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61) Daughter of Dawn
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1920.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (79 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
After disappearing for nearly a century, THE DAUGHTER OF DAWN returns to once again break boundaries for Native American cinema. An all-Indigenous cast directed by Norbert Myles tell the story of a love triangle amidst rising conflict between Kiowa and Comanche villages, featuring thrilling fight scenes, dance performances and more. Newly restored in 2K by the Oklahoma Historical Society, this subtly acted, beautifully conducted silent melodrama remains...
62) Limelight
Publisher
Mk2 Films
Pub. Date
1952.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (137 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Calvero, once a famous Music Hall star, now a washedup old man, saves a neighbor from suicide. He nurtures the young ballerina with paralyzed legs back to health, and helps her regain her self-esteem, so that she may return to the stage.In this film Chaplin intimately and poignantly explores the twilight years of glory: what it means to be forgotten, to despair, and how to gather the strength to overcome. Chaplin also offers Buster Keaton a highly...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (75 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Two families living on a remote island off of Scotland are brought together by star-crossed lovers. When Ruth's brother Robbie plans to leave the island for a future abroad, her item of affection, Andrew, challenges her brother to race up the island's treacherous cliffs. Their challenge threatens to tear the families apart and ruin whatever peace is left on their island home, bringing both men right up onto THE EDGE OF THE WORLD. Shot entirely on...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (95 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Marion Cotillard gives a powerful performance as a mother fighting to save her job in this gripping emotional rollercoaster from the acclaimed Dardenne brothers. French, subtitled in English
65) The Dream Lady
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1918.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
After receiving an inheritance from an uncle, a woman sets up a fortunetelling business.
66) Pot o' Gold
Publisher
Mk2 Films
Pub. Date
1941.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (82 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle’s worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly practices. A lot of Jazz, James Stewart and Paulette Goddard are terrific, and both sing surprisingly well.
67) Minamata
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (115 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Three-time Academy Award® nominee Johnny Depp plays celebrated war photographer W. Eugene Smith in a real life David vs Goliath story, pitting Smith against a powerful corporation responsible for poisoning the people of Minamata, Japan in 1971. With the glory days of World War II far behind him, Smith has become a recluse. Between an impassioned Japanese translator called Aileen (Minami) urging him to go and a much needed commission from "Life" Magazine...
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1942.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (88 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A spat between wealthy, young Isabel Amberson and her beau, the brash inventor, Eugene Morgan, launches a chain of events that will haunt two families for generations in Orson Welles classic THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS. After quarreling with Eugene (Joseph Cotton), Isabel (Dolores Costello) marries a man she does not love and devotes her life to her son, George (Tim Holt). Over the years, Eugene becomes a millionaire in the new automobile industry;...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (106 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Following a rise to fame in the wake of Christian Dior's death, YVES SAINT LAURENT is a captivating story about the making of a fashion icon and a testament to the power of enduring love.
71) Quicksand
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1950.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (79 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
After taking 20 dollars from his employer to go on a date with plans to repay it the next day, an auto mechanic falls into increasingly disastrous circumstances for more and more money which rapidly spirals out of his control.
Publisher
Ronin Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (86 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A wickedly funny and subversive collaboration between Nobel Prize-winning author Patrick White and one of Australia’s most adventurous film directors, Jim Sharman (director of The Rocky Horror Picture Show). This savage black comedy of a dysfunctional middle-class family, is laced with unexpected touches of surrealism. In a wealthy Sydney suburb, a neurotic mother oppresses her adult daughter, Felicity, soon to be married to a rising young diplomat....
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (115 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Previously unseen and long overdue for the spotlight, this film remains one of screen legend Lois Weber’s finest creations and a landmark in women’s cinema. Ballet dancer and choreographer Anna Pavlova lends her presence to Weber and Phillips Smalley's story of Fenella, a wordless fisher-girl living under the Spanish occupation of Naples in the mid-17th century, as she is seduced by a Spanish nobleman. However, when the nobleman betrays and abandons...
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (108 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A child's lie has life-shattering consequences in this daring adaptation of Lillian Hellman's celebrated play. Karen (Audrey Hepburn) and Martha (Shirley MacLaine) are the headmistresses of an exclusive school for girls. When they discipline a malicious little girl, the vindictive child twists an overheard comment into slander and accuses her teachers of questionable behavior. Soon, the scandalous gossip engulfs the school community with repercussions...
76) Jazz a La Cuba
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (5 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
One of the short films Don Aspiazu of his own orchestra, a good example of the style of Cubano jazz in the 1920's and 1930's.
77) Lunopolis
Publisher
Distributed by Walking Shadows
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When two documentary filmmakers find evidence of a hidden base on the moon, they quickly become entangled in uncovering a secret history of earth that was meant to be long forgotten. After a threatening encounter with the dangerous and reclusive 'Church of Lunology', they flee their homes only to encounter David James, a man who unravels the truth behind every conspiracy theory from UFOs and time travel to immortality and life on the moon.
78) Croupier
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
London's gambling world is the setting where aspiring writer Jack Manfred, suffering from writer's block, takes a job as a croupier to support his art. Knowing the dangers of the cards, Jack is adamant about remaining a professional outsider, but the temptations of the game inevitably swallow him deeper than he could have ever anticipated.
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nafas, an Afghan-born Canadian journalist, returns to her homeland in a desperate attempt to reach her sister, who, overcome with grief after being injured by a landmine and her despair over the Taliban's oppression of women, has vowed that she will commit suicide at the time of the next solar eclipse, only three days away.
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (100 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
This is the first film of D.H. Lawrence’s controversial novel, which premiered in 1955, five years before the uncensored novel even appeared in print in the UK. Danielle Darrieux (in the peak years of her stardom) is Constance Chatterley, faithful wife to her war-wounded paraplegic husband (British actor Leo Genn), whose fortune flows from a local coal mine. Everyone but she seems concerned about her loss of sexual fulfillment, and the possibility...
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