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Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Français
Description
Romantic comedy about Jeanne, a philosophy teacher who does not want to stay at her boyfriend's apartment while he is away. At a party, she meets Natacha who invites Jeanne to stay with her at her father's place, since her father is at his girlfriend's place most of the time. What Natacha really wants is to start a romance between Jeanne and her father.
2) Carmen
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1 videodisc (155 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Français
Description
In 19th century Seville, the lusty, tempestuous Carmen seduces a naive Army corporal, Don Jose, newly assigned to the village fortress. Jose abandons his career, his fiancee and even his dying mother for the love of this sultry gypsy. But soon she spurns him in favor of a toreador, Escamillo. Crazed with jealousy, Jose begs Carmen to return to him, but her taunting declaration of independence results in tragedy.
Physical Desc
1 DVD-video (NTSC) (110 min.) : sound, color ; 12 cm.
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Français
Description
"After attending a mindless party full of shallow chatter, Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmondo) feels his mundane world is closing in on him. Desperately wanting to escape, he finds himself in the arms of another woman. Unaware that Marianna's (Anna Karina) dark past still haunts her, they take off for the picturesque south of France. What proceeds is a roller coaster ride filled with passion, desperation and regret as these two lovers meet their final...
5) Z
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A Greek pacifist leader is murdered at a rally. Despite the official police report of accidental death, a journalist's persistent questioning leads to a full-scale investigation, revealing corruption in high places.
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.
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1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Français
Description
The story of Paul Dedalus, an anthropologist preparing to leave Tajikistan. Reflecting on his life, he has a series of flashbacks starting from his childhood in Roubaix; his mother's attacks of madness, his father's alienating depression. He remembers a student trip to the USSR, where a clandestine mission led him to offer up his own identity for a young Russian, whom he considered a phantom twin for the remainder of his life.
8) Blue ruin
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A strange outsider's life suddenly changes when he returns to his childhood home to implement an act of vengeance. Proving himself a novice assassin, he ends up in a ruthless fight to protect his estranged family.
9) Thérèse
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Français
Description
Therese has married wealthy but arrogant Bernard Desqueyroux, and is now part of his oppressively traditionalist family. When Bernard's younger sister Anna falls madly in love with a handsome young Portuguese man, Therese is tasked by the family to persuade Anna to forego the planned nuptials. But as she witnesses Anna's determination to keep her lover by her side, Therese finds her own desire to free herself from the provincial conventions that threaten...
10) Séraphine
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1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The true story of Séraphine Louis, a simple, devout housekeeper who in 1905, at the age of 41, began painting brilliantly colorful canvases. In 1912, a German art critic discovered her paintings while she was working as his maid. Tells the story of the relationship between the avant-garde dealer and the visionary cleaning lady, forging a testament to the mysteries of creativity and the resilience of one woman's spirit.
11) Tiptoes
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rolfe is the dwarf brother to a normal-sized Steven. When Steven's girlfriend Carol becomes pregnant, the pair are fearful that the baby will inherit the dwarfism gene. Matters are complicated still further when Carol finds herself falling in love with Rolfe.
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A plastic surgeon, holed up in a Paris mansion, is obsessively slicing off the faces of kidnapped women and grafting the flayed skin onto the rotting countenance of his beloved young daughter, disfigured in an automobile accident.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Three colors: White is the second part of Kieslowski's trilogy on France's national motto: Liberty, equality, and fraternity. White, therefore, was written around the destructive dynamics of a relationship based upon great inequality. Karol is a Polish hairdresser working in France. He has a beautiful wife, Dominique, [whom] he loves to obsession, and who is in the process of divorcing him for his inability to 'consummate the marriage.' Karol looses...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
עברית
Description
5 Broken Cameras is a deeply personal, first-hand account of non-violent resistance in Bil'in, a West Bank village threatened by encroaching Israeli settlements. Shot almost entirely by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his youngest son, the footage was later turned into a galvanizing cinematic experience by co-directors Burnat and Davidi.
15) The others
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Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Grace, a devoutly religious mother, has moved with her family to a mansion on the English coast, awaiting her husband's return from the war. Her two children both suffer from a rare photosensitivity disease that renders them extremely vulnerable to sunlight, prompting the rule of having only one door open in the house at a time. When one of the children claims to see ghosts, Grace at first believes her newly-arrived family of eccentric servants to...
16) White material
Series
Criterion collection volume 560
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([20 pages] ; 19 cm).
Language
Français
Description
Maria is an entitled white woman living in Africa, desperately unwilling to give up her family's crumbling coffee plantation despite the civil war closing in on her. A gripping evocation of the death throes of European colonialism and a fascinating look at a woman lost in her own mind.
Series
Criterion collection volume 36
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (147 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
"In a squalid South American oil town, four desperate men sign on for a suicide mission to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over a treacherous mountain route. As they ferry their explosive cargo to a faraway oil fire, each bump and jolt tests their courage, their friendship, and their nerves"--Container.
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 (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A true story of a spectacularly charismatic con man's journey from small-town businessman to flamboyant white-collar criminal, who repeatedly finds himself in trouble with the law and on the lam, all in the name of love.
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.
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