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Pub. Date
1979
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (132 min.) : sd., col. ; 12 in.
Description
When an unidentified alien destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers, Captain James T. Kirk returns to the newly transformed U.S.S. Enterprise to take command. The entire crew mobilizes at warp speed to stop the alien intruder.
82) Five easy pieces
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Character study of a talented pianist who has given up a promising career and now works on oil rigs. After 20 years he returns home to his father's deathbed perhaps to reconcile himself with his fear of failure and desire for greatness.
84) Ága
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a yurt on the snow-covered fields of the North, Nanook and Sedna live following the traditions of their ancestors. Hunting becomes more and more difficult, the animals around them die from inexplicable causes, and the ice has been melting every year. Chena, who visits them regularly, is their only connection to their daughter Aga, who left the icy tundra long ago due to a family feud. When Sedna's health deteriorates, Nanook embarks on a long journey...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the not-so-distant future, strong-willed and beautiful Kate possesses a precious commodity that most women have lost and most men want to control: fertility. Forced into a brain-washing boot camp that turns fertile women into surrogate mothers for social-elite men and their infertile wives, Kate thinks she's made out well when she's assigned to an eminent party leader. But when she learns that he's sterile, she's faced with an impossible choice:...
86) Addicted
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Successful businesswoman Zoe Reynard appears to have attained it all. But as perfect as everything appears from the outside, Zoe is still drawn to temptations she cannot escape or resist. As she pursues a secretive life, Zoe finds herself risking it all when she heads down a perilous path she may not survive.
88) Matt's chance
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Matt is a down-on-his-luck loser who discovers his fiancee, Jessica, in bed with another man. As Matt learns the true depth of Jessica's betrayal, he begins a downward spiral revenge quest that pits him face to face with a wide array of characters including an eccentric pawn shop owner, an aging stripper, and a barber with an agenda.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Young Jacob is tired of living on the family farm. One day he demands an early inheritance, and is shocked when his father agrees. For a while he does surprisingly well: he₂s got money, ladies, prestige. But when he loses it all and sinks lower than rock bottom, he comes to his senses and heads home determined to start all over in his father's business. Will his father welcome him back with open arms or anger?
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Riccardo Muti conducts a fine cast in the powerful and atmospheric production of Verdi's ninth opera, whose story of the heroic tussle between Ezio, a Roman general, and Attila, the Nordic invader was written for the 1846 Teatro la Fenice season and premiered there to huge acclaim."--Container.
91) Manpower
Pub. Date
©2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 103 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. The only thing more dangerous than their job was the woman they both loved.
92) Nine
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When rag doll 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world where all humans are gone. It is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that roam the earth intent on their extinction. Despite being the newest member of the group, 9 convinces the others that hiding will do them no good. They must take the offensive if they are to survive and they will need to discover...
93) Communion
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on New York City author Whitley Strieber's account of an alien abduction that occurred while on vacation in the mountains of rural New York with his family and friends. The movie follows Strieber (portrayed by Christopher Walken) as he struggles to remember details of the event, and deals with the impact on his personal life. A psychiatrist uses hypnotic regression in order to aide Strieber in recovering his memory.
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jim Grant is a public interest lawyer and single father raising his daughter in the tranquil suburbs of Albany, New York. Grant's world is turned upside down when a brash young reporter exposes his true identity as a former 1970s antiwar radical fugitive wanted for murder.
95) Mirror
Series
Criterion collection volume 1084
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (106 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet
Description
In a richly textured collage of varying film stocks and newsreel footage, the recollections of a dying poet flash before the eyes, his dreams mingling with scenes of childhood, wartime, and marriage, all imbued with the mystical power of a trance. Largely dismissed by Soviet critics on its release because of its elusive narrative structure, Mirror has since taken its place as one of the director's most renowned and influential works, a stunning personal...
96) The pawnbroker
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sol Nazerman is a survivor of a WWII Nazi death camp where his wife, parents and children were murdered. His soul robbed of hope, he takes refuge in misery and a bitter condemnation of humanity while managing a Harlem pawnshop. Working with Sol in the pawn shop is an ambitious man named Ortiz, whose own views and aspirations differ greatly from those of his embittered boss.
97) The winter house
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. Eileen is grieving. She needs to get away. She rents a house in a remote corner of New Hampshire, in the dead of winter, where no one is likely to bother her. But wouldn't you know it? Someone does. Jesse is young, impetuous, charismatic, and evasive. He claims to be the son of the couple who own the house, but Eileen isn't inclined to believe him. She's a brilliant writer with her own demons and secrets; she knows a fellow lost soul when she...
98) Smile
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Barbed, merciless send-up of small-town America focusing on a group of naive California girls who compete for the 'Young American Miss' crown amid rampant commercialism.
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Fausta suffers from 'The Milk of Sorrow, ' an illness transmitted through mother's milk by women who've been raped during Peru's civil wars. Stricken with the fear that she's contracted the illness from her mother's breast milk, Fausta goes to extreme lengths to protect her own sexuality and safety. After her mother's sudden death, she finds herself compelled to embark on a frightening journey for re-awakening, freedom, and wholeness.
100) The bigamist
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (79 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The title character is not only a two-timer; he's a traveling salesman as well. But, the bigamist comes across as a victim of his own sensitivity. Caught between two complementary spouses, the bigamist's dazed indecisiveness dominates the narrative. As always in Ida Lupino's directorial efforts, a strong social consciousness informs all choices.
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