Summary: Geneviève, a shop assistant, falls in love with Guy, a gas station mechanic. But a life with him will not be in her future. A tender, bittersweet love story, sung throughout in French.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN UMBSummary: A chambermaid with Paris flair, gets a job at a country estate. The family she works for and the other staff members are a strange sort and she must learn the ways of country living and neighbor revialry. After a child is murdered near the estate, she begins to have her suspicions as to whom may be responsible.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DIASummary: In a Paris prison cell, five inmates use every ounce of their tenacity and ingenuity in an elaborate attempt to tunnel to freedom. Four of the inmates have been together for awhile in their cell, when Gaspard, the fifth inmate, is added to the cell. The original four inmates must decide if they want to take him into their confidence or not and whether to continue tunneling or not.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TROSummary: A soldier-boy earns a ten-day leave to go home to his mother by performing a desperate act of bravery at the front. On the way home he has many small adventures.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BALSummary: Two bumbling burglars plan a robbery with a young woman they just met. Problems begin immediately when they both fall for the girl and the plan goes haywire. The jewel-heist plot is merely a jumping off point for Godard's fast-paced mix of fantasy and spoof of Hollywood crime films.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BANSummary: Includes 2 pamphlets in pocket: pam. 1: 24 pages featuring writings by Jean Renoir, Francois Truffaut, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bertrand Tavernier, and an essay by Alexander Sesonske; pam. 2: List of films in the Criterion Collection with issue nos.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RULSummary: Martha is sullen, overweight and heartbreakingly lonely. Through the Friendship Club, she strikes up a correspondence with Ray, a suave charismatic smooth-talker who could be the man of her dreams. A stark portrayal of the desperate lengths to which a lonely heart will go in order to find true love. From brutally immoral killings to a passion that transcends all bounds.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY HONSummary: The 39 Steps is a heart-racing spy story by Alfred Hitchcock, following Richard Hannay, who stumbles into a conspiracy that thrusts him into a hectic chase across the Scottish moors. A chase in which he is both the pursuer and the pursued, as well as into an expected romance with the cool Pamela.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012