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21) Grand illusion
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A French World War I POW is held by Erich von Stroheim's German captain. A rousing prison-escape adventure and an exemplar of the 1930's poetic realist movement.
22) Border cafe
Series
Publisher
Global Film Initiative
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When an Iranian widow takes over her husband's truck stop restaurant after his death, she must hide in the kitchen so she doesn't cause a scandal. Now her brother-in-law wants to be with her for the cafe, while a customer just wants to be with her.
23) Shall we kiss?
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Gabriel and Emilie meet by chance, he offers her a ride and they spend the evening getting along famously. At the end of the night, Emilie declines Gabriel's offer of 'a kiss without consequences'. Emilie admonishes him that a kiss could have unexpected consequences, and tells him a story unfolding in flashbacks about the impossibility of indulging your desires without affecting someone's life.
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.
25) Russian dolls
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, five old friends reunite. A sequel to L'Auberge espagnole.
Publisher
Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In an enchanted, mythical forest, two star-crossed lovers are kept apart by their feuding families. Surrounded by rivals, nymphs, and druids, the two must overcome jealousy, temptation, and other worldly obstacles to keep their passion alive.
27) Korkoro
Publisher
Distributed by Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During the Second World War, a Gypsy family travels the roads of France before learning that the Vichy regime no longer gives them the right to travel freely.
28) Lassie
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Carraclough family is forced to sell Lassie when they fall on hard times. On her journey of 500 miles, Lassie faces dangers, natural and human, and finds help in unexpected places as she returns to her home and the boy she loves.
29) The secrets
Publisher
Monterey Media
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
While studying at a women's religious seminary in Safed, Naomi and her new friend explore the complexities of a religious lifestyle in a vibrant environment of youth, rebellion, and desire as they befriend a beautiful, mysterious older woman.
30) 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.
31) Army of shadows
Series
Criterion collection volume 385
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (145 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A civil engineer who is one of the French Resistance's chiefs is given away by a traitor and interned in a camp. He manages to escape and join his network at Marseilles, where he has the traitor executed.
32) Angel-A
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 91 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a down-on-his-luck gambler tries to drown himself, he winds up rescuing a gorgeous and mysterious blonde. As they set out on a mission across Paris, he discovers that his smart, spontaneous, sexy companion may really be Heaven-sent.
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On a winding mountain road, Vittorio stops to help Kate, whose car has broken down. After gallantly making the repair, without a single word spoken, he speeds off. When their paths cross again, Vittorio learns that Kate has returned to join her family's traveling circus after leaving under mysterious conditions many years ago. Intrigued by her story, Vittorio stays for the show, and the next one, and little by little is integrated into the circus...
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After the death of her sister, an elderly woman searches for her brother in Greece, hiding the fact that she was a Greek living in Turkey during the Turkish War of Independence, risking deportation.
35) Gervaise
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A story of mid-19th-century Parisian slums in which a young girl's dreams of a happy home and a successful laundry are cruelly destroyed by a drunken husband.
Publisher
Manufactured and distributed by E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A married woman who is having an affair is unsure whether she loves either man. To complicate matters, she discovers she is pregnant and doesn't know who the father is. Now she must come to terms with her emotional infidelities.
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
p2005, c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (76 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The classic Biblical tale of the three wise men comes to life in this movie. A bright star guides Melchoir, Gaspar and Balthazar toward a treasure meant for the unborn king of kings. To make the three wise men's quest even more difficult, King Herod's evil counselor, Belial, is among them in disguise, trying to sabotage their mission.
38) The warrior
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows the visually stunning and emotionally exhilarating journey of a warrior who travels from the deserts of Rajasthan to the snowcapped peaks of the Himalaya in search of peace, only to be chased by the forces of violence.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the McCarthy witchhunts of the 1950's, tells the story of the destruction of the career of a director. In order to revive his stalled career, he is asked to testify against friends who are suspected of being Communists.
40) 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.
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