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301) Monsieur N
Publisher
Empire Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled to the South Atlantic island of St. Helena, where he died a few years later. Or did he?
302) 35 shots of rum
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lionel is a middle-aged widower who makes his living driving a train and shares an apartment with his twenty-something daughter Josephine. Lionel and Josephine have a warm and caring relationship. Lionel's on-and-off girlfriend Gabrielle and their footloose friend Noe live in the same building. Together the four have fallen into a casual family relationship. But when Josephine and Noe become more than friends, Lionel is on edge.
303) Persepolis
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family. Their long dream is realized when the hated Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, Marji grows up to witness first hand how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this injustice, her parents send her abroad to Vienna to study....
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The world's top directors and some of America's top stars create a panoramic portrait of Paris. Find yourself transported by these sexy, romantic, haunting, dramatic, and beautiful stories.
305) Nanny McPhee
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Description
Nanny McPhee can tame even the most unruly children with a tap of her magic walking stick. Her latest challenge is the bratty brood of a recent widower, Mr. Brown. He is under pressure to find a new wife or lose his much-needed allowance from wealthy Aunt Adelaide. His love for scullery maid Evangeline remains unspoken as he wincingly woos the eagerly merry widow Mrs. Quickly; but Brown's raucous rugrats have a plan to make things right, especially...
307) F for fake
Series
Publisher
Criterion collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Trickery. Deceit. Magic. In this free-form documentary, the legendary filmmaker gleefully engages the central preoccupation of his career: the tenuous line between truth and illusion, art and lies. Orson Welles uses examples from his own career, art forger Elmyr de Hory, & the Howard Hughes biography hoax of the 1970s.
308) OSS 117: lost in Rio
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The pride of French intelligence, Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath (code name OSS 117) has a new mission that takes him to Bossa Nova Brazil of the 1960s. Teaming up with a sexy Mossad agent, he has to capture a Nazi blackmailer with a embarrassingly long list of World War II French collaborators.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Gregoire, a Parisian film producer, has it all, a beautiful wife, three adorable daughters, wealth and a buzzing career. On the surface he seems invincible, maintaining humor and charm as he tirelessly juggles the demands of his production company with his family's needs. But when Gregoire's reserves, both financial and emotional, reach a dramatic breaking point, his family's love and resilience is tested and their world is forever changed.
310) Les cousins
Series
Criterion collection volume 581
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Claude Chabrol crafts a sly moral fable about a provincial boy who comes to live with his sophisticated bohemian cousin in Paris. Through these seeming opposites, Chabrol conjures a piercing, darkly comic character study that questions notions of good and evil, love and jealousy, and success in the modern world. A mirror image of Le Beau Serge, Les Cousins recasts that film's stars, Jean-Claude Brialy and Gřard Blain, in startlingly reversed roles....
311) A prophet
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (155 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Malik el Djebena, who is condemned to six years in prison, cannot read or write, but soon figures out the politics of the prison. Though Malik is only 19-years-old, the leader of the Corsican gang who rules the prison corners him and gives him certain 'missions' to carry out. He quickly gains the confidence of the gang leader, as these assignments begin to toughen him up. But Malik soon develops some plans of his own.
312) Léon Morin, priest
Series
Criterion collection volume 572
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In Nazi-occupied France, a devoted priest is desired by all the women of his village, but finds himself most drawn to a religious skeptic who turns their relationship into a confrontation with both God and her own repressed desire.
Description
Fun, excitement and the whale that captured the world's imagination add up to big family entertainment. A lonely boy understands the plaintive cries of the orca confined to an aquatic park's too-small tank and does something about it in Free Willy. Watch and understand why audiences have loved Willie. The boy rejoins Willy in his new ocean home and together they confront a burning oil spill in Free Willy 2. In Free Willy 3, the best of the Free...
314) Bread & roses
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A group of immigrant workers take a stand against the million dollar corporations who employ them.
315) Le trou =: The hole
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (132 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a Paris prison cell, five inmates use every ounce of their tenacity and ingenuity in an elaborate attempt to tunnel to freedom. Four of the inmates have been together for awhile in their cell, when Gaspard, the fifth inmate, is added to the cell. The original four inmates must decide if they want to take him into their confidence or not and whether to continue tunneling or not.
316) A town called panic
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (75 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A stop-motion animated film about toys come to life, based on the Belgian television series with the same title. Cowboy and Indian give Horse a homemade brick barbecue for his birthday, but too many bricks arrive and they destroy their house. Surreal adventures follow as the trio travels to the center of the earth, treks across frozen tundra, and discovers a parallel underwater universe where dishonest creatures live. With panic a permanent feature...
317) Catch a fire
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (1 hr., 37 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The true story of a South African hero's journey to freedom. In the country's turbulent and divided times in the 1980s, Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical. That is, until he and his wife Precious are jailed. Patrick is stunned into action against the country's oppressive reigning system, even as police Colonel Nic Vos further insinuates himself into the Chamussos' lives.
318) Classe tous risques
Series
Criterion collection volume 434
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (27 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
After hiding out in Milan for nearly a decade, former gang boss Abel Davos sneaks back into Paris, along with his children and appointed guardian, Eric Stark. Beset by backstabbing former friends, Abel begins a journey through the postwar Parisian underworld that is both throat grabbing and soul searching. A character study of a career criminal at the end of his rope.
319) The law
Publisher
Oscillscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (121 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Illicit passions pervade a small Italian seaside village, where men gather nightly in the local tavern for the "game of the law." Marietta, a beautiful young servant woman, is lusted after by many of these men, but only has eyes for a handsome young engineer. Unfortunately, he is broke so Marietta decides to steal a dowry. In so doing she exposes the town's rampant corruption and faces the wrath of the players of "The Law."
320) Lola Montès
Series
Criterion collection volume 503
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[c2009]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([24] p. : ports. ; 19 cm.).
Description
The life of a young woman who was a showgirl, had affairs with kings, became a courtesan, and traveled the world trying to fit in. Charts the course of Montès's scandalous past through the invocations of the bombastic ringmaster of the American circus where she has ended up performing.
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