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1) 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.
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young working-class wife and mother, Giovanna, has no time for the senile elderly man her husband has rescued from the streets. But as she uncovers the stranger's secrets, it unlocks a freedom within her heart that she never expected; a freedom that will lead her to the arms of a neighbor she secretly adores, and to fulfillment her husband and family cannot provide.
Publisher
Miracle Pictures Division of PMC Corp. DE
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"A schizophrenic beautiful spinster travels from her home in London to Rome on a twisted agenda to find romance with any man, whom she hopes will eventually murder her."--Container.
Publisher
Distributed by Hen's Tooth Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 cm.
Description
Spoof of the western classic The magnificent seven. A lazy drifter-gunslinger and his outlaw brother join forces with a group of Mormon farmers to rout bullying bad guys, then they ride off with their gang to California.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a beautiful young girl is found murdered in an idyllic northern Italy village, Inspector Giovanni Sanzio is called in from the capital to investigate. In a small town where nobody is what they seem, anyone could be capable of homicide and everyone may be hiding a dark secret, including Inspector Sanzio.
Publisher
Direct Source Special Products, Inc
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106, 89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dead for a dollar: In a rip-roaring Spaghetti Western with some of the most memorable shootouts in Western history, a ruthless cowboy tracks down his double-crossing partners. Cain's cutthroats: In the final days of the Civil War, peace has not yet come for one man. The war still rages on in the soul of a Confederate officer obsessed with revenge for the rape of his wife and the death of his son.
8) La strada
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Directed by Federico Fellini, the story of a fragile girl who falls in love with a brute circus performer she was sold to by her mother.
9) Vodka lemon
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A small Armenian village faces tough times after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Hamo is a widower with a small military pension and three useless sons. While making one of his daily visits to his wife's grave he meets Nina and the two begin to date.
Publisher
NoShame Films
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (98 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (10 p.)
Description
Groundlessly jealous of his wife's romantic past, Enrico Fontana hires a private detective to finally determine whether she is faithful or not. Ironically, his suspicious attitude unconsciously brings his wife, Paola, together with Guido, a man with whom she had once been in love. Paola and Guido's past was clouded in tragedy. Giudo had been involved with Paola's close friend's death. Their passion rekindled once again, the lovers consider murdering...
Series
Film Movement volume 1, film 11
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After breaking up with her boyfriend, 30-year-old Stefania vacations on the Greek "Isle of Love", and reluctantly agrees to chaperone her precocious 15-year-old niece, Meggy. But Stefania doesn't know that Meggy plans to lose her virginity before the summer is over, and the guy she has her eye on is none other than Stefania's ex.
12) Trafic
Series
Criterion collection volume 439
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (14 p.)
Description
The bumbling Monsieur Hulot, outfitted with tan raincoat, beaten brown hat, and umbrella, takes to Paris's highways and byways.
13) Amarcord
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Memories of episodes about love, sex, politics, family life and growing up in a small Italian town in the 1930's.
15) Mamma Roma
Series
Criterion collection volume 236
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[c2004]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (110 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (29 p. : ill.)
Description
A middle-aged prostitute attempts to extricate herself from her sordid past for the sake of her son. Mamma Roma offers an unflinching look at the struggle for survival in postwar Italy.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (368 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Divided by politics but bonded by blood, Italian brothers Nicola and Matteo find their paths intersecting through some of the most tumultuous events in recent history. Produced for Italian television, but never broadcast; released theatrically instead.
17) Golden door
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Sicilian farmer falls in love with a worldly British woman while both are attempting to immigrate to America.
18) Blow-up
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A London photographer takes some pictures of a couple in a park and discovers that he may have recorded evidence of a murder.
19) Umberto D
Series
Criterion collection volume 201
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003], c1952
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follow Umberto D., an elderly pensioner, as he struggles to make ends meet during Italy's postwar economic boom. Alone, except for his dog, Flike, Umberto strives to maintain his dignity while trying to survive in a city where traditional human kindness seems to have lost out to the forces of modernization.
20) Francesco
Publisher
Trinity Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dramatization of the passionately mystical life of Saint Francis of Assisi. The decadent son of a wealthy, 13th-century Italian merchant, Francesco experienced a religious awakening and set an enduring example of devotion and sacrifice.
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