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Criterion collection Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 385 Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 387 Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 419 Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 420 Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 626 Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 73 Eclipse (Criterion Collection (Firm)) MGM DVD World films (MGM Home Entertainment Inc.)Summary: Ponette is a sad little girl. She has survived a car crash that killed her mother and left her with a broken arm. Her father takes to live with an aunt, who has two children roughly her age, explaining to his tearful, disbelieving daughter that her mother is not coming back. Not understanding the finality of death in an adult way, Ponette wonders why if Jesus gets to rise from the dead, why...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PONSummary: Michel, an insignificant man who drifts into crime, is arrested and imprisoned. Upon release, he abandons an attempt at reform when a master pickpocket teaches him his art.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PICSummary: "Teresa, a fifty year-old woman, travels to the beaches of Kenya as a sex tourist or 'Sugar Mama'. There, she moves from one beach boy to the next, buying their love only to be disappointed and quickly learning that love is strictly a business."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing Home Video 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PARSummary: Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman's life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CLESummary: Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse, young husband and father François finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker. One of Agnès Varda's most provocative films, Le bonheur examines, with a deceptively cheery palette and the spirited strains of Mozart, the ideas of fidelity and happiness in a modern, self-centered world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BONSummary: The great Agnes Varda's film career began with this graceful, penetrating study of a marriage on the rocks, set against the backdrop of a small Mediterranean fishing village. Both a stylized depiction of the complicated relationship between a married couple and a documentary-like look at the daily struggles of the locals, Varda's discursive, gorgeously filmed debut was radical enough to later...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN POIMarker, Chris
Summary: In Paris after World War III, a few survivors research time travel hoping to send someone to the past to help their situation; the meditations of a world traveler on various world-wide locations are narrated.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: L'Armee des Ombres is a stark and unvarnished story about Resistance fighters in Vichy France in 1942-43 when the French leadership allowed the Nazis to occupy the country. The members of this army are cold, hungry, desperate men and women, with false names and no addresses, who can be betrayed in an instant by a traitor or an accident. They know they will probably die. A meditation on the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ARMSummary: Lagadere, a superb swordsman, vows to avenge the murder of his dashing friend, the Duke of Nevers. He is left to raise the Duke's daughter as his own and to restore her inheritance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Lorber 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE On GuardSummary: A French regiment confronts the horrors of World War I as they journey from patriotism to disillusionment about the glory of battle; ex-convict Jean Valjean tries to rebuild his life to be a respectable citizen but police inspector Javert relentlessly hounds him and won't let him escape his past.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RAYSummary: Using a melange of strange and unrelated images, this surrealistic film about two lovers who mock convention and the society intent on preventing them from satisfying their desire is a statement by Buñuel on the nature of the bourgeoisie, the Church and the police. Banned in France within two weeks of its release.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AGEFalardeau, Philippe
Summary: A Belgian inventor learns he was adopted and goes to Canada to learn more about his family, encountering a man with a similar situation along the way.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Facets Video 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CONRuiz, Raul
Summary: An art collector guides an unseen interviewer around six paintings by Frédéric Tonnerre, a fictitious 19th century painter, in an attempt to solve the mystery of a missing seventh painting, the disappearance of which has provoked a major scandal.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Facets Video 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Ever since he was a boy, Antoine has wanted to be the hairdresser's husband, and when he marries a beautiful coiffeuse, the salon becomes their idyllic paradise. But how long can a perfect love last?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Severin 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HAISummary: Set in the 15th century, two strangers dressed as minstrels arrive at a castle in advance of court festivities, and it is revealed that they are actually emissaries of the devil himself, dispatched to spread heartbreak and suffering. Their plans, however, are thwarted by an unexpected intrusion: human love. Often interpreted as an allegory for the Nazi occupation of France, during which it was...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Based on a true story of a daring young girl who will stop at nothing and fear no one. In 1943, thirteen-year old Fanny and her younger sisters were sent from their home in France to an Italian foster home for Jewish children. When the Nazis arrive in Italy, their caretakers desperately organize the departure of the children to Switzerland. When they are suddenly left on their own, these eleven...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An American tours Europe with his Parisian girlfriend and faces culture shock when he meets her family and former lovers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TWOHonore, Christophe
Summary: Follows the lives of three friends living in Paris who begin a playful threesome until tragedy strikes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LOVBinoche, Juliette
Summary: A young boy, who must deal with the increased fragility of his loving but preoccupied mother, befriends a red balloon that hovers around him and his family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FLISummary: On a bustling Paris street corner, four separate lives intersect, interweaving the stories of a promising actress, her photojournalist boyfriend, a teacher of African descent, and a Romanian illegal immigrant. A portrait of life in a fractured, lonely world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2002