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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...
Series
Criterion collection volume 296
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A chance encounter on a canal bridge results in a series of twilight rendezvous between a lonely city transplant and a sheltered woman haunted by a lover's promise.
4) 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
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The precarious romance between two people cast adrift in a lonely urban landscape. Antonio is a "fallen angel," an ordinary man without direction or ambition. Maria is a single mother whose life is slipping out of her control. As Antonio is drawn deeper into her fragile situation, he discovers a sense of hope they both might not be ready for yet.
Series
Criterion collection volume 189
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ivan Cavalli brings his new wife Wanda to Rome on the least romantic honeymoon in history--a rigid schedule of family meetings and an audience with the Pope. But Wanda, dreaming of the dashing hero of a photo-strip cartoon, drifts off in search of the White Sheik, thus setting off a slapstick comedy.
7) Indivisible
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (104 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
INDIVISIBLE is an award-winning Italian drama about the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood. Dasy and Viola (Angela and Marianna Fontana) are conjoined twin sisters living in the suburbs of Naples. They are blessed with beautiful voices and, thanks to their performances at local weddings, communions and baptisms, have become the breadwinners for their entire family. Kept isolated from the world by their exploitative father, their lives are turned upside...
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (100 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Lucia must stay behind under the care of her stern and overbearing grandmother in 1960's Sicily, while her parents and younger brother emigrate to France to find work. The girl is distraught and bitter about being left behind, and mopes the days away as the relaionship with her grandmother grows more and more contentious. Lucia grows increasingly curious about her grandmother's hatred towards other members of the family on the island, and begins to...
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (104 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
In 1526, the 28-year-old Giovanni de' Medici, knight of the noble art of war, was captain of the Papal army in the campaign against Charles V's Lanschenets. He was a living myth, fought over by princes for his great experience in the PROFESSION OF ARMS. Smiled on by fortune and desired by women, he was ruined by the introduction of firearms. A young man's death is a curse against fate; often it reveals the stupidity of human behavior.
10) Sin
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (136 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Florence, early XVI century. Although widely considered a genius by his contemporaries, Michelangelo Buonarroti (Alberto Testone) is reduced to poverty and depleted by his struggle to finish the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. When his commissioner and head of the Della Rovere nobility Pope Julius II dies, Michelangelo becomes obsessed with sourcing the finest marble to complete his tomb. The artist’s loyalty is tested when Leo X, of the rival Medici...
11) A Ciambra
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (118 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A teenage boy must grow up fast to survive life on the margins of Southern Italy in this bracing work of raw realism from executive producer Martin Scorsese.
12) Padre padrone
Publisher
Fox Lorber Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 cm.
Description
The story of a son's development under an oppressive father. Gavino lives in solitude as an illiterate Sardinian shepherd. Finally he revolts against his father and his own illiteracy, studies and earns a degree and finds his identity through his newly-found ability to communicate.
13) Caro diario
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
1993.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (101 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Director Nanni Moretti plays himself in this beloved comedy, told as three chapters from the filmmaker's diary: musing on cinema atop a Vespa, exiling himself to the Aeolian Islands to work on a new screenplay, and mourning his ailing health. Winner of the Best Director award at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, and two David di Donatello Awards, including Best Film.
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
1986.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (109 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
One of the most controversial Italians films of the '80s, DEVIL IN THE FLESH takes Raymond Radiguet's classic novel and updates it to modern times. Dealing with the legacy of Italy's "leaden years" and the aftermath of the social struggles headed by left wing revolutionary groups, DEVIL IN THE FLESH caused a critical uproar upon its release due to its highly-charged political and sexually frank subject matter. Maruschka Detmers (THE MAMBO KINGS)...
15) Misunderstood
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (106 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Asia Argento directs Charlotte Gainsbourg in this hip, funny coming-of-age story about a young girl with a vivid imagination.
Publisher
Mk2 Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (101 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Based on a series of interviews with Damian Pettigrew on the theme of the artist and creation a year before Fellini’s death – the longest and most detailed conversation ever recorded on my personal vision according to Fellini – this entertaining, unique portrait explores the mythical director’s world. From Federico’s childhood to his last film, Damian Pettigrew traces the master’s career, thoughts, and contradictions as told to him by...
17) Mom + Mom
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (80 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Karole and Ali love each other and dream of starting a family together. They soon realize it won’t be as simple as they’d hoped, and as their enthusiasm falters their love is challenged. In order to overcome the obstacles, they must believe in the power of their desire and support of their loved ones. If they can do that, miracles will happen… Based on the real-life love story of director Karole Di Tommaso.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1960.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (179 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Presented by Martin Scorsese and featuring an operatic score by Nino Rota, ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS is a timeless story of modernity, class tension, and family drama spun across an epic canvas by director Luchino Visconti. Looking for opportunity, five brothers move north with their mother to Milan, finding fame in the boxing ring and love in the same woman. Famously labeled by Scorsese as “one of the most sumptuous black-and-white pictures,” ROCCO...
19) 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.
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (73 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
The story of first Italian cinematic divas and their sometimes dangerous relationships with politics, drugs, excesses in the shade of Cinecittà's Studios birth.
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