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Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
William Faber became a tax accountant like his father and resolved himself to a life where nothing much ever changed. At least until the beautiful Anna walked in one day and mistook his office for the therapist's down the hall. Unsolicited, Anna begins to reveal intimate details of her life which include how she is seeking security by attempting to save her tumultuous marriage. William and Anna find a bond developing between them, one that only true...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A photographer and his young wife are stranded in a remote village after their car breaks down. The only adult inhabitant leaves with the photographer to find help, while the woman takes over the duties of teaching the village children whose parents are nowhere to be found.
3) Perfumes
Formats
Description
Anne Walberg is a master of perfumes. She creates fragrances and sells her incredible gift to many companies. She is a perfectionist and temperamental. Guillaume is her new chauffeur and the only one who dares face her. This is probably why she doesn2t fire him. Guillaume also desperately needs this job to maintain shared custody of his daughter, so he can only push back so hard. Perfumes is a nuanced and delightful dramedy.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the international best seller by Amos Oz, the story of his youth, set against the backdrop of the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the early years of the State of Israel. The film details the young man's relationship with his mother and his beginnings as a writer, while looking at what happens when the stories told, become the stories lived.
Series
Criterion collection volume 664
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (136 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([20] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Portrait of an inexorable fall from grace, as an imperial lady-in-waiting gradually descends to street prostitution.
Formats
Description
On the day before her birthday, young Akane meets the mysterious alchemist Hippocrates who brings her through a basement and into a fantastical world full of magic and color. Though things seem peaceful on the surface, he reveals this world is in danger and as the destined Goddess of the Green Wind, it is Akane's responsibility to bring back the rain and save this world from the terror known as Zan Gu. The only problem? Akane just wants to go home....
7) Ugetsu
Series
Criterion collection volume 309
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (247 min.) : sd., b&w (disc 1) and col. (disc 2) ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (69 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
In sixteenth century Japan a village potter and his brother-in-law set out for the city to seek their fortunes in the spoils of war. Their neglected wives suffer the bitter consequences of their husbands' ambition as one is murdered by soldiers and the other is raped and becomes a prostitute.
8) The attack
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Amin Jaafari is an Israeli Palestinian surgeon, fully assimilated into Tel Aviv society. He has a loving wife, an exemplary career, and many Jewish friends. But his picture-perfect life is turned upside down when a suicide bombing in a restaurant leaves nineteen dead, and the Israeli police inform him that his wife Sihem, who also died in the explosion, was responsible. Convinced of her innocence, Amin abandons the relative security of his adopted...
Publisher
Artsmagic
Pub. Date
p2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 cm.
Description
Workaholic Tokyo salaryman Wada (Masashiro Motoki) ventures into deepest, darkest China to investigate a massive deposit of high-quality jade. Tailing him is Ujiie (Renji Ishibashi), a snarling yakuza hell-bent on getting Wada's company to repay its debts. Led by their unflappable guide, Shun (Mako), the two go through rural villages and striking landscapes, quickly leaving behind all signs of the 20th century. As the trail grows narrower and more...
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dondup, a young government official who dreams of escaping his rural village for America, misses his bus to the city and is forced to hitchhike with an elderly apple seller, a young monk, and an elderly man and his beautiful daughter. Along the way, the monk tells the story of another young man that mirrors Dondup's ambitions.
11) Beate
Publisher
Film Movement
Formats
Description
A timely and relevant story of revolt against greed and apathy for the working class, BEATE shows how different walks of life can come together and unite against a common enemy. After receiving notification via group text message that they are being laid off, the hardworking female employees of the Veronica garment factory decide to “borrow” some of the factory’s equipment to produce their own line of lingerie. Lead by factory forewoman Armida,...
12) 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
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the days leading up to Christmas, a married man forces himself to choose between his wife and his mistress. A sharply observed, deeply felt drama, showcasing the strengths of current Romanian cinema in its beautifully calibrated performances, expert craftsmanship, and dazzling technical mastery.
15) London river
Publisher
Cinema Libre Studio
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows Elizabeth as she travels to London in the immediate aftermath of the bombings on July 7, 2005, after failing to hear from her daughter. Elizabeth is disturbed by the confusion of the metropolis and above all, by the predominantly Muslim neighborhood where her daughter lived. Her fear and prejudice escalate when she discovers her daughter was converting to Islam as she keeps crossing paths with Ousmane, a West African who has come from France...
16) Angel
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Angel Deverell fantasizes about living in the town mansion, Paradise House. After a London publisher turns her novel into a best seller, she is able to buy Paradise House and pursue the man of her dreams, a painter struggling for his own big break.
17) The robber
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A champion marathoner leads a double life as a serial bank robber, sprinting between fixes, and away from police cavalcades, as many as three times a day. A lean, visceral study of pathological compulsion from Austrian director Benjamin Heisenberg, featuring a riveting central performance by Andreas Lust.
18) Water
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chuyia, an Indian girl that is married and widowed at eight years old, is sent away to a home where Hindu widows must live in penitence. Her feisty presence affects the other residents, forcing each to confront their faith and society's prejudices.
19) Oyster farmer
Publisher
HomeVision
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An enterprising young man robs a fish market and mails the cash to a secluded, close-knit community of oyster farmers. When it goes missing, he suspects it was found by one of his neighbors.
20) IP5
Publisher
Cinema Libre Studio
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An adolescent Spanish graffiti artist and an 11-year-old black rapper from Paris embark upon a strange journey to Grenoble in the back of a delivery truck. Once there, the two steal a car and discover an old man sleeping in the back. The boys soon discover that he is not a man at all but an enigmatic forest spirit who teaches them important lessons about nature and life.
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