Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

April 21, 2011
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Call Number: DVD01207
by Stan Margulies; David L Wolper; Mel Stuart; Roald Dahl; Anthony Newley; Leslie Bricusse; Gene Wilder; Jack Albertson; Roy Kinnear; Peter Ostrum; Warner Bros.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2001]
Notes: Originally produced as motion picture in 1971 (100 min). Based on the book “Charlie and the chocolate factory” by Roald Dahl. Widescreen Format. Special features: the making of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate factory; feature length audio commentary with the Wonka kids; 4 sing-along songs; behind-the-scenes 1971 featurette; photo gallery; interactive menus; theatrical trailer; scene access. Nominated for a 1972 Academy Award.
Summary: Candy manufacturer Willy Wonka has a contest and hides five golden tickets in five of his scrumptious candy bars. All five ticket winners get a free tour of the mysterious Wonka factory, as well as a lifetime supply of Wonka candy. Four of the children are nasty brats who are punished by Willie Wonka with various diabolical, but funny, methods. Only Charlie, a likeable child, wins the heart of the manufacturer.
OCLC #: 48512326
Also Available on VHS1708
Added: April 21, 2011
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Rebel Without a Cause

April 20, 2011
Rebel Without a Cause
Call Number: DVD01122
by Stewart Stern; David Weisbart; Nicholas Ray; Leonard Rosenman; James Dean; Natalie Wood; Sal Mineo; Jim Backus; Ann Doran; Corey Allen; Dennis Hopper; Irving Shulman; Warner Bros. Pictures.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher:  Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [1999]
Notes: “Adaptation by Irving Schulman from story by Nicholas Ray.”
Originally released as motion picture in 1955 (111 min). Special features: Rediscovering a rebel; 3 Behind the cameras segments from the Warner Bros. presents TV series, including a “safe-driving” interview withdrawn from airing following Dean’s death (interviews with Natalie Wood, Jim Backus, and James Dean); 3 theatrical trailers; interactive menus; production notes; scene access. Nominated for 3 Academy Awards in 1956.
Summary: A rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies.
OCLC #: 43560266
For More James Dean: DVD00284; DVD00890; VHS00429;
Added: April 20, 2011
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Election

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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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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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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Pas de deux

April 3, 2011
Pas de deux or duo.
Call Number: VHS01638
by Norman McLaren; Les Grands ballets canadiens.; National Film Board of Canada.; Simon and Schuster Communications, inc;
Format: VHS
Language:  French, English subtitles?
Publisher: Northbrook, Ill. : Simon & Schuster Communications, 1969.
Notes: Originally released in 1968 (14 mins. Black & White); Nominated for one 1969 Academy Award;
Summary: Illuminates the grace, beauty, and movement of the classical ballet form through the use of strobe-like or multi-image patterns. Features Margaret Mercier and Vincent Warren of Les Grands ballets canadiens.
OCLC #: 80787901.
dded: April 3, 2011
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A Star is Born

March 31, 2011
A Star is Born
Call Number: VHS01617
by Fredric March; Janet Gaynor; Adolphe Menjou; Andy Devine; David O Selznick; Selznick International Pictures.; Silver Screen Video.;
Format: VHS
Language:  English
Publisher: Made in Canada, Platinum Disc Corps. [PDC Video], 1937, 1997
Notes: Videorecording of the 1937 motion picture by Selznick International Pictures. (111mins.); Nominated for 8 Academy Awards in 1938
Summary: A fading star meets an aspiring actress, falls in love with and marries her. Her career skyrockets, while his continues to fade with tragic results.
OCLC #: [?]
Also Available on DVD at:  DVD00504 or see the 1954 remake VHS01701
Added: March 31, 2011
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The insider

March 30, 2011
The Insider
Call Number: VHS01615
by Michael Mann; Al Pacino; Russell Crowe; Christopher Plummer; Diane Venora; Philip Baker Hall; Lindsay Crouse; Touchstone Pictures.; Forward Pass Productions.; Touchstone Home Video (Firm); Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, Calif. : Touchstone Home Video : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, ©1999.
Notes: Based on the Vanity fair article: The man who knew too much / by Marie Brenner. Originally released as a motion picture in 1999 (158 mins.); Nominated for 7 Academy Awards in 2000.
Summary: When former executive Jeffrey Wigand is fired by his employer, one of the largest tobacco companies in America, Wigand agrees to become a paid consultant for a story by veteran 60 minutes producer Lowell Bergman, regarding alleged unethical practices within the tobacco industry. But what begins as a temporary alliance leads to a lengthy battle for both men to save their reputations and more.
OCLC #: 43841134
Added: March 30, 2011
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The Lavender Hill Mob

The Lavender Hill Mob
Call Number: VHS01613
by Alec Guinness; Stanley Holloway; Charles Crichton; E.M.I. Films.; Republic Pictures Corporation.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Los Angeles, CA : Republic Pictures Corp., [1994].
Notes: Originally Released in 1951 (77 mins. Black & White); Nominated for two 1952 Academy Awards;
Summary: Alec Guinness Plays a timid bank clerk with a perfect scheme to steal a million pounds in gold from the Bank of England. What can possibly go wrong? Everything, in this hysterically funny, madcap masterpiece.
OCLC #: 31367698
Added: March 30, 2011
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The Wings of the Dove

The Wings of the Dove
Call Number: VHS01612
by Hossein Amini; Iain Softley; Helena Bonham Carter; Linus Roache; Alison Elliott; Henry James; Miramax Films.; Renaissance Films (Firm); Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm); Buena Vista Home Video (Firm).;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, Calif. : Miramax Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video, 1997.
Notes: Originally Released in 1997 (102 mins.); Based on the novel by Henry James; Nominated for four 1998 Academy Awards;
Summary:A young society woman’s love for a common journalist presents her with an impossible decision: leave him or marry and face a life of poverty. Events take an unexpected twist when she befriends a lonely young heiress whose own tragic secret offers an irresistible but dangerous solution.
OCLC #: 39293608
Added: March 30, 2011
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Anna and the King

Anna and the King
Call Number: VHS01611
by Andy Tennant; Jodie Foster; Yun-fat Chow; Bai Ling; Anna Harriette Leonowens; Fox 2000 Pictures.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment [distributor, 2000].
Notes: Origonally Released in 1999 (147 mins.); Based upon the diaries of Anna Leonowens; Nominated for two 2000 Academy Awards;
Summary: English schoolteacher Anna Leonowens has traveled to Siam to educate the 58 children of King Mongkut. Each has preconceived ideas about the other’s world. Amid the danger of political unrest, their respect for each other turns into something more.
OCLC #: 44431541
Added: March 30, 2011
Also: See the Walter Lang Version “The King and I” at DVD00290
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The sand castle and three other titles for family enjoyment

March 29, 2011
The Sand Castle and Three Other Titles for Family Enjoyment
Call Number: VHS01605
by National Film Board of Canada.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Montreal : National Film Board of Canada ; Lakewood, Ohio : Smarty Pants Audio and Video, ©1991.
Notes: Previously issued as separate motion pictures. 1 video cassette (30 min.); Nominated for an Academy Award.
Summary: “The Sand castle” features a Sandman that sculpts magical creatures who build a castle and then celebrate their new home; “The North wind and the sun” features and Aesop fable in which the warm sun proves to the cold wind that persuasion is better than force; “Alphabet” shows each letter with its own objects, animals or actions, none however, retain their shape for long, fading and changing at the artist’s whim; “The Owl and the Lemming” feature short-legged plumply stuffed puppets in an Eskimo legend all children will enjoy.
OCLC #: 24766801
Added: March 29, 2011
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Guys and dolls

Guys and Dolls
Call Number: VHS01603
by Frank Sinatra; Marlon Brando; Joseph L Mankiewicz; Frank Loesser; Damon Runyon; CBS Fox Video.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Livonia, Mich. : CBS/Fox Video, ©1986.
Notes: Videorecording of the 1955 motion picture; copyright renewed in 1983; Based on the musical play “Guys and Dolls” ; based on a collection of short stories by Damon Runyon; Nominated for 4 Academy Award in 1956.
Summary: In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for each other, and the bet has a hidden motive to finance a crap game.
OCLC #: 14869727
Added: March 29, 2011
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The ladykillers

The Ladykillers
Call Number: VHS01602
by William Rose; Alexander Mackendrick; Michael Balcon;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. : Republic Pictures, 1994.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1955 (87 min.); Nominated for an Academy Award in 1956
Summary: A not-so-musically-inclined band of outlaws pose as a group of amateur musicians, while secretly plotting a major heist. But the sweet landlady, who rents them their “digs,” proves to be too much for these cutthroats. They decide to get rid of her… a task they find easier said than done.
OCLC #: 154271470
Added: March 29, 2011
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The Best little whorehouse in Texas

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Call Number: VHS01600
by  Burt Reynolds; Dolly Parton; Dom DeLuise; Charles Durning; Jim Nabors; Colin Higgins; Larry L King; Peter Masterson; Universal City Studios.;
 Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Universal City, CA : MCA Universal Home Video, 1996.
Notes: Videorecording of the 1982 motion picture (115 min.) Based upon the stage play written by Larry L. King and Peter Masterson. Awarded for an Academy Award in 1983.
Summary: Town Sheriff and regular patron, fights to keep a historical whorehouse open when a TV preacher targets it as the Devils playhouse.
OCLC #: 37950449
Added: March 29, 2011
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Dog Day Afternoon

March 28, 2011
Dog Day Afternoon
Call Number: DVD00792
by Sidney Lumet; Martin Bregman; Martin Elfand; Frank R Pierson; Al Pacino; John Cazale; James Broderick; Charles Durning; Chris Sarandon; Victor J Kemper; Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ); Warner Home Video (Firm); Artists Entertainment Complex (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2010]
Notes: Originally released in 1975 (124 mins); Nominated for six 1976 Academy awards;
Summary: The story of a botched bank robbery that occurred August 22, 1972 in Brooklyn, New York and turned into a bizarre hostage situation lasting all day. The lead robber wishes to obtain funding for a sex-change operation for his gay lover.
OCLC #: 668415670
Added: March 28, 2011
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All the President’s Men

All the President’s Men
Call Number: DVD00644
by Alan J Pakula; William Goldman; Walter Coblenz; Dustin Hoffman; Robert Redford; Hal Holbrook; Jason Robards; Carl Bernstein; Warner Bros.; Wildwood Enterprises.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2010], ©2004
Notes:Originally released in 1976 (138 mins); Based on the book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward; Nominated for eight 1977 Academy awards; Special features: Includes a behind-the-scenes documentary Pressure and the press: the making of All the president’s men / produced by Andrew J. Kuehn, Dave Gilbert, and Bill Cox, interviews with Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, Robert Redford, Alan Pakula and Benjamin Bradlee, and three original theatrical trailers;
Summary: The true story of how Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncovered the White House involvement in the Watergate break in.
OCLC #: 680227370
Added: March 28, 2011
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