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Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
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Call Number: VCR 2007-120
Description: Two drag-queens and a transsexual contract to perform a drag show at a resort in the remote Australian desert; starring Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce
Keywords: Transvestites; Australia

All's Well That Ends Well
Series Title: Shakespeare Plays
Call Number: DVD 2004- 57
Description: 1980s BBC series
Keywords: Shakespeare

All's Well That Ends Well
Series Title: Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare
Call Number: VCR 82- 4
Description: BBC Television Production; three parts
Keywords: Shakespeare

Andy Warhol Presents "Heat"
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Call Number: VCR 2007-107
Description: Sylvia is a fading, practically unknown star and Joe is a one-time child actor who live in a sunbaked motel in this high comedy/ low tragedy film
Keywords: Andy Warhol

As You Like It
Series Title: Shakespeare Plays
Call Number: DVD 2004- 59
Description: 1980s BBC series
Keywords: Shakespeare

As You Like It
Series Title: Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare
Call Number: VCR 82- 3
Description: BBC Television Production; two parts
Keywords: Shakespeare

As You Like It
Series Title: Shakespeare: From Page to Stage
Call Number: VCR 85- 4
Description: Helps to provide the student with a sense of the play as a script for performance
Keywords: Shakespeare

Atame!
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Call Number: DVD 2005-182
Description: Almodovar's comedy about an orphaned mental patient who kidnaps a porn star in order to have a family; stars Victoria Abril, Antonio Banderas
Keywords: Spanish; Pedro Almodovar

Best of Ernie Kovacs
Series Title: Best of Ernie Kovacs
Call Number: VCR 2000- 51
Description: 5-volume collection
Keywords: Ernie Kovacs

Birdcage
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Call Number: VCR 2007- 31
Description: Armand and Albert reluctantly accept Val?s intention to marry the daughter of a conservative Senator; when the fiancee?s family visits, the household is turned upside down
Keywords: Jean Poiret; Robin Williams; Nathan Lane

Bolivar Soy Yo
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Call Number: DVD 2007-112
Description: An actor abandons the production set of a popular soap opera about Simon Bolivar because he doesn't agree with the script; he begins to believe he is the real Simon Bolivar
Keywords: Spanish; Columbia: Social Conditions

Bus Stop
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Call Number: VCR 90- 35
Description: Starring Marilyn Monroe
Keywords:

But I'm a Cheerleader
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Call Number: DVD 2006-241
Description: Megan lives a super normal suburban existence until her parents suspect that she may be showing deviant tendencies
Keywords: Lesbian teenagers

Carro [The Car]
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Call Number: DVD 2007-113
Description: The Velez family says goodbye to public transportation and hello to the material world with the purchase of a little red car, which proceeds to spark big problems
Keywords: Spanish; Family life

Comedy of Errors
Series Title: Shakespeare Plays
Call Number: DVD 2004- 60
Description: 1980s BBC series
Keywords: Shakespeare

Comedy of Errors
Series Title: Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare
Call Number: VCR 84- 8
Description: BBC Television Production
Keywords: Shakespeare

Comment je me suis disput
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Call Number: DVD 2002- 21
Description: A romantic comedy about a group of twenty-something grad students trying to cope with life, love and everything in-between
Keywords: French

Details of a Duel [Tecnicas de duelo]
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Call Number: VCR 2007- 27
Description: Two men, who only yesterday were friends and political allies, plan to duel each other; egged on by the clergy, the militia, and the town's bureaucrats, the duel becomes a spectacle
Keywords: Spanish; Dueling

Dining Room
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Call Number: VCR 90- 44
Description: Film version of the play by A.R. Gurney
Keywords:

Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West...
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Call Number: VCR 98- 43
Description: Satire about the USA's view of the Soviet Union
Keywords: Silent; Soviet

Feuerzangenbowle
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Call Number: VCR 2001-309
Description: Based on novel by Heinrich Spoerl
Keywords: German; Heinrich Spoerl

Flesh
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Call Number: DVD 2007-114
Description: Joe, a bisexual prostitute, takes to the streets and meets a variety of unusual characters who together form a "gallery of city grotesques"
Keywords: Male Prostitutes

Floorwalker and By the Sea
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Call Number: VCR 98- 41
Description: Two Charlie Chaplin films; "Video Yesteryear" series
Keywords: Silent; Chaplin

Fresa y chocolate [Strawberry and Chocolate]
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Call Number: VCR 2004- 73
Description: Young college kid meets a writer and a passionate woman who teach him new things
Keywords: Spanish (Cuba)

Honeymooners
Series Title: Honeymooners
Call Number: DVD 2006- 75
Description: Complete set of all 39 episodes of the classic television show, in five discs; disc one includes commentary
Keywords: Television; Jackie Gleason

Hour of the Star
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Call Number: DVD 2006-120
Description: Adaptation of the novel by Clarice Lispector, about a poor Brazilian woman in Sao Paulo
Keywords: Portuguese (Brazil); Clarice Lispector

Kika
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Call Number: VCR 2005-122
Description: Ditsy hairdresser Kika gets involved with a host of unusual characters
Keywords: Spanish

Laurel & Hardy
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Call Number: VCR 2007-197
Description: 5 short films featuring the famous comedy duo of Laurel and Hardy: "Night Owls," "Another Fine Mess," "Perfect Day," "Men O'War," and "Berth Marks"; Oversize (5-volume set)
Keywords: Laurel, Stan; Hardy, Oliver

Love's Labor's Lost
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Call Number: VCR 86- 6
Description: In two parts (tapes)
Keywords: Shakespeare

Love's Labour's Lost
Series Title: Shakespeare Plays
Call Number: DVD 2004- 71
Description: 1980s BBC series
Keywords: Shakespeare

Ma and Pa Kettle at Home
Series Title: Ma & Pa Kettle Collection
Call Number: VCR 2007-185
Description: Ma and Pa Kettle try to spruce up their ramshackle nest before judges visit to decide if theirs is the dream farm
Keywords: Marjorie Main; Percy Kilbride

Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki
Series Title: Ma & Pa Kettle Collection
Call Number: VCR 2007-181
Description: The Kettles are summoned to Hawaii by an ailing relative to operate his pineapple factory until he recovers
Keywords: Marjorie Main; Percy Kilbride

Merry Wives of Windsor
Series Title: Shakespeare Plays
Call Number: DVD 2004- 75
Description: 1980s BBC series
Keywords: Shakespeare

Merry Wives of Windsor
Series Title: Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare
Call Number: VCR 84- 2
Description: BBC Television Production; two parts
Keywords: Shakespeare

Midsummer Night's Dream
Series Title: Shakespeare Plays
Call Number: DVD 2004- 76
Description: 1980s BBC series
Keywords: Shakespeare

Midsummer Night's Dream
Series Title: Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare
Call Number: VCR 83- 6
Description: BBC Television Production
Keywords: Shakespeare

Midsummer Night's Dream
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Call Number: VCR 90- 27
Description: In two parts (tapes)
Keywords: Shakespeare

Monty Python's Life of Brian
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Call Number: VCR 2007-117
Description: The troupe behind "Monty Python's Flying Circus" satirize a host of topics through the story of Brian, a first-century Judean who is mistaken for Jesus Christ
Keywords: Monty Python; Religious Satire

Much Ado about Nothing
Series Title: Shakespeare Plays
Call Number: DVD 2004- 77
Description: 1980s BBC series
Keywords: Shakespeare

Muerta de un Burocrata [Death of a Bureaucrat]
Series Title: Cuban Cinema
Call Number: VCR 2007- 48
Description: A social satire about the tyranny of red tape in Cuba centered around a union card buried with its owner, whose widow needs it for her pension
Keywords: Spanish: Cuba; Satire

My Little Chickadee
Series Title: Ultimate Mae West Collection
Call Number: VCR 2007- 56
Description: Mae West stars as Flowerbelle Lee, who seeks to improve her tarnished reputation by marrying Guthbert J. Twillie (Fields), whom she believes is quite a catch!
Keywords: Mae West; W.C. Fields

Polyester
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Call Number: VCR 2007-115
Description: Comic melodrama about a typical American housewife whose life is going to pot; starring Divine and Tab Hunter, written and directed by John Waters
Keywords: John Waters; Divine

Puphedz: The Tattle Tale Heart
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Call Number: DVD 2005- 69
Description: Satirical version of Poe's story "The Tell-Tale Heart," enacted by wooden puppets
Keywords: Puppetry; Edgar Allan Poe

Reduced Shakespeare Company
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Call Number: VCR 2004- 87
Description: Three-man troupe condenses Shakespeare's complete oeuvre into 90 hilarious minutes
Keywords: Shakespeare

Ritz
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Call Number: VCR 90- 33
Description: 1976 film version of the play by Terrence McNally, starring Jerry Stiller, Rita Moreno, Jack Weston
Keywords: Terrence McNally

School for Scandal
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Call Number: VCR 2003-128
Description: Guthrie Theater Company production of Sheridan's classic comedy of manners
Keywords: Richard Sheridan

Some Like it Hot
Series Title: MGM/UA Vintage Classics
Call Number: VCR 2007-100
Description: Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon star as two unemployed musicians, who accidentally witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and flee to Miami disguised as female musicians
Keywords: Gangster Films; Tony Curtis; Jack Lemmon; Marilyn

Splash
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Call Number: VCR 86- 4
Description: Tom Hanks and Darryl Hannah star in Ron Howard's comedy about a man who falls in love with a mermaid
Keywords: Ron Howard; Mermaids; Fantasy

Story of Fausta
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Call Number: VCR 2004- 68
Description: Fausta is a survivor who dreams of building a house
Keywords: Portuguese

Taming of the Shrew
Series Title: Shakespeare Plays
Call Number: DVD 2004- 82
Description: 1980s BBC series
Keywords: Shakespeare

Taming of the Shrew
Series Title: Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare
Call Number: VCR 83- 8
Description: BBC Television Production; three parts
Keywords: Shakespeare

Taming of the Shrew
Series Title: Shakespeare: From Page to Stage
Call Number: VCR 85- 5
Description: Helps to provide the student with a sense of the play as a script for performance
Keywords: Shakespeare

Tartuffe
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Call Number: VCR 2003-127
Description: 1978 television production of Moliere's famous play
Keywords: Moliere

Touch of Pink
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Call Number: DVD 2007-121
Description: A gay Canadian living in London has his perfectly crafted life turned upset down when his devoutly Muslim mother visits in the hopes of setting him up with a "nice girl"
Keywords: Gay men: Relationships; Mothers and Sons

TV Nation
Series Title: TV Nation
Call Number: VCR 2000- 83
Description: Episodes from Moore's mid-90s TV series; 2 volumes
Keywords: Political Satire; Michael Moore

Twelfth Night
Series Title: Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare
Call Number: VCR 83- 10
Description: BBC Television Production; two parts
Keywords: Shakespeare

Two Gentlemen of Verona
Series Title: Shakespeare Plays
Call Number: DVD 2004- 88
Description: 1980s BBC series
Keywords: Shakespeare

Two Gentlemen of Verona
Series Title: Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare
Call Number: VCR 84- 3
Description: BBC Television Production; two parts
Keywords: Shakespeare

Waltz of the Toreadors
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Call Number: VCR 90- 43
Description: 1962 film starring Peter Sellers
Keywords: Peter Sellers

Xica
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Call Number: VCR 2003- 13
Description: Brazilian slave seduces her way to being Empress of Brazil in 1700s
Keywords: Portuguese (Brazil)