Summary: In search of inspiration for their current filmmaking projects, Chris and her partner travel to the remote island of Fårö, Sweden, where Bergman lived and worked for decades. There, the spirit of the cinema master looms as Chris confronts her complicated relationships with work, men, motherhood, and her artistic influences.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA BER

Summary: Paris, 1930. The infamous surrealist filmmaker Luis Buñuel is left penniless after the scandalous release of L'Age d'Or leads to a falling out with collaborator Salvador Dalí. On a whim, Buñuel's good friend, sculptor Ramón Acín, buys a lottery ticket and promises to devote his winnings to fund Buñuel's next film. Incredibly, Ramón wins the 20,000-pesos jackpot, sending the two friends to the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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

Summary: An in-depth look at the early career of cult filmmaker John Waters and focusing on the making of Pink flamingos.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Music Video 2000

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

Moore, Michael

Summary: Moore is his own meta-Forrest Gump. At one moment he's an 11-year old boy stuck on a Senate elevator with Bobby Kennedy and the next moment he's inside the Bitburg cemetery with a dazed and confused Ronald Reagan. Changing planes in Vienna, he escapes death at the hands of the terrorist Abu Nidal. All of this is the stuff that makes for great fiction, but every one of these stories is true and...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2011

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 MOORE, MICHAEL Moo

Sullivan, Monica

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Visible Ink Press 1999

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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 791.4375 SUL

Summary: During the spring of 1977, sci-fi-obsessed teenager Pat Johnson finds himself torn between making 8mm sequels to his favorite movies and pursuing the girl of his dreams, Linda. Desperate to help her son escape his likely future in Wadsworth, Illinois, (population 750), his mother Janet cold-calls the editor of 'American Cinematographer's magazine, and Pat soon finds himself on "the ultimate...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FIV

Summary: Friends navigate interpersonal relationships and cross the country in search of an ideal connection.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SHO
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Summary: "Genre-bending films that blur boundaries and the line between personal and social. Drawing heavily on her Mexican background, Almada brings together disparate elements--archival audio recordings, home movie footage, literature, and closely observed moments--to create a distinctive powerful body of work"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

King, Owen.

Summary: A young man comes to terms with his life in the process and aftermath of making his first film, in particular with his relationships with family, friends, lovers, and adversaries.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIN

Levy, Emanuel

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.433 LEV

Thier, Aaron

Summary: Key West, 2016. Sea levels are rising, coral reefs are dying. In short, everything is going to hell. It's here that two young filmmakers find something to believe in: an old sailor who calls himself Daniel Defoe and claims to be five hundred and sixty years old. In fact, old Dan is in the prime of his life -- an incredible, perhaps eternal American life. The story unfold over the course of a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THI

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Their 2016

Summary: In 2008 Hollywood filmmaker, Jennifer Lynch traveled to India to direct Hisss, a tale about the vengeful snake goddess, Nagin. This documentary captures her experience in the chaotic world of Bollywood-Hollywood filmmaking where "chaos is the process and filmmaking doubles as a crash course in acceptance and self-realization"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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

Summary: In 2009, filmmaker Josh Fox learned his land was on top of the Marcellus Shale, a giant reservoir of natural gas, and that he would be paid to lease his land for natural gas extraction. Fox documented his cross-country trek to find out if the controversial process of hydraulic fracking is actually safe. What he unearthed was a shocking discovery about a practice that is understudied and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama Films 2010

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GAS
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF GAS

Moore, Michael

Summary: Capturing the zeitgeist of the past fifty years, yet deeply personal and unflinchingly honest, "Here Comes Trouble" takes readers on an unforgettable, take-no-prisoners ride through the life and times of Michael Moore. No one will come away from this book without a sense of surprise about the Michael Moore most of us didn't know.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOORE, MICHAEL MOO

Summary: Adapted from Sandra Schulberg's monograph, Filmmakers for the Prosecution retraces the hunt for film evidence that could convict the Nazis at the Nuremberg Trial. The searchers were two sons of Hollywood brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg serving under the command of OSS film chief John Ford. The motion pictures they presented in the courtroom became part of the official record and shape our...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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

Summary: Private eye Rigby Reardon is hired by a beautiful woman to investigate the mysterious death of her father--a wealthy scientist, philanthropist, and chessemaker.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1999

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

Summary: Chronicles the 1839 revolt on board the slave ship Amistad bound for America. Much of the story involves the court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 1999

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

Summary: When Beethoven's lack of social graces gets to be too much for the Newtons, the kids secretly enroll him in an obedience school. A Beethoven-style twist on the tale of the Prince and the Paw-per is unleashed, when during a walk in the park, Beethoven gets loose only to find himself mixed up with Michelangelo, a perfectly-trained dog who looks just like him!

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2001

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD BEE

Amalric, Mathieu

Summary: Filmmakers discuss François Truffaut's book "Le cinéma selon Alfred Hitchcock" and its influence on their work.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2016

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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HIT

Burns, Ken

Summary: Explores the life and career of one of the most influential American documentary filmmakers, Ken Burns.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Public Broadcasting Service 2021

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV KEN