DVD - U. S. & Foreign Feature Films
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These are new feature films from all over the world.
Poupelle of Chimney Town
Author(s):
Yusuke Hirota
Tony Hale
Antonino Raul Corbo
Stephen Root
Misty Lee
Description:
Poupelle of Chimney Town is the story of young Lubicchi living among the thick smoke from the chimneys of his isolated town, yearning to see the "stars"--To know the truth -- his father always told him about. One Halloween night he meets Poupelle, a man made of garbage, and together they look to the sky as their adventure begins.
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DVD
Call Number:
895.63 Pou
Moon, 66 questions
Author(s):
Jacqueline Lentzou
Sofia Kokkali
Lazaros Georgakopoulos
Description:
After years of distance, twenty-something Artemis tentatively decides to return to Athens and care for her father, Paris, after his recent decline in health. As she intimately cares for the stoic, near-wordless Paris, she tries to understand this man she never really knew. When Artemis discovers a well-kept secret from her father's past, she finally begins to not only better understand a complicated man, but the underlying love coursing through a complicated relationship between father and daughter.
Format:
DVD
Call Number:
889 Moo
The good house
Author(s):
Maya Forbes
Wallace Wolodarsky
Sigourney Weaver
Kevin Kline
Morena Baccarin
Description:
Life for New England realtor Hildy Good begins to fall apart when she hooks up with an old flame of hers from New York.
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DVD
Call Number:
Drama
El gran movimiento
Author(s):
Kiro Russo
Julio Cesar Ticona
Max Bautista Uchasara
Francisca Arce de Aro
Israel Hurtado
Description:
A monumental, gently mystical portrait of the contemporary central South American cityscape and those who work within its bowels and environs. After a seven-day walk with his companions, the young Elder arrives in the big city seeking to be reinstated in his work at the mine. The city is overwhelming, and Elder soon falls ill, causing him to suffer frequent choking and shortness of breath. As his condition gets worse, he enlists the help of the elderly Mam ̀Pancha, who sends him to Max a homeless witch doctor, hermit, and clown who could have the ability to bring Elder back to life.
Format:
DVD
Call Number:
863 Gra
Tár
Author(s):
Todd Field
Cate Blanchett
Noémie Merlant
Nina Hoss
Sophie Kauer
Description:
Set in the international world of classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer/conductors and first-ever female chief conductor of a major German orchestra.
Format:
DVD
Call Number:
Drama
I'm totally fine
Author(s):
Brandon Dermer
Blake Anderson
Jillian Bell
Cyrina Fiallo
Harvey Guillen
Description:
Vanessa embarks on a solo trip after the death of her best friend Jennifer. But her self-care plans change when she finds Jennifer standing in her kitchen, claiming to be an extraterrestrial.
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DVD
Call Number:
Comedy
My name is Sara
Author(s):
Steven Oritt
Zuzanna Surowy,
Michalina Olszańska,
Eryk Lubos,
Konrad Cichon
Description:
The true-life story of Sara Goralnik, a thirteen-year-old Polish Jew whose entire family was killed by Nazis in September 1942. After a grueling escape to the Ukrainian countryside, Sara Steals her Christian best friend's identity and finds refuge in a small village, where she is taken in by a farmer and his young wife. She soon discovers the dark secrets of her employers' marriage, compounding her own greatest secret that she must strive to protect, her true identity.
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Call Number:
Drama
Onoda : 10,000 nights in the jungle
Author(s):
Arthur Harari
Yuya Endo
Kanjii Tsuda
Yuya Matsuura
Tetsuya Chiba
Description:
Japan, 1944. Trained for intelligence work, Hiroo Onoda, 22 years old, discovers a philosophy contrary to the official line: no suicide, stay alive whatever happens, the mission is more important than anything else. Although the Empire will surrender soon after, Onoda waits 10,000 days demanding orders direct from his CO before he stops fighting.
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DVD
Call Number:
895.63 Ono
She said
Author(s):
Maria Schrader
Carey Mulligan
Zoe Kazan
Patricia Clarkson
Andre Braugher
Description:
New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation, a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.
Format:
DVD
Call Number:
Drama
Missing
Author(s):
Shinzo Katayama
Jiro Sato
Aoi Ito
Hiroya Shimizu
Description:
Depressed and in debt following the death of his wife, Santoshi tells his young daughter he has found a way out. Pointing to the reward note, he vows to find the infamous serial killer "No Name" claiming he saw the man in the flesh a few days earlier. Kaeda cannot believe her aloof, goofy father. But when he goes missing without a trace, she starts fearing the worst and begins looking for him.
Format:
DVD
Call Number:
895.63 Mis
Armageddon time
Author(s):
James Gray
Anne Hathaway
Jeremy Strong
Banks Repeta
Jaylin Webb
Description:
A deeply personal coming-of-age story about the strength of family and the generational pursuit of the American Dream.
Format:
DVD
Call Number:
Drama
Dia de los muertos : a musical celebration
Author(s):
Los Lobos
Ozomatli
Flor de Tolache
Description:
Latino rock greats Los Lobos, the salsa-rap-reggae-funk Ozomatli and the all-female mariachi band Flor de Toloache lead this musical celebration of this much anticipated and highly celebrated fiesta by people of Mexican heritage everywhere. Taped before a live audience in the "underworld" of The Caverns subterranean amphitheater, ¡D̕a de los Muertos! is a high-energy offering to celebrate a wonderful, ancient tradition. Plus, in between performances, short vignettes explore the deep-rooted traditions and the meaning, origins, and importance of this holiday on the Latino calendar.
Format:
DVD
Call Number:
Music
The justice of Bunny King
Author(s):
Gaysorn Thavat
Essie Davis
Thomasin McKenzie
Lively Nili
Bridie Sisson
Description:
Bunny King is a mother of two and a rough-cut diamond with a sketchy past. While battling the system to try and reunite with her children, a confrontation leads Bunny to take her niece Tonyah under her wing. With the world against them both, Bunny's battle has just begun.
Format:
DVD
Call Number:
Drama
Utama
Author(s):
Alejandro Loayza Grisi
Jose Calcina
Luisa Quispe
Description:
In the arid Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living a tranquil life for years. While he takes their small herd of llamas out to graze, she keeps house and walks for miles with the other local women to fetch precious water. When an uncommonly long drought threatens everything they know, Virginio and Sisa must decide whether to stay and maintain their traditional way of life or admit defeat and move in with family members in the city. Their dilemma is precipitated by the arrival of their grandson Clever, who comes to visit with news. The three of them must face, each in their own way, the effects of a changing environment, the importance of tradition, and the meaning of life itself.
Format:
DVD
Call Number:
863$aUta
200 meters
Author(s):
Ameen Nayfeh
Ali Suliman
Anna Unterberger
Motaz Malhees
Mahmoud Abu Aita
Description:
Mustafa, a Palestinian construction worker, lives 200 meters away from his wife Salwa and their children in villages separated by the Israeli border wall. Though his family are all Israeli citizens, Mustafa refuses to obtain a permit to live with them. Unwilling to succumb to what he believes are unjust laws, he instead uses his work permit to visit daily. However, one day he gets a call every parent dreads: his son has been injured and brought to the hospital. Rushing to cross the Israeli checkpoint, Mustafa is denied on a technicality. Stopping at nothing to reach his child, a 200 meter distance becomes a 200 kilometer odyssey, as the increasingly desperate Mustafa attempts to smuggle himself to the other side of the wall.
Format:
DVD
Call Number:
892.7 200
Black Panther: Wakanda forever
Author(s):
Ryan Coogler
Letitia Wright
Lupita Nyong'o
Danai Gurira
Winston Duke
Description:
Queen Ramonda, Shuri, M'Baku, Okoye, and the Dora Milaje, fight to protect their nation from intervening world powers in the wake of King T'Challa's death. As the Wakandans strive to embrace their next chapter, the heroes must band together with the help of War Dog Nakia and Everett Ross and forge a new path for the kingdom of Wakanda.
Format:
DVD
Call Number:
Action
The tale of King Crab
Author(s):
Alessio Rigo de Righi
Ercole Colnago
Gabriele Silli
Maria Alexandra Lungu
Description:
Luciano is a wandering outcast in a remote, late nineteenth-century Italian village. His life becomes undone by alcohol, forbidden love, and a bitter conflict with the prince of the region over the right of passage through an ancient gateway. When the quarrel escalates, Luciano is exiled to the distant Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego where, with the help of ruthless gold-diggers, he searches for a mythical treasure, paving his way toward redemption. However, in these barren lands, only greed and insanity can prevail.
Format:
DVD
Call Number:
853 Tal
The king of laughter
Author(s):
Mario Martone
Toni Servillo
Maria Nazionale
Cristiana Dell'anna
Antonia Truppo
Description:
Naples 1904: Italian theatre is thriving, and comic actor, Eduardo Scarpetta is the box office king. Known in the Neapolitan theater for his cheeky alter egos, Scarpetta's larger-than-life stage productions were matched only by his eccentric personal life. Composed of wives, partners, lovers, legitimate and illegitimate children, Scarpetta's home situation resembled one of his comedies more than a traditional family. At the height of his popularity, the comedian risked everything by staging a parody of the great Italian poet, Gabrielle D'Annunzio. booed and hissed from the stage by younger rivals, Scarpetta was sued for plagiarism, leading to the first ever copyright lawsuit in Italy. Despite legal troubles and familial strife, Scarpetta fought not only for his craft but for his legacy as one of the great thespians of Italian theater.
Format:
DVD
Call Number:
853 Kin
God's country
Author(s):
Julian Higgins
Thandiwe Newton
Jeremy Bobb
Joris Jarsky
Kai Lennox
Description:
When a college professor in the remote mountains of the American West confronts two hunters she catches trespassing on her property, she's drawn into an escalating battle of wills with catastrophic consequences.
Format:
DVD
Call Number:
Drama
Brother's keeper
Author(s):
Ferit Karahan
Samet Yildiz
Ekin Koç
Mahir Ipek
Nurullah Alaca
Description:
Yusuf and his best friend Memo are pupils at a boarding school for Kurdish boys, secluded in the mountains of Eastern Anatolia. When Memo falls mysteriously ill, Yusuf is forced to struggle through the bureaucratic obstacles put up by the school's repressive authorities to try to help his friend. But by the time the adults in charge finally understand the seriousness of Memo's condition and try to get him to the hospital, the school has been buried under a sudden, heavy snowfall. With no way out and now desperate to reach help, teachers and pupils engage in a blame game where grudges, feelings of guilt, and hidden secrets emerge, as time ticks mercilessly on and threatens to run out.
Format:
DVD
Call Number:
894.3 Bro
A family for 1640 days
Author(s):
Fabein Gorgeart
Melanie Thierry
Lyes Salem
Felix Moati
Gabriel Pavie
Description:
Inspired by the filmmaker's family history, Fabien Gorgeart's heartfelt, heartbreaking second feature focuses on an excruciating period in one family's life. Anna, her husband, and their two young sons are told they must hand six-year-old Simon, the foster child they've raised since he was eighteen months old, over to his 'real' father. Powerless before a social services system that fails to understand the powerful emotional ties that inevitably form between abandoned children and their caregivers, the family has no choice but to allow that bond to be torn apart.
Format:
DVD
Call Number:
843 Fam
Joyride
Author(s):
Emer Reynolds
Olivia Colman
Charlie Reid
Lochlann O'Mearáin
Elaine Kennedy
Description:
A headstrong solicitor's plan to offload her new born baby to her sister, is derailed when a vulnerable but opinionated teenager steals their taxi.
Format:
DVD
Call Number:
Comedy
Alice, darling
Author(s):
Mary Nighy
Anna Kendrick
Tiio Horn
Charlie Carrick
Wunmi Mosaku
Description:
In the taut thriller Alice, a woman, is pushed to the breaking point by her psychologically abusive boyfriend, Simon. While on vacation with two close girlfriends, Alice rediscovers the essence of herself and gains some much-needed perspective. Slowly, she starts to fray the cords of codependency that bind her. But Simon's vengeance is as inevitable as it is shattering and, once unleashed, it tests Alice's strength, her courage, and the bonds of her deep-rooted friendships.
Format:
DVD
Call Number:
Drama
Emily
Author(s):
Frances O'Connor
Emma MacKey
Oliver Jackson-Cohen
Fionn Whitehead
Alexandra Dowling
Description:
Imagines Emily Bronte's own story that inspired 'Wuthering Heights.' As she struggles within the confines of her family life and yearns for freedom, and so begins a journey to channel her potential into the seminal novel.
Format:
DVD
Call Number:
Drama
One fine morning
Author(s):
Mia Hansen-Love
Lea Seydoux
Pascal Greggory
Melvil Poupaud
Nicole Garcia
Description:
With a father suffering from neurodegenerative disease, a young woman lives with her eight-year-old daughter. While struggling to secure a decent nursing home, she runs into a friend who although being in a relationship, embarks on an affair.
Format:
DVD
Call Number:
843 One
My happy ending
Author(s):
Tal Granit
Sharon Maymo
Andie MacDowell
Miriam Margolyes
Sally Phillips
Description:
If we knew how much longer we had to live, what would we choose to do with the time we have left? Set in a British hospital, it follows poised and put-together Hollywood star Julia Roth, who seems to be in the sunset of her career, as she begins her journey with a critical medical issue. Preferring to be incognito, Julia is instead thrust into a room with three remarkable women who, with humor and camaraderie, help Julia take on the most important and challenging role she has ever played: herself.
Format:
DVD
Call Number:
Comedy
Full time
Author(s):
Eric Gravel
Laure Calamy
Anne Suarez
Genevieve Mnich
Nolan Arizmendi
Description:
Single mother Julie needs reliable transit to get to work. When a national strike breaks out, her daily routine becomes a gauntlet in this kinetic thriller about the insecurity of modern life in a ruthless society.
Format:
DVD
Call Number:
843 Ful
Return to Seoul
Author(s):
Davy Chou
Ji-min Park
Kwang-rok Oh
Guka Han
Sun-young Kim
Description:
The compelling and unpredictable film from director Davy Chou (Diamond Island). Freddie has returned to South Korea for the first time since her adoption and move to France. Freddie suddenly finds herself embarking on an unexpected journey in a country where she knows very little, including the language, to learn about where she was born.
Format:
DVD
Call Number:
843 Ret
Chess story = Schachnovelle
Author(s):
Philipp Stölzl
Oliver Masucci
Albrecht Schuch
Brigit Minichmayr
Andreas Lust
Description:
Vienna, 1938: Austria is occupied by the Nazis. Dr. Josef Bartok is preparing to flee to America with his wife Anna when he is arrested by the Gestapo. As a former notary to the deposed Austrian aristocracy, he is told to help the local Gestapo leader gain access to their private bank accounts to fund the Nazi regime. Refusing to cooperate, Bartok is locked in solitary confinement. Just as his mind is beginning to crack, Bartok happens upon a book of famous chess games. To withstand the torture of isolation, Bartok disappears into the world of chess, maintaining his sanity only by memorizing every move. As the action flashes forward to a transatlantic crossing on which he is a passenger, it seems as though Bartok has finally found freedom. But recounting his story to his fellow travelers, it's clear that his encounters with both the Gestapo and the royal game itself have not stopped haunting him.
Format:
DVD
Call Number:
833 Che
Petite maman
Author(s):
Céline Sciamma
Josephine Sanz
Gabrielle Sanz
Nina Meurisse
Description:
?Cline Sciamma's follow-up to Portrait of a Lady on Fire transcends time and space to weave a delicately emotional fable about grief, family, and connection across generations. In the wake of her grandmother's death, eight-year-old Nelly accompanies her distraught mother to her childhood home. There, Nelly's encounter with another young girl brings mother and daughter together in a way neither could have ever imagined. Evoking childhood's perpetual state of wonder through luminous, richly textured images, Petite Maman takes viewers on a journey inward for a quietly miraculous tale of emotional time travel. Includes My Life as a Zucchini (2016), an Oscar-nominated stop-motion animated film directed by Claude Barras and cowritten by Sciamma.
Format:
DVD
Call Number:
843 Pet
The forger
Author(s):
Maggie Peren
Louis Hofmann
Luna Wedler
Jonathan Berlin
Nina Gummich
Description:
Berlin, 1940. Cioma Sch?onhaus is a young Jewish man who won't let anyone take away his zest for life, especially not the Nazis. Since the best hiding spots are in plain sight, Cioma audaciously adopts the identity of a marine officer to escape being deported like his family before him. Drawing on his art school background, he joins a network of underground rescuers and becomes infamous for his masterfully forged IDs, created with just a brush, some ink, and a steady hand, that save the lives of hundreds of Jews by allowing them to escape the country. Meanwhile, he throws himself into the city's nightlife and even finds a fragile hope for love during the darkest moments of the war. His talent and propensity for boldness puts him in more and more danger, however, until his only chance of survival is one last forged document, with his own name on it. Based on a true story.
Format:
DVD
Call Number:
833 For
Everything went fine
Author(s):
François Ozon
André Dussollier
Sophie Marceau
Charlotte Rampling
Description:
When Andr?e suffers a debilitating stroke and calls on his daughter Emmanu?ele to help him die with dignity, she finds herself faced with a painful decision. Based on Emmanu?ele Bernheim's memoir and an Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival, the film's matter-of-factness elicits moments of humor that renders an otherwise weighty topic accessible. Steering clear of the moral arguments such issues often raise, the film instead focuses on the reckoning Emmanu?ele has with her stubborn and unrelenting father and how to help him, with Ozon tackling a difficult subject with exceptional intelligence and sensitivity. Featuring stunning central performances by Marceau and Dussollier as well as a scene-stealing cameo by Charlotte Rampling as Andr?e's ex-wife.
Format:
DVD
Call Number:
843 Eve
The lost king
Author(s):
Stephen Frears
Sally Hawkins
Steve Coogan
Harry Lloyd
Mark Addy
Description:
In 2012, the remains of King Richard III were discovered beneath a car park in Leicester. For Philippa Langley, this was the culmination of years of obsessive research despite the doubts of her friends, family, experts, and academics.
Format:
DVD
Call Number:
Drama
The blue caftan
Author(s):
Maryam Touzani
Lubna Azabal
Saleh Bakri
Ayoub Missioui
Description:
Halim and Mina run a traditional caftan store in one of Morocco's oldest medinas. To keep up with the commands of the demanding customers, they hire Youssef. Slowly Mina realizes how much her husband is moved by the presence of the young man.
Format:
DVD
Call Number:
892.7 Blu
A thousand and one
Author(s):
A.V. Rockwell
Teyana Taylor
William Catlett
Terri Abney
Delissa Reynolds
Description:
Follows unapologetic and free-spirited Inez, who kidnaps her six-year-old son, Terry, from the foster care system. Holding onto their secret and each other, mother and son set out to reclaim their sense of home, identity, and stability in a rapidly changing New York City.
Format:
DVD
Call Number:
Drama
