Media Desk UGA Library

Now available for checkout: Marriage Story (DVD 7171.1-2).

Description: A love story about divorce. A marriage coming apart and a family coming together. A hilarious and harrowing, sharply observed, and deeply compassionate film from writer-director Noah Baumbach. Charlie is a charismatic New York theater director wedded to his work. Nicole is an actor who is ready to change her own life. Their hopes for an amicable divorce fade as they are drawn into a system that pits them against each other and forces them to redefine their relationship and their family.

Awards: 2020 Academy Awards, BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild Awards (Best Supporting Actress: Laura Dern).

Trailer: https://youtu.be/-y1HhAlAOTs

Now available for checkout: Tommaso (DVD 7172.1).

Description: An older American expat living in Rome with his young wife and their daughter is disoriented by his past misgivings and subsequent, unexpected blows to his self-esteem. He wades through this late chapter of his life with an increasingly impaired grasp on reality as he prepares for his next film.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/l6VmmsmOdVE

It's that time of year again! Starting today, films charged out from the Media Desk will not be due until January 10, 2022 (the first day of Spring Semester). It's the perfect time to stop buy and checkout that boxset that you've been craving all semester!

"The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering." -Bruce Lee

Now available for checkout: Bruce Lee, His Greatest Hits (Blu-ray 321.1-7).

Description: In the early 1970s, a kung-fu dynamo named Bruce Lee side-kicked his way onto the screen and straight into pop-culture immortality. With his magnetic screen presence, tightly coiled intensity, and superhuman martial-arts prowess, Lee was an icon who conquered both Hong Kong and Hollywood cinema and transformed the art of the action film in the process. This collection brings together the five films that define the Lee legend: furiously exciting fist-fliers propelled by his innovative choreography, unique martial-arts philosophy, and whirlwind fighting style. -Criterion Collection

Trailer: https://youtu.be/Ckk7f8x4xR8

If you've been eyeing a particular boxset or film series, then today is the perfect day to come down to the Media Desk and check them out. Films charged out today will be due on November 29th (the Monday after Thanksgiving). Speaking of boxsets, we have an amazing new Criterion Collection set that might interest you!

Now available for checkout, World of Wong Kar Wai (Blu-ray 326.1-7).

Description: Joined by such key collaborators as cinematographer Christopher Doyle; editor and production and costume designer William Chang Suk Ping; and actors Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Maggie Cheung Man Yuk, Wong Kar Wai has written and directed films that have enraptured audiences and critics worldwide and inspired countless other filmmakers with their poetic moods and music, narrative and stylistic daring, and potent themes of alienation and memory. Whether tragically romantic, soaked in blood, or quirkily comedic, the seven films collected here are an invitation into the unique and wistful world of a deeply influential artist.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/zjuSEW4y4b4

Now available for checkout: Little Women (

Description: "Writer-director Greta Gerwig has crafted a 'Little women' that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott, and unfolds as the author's alter ego, Jo March, reflects back and forth on her fictional life. In Gerwig's take, the beloved story of the March sisters--four young women each determined to live life on her own terms--is both timeless and timely." - Container.

Awards: Academy Awards (2020): Costumer Design

Trailer: https://youtu.be/AST2-4db4ic

Now available for checkout: Pariah (Blu-ray 325.1).

Description: The revelatory and assured feature debut by Dee Rees is a coming-of-age tale of a q***r Black women navigating the expression of her gender and sexual identities, built around a beautifully layered performance from Adepero Oduye.

Awards: GLAAD Media Awards (2012): Outstanding Film (Limited Release).

Trailer: https://youtu.be/rbBiTlGhrPY

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Now available for checkout: Emma. (Blu-ray/DVD 322.1-2).

Description: In 1800s England, a well-meaning young woman meddles in the romantic relationships of those around her.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/qsOwj0PR5Sk

Now available for checkout: Essential Fellini: Special edition 15-disc collector's set (Blu-ray 323.1-15).

Description: One hundred years after his birth, Federico Fellini still stands apart as a giant of the cinema. The Italian maestro is defined by his dualities: the sacred and the profane, the masculine and the feminine, the provincial and the urbane. Bringing together fourteen of the director’s greatest spectacles, all beautifully restored, this centenary box set is a monument to an artist who conjured a cinematic universe all his own: a vision of the world as a three-ring circus in which his innermost infatuations, fears, and fantasies take center stage.

Now available for checkout: The Green Knight (DVD 7169.1).

Description: A fantasy adventure based on the Arthurian legend, the film tells the story of Sir Gawain, King Arthur's headstrong nephew, who embarks on a quest to confront the eponymous knight, a gigantic tree-like creature.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/sS6ksY8xWCY

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Now available for checkout: Eric Rohmer's Six Moral Tales (Blu-ray 319.1-3).

Description: A succession of encounters between fragile men and the women who tempt them, the collection unleashed on the film world a new voice, one that was at once sexy, philosophical, modern, daring, nonjudgmental, and liberating. The collection includes The Bakery Girl Of Monceau; Suzanne's Career; My Night At Maud's; La Collectionneuse; Claire's Knee; and Love In The Afternoon.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/fVLy1IDAAKY

Now available for checkout: Jackie Chan: Police Story, Parts 1 and 2 (Bluray 320.1-2).

Description: The jaw-dropping set pieces fly fast and furious in Jackie Chan's breathtakingly inventive action comedies, two smash hits that made him a worldwide icon of daredevil spectacle. The director/star/one-man stunt machine plays Ka-kui, a Hong Kong police inspector whose methods are, ahem, unorthodox; the phenomenal Maggie Cheung, in a star-making role, plays his much-put-upon girlfriend, May. Packed wall-to-wall with astoundingly acrobatic fight choreography, epic explosions, charmingly goofball slapstick, and awesomely 1980s electro soundtracks, Police Story and Police Story 2 set a new standard for rock-'em, sock-'em mayhem that established Chan as a performer of unparalleled grace and daring and would influence a generation of filmmakers, from Hong Kong to Hollywood.

Criterion Bonuses: New 4K digital restorations of Police Story and Police Story 2; Alternate 5.1 surround soundtracks; Alternate version of Police Story 2, presented in a 2K digital transfer for the first time from a subtitled 35 mm Hong Kong-release print; New interview with filmmaker Edgar Wright and a 2017 podcast conversation between Wright and actor-director Jackie Chan.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/EpXMJ3wo0kI