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Much Ado About Nothing

Call Number: DVD01053

Director/Distributor: Kenneth Branagh

Format:  DVD video : NTSC color broadcast system : English : Widescreen

Language:  In English with optional soundtracks in Spanish or French; optional subtitles in English, Spanish or French. Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.

Publisher: Santa Monica, Calif. : MGM Home Entertainment, [2003]

Notes: Based on the play by William Shakespeare.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1993.
Special features: “Making Much Ado” featurette and original theatrical trailer.

Summary:
With his wedding a week away, Claudio can’t wait to marry the beautiful young Hero. To distract him, his best friend Don Pedro devises mischief: a romantic trap for the sharp-tongued Beatrice and the man she loves to hate, Benedick. Their amusement is almost spoiled by the jealous scheming of Don John, but love and laughter prevail when the local constable unwittingly exposes the plot–and all the trouble proves to be much ado about nothing (111 min.).

OCLC #: 51299343

Added: 9/19/2013

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Henry V

Call Number: DVD00912

Director/Distributor: Kenneth Branagh

Format:  DVD video : NTSC color broadcast system : English

Language: In English with optional subtitles in French or Spanish; closed-captioned.

Publisher: [London]: Renaissance Films PLC ; Santa Monica, CA : Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment Inc., ©2000.

Notes: Originally produced as a British motion picture in 1989.
Special features: Theatrical trailer (2 min.).

Summary: “Prince Hal” has ascended to the throne of England. He proceeds to assert his hereditary claim to the throne of France, gathers an army and embarks on a course that will lead to one of England’s greatest battlefield triumphs–the bloody Battle of Agincourt–and forever change the face of Europe. King Henry V unites his people, deals justly with traitors, leads his soldiers to victory, and in the end ensures thepeace by marrying the French princess Katherine.

OCLC #: 44648521

Added: 9/19/2013

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A Fish Called Wanda

Call Number: DVD00849

Director/Distributor: Charles Crichton

Format:  DVD video : English

Language: English or dubbed French language soundtrack with optional subtitles in English and French; closed-captioned in English.

 Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : MGM Home Entertainment, ©1998.

Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1988.
Special features include: 8-page booklet; original theatrical trailer (2 min.).

Summary: “Sexy American diamonds lover Wanda and her boyfriend Otto are in England to plot alongside George and Ken the robbery of a diamond collection. Wanda and Otto want the stolen diamonds for themselves, and inform the police about George, not knowing that he has already moved the diamonds to another secret place. Wanda thinks the best way to find out is by getting close to George’s lawyer, Archie Leach.”–Www. imdb. com.

OCLC #: 41078931

Also available on VHs: VHS01260

Added: 9/19/2013

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Heir to an execution

Call Number: DVD00910

Director/Distributor: Ivy Meeropol

Format:  DVD video : English

Language: Closed-captioned in English; optional voice-over in Spanish.

Publisher: New York, NY : HBO Home Video, [2004], ©2003.

Notes: Title from container.
Originally released as a documentary in 2003.
Special features include: Filmmaker audio commentary, interviews with Tony Kushner, Arthur Kinoy, Bill Ruben, and Additional observations from family and friends in the film.

Summary: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are Cold War iconic symbols and their trial and execution embody the hysteria fueled by the McCarthy’s red scare. But who were the Rosenberg’s as people? Listen to staunch Rosenberg comrades and hear the intimate interviews with the filmmaker’s father, Michael Meeropol, who brings an immediacy to his parents’ story. This painful revelation eerily underscores the depth of political paranoia of the time and the impossibility of discovering the ultimate truth about the Rosenberg’s guilt or innocence.

OCLC #: 55154365

Added: 9/19/2013

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Funny Face

Call Number: DVD00861

Director/Distributor: Stanley Donen

Format:  DVD video : English

 Language: In English or French language soundtrack; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.

Publisher: Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount, 2001.

Notes:
Originally released as a motion picture in 1956.
Special features: Interactive menus; scene selection; theatrical trailer; Paramount in the 1950’s, retrospective featurette; photo gallery.

 Summary:
A Cinderella story about an inconspicuous salesgirl who is whisked off to Paris by a group of fashion magazine sophisticates and transformed into a dazzling model with whom the magazine’s photographer falls in love.

 OCLC #: 46701905

Added: 9/19/2013

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The Presidio

Call Number: DVD01106

Director/Distributor: Peter Hyams

Format:  DVD video : English : Widescreen

 Language: In English or French ; subtitles in English ; closed-captioned.

Publisher: Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Pictures, ©1999.

Notes: Videodisc release of the 1988 motion picture.
Special features included.

Summary: Lt. Col. Caldwell and Police Inspector Jay Austin don’t like each other because Caldwell helped run Austin out of the military police a few years before. Now these two enemies are forced to team up to solve a brutal murder at The Presidio military compound.

OCLC #: 49711510

Added: 9/19/2013

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Who’s that Knocking at my Door

Call Number: DVD01205

Director/Distributor: Martin Scorsese

Format:  DVD video : English

Language: In English with English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.

Publisher: Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, 2004.

Notes: Videodisc release of a 1968 motion picture.

Summary: This debut feature film of Martin Scorsese is the story of a young, unemployed man who is content to hang out with his equally unambitious buddies in New York’s Little Italy. Then he falls in love with a college-educated girl and is forced to look at the neighborhood and life itself in a new way.

OCLC #: 56363726

Added: 9/19/2013

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Howl’s Moving Castle

Call Number: DVD00932

Director/Distributor: Hayao Miyazaki

Format:  DVD video : PAL color broadcast system : Animation : Secondary (senior high) school : English

 Language: Japanese with English subtitles.

Publisher: Japan : Studio Ghibli, 2004.

Notes:

Summary: Sophie, an average teenage girl working in a hat shop, finds her life thrown into turmoil when she was literally swept off her feet by handsome but mysterious wizard named Howl. After this chance meeting she is turned into a 90-year old woman by the vain and conniving Witch of the Waste. Embarking on an incredible adventure to lift the curse, she finds refuge in Howl’s magical moving castle where she becomes acquainted with Markl, Howl’s apprentice, and a hot-headed fire demon named Calcifer. As the true power of Howl’s wizardy is revealed, and his relationship with Sophie deepens, our young grey heroine finds herself fighting to protect them both from a dangerous war of society that threatens their world.

OCLC #: 156376618

Added: 9/19/2013

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Spirited Away “Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi” (original title)

Call Number:  DVD01159

Director/Distributor: Hayao Miyazaki

Format:  DVD video : Animation : Juvenile audience : NTSC color broadcast system : English : Widescreen version (2.0:1 ; 16×9)

Language: English, French, Japanese or Spanish dialogue; Closed-captioned.

Publisher: [United States] : Walt Disney Home Entertainment ; Burbank, CA : Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2003]

Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 2001.
Special features: special introduction by John Lasseter; the art of “Spirited away”; The Nippon Television special; select storyboard-to-scene comparison; voice talent featurette; original Japanese trailers.

Summary: When a young girl gets trapped in a strange new world of spirits, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free herself and rescue her parents.

OCLC #: 51916072

Added: 9/11/2013

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