Crash

March 24, 2011
Crash
Call Number: VHS01568
by: David Cronenberg; Robert Lantos; Jeremy Thomas; James Spader; Holly Hunter; Elias Koteas; Deborah Kara Unger; Rosanna Arquette; Howard Shore; Ronald Sanders; Peter Suschitzky; J G Ballard; Fine Line Features.; New Line Home Video (Firm); Alliance Communications.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: New York, NY : Fine Line Features/New Line Home Video, [1997]
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture May, 17 1996 at the Cannes Film Festival. Based on the book by J.G. Ballard. Running Time Approx 100 min. MPAA rating: NC-17.
Summary: After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.
OCLC #:37584623
Added: March 24, 2011
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Videodrome

Videodrome
Call Number: VHS01567
by: Claude Héroux; David Cronenberg; James Woods; Filmplan International (Firm); MCA Videocassette Inc.; MCA Universal Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Universal City, CA : MCA Videocassette Inc. : MCA Universal Home Video, ©1983.
Notes: Videocassette release of the 1982 motion picture. Release Dates vary: c1983 on this cassette label. “Complete uncut version including footage never shown in movie theaters”.
Running Time Approx 87 min.
Summary: A sleezy cable-TV programmer Max Renn seeks out the ultimate in bizarre shows for his channel. He meets a mysterious supplier named Harlan who gives him access to an underground sex and violence network called “Videodrome.”
OCLC #:35002713
Added: March 24, 2011
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Speaking parts

Speaking Parts
Call Number: VHS01566
by: Michael McManus; Arsinée Khanjian; Gabrielle Rose; Tony Nardi; David Hemblen; Don Ranvaud; Atom Egoyan; Ego Film Arts (Firm); Academy Pictures.; Film Four International.; Cinephile (Firm); Zeitgeist (Musical group); Fox Lorber Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: [U.S.] : Fox Lorber Home Video, New Video Group, [1990], ©1989.
Notes: Originally released as motion picture by Cinephile (Canada) in 1989 and Zeitgeist (U.S.) in 1990.
Running Time Approx 92 min.
Summary: A struggling actor working as a hotel custodian and gigolo finds himself the obsessional object of two women: a scriptwriter he hustled for a part in a movie and a hotel maid.
OCLC #:23045085
Added: March 24, 2011
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Ceux qui m’aiment prendront le train = Those who love me can take the train

March 23, 2011
Those Who Love Me can take The Train
Call Number: VHS01565
by: Jean-Louis Trintignant; Pascal Greggory; Patrice Chéreau; Valérie Bruni-Tedeschi; Charles Berling; Bruno Todeschini; Studio Canal+ (Firm); Kino International Corporation.; et al
Format: VHS
Language: French with English subtitles
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Kino on Video, [2000]
Notes: Originally produced in France as a motion picture in 1998; Running Time Approx 122 min.
Summary: A minor painter, son of a wealthy family has died and wanted to be buried in his home town of Limoges. Those who loved him in various ways take the train and review their lives on the way to bury him.
OCLC #:44511874
Added: March 23, 2011
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Jesus of Nazareth

Jesus of Nazareth
Call Number: VHS01564
by: Franco Zeffirelli; ITC Entertainment Films.; LIVE Entertainment (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Van Nuys, Calif. : LIVE Entertainment, 1993.
Notes: Released in 1977; 3 videocassettes (382 min.)
Summary: Maintaining the perfect balance between religious fervor and realism, this film depicts the life of Christ from His birth through His resurrection. It is acclaimed “exceptional” for its thorough Biblical and historical research written in consultation with leading Anglican, Catholic and Jewish religious authorities.
OCLC #:27702599
Added: March 23, 2011
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Fiddler on the roof

Fiddler on the Roof
Call Number: VHS01563 Copy 1
VHS01563 Copy 2
by: Topol; Norma Crane; Leonard Frey; Molly Picon; Paul Mann; Isaac Stern; Norman Jewison; Jerry Bock; Jerome Robbins; Mirisch Production Company.; MGM/UA Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Culver City, CA : MGM/UA Home Video, ©1988.
Notes: Released in 1971. Adapted from the stage play and Sholom Aleichem’s story “Tevye and his Daughters” by Joseph Stein; 2 videocassettes (VHS) (180 min.) Nominated for 8 Academy Awards in 1972
Summary: Tevye is a poor Jewish milkman with five unmarried daughters to support in a village in Czarist Russia. With a sharp tongued wife at home and growing anti-Semitism in the village, Tevye talks to God about his troubles. His people’s traditions keep him strong when his existence is as precariously balanced as a fiddler on the roof.
OCLC #:516451763
Added: March 23, 2011
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Barfly

Barfly
Call Number: VHS01562
by: William Kennedy; Keith Barish; Marcia Nasatir; Hector Babenco; Jack Nicholson; Meryl Streep; Carroll Baker; Michael O’Keefe; Fred Gwynne; Diane Venora; Margaret Whitton; Tom Waits; John Morris; Anne Goursaud; Lauro Escorel; Taft Entertainment Pictures.; Paul Barish Productions.; Vestron Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Stamford, CT : Vestron Video, [1988]
Notes: Released in 1987. Based on the novel by William Kennedy. Running Time Aprox 100 mins. 
Summary: Henry and Wanda are wedded to their bar stools, not each other, but they like each other and attempt to make a go of life on the skids.
OCLC #:18759456
Added: March 23, 2011
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Ironweed

Ironweed
Call Number: VHS01561
by: William Kennedy; Keith Barish; Marcia Nasatir; Hector Babenco; Jack Nicholson; Meryl Streep; Carroll Baker; Michael O’Keefe; Fred Gwynne; Diane Venora; Margaret Whitton; Tom Waits; John Morris; Anne Goursaud; Lauro Escorel; Taft Entertainment Pictures.; Paul Barish Productions.; Vestron Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Stamford, CT : Vestron Video, [1988]
Notes: Released in 1987. Based on the novel by William Kennedy. Running Time Aprox 135 mins. Nominated for 2 Academy Awards in 1988.
Summary: It’s winter, 1938, in Albany, New York. The soup kitchens and flophouses are overflowing with homeless street people seeking food and refuge from the unforgiving cold. Francis Phelan wanders the streets, back in his hometown after 22 years, an aimless vagabond ready to confront the family he abandoned long ago. While sharing his whiskey with longtime “pal” Helen, Francis reveals the dark secrets of his past, the painful memories from which he once tried to escape … but now must reconcile.
OCLC #: 18178631
Added: March 23, 2011
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Rambling Rose

Rambling Rose
Call Number: VHS01560
by: Laura Dern; Diane Ladd; Lukas Haas; Robert Duvall;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Van Nuys, CA : Live Home Video : Carolco Home Video, ©1991.
Notes: Released in 1991. Based on the book by Calder Willingham. Running Time Aprox 115 mins. Nominated for 2 Academy Awards in 1992.
Summary: Rose, an alluring young woman, is hired by a Southern family to care for their children, and changes their lives forever. She is an innocent who relates to everyone she meets in the only way she know how- with sexuality she can’t restrain. The mother of the family takes Rose under her wing, offering her love and protection, while the teenaged son finds Rose both his fantasy and a profound mystery.
OCLC #: 25538894
Added: March 23, 2011
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Kiss of the spider woman

Kiss of the Spider Woman
Call Number: VHS01559
by: William Hurt; Raul Julia; Sonia Braga; Hector Babenco; Manuel Puig; HB Filmes.; Charter Entertainment (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. : Charter Entertainment, ©1986.
Notes: Released in 1985. Based on the novel of the same title by Manuel Puig, originally published in Spanish as: El beso de la mujer araña. Running Time Aprox 119 mins. Nominated for 4 Academy Awards in 1986.
Summary: In a prison cell somewhere in Latin America, Molina and Valentin have only one thing in common– they are both victims of society. This is the complex story of the relationship that develops between two men with radically different perspectives on life.
OCLC #: 13407395
Added: March 23, 2011
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Vengeance valley

Vengeance Valley
Call Number: VHS01558
by: Burt Lancaster; Joanne Dru; Robert Walker; Viking Video Classics (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, CA., Viking Video Classics ©1986
Notes: Released in 1951. Running Time Aprox 83 mins. 
Summary: Burt Lancaster stars as a rugged cattle ranch overseer charged with keeping an eye on his boss’s wayward son.
OCLC #: [?]
Added: March 23, 2011
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Like water for chocolate = Como agua para chocolate

Like water for chocolate or “Como agua para chocolate”
Call Number: VHS01557
by: Alfonso Arau; Marco Leonardi; Lumi Cavazos; Regina Torne; Laura Esquivel;
Format: VHS
Language: Spanish with English subtitles.
Publisher: [S.l.] : Touchstone Home Video ; Burbank, Calif. : Buena Vista Home Video (Demo Tape), 1994, ©1992
Notes: Released in 1992. Based on the novel by Laura Esquivel. Running Time Aprox 105 mins. Demo Tape – Not For Rent or Sale Copy.
Summary: Romantic fantasy set in the early 20th century about a young couple blocked from marrying by the demands of her cold and selfish mother. To be near his love the young man marries her sister, and she expresses her passion for him through her cooking.
OCLC #: [?] Demo tape
Added: March 23, 2011
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The recruit

The Recruit
Call Number: VHS01556
by: Roger Birnbaum; Jeff Apple; Gary Barber; Roger Towne; Kurt Wimmer; Mitch Glazer; Roger Donaldson; Al Pacino; Colin Farrell; Bridget Moynahan; Gabriel Macht; Karl Pruner; Eugene Lipinski; Stuart Dryburgh; David Rosenbloom; Klaus Badelt; Beatrix Aruna Paztor; Andrew McAlpine; Touchstone Pictures.; Spyglass Entertainment (Firm); Touchstone Home Entertainment (Firm); Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English.
Publisher: : [United States] : Touchstone Home Entertainment ; Burbank, Calif. : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, ©2003.
Notes: Released in 2003. Running Time Aprox 115 mins. Screener/Trailer – Not For Rent or Sale Copy.
Summary: Clayton recently completed his studies at MIT. One evening, Clayton is approached by Walter Burke, a recruiter for the CIA, and believes Clayton is just the sort of man the CIA is looking for. Clayton, who has little interest in an ordinary nine-to-five career and accepts the offer. Clayton has to keep in mind Burke’s dictum that “nothing is as it seems,” especially when Clayton is given a special assignment — find the mole within the Agency’s training program who is actually feeding information to America’s enemies.
OCLC #: [?] Screening tape not for sales purposes
Added: March 23, 2011
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Operation Petticoat

Operation Petticoat
Call Number: DVD01081
by: Blake Edwards; Cary Grant; Tony Curtis; Joan O’Brien; Dina Merrill; Gene Evans; Dick Sargent; Arthur O’Connell; Gavin MacLeod; Marion Ross; Universal-International (Firm); Granart Company.; Republic Entertainment Inc.; Artisan Entertainment (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: [United States] : Republic Entertainment ; Santa Monica, Calif. : Distributed by Artisan, [2001]
Notes: Originally released in 1959 (120 min.); Nominated for one 1960 Academy Award;
Summary: World War 2 comedy about a submarine commander who finds himself stuck with a decrepit (and pink) sub, a con-man executive officer and a group of Army nurses.
OCLC #: 49504064
Added: March 23, 2011
Also: Available on VHs at VHS001356
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The Bishop’s Wife

The Bishop’s Wife
Call Number: DVD00683
by: Samuel Goldwyn; Robert E Sherwood; Leonardo Bercovici; Henry Koster; Cary Grant; Loretta Young; David Niven; Monty Woolley; James Gleason; Gladys Cooper; Elsa Lanchester; Gregg Toland; Perry Ferguson; Monica Collingwood; Hugo Friedhofer; Robert Nathan; RKO Radio Pictures, inc.; Samuel Goldwyn Co.; MGM Home Entertainment Inc;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : MGM Home Entertainment Inc., ©2001
Notes: Originally released in 1947 (109 mins. Black & White); edition contains the original theatrical trailer; From the novel by Robert Nathan; Nominated for five 1948 Academy Awards;
Summary: Cary Grant stars as an angel who materializes in answer to the prayers of a harried young bishop, David Niven. Niven’s efforts to raise money for a new cathedral have endangered his marriage to beautiful Loretta Young. Grant enters the bishop’s household hoping to end the problems plaguing the family, but instead the bishop’s negelected wife becomes infatuated with him.
OCLC #: 46417557
Added: March 23, 2011
Also: Available on VHs at VHS000716
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Comes a Horseman

Comes a Horseman

 
Call Number: DVD00739
by: James Caan; Jane Fonda; Jason Robards; Dennis Lynton Clark; Gene Kirkwood; Dan Paulson; Alan J Pakula;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Santa Monica, CA. : MGM Home Entertainment, [2001]
Notes: Originally released in 1978 (118 min.);  Nominated for one 1979 Academy Award;

Summary: A World War II veteran and a woman rancher team up to fight for their land when both are threatened by a greedy cattle baron.
OCLC #: 47933986
Added: March 23, 2011
Also: Available on VHs at VHS001325
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Sweet Dreams

Sweet Dreams
Call Number: DVD00520
by: Jessica Lange; Ed Harris; Karel Reisz; HBO Video (Firm); Silver Screen Partners.; HBO Pictures;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : HBO Home Video, ©1999
Notes: Originally released in 1985 (115 mins.); Based on country star Patsy Cline; Nominated for one 1986 Academy Award;
Summary: Sweet Dreams is the true story of the legendary Patsy Cline, charting the most dramatic years of her efforts to become a top country singer.
OCLC #: 45196408
Added: March 23, 2011
Also: Available on VHs at VHS000120
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The Adventures of Robin Hood

The Adventures of Robin Hood
Call Number: DVD00638
by: Michael Curtiz; William Keighley; Norman Reilly Raine; Seton I Miller; Erich Wolfgang Korngold; Errol Flynn; Olivia De Havilland; Basil Rathbone; Claude Rains; Patric Knowles; Eugene Pallette; Alan Hale; Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967); Turner Entertainment Co.; Warner Bros. Entertainment.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Turner Entertainment : Warner Bros. Entertainment : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2010]
Notes: Originally released in 1938 (85 min.); Based upon ancient Robin Hood legends; Nominated for four 1939 Academy Awards; Special features include commentary by historian Rudy Behlmer; Leonard Maltin hosts Warner night at the movies 1938; vintage newsreel, musical short Freddie Rich and his orchestra; classic cartoon Katnip Kollege; trailer of movie plus 1938’s angels with dirty faces; , Errol Flynn trailer gallery, and music-only audio track showcasing Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Oscar-winning score;
Summary: Rebel outlaw Robin Hood outwits the Sheriff of Nottingham and Guy of Gisbourne, and saves the throne for the absent King Richard I.
OCLC #: 678481519
Added: March 23, 2011
Also: Available on VHs at VHS001365
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Call Number: DVD00706
by: George Roy Hill; Paul Newman; Robert Redford; Katharine Ross; Strother Martin; Jeff Corey; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2000]
Notes: Originally released in 1969 (111 mins); Nominated for seven Academy Awards;
Summary: Blends adventure, romance and comedy to tell the story of the West’s most likeable outlaws, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, as they set out for Bolivia with the law on their heels.
OCLC #: 44096427
Added: March 23, 2011
Also: Available on VHs at VHS00013
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Rain Man

Rain Man

Call Number: DVD01117

by: Dustin Hoffman; Tom Cruise; Valeria Golino; Mark Johnson; Barry Levinson; Barry Morrow; Ronald Bass; Hans Zimmer; United Artists Corporation.; Guber-Peters Company.; MGM Home Entertainment Inc;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: [Santa Monica, CA] : MGM Home Entertainment, ©2004.
Notes:  Originally released in 1988 (134 min.); Nominated for eight 1989 academy awards; Special features: deleted scene (2 min.); original featurette (7 min.); audio commentaries by director Barry Levinson, screenwriter Ronald Bass, and screenwriter Barry Morrow; photo gallery; original theatrical trailer (3 min.);
Summary: A callous young hustler living in California finds his father has died and left him only rose bushes and a ’49 Buick convertible. Feeling cheated out of what he thinks should be his 3 million dollar inheritance, he kidnaps the autistic brother he never knew he had, and takes him on the ride of his life.
OCLC #: 54389736
Added: March 23, 2011
Also: available on VHS at VHS01123
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