Isabelle Huppert
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (70 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A refreshingly sunny performance from Isabelle Huppert is at the center of this comic charmer from South Korean Master Hong Sang-soo. Huppert plays Claire, a school teacher with a camera (that might be magical) on her first visit to Cannes. She happens upon a film sales assistant, Manhee (Kim Min-hee), recently laid off after a one-night stand with a film director (Jung Jin-young). Together, this unlikely pair become detectives of sorts, as they wander...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Nathalie is a philosophy teacher with a seemingly settled existence, juggling a rich life of the mind with the day-to-day demands of career and family. But beginning with the bombshell revelation that her husband of twenty-five years is leaving her, one by one the pillars of Nathalie's life start to crumble. For the first time in ages, she finds herself adrift, but also with a newfound sense of liberation. With nothing to hold her back, Nathalie sets...
Publisher
Lorber Films
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a triptych of overlapping stories, three different French women visit a small Korean resort town and encounter a flirtatious director, a love struck lifeguard and far too much soju.
Publisher
Palm Pictures
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
"An extremely timely and prescient piece of social commentary, Time of the Wolf follows a family's difficult journey immediately after an unknown apocalyptic event. Haneke never tells us what happened, or where, or when, but instead puts us directly into the terrifying aftermath, with all of its confusion, uncertainty, and danger. As all social laws and codes are suddenly overturned, Heneke asks us to find our own way through. Time of the Wolf is...
6) Greta
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 39 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young woman strikes up a friendship with a solitary French piano teacher but soon notices that her new friend's behavior grows increasingly disturbing.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
An investigative thriller set in the world of nuclear power and politics, LA SYNDICALISTE follows the true story of Maureen Kearney (Isabelle Huppert), the influential head union representative of a French multinational nuclear powerhouse. A deft navigator of elite political and financial circles, Maureen becomes a whistleblower when she discovers international backroom dealings, exposing secrets that shook the French nuclear sector. Fighting against...
8) Amour
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (ca. 127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A touching tale of a loving couple whose unbreakable bonds of marriage are tested by life's greatest challenge.
9) I Huckabees
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Kindhearted, but confused activist Andrew Markovski hires a pair of eccentric 'existential detectives' to help him find the meaning of life. All the while, a sexy, French author is trying to throw a wrench in their plan by seducing Andrew's mind and body.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
After a struggling actress stands trial for the murder of a lascivious producer in 1930s Paris, she ascends to scandalous stardom with her lawyer roommate. A new life of fame, wealth, and tabloid celebrity awaits, until the truth comes out.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (151 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Portuguese
Formats
Description
In 1810 Lisbon quakes before the impending invasion of Napoleonic forces led by Marshal Massena. Portuguese and English troops, led by the Duke of Wellington, rebuff the French, but at a terrible cost endured by peasants and aristocrats alike.
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Agathe is an uptight, impatient art dealer who lives in an expensive Parisian apartment with her wealthy publisher husband. Patrick is a skirt-chasing, unemployed single father who lives in a van with his son. Their lives would never intersect except that their two sons are best friends and her husband has hired Patrick to remodel their apartment. Hilarity ensues as this odd couple relationship turns into Agathe's worst nightmare.
13) Loulou
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A married woman can't resist a charming leather-jacketed man and leaves her middle-class husband to live with him.
14) Private property
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
Français
Description
Pascale lives with her adult twin sons in a renovated Belgian farmhouse. Each is still reeling from the divorce that divided the family some years earlier. Both boys pursue their respective interests, but neither seems compelled to embrace adulthood or the responsibilities that come with it. Pascale falls in love again and dreams of a new life for herself and her lover. Her dream is to own a countryside B&B. But what would seemingly be a happy time...
15) EO
Series
Publisher
Criterion Channel
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Polish
Description
Legendary director Jerzy Skolimowski created one of his freest and most visually inventive films yet with this story of a gray donkey named EO. After being removed from an itinerant circus, EO begins a trek across the countryside, experiencing cruelty and kindness from a cast of characters including an Italian countess and a Polish soccer team. Nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature, and featuring stunning cinematography by...
16) Entre nous
Publisher
Fox Lorber Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Set in Lyons in the 1950's, this is the story of Madeleine and Lena who are trapped in a rut of middle-class complacency. Their relationship deepens into a dependency that eventually bursts the confines of the provincial society around them.
17) White material
Series
Criterion collection volume 560
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([20 p.] ; 19 cm.)
Language
Français
Description
Maria is an entitled white woman living in Africa, desperately unwilling to give up her family's crumbling coffee plantation despite the civil war closing in on her. A gripping evocation of the death throes of European colonialism and a fascinating look at a woman lost in her own mind.
19) The nun
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
In 1760s France, Suzanne is a beautiful young girl with a natural talent for music, enjoying a quietly privileged life. Inexplicably sent off to a convent, she resists structure at every turn until she discovers that she is an illegitimate child. Left with no other option, she pronounces her vows and suffers the consequences of her mother's sin. Still uncertain of her path and oppressed by aggressive and inappropriate Mother Superiors, Suzanne continues...
20) White as snow
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
When Claire, a beautiful but reserved young woman unwittingly provokes the furious jealousy of her evil stepmother Maud, life as she knows it is over. Sent far away from home, Claire awakens, both figuratively and literally, in a small village in the French mountains. As if by magic, her formerly shy demeanor is gone and she is suddenly aware of her feminine power. It's the beginning of a radical emancipation. As Claire meets the locals and starts...
