My Best Friend’s Birthday is the first film made by Quentin Tarantino, eight years before Reservoir Dogs. It was created as a collaboration with Roger Avary in 1984 and shot on a budget of $5,000. A 70-minute rough cut was made, but a fire at the lab damaged the film and only 36 minutes of […]
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Happy Birthday, Kirk!
Today, Kirk Douglas turns the ripe old age of 94. Many of his classic films are available here in Media Services for Home Use. Ace in the Hole – HU DVD 2976Arrangement – HU DVD 2212Bad and the Beautiful – HU DVD 7257Champion – HU DVD 211Gunfight at the O.K. Corral – HU DVD 7576Lust […]
Continue readingHappy Holiday Home Use Titles!
Need a break from studying for finals? Have an extra day or two before heading home? Staying in town for Winter Break? Whatever the case may be, we’ve got some title that will be perfect for passing the time this holiday season. Die Hard – HU DVD 445Die Hard 2: Die Harder – HU DVD […]
Continue readingNow in Media Services: Unrestrictable Home Use Titles!
We have begun to acquire second and third copies of some of our more popular films. These are high demand titles that tend to be used in class every semester which prevents them from being checked out as home use titles to patrons. As a result, we have decided to create a new category for […]
Continue readingHappy Thanksgiving, from Media Services!!
Here are some Thanksgiving related picks available to take home over the holiday. If you check out a Home Use DVD today, it won’t be due back until Monday, November 29! What’s Cooking? – HU DVD 251What happens when families come together for Thanksgiving? Almost anything! Tale of four very different families, as they cook […]
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Somewhere in Dreamland – HU DVD 172 Red Desert – HU DVD 173 The Tudors: Season 3 – HU DVD 6569 – 6571 The Tudors: The Final Season – HU DVD 6572 – 6574 The Maid – HU DVD 7717 Princess and the Frog – HU DVD 7718 Princess and the Frog – HU BLU […]
Continue readingRemembering Dino De Laurentiis (August 8, 1919 – November 10, 2010)
Oscar-winning Italian film producer Dino De Laurentiis, a master movie showman who brought some 500 films to the big screen including “La Strada,” “Serpico,” and “Three Days of the Condor,” has died at age 91. Read more here. Here are some of his films from the Media Services Home Use Collection: Hannibal – HU DVD […]
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Cowboy and the Lady – HU DVD 7501Real Glory – HU DVD 7502Vera Cruz – HU DVD 7503Winning of Barbara Worth – HU DVD 7504Men – HU DVD 7505Bollywood Hollywood – HU DVD 7506Avatar: The Last Airbender Book 1, Vol. 1-6 – HU DVD 7601-7606 Yoo hoo, Mrs. Goldberg – HU DVD 7620 The Bigamist […]
Continue readingCheck out these Home Use titles from the American Silent Horror Collection!
Man Who Laughs – HU DVD 3681 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – HU DVD 3682 The Cat and the Canary – HU DVD 3683 The Penalty – HU DVD 3684 Kingdom of Shadows – HU DVD 3685
Continue readingTONIGHT!! Baby Boomer Film Festival – Wechsler Theater 7pm
Tonight’s film screening is of Coming Home, which can also be found in the Media Services Home Use Collection. Coming Home is a sad, poignant love story set against the social upheaval of the Vietnam war. Set in 1968, the story concerns a woman who, while her husband is serving in Vietnam, falls in love […]
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