Category: movies
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Summer Movies in the Collection
You may be excited to see this year’s summer blockbusters but there are plenty of movies about summer to keep you busy too! Here are some favorites – all available in the library collection. What are some of your favorites? Parent Trap (1961) Description: Hayley Mills stars as two young girls who, while at summer camp, discover…
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New movies (August 2007)
View a full list of this month’s latest arrivals. Here are a few selected films (click the images to be taken to the full catalog record): Batman How art made the world Expo : magic of the White City Maude. The complete first season My beautiful laundrette
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Italian director, famous for “Blow-up,” dies at 94
Another film great has passed away. Michelangelo Antonioni, one of Italy’s most famed modernist film directors, died on Monday at his home in Rome. “Mr. Antonioni is probably best known for “Blowup,” a 1966 drama set in swinging London about a fashion photographer who comes to believe that a picture he took of two lovers…
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“Poet with the camera” Ingmar Bergman Dies at 89
Ingmar Bergman, widely considered one of the greatest directors in motion picture history, died July 30th at the age of 89. His death was announced by the Ingmar Bergman Foundation. The Library has many books and other resources covering the life and works of Bergman. Click on the Find Articles–Film & Video link on the…
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Cool off with a good movie in the library!
Temperatures are rising as summer officially nears here in Chicago, but it’s cool (literally and figuratively) here in the library! Why not head up to the 5th floor and watch a favorite flick on one our viewing stations? You may be surprised by our collection. View a whole list of new movies just added to…
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New Books, Music & Movies (June 2007)
View a list of the newest arrivals. books music movies
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New Books, Music & Movies (May 2007)
View a list of the newest arrivals: books music movies