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1) Summer hours
Series
Criterion collection volume 513
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The divergent paths of three adult siblings collide when their mother, heiress to an exceptional 19th century art collection, dies suddenly. The three siblings must sift through the past and decide what to do with the country home and items she has left for them.
2) Oceans
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Features an exhilarating look under the sea through the eyes of those that live there. Incredible state-of-the-art-underwater filmmaking will take viewers breath away as they migrate with whales, swim alongside a great white shark, and race with dolphins at play. Includes first-ever images of elusive deepwater creatures, featurettes, music video, filmmaker annotations, and more.
3) Afterwards
Publisher
The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A high-powered attorney finds his life turned upside down when he is visited by an ominous doctor who predicts people's deaths. Unable to stop the fatal predictions, the lawyer races against time to put his life in order before he becomes death's next victim.
4) Priceless
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Irene is with her elderly paramour, on the Riviera, to celebrate her birthday. When he falls asleep on her, she decides to slip down to the hotel bar. There, she mistakes barman Jean for a wealthy guest. He encourages the deceit by taking her up to the Royal Suite for the night. The following year, the same thing happens. This time her lover finds out and disowns her. Knowing Jean is a barman of little means doesn't stop her from wanting to be with...
5) Taken
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Kim is seventeen years-old and the pride and joy of her father, the ex-CIA agent Bryan Mills. Bryan left the agency to stay near Kim in California. Kim lives with her mother Lenore and her wealthy stepfather Stuart. Kim convinces the reluctant Bryan to sign an authorization form so she can travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When they arrive, they share a cab with a stranger named Peter. Amanda tells him that they are alone in Paris. While Bryan...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A shell-shocked Juliette is released from prison after serving 15 years for murdering her young son. As life has moved on, she must relearn certain basics. After being banished from her family, she is now reunited with her younger sister, Lea. Hopefully, Juliette will learn to forgive herself in the process.
7) Molière
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Moliere is a down-and-out actor and playwright who is up to his ears in debt. The wealthy Jourdain offers to cover that debt so that Molie?re's theatrical talents might help Jourdain win the heart of a certain widowed marquise. Disguised as a priest, Molie?re becomes a guest in Jourdain's palace on the subtext of teaching Jourdain the craft of the stage, all this to the annoyance of Jourdain's wife, Elmire. But, soon after, the confrontation between...
Series
Film Movement volume 10, film 7
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Eli, who's about to be 60, is expecting a baby with his new wife. Upon hearing this news, his two grown daughters, Dom, who is trying to adopt, and Justine, who flits from one boyfriend to the next, are shocked. To get closer to Justine, whom he has never gotten along with, Eli has the bright idea of making friends with all of her exes ... without her knowledge. But when Justine falls in love again and Eli is about to ruin everything, this family...
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 141 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Raised in a brothel, then wrested from the only life she knew by her father so they could join the circus, Edith Piaf spent her teen years on the streets. She is finally "rescued" by a crime figure who gives her career a start and, ultimately, by her international success and final illness. Always frail, sickly, malnourished, and wildly temperamental, she was often on drugs or alcohol and was always in search of true love. Middleweight boxer, Marcel...
10) Paris
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
While waiting for a heart transplant that could save his life, Pierre reunites with his sister and her lively children. This rediscovery of his family and observation of the teeming streets outside his window give Pierre hope, and a new sense of how he might spend the time still left to him. A story about the middle-class and bourgeois, immigrants and students, fashion models and the homeless, and all the lovers and strangers whose paths could cross...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jean is a burly and happily married housing contractor. One fateful afternoon, he picks up his son from school and meets the teacher, a willowy beauty named Mademoiselle Chambon. Their flirtation slowly builds over lingering glances and an impromptu violin solo in Chambon's apartment. Jean soon comes to a crossroads, having to choose between the intensity of his bond with Chambon or the responsibility and care he feels for his wife and child.