Another documentary for your viewing pleasure this chilly Monday! Today we present you with DVD 8185, The Homeless Home Movie. Released in 1996, this documentary seeks to empower the homeless by giving them a voice and a platform.
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Our midweek gift to you: new DVDs to enjoy. This week we have: The Other Side of Hope (DVD 16121) Super Troopers (DVD 16123) Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior (DVD 16124) The Death of Stalin (DVD 16125) Seed: The Untold Story (DVD 16126) Mully (DVD 16127) Leave No Trace (DVD 16128) The Rider (DVD 16129) Once […]
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We have a lot of creative types here at Media Services, and one of our student assistants, Julia, hasI a lot of fun with the whiteboard behind our desk. Look at this Grinch she drew! You know our favorite holiday monster is smugly hatching some evil plan! She also drew this incredible skeleton, which graced […]
Continue readingRandom Movie Monday — Searching for Sugar Man
Happy Monday folks! As we approach the end of the semester at AU, and all the stress that comes with it, we find ourselves appreciating some of the more surprising documentaries in our collection, like Searching for Sugar Man (DVD 10920). Here’s our summary: In the early 1970s, Sixto Rodriguez was a Detroit folksinger who had a […]
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Check out these new additions to the collection: Home Use Next (DVD 16119) RBG (DVD 16120)
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Home Use America Inside Out with Katie Couric: Season 1 (DVD 16110) Norman:The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer (DVD 16111) Molly’s Game (DVD 16112) The Durrells in Corfu: The Complete First Season (DVD 16113) Kedi (DVD 16114) Last Men in Aleppo (DVD 16115) The Chinese Exclusion Act (DVD 16116) Jane […]
Continue readingBernardo Bertolucci and Stephen Hillenburg
This week saw the death of two artists, giants in their respective fields. On Monday, Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci died at age 77. Bertolucci rose to fame with the 1973 release of Last Tango in Paris, a controversial film that was earned an X rating after extensive cuts. One of these scenes depicted a middle […]
Continue readingRandom Movie Monday — Moral Orel
Happy Cyber Monday! Take a break from scouring the internet for deals and give this week’s random movie a watch. Or should I say “Random TV Show.” Moral Orel Volume 1 (DVD 12994) collects the first season of Adult’s Swim’s award-winning mid 2000s tv show about an Evangelical boy in Middle America. Because it’s Adult Swim, […]
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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) […]
Continue readingFive Movies Featuring… Death by TB
I don’t cry very often at movies, except for one, glaring reason. If someone snuffs it due to tuberculosis (aka Consumption), I will ugly cry. Not a couple of poignant tears, but full-on weeping. It doesn’t matter how bad the movie is, I will bawl my eyes out. Unfortunately for me, TB is a popular […]
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