Ghost World

October 6, 2011
Ghost World
Call Number: DVD00867 Copy 1
DVD00867 Copy 2
by:  Terry Zwigoff; Lianne Halfon; John Malkovich; Russ Smith; Thora Birch; Scarlett Johansson; Brad Renfro; Bob Balaban; Illeana Douglas; Steve Buscemi; Daniel Clowes; United Artists Corporation.; Granada Films.; Jersey Shore (Firm); Advanced Medien (Firm); MGM Home Entertainment Inc.; Mr. Mudd (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Los Angeles, CA : United Artists ; Santa Monica, CA : Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment, ©2001, 2002.
Notes: 1 videodisc (total running time: 111 min.) Based upon the comic book by Daniel Clowes. Originally produced as a motion picture in 2001. Nominated for one Oscar and one Golden Globe in 2002.
Summary: Enid and Rebecca are social outsiders who, after graduating from high school, play a mean prank on a middle-aged geek.
OCLC #: 48922012
Added: October 6, 2011
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Easy Living

October 5, 2011
Easy Living
Call Number: DVD00813
by:  Adolph Zukor; Preston Sturges; Arthur Hornblow; Mitchell Leisen; Jean Arthur; Edward Arnold; Ray Milland; Luis Alberni; Mary Nash; Vera Caspary; Paramount Pictures, Inc.; Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm).
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Universal City, CA : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, [2008]
Notes: Based on a story by Vera Caspary. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1937. Contains special feature: Exclusive introduction by Turner Classic Movies host and film historian Robert Osborne.  Running Time: 88 mins.
Summary: Mary Smith is a poor working girl who literally has a fortune dropped in her lap when a wealthy financier tosses a sable coat out a window and it lands on her. Everyone automatically assumes she’s his mistress, and soon her fairytale-like rags-to-riches lifestyle threatens a very real romance with an inept waiter.
OCLC #: 190702348
Added: October 5, 2011
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Club De Femmes

April 27, 2011
Club De Femmes or Girl’s club
Call Number: VHS01483
by:  Jacques Deval; Danielle Darrieux; Arthur Mayer; Joseph Burstyn; SELF Société.; Tamarelle’s International Films
Format: VHS
Language: French
Publisher: Chico, CA : Tamarelle’s International Films, 1990.
Notes: Origonally released in 1936 (90 mins.)
Summary: Follows the fates of several of the women residing in a hotel for women only (no males allowed) in Paris.
OCLC #: 22997489
Added: April 27, 2011
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Cléo de 5 á 7

April 26, 2011
Cléo de 5 á 7  (“Cleo from 5 to 7”)
Call Number: VHS01670
by:  Agnès Varda; Corinne Marchand; Antoine Bourseillet; Balzac Video.; Rome Paris Films.;
Format: VHS
Language: French
Publisher: [France] : Balzac Video ; [Chicago : Facets Multimedia] [distributer, 198-?]
Notes: Videocassette release of a 1961 motion picture by Agnes Varda (90 min).
Summary: This movie shows us Cléo, a French singer, who is afraid of getting the result of of a test from her doctor. She believes that she has cancer and will die of the disease. We follow her for two hours while she cruises through the streets of Paris. At the end, she meets a soldier who is going to the war in Algeria the next day.
OCLC #: 17014521
Added: April 26, 2011
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Topsy-Turvy

Topsy-Turvy
Call Number: DVD00542
by Simon Channing-Williams; Mike Leigh; Jim Broadbent; Allan Corduner; Timothy Spall; Lesley Manville; Ron Cook; Shirley Henderson; Wendy Nottingham; Kevin McKidd; Arthur Sullivan; W S Gilbert; Carl Davis; Thin Man Films (Firm); Greenlight Fund (Firm); Newmarket Capital Group LP.; USA Home Entertainment (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English  
Publisher: [S.l.] : USA Home Entertainment, ©2000.
Notes:Videodisc release of the 1999 motion picture (161 min). Includes theatrical trailer, TV spots, featurette, photo gallery, cast & crew biographies and filmographies. Nominated for 4 Academy Awards in 2000.
Summary: Tensions abound and the music swells in the story about the famous musical team of Gilbert and Sullivan. The two men who were extremely different in size and stature were even more different in temperament and style. Yet, they still managed to create memorable theater. This is the story of the making of one of their most famous collaborations, “The Mikado”.
OCLC #: 44722195
Added: April 26, 2011
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The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

April 25, 2011
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Call Number: DVD00838
by Stephen Roberts; Edward Kaufman; Anthony Veiller; James Edward Grant; William Powell; Jean Arthur; James Gleason; RKO Pictures.; Warner Home Video (Firm).; 
Format: DVD
Language: English  
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, ©2010.
Notes:Originally released in 1936 (80 mins; Black & White);
Summary: Amateur sleuth Dr. Bradford teams up with his ex-wife to solve the race track murders.
OCLC #: 670484697
Added: April 25, 2011
Also: Available on VHS at VHS00078
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The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement

April 21, 2011
The Princess Diaries 2
Call Number: DVD01111 Copy 1; DVD01111 Copy 2
by Garry Marshall; Julie Andrews; Anne Hathaway; Hector Elizondo; John Rhys-Davies; Heather Matarazzo; Charles Minsky; John Debney; Meg Cabot; Walt Disney Home Entertainment (Firm); Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm);
Format: DVD (Copy 1 – Fullscreen; Copy 2 – Widescreen)
Language: English
Publisher: [United States] : Walt Disney Home Entertainment ; Burbank, CA : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, ©2004.
Notes: Originally produced as motion picture in 2004 (113 min). Based on the characters created by Meg Cabot.
Special features: royal bloopers; deleted scenes; “Breakaway” music video by Kelly Clarkson; the PD2 makeover – hip tips on how to capture Princess Mia’s look; find your inner Princess – a set-top personality quiz; making a return engagement – a behind-the-scenes look at the cool music in the movie, hosted by Raven; a Julie Andrews & Garry Marshall commentary.
Summary: Now settled in Genovia, Princess Mia faces a new revelation: she’s being primed for an arranged marriage to a English suitor.
OCLC #: 56520457
Added: April 21, 2011
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Election

April 20, 2011
Election
Call Number: DVD00818
by Matthew Broderick; Reese Witherspoon; Alexander Payne; Jim Taylor; Tom Perrotta; Paramount Pictures Corporation.; MTV Films (Firm); Bona Fide Productions.; et al
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher:  Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount, [1999]
Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1999 (103 min.). Widescreen format. Based on the novel by Tom Perrotta. Nominated for a 2000 Academy Award.
Summary: A high school teacher’s personal life becomes complicated as he works with students during the school elections.
OCLC #: 42666070
Added: April 20, 2011
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Monsters, Inc.

Monsters, Inc.
Call Number: DVD01047
by Darla K Anderson; Pete Docter; David Silverman; Lee Unkrich; John Goodman; Billy Crystal; Mary Gibbs; Steve Buscemi; James Coburn; Jennifer Tilly; Bob Peterson; John Ratzenberger; Frank Oz; Randy Newman; Pixar (Firm); Walt Disney Pictures.; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher:  Burbank, Calif. : Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2002]
Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 2001 (92 min.). Includes 2 videodiscs: “THX.” Special features: Disc 1: audio commentary by the filmmakers (Pete Docter, Lee Unkrich, Andrew Stanton, John Lasseter) for widescreen version only. Disc 2: Animated shorts (including Mike’s new car, For the birds and music video of song “If I didn’t have you”), interactive DVD-ROM game, outtakes, Monsters, Inc. orientation, tour of Pixar studios, behind-the-scenes documentaries (storyboard, monsters, design, animation, music, sound design), premiere, trailers and TV spots, international inserts, multi-language clip reel, toys, and poster gallery. Nominated for 4 Academy Awards in 2002.
Summary: Monsters generate their city’s power by scaring children, but they are terribly afraid themselves of being contaminated by children, so when one enters Monstropolis, top scarer Sulley finds his world disrupted.
OCLC #: 49391168
Added: April 20, 2011
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Sunshine Cleaning

Sunshine Cleaning
Call Number: BLU00002
by Glenn Williamson; Marc Turtletaub; Peter Saraf; Jeb Brody; Megan Holley; Christine Jeffs; Amy Adams; Emily Blunt; Jason Spevack; Mary Lynn Rajskub; Clifton Collins, Jr.; Eric Christian Olsen; Kevin Chapman; Steve Zahn; Michael Penn; Alan Arkin; Overture Films.; Big Beach (Firm); Back Lot Pictures.; Anchor Bay Entertainment, Inc.;
Format: Blu-ray
Language: English
Publisher:  Beverly Hills, CA : Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment, ©2009.
Notes: Originally released in 2008 (91 min.); Special features: Audio commentary featuring writer Megan Holley and producer Glenn Williamson; “A fresh look at a dirty business” featurette
Summary: Rose Lorkowski is a single mother attempting to support her son Oscar and her unreliable sister Norah. She works a mundane job as a maid. Once the head cheerleader in school with plenty of prospects, Rose now has little to show for her life. She still sees the former head football player, but it is little more than a despondent affair. When Oscar is expelled from public school, Rose takes a job as a bio-hazard crime-scene cleaner to help pay for a private education. She brings Norah on to help in her steadily growing business. As the sisters work to clean up the messes left behind by the chaotic lives of others, they must learn to reconcile their own differences and overcome a troubled past if they hope to prosper in their newfound venture.
OCLC #: 429920561
Added: April 20, 2011
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Waiter from Hell

April 18, 2011
Waiter from Hell
Call Number: IND00009
by: Michael McCallum;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Rebel Pictures, in association with UnSAFE Film Office and Vernacular Films
Notes: Originally released in 2010 
Summary: A trilogy of short film comedies from Rebel Pictures which premiered in December, 2010..
OCLC #: [?] additional information from production website
Added: April 18, 2011
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Lucky

Lucky
Call Number: IND00008
by: Michael McCallum; Justin Muschong; Grace Anne Rowan; Marianne Bacon; Jonathan Worful; Anthony E. Griffin; Stuart Poltrock;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Rebel Pictures, in association with UnSAFE Film Office and Vernacular Films
Notes: Originally released in 2011 (100 mins).
Summary: Moving from relationship to relationship over the past four years, Henry struggles to meet the right woman for him. He’s tried to make it work with them all: the jealous one, the young one, the sensitive one and the crazy one.
When his relationship with Jamie, the ex-girlfriend of an old friend, becomes more serious, Henry’s problems reveal a larger issue he has to deal with before he can find a way to be happy.
Lucky is a dramatic comedy from the makers of the award winning feature films, Fairview St. and Handlebar. A contemporary character study about the relationships between men and women fused with the visual sensibilities and storytelling technique defining the leading edge in Michigan made true independent cinema today.
OCLC #: [?] additional information from production website
Added: April 18, 2011
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Tartuffe, or, The imposter

April 17, 2011
Tartuffe
Call Number: VHS01659
by Antony Sher; Nigel Hawthorne; Christopher Hampton; Alison Steadman; Molière; RKO Home Video.; Royal Shakespeare Company.; Stratford-Barbican Television.; British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service.; Opix Video.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher:  [Encino, Calif.] : RKO Home Video : Distributed by Opix Video, ©1984.
Notes: Originally released for TV in 1983 (110 min.) Based on the play Tartuffe by Moliére.
Summary: Clutching ever-present rosary beads, shifting uncomfortably within the hairshirt he wears as continual penance–and always eyeing the women as they pass–Tartuffe, Moliére’s master of unctuous evil, insinuates himself into a wealthy Parisian household in this indictment of religious hypocrisy. Posing as a holy man, the wily Tartuffe entrances Orgon, a credulous well-to-do merchant, bent on bestowing his worldly goods, social position, and nubile daughter on the perfidious fraud. Tartuffe delights in accepting it all–and also arranges a little depraved dalliance with Orgon’s young wife, Elmire.
OCLC #: 13533546
Added: April 17, 2011
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Charles et Lucie

Charles et Lucie (“Charles and Lucie”)
Call Number: VHS01657
by Daniel Ceccaldi; Ginette Garcin, Claude Makovski, Kelly Kaplan, Jean Chapot, Pierre Perret.
Format: VHS
Language: French with English subtitles
Publisher: Santa Monica, Calif. : Video Vision, ©1980.
Notes: Originally released in 1979 (96 min.) 
Summary: A comedy about a couple of Parisians with not much going for them. They are getting to the end of their resources when suddenly Lucie is advised that she has inherited a beautiful mansion on the French Riviera. Off they go driving to the Riviera with their dreams of riches, but they later find that not everything is exactly as they imagined it would be.
OCLC #: [?]
Added: April 17, 2011
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Men

Men
Call Number: VHS01656
by Doris Dörrie; Heiner Lauterbach; Uwe Ochsenknecht; Ulrike Kriener; OLGA Film.; Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen.; Vista Home Video.;
Format: VHS
Language: Dubbed into English from German
Publisher: New York : Vista Home Video, ©1985.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1985 (99 min).
Summary: A man’s wife leaves him to take up with an artist, so the man responds by becoming the artist’s roommate.
OCLC #: 18407266
Added: April 17, 2011
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Sweet Movie

April 10, 2011

Sweet Movie
Call Number: VHS01652
by Dusan Makavejev; Carole Laure; Pierre Clémenti; Anna Prucnal; Sami Frey;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Chicago : Facets Video, ©2000.
Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1974. (99 min.) In English and other languages with English subtitles.
Summary: When the Parisian bourgeois Geneviève Le Theil travels to Dijon to resolve outstanding subjects in the inheritance left by her wealthy aunt, she mistakenly opens the door of another room in the hotel, finding a suicidal near death on the bed. Later Geneviève goes to the hospital and is introduced to Renaud Sarti, the nihilistic alcoholic vagrant she saved. Geneviève falls in love for Renaud and brings him to her apartment in Paris, initiating a destructive, masochistic and corrupt relationship with the abusive man.
OCLC #: 45998390
Added: April 10, 2011
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L’homme à tout faire

April 6, 2011
L’homme a tout faire or “The Handyman”
Call Number: VHS01647
by  Micheline Lanctôt, Jocelyn Bérubé, Janette Bertrand, Andrée Pelletier, Normand Sarazin, and Madeleine Guérin, Malo Films Canada.
Format: VHS
Language:  French, English subtitles
Publisher: René Malo Films [198?]
Notes: Originally released in 1980 (99 mins.);
Summary: Handyman is a succinct little French-Canadian film dealing with those who never get what they really want because they don’t know how. The title character Armand Dorion, played by Jocelyn Berube, has convinced himself that no woman will have anything to do with him. We are shown that Armand could end his loneliness in a minute if he’d only speak up for himself. When he finally does get up the gumption to begin a romance, it’s with a married woman who is as self-defeating as he…
OCLC #: [?]
Added: April 6, 2011
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Un chapeau de paille d’Italie

April 1, 2011
The Horse Ate the Hat or The Italian Straw Hat
Call Number: VHS01623
byRené Clair; Eugène Labiche; Video Yesteryear;
Format: VHS
Language:  [?]
Publisher: Sandy Hook, Conn. : Video Yesteryear, ©1985.
Notes: Origonally released in 1928 (107 mins. Black & White, Silent); Based on: Un chapeau de paille d’Italie / Eugene Labiche, Marc Michel;
Summary: Satirical comedy of manners concerning a young man who, on his wedding day, becomes entangled with a married lady and her lover and has to find an exact replica of a special straw hat, essential to saving the lady’s honor.
OCLC #: 26693888
Added: April 1, 2011
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Kid ‘in’ Africa/ Pardon my Pups

March 31, 2011

Kid ‘in’ Africa/ Pardon My Pups
Call Number: VHS01622
by Shirley Temple; Danny Boone Jr.;
Format: VHS
Language:  English
Publisher: New York Kids Klassics, Inc. ©1985.
Notes: Released in 1933 (30 mins.);
Summary: Kid ‘in’ Africa: ”Shirley is a missionary in Africa, determined to make the cannibals into Christians.”
Pardon My pups: Sonny wants a motorcycle for his birthday. Pa wants him to have a hunting dog. When Sonny finds his own dog, the little mongrel, who is about to have pups, doesn’t meet Pa’s requirements. Shirley Temple has a small part as Sonny’s younger sister.
OCLC #: 556324642, 19871045, 47833759
Added: March 31, 2011
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Billy Elliot

Billy Elliot
Call Number: VHS01620
by Stephen Daldry; Greg Brenman; Jon Finn; Lee Hall; Julie Walters;
Format: VHS
Language:  English
Publisher: Universal City, CA : Universal Studios, 2001.
Notes: (111 mins.) an original featurette with a closer look at the making of the film and the incredible ensemble of talent brought together; nominated for one academy award in 2001.
Summary: A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.
OCLC #: 47870795
Added: March 31, 2011
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