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Publisher
Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When decisions needed to be made at the office, the owner invented a nonexistent company president to hide behind. Now, forced to bring the "Boss" face-to-face with potential purchasers and employees, he hires a failed actor to play the part. Much to everyone's surprise, the unmasked boss plays the ultimate part by becoming a hero.
2) Croupier
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
London's gambling world is the setting where aspiring writer Jack Manfred, suffering from writer's block, takes a job as a croupier to support his art. Knowing the dangers of the cards, Jack is adamant about remaining a professional outsider, but the temptations of the game inevitably swallow him deeper than he could have ever anticipated.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (574 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells of the journey of the well-intentioned yet naive Kaji from labor camp supervisor to Imperial Army soldier to Soviet POW. Constantly trying to rise above a corrupt system, Kaji time and again finds his morals an impediment rather than an advantage.
4) Court
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An elderly folk singer and grassroots organizer, dubbed the 'people's poet,' is arrested on a trumped-up charge of inciting a sewage worker to commit suicide. His trial is a ridiculous and harrowing display of institutional incompetence, with endless procedural delays, coached witnesses for the prosecution, and obsessive privileging of arcane colonial law over reason and mercy.
"...Tamhane improbably succeeds in creating a damning courtroom drama..."--A.V....
Series
Film Movement volume 10, film 6
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Found memories: "Like every morning, Madalena makes bread for Antonio's old coffee shop. Like every day, she crosses the railways where no trains have passed for years; she cleans up the gate of the locked cemetery, and listens to the priest's sermon before sharing lunch with the other old villagers. Clinging to the image of her dead husband and living in her memories, Madalena is awakened by the arrival of Rita, a young photographer who is arriving...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a harried housewife is accidentally left behind while on vacation with her family, she decides to take a holiday of her own in Venice. She becomes charmed by the city and her newfound freedom. She decides to extend her stay, finding a job in a flower shop, renting a room from a wistful waiter, and rediscovers her love for playing the accordian. But her solo journey does not sit well with her tyrannical husband, who hires an amateur detective...
7) Luzzu
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Formats
Description
A hardworking Maltese fisherman, Jesmark is faced with an agonizing choice. He can repair his leaky luzzu – a traditional, multicolored wooden fishing boat – in the hopes of eking out a meager living at sea for his wife and newborn son, just as his father and grandfather did before him. Or he can decommission it in exchange for an EU payout and cast his lot with a sinister black-market operation that is decimating the Mediterranean fish population...
8) Oldboy
Series
Publisher
Tartan Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After being kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years, Daesu is released and sets out to find his abductors.
9) Ida
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
©2014
Formats
Description
A moving and intimate drama about a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland who, on the verge of taking her vows, discovers a dark family secret dating from the terrible years of the Nazi occupation.
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Bad day to go fishing: Jacob van Oppen, the former "strongest man on earth" and now an alcoholic, and his manager Orsini, who calls himself "the Prince," make a good living by traveling around small South American towns and organizing wrestling exhibitions. Arriving in Santa Maria, they are met with uncommon enthusiasm: the local newspaper wants to sponsor the fight, helping hands placard the town with posters, and an open call is made for a worthy...
11) Léolo
Publisher
Distributed by Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
12-year-old Leo Lauzon is torn between two worlds-- the squalid Montreal tenement that he inhabits with his severely dysfunctional family, and the imaginative world that he constructs for himself through his writings, where he's Leolo Lozone, son of a Sicilian peasant (conceived in a bizarre act involving a tomato). And his experiences of growing up affect his response to both these worlds
Series
Film Movement volume 10, film 11
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A study of the friendship between a Chinese woman and a fisherman who came to Italy from Yugoslavia many years ago, as they live in a small city-island in the Italian Veneto lagoon.
14) Vitalina Varela
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Description
A film of deeply concentrated beauty, acclaimed filmmaker Pedro Costa’s VITALINA VARELA stars nonprofessional actor VITALINA VARELA in an extraordinary performance based on her own life. Vitalina plays a Cape Verdean woman who has travelled to Lisbon to reunite with her husband, after two decades of separation, only to arrive mere days after his funeral. Alone in a strange forbidding land, she perseveres and begins to establish a new life. Winner...
15) La Femme Nikita
Publisher
Everybody Media]
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A cop-killer junkie is forced by the government to become an undercover assassin or face a life in prison.
Publisher
Palm Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The anchor of a popular news show flies to a small town in Ecuador to cover a story about a serial child killer. He saves a man after the town tries to lynch him. The man offers information about the case in exchange for a story about his innocence.
17) My golden days
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of Paul Dedalus, an anthropologist preparing to leave Tajikistan. Reflecting on his life, he has a series of flashbacks starting from his childhood in Roubaix; his mother's attacks of madness, his father's alienating depression. He remembers a student trip to the USSR, where a clandestine mission led him to offer up his own identity for a young Russian, whom he considered a phantom twin for the remainder of his life.
Publisher
First-Run Features
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Huppert plays Mika, wife of celebrated pianist Andre? Polonski (Jacques Dutronc) and stepmother to his son, Guillaume, whose mother died in a carwreck on his sixth birthday. Their lives are interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Jeanne (Anna Mouglalis), a young woman who has learned that she was almost switched at birth with Guillaume. Also a pianist, she harbours a suspicion that she may be Andre?'s daughter.
Series
Criterion collection volume 263
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 188 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Told through the eyes of Alexander and his sister Fanny, we see the exuberant and colorful Ekdahl household in a Swedish town early in the twentieth century. Their parents, Oscar and Emilie, are the director and the leading lady of the local theatre company. Oscar's mother and brother are its chief patrons. After Oscar's early death, his widow marries the bishop and moves with her children to his austere and forbidding chancery. The children are immediately...
Series
Criterion collection volume 378
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet (17 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
The chilling story of a Japanese soldier facing death and cannibalism in a Philippine jungle, after he is denied treatment for tuberculosis. Japanese troops are in retreat in the Philippines. Supplies run out and discipline crumbles.
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