pictures ; City Room Films presents a Weaver/Pellegrini and Preferred Content production in association with Sundial Pictures ; produced by Kevin Iwashina, Tom Pellegrini ; a film by David Gelb ; directed and produced by David Gelb.
Los Angeles, Calif. : Magnolia Home Entertainment, [2012].
The 85-year-old Jiro Ono is considered by many to be the world's greatest sushi chef. He is the proprietor of a 10-seat sushi-only restaurant inauspiciously located in a Tokyo subway station. Despite its humble appearances, it is the first restaurant of its kind to be awarded a prestigious 3-star Michelin review, and sushi lovers from around the globe make repeated pilgrimages, calling months in advance and shelling out top dollar for a coveted seat at Jiro's sushi bar
TX649.O56 J57 2011B.
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The Invisible war [videorecording] / Girls Club Entertainment ; Chain Camera Pictures and Regina Kulik Scully and Jennifer Siebel Newsom present in association with Rise Films and ITVS, Fork Films, Cuomo Cole Productions, Canal Plus ; produced by Tanner King Barklow, Amy Ziering ; written and directed by Kirby Dick.
[Sausalito, Calif.] : Distributed by Roco Films Educational, c2012.
Investigates the epidemic of rape of US servicewomen by fellow members of the military. Explores the conditions that exist for sexual violence in the military, the systematic cover-ups, and what can be done to promate change
UB418.W65 I587 2012B.
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