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Foreign Languages/Films
Title: Beijing Bicycle
Call ID: DVCH 805
Wang Xiaoshuai. Mandarin (English subtitles). 113 mins. 2002.
Persistence pays off for country boy Guei (Cui Lin) when he lands a coveted job as a bicycle messenger on the teeming streets of Beijing.
Title: The Blue Kite
Call ID: VCH 303
Tian Zhuangzhuang. Mandarin (English subtitles). 138mins. 1994.
Banned by the Chinese government, The Blue Kite provides a unique window into contemporary Chinese life and politics.
Title: C'est La Vie Mon Cheri
Call ID: DVCH 801
Lee/Universe Laser and Video Co., LTD. Chinese (English subtitles)
Title: Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Call ID: VCH 307
Ang Lee. Chinese (English Subtitles). 120 minutes.
Two master warriors (Chow Yun Fat and Michelle Yeoh) are faced with their greatest challenge when the treasured Green Destiny sword is stolen.
Title: Crows & Sparrows
Call ID: VCH 306
Zheng Junli. Mandarin (English subtitles). 108 mins. 1940.
The most renowned of China's social films of the 1940s, Crows and Sparrows is hailed by film historian Jay Leyda as "a milestone in Chinese film history."
Title: Eat Drink Man Woman
Call ID: DVCH 802
Ang Lee. Mandarin (English, French & Spanish subtitles). 124 mins. 1994.
Trouble is cooking for widower and master chef Chu (Sihung Lung) who's about to discover that no matter how dazzling and delicious his culinary creations might be they're no match for the libidinous whims of his three daughters.
Title: Farewell My Concubine
Call ID: VCH 302
Chen Kaige. Chinese (English subtitles). 157 mins. 1993.
This complex story of passion and political intrigue won the Best Film Award at Cannes and is an ambitious historical epic of China in the 20th Century.
Title: Hong Kong 1941
Call ID: DVCH 800
Lueng Po Chi. Chinese (English subtitles). 97 mins. 1993.
International sensation Chow Yun Fat (John Woo's The Killer and Hard-Boiled, The Replacement Killers) and Cecilia Yip star in this compelling romance drama set in war-torn Hong Kong, on the eve of the Japanese invasion in 1941.
Title: In the Mood for Love
Call ID: DVCH 806 A
Wong Kar-wai. Cantonese & Shanghainese (English subtitles). 98 mins. 2000.
Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan and Su Li-zhen move into neighboring apartments on the same day.
Title: In the Mood for Love (Documentary)
Call ID: DVCH 806 B
Wong Kar-wai. Cantonese & Shanghainese (English subtitles). 98 mins. 2000.
Wong Kar-wai's documentary of the making of the film. Interviews with Wong Kar-wai.
Title: The Joy Luck Club
Call ID: VENG 331
Wayne Wang. English. 139 mins. 1993.
The stories of four women and their mothers are interwoven in this moving tale of exile, loss and new beginnings. Amy Tan's novel The Joy Luck Club is well realized in this careful adaptation certain to touch everyone.
Title: Ju-Dou
Call ID: DVCH 809
JU-DOU Zhang Yimou. Chin & Eng (Eng Subtitles). 94 mins.
A dark, sensual, and visually sumptuous drama, Ju Dou centers on the title character (Gong Li), the wife of a wealthy silk dyer in 1920s China.
Title: Ju-Dou
Call ID: VCH 300
Zhang Yimou. Mandarin (English subtitles). 98 min. 1990.
They were destined, if not doomed, to be together. She was the mill owner's battered bride. He was his overworked nephew.
Title: The Last Emperor
Call ID: VENG 301
Bernardo Bertolucci. English. 164 mins. 1987.
He was crowned Lord of 10,000 years. Son of Heaven. The supreme ruler of half the world's population. He was three years old.
Title: To Live
Call ID: DVCH 807
Zhang Yimou. Mandarin Chinese (English Subtitles) 133 mins. 1994.
If To Live's, as Roger Ebert says, "conceals a universe," then watching this engrossing, exhilarating and extravagant film surely reveals one.
Title: To Live
Call ID: VCH 304
Zhang Yimou Chinese (English subtitles). 133 mins. 1994.
Set against four decades of Chinese political turmoil, To Live follows the lives of one couple, Fugui and Jiazhen as they struggle to survive their own changing station either the upheaval.
Title: The Road Home
Call ID: DVCH 803
Zhang Yimou. Mandarin (English, French subtitles). 89 mins. 2000.
From the award-winning director of such acclaimed films as Raise the Red lantern and Fu Dou comes a romantic drama whose story is as beautiful as the cinematography.
Title: Shaolin Soccer
Call ID: DVCH 808
Stephen Chow. Chinese (English Subtitles). 112 mins. 2001.
In a fight against the gangsters, Sing who is watched by a previous soccer star Fung fights his way out to show his powerful martial arts kicking skills.
Title: Shower
Call ID: DVCH 804
Zhang Yang. Mandarin (English, Spanish & French subtitles). 94 mins. 2000.
When successful businessman Da Ming is summoned by his younger brother to come home to his father's old -style bathhouse in Beijin, he can't wait to return to his fast-paced modern life.
Title: Spring Festival
Call ID: VCH 305
Jian-Zhong Huang. 100 mins.
This film portrays the reunion of a contemporary rural Northern Chinese family, the Chengs, for the New Year's festivities. As the five adult Cheng children arrive in turn at the family home, each with a spouse or lover in tow, the mix of problems, frustrations, and longings thickens.
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Call ID: VCH 301
Chen Kaige: Mandarin (English subtitles). 89 mins. 1984.
A striking collaboration between two Fifth Generation Chinese filmmakers, director Chen Kaige (Farewell My Concubine) and Zhang Yimou (Raise The Red Lantern) who photographed the film in deep stylized colors.
Title: 400 Blows
Call ID: VFR 315
Francois Truffaut: French (English subtitles) 99 mins. 1959.
One of the landmarks of cinema, which introduced the character of Antoine Doinel, played by Jean-Pierre Leaud, to the world, as the 12 year old boy left to his own devices in an indifferent adult world. An uncompromising film, winner of innumerable awards.
Title: Alberto Expre$$
Call ID: VIT 338
Arthur Jeffe: Italian & French (English subtitles) 92 mins. 1992.
Every family has its own funny little traditions, but Alberto's takes quirkiness to the most hilarious extreme. In Alberto's family the children must pay their parents back every cent spent on their rearing; and the debt must be completely repaid before the children start a family of their own.
Title: Allonsanfan
Call ID: VIT 310
P&V Taviani:Italian (English subtitles) 115 mins. 1984.
One of the great films by the brothers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (Night of Shooting Stars), Alonsanfan stars Marcello Mastroianni in a comic masterpiece, making use of bravura lightning and color schemes. Set after Napoleon has fallen in 1816, the film features Mastroianni as a disillusioned Jacobin aristocrat released from prison and torn between his revolutionary ideals and comfortable lifestyle. With Laura Betti, Lea Massari.
Title: Alphaville
Call ID: VFR 316
Jean-Luc Godard: French (English subtitles) 100 mins. 1965.
Eddie Constantine is Lemmy Caution, inter-galactic private eye, in his bravure mix of comic strip, science fiction and film noir in what is ultimately a new style of cinema, in which form and content are identical. Lemmy sets out to dispose of diabolical scientist Leonard Von Braun (a.k.a. Leonard Nosferatu) for Alphaville, the futuristic city run by an electronic brain, where love has been banished. A film in which poetry mixes freely with pulp to create a new dimension, a new cinematic reality.
Title: Amelie
Call ID: DVFR 813 A
Jean-Marc Deschamps: French (English subtitles) 122 mins. 2001
This magical comedy met overwhelming acclaim nationwide. A painfully shy waitress working at a tiny Paris café, Amélie makes a surprising discovery and sees her life drastically changed for the better. From then on, Amélie dedicates herself to helping others find happiness & in the most delightfully unexpected ways. But will she have the courage to do for herself what she has done for others?
Title: Artemisia
Call ID: DVFR 829
Agnes Merlet: French (English subtitles) 96 mins. 1998
A widely acclaimed critical favorite honored with a Golden Globe nomination as Best Foreign Film, Artemisia is the highly provocative true story of a young woman whose bold pursuit of artistic freedom and physival desire threatened the elite powers of her time.
Title: Artemisia
Call ID: VFR 380
Agnes Merlet: French (English subtitles) 96 mins. 1998.
A widely acclaimed critical favorite honored with a Golden Globe nomination as Best Foreign Film, Artemisia is the highly provocative true story of a young woman whose bold pursuit of artistic freedom and physical desire threatened the elite powers of her time.
Title: L'Atalante
Call ID: VFR 363
JEAN VIGO: French (English subtitles)87 mins. 1934.
Black and White. The high water mark of French realism, set on a barge plying the Seine. A young barge captain and his bride live on a barge with the eccentric Pere Jules (Michel Simon).
Title: L'Auberge Espagnole
Call ID: DVFR 814
Cedric Klapisch. French (English & Spanish Subtitles) 132 mins. 2003.
Xavier (Romain Duris) is a straight-laced French college senior who moves to Barcelona as part of a student exchange program, much to the dismay of his beautiful girlfriend Martine (Audrey Tautou). But sharing cramped quarters with students from all over Europe quickly leads to multi-cultural.
Title: Au Revoir les Enfants
Call ID: VFR 317
Louis Malle: French (English subtitles) 103 mins. 1988.
Louis Malle returns to the days of German occupation during World War II to recount the story of the friendship between two school boys, one Jewish and the other Catholic. A winner of many awards, including Best Picture in France.
Title: The Barbarian Invasions
Call ID: DVFR 818
DENYS ARCAND. French (English Subtitles) 99 mins. 2003.
Academy Award winner for best foreign language film, The Barbarian Invasions is a provocative look at the many ties that bind a group of friends and lovers! It's not easy for a narrow-minded professor (Rémy Girard) to reconcile with his equally stubborn son.
Title: Barsoum's Special Tape
Call ID: VFR 400
Barsoum's special tape
Title: Barsoum's Special Video
Call ID: VFR 401
Barsoum's special tape
Title: Battle of Algiers (La Bataille D'Alger)
Call ID: VFR 319
Gillo Pontecorvo: French (English subtitles) 125 mins. 1966.
Internationally acclaimed, the staggering news-reel-like authenticity of the staged street riots and vital performances of the actors give Battle of Algiers a unique dramatic impact on this detailing of the Algerian revolt against the French. (La Bataille d'Alger)
Title: Battle of Algiers
Call ID: DVFR 815 A
Gillo Pontecorvo: French & Arabic (English Subtitles) 121 mins. 1966.
One of the most influential political films in history, Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers (La bataille d'Alger) vividly recreates a key year in the tumultuous Algerian struggle for independence from the occupying French in the 1950s.
-New high-definition digital transfer, enhanced for widescreen televisions
-Production gallery
-Theatrical and re-release trailers
-New and improved English subtitle translation;
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Title: Battle of Algiers (Documentary)
Call ID: DVFR 815 B
Gillo Pontercorvo: English. 105 mins.
Disc Two: Pontecorvo and the film.[collapsible]
- Gillo Pontecorvo: The Dictatorship of Truth (1992):a37minutes documentary, narrated by literary critic Edward Said.
- Exclusive 51-minute documentary on the making of The Battle of Algiers, featuring new interviews with the director, cinematographer, composer, editor, actors, and film historians.
- Five Directors (17 mins. 2004): Spike Lee, Mira Nair, Julian Schnabel, Steven Soderbergh, and Oliver Stone on the film's influence, style, and importance.
Title: Battle of Algiers (Documentary)
Call ID: DVFR 815 C
Gillo Pontecorvo: English. 180 mins.
Disc Three: The Film and History.
- Remembering History (69 mins. 2004): an exclusive documentary that reconstructs the Algerian experience of the battle for independence, featuring interviews with historians and revolutionaries, including military leader Saadi Yacef.
- "États d'armes" (2002): a 28-minute documentary excerpt featuring senior French military officers recalling the use of torture and execution to combat the rebellion.
- The Battle of Algiers: A Case Study (25 mins., 2004): Richard A. Clarke, former national counter-terrorism coordinator and author of Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror, discusses the film's relevance with Michael A Sheenan, former State Department coordinator for counter-terrorism, in a conversation moderated by Christopher E. Isham, chief of investigative projects for ABC News. -Gillo Pontecorvo's Return to Algiers (58 mins., 1992): the filmmaker revisits the Algerians people after three decades of independence.
Title: Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
Call ID: VFR 365
Edouard Molinaro: French (English subtitles). 100 mins. 1997.
From the award-winning director of the smash hit LA CAGE AUX FOLLES (The Birdcage) comes this playful romp matching the witticism of Ridicule and the splendor of Amadeus. Fabrice Luchini shines as the legendary French playwright Pierre- Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (The Marriage of Figaro).
Title: Beauty and the Beast
Call ID: VFR 308
Jean Cocteau: French (English subtitles) B&W. 93 mins. 1946.
Jean Cocteau's superb adaptation of Marie Leprince de Beaumont's dark fairy tale is ferociously inventive and stylized depiction of erotic obsession, about a young woman's discovery of a ravaged soul beneath a monstrous beast.
Title: Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bete)
Call ID: DVFR 810
Jean Cocteau: French (English subtitles) B&W. 93 mins. 1946.
Once upon a time, in a world of magic and wonder, the true love of a beautiful girl finally dispelled the torment of a feral but gentle-hearted beast. Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bete) is a landmark feat of cinematic fantasy in which master filmmaker Jean Cocteau conjures spectacular visions of enchantment, desire, and death that have never been equaled. The Criterion Collection proudly presents the original film version of Mme. Leprince e Beaumont's fairy-tale masterpiece in a newly restored special edition.
Title: La Bete Humaine
Call ID: VFR 388
Jean Renoir: French (English subtitles). 75 mins. 1938
A dark and threatening mood is set throughout this movie by master film director Jean Renoir. How far will the train engineer (gabin) go for his lover.
Title: Blue
Call ID: VFR 343
Krysztof Kieslowski: French (English subtitles). 98 mins. 1993.
Praised as one of the top films of the year by critics and audiences alike, this stylish and provocative mystery delivers captivating performances and stunning imagery! Sexy star Juliette Binoche (1997 Oscar winner/ The English Patient) is a young woman left devastated by the unexpected death of her husband and child.
Title: Le Boucher
Call ID: VFR 314
Claude Chabrol: French (English subtitles). 90 mins. 1969.
A first rate psychological thriller from Claude Chabrol about the evolving relationship of a beautiful school teacher and a serial murderer. ' In Chabrol's films, the relationships are plotted with mathematical precision that does not rule out surprising developments' (Roy Armes). With Stepahne Audran, Antonio Passallia, Mario Beccaria and Pasquale Ferone.
Title: Le Bourgeouis Gentilhomme
Call ID: VFR 303
La Comedie Francaise: French (English subtitles). 97 mins. 1958.
The classic by Moliere played by the Comedie francaise.
Title: Camille Claudel
Call ID: VFR 323
Bruno Nuytten: French (English subtitles). 159 mins. 1989
Intense performances by Isabelle Adjani and Gerard Depardieu add fire to this adaptation of the family authorized 'biography' of overlooked sculptress Camille Claudel. After years of living with master sculptor Auguste Rodin (Depardieu) as pupil and lover, Claudel fell into a paranoid depression when he left her. Her disapproving family had her committed to a mental institution, where she wasted away for the remaining thirty years of her life. Adjani won a Cesar for her performance in this tragic story.
Title: The Chambermaid on the Titanic
Call ID: VFR 377
Bigas Luna: French (English subtitles). 96 mins. 1998.
In the tradition of Like Water For Chocolate and IL Postino, THE CHAMBERMAID ON THE TITANIC is a mystical and unpredictable fable full of mad passion and unbearable sensuality. Once again, Horty (Olivier Maritnez) is the winner of the annual trial of strength organized by the foundry where he works. This year his prize is extraordinary: a round-trip ticket to Southampton, England to watch the Titanic leave on its maiden voyage. In his Southampton hotel room Horty is approached by Marie, a stunning chambermaid due to board the Titanic the next day. Believing in Maire's hard luck story of having no place to spend the night, Horty apprehensively agrees to share his room with the beautiful stranger Returning home to his wife, Horty's recount of the night he met Marie will change his life forever as the magical tale of his forbidden romance transforms all those who hear it. Donated by Prof. Cecile Insdorf, Dept. of Romance Languages, May 2000.
Title: Chaos
Call ID: DVFR 819
Coline Serreau: French (English subtitles). 109 mins.
This is a rousing and daring tale combining aspects of pulse-pounding melodrama with loopy battle-of-the-sexes comedy. Hélène and Paul, a bourgeois couple, are rushing to a dinner engagement when they see Malika, a young prostitute being chased by three men.
Title: The Charterhouse of Parma
Call ID: VFR 360
Louis Salou Coedel: French (English subtitles). B&W. 165 mins. 1948
Fabrice Del Dongo (Gerard Philipe), a young archbishop of Parma, falls in love and wishes to break his vows to the church. His aunt, the Countess of Sanseverina, in love with Fabrice herself, will stop at nothing to further his celibate career. A wonderful portrait of Italian court life during the early 1800's, full of intrigue, ambition, duels and passionate crimes. An action/adventure film that will transport you back to an era of romantic love where honor and virtue were worth dying for.
Title: Children of Paradise
Call ID: VFR 313
Marcel Carne: French (English subtitles). 189 mins. 1943-1945
Set in the 1840's, when pantomime and melodrama were at height on Paris' famed theater street, le Boulevard du Crime, Marcel Carne's delicate yet elaborate portrait of the authors and thieves who made the Boulevard their home has all the passion, the intelligence and authority of a truly great work of art.
Title: Chocolat
Call ID: VFR 312
Denis Claire: French (English subtitles). 105 mins. 1988.
Claire Denis takes the viewer on an emotional and strikingly visual memory trip back to the colonial Africa of her youth. In her directorial debut, she spins an engaging tale of a small white girl growing up in Cameroon on the isolated compound of her French official father and her lonely gorgeous mother. With Giulia Boschi, Issach de Bankole, Francois Cluzet and Cecille Ducasse.
Title: The City of Lost Children
Call ID: DVFR 823
Jeunet ∓ Caro: French (English subtitles). 112 mins. 1995.
A gutsy little girl and a sentimental strongman (Ron Perlman) join hearts and hands to save a small boy's dreams from a madman's master plan. Phenomenal French duo Jeunet & Caro ('Delicatessen') deliver a fantastically-twisted fairy tale chock-full of curious characters, spectacular stunts and unforgettable visuals.
Title: Claire's Knee
Call ID: VFR 318
Eric Rohmer's most popular work, a vibrant luscious comedy which focuses on the temptations of a diplomat who visits his childhood home just before he married to a woman with whom he has lived for six years. Charming and sunny sex comedy. With Jean-Claude Brialy and Lawrence de Monaghan.
Title: Un Coeur En Hiver
Call ID: VFR 340
Claude Sutet: French (English subtitles). 100 mins.1991.
Claude Sautet's 13th feature is loosely based on Lermontov's novel 'A Hero of our Time'. Two violin makers (Daniel Auteuil and Andre Dusollier) are affected when a beautiful violinist enters their lives.
Title: Colonel Chabert
Call ID: VFR 352
Yves Angelo: French (English subtitles). 111 mins. 1992.
Gerard Depardieu stars as the returning war hero who is not supposed to return. Now he faces another battle at home to claim that which is rightfully his. Honore de Balzac's novel is treated to a lush production.
Title: Contempt
Call ID: VFR 392
Jean-Luc Godard: French (English subtitles). 102 mins. 1963
A young French dramatist living in Rome accepts an assignment to write a screenplay for an American film producer. Suddenly, and for seemingly no reason, his wife begins to regard him with utter contempt. He pleads for an explanation, but one is not given.
Title: Contempt (Le Mepris)
DVFR 812 A
Jean-Luc Godard: French (English subtitles). 104 mins. 1963
Jean-Luc Godard's subversive foray into commercial filmmaking is a start-studded cinemascope epic. Contempt (Le Mepris) starts Michel Piccoli as a screenwriter torn between the demands of a proud European Director (played by legendary director Fritz Lang) , a crude and arrogant American producer (Jack Palance), and his disillusioned wife, Camille (Brigette Bardot) as he attempts to doctor the script for a new film version of The Odyssey.
Title: Contempt (Le Merpis)
DVFR 812 B
Documentary. Jean-Luc Godard. French (English subtitles). 104 mins. 1963.
Title: Contre Vents Contre Marées
Call ID: DVFR 828
Pat Mire presente par Zachary Richard. French 80 minutes. Against the Tide is the epic story of one of the most celebrated and misunderstood ethnic communities in North America. Ravaged by bloody religious wars, French farmers left Western France in the 17th century to establish a new homeland in the wilderness of what today is Nova Scotia.
Title: The Counterfeiters
Call ID: DVGE 808
Stefan Ruzowitzky: German, French ( Eng,Fre,Spa Subtls). 99 Mins.
The Counterfeiters tells the true story of Solomon Sorowitsch ( Karl Markovics), a swindler who made a name for himself as a Berlin's "King of the Counterfeiters. However, his life of women and easy money is cut short when he is arrested and placed in a Nazi concentration camp.
Title: Coup de Torchon
Call ID: DVFR 833
Bertrand Tavernier: French (English subtitles). 128 Mins.
An inspired rendering of Jim Thompson's pulp novel pop.1280, Bertrand Tavernier's coup de torchon (which means clean slate) deaftly transplants the story of an innempt police chief-turned-heartless killer and his scrappy mistress from the American south to French West Africa.
Title: Cyrano de Bergerac
Call ID: VFR 354
Jean-Paul Rappeneau: French (English subtitles). 138 mins. 1990.
Gerard Depardieu is magnificent as poetic soldier with the prominent proboscis. Based on the classic play by Rostand in which a 17th century swordsman proves inarticulate only when it comes to expressing his love for his cousin Roxanne face to face. Packed with pageantry, poetry and robust performances. With Anne Brochet, Jacques Weber, and some 2000 extras.
Title: Danton
Call ID: VFR 301
Andrzej Wajda: French (English subtitles). 143 mins. 1982.
'Brilliant filmmaking - a controlled tumult of painterly compositions and sensational performances, one of the most gripping revolutionary thrillers I've ever seen' wrote Andrew Sarris in The Village Voice of Wajda's historical epic of the French Revolution, with implications to modern day Poland.
Title: Danton
Call ID: DVFR 328A
Andrzej Wajda: French (English subtitles). 136 Mins.
Gerard Depardieu and Wojciech Pszoniak star in Andrzej Wajda's powerful, intimate depiction of the ideological clash between the earthy man of the people Georges Danton and the icy Jacobin extremist Maximilien Robespierre, both key figures of the French Revolution.
Title: Danton
Call ID: DVFR 328B
Andrzej Wajda: French (English subtitles). 136 Mins.
The Supplements.
Title: A Day in the Country
Call ID: VFR 320
Jean Renoir: French (English subtitles) B&W. 40 mins. 1936.
Based on story by Guy de Maupassant: 'an innocent girl comes of age in Jean Renoir'sshort film. This lyrical tragedy rates with Renoir's greatest. Visually it captures the impressionist period' (Pauline Kael).
Title: Diabolique
Call ID: DVFR 805
Criterion Collection. French (English subtitles) B&W. 116 mins. 1954.
An Acknowledged influence on PSYCHO, Henrigeofges Clouzot's Horror classic is the Story of a sadistic headmaster who brutalizes his fragile wife and his headstrong mistress. The two women murder him and dump his body in a swimming pool; when the pool is drained, no corpse is found. Criterion presents Diabolique in a new digital transfer.
Title: La Discrete
Call ID: VFR 369
Christian Vincent: French (English subtitles). 96 mins. 1990.
A sophisticated tale of seduction and romance, La Discrete, begins when Antoine, a would-be novelist, finds his latest girlfriend has dropped him before he has had the chance to break up with her. Reeling from this blow to his pride, Antoine vows to take revenge on women-he will seduce and abandon a woman at random, and then publish a diary of the affair.
Title: The Discrete Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Call ID: VFR 330
Luis Bunuel: French (English subtitles). 100 mins. 1972.
An all-star French cast assembles for a diner party, but whenever they try to eat, something happens to interrupt them. Bunuel brilliantly mixes biting social satire with bold surrealistic invention as the dinner party serves to lampoon such targets as diplomats, wealthy socialites socialites and even radical terrorists.
Title: Diva
Call ID: VFR 326
Jean- Jacques Beneix: French (English subtitles). 123 mins. 1981.
A breathtaking series of visual images in this stylish romantic thriller; at the heart of the film is an opera-intoxicated 18-year old mail carrier who becomes unwittingly entangled in a web of murder, intrigue and passion.
Title: The Earrings of Madame de...
Call ID: DVFR 827
Max Ophuls: French ( English Subtitles) B&W. 100 mins. 1953.
The Earrings of Madame de. . . Is an emotionally profound, cinematographically adventurous tale of false opulence and tragic romance.
Title: The Earrings of Madame de...
Call ID: VFR 384
Max Ophuls: French (English subtitles) B&W. 105 mins. 1953.
A spoiled socialite (Darrieux) married to a general (Boyer), flirts with an amorous diplomat (Di Sica). As the affair escalates, the glittering shallowness of their privileged existence plunges into disaster, as all three risk everything for love and honor.
Title: East/West (Est/Ouest)
Call ID: DVRU 801
Réges Warnier: French/Russian (English subtitles). 125 mins. 1993.
From the director of Academy Award -winning Indochine comes another highly acclaimed film. Academy Award -nominated (1999) for Best Foreign Language film, EAST/WEST (EST/OUEST) is a wonderfully imagined film that follows the plight of a young couple and their child as they choose to go back to the Soviet Union in 1946.
Title: Egalite for All
Call ID: DVENG 804
Noland Walker: English (Color & B&W). 60 minutes.
It was the only successful slave insurrection in history. It grasped the full meaning of French Revolutionary ideas and used them to create the world's first black republic. It elevated a former slave, Toussaint Louverture, to such intrnational fame that admirers ranked him on par with George Washington.
Title: Les Enfants Terribles
Call ID: VFR 386
Jean Cocteau: French (English subtitles) B&W. 100 mins. 1949.
Two seemingly disparate filmmakers - Jean-Pierre Melville, best known for his dark black-and-white ventures into the criminal underworld, and Jean Cocteau, the poet of the mythical underworld- come together to bring Cocteau's celebrated play of love, death and incest to the screen.
Title: Entre Nous
Call ID: DVFR 802
Diane Kurys: French French (English subtitles) 112 mins. 1983
Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, Entre Nous beautifully captures the rare friendship between two married women trying to find the courage to defy the social rules of their time in order to escape their unfulfilling lives.
Title: L'Esquive
Call ID: DVFR 831
Abdellatif Kechiche: French ( English Subtitles). 120 Mins. 2003.
Abdelkrim, nicknamed krimo, fifteen years old, lives in a housing project in the suburbs of Paris. He goes through his boring mundane life with his best friend, Eric, and their group of friends.
Title: The Eternal Return
Call ID: VFR 306
Jean Delannoy: French (English subtitles). 112 mins. 1943.
Jean Delanoy's modernized version of the legend of Tristan and Isolde.
Title: Exiles
Call ID: DVFR 822
Tony Gatlif: French (English Subtitles). 104 mins.
Romain Duris and Lubna Azabal give charismatic and sensual lead performances as Zano and Naima, a bohemian Parisian couple, who impulsively set off for Algeria.
Title: La Femme Nikita
Call ID: VFR 350
Luc Besson: French (English subtitles). 117 mins. 1991.
A stylish punk thriller from director Luc Besson, in which a French street junkie (anne Parillaud) is arrested and threatened with life imprisonment. She is then allowed to leave if she agrees to go to work for the French secret police as an assassin. This suspenseful film is highlighted by Besson's stylishly decorous visual composition and innate sense of dramatic pacing.
Title: Germinal
Call ID: VFR 351
Patrick Bordier: French (English subtitles). 166 mins. 1993.
Gerard Depardieu stars in this sweeping film based on Emile Zola's masterful novel. A simple but honest and charismatic miner takes on a heroic quest for justice that leads him and his entire community to a fateful end. This tale of unforgivable wrongs stirs the soul.
Title: Gervaise
Call ID: VFR 341
Rene Clement: French (English subtitles). 121 mins. 1956.
A perfect example of a polished adaptation of a novel, this one, L'Assommoir by Emile Zola. Gervaise is a young woman whose husband becomes an alcoholic after an accident. Notable for a marvelous reconstruction of 19th century Paris.
Title: La Guerre Est Finie
Call ID: VFR 311
Alain Resnais: French (English subtitles). 120 mins. 1966.
This great film by Alain Resnais, scripted by Jorge Semprun, stars Yves Montand, Genevieve Bujold, Ingrid Thulin and Michel Piccoli. Resnais shifts between reality and Montand's mental states in an incisive portrait of an aging Spanish revolutionary exile who is imprisoned by his past as he confronts the failure of his ideas. Resnais explores Montand's insecurities through his relationships with two very different women (Thulin and Bujold)
Title: Hate (La Haine)
Call ID: VFR 353
Mathieu Kassovitz: French (English subtitles). 95 mins. 1996.
Maybe you think you've seen it before: Three racially divergent boys in the hood bang heads with the riot police in a housing project where drugs, violence and hatred are facts of life. Nothing new here, except that this hood is just outside Paris. The issues in this bonfire of a movie transcend geographical barriers to speak a universal language of unrest.
Title: Hiroshima Mon Amour
Call ID: VFR 309
Alain Resnais: French (English subtitles) 90 mins. 1959
From the beginning, in which the love-making of a French actress (Emanuelle Riva) and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) is inter-cut with newsreel footage of Hiroshima's atomic holocaust and its aftermath, to the couple's painful walk through the reconstructed city, Resnais' film recaptures both the pain and the richness of the war.
Title: Hiroshima Mon Amour
Call ID: DVFR 816
Alain Resnais: French (English Subtitles) B&W. 90 mins. 1959.
A cornerstone of French cinema, Alain Resnais' first feature is one of the most influential films of all time.
Title: Immigrant Memories
Call ID: VFR 379 A
Yamina Benguigui: French (English Subtitles). 1997. Part 1.
The Fathers. In this now classic three-part documentary on Maghrebian immigration to France, Yamina Benguigui weaves together narratives from three different times. She begins by focusing on the first wave of immigrants to France after WW II, male laborers recruited to provide a temporary workforce.
Title: Immigrant Memories
Call ID: VFR 379 B
Yamina Benguigui: French (English Subtitles). 1997. Part 2.
The Mothers. In this now classic three-part documentary on Maghrebian immigration to France, Yamina Benguigui weaves together narratives from three different times. She begins by focusing on the first wave of immigrants to France after WWII, male laborers recruited to provide a temporary workforce.
Title: Immigrant Memories
Call ID: VFR 379 C
Yamina Benguigui: French (English Subtitles) 1997. Part 3.
The Children. In this now classic three-part documentary on Maghrebian immigration to France, Yamina Benguigui weaves together narratives from three different times. She begins by focusing on the first wave of immigrants to France WW II, male laborers recruited to provide a temporary workforce.
Title: Inch' Allah Dimanche
Call ID: DVFR 824
Yamima Benguigui: French and Arabic (English Subtitles). 98 Mins.
French/Algerian director Yamina Benguigui bring us a passionate immigrant story of a woman struggling against old traditions. Zouina leaves her homeland with her three children to join her husband in France, where he's been living for the past ten years.
Title: Indochine
Call ID: VFR 335
Regis Wagner: French (English subtitles). 156 mins. 1992.
Regis Wagnier's epic is set during the French occupation of South-East Asia in the 1930's. Catherine Deneuve plays a plantation owner who searches for her adopted Vietnamese daughter Camille (Linh Dan Pham) after the young woman falls in love and becomes a communist revolutionary.
Title: Irma Vep
Call ID: DVFR 800
Oliver Assayas: French (English subtitles). 96 mins. 1996.
Vidal chooses Cheung to play Irma Vep, the leader of a band of jewel thieves. Arriving in Paris unable to speak a word of French, Cheung finds herself stuck in the middle of a stressful situation when the production begins to fall apart and Vidal suffers a nervous breakdown.
Title: J'ai Faim, J'ai Froid (I'm Hungry, I'm Cold) / Saute Ma Ville / Hotel Monterey
Call ID: VFR 385
Chantal Akerman: French (English subtitles). 82 mins. 1984.
AKERMANIA-SHORTER WORKS SHORTER WORKS by Chantal Akerman. "J'AI FAIM, J'AI FROID (I'M HUNGRY, I'M COLD) " Two young Belgian girls run away from home in Brussels.
Title: Jean de Florette
Call ID: VFR 304
Claude Berri: French (English subtitles). 122 mins. 1987.
A marvelous tale of greed and intolerance from the novel by Marcel Pagnol about a city hunchback who inherits a valuable piece of property in rural France only to have his efforts thwarted by the villainy of his venal neighbor. With Gerard Depardieu, Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil, Elisabeth Depardieu and Ernestine Mazurownas as little Manon.
Title: Le Jour Se Lève
Call ID: VFR 364
Marcel Carne's: French (English subtitle) B&W. 88 mins. 1939.
Jean Gabin gives a flawless performance as a tough romantic who barricades himself in his apartment after committing a crime of passion.
Title: The Lady and the Duke
Call ID: DVFR 809
Erick Rohmer: French (English and Spanish subtitles). 129 mins. 2001.
The Lady and the Duke is a suspenseful, visually opulent story based on a true story about an unusual friendship during a dangerous time.
Title: The Little Thief
Call ID: VFR 349
Claude Miller: French (English subtitles). 100 mins. 1989.
The story of a female teenage delinquent in France who was reformed by the power of the photographic image. Based on a treatment never filmed by the late director Francois Truffaut and completed by Claude Miller. Story mirrors 400 Blows in tone and subject matter.
Title: Lola Montes
Call ID: VFR 347
Max Ophuls: French & German (English subtitles). 110 mins. 1955.
Ophuls' opulent biography of the famous 19th-century courtesan whose adventures and love affairs with King Ludwig I, Liszt and student are told in flashback from a circus ring by the ring master, Peter Ustinov. Brilliant use of color and cinemascope, breath taking shots and camera movements; Ophuls conjures up a sublime work that is pure cinema.
Title: Love After Love
Call ID: VFR 387
Diane Kurys: French (English subtitles). 104 mins. 1992.
Spanning a year in the life of Lola (Isabelle Huppert), a novelist famous for turning her life into fiction, we follow her loves and the loves of her loves. It is the story of how the 70's generation is dealing with the 90's and the contradiction, often comic, between what we expect of romance and the need from love.
Title: Lumumba
Call ID: DVFR 811
Roul Peck: French (English subtitles). 115 mins. 2002.
Made in the tradition of such true-life political thrillers as MALCOM X and JFK, Raoul Peck's award-winning LUMUMBA is a gripping epic that dramatizes for the first time the rise and fall of legendary African leader Patrice Lumumba.
Title: Madame Bovary
Call ID: DVFR 817
Claude Chabrol: French (English & French Subtitles). 143 mins. 1991.
Isabelle Huppert is "ravishingly erotic" (Newsday) as Madame Bovary in acclaimed director Claude Chabrol's masterful adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's novel.
Title: Madame Bovary
Call ID: VFR 381
Claude Chabrol: French (English subtitles). 1991.
It's a mixed blessing, but Claude Chabrol's 1991 adaptation of Madame Bovary can at least claim a proper French pedigree in its fidelity to Flaubert's literary classic, it's certainly more faithful than Madame herself, played here with icy determination by Isabelle Huppert.
Title: Madame Bovary
Call ID: VFR 307
Jean Renoir: French (English subtitles) B&W. 102 mins. 1934.
Jean Renoir's French version of Flaubert's great novel stars Valentine Tessier 'as an anomalous creature, half swan, half goose. This large woman is not at all what one expects, yet she's surprisingly effective. The sunlight and the spaciousness emphasize Emma's loneliness; she's a middle class woman with an ample figure, drifting along on romantic daydreams.' (Pauline Kael). With Pierre Renoir, Jean's brother, as Charles Bovary, Max Dearly as M. Homais.
Title: Madame Rosa
Call ID: VFR 329
Moshe Mizrahi: French (English subtitles). 104 mins. 1977.
Madame Rosa is an aging Jewish prostitute who earns her living raising other prostitutes' children when they can no longer tend to them.
Title: Manon of the Spring
Call ID: VFR 305
Claude Berri: French with English subtitles. 113 mins. 1987.
Companion film to JEAN De Florette. Emanuelle Beart is the grown-up, revenge seeking daughter of the kindly hunchback who was destroyed by the greed of his neighbors. Yves Montand and his nephew Daniel Auteuil learn the awful truth of their villainy in the conclusion of a classic tale of misinformation and retribution. From the novel by Pagnol.
Title: Marius and Jeannette
Call ID: VFR 368
Robert Guediguian: French (English subtitles). 102 mins. 1996.
In a small port outside of Marseilles, an animated circle of friends and neighbors join to share in the funny, colorful and off-beat love story of Marius and Jeanette. This quirky romantic comedy is a lyrical and mature chronicle about listening to the music of the heart. Donated by Prof. Cecile Insdorf, Dept. of Romance Languages, May 2000.
Title: Masculin / Feminin
Call ID: VFR 321
Jean-Luc Godard: French (English subtitles). 103 mins. 1966.
A film about Marx and Coca Cola directed by the child of Brecht and Hollywood.
Title: The Milky Way (La Voie Lactée)
Call ID: VFR 302
Luis Bunuel: French (English subtitles). 105 mins. 1969.
Luis Bunuel's outrageous and very funny satire on the Catholic Church and church ritual, and a road movie in its own right. Two tramps on a pilgrimage encounter the Devil, the Virgin Mary, and different arguments about catholic doctrine.
Title: Moliere - Le Misanthrope
Call ID: VFR 378
Duc/Andry: French. 100 mins.
In this hilarious and ironic story, Alceste, a sincere and ingenuous man, finds himself at odds with the artificial and hypocritical milieu of the 17th century royal court.
Title: Mondo
Call ID: VFR 383
Tony Gatlif: French (English subtitles). 80 mins. 1994.
Homeless in a paradisiacal world of sun and sea, no one knows where Mondo comes from. A gypsy boyof about 10, he appears one day on the streets of Nice, France with an irresistible smile and the question, "Would you like to adopt me?"
Title: Mon Oncle d'Amerique
Call ID: VFR 390
Alain Resnais: French ( English Subtitles). 123 mins. 1980.
Three lives, three ambitions…Jean, Rene, Janine: two men and a woman from different generations and different backgrounds, whose paths meet at a crisis point in mid-life.
Title: Monsieur Ibrahim
Call ID: DVFR 821
François Dupeyron: French (English Subtitles). 95 mins.
Monsieur Ibrahim is an elderly widower who owns a grocery store in a shabby, working-class section of Paris.
Title: Monsieur Lazhar
Call ID: DVFR 830
Philippe Falardeau. French (English subtitles). 94 Mins. 2012.
Monsieur Lazhar tells the moving and poignant story of a Montreal middle school class shaken by the death of their well-liked teacher, and the 55-year-old Algerian immigrant who offers his services as a substitute teacher and aids the process of collective healing.
Title: My Father's Glory
Call ID: VFR 339
Yves Robert: French (English subtitles). 110 mins. 1991.
An 11-year old boy spends an enchanting summer in the rugged French country side with his family. The experience becomes a turning point in his young life and cements his relationship with his father. From the novel by Marcel Pagnol, a gorgeous film starring Philippe Caubere and Nathalie Roussel.
Title: My Life to Live
Call ID: VFR 391
Jean-Luc Godard: French (English Subtitles). 85 mins. 1962.
My Life To Live is a meditation on the nature of existence. It contemplates the soul of its heroine, living her life in the cafes, streets, and hotel rooms which make up her world.
Title: My Mother's Castle
Call ID: VFR 336
Yves Robert: French (English subtitles). 117 mins. 1991.
In the companion film to My Father's Glory, a boy continues his love affair with the wild country of southern France. Through frequent family visits to their summer home, he learns to love and understand his mother's true nature. The heartfelt conclusion to the story by Marcel Pagnol.
Title: Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud
Call ID: VFR 376
Claude Sautet: French (English subtitles). 103 mins. 1995.
Renowned director Claude Sautet reunites with his UN COEUR EN HIVER star Ennanuelle Beart in this engaging romance of longing and denial, reminiscent of Krzysztof Kieslowski's RED.
Title: The Nun (La Religiese)
Call ID: VFR 359
Jacques Rivette's: French (English subtitles). 155 mins. 1966.
Originally banned by the French government, acclaimed French New Wave director Jacques Rivette's adaptation of Diderot's classic 18th century novel explores with poetic simplicity the moving tale of a 16 year old girl who is forced by her mother to enter a convent.
Title: Orpheus (Orphee)
Call ID: VFR 355
Jean Cocteau: French (English subtitles) B&W. 86 mins. 1949.
Crafted by one of this century's most revered artists, Orpheus is a film whose beauty defies description. The viewer stands transfixed in a world where fantasy is as tangible as reality. This dazzling centerpiece to Cocteau's Orphic trilogy (Blood of a Poet, The Testament of Orpheus) is perhaps his greatest work. Venice Film Festival, Best Direction; La Critique International, Grand Prix.
Title: Overseas (Outremer)
Call ID: VFR 382
Brigitte Roüan: French (English subtitles). 96 mins. 1992.
This stunning Cannes award-winning film features three beautiful sisters caught in a whirlwind of dramatic social change.
Title: Paris Belongs to Us
Call ID: VFR 327
Jacques Rivette: French (English subtitles). 138 mins. 1958-60.
Shot on weekends, with no money and no sets, with actors donating their time and Chabrol providing left-over film stock, this film concerns a group of amateurs who come together in Paris to stage a performance of Shakespeare's Pericles.
Title: Phedre
Call ID: VFR 362
Peierre Jordan: French (English subtitles). 92 mins. 1984.
According to Greek legend, Theseus returned from war with the Minoans on Crete to become king of Athens and took Phedre, the daughter of the vanquished King Minos to be his wife.
Title: Pickpocket
Call ID: VFR 373
Robert Bresson: French (English subtitles). B&W 75 mins. 1959.
Robert Bresson's masterpiece is a magnificent drama about a thief: his techniques, motives and secret existence.
Title: Pierrot Le Fou
Call ID: DVFR 804
Jean-Luc Godard: French (English subtitles). 110 mins. 1965.
Hailed as Jean-Luc Godard's most popular film since Breathless, Pierrot Le Fou, captures the 60's French cool that only Godard could create.
Title: Le Plaisir
Call ID: VFR 348
Max Ophuls: French B&W (English subtitles). 94 mins. 1952.
Max Ophuls' ironic, humorous trilogy of De Maupassant short stories stars some of France's greatest stars.
Title: Police
Call ID: VFR 374
Maurice Pialat: French (English subtitles). 113 mins. 1985.
Gerard Depardieu (GREEN CARD) stars as a tough romantic cop living on the edge in Maurice Pialat's exciting crime drama POLICE.
Title: La Promesse
Call ID: VFR 366
Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne: French (English subtitles). 93 mins. 1996.
Hailed by critics everywhere as one of the top ten films of the year, The Promise, is the extraordinary story of a boy's ascendance to grace.
Donated by Prof. Cecile Insdorf, Dept. of Romance Languages, May 2000.
Title: Queen Margot
Call ID: VFR 344
Patrice Chereau: French (English subtitles). 144 mins. 1994.
Winner of five Cesar Awards, Patrice Chereau's stylish, realistic adaptation of Alexander Duma's tale is set during the Catholic Protestant wars of 16th-century France.
Title: Red
Call ID: VFR 333
Krysztof Kieslowski: French (English subtitles). 99 mins. 1994.
Kieslowski's striking conclusion of this Three Colors trilogy stars Irene Jacob as a model, separated from her lover, who is brought by accident into the life of the aging Jean-Louis Trintignant, retired judge and electronic peeping Tom. As Irene slowly uncovers her lover's secret life, she discovers that her own past is inevitably linked to her destiny. With Jean- Pierre Lorit and Frederique Feder.
Title: The Red and the Black
Call ID: VFR 337
Claude Autant-Lara: French (English subtitles) 134 mins.1957.
Stendhal's The Red and The Black stands a landmark in international literature, initiating the psychological realism that dominated the 19th century novel. Director Claude Lara's faithful screen adaptation, preserving much of Stendhal's original dialogue, has received international acclaim of its own.
Title: Rendevous in Paris
Call ID: VFR 372
Eric Rohmer: French (English Subtitles). 100 mins. 1995.
A witty, enchanting comedy about the complications of love, Rendezvous In Paris follows three young couples as they face the vanities, cruelties and deceptions of their romantic entanglements.
Title: The Return of Martin Guerre
Call ID: VFR 338
Daniel Vigne: French (English subtitles). 123 mins. 1982.
Dramatization of an extraordinary imposture that took place in the 16th century and became a legend; the husband leaves his family and years later, returns. He re-integrates himself into family and community, but then serious doubts spring up about his identity. Is he the real Martin Guerre? With Gerard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye.
Title: Ridicule
Call ID: DVFR 826
Patrice Leconte: French (English Subtitles). 103 mins.
Nominated for an Academy Award (Best Foreign Language Film,1996 and honored by critics as of the Year's 10 Best Motion Pictures, RIDICULE is an exceptionally entertaining tale of passion and deceit!
Title: La Ronde
Call ID: VFR 393
Max Ophuls: French (English subtitles). 97 mins. B&W 1950.
Set in dimly lit parlors and boudoirs, Max Ophuls' wonderfully wicked film pulls the viewer onto a carousel of romance. In ten timeless sketches adapted from Arthur Schnitzler's play Reigen a charming corss section of society persues passion in turn-of-the-century Vienna.
Title: Russian Dolls
Call ID: DVFR 825
Cédric Klapisch: French (English subtitles). 129 Mins.
Title: Scarlet and Black - Part 1
Call ID: VENG 345 A
Ben Bolt: English. 208 mins. 2000.
Handsome, brilliant and ambitious, Julien Sorel is a man of affairs in every sense. Determined to fulfill his lust for power and wealth, he believes that if one is to rise in society that the route no longer lies in the Army (the `scarlet') but rather in the Church (the `black').
Title: Scarlet and Black - Part 2
Call ID: VENG 345 B
Ben Bolt: English. 208 mins. 2000.
Handdsome, brilliant and ambitious, Julien Sorel, is a man of affairs in every sense. Determined to fulfill his lust for power and wealth, he believes that if one is to rise in society that the route no longer lies in the Army (the `scarlet') but rather in the Church (the `black').
Title: A Single Girl
Call ID: DVFR 806
Philippe Carcassonne: French (English subtitles). 90 mins. 1996.
This intimate drama shows a day in the life of a young Parisian woman named Valerie played by Virginie Ledoyen (The Beach). Before her first day at work as a room service waitress at a four star hotel, Valerie reveals to her boyfriend, Remi (Benoit Magimel) that she is four weeks pregnant. Shot in real time, we follow Valerie around as she meditates on the paths of human nature she crosses, sometimes comic, sometimes hostile, which lead her to make important decisions about her future.
Title: Sitcom
Call ID: VFR 371
Francois Ozon: French (English subtitles). 80 mins. 1997.
I'll never forget the day my father brought it home. I mean, I can understand Mom's distaste for such a pet, however domesticated it was, but who could have ever suspected such unbound horror from this cute little animal.
Title: The Sorrow and the Pity
Call ID: VENG 340
Marcel Ophuls: English, 260 minutes.
Marcel Ophuls' monumental documental covering the German occupation of France during World War II. Through poignant interviews and stark newsreel footage, Ophuls creates a sense of living history. 'A magnificent epic on the themes of collaboration and assistance. There's nothing comparable to [it]' (Pauline Kael).
Title: The Story of Adele H
Call ID: VFR 325
Francois Truffaut: French (English subtitles). 97 mins. 1975.
In 1863, the beautiful young daughter of the world-famous writer Victor Hugo crosses the Atlantic in desperate pursuit of the man she believes is her fiancé, her lover, her destiny. For months and years she waits for him, throws herself in his path. Finally, her intensity gives way to madness. Truffaut called this film an autopsy of passion.
Title: Sugar Cane Valley (La Rue Cases-Negres)
Call ID: VFR 328
Euzan Palcy: French (English subtitles). 107 mins. 1985.
Euzan Palcy's lyrical village drama set in French-occupied 1930s Martinique. The story examines the relationship of a determined, impoverished 11-year-old and his equally difficult and shrewd grandmother, who sacrifices everything for the boy's happiness. With Darling Legitimus, Gary Cadenat, Routa Seck and Joby Bernabe.
Title: A Sunday in the Country
Call ID: VFR 357
Bertrand Tavernier: French (English subtitles). 94 mins. 1984.
Alive with the subtle brush strokes of an artist at the top of his form, Bertrand Tavernier's acclaimed A Sunday In The Country is a lovingly photographed and exquisitely acted portrait of French family life on the brink of World War 1.The film was one of the major works to seal Tavernier's reputation in the United States, along with THE CLOCKMAKER, COUP DE TORCHON, 'ROUND MIDNIGHT and more recently CAPITAINE CONAN. Kino is proud to present it here in a letter-boxed, newly remastered version.
Title: The Swindle
Call ID: VFR 367
Claude Chabrol: French (English subtitles). 105 mins. 1997.
Mysterious relationships, suspenseful double-crosses, vicious gangsters and deft humor fill this witty and elegantly woven tale of intrigue. Victor and Betty have established a very comfortable life together as two small-time con artists who specialize in bilking ordinary people out of their money.
Title: La Symphonie Pastorale
Call ID: VFR 334
Jean Delannoy: French (English subtitles). 105 mins. 1946.
This sensitive adaptation of Andre Gide's introspective novel is precisely constructed, brilliantly acted, and beautifully photographed.
Title: Tartuffe
Call ID: VFR 361
Gerard Depardieu: French (English subtitles). 135 mins. 1984.
In his first directorial effort, Gerard Depardieu (GREEN CARD, UNDER THE SUN OFSATAN, CYRANO) breaths new life into Moliere's masterpiece about religious and sexual hypocrisy.
Title: The Taste of Others
Call ID: VFR 389
Agnès Jaoui: French (English Subtitles). 112 mins. 2000.
Fun, sexy and richly rewarding, The Taste of Others earned an Academy Award nomination as Best Foreign Language Film (2000)!
Title: That Obscure Object of Desire
Call ID: VFR 324
Luis Bunuel: French (English subtitles). 104 mins. 1977.
Afinal masterpiece from Bunuel, in which he uses two actresses playing one role to illustrate the unfathomable nature of sexual obsession. Fernando Rey stars. Nominated for Two Academy Awards, including Best Foreign Film.
Title: Three Lives and Only One Death
Call ID: VFR 375
Raoul Ruiz: French (English subtitles). 123 mins. 1997.
Marcello MastroianniI stars as Banker/Armsdealer Luc Allamand in a surrealistic shell game during which the primary players remain a mystery to each other.
Title: Three Men and a Cradle
Call ID: VFR 346
Coline Serreau: French (English subtitles). 106 mins. 1985
One of the funniest French films in recent years, an unlikely story of three confirmed bachelors who receive a six-month-old roommate. This little bundle of joy can turn into a big bundle of trouble, and chaos of a hilarious kind ensues.
Title: To Be and to Have
Call ID: DVFR 820
French (English Subtitles). 104 mins.
France's highest grossing documentary of all times is an intimate and touching portrait of life inside an one-room schoolhouse in a rural French Village and one of the most emotionally gratifying films about teaching ever made.
Title: Two English Girls
Call ID: DVFR 808
Francois Truffaut: French (English subtitles). 130 mins. 1971.
A darkly beautiful love story centering around one man's (Jean-Pierre Léaud) romantic affairs with two sisters (Kika Markham and Stacey Tendeter). Anne (Markham) originally intends Claude (Léaud) to fall in love with her younger sister Muriel (Tendeter). However, when Anne starts developing feelings for Claude, complications between the three arise. Based on a novel by Henri-Pierre Roché (Jules and Jim), Two English Girls explores the sensitive and painful story of an emotionally charged love triangle.
Title: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Call ID: DVFR 803
Catherine Deneuve: French (English subtitles). 91 mins. 1990.
A long unseen triumph in cinematic beauty, Jacques Demy's 1964 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prize Winner is available for the first time in this digitally remastered fully restored version.
Title: Under the Roofs of Paris
Call ID: VFR 322
Rene Clair: French (English subtitles). 87 mins. 1930.
Clair's poetic exploration of Parisian life evokes characters' follies with shabby little garrets, cobblestoned streets, bistros, boudoirs and jails, all recreated within the studio. Also notable is Clair's adventuresome use of music.
Title: The Wanderer
Call ID: VFR 345
Jean-Gabriel Albicocco: French (English subtitles). 108 mins. 1967.
Alain Fournier's classic novel, Le Grand Meaulnes, is interpreted by Albicocco with fantastic imaginary and stunning color-in a remarkable recreation of a child's memories and examination of his transition from romantic, idealistic youth to clear-eyed adult. With Jean Blaise and Brigitte Fossey.
Title: When the Cat's Away
Call ID: VFR 356
Cedric Klapisch: French (English subtitles). 91 mins. 1997.
WHEN THE CAT'S AWAY is a purr-fect romantic comedy about a beautiful girl, her missing pet and her search for true love in Paris. Featuring a dazzling Parisian backdrop and a hip, acid-jazz soundtrack, When The Cat's Away is 'wonderfully funny, and touching and unforgettable!
Title: White
Call ID: VFR 332
Krysztof Kieslowski: French And Polish (English subtitles). 92 mins. 1993.
The second part of Kieslowski's Blue-White-Red trilogy, based on the concepts of the French tri-color. A Polish man's life disintegrates when his new French bride deserts him after only six months. Forced to begin anew, he returns to Poland and plans a clever scheme of revenge against her. July Delpy is great as the young wife.
Title: Aguirre: The Wrath of God
Call ID: VGE 301
Werner Herzog: German (English subtitles). 94 mins. 1973.
In the mid-1500's, a large Spanish expedition searching for the mythical lost city of Eldorado detached an advance party to explore a tributary of the Amazon; They never returned.
Title: Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Call ID: VGE 304
Rainer Werner Fassbinder: German (English subtitles). 94 mins. 1974.
Fisbinder draws on the formula of the classic American tear-jerker to tell the outrageous, touching story of a bumpy love affair between a German floorwasher and an inarticulate Arab mechanic.
Title: The American Soldier
Call ID: VGE 318
Rainer Werner Fassbinder. German (English Subtitles). 80 mins. 1970.
Fisbinder's version of the Hollywood gangster film pays homage to movie greats Humphrey Bogart, Sam Fuller, and Orson Welles to name few.
Title: The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant
Call ID: VGE 317
Rainer W Fassbinder. German ( English Subtitles). 124 mins. 1972.
Cisidered among Fassbinder's most controversial films, The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant reaches new levels of stylization, outrageousness and surprise.
Title: The Blue Angel
Call ID: VGE 302
Joseph Van Sternberg: German (English subtitles). 98 mins. 1930.
This ever fascinating 1930 film classic made Marlene Dietrich an international star.
Title: Das Boot
Call ID: VGE 306
Wolfgang Petersen: German (English subtitles). 150 mins. 1981.
The most expensive, most succesful motion picture in the history of German cinema, this gripping tale follows the daring patrol of U-96, one of the famed German U-boats known as the gray wolves.
Title: Das Boot the Director's Cut
Call ID: DVGE 801
Wolfgang Petersen. German (English, Spanish, French subtitles). 209 mins. 1985.
This is director Wolfgang Petersen's ultimate version of one of the most critically acclaimed war movies of all time. An all-new restoration with over one hour of additional footage and a completely new stereo soundtrack that delivers the theatrical experience to your home...this is DAS BOOT: THE DIRCECTOR'S CUT!
Title: The Edukators
Call ID: DVGE 806
Hans Weingartner. German (English Subtitles). 130 mins.
Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.
Title: Effi Briest
Call ID: VGE 305
Rainer Werner Fassbinder: German (English subtitles). 135 mins. 1974.
The most famous 19th century German novel, Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest holds a position in its own country comparable to that of Madame Bovary in France.
Title: Europa Europa
Call ID: VGE 310
Agnieszka Holland: German and Russian (English subtitles). 115 mins. 1991.
This film took America by storm: Agnieszka Holland's powerful, moving stiry of a courageous German Jewish teenager who survived WW II by concealing his living as a Nazi during seven harrowing years through three countries. Based on a true identity and story; a film which changes almost everyone who sees it.
Title: Good Bye Lenin
Call ID: DVGE 804
Wolfgang Becker: German (English Subtitles). 121 mins. 2003.
Winer of six prestigious European Film Awards, including Best Picture and 2004 Golden Globe nominee for best Foreign Language Film, this coming-of- age adventure blends the fall of Communism with the salient emotions of a family's love.
Title: Heart of Glass
Call ID: VGE 311
Werner Herzog: German (English subtitles). 93 mins. 1974.
Winer Herzog's films are characterized by their willingness to go off the deep end, but Heart Of Glass goes deeper then usual.
Title: The Lives of Others
Call ID: DVGE 809
Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck: German (Eng, Fre, Spa Subtitiles) 138 Mins.
Before the collapse of the Berlin Wall, East Germany's population was closely monitored by the State Secret Police or Stasi.
Title: Lola Montes
Call ID: VFR347
Max Ophuls: French & German (English subtitles) 110 mins. 1955
Oiuls' opulent biography of the famous 19th-century courtesan whose adventures and love affairs with King Ludwig I, Liszt and student are told in flashback from a circus ring by the ringmaster, Peter Ustinov. With brilliant use of color and cinemascope, breathtaking shots, and camera movements; Ophuls conjures up a sublime work that is pure cinema.
Title: M
Call ID: DVGE 800
Fritz Lang: German (English subtitles) B&W, 110 mins. 1931
Behind every great suspense thriller lurks the shadow of M. In this, Fritz Lang's first sound film, Peter Lorre delivers a haunting performance as the cinema's first serial killer, a whistling pedophile hunted by the police and brought to trial by the forces of the Berlin underworld. Grieg's "Peer Gynt Suite" will never sound the same.
Title: Maedchen In Uniform
Call ID: VGE 303
Leontine Sagan: German (English subtitles) 87 mins. 1931.
Legendary film from the German post-expressionism period, extremely daring for this time in suggesting lesbianism in the story of a young girl who is choked by the authoritarian boarding school she attends.
Title: Men
Call ID: VGE 313
Doris Dorrie: German (English subtitles) 99 mins. 1985.
Dorrie's runaway hit of a screwball comedy about a businessman (Heiner Lauterbach) who discovers his wife is having an affair with a Bohemian artist. Disguised as the artist's roommate, Lauterbach watches, waits, and plots a strange reversal on the unsuspecting.
Title: The Merchant of Four Seasons
Call ID: VGE 319
Rainer W. Fassbinder: German ( English Subtitles) 86 mins. 1972.
The Merchant Of Four Seasons represents a climax in Fassbinder's prolific filmmaking career.
Title: The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser
Call ID: VGE 314
Werner Herzog: German (English subtitles). 110 mins. 1975.
In 1828, a young man appeared in the town square of Nuremberg, his origins unknown, having apparently been kept in solitary confinement all his life; five years later he was murdered by an unidentified assailant.
Title: Nach Funf Im Urwald Hans-Christian Schmid
Call ID: VGE 315
German. 93 mins.
Title: The Nasty Girl
Call ID: VGE 307
Michael Verhoeven: German (English subtitles). 94 mins. 1990.
In this provocative comedy, Sonja is the Nasty Girl, a young girl whose digging for the truth gets her burried in the cover-up.
Title: The Princess and the Warrior
Call ID: DVGE 802
Tom Tykwer: German (English, French, Spanish & Portuguese subtitles). 133 mins. 2001.
Fim the director (Tom Tykwer) and star (Franka Potente) of the internationally acclaimed, fast-paced smash hit Run Lola Run comes a starling fresh and compelling romantic drama that will leave you breathless.
Title: Rosenstrasse
Call ID: DVGE 805
Margarethe Von Trotta: German (English Subtitles). 136 mins. 2003.
In the cold Berlin winter of 1943, hundreds of women stood, and waited, in defiance of the Nazis While countless Jews were being sent to concentration camps for execution.
Title: Run Lola Run
Call ID: DVGE 807
Tom Tywker: German (English & French). 81 mins.
A thrilling post-MTV,roller-coaster ride, RUN LOLA RUN is the internationally acclaimed sensation about to start-crossed lovers who have only minutes to change the course of their lives.
Title: Ship of Fools
Call ID: VENG 330
Stanley Kramer: English 149 mins. 1965.
Based on Katherine Anne Porter's acclaimed novel, the interlocking stories tell of passengers on a ship sailing from Mexico to pre-Hitler Germany. With Simone Signoret, Michael Dunn, Vivien Leigh, Lee Marvin and others.
Title: The Sorrow and the Pity
Call ID: VENG 340
Marcel Ophuls: English. 260 mins.
Marcek Ophuls' monumental documental covering the German occupation of France during World War II. Through poignant interviews and stark newsreel footage, Ophuls creates a sense of living history. 'A magnificent epic on the themes of collaboration and assistance. There's nothing comparable to [it]' (Pauline Kael).
Title: Stalag 17
Call ID: VENG 353
Billy Wilder: English. 120 mins.
Black comedy and suspenseful action inside a German POW camp during World War II – a setting that was later borrowed for the TV sitcom Hogan’s Heroes.
Title: The Three Penny Opera
Call ID: VGE 309
G. W. Pabst: German (English subtitles). 113 mins. 1931.
Bertholt Brecht's masterpiece based on John Gay's The Beggar's Opera with Weil's haunting score is considered ven more vivid on screen than it was on stage.
Title: The Tin Drum
Call ID: VGE 300
Volker Schlondorff: German (English subtitles). 142 mins. 1979.
Adapted from the internationally acclaimed novel by Gunter grass, The Tin Drum is an intellectually challenging, visually stunning parable of modern society in violent transition, as narrated by Oskar Matzerath, one of the most unforgettably unique heroes of our time.
Title: Triumph Of The Will
Call ID: DVGE 803
Leni Riefenstahl: German (English Subtitles) B & W. 120 mins. 1935.
Riefenstahl's classic piece of historical filmmaking, filmed during the 1934 Nazi Party Rally in Nuremberg, Germany, is considered by many to be one of the most important and controversial films ever made.
Title: Wings of Desire
Call ID: VGE 308
Wim Wenders: German (English subtitles) 110 mins. 1988.
Daniel, played by Bruno Ganz, is the angel who has grown tired and frustrated at his inability to affect people's lives.
Title: Why Does Herr R. Run Amok
Call ID: VGE 316
Rainer W. Fassbinder: German ( English Subtitles) 86 mins. 1969.
One of Fassbinder's most provocative and notorious films, Why Does Herr R.Run Amok?
Title: The Band's Visit
Call ID: DVHE 810
Eran Kolirin: Heb, Eng, Ara (Eng Subtitles) 87 mins
A fading Egyptian police band arrives in Israel to play at the Arab Cultural Center.
Title: Beaufort
Call ID: DVHE 801
Joseph Cedar: Hebrew (English Subtitles) 126 mins.
After 18 years dug into a heavily fortified mountain deep in occupied Lebanon, the last Israeli soldiers enduring constant bombardment at the site of the ancient crusader stronghold called Beaufort receive orders to abandon their posts, detonate the warren of bunkers in which they've tenuously clung to life and victory, and come home.
Title: Beyond the Walls
Call ID: VHE 300
Uri Barbash: Hebrew (English subtitles) 103 mins. 1994.
The struggle between Arabs and Jews is one of the most well-documented and tragic issues of our day.
Title: Checkpoint
Call ID: DVHE 808
Yoav Shamir: Hebrew (English Subtitles) 80 mins.
Over three million Palestinians live in The West Bank and Gaza Strip, which has been under Israeli military authority since 1967.
Title: Encounter Point
Call ID: DVHE 807
Ronit Avni: Heb (Eng, Spa, Ara, Heb, Fre, Porg, Subtitles) 92min.
Just when the world is losing hope about the possibility of resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict comes Encounter Point.
Title: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Call ID: VIT 301
Vittorio De Sica: Italian (English subtitles) 90 mins. 1971.
A haunting love story set amidst the beauty and turbulent political passions of prewar Italy.
Title: The House on Chelouche Street
Call ID: VHE 301
Moshe Mizrahi: Hebrew (English subtitles) 111 mins.1973.
Clara has brought her entire family to 'the promised land...
Title: Kadosh
Call ID: DVHE 809
Amos Gitai: Hebrew (English Subtitles) 117 mins.
Set in the Mea Sherim quarter of Jerusalem, an enclave of the ultra Orthodox, KADOSH explores a hermetic world almost never seen on the screen.
Title: Late Summer Blues
Call ID: VHE 302
Renen Schorr: Hebrew (English subtitles) 101 mins.1987.
Late Summer Blues opened the 1987 Jerusalem Film Festival to unanimous acclaim.
Title: Life is Beautiful
Call ID: VIT 354
Roberto Benigni: Italian (English subtitles) 116 mins. 1998
An inspired motion picture, Life is Beautiful, was nominated for seven Academy Awards winning five Oscars including one for Best Actor Roberto Benigni.
Title: Newland
Call ID: DVHE 811
Orna Ben-Dor Niv: Hebrew & Polish (Eng Subtitles) 107 mins.
Leaving the devastation of World War II behind them, a little girl and her brother travel from Europe to Israel in search of family, hope and future.
Title: The Policeman
Call ID: DVHE 805
Efraim Kishon: Hebrew (English Subtitles) 87 mins.
When this soft-hearted cop threatens retirement, the crooks won't let him leave!
Title: Schindler's List
VENG 323
Steven Spielberg: English 197 mins. 1993
This Academy Award winning film tells the story of Oskar Schindler, who saved hundreds of Jews from certain death in Nazi-dominated Europe.
Title: Shiv'a
Call ID: VHE 303
Dina Zvi-Riklis: Hebrew (English subtitles) 50 mins. 1996
Title: Tehilim...
Call ID: DVHE 803
Raphael Nadjari: Hebrew (English Subtitles) 95 mins.
In contemporary Jerusalem, an average middle class Jewish family balances the rituals of family, friends, religion and workaday life.[collapsible]But when middle-aged father and husband Eli (Shmuel Vilozni) unaccountably vanishes after a fluke car accident, the ensuing legal and emotional crisis gradually immerses Eli's spouse and two young sons in a muted real-life nightmare redefining the boundaries of everything they know, love and believe. While wife Alma (Limor Goldstein) navigates a bureaucratic maze of social services and paperwork, elder son Menachem (Michael Moshonov- Late Marriage) has his fragile faith and elusive adolescent peace of mind shaken to the core.
Title: Time of Favor
Call ID: DVHE 804
Joseph Cedar: Hebrew (English Subtitles) 101 mins.
A highly respected soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces, Menachem (Aki Avni) is also a devout student of controversial West Bank settlement leader Rabbi Meltzer (Assi Dayan).
Title: Turn Left At the End of the World
Call ID: DVHE 800
Nesher Avi: Hebrew & English (Eng & Heb Subtitles) 108 mins.
Jewish cultures from around the world clash in the 1960s when two immigrant families-one from Morocco and the other from India- become neighbors in a tiny Israeli village in the Negev Desert.
Title: Ushpizin
Call ID: DVHE 806
Gidi Dar: Hebrew ( English & Spanish Subtitles) 92 mins.
Powerful, touching and amusing, Ushpizin (Guests) is a heartwarming and soul-stirring film.
Title: Waltz With Bashir
Call ID: DVHE 812
Ari Folman: Hebrew and English (Eng Subtitles) 90 mins.
Inspired by actual events, Waltz with Bashir chronicles one man's descent into his own half-forgotten past.
Title: Yossi and Jagger
Call ID: DVHE 802
Eytan Fox: Hebrew (English Subtitles) 71 mins.
Yossi is a serious and strong-featured commander…Jagger is his free-spirited and boyishly handsome charge...They are both soldiers in the Israeli army, and they are in love...Based on a true story, YOSSI & JAGGER portrays their secret love, set in a remote army base along the Israeli-Lebanese border. In a time of strife and uncertainty, Yossi and Jagger find hope in their unforgettable and emotionally charged romance.
Title: 8 1/2
Call ID: VIT 305
Federico Fellini: Italian (English subtitles) B&W, 138 Mins. 1963.
Fellini's great autobiographical masterpiece, the loose portrayal of a film director during the course of making a film and finding himself trapped by his fears and insecurities.
Title: 1900
Call ID: VENG 310
Bernardo Bertolucci: English 510 Mins. 1976
Bernardo Bertolucci's opus,a sweeping epic achievement which chronicles the rise of Fascism and Socialism in Italy through the interlocking stories of family generations.
Title: Accatone (The Scrounger)
Call ID: DVIT 821
Pier Paolo Pasolini:Italian ( English Subtitles) B&W, 116 Mins.
Based on one of the filmmaker/poet's novels, this story of a pimp, his friends, his enemies and his girls is realism at her earliest.
Title: Accatone (The Scrounger)
Call ID: VIT 359
Pier Paola Pasolini: Italian (English Subtitiles) B&W, 116 Mins.
The first of Pier Paolo Pasolini's highly acclaimed films, and the winner of numerous film festival prizes, Accatone uses a talented cast to present a vivid picture of the Roman slums.
Title: Alberto Expre$$
Call ID: VIT 338
Arthur Joffe: Italian & French (English subtitles) 92 Mins. 1992.
Every family has its own funny little traditions, but Alberto's takes quirkiness to the most hilarious extreme.
Title: Allonsanfan
Call ID: VIT 310
P&V Taviani: Italian (English subtitles) 115 Mins. 1984.
One of the great films by the brothers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (Night of Shooting Stars), Alonsanfan stars Marcello Mastroianni in a comic masterpiece, making use of bravura lightning and color schemes.
Title: Amarcord
Call ID: VIT 330
Federico Fellini: Italian (English subtitles) 127 Mins. 1974
A film which breathes freedom -a nostalgic, fantastic and funny reminiscence of growing up in Fellini's home town of Rimini-made, Fellini said, to finish with youth and tenderness.
Title: Le Amiche (The Girlfriends)
Call ID: DVIT 815
Michelangelo Antonioni: Italian (English Subtitles) 99 Mins.
Academy Award -winning director Michelangelo Antonioni explores women's evolving role in society and the conflict between love and career in this engrossing drama.
Title: Artemisia
Call ID: DVFR 829
Agnes Merlet: French (English Subtitles) 96 Mins. 1998.
Artemisia is the higly provocative true story of a young woman whose bold pursuit of artistic freedom and physical desire threatened the elite powers of her time!
however, he not only liberates her in the world of art..but initiates her into the treacherous world of sex and
Title: Artemisia
Call ID: VFR 380
Agnes Merlet: French (English subtitles) 96 Mins. 1998.
A widely acclaimed critical favorite honored with a Golden Globe nomination as Best Foreign Film, Artemisia is the highly provocative true story of a young woman whose bold pursuit of artistic freedom and physical desire threatened the elite powers of her time.
Title: Before the Revolution
Call ID: VIT 358
Bernando Bertolucci: Italian ( English Subtitles)110 Mins. 1962.
Bernando Bertolucci made Before The Revolution when he was only 22 years old. A volatile mixture of styles, romantic and anti-romantic at the same time, it has lost little of its power to exhilarate and surprise.
Title: Il Bell'Antonio
Call ID: VIT 339
Mauro Bolognini: Italian (English subtitles) 101 mins. 1960
To every red-blooded woman in Sicily, there is no man so virile, so desirable so sensually inviting as Antonio Mangano (Marcelo Mastroianni).
Title: The Bicycle Thief (Ladri di Biciclette)
Call ID: DVIT 806
Vittorio De Sica: Italian (English subtitles) B&W, 89 Mins. 1972.
THE BICYCLE THIEF is about a man, a worker, who must have a bike in order to work at his job.
Title: Il Bidone
Call ID: VIT 303
Federico Fellini: Italian (English subtitles) B&W, 92 Mins. 1955.
Academy Award winner Broderick Crawford has the best role of his career as Augusto, the ringleader of a trio of petty con men who impersonate priests and swindle peasants by appealing to their greed.
Title: Bread and Chocolate
Call ID: VIT 347
Franco Brusati's: Italian (English subtitles) 109 Mins. 1974.
Nino Manfredi is marvelous in this uproarious comedy about an Italian immigrant working odd jobs in prosperous Switzerland and trying desperately to fit in.
Title: Bread and Tulips
Call ID: DVIT 807
Silvio Soldini: Italian (English subtitles) 116 Mins. 2000.
Rosalba's life is about to change. When the busy housewife (Licia Maglietta) is accidentally left behind while on vacation with her family, she decides to take a holiday on her own in ravishing Venice.
Title: Bread and Tulips
Call ID: VIT 357
Silvio Soldini: Italian (English subtitles) 116 Mins. 2000.
Rosalba's life is about to change. When the busy housewife (Licia Maglietta) is accidentally left behind while on vacation with her family, she decides to take a holiday on her own in ravishing Venice.
Title: Caro Diario
Call ID: VIT 313
Nanni Moretti: Italian (English subtitles) 100 Mins. 1994.
Award-winning Italian director Nanni Moretti stars as himself in his whimsical comedy about a man who takes off on his motorcycle across Italy in search of the true meaning of life.
Title: The Children are Watching Us
Call ID: VIT 326
Vittorio De Sica: Italian (English subtitles) 85 Mins. 1944.
With his fifth film, Vittorio de Sica surprised everyone by turning into a vicious critic of society.
Title: Christ Stopped at Eboli (Cristo Si E Fermato a Eboli)
Call ID: DVIT 809
Francesco Rosi: Italian (English subtitles) 145 Mins. 1979.
This award winning adaption of Carlo Levi's classic, is the story of Carlo Levi, a political exile banished to a village in the south of Italy in 1935 for his anti fascist writings.
Title: Christ Stopped at Eboli (Cristo Si E Fermato a Eboli)
Call ID: VIT 308
Francesco Rosi: Italian (English subtitles) 119 Mins. 1979.
This award winning adaption of Carlo Levi's classic, is the story of Carlo Levi, a political exile banished to a village in the south of Italy in 1935 for his anti fascist writings.
Title: Ciao, Proffesore
Call ID: VIT 329
Cecchi Gori: Italian (English subtitles) 91 Mins. 1993.
This brilliant comedy details the outrageous clash between a strict, no-nonsense teacher and his class of rambunctious, street-smart children.
Title: Cinema Paradiso
Call ID: VIT 300
Guiseppe Tornatore: Italian (English subtitles) 121 Mins. 1989.
An affectionate salute to the magic of the movies and the individuals who spent their lives in the projection booth.
Title: The Conformist
Call ID: VENG 346
Bernardo Bertolucci: English Dubbed Version 1970
. Jean-Louis Trintignant plays a rising young follower of Mussolini who must assassinate his former professor, now in political exile, to demonstrate his loyalty to the Fascist state.
Title: The Decameron
Call ID: DVIT 818
Pier Paolo Pasolini:Italian (English Subtitles) 111 Mins. 1970.
Legendary Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini delivers nine exuberant tales in this "earthly, genuinely ribald and spicy" (Variety) film.
Title: The Decameron
Call ID: VIT 321
Pier Paolo Pasolini: Italian (English subtitles) 116 Mins. 1970
The first part of Pasolini's trilogy, based on the ribald tales of Boccaccio, which deal with human sensuality and artistic creation.
Title: Divorce Italian Style
Call ID: VIT 331
Pietro Germi: Italian (English subtitles) 104 Mins. 1962
The adult comedy sensation that started it all.
Title: La Dolce Vita
Call ID: VIT 314
Federico Fellini: Italian (English subtitles) B&W, 178 Mins. 1961.
A landmark of cinematic social comment', wrote one critic about Fellini's journey through a decadent Rome.
Title: Everybody's Fine
Call ID: VIT 311
Guiseppe Tornatore: Italian (English subtitles) 115 Mins. 1990
The Oscar winning director of Cinema Paradiso teams up with Italy's greatest actor in a bitter sweet story of a father's quest to reunite his five grown children.
Title: The Eyes, The Mouths
Call ID: VIT 323
Marco Bellocchio: Italian (English subtitles) 100 Mins. 1982.
A critically acclaimed tour de force; Lou Castel returns to his home to a family traumatized by suicide and unraveling at the seams in a film which re-established Bellochio as major world talent.
Title: The Family
Call ID: VIT 302
Ettore Scola: Italian (English subtitles) 128 Mins. 1986.
Nominated for Best Foreign Film, this Ettore Scola drama about 80 years in the life of a middle class family in Rome has absolutely nothing to do with the Charles Bronson movie of the same name.
Title: The Fiances (I Fidanzati)
Call ID: VIT 341
Ermanno Olmi: Italian (English subtitles) B&W, 84 Mins.
Ermanno Olmi's brilliant second feature is the simple story of a young man from Milan who takes a welding job in Sicily which takes him away from his fiancée, because he thinks the separation will be good for their relationship.
Title: Fiorile
Call ID: VIT 320
P & V Taviani: Italian (English subtitles) 118 Mins. 1993.
From the creators of Night of the Shooting stars and Padre Padrone comes an extraordinary epic tale of intrigue, betrayal and murder.
Title: Fish Soup
Call ID: VIT 340
Fiorella Infascelli: Italian (English subtitles) 107 Mins. 1992
. A magical, funny and intimate view of a young girl's growing up, set against a tangled web of family relationships in Tuscany, Fish Soup is an endearing film and a brilliant accomplishment by director Fiorella Infascelli.
Title: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Call ID: VIT 301
Vittorio De Sica: Italian (English subtitles) 90 Mins. 1971.
A haunting love story set amidst the beauty and turbulent political passions of prewar Italy.
Title: Il Gattopardo
Call ID: DVIT 812 A
Luchino Visconti: Italian (English Subtitles) 185 Mins. 1963.
Luchino Visconti's The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) is an epic on the grandest possible scale.
Title: Il Gattopardo
Call ID: DVIT 812 B
Luchino Visconti: Italian. 190 Mins.
Part II. Winner of the Palme d'Or in Cannes, Il Gattopardo is one of greatest masterpieces of Italian Cinema.
Title: Il Gattopardo
Call ID: VIT 324 A
Luchino Visconti: Italian. 190 Mins.
Winner of the Palme d'Or in Cannes, Ill Gattopardo is one of the greatest masterpieces of Italian Cinema.
Title: Il Gattopardo
Call ID: VIT 324 B
Luchino Visconti: Italian. 190 Mins.
Winner of the Palme d'Or in Cannes, Ill Gattopardo is one of the greatest masterpieces of Italian Cinema.
Title: Il Giorno Della Civetta
Call ID: VIT 344
Il Meglio Del Cinema. Italian.
Un omicidiomisterioso e Bellodi, il capitano dei Caradinieri, sa che i vicini di casa non dicono la verita.
Title: The Gospel According to St. Matthew
Call ID: VIT 312
Pier Paolo Pasolini: Italian (English subtitles) 142 Mins. 1964.
Non-actors, rugged Italian landscapes and towns, cinema-verite techniques, expressive close-ups are some of the elements of Pasolini's moving sacred and mythic epic.
Title: Hawks and the Sparrows
Call ID: VIT 322
Pier Paolo Pasolini: Italian (English subtitles) 88 Mins. 1964.
A wildly comic fable, with great Italian stone-faced clown Toto playing Everyman and Ninetto Davoli, his good-natured but empty headed son.
Title: Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July
Call ID: VENG 401
Tony de Nonno: English. 57 Mins.
In HEAVEN TOUCHES BROOKLYN IN JULY, internationally acclaimed documentary filmmaker Tony de Nonno takes audiences on an enlightening 1,600 year old journey by interweaving film footage spanning the 20th century with warm and passionate interviews of Italian American men, women and children from five to ninety-five- who are transporting this awe-inspiring tradition into the 21st century.
Title: Henry IV
Call ID: DVIT 808
Marco Bellocchio: Italian (English subtitles) 84 Mins. 1984.
Marcello Mastroianni (8 1/2, LA DOLCE VITA) delivers one of his finest performances in HENRY IV, a breathtakingly powerful adaptation of the play by Luigi Pirandello.
Mastroianni stars as a modern aristocrat. After he falls off his horse, he believes himself to be Henry IV, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. For Years, everyone around him adapts to this fantasy. They create a separate world -a sort of unending Renaissance Fair where everyone dresses up and calls each other by names ripped from the history books. Then, one day, some old friends try to cure "Henry".
Title: His Secret Life
Call ID: DVIT 810
Ferzano Ozpetek: Italian & Turkish (English subtitles) 106 Mins. 2002.
His Secret Life is a captivating, sexy drama about a married couple's extraordinary secret.
Antonia begins to search for any information leading to the secret mistress of Massimo's only to discover that his secret lover was a man, a very handsome young man named Michele, played by Stefano Accorsi (of the highly acclaimed films, The Son's Room and The Last Kiss). This spiritual journey leads Antonia to a new world of love, friendship and sexuality. From the ashes of her old life, grows a new set of family and friends and Antonia develops into the "free"woman she has always dreamed of becoming. His Secret Life is the powerful conclusion to the erotic trilogy that Ferzan Ozpetek started with Steam: The Turkish Bath and Harem.
Title: I'm Not Scared
Call ID: DVIT 814
Gabriele Salvatores: Italian (English and Spanish Subtitles) 101 Mins.
No one can be trusted and everyone's a suspect when a shocking secret is revealed in this hypnotic suspense thriller from the acclaimed director of the Academy Award.
Title: The Innocent (L'Innocente)
Call ID: DVIT 819
Luchino Visconti: Italian ( English Subtitles) 124 Mins.
Visconti's last film is an elegant drama depicting a wealthy Italian aristocrat ( Giancarco Gianinni) who, becoming bored with his apparently timid wife ( Laura Antonelli), neglects her for his more exciting mistress ( Jenniffer O'Neill).
Title: The Innocent (L'Innocente)
Call ID: VIT 315
Luchino Visconti: Italian (English subtitles) 125 Mins. 1976.
An elegant, visually beautiful exploration of the constraints of marriage and its disintegration. Featuring a remarkably sensuous performance by Laura Antonelli, and an equally strong performance by Giancarlo Giannini.
Title: Johnny Stecchino
Call ID: VIT 356
Cerami & Benigni: Italian (English subtitles) 100 Mins. 1992.
The Marx Brothers meet the Godfather in this hilarious tale of mistaken identity that proves there's nothing organized about organized crime.
Title: The Last Kiss
Call ID: DVIT 813
Gabriele Muccino: Italian (English and other languages Subtitles) 118 Mins.
With its breezy look at the battle of the sexes, this stylish comedy has generated critical acclaim everywhere!
Title: The Leopard (Il Gattopardo)
Call ID: DVENG 802
Luchino Visconti: English. 185 Mins. 1963.
Luchino Visconti's The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) is an epic on the grandest possible scale.
Title: Life is Beautiful
Call ID: VIT 354
Roberto Benigni: Italian (English subtitles) 116 Mins. 1998
An inspired motion picture, Life is Beautiful, was nominated for seven Academy Awards - winning five Oscars including one for Best Actor Roberto Benigni.
Title: Mamma Roma
Call ID: DVIT 811 A
Pier Paolo Pasolini: Italian (English Subtitles) B&w, 110 Mins.1962.
Anna Magnani gives a terrific performance in the title role of this key film.
Title: Mamma Roma
Call ID: DVIT 811 B
Documentary- Pier Paolo Pasolini: Italian (English Subtitles) 93 Mins.
Pier Paolo Pasolini (1995), a 58-minute documentary by filmmaker Ivo Barnabo Micheli covering the career of the controversial artist.
Title: Mamma Roma
Call ID: VIT 348
Pier Paolo Pasolini: Italian ( English Subtitles) B&W, 110 Mins .1962.
Anna Magnani gives a terrific performance in the title role of this key film.
Title: A Man in Love
Call ID: VENG 349
This "impassioned and complex" (The Hollywood Reporter) tale stars Peter Coyote (Jagged Edge) as a married actor with a roving eye whose desires, on and off screen, merge when he falls for his luminous leading lady (The Player's Greta Scacchi).
Title: Mediterraneo
Call ID: VIT 307
Gabriele Salvatores: Italian (English subtitles) 90 Mins. 1991
. Celebrated as one of the finest and most acclaimed films of the year 1991, Academy Award winner Mediterraneo is delightfully sexy comedy. After a group of misfit Italian sailors invade a remote Greek island they soon become stranded, and then ultimately forgotten, by the Italian navy. The sailors quickly learn they've invaded paradise, and that on this magical island, where enemies become friends, anything can happen.[/collapsible]
Title: The Miracle
Call ID: VIT 306
Roberto Rossellini: Italian (English subtitles) B&W, 45 Mins. 1948
. Brief, sensual and controversial film from Rosselini (source for a 1952 Supreme Court case of censorship) starring Anna Magnani as a peasant woman who is convinced she is pregnant with a new Christ child. Based on a story by Frederico Fellini, who appears.[/collapsible]
Title: Miracle in Rome
Call ID: VSP 305
Lisandro Duque Naranjo: Spanish (English subtitles) 76 Mins. 1988.
Called 'a small miracle by itself' by The New York Times, it tells the story of Margarito Duarte, a man whose seven year old daughter dies suddenly.
Title: The Night of the Shooting Stars
Call ID: VIT 316
P & V Taviani: Italian (English subtitles) 107 Mins. 1982.
Winner of the Cannes film festival and other awards, set on the night of the feast of San Lorenzo, during the last days of World War II, the film recalls the night from her childhood in a beautiful tapestry of fact, myth, and wartime memory that moves effortlessly in a universal story of human joy and sadness under duress at a particular moment in history.
Title: La Noia
Call ID: VIT 345
Damiano Damiani. Italian. Dino vive nell'ozio piu completo, a fianco della bella Cecilia. II tradimento di lei, dopo varie vicessitudini, lo portera persino a tentre il suicido.
Title: Open City
Call ID: VIT 317
Roberto Rossellini: Italian (English subtitles) B&W, 105 Mins. 1945.
A beautiful video master, transferred from a new negative, of this key film of Italian Neo- Realism, shot largely during the Nazi occupation of Rome.
Title: Open Doors
Call ID: VIT 332
Gianni Amelio: Italian (English subtitles) 109 Mins. 1989.
Gian Maria Volonte starts as a conscientious judge assigned to a notorious murder case in Palermo during the reign of Mussolini.
Title: Orchestra Rehearsal
Call ID: DVIT 802
Federico Fellini: Italian (English subtitles) 72 Mins. 1979
Orchestra Rehearsal a controversial, yet comical film directed by five-time Academy Award winner Federico Fellini (La Strada, 8 1/2, La Dolce Vita) is available on video for the first time featuring music composed by Academy Award winner Nino Rota (The Godfather Trilogy).
Title: Ossessione
Call ID: DVIT 816
Luchino Visconti: Italian (English Subtitles) 135 Mins
Passion turns deadly when beautiful but frustrated Giovanna ( Deep Red's Clara Calamai) finds herself helplessly drawn to Gino (Last Tango in Paris 's Massino Girotti), a handsome drifter stay at her inn.
Title: Padre Padrone
Call ID: DVIT 803
Paolo and Vittorio Taviani: Italian (English subtitles) 117 Mins. 1997.
This powerful true tale of one boy's struggle out of isolation and silence is perfectly captured on film by the renowned Taviani brother's, Paolo and Vittorio (Night Sun; Good Morning, Babylon).
Title: Paisan
Call ID: VIT 350
Roberto Rossellini: Italian (English subtitles) B&W 115 Mins. 1946.
Roberto Rossellini continues his exploration of ultimate tragedies of war in this collection of six studies.
Title: Picolo Mondo Antico
Call ID: VIT 325
Mario Soldati: Italian. 107 Mins.
Title: Il Postino (The Postman)
Call ID: DVIT 805
Michael Radford. Italian (English subtitles) 108 Mins. 1995.
Cheered by critics and audiences everywhere, Il Postino-The Postman is the record-breaking Academy Award-winning romantic comedy that delivers heartfelt laughs!
Title: Red Desert
Call ID: VIT 318
Michelangelo Antioni: Italian (English subtitles) 120 Mins. 1964.
Antonioni's masterpiece, with the great Monica Vitti playing the neurotic young woman married to an engineer in the industrial wasteland of northern Italy, searching in vain for meaning in life.
Title: The Seduction of Mimi
Call ID: DVIT 800
Fox Lorber: Italian (English subtitles) 89 Mins. 1972
This sexy political farce helped bring international fame to director Lina Wertmüller (Seven Beauties), Giancarlo Giannini (Swept Away, Love & Anarchy) stars as Mimi, a Sicilian laborer, whose decision not to vote for the Mafia's candidate in a local election results in him losing his job, his wife and his home.
Title: Sostiene Pereira
Call ID: VIT 349
Roberto Fainza: Italian. 109 Mins. 1995
Tratto dall'omonimo romanzo di Antonio Tabucchi il film e ambiantato nel 1938 a Lisbona, durante la violenta ascesa politica del dittatore Salazar.
Title: Sperduti Nel Buio
Call ID: VIT 334
Camillo Mastrocinque: Italian. 1947.
Interpreti : Vittorio De Sica, Fiorella Betti.
Title: Station
Call ID: VIT 337
Sergio Rubini: Italian (English subtitles) 92 Mins. 1990
In the romantic tradition of great European film, a man and a woman are mysteriously drawn together by a force greater than themselves.
Title: La Strada
Call ID: DVIT 820 A
Federico Fellini: Italian ( English Subtitles) B&W, 108 Mins. 1954.
Gesomina is sold by her mother into the employ of Zampano ( Anthony Quinn), a brutal traveling strongman.
Title: La Strada
Call ID: DVIT 820 B
Federico Fellini: Italian (English Subtitles) B&W, 108 Mins. 1954. Documentary.
Title: La Strada
Call ID: VIT 309
Federico Fellini: Italian (English subtitles) B&W, 107 Mins. 1954.
One of Fellini's most poetic and powerful films, the story of a tragic wife, played by Giulietta Masina, who is sold to traveling show strongman Anthony Quinn.
Title: Swept Away
Call ID: DVIT 801
Fox Lorber: Italian (English subtitles) 116 Mins. 1974.
Set against the backdrop of the beautiful Mediterranean, Swept Away is Lina Wertmuller's controversial film about sex, love, politics and role reversals.
Title: Tempo di Uccidere (Time to Kill)
Call ID: VIT 346
Giuliano Montaldo: Italian. 110 Mins. 1990
E queata l'Africa per il tenente Enrico Silvesrti, inviato in Etiopia nel 1936
Title: La Terra Trema
Call ID: DVIT 817
Luchino Visconti: Italian & Sicilian ( English Subtitles). 154 Mins.
This wrenching study of a family struggling to overcome poverty and find happiness against the backdrop of Sicily's fishing community remains one of the most powerful example of European filmmaking.
Title: Three Brothers
Call ID: VIT 355
Francesco Rosi: Italian (English subtitles) 113 Mins. 1981.
One of the most powerful Italian films, Francesco Rosi's riveting feature about the lives and dreams of three brothers re-united in their small home town was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Title: Time of Indifference
Call ID: VENG 344
Francesco Maselli: English. B&W, 84 Mins. 1964.
Rod Steiger, Claudia Cardinale, Shelley Winters, Paulette Goddard.
Title: Time to Kill (Tempo di Uccidere)
Call ID: DVENG 808
Giuliano Montaldo: English. 97 Mins. 1990.
While stationed in Africa during 1935 Italo-Abyssinian War, Lieutenant Enrico Silvestri (Nicholas Cage), a soldier in Mussolini's army, leaves camp in search of a dentist to relieve his toothache pain.
Title: Il Toro
Call ID: VIT 333
Carlo Mazzacurati: Italian, 108 Mins. 1994
Con Diego Abatantuono 'Per rabbia, per bisogno e speranza, un inserviente ruba Corinto, prezioso toro da riproduzione artificiale.......... 1994
Title: Toto' Al Giro D'Italia
Call ID: VIT 336
Mario Mattoli: Italian. B&W, 77 Mins. 1949
Comedy Toto' s'innamora perdutamente di una collega della giuria e la chiede in moglie...... Lo sposera' solo se sara' vincitore nel Giro d'Italia.
Title: Tripoli (Bel Suol D'Amore)
Call ID: VIT 335
Ferruccio Cerio: Italian. 67 Mins. 1954
Con: Alberto Sordi Flash back nella guerra di Libia, nell'eta' di Giolitti, per educarci all'amor di patria .
Title: Truce
Call ID: VENG 341
Francesco Rosi. English. 117 Mins.
Award-winning director Martin Scorsese presents an epic, true story that was cheered by moviegoers and critics alike.
Title: Two Women
Call ID: DVIT 804
Ponti & De Sica: Italian (English subtitles) B&W, 93 Mins. 1960.
Realistic heart-wrenching story of an Italian widow who along with her young 13 year old daughter are raped by Allied Moroccan soldiers during W.W. II. Intensely moving performance by Sophia Loren deservedly won her an Oscar for Best Actress.
Title: Two Women
Call ID: VIT 304
Ponti & De Sica: Italian (English subtitles) B&W, 99 Mins. 1960.
Sophia Loren won an Academy Award for her portrayal of a mother ravaged by war as she and her 13- year old daughter become the focus of attack by retreating German soldiers.
Title: Viaggio Del Nuovo Cinema Italiano
Call ID: VIT 351
M. Continanza & P. Diadori: Italian
Movie consists of clips from various Italian Language Films in the followin order:1.- IL LADRO DI BAMBINI.
Title: I Vitelloni (The Young and The Passionate)
Call ID: VIT 328
Federico Fellini: Italian (English subtitles) B&W, 104 Mins. 1953.
The young and the restless men in a small town on the Adriatic are, each in his own way, discontent.
Title: The White Sheik
Call ID: VIT 327
Federico Fellini: Italian (English subtitles) 86 Mins. 1952.
When a provincial couple go to Rome for their honeymoon, the bride sneaks off to the movie set where her idol, the White Sheik, is making a film.
Title: Woman of Rome
VIT 353
Luigi Zampa: Italian (English subtitles) B&W, 95 Mins. 1956.
Gina Lollabrigida plays a girl of easy virtue in this film which also stars Daniel Gelin, Franco Fabrizi and Raymond Pellegrin.
Title: Ghost in the Shell
Call ID: DVJP 800
Mamoru Oshii': Japanese (English subtitles). 30 Mins. 1995.
Mamoru Oshii’s futuristic animated masterpiece, Ghost in the Shell, is the perfect film to experience on Digital Video Disk.
Title: Golden Demon
Call ID: VJP 302
Koji Shima: Japanese (English subtitles). 91 Mins. 1953.
This spectacular film explores the destructive effect of wealth on today’s society. Kan-ichi, an orphan with no money loses Myia, the woman he loves, when her parents arrange a marriage to a rich playboy.
Distraught and bitter at his rejection, Kan-ichi vows never to become vulnerable again. Blaming the Golden Demon for his loss, he devotes himself to the pursuit of great wealth, soon developing the reputation as a ruthless moneylender. When Myia’s loveless marriage breaks up, she searches out her once-lover only to find that his new found property has changed him.
Title: Grave of the Fireflies
Call ID: DVJP 804 A
Isao Takahata: Japanese (English Subtitles). 88 Mins. 1992.
In the aftermath of a World War II bombing, two orphaned children struggle to survive in the Japanese countryside.
To Seita and his four-year-old sister, the helplessness and indifference of their countrymen is even more painful than the enemy raids. Through desperation, hunger and grief, these children’s lives are as heartbreakingly fragile as their spirit and love is inspiring. Grave of the Fireflies is a tale of the true tragedy of war.
Title: Grave of the Fireflies
Call ID: DVJP 804 B
Isao Takahata: English. 71 Mins. 1992.
Interviews & Documentary
-Interviews with director Isao Takahata and author Akiyuki Nosaka
-Interview: Film Critic Roger Ebert
-Author Biography: Akiyuki Nosaka
-Director Biography: Isao Takahata
-Historical Perspective: Commentary by Professor Theodore E. Cook &
Professor Haruko Taya Cook
-Video Restoration Documentary
-Bonus Storyboards
-Trailers
-Original Japanese Theatrical Trailer
-Art Gallery
-U.S. Trailer
Title: Himatsuri
Call ID: VJP 301
Mitsuo Yanagimachi: Japanese (English subtitles). 120 Mins. 1985.
Based on actual events, the setting is an exemplary village of old Japan. When a developer comes to this fishing community to propose a tourist park, only the lumberjack Tatsuo opposes him.
At once nature’s mystic voice and amorous despoiler, Tatsuo embodies the spiritual link to nature that the community must sacrifice in order to prosper. Tatsuo’s decisive moment comes during the annual Fire Festival, a celebration that is said to go back two thousand years.
Title: Hiroshima Mon Amour
Call ID: VFR 309
Alain Resnais: French (English subtitles). 90 Mins. 1959.
From the beginning, in which the love-making of a French actress (Emanuelle Riva) and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) is inter-cut with newsreel footage of Hiroshima's atomic holocaust and its aftermath, to the couple's painful walk through the reconstructed city, Resnais' film recaptures both the pain and the richness of the war.
Title: Ran
Call ID: DVJP 802
Kira Kurosawa: Japanese (English subtitles). 160 Mins. 1985.
Akira Kurosawa’s brilliantly conceived re-telling of Shakespeare’s King Lear magically mixes Japanese history, Shakespeare’s plot and Kurusawa’s own feelings about loyalty in the epic masterpiece, RAN. Set in 16th century Japan, an aging ruler, Lord Hidetora (Tatsuya Nakadai), announces his intention to dive his land equally among his three sons.
This decision to step down unleashes a power struggle between the three, when Hidetora falls prey to the false flattery bestowed upon him by two older sons and banishes the youngest when he speaks the truth. The ruthless betrayal ultimately drives Hidetora insane, destroying his entire family and kingdom. Deep human emotion and out-standing acting combine to create one of the most acclaimed foreign films of all time.
Title: Returner
Call ID: DVJP 805
Takashi Yamazaki: Japanese (Chinese and English Subtitles). 117 Mins. 2002.
Miyamoto, an orphan, a “Returner” – a solitary killer-for-hire. In a mission he comes across Mizoguchi, a big brother in the black market, who killed Miyamoto’s childhood best friend.
A gun fight starts, Mizoguchi slips away as Miyamoto mistakenly shoots a young girl Milly, who comes from the future. Staying alive, Milly gets Miyamoto involved in her mission, a must-complete in only 2 days and for one more reason they don’t know – Mizoguchi. Donated by Neil Hong.
Title: Rikisha-Man
Call ID: VJP 300
Iroshi Inagaki: Japanese (English subtitles). 105 Mins. 1958.
A classic film of unrequited love, starring Toshiro Mifune as a feisty rikisha puller who helps raise a young boy after the father has died, loving the boy’s mother from a distance that class cannot cross. Winner of the Venice Film Festival Grand Prize.
Title: Seven Samurai (Part I)
Call ID: DVJP 803 A
Akira Kurosawa: Japanese (optional English subtitles) B&W. 103 Mins. 1954.
A desperate village hires seven samurai to protect it from marauders in this crown jewel of Japanese cinema.
No other film so seamlessly weaves philosophy and entertainment, delicate human emotions and relentless action. Featuring Japan’s legendary star, the great Toshiro Mifune, Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai is an inspired epic, a triumph of art, and an unforgettable three-hour ride.
Title: Seven Samurai (Part II)
Call ID: DVJP 803 B
Akira Kurosawa: Japanese (English Subtitles). 104 Mins. 1954.
One of the most bleoved movie epics of all time, Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai) tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire seven out-of-work warriors to protect them from invading bandits.
This three-hour ride-featuring legendary actors Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura- seamlessly weaves philosophy and entertainment, delicate human emotions and relentless action into a rich, evocative, and unforgettable tale of courage and hope.
Title: Seven Samurai (Part I & II)
Call ID: VJP 305 A&B
Akira Kurosawa: Japanese (English Subtitles). 208 Mins. 1954.
Seven Samurai -an extraordinary tale of adventure, romance, humor, and suspense- has been hailed by critics worldwide as on of the best films of all time. Set in 16th-century Japan, the plot revolves around seven mercenaries hired to defend a peasant community against marauding bandits.
When the samurai arrive, a spectacular series of battles begins. Kurosawa’s innovative use of slow motion, a rapidly motion camera, and long-lens photography captures the ferocious conflict. But this is far more than a stupendous action film; Kurosawa’s classic is also remembered for its timeless themes of personal bravery and the indomitability of the human spirit.
Title: Shall We Dance?
Call ID: VJP 304
Masayuki Suo: Japanese (English subtitles). 119 Mins.
The irresistible comedy treat that has critics and audiences cheering all across America. A middle-aged workaholic’s incredibly dull life takes a funny turn when he signs up for a ballroom dance teacher. But when he finally muscles up the nerve for lessons, he winds up with a different instructor and her colorfully eccentric class of beginners. And now he’ll have to sleep lightly.
Title: Tamporo
Call ID: VJP 303
Juzo Itami: Japanese (English subtitles) 114 Mins. 1987.
One of the funniest, most enjoyable satirical comedies is this treasure of a movie the plot of which, loosely, concerns the quest for the perfect Japanese noodle.
Title: Blind Chance / Przypadek
Call ID: VPOL 300
Krzysztof Kieslowski:Polish (English subtitiles) 118 mins. 1989.
Title: The Conductor
Call ID: VPOL 301
Andrzej Wajda. Polish (English Subtitles) 101 mins. 1979.
In new York Jan Lasocki, a famous émigré conductor, meets Marta, a visiting musician who is also daughter of his first love.
Nostalgic and homesick for Poland after 50 years abroad, he returns to conduct a local orchestra in Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony; the same orchestra he began his career with years ago. Conducting in Poland however, is not what Jan had dreamed, and the concert becomes mired in government schemes to milk the political advantages of his return. Academy-Award winner John Gielgud (Prospero’s Books, Arthur, Chariots of Fire) gives a triumphant performance in Wajda’s deeply-felt tribute to artistic commitment and integrity under political pressure.
Title: Newland
Call ID: DVHE 811
Orna Ben-Dor Niv. Hebrew & Polish (Eng Subtitles) 107 mins.
Leaving the devastation of World War II behind them, a little girl and her brother travel from Europe to Israel in search of family, hope and future. Placed in a refugee camp upon arrival, they are confronted by a world of colorful characters whose intrigues both terrify and tantalize. They are immediately forced to face the difficult realities of a new land.
Title: White
Call ID: VFR 332
Krysztof Kieslowski: French And Polish (English subtitles) 92 mins. 1993.
The second part of Kieslowski’s Blue-White-Red trilogy, based on the concepts of the French tri-color. A Polish man’s life disintegrates when his new French bride deserts him after only six months. Forced to begin anew, he returns to Poland and plans a clever scheme of revenge against her. July Delpy is great as the young wife.
Title: Andrei Rublev
Call ID: DVRU 800
Andrei Tarkovsky: Russian (English subtitles). 205 mins. 1973.
Immediately suppressed by the Soviets in 1966, Andrei Tarkovsky’s epic masterpiece is a sweeping medieval tale of Russia’s greatest icon painter.
Title: Andrei Rublev
Call ID: VRU 306
Andrei Tarkovsky: Russian (English subtitles). 185 mins. 1966.
The dazzling and harrowing tale of the fifteenth-century icon painter who survives the cruelties of medieval Russia to create works of art.
Title: The Anna Akhmatova File
Call ID: VRU 309
Semeon Aranovitch: Russian (English Subtitles). 65 Mins. 1989.
A moving portrait of the extraordinary Soviet poet, Anna Akhmatova.
Title: Anna Karenina (Part I)
Call ID: DVRU 807
Aleksandr Zarkhi: Russian.(English Subtitles). 77 Mins.
The melodrama centers around a tragic story of love and infidelity, the destiny of a woman who irrevocably changes her life for the sake of a passion.
Title: Anna Karenina (Part II)
Call ID: DVRU 807 B
Aleksandr Zarkhi: Russian. (English Subtitles). 77 Mins.
The melodrama centers around a tragic story of love and infidelity, the destiny of a woman who irrevocably changes her life for the sake of a passion.
Title: Autumn Marathon
Call ID: VRU 321
Georgi Daneliya: Russian (English Subtitles). 94 Mins.
Andrey Pavlovich Buzykin, who makes a living by teaching at an institute and translating English literature, is cheating on his wife.
Title: Baltazar’s Feasts / The Night with Stalin
Call ID: DVRU 810
Yury Kara: Russian (English Subtitles). 83. Mins.
The film is based on one a chapters from Fazil Iskander’s epic <<Sandro from the Village of Chegem>>.[collapisble]It tells a story about one feast of Josef Stalin and his closest entourage. Sandro from the village of Chegen appeared as an Abkhaz folk dancing performer at this feast. This routine performance turned into a nightmare after the returned home as the purges of artists who attended the feast were about to being.[/collapsible]
Title: Black & White
Call ID: VENG 343
Boris Frumin: English. 96 Mins.
Black & White is the story of Lisa, a young Soviet emigré studying medicine in Manhattan, Roy, an African American building superintendent on New York’s Lower Eastside, and the bond that they form from living on the edges of Manhattan.
Title: Black Ice / Gololiod
Call ID: DVRU 809
Mikhail Brashinsky: Russian (English Subtitles). 70 Mins.
Surrealistic melodrama. Sergey Ivanov is a handsome, self confident, gay.
Title: Bless the Woman / Blagoslovite
Call ID: DVRU 815
Stanislav Govorukhin: Russian. 114 Mins.
This love drama is about the fate of a young woman, who maintains her love for a not-so-young officer through harsh years of war. Before making a film I always ask myself: what my spectators, those whom I love, would like, what would give them vital forces, what would evoke their kind and noble feelings.
Title: Brother
Call ID: VRU 322
Aleksei Balabanov: Russian. 96 mins.
In “Brother”, Sergei Bodrov Jr. (the son of the director of Prisoner of the Mountains, in which he also stars) plays Danila, a pale young man from the provinces returning home from his military service.
Title: Burnt By the Sun
Call ID: VRU 308
Nikita Mikhalkov: Russian (English subtitles). 134 mins. 199.
Nikita Mikhalkov directs and stars as Colonel Serguei Kotov, a hero of the Revolution who is spending the summer in the country with his young daughter (Mikhalkov’s real-life daughter), his wife and her eccentric family.
Title: Check-up on the Roads
Call ID: VRU 319
Aleksei German:Russian. 92 mins.
A partisan detachment commanded by lieutenant Ivan Lokotkov, a former countryside militiaman, operates in one of the north-west areas of Russia occupied by fascists.
Title: Circus
Call ID: VRU 316
Grigoriy Alexandrov. Russian. 89 mins.
A Soviet musical comedy about an American circus artist who has a black baby; having suffered from racism in the United States, she discovers that the only way and place she can find happiness is among the Soviet people.
Title: The Court of Honour
Call ID: VRU 315
Abraham Room. Russian. 100 mins.
Losev, a Soviet scientist, being in America in scientific mission, neglected the interests of his native land and published in the USA an unfinished work of his collegues, considering it as <>.
Title: The Cranes Are Flying
Call ID: VRU 310
Mikhail Kalatozov Russian with English subtitles. 95 mins. 1996.
A film that marked a radical opening for Soviet cinema; the lighthearted, romantic, lyrical story of a beautiful young girl (Tatiana Samoliova) caught up in the horrors of war.
Title: Diamond Arm
Call ID: DVRU 803
(THE) Leonid Gaiday Russian (English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Japanese, Hebrew, Swedish, Chinese & Arabic Subtitles) 100 mins. 1968.
The plot of this eccentric comedy is based on a newspaper article, found by script co-writer Yakov Kostyukovsky, about the arrest on the Italian border of a criminal who had hidden “gold and diamonds” in the plaster cast.
Title: East/West (Est/Ouest)
Call ID: DVRU 801
Réges Warnier. French/Russian (English subtitles). 125 mins. 1993.
From the director of Academy Award -winning Indochine comes another highly acclaimed film.
Title: The Errors of Youth
Call ID: VRU 311
Boris Frumin Russian w/ English subtitles. 87 mins.
The Errors of Youth was banned in 1979 because it was found to be too close to ‘real’ life in the former Soviet Union.
Title: Father Frost
Call ID: DVRU 805
Alexander Row. Russian (English subtitles). 110 mins.
This musical, beautiful costumed film is based on popular Russian fairy tales.
Title: Freeze, Die Come to Life
Call ID: VRU 304
Vitaly Kanevski: Russian (English subtitles). 105 mins. 1989.
A brilliant Soviet film about the brutal conditions of life in and around Stalinist labor camps as seen through the eyes of two remarkable children.
Title: The Inspector General
Call ID: VRU 301
Vladimir Petrov: Russian (English subtitles). 130 mins. 1954.
Gogol’s famous play, performed by members of the Moscow Art Theatre, filmed by Vladimir Petrov.
Title: The Irony of Fate
Call ID: DVRU 806
Eldar Ryazanov. RUSSIAN (ENG, FRE, SPA, & GER SUBTITLES). 185 MINS.
This is lyrical comedy about four friends going to the sauna, as their annual tradition was, and so much ” heat” that the character of Andrey Myagkov ended up at the same apartment in the same street with the same furniture, but in Leningrad, where he unexpectedly interferes with the wife of its lady-owner.
Title: The Lady with the Dog
Call ID: DVRU 822
Iosif Heifitz. Russian (English Subtitles) B&W. 89 mins. 1960.
A faithful adaptation from the short story by Chekhov, THE LADY WITH THE DOG is a forgotten masterpiece of the Soviet cinema.
Title: Magnetic Storms (Magnitniye Buri)
Call ID: DVRU 812
Vadim Addrashitov. Russian (English Subtitles). 93 mins.
A modern provincial city with a big metallurgical factory.
Title: The Man with the Movie Camera
Call ID: VRU 313
DZIGA VERTOV. RUSSIAN.
This playful film is at once a documentary of the day on the life of the Soviet Union, a document of the filming of said documentary, and a depiction of an audience watching the film.
Title: Meeting on the Elbe
Call ID: VRU 320
Grigoriy Alexandrov. Russian 98 mins.
In the first months after World War II, Russian and American forces are stationed in a fictional Altenstadt in Germany.
Title: Mirror
Call ID: VRU 317
Andrei Tarkovsky. Russian 102 mins.
Tarkovsky’s looking glass is not merely cracked but shattered, and we see the jagged, jumbled reflections of its shards, images of the director’s childhood mixed with fragments of his adult life–a child’s wartime exile, a mother’s experience with political terror, the breakup of a marriage, life in a country home–all intermingled with slow motion dream sequences and stark newsreel. An essential film whose puzzles provide the key to this intense filmmaker’s other works.
Title: Mom Got Married (Mama Visla Zamuzh)
Call ID: DVRU 817
Vitaly Melnikov. Russian (English Subtitles). 85 mins.
Zina separated from her son Borka’s father ages ago and pretty much brought him up by herself. Now, the son has grown into a man –yet another man, Viktor, is also entering Zina’s life. How will the son respond to the possibility of new stepfather?
Title: Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
Call ID: DVRU 823
Vladimir Menshov. Russian (English Subtitles). 150 Mins.
MOSCOW DOES NOT BELIEVE IN TEARS is Vladimir Menshov”s enchanting drama of three women struggling to establish themselves in Russia’s huge and often impersonal capital city.
Title: Moscow Parade
Call ID: VRU 305
Ivan Dijkhovichny: Russian (English Subtitles). 103 mins.1993.
Ute Lemper stars in this, the first post-Soviet film about the Stalin Era. In 1939, she is a young aristocrat married to a hateful chief of the secret police.
Title: Moving
Call ID: DVRU 818
Alexandre Petrov. Russian 104 mins.
Sacha is a journalist. He is running after scandalous relationships that not only are giving him money but very often troubles.
Title: The Overcoat
Call ID: VRU 302
Alexei Batalov: Russian (English subtitles). 73 min. 1959.
Roland Bykov delivers a moving performance as the poor degraded clerk in 18th century Russia in this version of Nikolai Gogol’s famous short story.
Title: Russian Dolls
Call ID: DVFR 825
Cédric Klapisch. French (English Subtitles). 129 mins.
Xavier is back! We find him five years after L’AUBERGE ESPAGNOLE- he is now thirty years old.
Title: The Russian Issue
Call ID: VRU 318
Mikhail Romm. Russian. 91 mins.
Screen version of the play of the same name by K. Simonov. USA.
Title: The Sea Gull
Call ID: VRU 303
Alexei Batalov: Russian (English subtitles). 99 mins.1971.
A sensitive exquisitely acted version of Checkov’s great play, set in provincial Russia, a penetrating study of the languid melancholia of the residents of an isolated country estate.
Title: Secret Mission
Call ID: VRU 323
Mikhail Romm. Russian. 84 mins.
January of 1945. Senator Allen and Garvy from Strategic Information Bureau come to Himmler from America.
Title: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Call ID: VRU 307
Sergei Parajanov: Ukrainian (English subtitles). 99 mins. 1984.
Based on a Georgian legend, the first feature completed by Sergei Paradjanov after being released from prison.
Title: Siberiade
Call ID: VRU 314 A&B
ANDREI MIKHALKOV-KONCHALOVSKY. Russian (English subtitles). 206 mins.
The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till the early 80s.
Title: Strike
Call ID: VRU 324
Sergei Eisenstein. Russian (English Subtitles) B&W. 94 minutes.
Sergei Eisenstein’s Strike (Stachka) is a dazzling and inventive film that blends political metaphor with radical technique as it dramatizes the genesis and violent consequences of a workers’ revolt.
Title: The Stroll (Progulka)
Call ID: DVRU 811
Alexei Uchitel. Russian (English Subtitles). 90 mins.
A modern romantic story, which happened to three young men in the center of St. Petersburg.
Title: Viva Castro!
Call ID: VRU 312
Boris Frumin. Russian w/ English subtitles. 82 mins.
One of the best Russian films of the 1990’s, Viva Castro! is set in a small Russian town in 1965.
Title: Viy (Spirit of Evil)
Call ID: DVRU 804
Georgi Kropachyov. Russian (English & French Subtitles). 78 mins. 2000.
This very eerie and stylish Russian horror film went largely unseen for decades. With this video release it should earn a loyal following.
Title: The Wedding
Call ID: DVRU 819
Pavel Lungin. Russian (English Subtitles). 114 mins.
The beautiful Tanya returns to her small mining town after supposedly working as a model in Moscow.
Title: White Sun of the Desert
Call ID: DVRU 802
(THE) Vladimir Motyl Russian (English, French & Arabic Subtitles). 85 mins. 1969.
This “Middle-Eastern”, or rather a Central-Asian action film about the Red Army fighting the counter-revolutionary robber bands has become not only a cult movie, but also one of the favorites for several generations of viewers.
Title: Aguirre: The Wrath of God
Call ID: VGE 301
Werner Herzog: German (English subtitles) 94 mins. 1973
In the mid-1500's, a large Spanish expedition searching for the mythical lost city of Eldorado detached an advance party to explore a tributary of the Amazon; They never returned.
Title: All About My Mother
Call ID: DVSP 801
Pedro Almodovar. Spanish (English and French subtitles) 102 mins. 1999
Donated by Prof. Cecile Insdorf, Dept. of Romance Languages, May 2000.
Title: Alsino and the Condor
Call ID: VSP 300
Miguel Littin: Spanish (English subtitles) 89 mins. 1986
Set in present day Central America, 'Alsino and the Condor' is the first fictional feature ever made in Nicaragua.
Title: Amores Perros
Call ID: DVSP 807
Alejandro González Iñárritu. Spanish (English & French subtitles) 153 mins. 2000.
Three lives become inextricably linked in the wake of a terrible car crash.
Title: And The Earth Did Not Swallow Him
Call ID: VENG 339
Severo Perez: English 99 mins. 1994
This is a haunting and powerful film about a young Mexican-America boy's coming of age amid the poverty and adversity he and his family face as migrant farm workers in the 1950s.
Title: Ay, Carmela
Call ID: VSP 327
Carlos Saura: Spanish (English subtitles) 105 mins.1991.
In Spain,1938, the country is torn apart by Civil War between the Republicans and Franco's fascist forces.
Title: The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
Call ID: VENG 348
Moctesuma Esperanza. English. 105 mins. 1983
It is 1901, and two Texas cultures -the Anglo and the Mexican- live side by side in a state of tension and fear.
Title: Before Night Falls
Call ID: DVSP 828
Julian Schnabel. Spanish (English Subtitles ) 133 minutes.
Julian Schnabel (Basquiat) directs this incredible journey through the life and work of the late Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas.
Title: Belle Epoque
Call ID: DVSP 813
Fernando Trueba. Spanish (English Subtitles) 110 mins.
This is the irresistible story of Fernando, a handsome young Spanish Civil War deserter, who befriends a free-thinking artist.
Title: Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman
Call ID: VSP 347
Berman & Tardan. Spanish (English subtitles) 100 mins. 1995
A funny and thoughtful look at the changing nature of gender roles, Entre Pancho Villa y una Mujer Desnuda (Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman) follows a couple with amusingly different ideas about what makes for a healthy, intimate relationship.
Title: Bitter Sugar
Call ID: VSP 342
Leon Ichaso Spanish (English subtitles) 102 mins. 1996
Donated by Prof. Cecile Insdorf, Dept. of Romance Languages, May 2000.
Title: Bizet's Carmen
Call ID: DVSP 834
Francesco Rosi: French (English & Spanish subtitles) 136 mins.
Set in the sun-scorched city of Seville, Bizet's Carmen stars Placido Domingo and Julia Mignes Johnson in posssibly the most stunning portrayal ever of the world's most popular opera.
Title: Black River
Call ID: VSP 332
Atahualpa Lichy: Spanish (English subtitles) 116 mins. 1990
Atahualpa Lichy's remarkable Black River bursts onto the screen with all the splendor and majesty of the far reaches of the Venezuelan Amazon, where absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Title: Blood Wedding
Call ID: VSP 303
Carlos Saura: Spanish (English subtitles) 71 mins. 1981
A flamenco ballet version of Federico Garcia Lorca's classic, from the director of Carmen.
Title: Boquitas Pintadas (Painted Lips)
Call ID: VSP 329
Torre Nilsson: Spanish ( English subtitles) 120 min. 1974
Lies, double personalities, and the evil pettiness of life in a small town converge in Leopoldo Torre Nilsson's brilliant adaptation of a novel by Manuel Puig.
Title: Buena Vista Social Club
Call ID: DVSP 802
Wenders. Spanish (English subtitles) 105 mins. 1999
"The Buena Vista Social Club," guitarist Ry Cooder's celebrated album featuring the recently rediscovered talents of Cuba's foremost folk musicians, sold millions of copies and earned an Grammy award.
Title: El Burlador de Sevilla
Call ID: VSP 340
Tirso de Molina. Spanish. 2 hours. 1988
A superb production of Tirso's most famous work, the play that introduced the theme of Don Juan into European literature. An RTVE production.
Title: Butterfly
Call ID: DVSP 808
José Luis Cuerda. Spanish (English subtitles) 94 mins.
Acclaimed by critics and featuring legendary star Fernando Fernán Gómez (All About My Mother), Butterfly is a heartwarming tale about a young boy growing up in a small Spanish town.
Title: Cabeza de Vaca
Call ID: VSP 326
Nicolas Echevarria. Spanish (English subtitles) 110 mins. 1993
In 1528, a Spanish expedition founders off the coast of Florida-600 lives lost.
Title: Camila
Call ID: VSP 304
Maria Luisa Bemberg: Spanish (English subtitles) 105 mins. 1984
A young Catholic socialite from Buenos Aires falls in love and runs away with a young Jesuit Priest.
Title: La Celestina
Call ID: DVSP 817
Gerardo Vera. Spanish (English Subtitles) 155 mins.
Calisto is a young knight who has fallen madly in love with a beautiful maiden, Melibea (Penélope Cruz).
Title: La Ciudad y los Perros
Call ID: VSP 317
Francisco J. Lombardi: Spanish (English subtitles) 135 mins. 1985
Four angry cadets, who have formed an inner circle in an attempt to beat the system and ward off the boredom and stifling confinement of the military academy, set off a chain of events that starts with a theft and leads to murder and suicide.
Title: Cria!
Call ID: VSP 301
Carlos Saura: Spanish (English subtitles) 115 mins. 1977
A beautifully acted haunting film-Ana, played by Ana Torrent, is the nine year old heroine who has an uncanny talent for observing scenes not meant for her eyes.
Title: The Crime of Padre Amaro (El Crimen del Padre Amaro)
Call ID: DVSP 805
Carlos Carrera. Spanish (English, French subtitles) 119 mins. 2003.
A recently ordained priest (Bernal) is sent to help an aging priest run a small parish church in rural Mexico.
Title: Danzon
Call ID: VSP 311
Maria Novaro: Spanish (English subtitles) 103 mins. 1991
This sensual,exuberant work by the gifted Mexican director Maria Novaro tells the story of Julia (Maria Rojo), a 40-year old telephone operator and single mother whose emotional life consists of ballroom dancing.
Title: Death and the Maiden (La Muerte y la Concella)
Call ID: DVENG 806
Roman Polanski English ( Spanish Subtitles) 103 Mins. 1995
Paulina Escobar is the housewife to a prominent lawyer in an unnamed South American country just out of a dictatorship.
Title: Demons in the Garden
Call ID: VSP 344
Manuel Gutierrez Aragon's Spanish (English subtitles) 100 mins.
In post-Civil War Spain, a family achieves economic success in the black market while currying favor with the regime.
Title: Don Juan, My Love
Call ID: VSP 350
Antonio Mercero . Spanish ( 96 Mins). 1990
According to Spanish legend, every All Souls Eve, the ghost of the legendary lover Don Juan Tenorio rises up from purgatory to walk the earth in hopes of doing the single good deed necessary for him to be freed from limbo.
Title: Don Quijote de la Mancha
Call ID: VSP 341
(CERVANTES) Rafael Gil. Spanish. 2hours 15 mins. B&W. 1947
Alonso Quijano, enloquecido por la lectura de caballeria, abandona su aldea en busca de aventuras.
Title: Don Segundo Sombra
Call ID: VSP 343
Ricardo Guiraldes. Spanish (English subtitles) 110 mins.
Based on the novel of the same name, Don Segundo Sombra narrates the story of Fabio Caceres as he grows into adulthood.
Title: Erendira
Call ID: VSP 307
Ruy Guerra: Spanish (English subtitles) 103 mins. 1983
Based on a section of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', Erendira is an erotic black comedy laden with sexual fantasy, surreal pranks and political allegory.
Title: Even the Rain
Call ID: DVSP 831
Iciar Bollain: Spanish (English subtitles) 103 mins. 2010.
Idealistic filmmaker (Gael Garcia Bernal,The Motorcycle Diaries)and his cynical producer Costa (Luis Tosar,The Limits of Control)arrive in Bolivia to make a revionist film about Christopher Columbus' conquest of the Americas.
Title: The Exterminating Angel
Call ID: VSP 334
Luis Bunuel Spanish (English subtitles) 93 mins. 1962
The invited guests at an elegant dinner party find they are unable to leave at the end of the evening-a mysterious force compels them to stay.
Title: The Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon Fancier
Call ID: VSP 319
Ruy Guerra: Spanish (English subtitles) 73 mins. 1988
Based on a fragment from his novel 'Love in the Time of Cholera', The Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon Fancier was conceived and co-written by Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Title: The Flower of My Secret
Call ID: DVSP 823
PEDRO ALMODOVAR. Spanish (English Subtitles) 103 mins.
A rambling comedy about a romance novelist (Marisa Paredes) whose crumbling marriage has left her depressed and unable to work.
Title: Frida
Call ID: DVENG 807 A
Paul Leduc. English 108 Mins.
Filmaker Paul Leduc has created a new form of artistic biography, a film that matches the famous description of Frida Kahlo and her art: "a bomb disguised as a butterfly."
Title: Frida
Call ID: DVENG 807 B
Paul Leduc. English 108 Mins.
Filmaker Paul Leduc has created a new form of artistic biography, a film that matches the famous description of Frida Kahlo and her art: "a bomb disguised as a butterfly."
Title: From Mambo to Hip-Hop: A South Bronx Tale
Call ID: DVENG 805
Henry Chalfant. English with Spanish subtitles. 56 minutes.
There's a postage stamp of urban sidewalk known by people of a certain age for having burned to the ground.
Title: Fuenteovejuna (Part 1)
Call ID: VSP 338 A
Lope de Vega Spanish (Parts 1 & 2) 2hrs 22mins. 1993
The greatest Spanish work of the Siglo de Oro is here presented as a feature film that painstakingly and lovingly re-creates the medieval world of Lope's play.
Title: Fuenteovejuna (Part 2)
Call ID: VSP 338 B
Lope de Vega Spanish (Parts 1 & 2) 2hrs 22mins. 1993
The greatest Spanish work of the Siglo de Oro is here presented as a feature film that painstakingly and lovingly re-creates the medieval world of Lope's play.
Title: Funny Dirty Little War
Call ID: VSP 312
Hector Olivera: Spanish (English subtitles) 80 mins. 1983
An important film from Hector Olivera, the story is a parable of events in Peronist Argentina.
Title: The Grandfather
Call ID: DVSP 803
Nickel Odeon. Spanish (English subtitles) 146 mins. 1998
Nominated for an Academy Award as Best Foreign Language Film, The Grandfather is a deeply compelling tale of love, honor and secrecy!
Title: The Grandfather
Call ID: VSP 353
Jose Luis Garci. Spanish (English Subtitles) 146 Mins. 1998
Nominated for an Academy Award as Best Foreign Language Film, The Grandfather is a deeply compelling tale of love, honor and secrecy!
Title: The Green Wall
Call ID: VSP 316
Armando Robles Godoy: Spanish (English subtitles) 110 mins. 1970
A breakthrough film from South America, The Green Wall is based on Armando Robles Godoy's own experiences of homesteading in the Peruvian jungle.
Title: The House of Bernarda Alba
Call ID: DVSP 815
Mario Camus. Spanish (English Subtitles) 103 mins.
Based on the play by renowned Spanish author Federico García Lorca, THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA is the story of a cold-blooded provincial widow and her five adult daughters.
Title: I, The Worst of All
Call ID: VSP 324
Maria Luisa Bemberg: Spanish (English subtitles) 107 mins.
Assumpta Serna stars as the brilliant and beautiful poet Sister Juana Ines de la Cruz in this magnificent portrayal of 17th Century Mexico.
Title: Il Postino (The Postman)
Call ID: DVIT 805
Michael Radford Italian (English subtitles) 108 mins. 1995
Cheered by critics and audiences everywhere, Il Postino-The Postman is the record-breaking Academy Award-winning romantic comedy that delivers heartfelt laughs!
Title: Johnny 100 Pesos
Call ID: VSP 333
Gustavo Graef-Marino: Spanish (English Subtitles) 95 Mins. 1993
Based on a true story that enthralled an entire country.
Title: Julio Y Su Angel
Call ID: VSP 337
Jorge Cervera. Spanish (English subtitles) 98 mins. 1996
Julio and his Angel is the tender story of an orphan child, looking for his guardian angel.
Title: Kika
Call ID: VSP 328
Pedro Almodovar: Spanish (English subtitles) 109 mins.1994.
Kika is a make-up artist who lives with her lover, Ramon, a photographer specializing in women's lingerie.
Title: Letters from the Park
Call ID: VSP 314
Tomas Gutierrez Alea: Spanish (English subtitles) 85 mins. 1988
Echoing the tale of Cyrano de Bergerac, this film unfolds as two shy young lovers enlist the help of a local poet to write passionate letters to each other.
Title: Like Water for Chocolate
Call ID: VSP 331
Alfonso Arau: Spanish (English subtitles)105 min.1992.
Based on the best-selling book now, experience for yourself the erotic tale of forbidden love that seduced both critics and audiences nation wide!
Title: Like Water for Chocolate
Call ID: DVSP 811
Alfonso Arau. Spanish (English Subtitles) 105 mins. 1992
Based on the best-selling book- now, experience for yourself the erotic tale of forbidden love that seduced both critics and audiences nationwide!
Title: Live Flesh
Call ID: DVSP 809
Pedro Almodovar Spanish (English & French Subtitles) 101mins. 1997
From critically acclaimed, erotically candid writer/director Pedro Almodovar (Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down; Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown) comes a raw, seductive tale "brimming with lust, betrayal and murder" (Rolling Stone).
Title: Macu, The Policeman's Wife
Call ID: VSP 346
Solveig Hoogesteijn Spanish (English subtitles) 90 mins. 1987
Based on a real-life, highly sensationalized murder case, this extremely well-made and compelling film tells the story of Ismael Ramírez, a middle-aged police captain, and his teenage bride, Macu.
Title: Maria Full of Grace
Call ID: DVSP 812
Joshua Marston. Spanish (English and French Subtitles) 101 mins. 2004.
Winner of the Dramatic Audience Award at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival and two major awards at the 2004 Berlin Film Festival, Joshua Marston's MARIA FULL OF GRACE introduces us to a determined young woman whose desire for a brighter future leads her into a world of unimaginable danger.
Title: Martin Fierro
Call ID: VSP 345
Hernandez. Spanish. 60 mins. 1994
This, the Argentine epic, celebrates the free-spirited mestizo cowboy of the pampas, a man of few possessions beyond his pride and his guitar.
Title: Matador
Call ID: DVSP 821
PEDRO ALMODOVAR. Spanish (English Subtitles) 102 mins.
The famous, retired bullfighter, Diego Montes owns and operates a school for bullfighters.
Title: Memories of Under Development
Call ID: VSP 321
Tomas Gutierrez Alea: Spanish (Englishsubtitles) 97 mins. 1968
A breakthrough Cuban film, the first Cuban film to be released in the U.S.
Title: The Milk of Sorrow
Call ID: DVSP 829
Claudia Llosa. Spanish and Quechua ( English Subtitles) 94Mins. 2009.
Fausta (Magaly Solier) suffers from " The Milk of Sorrow", an illness transmitted through mother's milk by women who've been raped during Peru's Civil Wars.
Title: Miracle in Rome
Call ID: VSP 305
Lisandro Duque Naranjo: Spanish (English subtitles) 76 mins.1988.
Called 'a small miracle by itself' by The New York Times, it tells the story of Margarito Duarte, a man whose seven year old daughter dies suddenly.
Title: The Motorcylces Diaries
Call ID: DVSP 816
Walter Salles.Spanish (English subtitles) 127 mins.
Based on a true life story, The Motorcycles Diaries is an inspiring and thrilling adventure that traces the youthful origins of a revolutionary spirit.
Title: El Norte (The North)
Call ID: DVSP 827 A
Gregory Nava. Spa & Eng (Eng Subtitles) 140 minutes.
Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life.
Title: El Norte (The North)
Call ID: DVSP 827 B
Gregory Nava. Supplementary (English).
Title: El Norte (The North)
Call ID: VSP 348
Gregory Nava. Spanish (English subtitles) 141 mins. 1984
Beginning in the remote mountain jungles of Guatemala, awash with the lushness of colors of the nature and the rainbow colors of the Mayans, this highly-acclaimed drama about a brother and sister seeking a better life centers on two young Indians.
Title: Nueba Yol
Call ID: DVSP 819
This charming film about disappointment, triumph and the American dream broke all box office records in the Dominican Republic.
Title: Nueba Yol
Call ID: VSP 335
Luisito Marti Spanish (English subtitles) 120 mins. 1995
Nueba Yol documents a hapless immigrant's daily struggles in a strange country, devoid of the comforts of his native customs, language and culture.
Title: The Official Story
Call ID: DVSP 800
Fox Lorber Spanish (English subtitles) 110 mins. 1985
The Official Story, details the collapse of an affluent Argentinian family.
Title: The Official Story
Call ID: VSP 306
Luis Puenzo: Spanish (English subtitles) 112 mins. 1985
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1985 this powerful Argentinean feature is the true story of a comfortable middle-class couple and their adopted daughter.
Title: Oriane
Call ID: VSP 325
Fina Torres. Spanish (English subtitles) 88 mins. (1991).
This important historical milestone in Latin American cinema is a gorgeous and lush romance/mystery which flows like a poem with a taut and touching story of remembrance of things past.
Title: Pan's Labyrinth
Call ID: DVSP 824 A
Guillermo Del Toro. Spanish [ English & Spanish Subtitles] 119 Mins. 2006.
From Acclaimed director Guillermo Del Toro ( Blade II, HellBoy) comes a dark fantasy/thriller about a young girl.
Title: Pan's Labyrinth (Documentary)
Call ID: DVSP 824 B
Guillermo Del Toro. Spanish [English & Spanish Subtitles] 119 Mins. 2006
Title: La Plaza Del Diamante
Call ID: VSP 323
Francesc Betriu: Spanish (English subtitles) 112 mins. 1981
A family's life is shattered by the tragic reality of a civil war.
Title: Portrait of Teresa
Call ID: VSP 318
Pastor Vega: Spanish (English subtitles) 103 mins. 1979
One of the key Cuban films shot in a fluid style, the film focuses on the stubborn survival of deeply ingrained traditions of machismo and sexism in post-revolutionary society.
Title: Romero
Call ID: VENG 321
John Duigan: English 105 min. 1989
Raul Julia gives a compelling performance as the Archbishop of El Salvador, who was murdered for his ability to stir the masses into thoughts of political reform.
Title: Secret in their Eyes
Call ID: DVSP 830
Juan Jose Campanella: Spanish/French (English, French Subtitles) 129 mins.
Recently retired criminal court investigator Benjamin (Ricardo Darin) decides to write a novel based on a twenty-five-year-old unresolved rape and murder case which still haunts him.
Title: The Roots
Call ID: VSP 315
Benito Alazraki: Spanish (English subtitles) 85 mins. 1958
This compilation of four short stories by Francisco Gonzales produced by Manuel Barbachano (Torero!), won the international film critics awards at Cannes.
Title: The Sea Inside
Call ID: DVSP 818
Alejandro Amenábar. Spanish (English Subtitles) 125 mins.
Based on the profoundly moving true story that captured the world's attention, The Sea Inside is about Spaniard Ramón Sampedro (played by Oscar nominee Javier Bardem), who fought a 30-year campaign to win the right to end his life with dignity.
Title: The Spirit of the Beehive
Call ID: DVSP 833 A
Victor Erice. Spanish (English Subtitles) 99 Mins. 1973
In a small Castilian village in 1940, in the wake of the country's devastating civil war, six-year-old Ana attends a traveling movie show of Frankenstein and becomes possessed by the memory of it.
Title: The Spirit of the Beehive
Call ID: DVSP 833 B
Victor Erice. Spanish (English Subtitles) 12 mins.
Title: The Spirit of the Beehive
Call ID: VSP 308
Victor Erice: Spanish (English subtitles) 95 mins. 1973
A landmark Spanish film by Victor Erice, featuring the remarkable Ana Torrent in the story of two little girls growing up after the Spanish Civil War in the countryside.
Title: Strawberry & Chocolate
Call ID: DVSP 810
Tomas Gutierrez Alea Spanish (English Subtitles) 104 mins.1994.
Robert Redford and Miramax Films proudly present Strawberry and Chocolate, the irresistible comedy treat that's received outstanding critical acclaim!
Nominated for the Academy Award as Best Foreign Language film in 1994, Strawberry and Chocolate is a deliciously fun-filled celebration of life at its entertaining best!
Title: Talk to Her
Call ID: DVSP 804
Pedro Almodovar Spanish (English, French subtitles) 114 mins. 2002.
TALK TO HER is the surprising, altogether original and quietly moving story of the spoken and unspoken bonds that unite the lives and loves of two couples.
Title: Taxi Para Tres
Call ID: DVSP 814
Orlando Lübbert. Spanish (English Subtitles) 89 mins.
This Chilean black comedy tell the tale of local taxi drivers Ulises, who unsuspectedly joins the group of thugs responsible for holding him up.
Title: Tierra
Call ID: DVSP 832
Julio Medem. Spanish (English Subtitles) 122 Mins.1996.
An electric metaphysical melodrama played out across the desolate vineyards of an unnamed region of Spain.
Title: La Tigra
Call ID: VSP 309
Camilia Luzuriaga: Spanish (English subtitles) 80 mins. 1990
Based on the novella by Jose de la Cuadra, this Ecuadorian feature looks at female identity through the eyes of Latin American machismo culture.
Title: Tristana
Call ID: VSP 330
Luis Bunuel: Spanish ( English subtitles) 98 min.1970.
Beautifully photographed in Toledo Spain, the story is splendidly acted by Catherine Deneuve an Fernando Rey.
Title: A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings
Call ID: VSP 322
Fernando Birri: Spanish (English subtitles) 90 mins. 1988
Magical realism and comic confusion blend in a startling film about visions and expectations.
Title: La Vida es Sueño
Call ID: VSP 339
Calderon de la Barca. Spanish. 74mins. B&W. 1994
The Spanish classic, performed in the classic Spanish style - beautifully spoken and clear to the ear.
Title: Volver
Call ID: DVSP 822
Pedro Almodóvar. Spanish (English Subtitles) 121 mins.
Raimunda (Cruz) and her sister Sole lost their parents in a tragic fire years ago… or did they?
Title: What Have I Done to Deserve This
Call ID: DVSP 825
Pedro Almodovar. Spanish (English Subtitles) 97 minutes
Gloria (Carmen Maura) is a cleaning woman and housewife who is addicted to amphetamines.
Title: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Call ID: DVSP 820
PEDRO ALMODOVAR. Spanish (English Subtitles) 85 mins.
Pepa is having a crisis. Her Lover is leaving her and now her doctor tells her she is pregnant.
Title: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Call ID: VSP 310
Pedro Almodovar: Spanish (English subtitles) 98 mins. 1988
The latest wacky comedy from Pedro Almodovar once again stars Carmen Maura, his perennial leading lady.
Title: The Young and the Damned (Los Olvidados)
Call ID: VSP 320
Luis Bunuel: Spanish (English subtitles) 81 mins. 1950
A milestone of filmmaking: Bunuel's great film looks at the lives of young people growing up in the slums of Mexico.
Title: Y Tu Mama Tambien
Call ID: DVSP 806
Alfonso Cuarón. Spanish (English subtitles) 105 mins. 2001.
Julio and Tenoch are two teens ruled by raging hormones and a mission to consume exotic substances.
Title: Y Tu Mama Tambien
Call ID: VPS 351
Alfonso Cuaron. Spanish (English Subtitles) 105 minutes
Julio and Tenoch are two teens ruled by raging hormones and a mission to consume exotic substances.