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Letters from Iwo Jima
Call Number: DVD00995
by: Tadamichi Kuribayashi; Ken Watanabe; Kazunari Ninomiya; Tsuyoshi Ihara; Iris Yamashita; Paul Haggis; Clint Eastwood; Steven Spielberg; Robert Lorenz; Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ); Dreamworks Pictures.; Malpaso (Company); Amblin Entertainment (Firm); Warner Home Video (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: Japanese
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, ©2010.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 2006; Based on the book “Picture letters from Commander in Chief” by Tadamichi Kuribayashi. Running Time Approx 140 min. Nominated for 4 Academy Awards in 2007.
Summary: Sixty-two years ago, U.S. and Japanese armies met on Iwo Jima. Decades later, hundreds of letters are unearthed from that stark island’s soil, giving faces and voices to the men who fought there and more. Includes several bonus documentaries.
OCLC #:614521655
Added: March 27, 2011
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Keeping Mum
Call Number: DVD00970
by: Niall Johnson; Richard Russo; Rowan Atkinson; Kristin Scott-Thomas; Maggie Smith; Patrick Swayze; Tamsin Egerton; Toby Parkes; Liz Smith; Emilia Fox; Thinkfilm (Firm); Summit Entertainment.; Isle of Man Film Commission.; Azure Films.;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: [New York] : Thinkfilm, 2006, ©2005.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 2005; Special Features: “Big Trouble in Little Wallop” – behind the scenes of Keeping Mum, Bonus Scenes with Commentary, Outtakes and Bloopers, Extended scene: “Walter in Goal”, “Original Rosie Jones Beginning” with commentary, Filmaker Commentary, Trailer Gallery. Running Time Approx 104 min.
Summary: An absent-minded vicar of a rural parish is so distracted by the pressures of his job that he fails to notice his wife’s dalliance with her brash golf instructor, his daughter’s parade of new boyfriends, and his young son’s regular trouncing by the school’s bullies. Enter their new housekeeper, Grace, the answer to the family’s prayers. Grace is a sweet old lady with her own distinctive definition of cleaning house, with an unusual way of solving every day problems.
OCLC #:76877989
Added: March 27, 2011
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My Fair Lady
Call Number: DVD01059
by: Herman Levin; Alan Jay Lerner; Jack L Warner; George Cukor; Audrey Hepburn; Rex Harrison; Bernard Shaw; Frederick Loewe; Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967); Paramount Pictures Corporation.; CBS DVD (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language:English
Publisher: [Hollywood, Calif.] : Paramount : CBS DVD, c 2009.
Notes: Title from container. Originally released as a motion picture in 1964. Based on the play My fair lady, book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, music by Frederick Loewe; from the play by Bernard Shaw. Special features: audio commentary; vintage featurettes, footage and audio; alternate Audrey Hepburn vocals; posters and lobby cards with Rex Harrison radio interview; comments on a lady; trailers. Running time Aprox 170 min. Nominated for 12 Academy Awards in 1965.
Summary: In this beloved adaptation of the Broadway stage hit, Hepburn plays a sassy, working-class London street vendor, whom an arrogant professor attempts to turn into a sophisticated lady through proper schooling. But, when the humble flower girl blossoms into the toast of London’s elite, her teacher may have a lesson or two to learn himself.
OCLC #: 440853278
Added: March 27, 2011
Also available on VHS01385 OR See the Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard verison (Pygmalion) that inspired this film available on DVD at DVD00826 
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The Bodyguard
Call Number: DVD00688
by: Lawrence Kasdan; Mick Jackson; Alan Silvestri; Kevin Costner; Whitney Houston; Gary Kemp; Bill Cobbs; Ralph Waite; Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ); Tig Productions.; Kasdan Pictures.;
Format: DVD
Language:English
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, ©2005.
Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1992. Special features: All-new digital transfer; first-time widescreen DVD release; new making-of documentary Memories of the Bodyguard; theatrical trailer; music video; Running time Aprox 129 min. Nominated for 3 Academy Award in 1993.
Summary: In her spectacular film debut, Houston plays Rachel Marron, a music/movie superstar at her peak. Fans want to see her, hear her, touch her. But one wants to kill her – and that’s where security expert Frank Farmer (Costner) comes in. Farmer is a professional who never lets his guard down. Rachel’s glamorous life often puts her at risk. Each expects to be in charge. What they don’t expect is to fall in love.
OCLC #: 57599232
Added: March 27, 2011
Also available on VHS01005
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Hereafter
Call Number: DVD00913 Copy 1, DVD00913 Copy 2
by: Clint Eastwood; Kathleen Kennedy; Robert Lorenz; Peter Morgan; Matt Damon; Cécile De France; Bryce Dallas Howard; Frankie McLaren; George McLaren; Derek Jacobi; Jay Mohr; Marthe Keller; Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ); Malpaso (Company); Kennedy/Marshall Company.; Amblin Entertainment (Firm); Warner Home Video (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language:English
Publisher: Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, [2011]
Notes: DVD release of the 2010 motion picture. Special features: Tsunami: creating a disaster; Hereafter’s locations: casting the silent characters; The Eastwood experience; Running time Aprox 129 min. Nominated for 1 Academy Award in 2011.
Summary: George is a blue-collar American with a special connection to the afterlife dating from his childhood. French journalist Marie has a near-death experience that shakes her reality. When London schoolboy Marcus loses the person closest to him, he desperately needs answers. Each seeking the truth, their lives will intersect, forever changed by what they believe might, or must, exist in the hereafter.
OCLC #: 695560641
Added: March 27, 2011
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The Kids Are All Right
Call Number: DVD00972
by: Lisa Cholodenko; Stuart Blumberg; Gary Gilbert; Annette Bening; Josh Hutcherson; Julianne Moore; Mark Ruffalo; Mia Wasikowska; Focus Features.; Gilbert Films.; Saint Aire Productions.; Artist International (Firm); 10th Hole Productions.; Antidote Films (Firm); Mandalay Vision (Firm); Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm); et al
Format: DVD
Language:English
Publisher: Universal City, CA : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, ©2010.
Notes: DVD release of the 2010 motion picture.
Special features: The journey to forming a family; The making of The kids are all right; the writer’s process; feature audio commentary with Lisa Cholodenko; Running time Aprox 107 min. Nominated for 4 2011 Academy Awards.
Summary: Nic and Jules are in a long term, committed, loving but by no means perfect relationship. Nic, a physician, needs to wield what she believes is control, whereas Jules, under that control, is less self-assured. They have two teen-aged children, Joni, who is Nic’s biological child, and Laser, who is Jules’ biological child. A big-hearted, sexy and uproariously funny movie that combines comedic surprise with poignant emotional truth.
OCLC #: 663906315
Added: March 27, 2011
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Brothers 
Call Number: DVD00699 Copy 1, DVD00699 Copy 2
by: Ryan Kavanaugh; Sigurjon Sighvatsson; Michael De Luca; David Benioff; Jim Sheridan; Tobey Maguire; Jake Gyllenhaal; Natalie Portman; Sam Shepard; Mare Winningham; Carey Mulligan; Ethan Suplee; Thomas Newman; Relativity Media.; Sighvatsson Films (Firm); Michael De Luca Productions (Firm); Lions Gate Films.;
Format: DVD
Language:English
Publisher: Santa Monica, Calif. : Lionsgate, [2010]
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 2009. Based on the Danish motion picture “Brødre” by Susanne Bier and Andrers Thomas Jensen. Special features: “Remade in the USA, how Brødre became Brothers” featurette; “Jim Sheridan, film and family” featurette; feature audio commentary by director Jim Sheridan, theatrical trailer. Running time Aprox 105 min.
Summary: Captain Sam Cahill is embarking on his fourth tour of duty, leaving behind his beloved wife and two daughters. When Sam’s Blackhawk helicopter is shot down in the mountains of Afghanistan, the worst is presumed, leaving an enormous void in the family. Despite a dark history, Sam’s charismatic younger brother steps in to fill the family void.
OCLC #: 502160740
Added: March 27, 2011
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The Social Network 
Call Number: DVD01156
by: David Fincher; Aaron Sorkin; Kevin Spacey; Scott Rudin; Dana Brunetti; Michael De Luca; Ceán Chaffin; Jeff Cronenweth; Jacqueline West; Ren Klyce; Donald Graham Burt; Trent Reznor; Atticus Ross; Jesse Eisenberg; Andrew Garfield; Justin Timberlake; Armie Hammer; Max Minghella; Josh Pence; Brenda Song; Rashida Jones; John Getz; David Selby; Denise Grayson; Douglas Urbanski; Rooney Mara; Ben Mezrich; Columbia Pictures.; Relativity Media.; Scott Rudin Productions.; Michael De Luca Productions (Firm); Trigger Street Productions.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language:English
Publisher:Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2011]
Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 2010.  Based upon the book The accidental billionaires by Ben Mezrich. Special features: Disc 1. Audio commentary with director David Fincher; Audio commentary with writer Aaron Sorkin & cast. Disc 2. “How did they ever make a movie of Facebook?” feature-length documentary in four parts; Jeff Crronenweth and David Fincher on the visuals; Angus Wall, Kirk Baxter and Ren Klyce on post; Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and David Fincher on the score; In the hall of the mountain king: music exploration; Swarmatron; Ruby Skye VIP room (multi-angle scene breakdown). Running time Aprox 120 min. Nominated for 8 Academy Awards in 2011.
Summary: On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history, but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications.
OCLC #: 672029538
Added: March 27, 2011
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Blind Trust
Call Number: VHS01594
by: Yves Simoneau; Marie Tifo; Pierre Curzi; Jacques Robert Gravel; Jacques Lussier; Films Vision 4;
Format: VHS
Language:English
Publisher:Los Angeles, CA : Cinema Group Home Video, 1987.
Notes: Originally released in 1987 (aproox. 86 min.). Dubbed
Summary:Martial, a burly security guard and his lover Janvier, a blond waiter, get caught up in a bungled Brinks-style caper planned by a gang of small-time, lovable thugs. The group is led by Theo, a fifty-year-old ex-con, and his accomplices include his 17-year-old son, Robin. An unforeseen twist of events changes everything, and Martial is unexpectedly trapped inside the truck with all the loot. The truck is taken to a warehouse used for storing old theater sets and the thieves try in vain to persuade Martial to leave his armored refuge. Convinced that that is his only chance for survival, Martial refuses to leave the truck, and all the characters settle down to an interminable wait.
OCLC #:39358233
Added: March 25, 2011
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Tell Me a Riddle
Call Number: VHS01592
by:Melvyn Douglas; Lila Kedrova; Brooke Adams; Lee Grant; Tillie Olsen; Godmother Productions.; Media Home Entertainment (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language:English
Publisher:Los Angeles, CA : Media Home Entertainment, ©1988.
Notes: Originally released in 1980 (aproox. 94 min.) based on Tillie Olsen’s novella, Tell Me a Riddle.
Summary:After 47 years of marriage, David & Eva have become enemies. When David learns Eva has cancer he takes her on a final, bittersweet trip to visit their daughter. As their romance rekindles, each rediscovers the person with whom they had fallen in love so many years before.
OCLC #:17734708

Added: March 25, 2011
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Honey and Ashes
Call Number: VHS01591A
by: Nadia Fares; Lara Chaouachi; Nozha Khouadra;
Format: VHS
Language:English
Publisher:Huntington Beach, CA : Vanguard Films, 1999.
Notes: Originally released in 1996 (aproox. 80 min.) 
Summary:Looks at the lives of three Tunisian women and how cultural conventions have proscribed their lives.
OCLC #:178838861
Added: March 25, 2011
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 Bacchantes
Call Number: VHS01590
by: Giorgio Ferroni; Giorgio Stegani; Taina Elg; Pierre Brice; Alberto Lupo; Alessandra Panaro; Akim Tamiroff; Euripides.; International Film Forum);
Format: VHS
Language:English
Publisher:[S.l.] : International Film Forum, ©1988.
Notes: Originally released in 1988 (aproox. 100 min.)  Based on The Bacchae / by Euripides. Black and White.
Summary:A provocative ballerina explores her sensuality in a series of love affairs and sexual adventures. Set against a backdrop of hard work and dedication, this story portrays the professional life of a dancer, amidst her personal world of turmoil and triumph.
OCLC #:20590935
Added: March 25, 2011
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The Decline of the American Empire
Call Number: VHS01589
by: Denys Arcand; Dominique Michel; Dorothée Berryman; Louise Portal; Pierre Curzi; Rémy Girard; René Malo; Roger Frappier; Corporation Image M & M.; Telefilm Canada.; Société générale du cinéma du Québec.; Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.; Malofilm Productions, Inc);
Format: VHS
Language:English
Publisher:[Canada] : Malofilm Distriubtion, ©1986.
Notes: Originally released in 1986 (aproox. 102 min.)  Nominated for one 1987 Academy Award.
Summary:A film whch explores the complex, comic, and sexual relationships among eight Quebec intellectuals who are brought together for a Sunday dinner.
OCLC #:55318112
Added: March 25, 2011
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The Music Teacher
Call Number: VHS01588
by: Gerard Corbiau; José van Dam; Anne Roussel; Philippe Volter; Sylvie Fennec; Patrick Bauchau; Radio-Télévision belge de la communauté culturelle française.; K2-One (Firm); Orion Home Video);
Format: VHS
Language:French
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Orion Home Video, 1990.
Notes: Originally released in 1989 (aproox. 100 min.)  Nominated for one 1989 Academy Award.
Summary:Shortly before the Great War, celebrated singer Joachim Dallayrac suddenly announces his retirement from the stage, leaving the opera world stunned. Dallayrac retreats to the country, devoting himself to training two young singers, the beautiful Sophie, who falls in love with him, and Jean, a singing thief who falls in love with Sophie. An international singing competition will lead either to fame and riches–or to the jealous Prince Scotti’s revenge against Dallayrac.
OCLC #:21538483.
Added: March 25, 2011
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