Summary: Set in the Middle Ages, the nature of truth and subjective reality are probed in a series of flashbacks from four viewpoints to present the case history of a man's murder and the rape of his wife by a bandit.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RASSummary: Comedy-drama about a young trainmaster employed in a tiny station during World War II. He becomes involved in a plot to blow up a German ammunition train, but when the plan backfires, he is forced to commit the ultimate act of courage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CLOSummary: Trickery. Deceit. Magic. In this free-form documentary, the legendary filmmaker gleefully engages the central preoccupation of his career: the tenuous line between truth and illusion, art and lies.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion collection 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE FSummary: Train engineer Jacques lusts after the wife of his co-worker Roubaud. Roubaud kills his boss and Jacques witnesses the murder. In order to keep Jacques quiet, Roubaud allows Jacques to have an affair with his wife, creating a tragic love triangle.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BETSummary: A comedy in which the vague and clumsy M. Hulot, in contrast to his more wealthy sister and brother-in-law, is constantly at odds with the modern world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MonSummary: "An upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2000