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Staff Picks in Video

Video Staff Picks - Mid-March 2013

Films of the Great Depression: Documentaries

not really another French Kiss

Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Can’t get enough of British monarchs?

Haunting films of Japan

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Loan Periods and Fines

Video DVDs	Limit	Loan Period	Overdue Fines
Movie and TV	None	1 week	$1/day
Nonfiction	None	3 weeks	25¢/day
DVD Express	2	2 days	$1/day
Children's DVDs	None	1 week	20¢/day

Online Resources

• Reviews
• Local Info
• Festivals
• Lists

• Allmovie.com Easy to use movie review site of over 220,000 titles.
• Metacritic Movie/DVD A cross-section of reviews from many critics presented with scored rankings.
• Parents Television Council Provides parents with information concerning recommended ages suitable for a particular film and specific information about the content of sex, violence and profanity.
• Rotten Tomatoes Fresh or rotten, this site sums up what the critics are saying about most every movie and DVD.

• Bijou Theater Student-run cinema screening independent, art house, foreign and classic films.
• Fleur Cinema A Des Moines cinema showing many limited release films.
• Iowa Digital Filmmakers Guild Dedicated to promoting filmmaking in Iowa and to building a community of and for digital filmmakers.
• Local Movie Times Local movie listings from Fandango.com

• Landlocked Film Festival Presents independently made documentaries and narrative films and videos, held in Iowa City.
• Hardacre Film Festival Began in 1996 as a project straight from the hearts of film lovers local to the Tipton area in Cedar County.
• Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival An annual festival committed to engaging our Iowa audience with the world at large through films that explore the boundaries of documentary and non-fiction filmmaking.
• Iowa Independent Film Festival Started in 2007 and held in the Mason City area.
• Wild Rose Independent Film Festival A celebration of the vast, diverse, bizarre, hilarious, beautiful cinema art being created by independent moviemakers outside the mainstream, held in Des Moines.

• AFI's 100 Greatest American Movies of All Time From The American Film Institute.
• Best Picture Academy Award Winners Wikipedia information about the Academy Award for Best Picture. Includes a list of nominated and winning films.
• Rottom Tomatoes "Best Of" Lists The best reviewed films of RottenTomatoes.com and the winners from various movie categories, such as the Oscars and Golden Globes.
• The Greatest Films This site has many lists of "best" films, actors, scenes, and more.

Video Locations in the Library

Fiction DVDs

• Map Key for Movie Genres - Descriptions of the color-coded genres at the Library.
• Map of Movie Genres - Interior map of the feature film and TV area at the Library.

Local Video

• Streaming Video
• Downloadable Video

Nonfiction DVDs

Children's
Nonfiction DVDs

Children's
Fiction DVDs