RMC Recent Acquisitions

This list contains new items received in the last two weeks that the RMC has available for checkout. Some videos may only be available on reserve. The center provides service to students, staff, and faculty. Other community members should contact the media librarian for special permission. This information is available via an feed.

roniya sud'by. Prodolzhenie

Summary: More than 30 years later, Konstantin ends up drunk in the flat where the younger Nadya finds him. He is there as part of a convoluted ruse by his father's friends to get Zhenya back into the arms of the woman with whom he shared a margical night. The waylaid son is the bait to get Zhenya back to Leningrad, now called St. Petersburg. One romance is rekindled and another between the son and daughter is struck up.
Call Number: VIDEO .DVD08608

Fido

Summary: Timmy's best friend in the whole world is a six-foot tall rotting zombie named Fido. When Fido eats the next-door neighbor, Mom and Dad hit the roof, and Timmy has to go to the ends of the Earth to keep Fido a part of the family.
Call Number: VIDEO .DVD08592

The Naked City

Summary: A squad of homicide detectives roam through the seamier parts of New York City as they solve a murder case. Gives viewers an unvarnished look at life in the city using the technique of neorealism.
Call Number: VIDEO .DVD07952

The Milky Way

Summary: Two French beggars on their way to Spain's holy city of Santiago de Compostela meet stigmatic children, crucified nuns, and others on their pilgrimage.
Call Number: VIDEO .DVD07996

L'Auberge Espagnole (The Spanish Apartment)

Summary: Xavier is a straight-laced French college senior who moves to Barcelona as part of a student exchange program, much to the dismay of his beautiful girlfriend. But sharing cramped quarters with students from all over Europe quickly leads to multi-cultural chaos as Xavier gets an eye-opening lesson on how to live, love, laugh and party.
Call Number: VIDEO .DVD03246

Le Petit Soldat

Summary: "Set during the Algerian War, [the film] follow Bruno Forestier, a disillusioned young deserter who becomes involved in the French nationalist movement. He is ordered to kill an Algerian sympathizer, and although he does not hold deep political beliefs, commits the murder and undergoes torture when captured. At the same time, he meets and falls in love with a woman who he does not know is fighting for the other side."--Container.
Call Number: VIDEO .DVD06553

Kicking and Screaming

Summary: A group of college students afraid of the future remain on campus to await their futures, while trying to answer the question where do we go from here?
Call Number: VIDEO .DVD06515

The Spirit of the Beehive

Summary: Not available.
Call Number: VIDEO .DVD06794 pt. 1

Jigoku

Summary: A university student haunted by a dark alter ego and surrounded by a web of deaths is sent on a tour of hell in which he and innumerable other people suffer a variety of gruesome torments.
Call Number: VIDEO .DVD06921

Bad Timing

Summary: Amid the decaying elegance of cold-war Vienna, psychoanalyst Dr. Alex Linden becomes mired in an erotically charged affair with the elusive Milena Flaherty.
Call Number: VIDEO .DVD07382

The Children Are Watching Us

Summary: A four-year-old boy is trapped in a loveless family with his suicidal father and his adulteress mother.
Call Number: VIDEO .DVD07357

Boudu Saved from Drowning

Summary: A well-off bookseller rescues a tramp from a suicidal plunge into the Seine and his family dedicates itself to reforming him. He shows his gratitude by shaking the household to its foundations, challenging the hidebound principles of his hosts.
Call Number: VIDEO .DVD05846

La Bete humaine

Summary: Train engineer Jacques lusts after the wife of his co-worker Robaud. Robaud kills his boss and Jacques witnesses the murder. In order to keep Jacques quiet, Robaud allows Jacques to have an affair with his wife, creating a tragic love triangle.
Call Number: VIDEO .DVD06965

Cocaine Cowboys

Summary: The cocaine trade of the '70s and '80s had an indelible impact on contemporary Miami. Smugglers and distributors forever changed the once sleepy retirement community and turned it into one of the world's most glamorous hot spots and the epicenter of a $20 billion annual business fed by Colombia's Medellin Cartel. By the early '80s, Miami's tripled homicide rate had made it the murder captial of the country.
Call Number: VIDEO .DVD08595

Kind Hearts & Coronets

Summary: Not available.
Call Number: VIDEO .DVD06763 pt. 1

Spiegel TV - Der Fall der Mauer

Summary: Als am späten Abend des 9. November 1989 der Schlagbaum des Berliner Grenzübergangs Bornholmer Strasse geöffnet wurde, dokumentierte allein ein Kamerateam von SPIEGEL TV dieses historische Ereignis: Den Moment, an dem die Mauer fiel - 28 Jahre nach dem Mauerbau, 44 Jahre nach Kriegsende.
Call Number: VIDEO .DVD08581

Ashita No Kioku

Summary: After being stricken with Alzheimer's disease in the prime of his life, a successful businessman slips slowly away from his loving family in director Yukihiko Tstusumi's poignant family drama.
Call Number: VIDEO .DVD08584

Unconqured

Summary: Peace-loving Chris Holden is a militiaman who buys and then frees beautiful indentured servant Abby Hale. When a supplier of illegal firearms covets Abby for himself, he sparks a vicious battle between an Indian tribe and a few brave colonists.
Call Number: VIDEO .DVD08586

The Bad Sleep Well

Summary: A young executive hunts down his father's killer. A tale about corruption in the boardrooms of postwar corporate Japan as seen through the rising executive eyes.
Call Number: VIDEO .DVD06176

The Virgin Spring

Summary: A peasant girl is raped and murdered in 14th century Sweden. When her killers seek shelter in her father's house, he kills them to avenge her death. Soon a spring appears from where the girl was killed and her father sees this as a sign from above.
Call Number: VIDEO .DVD06774

The Complete Mr. Arkadin

Summary: American smuggler Guy van Strattan decides to investigate the mysterious Mr. Arkadin after hearing about the wealthy man from a prison cellmate, but Arkadin claims amnesia about his own life, sending van Strattan off to investigate Arkadin's past.
Call Number: VIDEO .DVD05961 pt.1

L'eclisse

Summary: A young woman, after breaking off an affair with an older man, finds herself in Rome and alone. She becomes friends with a young stockbroker, but after he has an accident, she once again finds herself alone.
Call Number: VIDEO .DVD06449 pt.1

The Sword of Doom

Summary: A samurai assassin is prepared by his teacher for the violent life and death clashes required to defend his honor.
Call Number: VIDEO .DVD07445

Burden of Dreams

Summary: Goes behind the scenes in the making of Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, the story of one man's attempt to build an opera house deep in the Amazon jungle. Filmmaker Les Blank captured the production, made perilous by Herzog's determination not to use models or special effects.
Call Number: VIDEO .DVD08192

F is for Fake

Summary: Trickery. Deceit. Magic. In this free-form documentary, the legendary filmmaker gleefully engages the central preoccupation of his career - the tenuous line between truth and illusion, art and lies. This edition includes many special features.
Call Number: VIDEO .DVD04632 pt.1

Prison

Summary: The spirit of a long-dead prisoner returns for revenge, haunting the prison's new warden.
Call Number: VIDEO .VHS13904

Sister Act

Summary: A sassy, low-rent lounge singer is forced to hide out from the mob in the last place on Earth anyone would look for her--a quiet religious convent.
Call Number: VIDEO .DVD08588

Our Mutual Friend

Summary: A tale of two turbulent love affairs plays out amidst a tangled web of wealth, corruption, passion and betrayal in 1860s London.
Call Number: VIDEO .DVD08587

The Invasion

Summary: A space shuttle burns up upon reentry causing debris to land across a wide area of the United States. Tucker Kaufman, a member of the CDC, visits one of the crash sites and gets a cut on his hand. Dr. Carol Bennell begins to notice that people are behaving strangely. She turns to her best friend, Dr. Ben Driscoll. He takes a small sample of the material to Dr. Stephen Galeano and they soon learn the substance is not from Earth. Carol's son, Oliver starts to have nightmares and Carol thinks it is because he is about to see Tucker, his father. Tucker has been infected and begins to show little emotion. One of Carol's patients complains that her husband is acting differently. As she begins to voice these concerns, Carol begins to notice other strange things. People are staring at her as she walks by and no one shows any emotion when a woman is hit by a car. Carol soon realizes she must stay awake, find her son, and join her two friends as they try to get to Fort Dix and work on an antidote.
Call Number: VIDEO .DVD08580

Sorcerer

Summary: Four men must transport a dangerous cargo of nitroglycerine over treacherous terrain in order to stop an oil fire.
Call Number: VIDEO .DVD08579

30 Days Of Night (widescreen version)

Summary: An isolated Alaskan town is plunged into darkness for a month each year when the sun sinks below the horizon. As the last rays of light fade, the town is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires bent on an uninterrupted orgy of destruction. Only the town's husband-and-wife Sheriff team stand between the survivors and certain destruction.
Call Number: VIDEO .DVD08585

Have You Heard from Johannesburg

Summary: This film looks at the relationship between the United States and South Africa during the 1980s. The film focuses on the anti-apartheid movement, which effected changes of policy in companies, universities, and the U.S. Congress.
Call Number: VIDEO .DVD08600

Edukators

Summary: Three radical activists like to make their point by breaking into the homes of the wealthy, re-arranging their belongings and leaving cryptic messages. When one such break-in goes wrong, they are forced to kidnap a wealthy businessman.
Call Number: VIDEO .DVD05320

Forbidden Games

Summary: A timeless evocation of the loss of innocence, Rene Clement's devastating Forbidden games tells the story of a young orphan and her friend forced to fend for themselves in World War II France.
Call Number: VIDEO .DVD05720