(0)Arte France cinéma (Firm)
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The beautiful widow Susan Vernon has come to the estate of her in-laws to wait out colorful rumors about her dalliances circulating through polite society. Whilst there, she decides to secure a husband for herself and her rather reluctant debutante daughter, Frederica.
3) The salesman
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Persian
Description
The story of a couple whose relationship begins to turn sour during their performance of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.
4) Timbuktu
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives, which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith, abruptly disturbed when they are forced to follow the new laws of their foreign occupants.
When he accidentally kills a fisherman who slaughtered his cow, cattle herder Kidane and his family, who have been living in peace, are subjected to rule under the Jihadists.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A modern odyssey, a dizzying, science fiction-like journey into the heart of Africa. At the moment when the Sudan, the continent's biggest country, is being divided into two nations, an old civilizing pathology re-emerges: that of colonialism, clash of empires, and yet new episodes of bloody (and holy) wars over land and resources.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
"Fed up with her abusive family situation, lack of school prospects and the 'boys' law' in the neighborhood, Marieme ... starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. She changes her name, her style, drops out of school and starts stealing to be accepted into the group. When her home situation becomes unbearable, Marieme seeks solace in an older man who promises her money and protection"--Container.
8) Intimacy
Physical Desc
1 videodisc : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
What starts out as a weekly anonymous tryst between a divorced man and a married woman turns into a searing portrait of loneliness and emotional need.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Jean is a burly and happily married housing contractor. One afternoon, he picks up his son from school and meets the teacher, a beauty named Mademoiselle Chambon. As their flirtation slowly builds, Jean soon comes to a crossroads, having to choose between his bond with Chambon or the responsibility and care he feels for his wife and child.
11) Personal shopper
Series
Criterion collection volume 899
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Language
English
Description
This evocative character study tells the story of a young American fashion assistant and spiritual medium who is living in Paris and searching for signs of an afterlife following the sudden death of her twin brother. A stirring depiction of grief in the form of a psychological thriller, and a chilling meditation on modern modes of communication and the way we mourn those we love.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequence ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (11 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
Français
Description
"A reflection on art, life, and the movies. ... [A] richly cinematic self portrait that touches on everything from the feminist movement and the Black Panthers to the films of husband Jacques Demy and the birth of the French New Wave."--Container.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (100 min.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Franck spends his summer vacation searching for companionship and sexual encounters at a popular cruising spot on the shores of a picturesque lake in rural France. One day, he meets Michel, an attractive yet darkly mysterious man and falls blindly in love. When a death occurs, Franck and Michel become the primary suspects but they choose to ignore the dangers and instead continue to engage in their passionate and potentially lethal relationship.
Franck...
14) The square
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 151 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Swedish
Description
A prestigious Stockholm museum's chief art curator finds himself in times of both professional and personal crisis as he attempts to set up a controversial new exhibit. A satirical drama reflecting the times, about the sense of community, moral courage and the affluent person's need for egocentricity in an increasingly uncertain world.
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (8 unnumbered pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 15 cm).
Language
Français
Description
Filmmaker Agnès Varda and photographer JR set out on a trip through France to meet locals and produce epic sized murals and form an unlikely friendship along the way.
16) Cold war
Series
Criterion collection volume 1005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Polish
Description
A sweeping, delirious romance begins in the Polish countryside, where Wiktor, a musician on a state-sponsored mission to collect folk songs, discovers a captivating young singer named Zula. Over the next fifteen years, their turbulent relationship will play out in stolen moments between two worlds: the jazz clubs of decadent, bohemian Paris, to which he defects, and the corrupt, repressive Communist Bloc, where she remains, universes bridged by their...
17) Bat superpowers
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Could the source of the world's deadliest viruses hold the secret to a healthier and longer life? Bats have a sinister reputation as potential sources for some of the deadliest disease outbreaks: Ebola, MERS, SARS, and most recently, SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the COVID-19 global pandemic.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1132
Language
Norwegian
Formats
Description
A young woman battles indecisiveness as she traverses the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path.
Series
Criterion collection volume 894
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 130 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (12 panels : color illustrations ; folded to 19 cm).
Language
Français
Description
"In this riveting study of the dynamics of control, Academy Award-winning director Michael Haneke takes on Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek's controversial 1983 novel about perverse female sexuality and the world of classical music ... Erika [is] a piano professor at a Viennese conservatory who lives with her mother in a claustrophobically codepenƯdent relationƯship. Severely repressed, she satisfies her masƯochistic urges only voyeuristically until...