New Yorker Video (Firm)
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 74 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
The beauty and strength of the women of the Juchitan have inspired legends and songs for centuries, as well as recent tabloid stories of male harems and free love. Separate fact from folklore and sensationalism from sociology.
2) Still life
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
After a town is completely destroyed by a flood, the residents must try to rebuild their homes, the town, and their lives.
3) Short films
Publisher
New Yorker Films
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three short documentaries from the 1970's by the director Werner Herzog. Die grosse Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Schneider is about Walter Steiner, a Swiss woodcarver and world class ski jumper. How much wood... is a visit to the annual world championship of livestock auctioneers in the Amish country of Pennsylvania. La Soufrière is about the anticipated eruption of a volcano on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe and the man who chooses to stay behind...
Publisher
Folly River Films Inc
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The first Mardi Gras in America was celebrated in Mobile, Alabama in 1703. In 2008, it is still racially segregated. A fascinating investigation into our nation's history and traditions, this acclaimed, award-winning documentary illuminates the complexities of race relations in 21st century America. Winner of the Truer Than Fiction Award at the **Film Independent Spirit Awards**. Nominated for the Documentary Grand Jury Prize at the **Sundance Film...
5) Sequins
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Claire moves from her parents farm to an apartment in the city. She spends most of her time embroidering and keeping a big secret. When fate brings her together with a famous designer, will this help Claire's dreams as well as her big secret?
6) XICA
Series
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
c1993
Physical Desc
1 videocassette (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Language
Portuguese
Description
A diamond rush in the 1700s transformed Brazil's interior into a place of wealth and excess. In this unrestrained atmosphere, the slave Xica used her iron will and her sexual talent to seduce her way into becoming the unofficial Empress of Brazil. This outrageous comedy is a festive exercise in Brazilian baroque.
7) Voyages
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
From Poland to Paris to Tel Aviv, an intimate and personal story of the quests of three contemporary Jewish women whose lives and intertwining destinies create a moving and poignant story of survival.
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A snow lion is a mythic beast of Tibetan legend. As a protector of the nation, the snow lion is emblazoned on the Tibetan flag. Today the Tibetan flag is outlawed in its own homeland. Ten years in the making, filmed during a remarkable nine journeys throughout Tibet, India and Nepal. The dark secrets of Tibet's recent past are powerfully chronicled through riveting personal stories and interviews, and a collection of undercover and archival images...
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Greek
Description
A famous writer is told he has only a few days to live. He meets a young boy on the street, an illegal immigrant from Albania, and decides to take him back home. During the trip, the writer hopes to learn about life and death.
10) Tibet in song
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Tibetan
Description
In Tibet, a once-sovereign nation for thousands of years, much of the country remains under harsh Communist Chinese rule and "patriotic re-education." The surviving Tibetan folk music shapes an endangered people's identity. Ngawang Choephel, a Tibetan musicologist who fled for India at the age of two, returned home to capture the music of his people. He was arrested and sentenced to eighteen years in prison, serving nearly seven before a highly-publicized...
11) For ever Mozart
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The story concerns an aging movie director who attempts to film a new production of a Musset play in besieged Sarajevo. Along the way, various strange things happen to him and his stars, including landing in an apocalyptic rural landscape.
12) The unforeseen
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The American dream of owning a house with a white picket fence goes head to head with environmental sustainability in this urgent, beautifully crafted documentary. When an ambitious real estate developer sets out to transform thousands of acres of pristine hill country around Austin, Texas into a suburban development, threatening a nearby natural spring, the community fights back. In the conflict that ensues, we see a microcosm of the struggle between...
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
At the center of this intimate and touching story is Georges Lopez - a remarkably devoted teacher responsible for nurturing a dozen children ages 3-11 in all their school subjects and life's lessons. Demonstrates how a teacher, if well trained, dedicated and sensitive to a child's educational and emotional needs, can hugely influence a generation of children at their most critical time of development.
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
"Brigitte Roüan stars as Diane, a forty-year old book editor with a successful career, a loving husband and two adorable children. During a visit with one of her writers, she meets Emilio (Boris Terral), an exotically seductive engineer in his twenties who ignites Diane's life with passion and turns her world upside down."--Container.
17) Distant =: Uzak
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Türkçe
Description
A successful photographer falls into an existential crisis, which is greatly exacerbated by an unexpected visit from a distant relative.
19) Promises
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows the journey of a filmmaker who travels in and around Jerusalem, from a Palestinian refugee camp to an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, where he meets seven Palestinian and Israeli children who exist in completely separate worlds, divided by physical, historical and emotional boundaries. Explores the natural boundaries and tells the story of a few children who dared to cross the lines to meet their neighbors. Seen through the eyes of the...
20) Edvard Munch
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 174 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (21 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
Language
English
Description
A biography of Norwegian expressionist painter Edvard Munch and the effect his upbringing in Norway had on his work and whose raw, modern work The Scream shocked the bourgeois world.
