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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Now in Media Services – Chronicles of the Refugee – DVD 7721 – 7723
Chronicles of the Refugee is a 6-part documentary film series looking at The global Palestinian refugee experience over the last 60 years. Starting with ‘al-Nakba’ (catastrophe) in 1948 (part I) and continuing through repeated community and individual expulsions (part II) and enduring discrimination by virtue of being Palestinian (part III), the first three episodes are […]
Continue readingNow Available in Media Services – Have You Heard From Johannesburg? DVD 7921 – 7927
Have You Heard from Johannesburg – DVD 7921 – 7927 Watch a clip of Have You Heard from Johannesburg – Road to Resistance Have You Heard From Johannesburg is seven documentary stories, produced and directed by Connie Field, chronicling the history of the global anti-aprtheid movement that took on South Africa’s entrenched apartheid regime and […]
Continue readingHappy 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 […]
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