Summary: "A stylish and poignant film about Jewish director Lucas Steiner (Heinz Bennent), who is forced to hide in the basement of his theater during the Nazi occupation while his wife (Catherine Deneuve) stars in its latest production. Romantic tensions mount when she and her leading man (Gérard Depardieu) begin to fall in love with each other. At the same time, a pro-Nazi theater critic ensconces...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Home Video 1999

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LAS

Summary: JCVD is an out of luck actor. He's out of money, his agent can't find him a decent production, and a judge is inclined to give his ex-wife custody of his daughter. He returns to his childhood home of Brussels. When he goes into a post office to receive a wire transfer, he finds himself in the middle of a hostage situation. Due to an unfortunate mistake, the police believe JCVD is responsible...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Peace Arch Home Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JCV

Revel, Jean François.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 128 REV

Summary: In the early 1960s in Paris, two young women become friends. Pomme is an aspiring singer. Suzanne is a pregnant country girl unable to support a third child. Pomme lends Suzanne the money for an illegal abortion, but a sudden tragedy soon separates them. Ten years later, they reunite at a demonstration and pledge to keep in touch via postcard, as each of their lives is irrevocably changed by...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN ONE

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Virgin Classics 2005

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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA GRA

Summary: A hired killer in a state of virtual living death goes about his business in a muted Paris, a city of shadows, only to fatally admit emotion (the love of a woman) into his life. His actions are analogous to hara-kiri committed by the solitary samurai. Melville takes the mythology of the gangster and removes all overt social comment in favour of romantic stylisation. Melville commented that his...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Filmel 2005

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SAM

Summary: 1804: the hidden history of Haiti is a documentary film about the untold history of the Haitian Revolution. Produced by the creator of the best-selling Hidden Colors film series, 1804 goes in-depth about the four principal players who were instrumental in Haiti's independence: Makandal, Dutty Boukman, Toussaint Louverture, Jean-Jacques Dessalines. This documentary gives a compelling look into...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: King Flex Entertainment 2017

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EIG

Summary: The famed lunch scene at the Algonquin Hotel's Round Table. Home to a circle of mutually supportive young artists that defined New York sophistication and a literate era of wit and intellect.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2006

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MRS.

Handel, George Frideric

Contents: disc 1. Xerxes. Largo (Orchestre de chambre Jean-Francois Paillard; Jean-Francois Paillard) -- Concerto grosso in B flat, op. 3 no. 2. Largo (Alice Pierot, Nicolas Mazzoleni, Christian Moreaux, Jean Philippe Thiebaut, Marion Middenway) -- Concerto in F, op. 4 no. 5. Larghetto (Jean-Pierre Rampal) -- Concerto op. 4 no. 6. Larghetto (Orchestre de chambre Jean-Francois Paillard; Jean-Francois...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Teldec 2001

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL HAN

Orchestre de chambre Jean-François Paillard

Contents: Adagio / Albinoni -- Canon / Pachelbel -- -- Orchestral suite no. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067. Minuet ; Badinerie / J.S. Bach -- Concerto grosso in G minor, op. 6, no. 6. Musette / Handel -- Piccolo concerto in A minor, P. 83. Larghetto / Vivaldi -- Oboe concerto in C minor. Adagio / Marcello -- Badinerie & gigue / Corelli -- Wachet auf : BWV 140. Wachet auf ; Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben : BWV...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: RCA Victor Red Seal 1990

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL PAC

Summary: After locking up an embezzling CEO, Jeanne pushes the limits of her power even further and winds up in a dangerous game of threats and intimidation.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Lorber Films 2007

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COM

Summary: "A French village ... chronicles the impact of World War II on a small village in central France. The series follows the lives of the villagers during the war as their lives become irrevocably changed by the German occupation and its aftermath. The Germans arrive in June 1940; the occupation will go on for five years and will reveal the strengths, weaknesses and secrets of the characters as...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2018

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FRE

Summary: Starting in the mid-1950s, a group of talented young filmmakers presented a radically new vision of French cinema. Dubbed the "Young Turks" by Cahiers du Cinéma co-founder André Bazin, they overturned the studio-based industry of the day, creating films that were modern, political... and funny. The group included François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda, Éric Rohmer, and more. The short...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EAR

Contents: Sonata V / Jan Krtitel Krumpholtz (14:21) -- Ballet des Champs-Elysées (Dance of the blessed spirits) / Christoph Willibald Gluck (5:56) -- Nocturne / Jean-François Naderman/Jean-Louis Tulou (10:49) -- Sonate no. 14, KV 29 / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (9:00) -- Andante con variazioni. Andante / Gioacchino Rossini (4:24) -- Sonate / Friedrich Benda (15:18) -- Nocturne concertant, op. 71, no. 3 /...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Channel Classics 2002

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL MUS

Summary: Cardinal Mazarin dies in 1661. The young Louis asserts his intention to govern as well as rule. Mazarin's fiscal advisor, Colbert, warns against Fouquet, who wants to be prime minister and is looting the treasury. Fouquet believes Louis will soon tire of exercizing power and overplays his hand. Louis' mistress reports this to the king who arrests Fouquet. Louis and Colbert design a brilliant...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TAK

Summary: An absorbing drama about a Belgian teenager who is gradually coming to understand the implications of his father making a living off of abusing illegal alien workers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PRO

Young, Skottie

Summary: Gert finally realizes that being such a murderous maniac might be the reason she's not been able to find her way out of the candy-coated world of Fairyland that has been her nightmare for over forty years. She sets off on a new quest to redeem herself and tries to earn her way back home with good deeds and kindness and love an whatever other mushy, touchy-feely things she can manage.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics, Inc. 2017

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 YOU

Summary: In 1943 a French Resistance fighter is sent to an infamous Lyon prison, where 7,000 of the 12,000 prisoners died either by natural means or by execution. Lt. Fontaine, certain that execution awaits him, meticulously plans his escape.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2004

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MAN

Summary: Marseille. 1975. Pierre Michel, a young magistrate with a wife and children, has just been transferred to help in the crack-down on organized crime. He decides to take on French Connection, a Mafia-run operation that exports heroin the world over. Paying heed to no one's warnings, he leads a one-man campaign against Mafia kingpin Gaetan Zampa, the most untouchable godfather of them all. But...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CON

Summary: Based on the memoirs of an imprisoned French resistance leader, this unbelievably taut and methodical marvel follows the fictional Fontaine's single-minded pursuit of freedom, detailing the planning and carrying out of his escape with gripping precision.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MAN

Summary: Thrown into a political marriage of convenience by her ruthlessly power-hungry family, the beautiful Margot soon finds herself hopelessly drawn into their murderous affairs. It's then she realizes her only hope of escape lies somewhere between the heroic soldier who loves her and the enemy husband who could save her.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 1995

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN QUE

Summary: This series of lectures introduces the greatest of universal museums. Its aim is not comprehensive. The focus is narrowed to the Department of Paintings, which is responsible for European paintings from the Middle Ages until the mid-19th century. These works of art form an encyclopedic summary of the achievements of painters that can be called the single most important such collection in the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2006

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 708.4 MUS
Call number: DVD 708.4 MUS

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great 708.4 Museum

Summary: A celebrated literary scholar, seemingly happily married, embarks on an affair with a gorgeous stewardess, who is captivated by his charm and reputation. As their romance gets serious, the film grows anxious, leading to a wallop of a conclusion.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: the Criterion Collection 2015

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SOF