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1) After life
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In Koreeda's thought-provoking vision, the newly deceased find themselves in a way station somewhere between Heaven and Earth. With the help of dedicated caseworkers, each soul is given three days to choose one cherished memory for their life that they will relive for eternity. As the film reveals, recognizing happiness and finding a life's worth of meaning in a single event is no simple task.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Description
The French Ministry of the Future chooses two "normal", white, middle-class citizens for a national experiment. They will be monitored and displayed on television in a model apartment outfitted with state-of-the-art products and non-stop surveillance--the template for "a new city for the new man." -- container.
4) Akira
Publisher
Pioneer
Pub. Date
[2001?], c1987
Physical Desc
1 DVD (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A powerful psychic force known only as Akira resurfaces in Neo-Tokyo in the 21st century. Tetsuo, a young, inexperienced motorcycle biker driven beyond the boundaries of sanity by the power of Akira, is forced to conjure up demons laying dormant within his subconscious.
Publisher
Palm Pictures
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jacques is a forlorn bachelor living alone after his wife has left him. Deciding to get his life back in order, he hires a housekeeper. Laura plows through the mess that has overtaken his apartment, but he soon learns that she has never done a day's worth of housework in her life. Her presence adds a joyful spark to a life that has been missing for too long.
6) Andhadhun
Publisher
Reliance Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A blind pianist's life is turned upside down by a series of mysterious events, and a crime that he did not witness.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Classics
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two strangers, a criminal named Milan and a retired poetry teacher, Manesquier, meet in a sleepy French village and gradually become unlikely friends. As their friendship grows, each develops a desire to trade his life with that of the other.
8) 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.
9) Silent light
Publisher
Palisades Tartan
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (136 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a Mennonite community in Mexico, a man betrays his family by having an affair with another woman, which changes the course of events with both his wife and his mistress.
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.
11) Burning
Formats
Description
An introverted young man, Jongsu (Ah-in YOO), finds romantic interest in a young woman from his past, Haemi (Jong-seo JUN). One day she returns from a trip with Ben (Steven YEUN), a wealthy and sophisticated young man. When Haemi disappears, Jongsu becomes suspicious of Ben and his mysterious hobby.
12) L'avventura
Series
Criterion collection volume 98
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (143 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Story about the search for a girl lost on an island; gradually the searchers become preoccupied with their own problems, and the girl is never found.
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Having a fatherless childhood, young brothers Andrei and Ivan have grown closer than most siblings. But when they least expect it, the father the boys have never known returns. Under the cool midnight sun of a coastal Russian summer, the boys eagerly hop into a car for a fishing trip with a complete stranger they absolutely need to believe is their father. As they travel deep into the wilderness, their journey devolves from vacation to boot camp to...
14) Memory house
Publisher
Film Movement
Formats
Description
In this audacious debut feature, João Paulo Miranda Maria conjures a surreal image of the racial and social rifts in modern day Brazil. Cristovam (played by Cinema Novo icon Antônio Pitanga), an Indigenous Black man from the rural North, moves to an industrialized Southern town populated by the descendants of Austrian ex-pats to work in a milk factory. Immediately confronted with their virulent racism, he becomes more and more estranged from the...
15) The innocents
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Warsaw, December 1945: the Second World War is finally over and Mathilde is treating the last of the French survivors of the German camps. When a panicked Benedictine nun appears at the clinic one night begging Mathilde to follow her back to the convent, what she finds there is shocking: a holy sister about to give birth and several more in advanced stages of pregnancy.
Series
Criterion collection volume 912
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Yukinojo, a Kabuki actor, seeks revenge by destroying the three men who caused the deaths of his parents. Also involved are the daughter of one of Yukinojo's targets, two master thieves, and a swordsman who himself is out to kill Yukinojo.
17) 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...
18) 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.
19) Polina
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young girl studies classical ballet. As a young woman she turns to modern dance and choreography.
20) La ronde
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A chain of love started between a young whore and a soldier ends with the same whore after having gone full circle through various characters.
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