Arte France cinéma (Firm)
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.
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.
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.
7) L'humanité
Series
Criterion collection volume 981
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (148 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out leaflet (10 pages : color illustrations, 18 cm).
Language
Français
Description
"The transcendent second feature by Bruno Dumont probes the wonder and horror of the human condition through the story of a profoundly alientated police detective (the indelibly sad-eyed Emmanuel Schotté, winner of an upset best actor prize at Cannes for his first film performance) who, while investigating the murder of a young girl, experiences jolting, epiphanous moments of emotional and physical connection. Demonstrating Dumont's deftness with...
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 (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (10 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
Italiano
Description
Samuele is twelve years old and lives on an island in the middle of the sea. He goes to school, and loves shooting his slingshot and going hunting. He likes land games, even though everything around him speaks of the sea and the men, women, and children who try to cross it to get to his island. But his is not an island like the others, its name is Lampedusa and it is the most symbolic border of Europe, crossed by thousands of migrants in the last...
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...
12) Winter sleep
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (196 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Türkçe
Description
"Set in the picturesque and beautiful Cappadocia region in central Turkey, the film follows retired actor Aydin (Haluk Bilginer), who has inherited a small hotel. He is ensconced with his recently divorced sister (Demet Akbag), his much younger (and growingly discontented) wife (Melisa Sözen), and a host of guests. A seemingly trivial incident sets in motion a clash of personalities that puts the group at odds, and makes them reflect on the path...
13) Francofonia
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color, with black & white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (17 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
Français
Description
Explore the Louvre Museum and the relevant meditation on the essential relationship between art, culture, and history.
14) Bergman island
Series
Criterion collection volume 1170
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert.
Language
English
Description
In search of inspiration for their current filmmaking projects, Chris and her partner travel to the remote island of Fårö, Sweden, where Bergman lived and worked for decades. There, the spirit of the cinema master looms as Chris confronts her complicated relationships with work, men, motherhood, and her artistic influences.
15) 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...
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.
17) 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.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
A harried filmmaker tries to juggle the demands of her latest movie with a personal life in shambles. The star of her film, a bombastic American actor imported for the production, presents nothing but headaches and her crew is close to mutiny. Away from the shoot, Margherita tries to hold her life together as her mother's illness progresses and her teenage daughter grows ever more distant.
19) Caché =: Hidden
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A talk show host and his wife and son seem to be living an ideal life until clandestinely-filmed videotapes of their private lives start to show up on their front porch. As the tapes reveal more secrets, the resulting stress and fear leads to conflict, obsession, and deceit for the couple and brings back episodes from the husband's childhood when he wronged a young Algerian boy.
20) Le Havre
Series
Criterion collection volume 619
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 pages ; color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Français
Description
Marcel Marx, an old bohemian living in the French harbor city of Le Havre, stands up for a young African refugee when officials begin to pursue the boy for deportation.