Not that I knew he had still been alive as he’d clearly lived a rough life, but it’s still sad news to hear of the passing of Bruno S (proper name: Bruno Schleinstein). His natural and naive demeanor gave him a powerful screen presence. Both of his films are available in Media Services and are […]

From Giant to Easy Rider to Blue Velvet, Dennis Hopper was the consummate character who usually stole the show. His intensity was used to evoke fear, humor, and many times, obsession and insanity. He was only occasionally cast as something less than a lunatic. If you aren’t fully aware of the Hopper oeuvre, add these […]

Bruce Conner, an artist internationally admired for his haunting, surrealistic sculptures and groundbreaking avant-garde films, died on Monday at his home in San Francisco. He was 74. AU Library Media Services has: Bruce Conner films, VHS 3249, pt.1-pt.2 pt.1. Ten second film (10 sec.). Permian strata (4 min.). Mongoloid (4 min.). America is waiting (4 […]

Mr. Johnston, an animator who started with Walt Disney with “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” (1937)(VHS 5200), was an “inbetween artist” who specialized in communicating emotion in characters with his use of movement nuances studied from real life. Media Services has Frank and Ollie (VHS 6404), a documentary about his work and friendship with […]

Not much ties these two together except that they died on the same day. Here a list of the 24 Bergman films we have in Media Services in various formats:Ansiktet = The Magician (1959) HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 283Camera (1975) VHS 1237Cries and whispers (1972) HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 319, VHS 319Djävulens öga = The […]

The Eyes of Tammy Faye documents the life of the emotive camp icon from the time she met Jim Bakker until the fall of their ministry. DVD 468

It’s impossible to capture in words the menacing effect Palance was able to exude on-screen. His deepset eyes and tight angular face, even as a younger man, probably got him typecast as a villain early on but his acting made his characters indelible. He’s probably best known to today’s moviegoers for the role of Curly […]

The films of Glenn Ford available in Media Services: The Big Heat DVD 758Blackboard Jungle DVD 1232Gilda DVD 1604 Ford always struck me as a likable journeyman. With a few exceptions, including his role in Gilda, he usually found himself playing easy-going sympathetic characters. Of the 85 or so films he made, only the above-mentioned […]

Mahfouz is the only Arab to have ever been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and was also the oldest living recipient of the award. A critic of Egyptian society and Islamic Fundamentalism, in 1994 Mahfouz, then 82, was stabbed in an assassination attempt over perceived blasphemy in his 1959 novel Children of Gebelawi. Media […]