Cléo de 5 á 7

April 26, 2011
Cléo de 5 á 7  (“Cleo from 5 to 7”)
Call Number: VHS01670
by:  Agnès Varda; Corinne Marchand; Antoine Bourseillet; Balzac Video.; Rome Paris Films.;
Format: VHS
Language: French
Publisher: [France] : Balzac Video ; [Chicago : Facets Multimedia] [distributer, 198-?]
Notes: Videocassette release of a 1961 motion picture by Agnes Varda (90 min).
Summary: This movie shows us Cléo, a French singer, who is afraid of getting the result of of a test from her doctor. She believes that she has cancer and will die of the disease. We follow her for two hours while she cruises through the streets of Paris. At the end, she meets a soldier who is going to the war in Algeria the next day.
OCLC #: 17014521
Added: April 26, 2011
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Topsy-Turvy

Topsy-Turvy
Call Number: DVD00542
by Simon Channing-Williams; Mike Leigh; Jim Broadbent; Allan Corduner; Timothy Spall; Lesley Manville; Ron Cook; Shirley Henderson; Wendy Nottingham; Kevin McKidd; Arthur Sullivan; W S Gilbert; Carl Davis; Thin Man Films (Firm); Greenlight Fund (Firm); Newmarket Capital Group LP.; USA Home Entertainment (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English  
Publisher: [S.l.] : USA Home Entertainment, ©2000.
Notes:Videodisc release of the 1999 motion picture (161 min). Includes theatrical trailer, TV spots, featurette, photo gallery, cast & crew biographies and filmographies. Nominated for 4 Academy Awards in 2000.
Summary: Tensions abound and the music swells in the story about the famous musical team of Gilbert and Sullivan. The two men who were extremely different in size and stature were even more different in temperament and style. Yet, they still managed to create memorable theater. This is the story of the making of one of their most famous collaborations, “The Mikado”.
OCLC #: 44722195
Added: April 26, 2011
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Gimme Shelter

April 21, 2011
Gimme Shelter – The Rolling Stones
Call Number: DVD00869
by David Maysles; Albert Maysles; Charlotte Zwerin; Ellen Giffard; Rolling Stones.; Maysles Films.; Janus Films.; Criterion Collection (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher:   [New York] : Criterion Collection, 2000.
Notes: Film originally released, c1970 (91 min). Features: never-before-seen performances of the Rolling Stones at Madison Square Garden in 1969, including “Little Queenie,” “Oh Carol,” and “Prodigal Son”; backstage outtakes; audio commentary by directors Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, and collaborator Stanley Goldstein; excerpts from KSAN Radio’s Altamont wrap-up, recorded December 7, 1969; Altamont stills gallery; original and re-release theatrical trailers; filmographies for Maysles Films and Charlotte Zwerin; restoration demonstration.
Program notes (43 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.) inserted in container.
Summary: A documentary on the Rolling Stones’ 1969 American concert tour and a concert at Altamont Speedway where security guards killed an audience member. Includes appearances by Ike and Tina Turner, Jefferson Airplane, and the Flying Burrito Brothers. Contains: Jumping Jack flash ; (I can’t get no) satisfaction ; You gotta move ; Wild horses ; Brown sugar ; Love in vain (Rolling Stones) –I’ve been loving you too long (Ike & Tina Turner) –Honky tonk woman ; Street fighting man (Rolling Stones) –Six days on the road (Flying Burrito Brothers) –The other side of this life (Jefferson Airplane) –Sympathy for the devil ; Under my thumb ; Street fighting man ; Gimme shelter (Rolling Stones) –The making of Little Queenie –Little Queenie ; Oh Carol ; Prodigal son (The Rolling Stones) –Backstage with Mick, Ike and Tina.
OCLC #: 56197065
Added: April 21, 2011
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The Red Shoes

April 20, 2011
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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Maryland Deathfest: The Movie

April 18, 2011
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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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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Sister Act

March 30, 2011
Sister Act
Call Number: VHS01610 Copy 1
VHS01610 Copy 2
VHS01610 Copy 3
by Whoopi Goldberg; Maggie Smith.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Touchstone Home Video, [1992].
Notes: Origonally Released in 1992 (100 mins.);
Summary: Academy Award winner Whoopi Goldberg stars as a sassy, low-rent lounge singer forced to hide out from the mob in the last place on Earth anyone would look for her – in a quiet religious convent. There, her irreverent behavior attracts a flock of faithful followers – and before long she turns the nuns’ tone-deaf choir into a soulful chorus of swingin’, singing sisters. But when the group earns rave reviews, her sudden celebrity jeopardizes her hidden identity.
OCLC #: 26952653
Added: March 30, 2011
Also: See the sequal Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit at VHS01283
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Walk the Line

March 27, 2011
Walk the Line
Call Number: DVD01201 Copy 1
DVD01201 Copy 2
by James Mangold; James Keach; Cathy Konrad; Gill Dennis; Joaquin Phoenix; Reese Witherspoon; Ginnifer Goodwin; Robert Patrick; Dallas Roberts; Phedon Papamichael; T-Bone Burnett; Fox 2000 Pictures.; Tree/Line Film.; Catfish Productions (1997- ); Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.;
Format: DVD | Fullscreen
Language: English
Publisher:  Beverly Hills, CA : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2007]
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 2005. Special features: audio commentary and deleted scenes.Running Time Approx 135 min. Nominated for 5 Academy Awards in 2006.
Summary: Traces Johnny Cash’s childhood, including his distant father to his early attempts at a music career. At this point in his life he marries his girlfriend Vivian. During a tour with singer/musicians Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis, he encounters singer June Carter, and his love for her, and her rejection of him through the years, spurs him into drugs, drinking, and depression. June is both a sassy spitfire singer whose charm breaks hearts and eventually becomes a sympathetic friend who tries to help Johnny get over her. A true love story of two country music stars.
OCLC #: 244252511
Added: March 27, 2011
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Ruby’s bucket of blood

March 24, 2011
Ruby’s Bucket of Blood
Call Number: VHS01571
by: Angela Bassett; Kevin Anderson; Brian Stokes Mitchell; Peter Werner; Showtime Entertainment.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: [S.l.] : Showtime Entertainment, ©2002.
Notes: Originally produced for Showtime Entertainment on HBO in 2001; Running Time Approx 95 min.
Summary: A Louisiana juke joint owner loses her star entertainer and hires a white singer to fill in.
OCLC #:50711481
Added: March 24, 2011
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Marc and Ann

March 22, 2011
Marc and Ann
Call Number: VHS01552
by: Les Blank; Susan Kell; Maureen Gosling; Chris Simon; Real Videos from New Video Group; Flower Films
Format: VHS
Language: English and Cajun French, in part with English subtitles.
Publisher: El Cerrito, CA : Flower Films ©1991
Notes: Released for television in 1991. Running Time Aprox 30 mins. Music performed by Marc Savoy, Ann Allen Savoy, Michael Doucet.
Summary: A portrait of Marc and Ann Savoy, the Cajun musical couple : Marc, accordion builder and player, Cajun cook and outspoken defender of his culture, and Ann, an adopted “Cajun” who authored Cajun music: a reflection of a people. A more personal look at one Cajun family and their appreciation for their culture in the face of encroaching American mall culture.
OCLC #: 27928137
Added: March 22, 2011
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The Cotton Club

March 21, 2011
The Cotton Club
Call Number: VHS01545
by: Mario Puzo; Francis Ford Coppola; William Kennedy; Richard Gere; Diane Lane; Lonette McKee; Gregory Hines; Nelson Entertainment (Firm); Orion Pictures.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher:  Beverly Hills, Calif. : Nelson Entertainment, ©1987.
Notes: Videocassette release of the 1984 motion picture by Orion Pictures. Running Time Aprox 128 mins. Nominated for 2 Academy Awards in 1985.
Summary: Francis Ford Coppala’s recreation of the passion and violence of the “jazz age” through the character of a trumpet player, Dixie Dwyer. Dwyer (Gere) was one of the few men who could walk the violent line between music and the mob. Then one night, in the Cotton Club, he discovers Vera Cicero (Lane) and suddenly his life becomes even hotter than his music.
OCLC #: 25193171
Added: March 21, 2011
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Oliver!

Oliver!
Call Number: VHS01540
by: Lionel Bart; Carol Reed; Ron Moody; Shani Wallis; Oliver Reed; Harry Secombe; Charles Dickens; Mark Lester; Jack Wild; Columbia Pictures.; Romulus Productions.; Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher:  Burbank, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, ©1998.
Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1968. Running Time Aprox 145 min. Based on the book by Lionel Bart, which in turn was based on” Oliver Twist” by Charles Dickens. Academy Award for Best Picture, 1968.
Summary: A young orphan, Oliver is left to fend for himself until he is befriended by a band of young thieves who quickly train him in their craft. But Oliver is not content to be a thief for he knows that life holds great joys and true happiness cannot be stolen, but must be earned.
OCLC #: 39703126 
Added: March 20, 2011
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Laurel Canyon

March 20, 2011
Laurel Canyon
Call Number: VHS01525
by:  Susan A Stover; Jeff Levy-Hinte; Lisa Cholodenko; Frances McDormand; Christian Bale; Kate Beckinsale; Natascha McElhone; Alessandro Nivola; Wally Pfister; Stephanie Gilliam; Amy E Duddleston; Craig Wedren; Cindy Evans; Catherine Hardwicke; Sony Pictures Classics (Firm); Good Machine International (Firm); Antidote Films (Firm); Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, [2003], ©2002.
Notes: Originally released in 2002 (103 mins).
Summary:Harvard graduate Sam and his fiancée, Alex, move into Sam’s mother’s house in upscale Laurel Canyon, thinking that she would not be there. Only problem is that she is still there, supposedly finishing up a record that she’s producing for her boy toy, Ian’s band. Sam’s mom seems more interested in smoking pot and drinking than actually working, though. Alex doesn’t mind, but Sam is quite upset. Alex starts off focused as she works on finishing a dissertation on genomics, but is soon distracted. Meanwhile, Sam is equally distracted by the beautiful intern Sara.
OCLC #: 52220389
Added: March 20, 2011
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The Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert

March 15, 2011
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Call Number: DVD00637
by: Al Clark; Michael Hamlyn; Stephan Elliott; Terence Stamp; Hugo Weaving; Guy Pearce; Bill Hunter; Sarah Chadwick; Mark Holmes; Julia Cortez; Ken Radley; Alan Dargin; Rebel Russell; Brian Breheny; Guy Gross; Lizzy Gardiner; Tim Chappel; PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (Firm); Australian Film Finance Corporation.; Latent Image Productions (Australia); Specific Films.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher:  Beverly Hills, CA : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer : Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2007]
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1994. Running Time Aprox 111 min. Special features: Audio commentary by director Stephan Elliott; “Birth of a queen” featurette; never-before-seen deleted scenes; tidbits from the set; “The bus from Blooperville” outtakes; “Frocks, frills and fotos” still gallery; original theatrical trailer.
Summary: With a contract to perform a drag show way out in the Australian desert, Tick, Adam and Ralph each has his own reason for wanting to leave the safety of Sydney. Christening their battered, pink tour bus “Priscilla,” this wickedly funny and high-drama trio heads for the outback and into crazy adventures in even crazier outfits.
OCLC #: 124070486
Added: March 15, 2011
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Well Spent Life

March 3, 2011

Well Spent Life
Call Number: VHS01504

By: Les Blank; Maureen Gosling; Flower Films (Firm)

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher: El Cerrito, Calif. : Flower Films, [198-?]

Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1971. Approx. 44 min.

Summary: Captures the blues music of Mance Lipscomb, Black songster, sharecropper, and sage. Visits Lipscomb in his hometown of Navasota, Tex., where he communicates his thoughts and feelings about his past and the local life and culture.

OCLC #: 12364734

Added: March 3, 2011

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The Maestro : King of the cowboy artists

The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists
Call Number: VHS01500
by: Gerald Gaxiola;
Publisher: El Cerrito, Calif. : Flower Films, [1990-1995?]
Notes: Originally released [1995]; Running Time  Approx 54 min.;  color; not rated;
Summary: Story of Gaxiola’s life after he decided to dedicate his life to art, including four Maestro Days, as well as his art and philosophy.
OCLC #: 33003929
Added: March 4, 2011
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The blues accordin’ to Lightnin’ Hopkins/The sun’s gonna shine

 

The blues accordin’ to Lightnin’ Hopkins/The sun’s gonna shine
Call Number: VHS01498

by: Les Blank; Skip Gerson; Lightnin’ Hopkins; Billy Bizor; Mance Lipscomb; Flower Films (Firm);

Publisher: El Cerrito, CA : Flower Films, [198-?]
Notes: Originally released [1969]; Running Time for “The sun’s gonna shine” Approx 10 min.;
“The Blues Accordin’ to Lightnin’ Hopkins” Running Time Approx. 31 min.; color; not rated;
Summary: A lyrical recreation of Lightnin’ Hopkins’ decision at age eight to stop chopping cotton and start singing for his living (1st work) ; Hopkins’ words and songs provide a musical portrait of the black culture of Texas, which reaches back to poverty, hard times, and a deep love of the land.
OCLC #: 34856846
Added: March 4, 2011
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Sworn to the drum: a tribute to Francisco Aguabella

Sworn to the Drum: a tribute to Francisco Aguabella 

Call Number: VHS01497
by: Francisco Aguabella; Les Blank; Tom Luddy; Chris Simon; Armando Peraza; Carlos Valdez; Cachao.; Dizzy Gillespie; Daniel Ponce; Bobbi Cespedes; Carlos Santana; John Santos; Katherine Dunham; Robert Farris Thompson; Flower Films (Firm);
Publisher: El Cerrito, CA : Flower Films, 1995.
Notes: Originally released [1995]; Running Time Approx. 35 min.; color; not rated;
Summary: A film-portrait of the Afro-Cuban master drummer, Francisco Aguabella. Born in Cuba, he immigrated to the U.S. in 1957 where he made outstanding contributions to Latin popular music while maintaining his roots in traditional Afro-Cuban religious drumming. Film explores Aguabella’s role both as a sacred drummer and a figure of historical influence in Latin Jazz, Pop and Fusion. Included are many interviews with musicians who have worked with him and have been influence by his music.
OCLC #: 33938401
Added: March 4, 2011
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Živeli : medicine for the heart

Živeli : medicine for the heartby: Les Blank; Vikram Jayanti; Andrei Simić; Jacquelene Simić; Flower Films (Firm); Center for Visual Anthropology.;
Call Number: VHS01496
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: El Cerrito, CA : Flower Films & Video, ©1987.
Notes: Originally released [1986]; Running Time Approx. 51 min.; color; not rated;In English with sequences in Serbian with subtitles in English. Narration and translation by Andre Simić, based on ethnography by Andrei Simić from an idea by Jacquelene Simić.
Summary: A look at Serbian Americans and their music and culture with some of Chicago’s greatest tamburitza orchestras and other Yugoslav folk bands.
OCLC #: 19121804
Added: March 4, 2011
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Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie
Call Number: VHS01494
by: Les Blank; Michael Vidor; Flower Films & Video (Firm)
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: El Cerrito, CA : Flower Films & Video, [198-?]
Notes: Originally released [1965]; Running Time Approx. 22 min.; black and white; not rated;
Summary: Focuses on the trumpet player himself, who, along with Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk and others, sparked the change from jazz into “bop” in the 40’s. Dizzy talks about his beginnings and his music theories and blows a lot of hot music on that famous horn.
OCLC #: 20457899
Added: March 4, 2011
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