Summary: Fueled by a suitcase full of pharmaceuticals, journalist Raoul Duke and his sidekick Dr. Gonzo set off on a fast and furious ride through nonstop neon, surreal surroundings and a crew of crazy characters.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003

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2 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE FEA

Summary: Martha is sullen, overweight and heartbreakingly lonely. Through the Friendship Club, she strikes up a correspondence with Ray, a suave charismatic smooth-talker who could be the man of her dreams. A stark portrayal of the desperate lengths to which a lonely heart will go in order to find true love. From brutally immoral killings to a passion that transcends all bounds.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY HON

Summary: Over a period of two days, a young student/prostitute and a grandfatherly widower develop an unexpected connection.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN LIK

Summary: Through intimate camera work, the film immerses the viewer in the worlds of two women, each searching for fulfillment: Kata, a middle-aged factory worker who wants to have a child with her married lover, and Anna, a teenage ward of the state determined to emancipate herself to marry her boyfriend. The bond that forms between the two speaks quietly but powerfully to the social and political...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN ADO

Summary: In a small provincial town, arrangements and events surrounding the firemen's annual ball, honoring a retiring firechief, go wrong at every turn.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2002

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FIR

Summary: An ex-con and a call girl are thrown together when he becomes her chauffeur. Initially he detests her but winds up under her spell.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MON

Summary: A story of a successful jewel robbery in which the four thieves betray each other.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RIF

Summary: Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal, had left them long ago, but now returns to make things right with his family.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 2002

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3 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ROY

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ROY

Summary: Story of a group of seven samurai warriors who save a little village from annihilation at the hands of a group of bandits in 15th century Japan.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Janus Films 1988

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC SEV

Summary: When an aging couple journeys to visit with their adult children and family they find they are an intrusion on the younger generation's life style.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TOK

Summary: Offbeat homage to Hollywood musicals finds a stripper rousing her lover's jealousy by seducing his best friend.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2004

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WOM

Summary: Follows a middle-class family in Taipei over the course of one year, beginning with a wedding and ending with a funeral, chronicling middle-aged father, NJ's tenuous flirtation with an old flame and precocious young son Yang-Yang's attempts at capturing reality with his beloved camera.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2006

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3 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN YI

Summary: Lonely widow Emmi Kurowski meets Arab worker Ali in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love--to their own surprise, and to the shock of family, colleagues, and drinking buddies. An emotional power that reflects the ethnic tensions within German society.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ALI

Summary: This haunting, kabuki-inflected version of a Japanese folk legend is set in a remote mountain village, where food is scarce and tradition dictates that citizens who have reached their seventieth year must be carried to the summit of Mount Narayama and left there to die. The sacrificial elder at the center of the tale is Orin, a dignified and dutiful woman who spends her dwindling days securing...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Image Entertainment 2013

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BAL

Summary: Two bumbling burglars plan a robbery with a young woman they just met. Problems begin immediately when they both fall for the girl and the plan goes haywire. The jewel-heist plot is merely a jumping off point for Godard's fast-paced mix of fantasy and spoof of Hollywood crime films.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BAN

Summary: Having promised his soul to the Devil in exchange for good fortune, Jabez Stone asks the talented lawyer Daniel Webster to get him out of the bargain.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003

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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY DEVI

Summary: Examines the American consciousness that led to involvement in Vietnam. Includes interviews with General William Westmoreland; former Secretary of Defense, Clark Clifford; Senator William Fulbright; Walt Rostow; and Daniel Ellsberg.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2002

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HEA

Summary: A witty, delightful story about a lovestruck suitor named Jack whose fiancee can only love a man named Ernest.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2002

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY IMP

Summary: A mysterious kidnapping of a corrupt banker by a shadowy crime fighter (American magician Channing Pollock) spins out into a thrillingly complex web of deceptions. Combining stylish sixties modernisms with silent-cinema touches and even a few unexpected sci-fi accents.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JUD

Summary: In this controversial movie, Jesus, as both fully human and fully divine, is viewed as free of sin but subject to all temptations, including sexual ones.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2000

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LAS

Summary: Petty crook Skip McCoy has his eye set on the big score. When the three-time convict picks the pocketbook of unsuspecting Candy, he finds a haul bigger than he ever could have imagined: a strip of microfilm bearing confidential U.S. secrets. Tailed by the Feds and the unwitting courier's Communist puppeteers, Skip and Candy find themselves in a precarious gambit that pits greed against redemption.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2004

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PIC

Summary: A young boy discovers a stray balloon on the streets of Paris and the two become inseparable.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008

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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RED

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Children's videos, Call number: JE DVD Red

Summary: A member of the House of Lords dies in a shockingly silly way, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son is insane: he thinks he is Jesus Christ. He is "cured" of that affliction, only to become Jack the Ripper incarnate, blood thirsty Tory who is therefore sane and eminently acceptable to the House of Lords. An irreverant look at Britain's class system that peers behind the closed...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY RUL