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Series
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2004?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Seaside takes place in a small coastal town on the Bay of Somme where the year-round inhabitants find ways to make their lives work. From the stories presented, aided by close, revealing observations, we see a community perched between transition and stasis.
Series
Criterion collection volume 335
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (92 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (23 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.)
Description
Florence Carala and her lover Julien Tavernier, an ex-paratrooper, want to murder her husband by faking a suicide.
Series
Criterion collection volume 802
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2016
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 141 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The film follows a young literature student who befriends the members of a loose-knit group of twenty-somethings in Paris, united by the apparent suicide of an acquaintance.
4) Amarcord
Series
Criterion collection volume 4
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (63 p. : col. ill., port. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Federico Fellini satirizes his youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals in this portrait of provincial Italy during the Fascist period.
5) L'age d'or
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (63 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Using a melange of strange and unrelated images, this surrealistic film about two lovers who mock convention is a statement by Buñuel on the nature of the bourgeoisie, the Church and the police. Banned in France within two weeks of its release.
Publisher
KOCH Lorber Films
Pub. Date
c2005, 1998
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (414 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells the dramatic story of Edmond Dantes, a young French sailor who is falsely denounced as a political traitor and unjustly imprisoned for eighteen years without trial. After a daring escape, Dantes flees to the island of Monte Cristo, where he finds a colossal treasure bequeathed to him by a dying fellow inmate. Using these riches, he assumes a new identity and devises a plan of vengeance upon all those who betrayed him.
7) Americano
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After receiving news of his mother's death, Martin leaves his girlfriend and home in Paris and sets off for L.A. to tie up the loose ends of his rocky maternal relationship. As Martin digs deeper into his mother's past, he discovers she had a hidden relationship with a beautiful woman, who he finds at a seedy strip club in Tijuana, called the Americano. Martin discovers there may be more than he ever hoped to know about his mother's sordid past and...
Series
Criterion collection volume 6
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells the fable of the kindly beast and the self-sacrificing beauty whose love releases the prince in him. Contains such visual displays as tears that become real diamonds and walls that grow arms to light Beauty's path through the castle of the Beast.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003, c1994
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in.
Description
A daredevil race-car driver and a movie script girl meet while visiting their children's boarding school. They soon share a love filled with warmth, humor and truth, and intertwined with the demands of career and parenthood.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The lives and loves of several completely opposite men and women artfully intersect in what becomes a delightfully funny web of romantic entanglements! While negotiating differences in wealth and status, style, and taste, this vivid collection of characters mix and match in outrageously volatile combinations! Internationally acclaimed for its sexy comic sophistication-- expect the unexpected from this uncommonly entertaining motion picture!
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (6 p.)
Description
This hypnotic tone poem confirms Sissako's talent for capturing the essence of a place through evocative imagery, Tatiesque comedy, and close observation of everyday life. Abdallah returns to his homeland, a seaside town of Nouadhibou in Mauritania, for an indeterminate amount of time. Now a stranger to his own community and language, the young man tries to absorb as much local color (literally and figuratively) before embarking for Europe.
12) Jules and Jim
Series
Description
Before World War I in Paris, a girl alternates between a French student, Jim, and a German student, Jules. After the war, they meet again and form a constantly shifting triangle.
13) Queen to play
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Lovely and quietly intelligent, French chambermaid Hélène ... comes upon a couple ... engaged in an intensely sensual chess match and discovers she has a knack for the game. This obsession, much to the chagrin of her husband and teenage daughter, leads her to seek the clandestine tutelage of a reclusive American doctor ... a liaison that radically transforms both of their lackluster lives"--Container.
15) Aprés vous
Series
Publisher
Paramount Classics
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A romantic comedy about a Good Samaritan, a hopeless romantic, and the beautiful woman that comes between them.
17) 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.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of Bertrand Morane, a bachelor who is obsessed with women. Bertrand is no Don Juan-he is an intelligent and sensitive man who adores women of all ages, shapes and sizes. In an effort to understand his obsession, Bertrand writes his memoirs and remembers all the women he has loved.
19) Summer
Publisher
Fox Lorber
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After a disastrous stay in the mountains, Delphine (Marie Rivie?re) ends up on the beaches of Biarritz where she meets Lena (Rosette Carita), a Swedish girl who smothers her with good advice. Delphine decides to go home after finding her efforts to have a good time were failing, only to meet the perfect stranger at the train station.
20) Fresh
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Michael (or Fresh as he's known) is a 12-year-old drug pusher who lives in a half-way house for children without their parents. His father has become a street bum, but is still there if Fresh requires his 'street' knowledge. Fresh aspires to live the good life but his sister's prostitution for the drug heavies along with the senseless murder of friends push him to re-evaluate his life. He then decides that dealing isn't what he wants and revenge is....
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