Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010

Summary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HIS

Summary: Set within the vibrant dancehalls and historic crime corridors of 1940s Paris, a singer with "stars in her eyes" ignores the protest of her covetous husband and pursues a meeting with a lecherous movie financier. When her husband attempts to crash the rendevous, murder ensues. Enter the detective, whose seasoned instincts lead him down a circuitous path of alibis.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2003

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

Offenbach, Jacques

Summary: Offenbach's parody of the origins of the Trojan War. With clever visual humor and Laurent Pelly's staging and costume ideas, the viewer is placed in the imagination of a sex-starved housewife. Stars Dame Felicity Lott.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2004

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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA BEL

Summary: By 1876, most of the nation's American Indians had been forcibly relocated to reservation land. In the Dakota Territory, Red Cloud had settled his people on the great Sioux Reservation, becoming wards of the government. Other Sioux leaders saw this as defeat and continued to live in the traditional way, with legendary resistance. Then an economic depression struck, and gold was discovered in...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BUR

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BUR

Summary: Based on the memoirs of an imprisoned French resistance leader, this unbelievably taut and methodical marvel follows the fictional Fontaine's single-minded pursuit of freedom, detailing the planning and carrying out of his escape with gripping precision.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Virgin Classics 2005

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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA GRA

Summary: L'amour fou is a stunning, intimate and deeply moving portrait of two great men, their love and their legacy. Fashion icon Yves Saint Laurent met businessman Pierre Bergé at Christian Dior's funeral in 1957. What resulted was a relationship that would span five decades and one that would revolutionise the fashion world and change the way women dressed. After resigning his position as the head...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2010

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

Summary: Snoopy tabloid magazine editor Bob Weston wants to know if author Helen Gurley Brown based her book on, as he believes, personal research. He tries to parley an interview with the author who made headlines and sales. So he decides to get very personal to find out for himself.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: DVD Movie Sex 2009

Saint-Saens, Camille

Contents: Disc 1.-- Symphonie in A major. -- Symphonie no. 1 in E flat major, op. 2. -- Symphonie no. 2 in A minor, op. 55. -- Disc 2. -- Symphonie in F major : Urbs Roma. -- Symphonie no. 3 in C minor, "avec orgue," op. 78.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: EMI Classics 1989

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL SAI

Summary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN RAN

Summary: Marianne is the wife of a famous diamond jeweler. When he suddenly commits suicide, she learns that the business is in shambles and she is drawn back into the jewel dealing world. Forced to sell a cache of stolen gems her husband hid in their home, she finds herself confronted by plenty of would-be suitors, including the Russian mafia and the De Beers diamond cartel.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Films 2002

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

Summary: The Paris Opera Ballet performs five pieces choreographed by Norbert Schmucki and two by Marius Petipa.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: View Video 2008

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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS BAL

Contents: Concerto for Domra and orchestra (7:54) / Nikolai Budashkin -- Introduction and rondo capriccioso op. 28 (9:34) / Camille Saint-Saëns -- Liebesfreud (3:07) -- Liebesleid (3:09) -- Schön rosmarin (1:55) / Fritz Kreisler -- Linden tree (5:05) / Pavel Kulikov -- Zigeunerweisen (gypsy airs) op. 20 (7:30) -- Introduction and tarantella, op. 43 (5:12) / Pablo de Saraste -- Brazileira (no. 3 from the...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Doremi 1997

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL VOL

Monteverdi, Claudio

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Harmonia Mundi France 1990

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD OPERA MON

Summary: Every police precinct has a case that defies explanation and evades solution. Recently promoted Captain Yohan Vivès faces such an elusive mystery when he investigates the gruesome murder of a young woman named Clara in the French town of Grenoble. It is clear that the attack was premeditated, and the violent nature of the crime suggests revenge. All the evidence points towards a scorned...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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

Summary: Well into their 30s, Juan Nunez and Benjamin Wilson still can't seem to finish veterinary school or leave their parents' homes. Instead, they wallow in comfortable limbo a suburb of Mexico City. On a fateful Christmas Eve, however, they decide it's finally time to distinguish themselves by executing the most infamous cultural artifacts heist in all of Mexican history, looting the country's...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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

Summary: Michel, who wrote poetry, and Harry, a rich spoiled brat, were school chums. Now twenty years later, Michel, who is married with three young girls, meets up with Harry on the way to Michel's summer home. Harry "forces" his way into their lives and nothing will be the same again. Trying to make Michel's life "easier", Harry embarks on a path that will become self-destructive.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2001

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

Saint Leonard's Horses

Contents: Well well well -- Long John Silver -- Rise up -- Spooky lover -- Little girls scientist -- Goddess of electric gold -- A Muse -- The Strangelove hotel suite -- Hell & high water -- 1969 revisited -- Underwood milk -- Ever open door

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Xtra Mile Recordings

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SAI

Summary: The story begins when ace private eye Harry Goodman goes mysteriously missing, prompting his 21-year-old son Tim to find out what happened. Aiding in the investigation is Harry's former Pokémon partner, Detective Pikachu: a hilariously wisecracking, adorable super-sleuth who is a puzzlement even to himself. Finding that they are uniquely equipped to communicate with one another, Tim and Pikachu...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV POK

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD POK