Isabelle Huppert
Author
Language
Français
Description
Agathe (Isabelle Huppert) is an uptight, impatient art dealer who lives in an expensive Parisian apartment with her wealthy publisher husband, Andre Dussollier ("Unforgivable"). Patrick is a skirt-chasing, unemployed single father who lives in his van with his son. Their lives would never intersect except that their two sons are best of friends and her husband has hired Patrick to remodel their apartment. Hilarity ensues as this odd couple relationship...
3) Frankie
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Unfolding over the course of a late summer's day in the fabled resort town of Sintra, Portugal, this film follows three generations who have gathered for a vacation organized by the family matriarch. In this fairy tale setting, husbands and wives, parents and children, friends and lovers, stirred by their romantic impulses, discover the cracks between them, as well as the unexpected depth of feeling.
4) The nun
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
In 1760s France, young Suzanne, an illegitimate child, is sent to a convent to become a nun to atone for her mother's sin.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Nathalie is a philosophy teacher with a seemingly settled existence, juggling a rich life of the mind with the day-to-day demands of career and family. But beginning with the bombshell revelation that her husband of twenty-five years is leaving her, one by one the pillars of Nathalie's life start to crumble. For the first time in ages, she finds herself adrift, but also with a newfound sense of liberation. With nothing to hold her back, Nathalie sets...
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.
7) 8 women
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A wealthy industrialist is found murdered in his home while his family gathers for the holiday season. The house is isolated and the phone lines have been found to be cut. Eight women are his potential murderers. Each is a suspect and each has a motive. Only one is guilty.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Bored with her confined life in 19th century France, a woman runs up ruinous debts and has adulterous affairs. When her excessive life catches up with her, she resorts to suicide as her final means of escape.
9) Amour
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A touching tale of a loving couple whose unbreakable bonds of marriage are tested by life's greatest challenge.
11) I Huckabees
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kindhearted, but confused activist Andrew Markovski hires a pair of eccentric 'existential detectives' to help him find the meaning of life. All the while, a sexy, French author is trying to throw a wrench in their plan by seducing Andrew's mind and body.
12) 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.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Once happily married, Connor and Eleanor suddenly find themselves as strangers longing to understand each other in the wake of tragedy. The film explores the couple's story as they try to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone. Originally produced as two discrete films, Him, and Her, on being acquired by the Weinstein Company, the directer re-edited the films into one version, Them, which...
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...
Series
Criterion collection volume 636
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (216 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (40 pages ; color illustrations ; 18 cm).
Language
English
Description
A Harvard graduate, turned federal Marshal in Wyoming, learns of a government sanctioned plot by cattle barons to kill the area's European settlers for their land. The resulting battle is based on the Johnson County War of 1892.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1950s London, a widowed cleaning lady falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress, deciding she must have one of her own. After working to raise the funds to pursue her dream, she embarks on an adventure to Paris that will change not only her own outlook, but the very future of the House of Dior.
17) Greta
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 99 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A sweet, naive young woman trying to make it on her own in New York City, Frances doesn't think twice about returning the handbag she finds on the subway to its rightful owner. That owner is an eccentric French piano teacher with a love for classical music and an aching loneliness. Having recently lost her mother, Frances quickly grows closer to the widowed Greta. The two become fast friends, but the older woman's maternal charms begin to dissolve...
18) La cérémonie
Series
Criterion collection volume 1199
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Français
Description
Sophie (Sandrine Bonnaire), the housemaid to a wealthy family, forms a mysterious alliance with Jeanne (Isabelle Huppert), a small-town postal worker. Their violent pasts resurface when they feel unacknowledged. The film is considered the crowning achievement of Claude Chabrol's career and is a riveting study of class dynamics and the psychology of crime.
19) Elle
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Michèle seems indestructible. Head of a successful video game company, she brings the same ruthless attitude to her love life as to business. Being attacked in her home by an unknown assailant changes Michèle's life forever. When she resolutely tracks the man down, they are both drawn into a curious and thrilling game--a game that may, at any moment, spiral out of control.
20) The Nun
Author
Language
Français
Description
1760s France. Suzanne is shocked when her bourgeois family sends her to a convent. There she faces oppression and torment, leading her to fight back and expose the dehumanizing effect of cloistered life.