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1) Tess
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 172 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic romance, Tess Darbeyville, a beautiful young peasant in late 19th century England, seeks her fortune with the wealthy D'Urbervilles, whom her family believes to be distant relatives. Although Tess rejects the advances of the D'Urberville's son Alex, he forcibly seduces her, leaving her pregnant and alone. After her sickly baby dies, Tess falls in love with Angel, a parson's son, who abandons her on their...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A tale of doomed love between a lonely truck stop waitress and a gay, hunky garbage truck driver, whose boyfriend becomes increasingly jealous of the two. Sharing its title with Gainsbourg and Birkin's sexually explicit 1969 hit pop song, the film is an equally provocative depiction of an unlikely couple's torrid affair.
Tells the story of a love triangle between a truckstop waitress, a gay garbage truck driver, and his jealous boyfriend.
3) The bear
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in the majestic mountains of British Columbia in 1885, centers on a precocious bear cub and an old grizzled Grizzly as they struggle to endure the harsh wilderness and survive their deadliest foe--man. An unrelenting battle of strength, wits, and ultimately, character is at hand, and there is no predicting the outcome when two of nature's greatest killers face off.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 sheet (12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 72 x 19 cm, folded to 19 x 12).
Language
Español
Description
"This Oscar-winning melodrama, one of Pedro Almodóvar's most beloved films, provides a dizzying, moving exploration of the meaning of motherhood. In an instant, nurse Manuela (Cecilia Roth) loses the teenage son she raised on her own. Grief-stricken, she sets out to search for the boy's long-lost father in Barcelona, where she reawakens into a new maternal role, as the head of a surrogate family that includes a pregnant, HIV-positive nun (Penélope...
5) 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...
6) Tess
Series
Criterion collection volume 697
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (171 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([16] pages : color illustrations ; 17 cm).
Language
English
Description
An exquisite, richly layered adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles. A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge. With its earthy visual textures it is a work of great pastoral beauty as well as vivid storytelling.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (281 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert.
Language
Français
Description
The story of Jean Valjean, the ex-convict who rises against all odds from galley slave to mayor, and the fanatical police inspector, Javert, who dedicates his life to recapturing Valjean.
9) The duchess
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story it is, in its way, a horror story, this portrait of a dazzling young woman at the mercy of the misfortunes of love and the inequalities of the age in which she lived. Married off as an innocent 17-year-old to a much older man, his only interest in the match is her ability to produce a male heir. Installed within the gilded cage of marriage, she discovers he expresses more affection for his dogs than for her. When the first child...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The story of Jean-Dominique Bauby, French editor of Elle magazine, who suffered a stroke at the age of 43, paralyzing his entire body except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (159 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Young Queen Margot finds herself trapped in an arranged marriage amidst a religious war between French Catholics and Protestants. Six days after her wedding, La Mole, a young man wounded by several sword injuries, frantically knocks on Margot's door. He is Protestant and must die like all the others, but Margot hides him, nurses him back to health and grows to love him.
After Margot, a Catholic, is forced into a political marriage with Henri, a Protestant,...