The Farmer's Wife

Submitted by mbrome on Mon, 2020-10-26 16:52
This films the life of Juanita and Darrel Buschkoetter, a young Nebraska farming couple, as they face problems with their finances and marriage. Without a narrator, the story is told entirely in the husband and wife's own words, resonating with millions of viewers when it originally aired, over three nights, on PBS's Frontline.

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The Farmer's Wife
The Farmer's Wife

David Sutherland
Adult Audiovisual DVD - 921 Buschkoetter Far

This films the life of Juanita and Darrel Buschkoetter, a young Nebraska farming couple, as they face problems with their finances and marriage. Without a narrator, the story is told entirely in the husband and wife's own words, resonating with millions of viewers when it originally aired, over three nights, on PBS's Frontline. Kanopy also has Sutherland's equally compelling Kind-Hearted Woman and Country Boys.

 

Documentaries

  • Monterey Pop


  • When We Were Kings


  • This Is Not A Film


  • The Farmer's Wife


  • The Act of Killing


  • The Beaches of Agnès


  • Histoire(s) du cinéma


  • Koyaanisqatsi


  • Let There Be Light


  • Rock Hudson's Home Movies


  • Hoop Dreams


  • The Thin Blue Line


  • Strange Victory


  • Nanook of the North


  • Sherman's March


  • F for Fake


  • Harlan County U.S.A.


  • The Battle of Chile


  • The Queen


  • Roger & Me


  • The Missing Picture


  • Three Sisters


  • Olympia


  • Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Two Takes


  • Shoah


  • Grey Gardens


  • Chronicle of a Summer


  • For All Mankind


  • Los Angeles Plays Itself


  • Capturing the Friedmans


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Grey Gardens

Submitted by mbrome on Mon, 2020-10-26 16:10
Mother Edith Beale and daughter Edith Beale; 'Big Edie' and 'Little Edie', relatives of former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, live as recluses in a run-down mansion in the wealthy Hamptons area of New York. The film follows their day-to-day activities as they live among the squalor. The 'direct cinema' approach used by the Maysles allowed for the women to tell their own stories and shape the direction of the film.

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Grey Gardens
Grey Gardens

Albert Maysles, David Maysles & Ellen Hovde, and Muffie Meyer
Adult Audiovisual DVD - 920 Gre

Mother Edith Beale and daughter Edith Beale; 'Big Edie' and 'Little Edie', relatives of former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, live as recluses in a run-down mansion in the wealthy Hamptons area of New York. The film follows their day-to-day activities as they live among the squalor. The 'direct cinema' approach used by the Maysles allowed for the women to tell their own stories and shape the direction of the film. The Maysles' earlier film Salesman, about door-to-door Bible salesman, is perhaps as equally/more compelling.

 

Documentaries

  • Grey Gardens


  • For All Mankind


  • Capturing the Friedmans


  • The Thin Blue Line


  • Nanook of the North


  • Histoire(s) du cinéma


  • The Act of Killing


  • Shoah


  • Olympia


  • Three Sisters


  • Harlan County U.S.A.


  • When We Were Kings


  • Roger & Me


  • Sherman's March


  • This Is Not A Film


  • Hoop Dreams


  • Rock Hudson's Home Movies


  • Strange Victory


  • F for Fake


  • Monterey Pop


  • Let There Be Light


  • The Battle of Chile


  • Koyaanisqatsi


  • The Beaches of Agnès


  • The Missing Picture


  • Chronicle of a Summer


  • Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Two Takes


  • The Queen


  • Los Angeles Plays Itself


  • The Farmer's Wife


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Olympia

Submitted by mbrome on Mon, 2020-10-26 12:21
While obviously no one should praise Riefenstahl for the influence her filmmaking brought to Nazi Germany, here her talent, also debatably still under that political lens, is focused on capturing the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. Many groundbreaking cinematic techniques were seen here that would only later be more widely used.

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Olympia
Olympia

Leni Riefenstahl
Adult Audiovisual DVD - 796.4809 Oly

While obviously no one should praise Riefenstahl for the influence her filmmaking brought to Nazi Germany, here her talent, also debatably still under that political lens, is focused on capturing the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. Many groundbreaking cinematic techniques were seen here that would only later be more widely used. Perhaps most retrospectively notable is her not including Hitler's reaction to seeing African-American track athlete Jesse Owens set a world-record in the long jump after Germany's Luz Long had just made its own record-setting one. For those not up to watching all three-and-a-half-hours of this, check out the documentary The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (that includes clips from this and her other work).
For more Olympics see also Kon Ichikawa's documenting of the Summer games of 1964 in Tokyo Olympiad.

 

Documentaries

  • Sherman's March


  • Hoop Dreams


  • Monterey Pop


  • This Is Not A Film


  • Chronicle of a Summer


  • The Act of Killing


  • Capturing the Friedmans


  • The Missing Picture


  • The Battle of Chile


  • Roger & Me


  • F for Fake


  • Harlan County U.S.A.


  • The Thin Blue Line


  • Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Two Takes


  • Three Sisters


  • The Farmer's Wife


  • Histoire(s) du cinéma


  • When We Were Kings


  • Olympia


  • Los Angeles Plays Itself


  • Rock Hudson's Home Movies


  • Strange Victory


  • Shoah


  • Grey Gardens


  • The Beaches of Agnès


  • Let There Be Light


  • The Queen


  • For All Mankind


  • Koyaanisqatsi


  • Nanook of the North


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The Bridge on the River Kwai

Submitted by mbrome on Mon, 2020-08-17 12:09

Based on the Pierre Boulle novel, this David Lean adventure epic was written by uncredited, blacklisted screenwriters Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson (who were eventually given posthumous credit for

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The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Adult Audiovisual DVD - Bri

Based on the Pierre Boulle novel, this David Lean adventure epic was written by uncredited, blacklisted screenwriters Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson (who were eventually given posthumous credit for the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar it won in 1958), revolves around British POWs in a Japanese prison camp who are forced to work on the construction of the Burma Railway (against Geneva conventions). While a fictional story, the real-life POWs it is based on were subjected to far harsher conditions than the movie depicts.

 

War Movies

  • The Bridge on the River Kwai


  • Letters from Iwo Jima


  • The Hurt Locker


  • The Longest Day


  • The Wind Shakes the Barley


  • The Battle of Algiers


  • Platoon


  • Rescue Dawn


  • Das Boot


  • A Bridge Too Far


  • Saving Private Ryan


  • 1917


  • The 9th Company


  • Dunkirk


  • Sergeant York


  • Black Hawk Down


  • The Big Red One


  • Pork Chop Hill


  • Gettysburg


  • Overlord


  • Lone Survivor


  • City of Life and Death


  • Glory


  • Come and See


  • The Last of the Mohicans


  • Breaker Morant


  • Patton


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Breaker Morant

Submitted by mbrome on Mon, 2020-08-17 11:54

This Australian film centers on one of the first war crime prosecutions within the British military, served in 1902 on Australian soldiers, during the Second Boer War in South Africa.
 

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Breaker Morant
Breaker Morant
Adult Audiovisual DVD - Bre

This Australian film centers on one of the first war crime prosecutions within the British military, served in 1902 on Australian soldiers, during the Second Boer War in South Africa.
 

 

War Movies

  • Saving Private Ryan


  • The Hurt Locker


  • The Wind Shakes the Barley


  • Lone Survivor


  • The Longest Day


  • Dunkirk


  • Sergeant York


  • Glory


  • The Bridge on the River Kwai


  • The 9th Company


  • A Bridge Too Far


  • City of Life and Death


  • Gettysburg


  • 1917


  • Come and See


  • The Big Red One


  • The Last of the Mohicans


  • Das Boot


  • Pork Chop Hill


  • Breaker Morant


  • Patton


  • Black Hawk Down


  • Platoon


  • Letters from Iwo Jima


  • Overlord


  • The Battle of Algiers


  • Rescue Dawn


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Foul Play

Submitted by mbrome on Wed, 2020-07-29 15:42

Goldie Hawn plays a shy but spunky San Francisco librarian who gets herself caught up in a murder plot with Chevy Chase's cop in this late '70s Hitchcock-influenced, rom-com mystery.

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Foul Play
Foul Play

Colin Higgins
Adult Audiovisual DVD - Fou

Goldie Hawn plays a shy but spunky San Francisco librarian who gets herself caught up in a murder plot with Chevy Chase's cop in this late '70s Hitchcock-influenced, rom-com mystery.

 

Libraries at the Movies

  • The Public


  • The Breakfast Club


  • Ghostbusters (1984)


  • American Animals


  • It's a Wonderful Life


  • Desk Set


  • The Music Man


  • Soylent Green


  • Doctor Strange


  • The Librarian Movie Trilogy


  • Foul Play


  • Party Girl


  • Columbus


  • The Mummy (1999)


  • Storm Center


  • Agora


  • The Shawshank Redemption


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Ghostbusters (1984)

Submitted by mbrome on Wed, 2020-07-29 15:21

Features an opening scene in the iconic New York Public Library Reading Room (though some shots in the stacks were filmed in Los Angeles Public Library as well). There's even a Librarian Ghost!

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Ghostbusters (1984)
Ghostbusters (1984)
Adult Audiovisual DVD - Gho

Features an opening scene in the iconic New York Public Library Reading Room (though some shots in the stacks were filmed in Los Angeles Public Library as well). There's even a Librarian Ghost!

 

Libraries at the Movies

  • The Librarian Movie Trilogy


  • Party Girl


  • Desk Set


  • Storm Center


  • The Public


  • Foul Play


  • The Music Man


  • Columbus


  • Agora


  • Soylent Green


  • The Breakfast Club


  • The Shawshank Redemption


  • Doctor Strange


  • The Mummy (1999)


  • American Animals


  • Ghostbusters (1984)


  • It's a Wonderful Life


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The Public

Submitted by mbrome on Wed, 2020-07-29 15:13

Librarians stage a lock-in to help many of its patrons experiencing homelessness who have nowhere to sleep during the cold winter nights. Filmed at the downtown location of the Cincinnati Public Library.

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The Public
The Public

Emilio Estevez - Director
Adult Audiovisual DVD - Pub

Librarians stage a lock-in to help many of its patrons experiencing homelessness who have nowhere to sleep during the cold winter nights. Filmed at the downtown location of the Cincinnati Public Library.

 

Libraries at the Movies

  • Agora


  • American Animals


  • Desk Set


  • It's a Wonderful Life


  • The Librarian Movie Trilogy


  • Storm Center


  • Party Girl


  • The Mummy (1999)


  • Soylent Green


  • Columbus


  • The Breakfast Club


  • The Music Man


  • Doctor Strange


  • The Public


  • The Shawshank Redemption


  • Ghostbusters (1984)


  • Foul Play


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Party Girl

Submitted by mbrome on Wed, 2020-07-29 15:06

A personal '90s favorite where Parker Posey's character works at a library to work off bail money given to her by her librarian godmother and begins thinking about pursuing it as a career.

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Party Girl
Party Girl

A personal '90s favorite where Parker Posey's character works at a library to work off bail money given to her by her librarian godmother and begins thinking about pursuing it as a career. This film is perhaps most notable for the meltdown scene where she snarkily yells at a library patron for putting a book in the wrong place!

 

Libraries at the Movies

  • Agora


  • Party Girl


  • The Breakfast Club


  • Storm Center


  • Soylent Green


  • The Public


  • The Shawshank Redemption


  • Desk Set


  • The Librarian Movie Trilogy


  • American Animals


  • Doctor Strange


  • The Music Man


  • Foul Play


  • Columbus


  • Ghostbusters (1984)


  • The Mummy (1999)


  • It's a Wonderful Life


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Hero

Submitted by mbrome on Mon, 2020-07-27 11:46

A Chinese wuxia film set during the Warring States period.

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Hero
Hero
Adult Audiovisual DVD - Her

A Chinese wuxia film set during the Warring States period. Actors Jet Li and Donnie Yen are both former Wushu champions. The film has a strikingly changing visual pallette and, as Roger Ebert wrote, "demonstrates how the martial arts genre transcends action and violence and moves into poetry, ballet and philosophy". This was the first Chinese-language film to open #1 at the American box office.

 

Martial Arts Movies

  • Billy Jack


  • The Octagon


  • Dragon Inn


  • No Retreat, No Surrender


  • Triple Threat


  • The Karate Kid (1984)


  • Enter the Dragon


  • Police Story


  • The Raid Redemption


  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon


  • Hero


  • Mad Monkey Kung Fu


  • Ip Man


  • Five Deadly Venoms


  • Chocolate


  • Kung Fu Hustle


  • Above the Law


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