(0)France 3 cinéma (Firm)
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sacha, a young girl from the Russian aristocracy, dreams of the Great North and anguishes over the fate of her grandfather, Oloukine, a renowned scientist and Arctic explorer who has yet to return from his latest expedition to conquer the North Pole. Sacha has always been fascinated by the adventurous life of her grandfather and has the same calling to be an explorer. Sacha flees her home and launches an adventure-filled quest toward the Great North...
2) Ganges
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Ganges runs through the heart of India. For millions of Hindus it is India's sacred river, but they share its banks with a rich variety of wildlife. This reveals how the Ganges has shaped the wildlife, culture and beliefts in India.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Through private letters, unpublished memoirs, performances, and TV interviews, this documentary is the first to tell the life story of the Greek-American opera soprano completely in her own words.
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
France, 1809: The charming Captain Neuville is set to marry the naive Pauline when the war breaks out, forcing Neuville to depart for the battlefield. After not hearing from the captain for months, Pauline grows sick with worry, and her sister Elizabeth decides to write letters on Neuville's behalf to cheer her up. Unexpectedly, Neuville returns home in glory and is welcomed as a hero, but unbeknownst to everyone, he is a coward and a war deserter....
Series
Criterion collection volume 923
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (152 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (color illustrations).
Language
Romanian
Description
A drama based on notorious real-life events, Cristian Mungiu mounts a complex inquiry into faith, fanaticism, and indifference. At a desolate Romanian monastery, a young novice nun, Voichita, reunites with her former companion Alina, who plans to take her to Germany. But Voichita proves unwilling to abandon her calling, and Alina becomes increasingly desperate to reclaim her devotion, putting the outsider at odds with the monastery's ascetic priest....
8) Bacalaureat
Series
Criterion collection volume 924
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations : 18 cm).
Language
Romanian
Description
"Blending rigorous naturalism with the precise construction of a thriller, this Cannes award-winning drama from Cristian Mungiu sheds light on the high stakes and ethical complexities of life in contemporary Romania. As his daughter nears high-school graduation, Romeo (Adrian Titieni), an upstanding doctor, counts on her winning a competitive scholarship that will send her to university in England. But when an injury sustained during a sexual assault...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Mysterious tale of a man whose life disintegrates when his beautiful wife of six months deserts him. Forced to begin anew, he rebuilds his life, only to plan a dangerous scheme of vengeance against her.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Thirty years ago, Andrei Simoniovich Filipov, conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra, was fired for hiring Jewish musicians. Now a cleaning man at the Bolshoi, he hears the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris has invited the Bolshoi orchestra to play there. He gathers together his former musicians and a young solo violin virtuoso to perform in Paris in the place of the current Bolshoi orchestra. If they all overcome the hardships ahead, this very special...
11) Disorder
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
"What happens when the man hired to protect you may be the real threat? ... Vincent, a troubled Afghanistan veteran who, after being discharged from the army, becomes bodyguard to the wife ... and young son of a wealthy Lebanese businessman at their luxurious villa on the French Riviera. But trapped in a perpetual mental warzone, the unstable Vincent must determine which dangers to the family are real and which are the product of his PTSD-fueled paranoia...
12) The midwife
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Two of French cinema's biggest stars shine in this bittersweet drama about the unlikely friendship that develops between Claire, a talented but tightly wound midwife, and Beatrice, the estranged, free-spirited mistress of Claire's late father. Though polar opposites in almost every way, the two come to rely on each other as they cope with the unusual circumstance that brought them together.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
When childhood friends Magalie and Blandine cross paths after many years, they decide to finally take their dream vacation to Greece. A wildly entertaining tale of female camaraderie, also starring Academy Award Nominee Kristin Scott.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (6 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 15 cm).
Language
Français
Description
During the middle of the sixteenth century, Martin Guerre returns to his village in southwestern France, after being away in the war for almost a decade. The villagers who knew him as a young man suspect he is not Martin, but he seems to know all about his friends, his family, and his wife, even the most unusual things. Is this man really Martin Guerre?
15) Red =: Rouge
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A seductive story of forbidden love and the unknowable mystery of coincidence as a young model meets an unusual stranger.
16) The Queen
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Queen begins with a familiar epigraph "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown" - Henry IV, Part II. The action of the film takes place during the week following the death, on August 31, 1997 of Diana, Princess of Wales. One of its accomplishments, courtesy of adroit use of newsreel and other contemporary footage, is to remind viewers of the deep sadness that surrounded that event. It is also about the divergent and potentially ruinous ways...
17) Dragon hunters
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Zoe is a little girl who believes in fairy tales. In order to help her uncle, Lord Arnold, get rid of a terrible dragon, Zoe decides she has to find some heroes. When she meets Gwizdo and Lian-chu, a couple of two-bit, fly-by-the-seat-of-their-pants dragon hunters, she decides that she's going to believe in them and sets out on an adventure to bring peace to the land.
18) L'immensità
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Clara and Felice struggle to raise their three children in the 1970's Rome. Their trans son Andrew yearns for another life, escaping into his own imagination to defuse family tension in this creative and moving film about growing up and breaking the mold.
19) Valley of love
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A separated couple journey to Death Valley after receiving a mysterious letter from their dead son in the expectation that he will appear to them at a certain place and time in the desert.
Series
Criterion collection volume 513
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([27] pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 19 cm).
Language
Français
Description
The divergent paths of three adult siblings collide when their mother, heiress to an exceptional 19th century art collection, dies suddenly.