We here at Media Services recently changed our Kanopy subscription. Before this semester, library users could watch any Kanopy film at any time, no questions asked. Though Kanopy looks (and markets itself) as the educational equivalent of Netflix or Amazon Prime, instead of paying a flat fee of x dollars/month, the library paid $150 per […]
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Happy finals season! This week’s random movie is DVD 9895, Silent Naruse, is a collection of two early works of Japanese filmmaker Mikio Naruse. The two films, Flunky, Work Hard and No Blood Relations are Naruse’s first two films. Both are silent films. Here’s our summary: Flunky, Work Hard (1931, 28 min): An atypical breezy […]
Continue readingVery DC New Acquisitions
We have two new DVD acquisitions today, both of which are very, very appropriate for DC. Vice (DVD 16238) On the Basis of Sex (DVD 16239) You can rent Vice now from the Media Services collection, and On the Basis of Sex on Sunday when I return it.
Continue readingTV Shows for Days
All of today’s new acquisitions are TV shows! We’ve got: The Americans: The Complete Final Season (DVD 14323) The Leftovers: The Complete First Season (DVD 16235) The Leftovers: The Complete Second Season (DVD 16236) The Leftovers: The Complete Third Season (DVD 16237)
Continue readingRandom Movie Monday — Countdown to Zero
Good morning, and happy Monday! The AU campus has begun its own countdown to finals, so it’s probably appropriate that this week’s random movie– DVD 8043 — is a countdown to nuclear armageddon. Here’s our summary: Tracing the history of the atomic bomb from its origins to the present state of global affairs: nine nations […]
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Home Use: Silicon Valley: The Complete Fifth Season (DVD 13285) Campus Use: Medicine: The Death of a Profession (DVD 16234) Kumu Hina: The True Meaning of Aloha (DVD 16233)
Continue readingRandom Movie Monday — Toxic Tears
With everything in bloom all over campus, today’s random movie focuses on the nastier side of modern agriculture. DVD 10641, Toxic Tears, focuses on the effects of monoculture in India. Here’s our summary: “The Green Revolution of the mid 20th Century was aimed at greatly reducing starvation in the Third World. But the high-yielding seeds […]
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Home Use: If Beale Street Could Talk (DVD 16232) Campus Use: King Lear (DVD 16231)
Continue readingRemembering Agnès Varda
On March 29th, the world lost Agnès Varda, one of the most quietly influential filmmakers of the 20th (and 21st) century. Varda, who released her first film in 1954, is considered by many to be the ‘godmother’ of French new Wave cinema, if not the first New Wave filmmaker. Her first film, La Pointe-Courte, predated […]
Continue readingRandom Movie Monday — The Scientific Method
This is what Random Movie Monday is all about — digging up some obscure dvd we have in the collection. This week it’s DVD 13010, The Scientific Method. It’s a straight-up, no tricks educational video about… the scientific method. Originally released in 1996, it’s so obscure I can’t even find a trailer for it. If […]
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