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1) Chocolat
Pub. Date
1988
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A young woman returns to Cameroon to trace her past. Soon the sights, sounds and smells sweep her back to her childhood and memories of the people who populated her youth.
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A troubled man reunites with his family, but soon, his unstable and increasingly threatening presence revives a legacy of brutality and domestic violence which threatens the lives of two young girls.
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Fourteen-year-old Antoine Doinet lives in a cramped apartment with his mother and stepfather, neglected by them and unlucky at school. Living an intense imaginative life of his own he gets into trouble and is finally committed to reform school from which he escapes and runs towards the sea, which he has never seen.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Gilbert Valance is a successful theater actor who learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car accident. Over time, Valence's life regains a semblance of normalcy - he takes care of his orphaned grandson, strolls the streets of Pairs, frequents his favorite cafe and retuns to the stage. But when an American film director casts him against type in an English-language production of Ulysses, Valance struggles to master the...
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (154 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
"Va Savoir is an elegant and utterly charming comedy about the romantic misadventures of Camille and Ugo-a theater director and his leadin glady-whose already complicated relationship becomes exponentially more difficult when they become entangled in the lives of four other peole. As funny as it is touching, as samrt as it is silly, Va Savoir is an endearing and delightful comedy of the heart and soul." -- container.
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Before World War I in Paris, a girl alternates between a French student, Jim, and a German student, Jules. After the war, they meet again and form a constantly shifting triangle.
Series
Criterion collection volume 290
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A perverse, playfully absurd comedy that compiles many of the illogical themes that preoccupied Bunuel through his career - from the hypocrisy of conventional morality to the arbitrariness of social arrangements.
Pub. Date
[1996]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
In a world ravaged by revolution and violence, two strangers-- a handsome renegade and a beautiful countess-- find their only chance for survival in each other! Together they undertake a perilous cross-country journey where they will also discover unmatched danger, excitement... and passion!
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (112 min. each side) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
This fantastically-twisted fairy tale is chock-full of curious characters and special effects. A sad and heartbroken madman, Krank, is aging prematurely because he can't dream. He kidnaps little children, hoping that eventually he will find a way to steal their sleeping thoughts. The story takes the form of a quest, as a sentimental harpooner-turned-fairground strongman, One, sets out to find his young brother on dilapidated oil rig. He soon falls...
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Tells the story of Ariane, who lives under her lover Simon's surveillance in a grandiose Parisian apartment. Simon harbours an obsessional need to know everything about her, and imagines that she leads a double life.
Series
Criterion collection volume 133
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Nederlands
Description
During a road trip with her husband, a woman is abducted by a methodical, calculating psychopath. Her husband becomes obsessed with learning her fate, and neither time nor the love of another woman can end his tormented quest.
16) Place Vendôme
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Marianne is the wife of a famous diamond jeweler. When he suddenly commits suicide, she learns that the business is in shambles and she is drawn back into the jewel dealing world. Forced to sell a cache of stolen gems her husband hid in their home, she finds herself confronted by plenty of would-be suitors, including the Russian mafia and the De Beers diamond cartel.
Series
Criterion collection volume 239
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Multiple
Description
A Baron, forced by circumstances, gives up his life of luxury and to takes up residence in the slums of Paris. The Baron observes the frustrated romance between Wasska Pepel and Natacha, the thwarted dreams of an actor, and the oppressive cruelties of landlord Kostileff.
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
In this sexy screwball comedy, dizzy model Sophie is devastated when her boyfriend runs off to a ski resort with an American heiress. With the help of custard pies, loaded rifles, speeding toboggans, and a screwy swami, Sophie soon finds adventure everywhere and love where she least expects it.
Series
Criterion collection volume 35
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Horror classic that influenced the 1960 movie, Psycho, by Alfred Hitchcock. Tells the story of a sadistic headmaster of a Parisian boarding school who is murdered by his wife and mistress, whom he has mistreated. The women dump his body in a swimming pool. When the pool is drained, the body has disappeared. Then come reports of sightings, terrifying his killers.
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Nelly is a disheartened young Parisian with marriage and financial troubles. Introduced to the wealthy Arnaud by a mutual friend, Nelly agrees to assist him in his memoirs. The unlikely couple initially develop a playful flirtation, but their budding relationship is threatened when Nelly becomes involved with Arnaud's charming editor.
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