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.

 

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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.

 

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  • When We Were Kings


  • Strange Victory


  • The Battle of Chile


  • F for Fake


  • This Is Not A Film


  • Three Sisters


  • Sherman's March


  • Grey Gardens


  • The Missing Picture


  • Nanook of the North


  • The Farmer's Wife


  • Rock Hudson's Home Movies


  • Roger & Me


  • The Beaches of Agnès


  • Capturing the Friedmans


  • Chronicle of a Summer


  • Koyaanisqatsi


  • The Queen


  • For All Mankind


  • Shoah


  • Hoop Dreams


  • Histoire(s) du cinéma


  • Harlan County U.S.A.


  • Let There Be Light


  • Monterey Pop


  • The Thin Blue Line


  • Olympia


  • Los Angeles Plays Itself


  • The Act of Killing


  • Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Two Takes


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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.

 

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  • Monterey Pop


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  • Harlan County U.S.A.


  • Shoah


  • The Act of Killing


  • The Beaches of Agnès


  • Koyaanisqatsi


  • Grey Gardens


  • Histoire(s) du cinéma


  • The Queen


  • Chronicle of a Summer


  • The Farmer's Wife


  • Rock Hudson's Home Movies


  • Roger & Me


  • Let There Be Light


  • Capturing the Friedmans


  • Sherman's March


  • Strange Victory


  • This Is Not A Film


  • The Missing Picture


  • When We Were Kings


  • Olympia


  • Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Two Takes


  • F for Fake


  • 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.

 

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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.
 

 

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  • The Big Red One


  • The Last of the Mohicans


  • 1917


  • The 9th Company


  • Pork Chop Hill


  • Overlord


  • The Longest Day


  • Breaker Morant


  • City of Life and Death


  • Dunkirk


  • Gettysburg


  • Platoon


  • The Battle of Algiers


  • Come and See


  • Sergeant York


  • The Wind Shakes the Barley


  • Patton


  • The Bridge on the River Kwai


  • Das Boot


  • A Bridge Too Far


  • Lone Survivor


  • Letters from Iwo Jima


  • Glory


  • Saving Private Ryan


  • The Hurt Locker


  • Rescue Dawn


  • Black Hawk Down


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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.

 

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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!

 

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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.

 

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  • The Breakfast Club


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  • It's a Wonderful Life


  • American Animals


  • Foul Play


  • The Mummy (1999)


  • Ghostbusters (1984)


  • Soylent Green


  • Doctor Strange


  • Storm Center


  • Desk Set


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  • The Shawshank Redemption


  • The Music Man


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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!

 

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  • American Animals


  • Storm Center


  • Soylent Green


  • The Public


  • Agora


  • Desk Set


  • The Breakfast Club


  • Party Girl


  • The Shawshank Redemption


  • Ghostbusters (1984)


  • It's a Wonderful Life


  • Columbus


  • Doctor Strange


  • The Music Man


  • Foul Play


  • The Librarian Movie Trilogy


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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.

 

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