Welcome back from spring break! Today’s random movie is DVD 10945, Cosmopolis. Here’s our summary: Eric Packer, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager, heads out in his tricked-out stretch limo, while remotely wagering his company’s massive fortune on a bet against the Chinese Yuan. Little does he know his perfectly ordered, doubt-free world is about to […]
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Random Movie Monday — Martin
This week’s random DVD is DVD 9156 — Martin. This 1978 film is a weird journey through Pittsburgh and its suburbs, seen through the eyes of a young man, Martin, who believes himself to be a vampire. Martin starts out sinister, and gets more so as the film progresses, going from drugging women in order […]
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We have several new DVDs for your viewing pleasure. Campus Use Mi querida Senorita (DVD 14973) Human Flow (DVD 16181) Border Politics: I Wonder Where Our Democracy is Headed (DVD 16179) Home Use Solas (DVD 14971) Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (DVD 9614) What Have I Done to Deserve This? (DVD 5585) Marxism: The […]
Continue readingRandom Movie Monday — Billy the Kid
When the random number generator spat back DVD 5234 at me, I assumed this was going to be a documentary or biographical film about the infamous outlaw. Not so! Instead, Jennifer Venditti’s 2007 documentary follows Billy, an oddball, outsider teenager in rural Maine. The film won Best Documentary at the 2007 South by Southwest festival. […]
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Campus Use King Lear (DVD 7102) White Right (DVD 16148) Henry V (DVD 16170) Teacher of the year (DVD 16177) Hale County This Morning, This Evening (DVD 16178) Home Use Theeb (DVD 16172) Frontline. Weinstein. (DVD 16173) BlacKkKlansman (DVD 16175) I am Chris Farley (DVD 16176) Swing by Media Services and check them out!
Continue readingAU’s Oscar Ballot – How Did We Do?
84 AU community members entered our Oscar Ballot contest. Our winner got 16 correct, while one ballot only got 4 correct. There were some good surprises during the ceremony Sunday night (like Olivia Colman winning her well-deserved best actress statuette), and some not so-great surprises (Green Book winning Best Picture? Really?), overall our entrants were […]
Continue readingRandom Movie Monday — The Raw and the Cooked: A Culinary Journey Through Taiwan
Goooood morning! If you’re a fan of any of Anthony Bourdain’s shows, then you’re going to love this week’s random movie. DVD 10765, The Raw and the Cooked: A Culinary Journey Through Taiwan. Here’s our summary: Taiwan is known around the world as having one of the most diverse cuisines in Asia, and food is […]
Continue readingPreoccupied With 1989
1989 was a bit of a surreal year – the Berlin Wall came down, the Tiananmen Square protests gripped the world…. And a hostless Academy Awards ceremony become infamous in the annals of Hollywood history. Just like this year, the producers of the 1989 Oscars ceremony failed to find a host for the event. This […]
Continue readingBlack History Month: Contemporary Black Directors Part 1
Part of working at a university library is accumulating and highlighting diverse creators in our collections. For Black History Month, I didn’t just want to just slap a list of Black Films up on our blog and call it a day. Instead, this will be the first of two posts featuring contemporary Black Directors, and […]
Continue readingRandom Movie Monday — The Pianist
Today’s random movie is DVD 1794, The Pianist. It’s a fitting random movie for this week leading up to the Academy Awards, since this heartbreaking and at times gut-wrenching film was nominated for six awards, and won three, including Best Actor (Adrien Brody). Brody is still the youngest man in history to win the Best […]
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