Can’t go home for Thanksgiving? Check out our newest acquisitions: Home Use: Henry Miller: Asleep and Awake (DVD 16056) Dolores (DVD 16091) Deadpool 2 (DVD 16097) Daniel Day-Lewis Triple feature (DVD 16108) Annihilation (DVD 16107) A Ghost Story (DVD 16106) From Caligari to Hitler (DVD 16105) Beirut (DVD 16104) Hereditary (DVD 16102) Jane (DVD 16101) […]
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News DVDs! New DVDs!
Here’s a huge batch of new acquisitions! Home Use Memories of Underdevelopment: DVD 429 Midnight Cowboy (Criterion Collection): DVD 4987 In Search of History: The Plot to Overthrow FDR: DVD 16068 Nothing Sacred: DVD 16069 My Letter to the World: DVD 16071 Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curios George’s Creators: DVD 16070 Little Women: DVD […]
Continue readingNew Movies!
Looking for something new to watch? Check out these new titles in Media Services: Feature Films: American Animals — DVD 16068 Book Club — DVD 16065 Happy End — BLU 16064 First Reformed — DVD 16062 Testament of Youth — DVD 16053 Gold — DVD 16052 Alanis — DVD 16051 And Then I Go — DVD 16058 […]
Continue readingThank You For Playing
One of the new DVDs we’ve gotten in Media Services looks just heartbreaking: Thank You For Playing (HU DVD 15330 and streaming) is a story about using an unusual medium to document a human experience. From our summary: When Ryan Green, a video game programmer, learns that his young son Joel has cancer, he and […]
Continue readingNew Acquisitions: February 2018
It’s time for our latest movie round up! Here’s a list of every home use DVD that crossed my desk in February. We’ve got Dunkirk! I’d especially like to draw attention to After the Storm (HU DVD 14954). Here’s the trailer: Happy viewing! After the storm = Umi yori mo mada fukaku – HU DVD […]
Continue readingNew Acquisitions: January 2018
Let’s take a look at every home use DVD that crossed my desk in January! Some highlights include The Big Sick, a ridiculous number of seasons of Cheers, Season 1 of my favorite tv show to watch in hotel rooms, The Rifleman, and Quatermass and the Pit, a scifi serial. I have not seen The […]
Continue readingNew Acquisitions: November 2017
Happy Friday! Here’s the list of every DVD that crossed my desk in November 2017. One interesting film we got is David Lynch: The Art Life: It was a big month for renumbering DVDs, which really reminds me how many movies we have in our collection! Take a look, and whether it’s a new or […]
Continue readingNew Acquisitions: October 2017
Another month of DVDs we’ve added or renumbered. All these great movies crossed my desk in October 2017! The most difficult part of this blog post was finding a completely work-safe Rick and Morty gif.(Season 2 is HU DVD 13052!!!) 1913 : seeds of conflict – HU DVD 14657Ambassador Bill – HU DVD 14661Blue velvet – […]
Continue readingNew Acquisitions – December 2016
The library is closing up for winter in about three hours, and much like a student submitting a paper on Blackboard at 11:59, we’re going to publish our final new acquisitions for the year! You might notice a ton of new television shows this month. We’ve been catching up on television shows – recent (like […]
Continue readingOne of David Bowie’s first films is a fascinating mess
As we prepare to close up shop for winter break, we have a very strange new acquisition highlight. We’ve mentioned before that David Bowie had a surprisingly robust acting career, starting with the titular role in the classic The Man Who Fell to Earth. Two years later, he returned to film in Just a Gigolo, […]
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