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Second sight [videorecording] : Cinequest favorite short films volume two.
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1 videodisc (70 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Shabd [videorecording]
[producer, Pritish Nandy Communications ; director, Leena Yadav].
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1 videodisc : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Shaukat is an acclaimed writer suffering from writer's block. He manipulates his wife into an affair in order to fuel his imagination, but there are unforeseen consequences that drive Shaukat toward madness. The film examines the relationship of imaginative fantasy and reality.
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Steal a pencil for me [videorecording]
Sovereign Films, LLC ; Westlake Entertainment in association with Red Envelope Entertainment present a Diamond Lane Films production ; producers, Michèle Ohayon and Theo van de Sande ; directed by Michèle Ohayon.
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1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
A compelling documentary feature film about the power of love and the ability of humankind to rise above unimaginable suffering. In 1943, Holland is under total Nazi occupation. When the Jews are being deported, Jack, his wife Manja, and his new love, Ina, find themselves living in the same barracks in a concentration camp. When Jack's wife objects to the relationship in spite of their unhappy marriage, Jack and Ina resort to writing secret love letters, which gives them the strength to survive the war.
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Summer of Sam [videorecording]
Touchstone Pictures ; a 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks Production ; a Spike Lee Joint ; written by Victor Colicchio, Michael Imperioli, and Spike Lee ; produced by Jon Kilik and Spike Lee ; directed by Spike Lee.
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1 videodisc (142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
In the summer of 1977 in New York City, a man called the Son of Sam commits numerous murders. As friends in a small Italian neighborhood become obsessed with the idea that the Son of Sam is someone nearby, the madman's plague of terror becomes the catalyst that prompts relationships to fall apart and trust to disintegrate into dread.
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Sunset Boulevard [videorecording]
Paramount ; produced by Charles Brackett ; written by Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder and D.M. Marshmann, Jr. ; directed by Billy Wilder.
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2 videodiscs (110 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
The story of an aging film queen who prepares for her grand comeback to stardom.
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Taken [videorecording]
Twentieth Century Fox presents a Europacorp, M6 Films and Grive Productions co-production with the participation of Canal+, M6 and TPS Star, a film by Pierre Morel ; produced by Luc Besson ; written by Luc Besson & Robert Mark Kamen ; directed by Pierre Morel.
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1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Kim is seventeen years-old and the pride and joy of her father, the ex-CIA agent Bryan Mills. Bryan left the agency to stay near Kim in California. Kim lives with her mother Lenore and her wealthy stepfather Stuart. Kim convinces the reluctant Bryan to sign an authorization form so she can travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When they arrive, they share a cab with a stranger named Peter. Amanda tells him that they are alone in Paris. While Bryan is on the phone with Kim, Albanese gang members break into the apartment where the girls are staying. Bryan has Kim give him a detailed description of what she sees and hears. He tells her she is about to be kidnapped. Bryan promises Kim that he will come and get her. He immediately travels to Paris to find Kim and Amanda. He has four days to find her and he uses his special skills and contacts to get her back and seek his revenge.
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The tiger and the snow [videorecording] =La tigre e la neve
Red Envelope Entertainment ; Melampo Cinematografica ; produced by Nicoletta Braschi ; screenplay by Vincenzo Cerami, Roberto Benigni ; directed by Roberto Benigni.
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1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Soon after the start of hostilities in Iraq, Rome-based, love-struck poet and lecturer Attilio heads to Baghdad when he learns from his friend, an Iraqi poet, that the woman he loves has been critically injured in a bomb explosion. Attilio does everything in his power to save her, risking his own life amidst the chaos of war.
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To catch a thief [videorecording]
a Paramount release ; screenplay by John Michael Hayes ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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2 videodiscs (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (8 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
Living on the French Riviera, John Robie is a retired jewel thief who was once known as 'The Cat.' He catches the eye of Frances Stevens who is a pampered, vacationing heiress. But when a new rash of gem thefts occurs amongst the luxury hotels of the spectacular French playground, it appears that 'The Cat' is on the prowl once again. Robie might be reformed, but is he deviously using Frances to gain access to the tempting collection of fabulous jewelry belonging to her mother?
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The trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer [videorecording]
written and directed by David Grubin ; produced by David Grubin ; a David Grubin Productions Inc. film for American Experience in association with the BBC.
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1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
J. Robert Oppenheimer's life and legacy are inextricably linked to America's most famous top-secret initiative - the Manhattan Project. This biography presents a complex and revealing portrait of one of America's most influential scientists.
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True blood. The complete first season [videorecording]
Home Box Office.
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5 videodiscs (720 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Chronicles the backwoods Louisiana town of Bon Temps, where vampires have emerged from the coffin and no longer need humans for their fix. A local waitress has the ability to hear the thoughts of others and her situation becomes more complicated when the bar gets its first vampire patron.
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Tuscany & Umbria [videorecording] : a tribute.
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1 videodisc (54 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
A unique blend of history, travel, culture, beautiful photography, and interviews designed to convey the culture and poeple of Tuscany and Umbria. Includes Florence, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, the Medicis, Galileo, Lucca, and Puccini, Orvieto and the Etruscans, Francis of Assisi, and more.
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Valkyrie [videorecording]
director, Bryan Singer.
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1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Based on the incredible true story of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his ingenious assassination plot targeting Adolf Hitler, this engrossing thriller reenacts the daring operation to eliminate one of the most evil tyrants the world has ever known.
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