Monsters, Inc.

April 20, 2011
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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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs
Call Number: DVD01155
by Walt Disney; David Hand; Adriana Caselotti; Harry Stockwell; Lucille La Verne; Moroni Olsen; Ted Sears; Billy Gilbert; Pinto Colvig; Walt Disney Pictures.; Walt Disney Enterprises.; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm); et al
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher:  Burbank, Calif. : Walt Disney Enterprises : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2001]
Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1937. 2 videodiscs (Disc 1. Feature film (84 min.) and some special features; Disc 2. Supplemental materials (ca. 190 min.) Based on the fairy tale recorded by the Brothers Grimm. Special features: Making of Walt Disney’s Snow White and the seven dwarfs ; The goddess of Spring animated short ; audio commentary with Walt Disney, guided tours, “Dopey’s wild mine ride” adventure game ; Heigh-Ho karaoke sing along ; supplemental material on disc 2 “The legacy of Snow White” includes timelines with celebrity hosts, storyboard to film comparisons, layouts and backgrounds gallery, character design galleries, deleted scenes, vintage black and white short subjects and supplemental audio. Nominated for 2 Academy Awards.
Summary: Snow White, pursued by a jealous queen, hides with the Dwarfs; the queen feeds her a poison apple, but Prince Charming awakens her with a kiss.
OCLC #: 48102912
Added: April 20, 2011
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Lolita

Lolita
Call Number: DVD01007
by Stanley Kubrick; James Mason; Shelley Winters; Peter Sellers; Sue Lyon; Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.; Seven Arts Productions.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher:  Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, ©1999.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1961 (153 min). Based on the novel by Vladimir Nabokov. Nominated for a 1963 Academy Award.
Summary: A middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a 14-year-old nymphet.
OCLC #: 41673532
Added: April 20, 2011
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The Red Shoes

The Red Shoes
Call Number: DVD00424
by J Arthur Rank; Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger; Keith Winter; Moira Shearer; Anton Walbrook; Marius Goring; Robert Helpmann, Sir; Albert Bassermann; Esmond Knight; Ludmila Tcherina; Leonide Massine; Brian Easdale; Thomas Beecham, Sir; H C Andersen; Janus Films.; Archers (Firm); Criterion Collection (Firm); Pinewood Studios.; Home Vision (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher:  [Irvington, NY?] : Criterion Collection, ©1999.
Notes: Originally released in 1948 (68 min.); Based on a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen; Nominated for five 1949 Academy Awards; “The Classic Collection : a joint venture between Janus Films and Home Vision Cinema”–Container. Special features: audio commentary by film historian Ian Christie, Jeremy Irons reads excerpts from the novelization and the original fairy tale, theatrical trailer, stills gallery, Scorsese’s memorabilia, sketches, and filmography.
Summary:  Centers on the dilemma of a young ballerina who’s torn between the demands of career and love.
OCLC #: 41886767
Also on VHS: VHS01153
Added: April 20, 2011
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Pulp Fiction

Pulp Fiction
Call Number: DVD01115
by John Travolta; Samuel L Jackson; Uma Thurman; Harvey Keitel; Tim Roth; Amanda Plummer; Miramax Films.; Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm); Buena Vista Home Video
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: [S.l.] : Miramax Home Entertainment ; Burbank, CA : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2002].
Notes: Originally released in 1994 (154 mins.); Nominated for seven 1995 Academy Awards; Bonus materials: Pulp fiction: The facts documentary; deleted scenes; “The Charlie Rose show”–Interview with Quentin; “Siskel and Ebert at the movies”–“The Tarantino generation”; production design featurette; behind-the-scenes montages; interviews from the independent Spirit Awards; Palme d’Or acceptance speech; reviews and articles analyzing the film; filmographies; theatrical trailers from around the world; TV spots; 8 different still galleries, featuring hundreds of photos; soundtrack chapter stops; enhanced playback track – DVD-ROM feature; synchronized trivia game – DVD-ROM feature; screenplay viewer – DVD-ROM feature; open Mic commentary – DVD-ROM feature.
Summary: Clever, dark film that tells 4 separate stories that are gradually brought together. Involved are two low-rent hit men, their boss and his sexy wife, a prizefighter and a pair of desperate robbers.
OCLC #: 50437614
Also on VHS: VHS00944
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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Kramer vs. Kramer

Kramer vs. Kramer
Call Number: BLU00001
by Stanley R Jaffe; Robert Benton; Dustin Hoffman; Meryl Streep; Jane Alexander; Justin Henry; Avery Corman; Columbia Pictures Corporation.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm).;
Format: Blu-ray
Language: English
Publisher:  Culver City, CA : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2009].
Notes: Originally released in 1979 (105 min.); Based on the novel by Avery Corman; Nominatd for nine 1980 Academy Awards; Special features: BD-Live: “Finding the truth: the making of Kramer vs. Kramer” documentary
Summary: Ted Kramer is a young husband and father who loves his family and his job. He spends most of his time at work. When he returns home late one evening, his wife Joanna confronts and then leaves him. This forces Ted to become the sole caregiver to their six-year-old son. Now, Ted must learn to be a father while balancing the demands of his high-pressure job. Just as Ted begins to adapt to his new role, Joanna returns wanting her son back.
OCLC #: 310127020
Added: April 20, 2011
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La maternelle

April 18, 2011
La Maternelle (“The Kindergarten”)
Call Number: VHS01660
by Paulette Elambert; Madeleine Renaud; Sylvette Fillacier; Léon Frapié; Richard Peña; Jean Benoit-Lévy; Marie Epstein; Water Bearer Films (Firm); Metropolis Pictures Corp.;
Format: VHS
Language: French with English subtitles
Publisher:  [S.l.] : Waterbearer Films, ©1992.
Notes: Originally released in 1933 (83 min. Black & White) Based on a novel by Léon Frapié.
Summary: A compassionate story of the sad faced, squalid children of the Paris slums who find daily sanctuary in “La Maternelle” from the ugliness and terror of their lives at home.
OCLC #: 27375438
Added: April 18, 2011
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Maryland Deathfest: The Movie

Maryland Deathfest: The Movie
Call Number: IND00010
by: David Hall; Ryan Taylor; Evan Harting;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Handshake Productions;
Notes: Originally released in 2010 
Summary: After 8 years, over 200 different bands representing 20 countries, and several venue changes, the Maryland Deathfest (or “MDF” for short) has developed into the premier metal festival in the United States, and one of the most talked about festivals internationally.
OCLC #: [?] additional information from production website
Added: April 18, 2011
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Waiter from Hell

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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Diva

Diva
Call Number: VHS01658
by Wilhelmenia Fernandez; Jean-Jacques Beineix; Irene Silberman; Frédéric Andrei; Delacorta; Greenwich Film Associates.; Films Galaxie.;
Format: VHS
Language: French with English subtitles
Publisher: Greenwich Film Associates, Los Angeles, Ca. : MGM-UA Home Video,1981.
Notes: Originally released in 1981 (123 min.) Winner of four French film awards.
Summary: A romantic thriller about an opera buff who bootlegs the only recording of one of the world’s top opera stars. Two tapes, two Parisian mob killers, one corrupt policeman, an opera fan, a teenage thief, and the coolest philosopher ever filmed. Murder, lust, greed, and satire dominate as police, blackmailers, and others surface on a chase for the bootlegged tape.
OCLC #: [?]
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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Quatre femmes d’Égypte (Four Women of Egypt)

April 13, 2011

Quatre femmes d’Égypte (Four Women of Egypt)
Call Number: VHS01655
by Tahani Rached; Eric Michel; National Film Board of Canada.;
Format: VHS
Language: French
Publisher: [Montréal] : Office national du film du Canada, ©1997.
Notes: (90 min) This moving film won the public award and the prize for feature-length documentary at the International Documentary Film Festival in Odivelas, Portugal, and the audience award and the prize for best documentary at the Arab Screen Independent Film Festival in London, England. It also screened at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1998.
Summary: How can people get along when their beliefs collide? Tahani Rached probes this question in Quatre femmes d’Égypte (Four Women of Egypt), a portrait of four friends who couldn’t be more different. Muslim, Christian, or non-religious, they all love their country but have radically different visions of what that society should be, ranging from a secular or socialist state to an Islamic one. This moving film won the public award and the prize for feature-length documentary at the International Documentary Film Festival in Odivelas, Portugal, and the audience award and the prize for best documentary at the Arab Screen Independent Film Festival in London, England. It also screened at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1998.
OCLC #: 437575653
Added: April 13, 2011
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Warrior songs

April 10, 2011

Warrior Songs – King Gesar
Call Number: VHS01654
by Tom Perlmutter; Renée Blanchar; Cécile Chevrier,Yo Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, Peter Serkin, National Film Board of Canada.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Publisher: Montréal : National Film Board of Canada, ©1997.
Notes: English original documentary produced by Great Eastern Cine Productions Ltd., in association with Les Productions du Phare-Est inc., in co-production with the NFB (English Program/Documentary – East – Halifax), with the participation of Telefilm Canada, in association with Bravo!, The Nova Scotia Film Development Corporation, Film New Brunswick, Vision TV, CFCF-12 Montreal and with the financial support of the Cable Production Fund and Rogers Telefund;Based on: King Gesar / by Peter Lieberson and Douglas Penick.
Summary: The legendary warrior-king Gesar of Ling is brought to life in this operatic interpretation of an ancient Tibetan legend. Music, dance and storytelling are blended to recount his battle against demons threatening to enslave humanity.
OCLC #: 631987634
Added: April 13, 2011
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A Question of Silence

A Question of Silence
Call Number: VHS01653
by:  Marleen Gorris; Matthijs van Heijningen; Edda Barends; Nelly Frijda; Cox Habbema; Henriëtte Tol; Eddy Brugman; Hans Croiset; Erik Plooyer; Lodewijk de Boer; Quartet/Films (Firm); Sigma Filmproductions.; Embassy Home Entertainment (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: Dutch with English subtitles
Publisher: Los Angeles, CA : Embassy Home Entertainment, ©1986.
Notes: Videocassette release of the 1983 motion picture. (92 min.)
Summary: Three women, all strangers to each other, meet in a dress boutique. One of the three is approached by the male proprietor as she is shoplifting a garment. When he approaches her the other two join her in beating the man to death.
OCLC #: 190828091
Added: April 10, 2011
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Sweet Movie

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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Medea

April 7, 2011

Medea
Call Number: VHS01651
by Robinson Jeffers; Zoe Caldwell; Judith Anderson, Dame; Mitchell Ryan; Robert Whitehead;
Format: VHS
Language: Anciet Greek with English Subtitles
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities, ©1982.
Notes: Filmed at the Eisenhower Theater, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. (90 min).
Summary: Kennedy Center production of Euripides’ classic tragedy about a woman driven by emotion beyond the brink of rationality.
OCLC #: 11099705
Added: April 7, 2011
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