Sept/Arte (Firm)
Publisher
Microcinema
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (26 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"William Eggleston was born in Memphis, Tennessee and grew up in a wealthy family in Mississippi. He is considered a pioneer of modern color photography ... The film documents how Eggleston came to develop his technique of art photography. It shows the first black-and-white photographs made at the beginning of Eggleston's career. Here the influence of Henri Cartier Bresson's 'decisive moment' is still evident. Yet Eggleston went his own artistic way...
Series
Criterion collection volume 944
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The acclaimed early film by Olivier Assayas about teenage lovers in the outskirts of Paris in the early '70s, whose rebellions against family and society threaten to tear them apart. With memorable party sequences and a rock soundtrack evoking the period, it is a heartbreaking tale of the emotional tumult of being young.
3) Daresalam
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Arabic
Description
In a small Central African village, boyhood friends Djimi and Koni have come of age under a post-colonial government that levies crippling taxes and legally robs local farmers of their meager crops. When impulsive Koni savagely attacks a visiting government official, the resulting massacre forces the two friends on a journey that will transform them from boys into men.
Series
Publisher
La Sept ARTE
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Men in the French Foreign Legion, escaping some personal or legal entanglement, can leave their lives behind and take on a new identity. In an outpost in Djibouti, the men of the Legion yield to the rigid discipline and unvarying routine of life within it. When new recruit Sentain saves the life of a fellow soldier, brooding taskmaster Sgt. Galoup sets out to destroy him. The film observes how power functions among men, and considers the consequences...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Special ed., standard version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (103 min.) : sd., col. : 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Silent movies are giving way to talking pictures, and a hoofer-turned-matinee idol is caught in that bumpy transition, as well as his buddy, prospective ladylove and shrewish co-star"--Container.
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
2000, c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (148 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
"The Sleeping Beauty remains, as Rudolf Nureyev often called it, the 'ballet of ballets'. It is the most accomplished and the most brilliant, as well as one of the most spectacular of the 19th century, and the most representative of the 'noble' style of classical dancing. Rudolf Nureyev's version, which he created for the Opéra Ballet in 1989, was recorded at the Opéra Bastille in 1999, in a new production (sets and costumes) created by his faithful...
7) Don Carlos
Publisher
Kultur Video
Pub. Date
[2003], c1996
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 210 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
In the 16th century, with the aftermath of war between Spain and France, Don Carlo, the heir to the Spanish throne, comes to France to meet with his beloved Elizabeth de Valois. Inevitably politics divide the lovers, and while Rodrigue falls in with Flemish rebels, the Inquisition is determined to be the power behind the peace.
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[c2011]
Edition
Full screen presentation.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col./b&w with col. sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From Ignaz Jan Paderewski in 1936, to Claudio Arrau in 1970, The Art of Piano features some of the most fascinating material, historically and musically, from the world's film and television archives.
Publisher
Warner Music Vision
Pub. Date
℗2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, black and white with color sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (21 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm)
Language
English
Description
Drawing on archival performance footage and interviews, the film evokes the vast panorama of the world of the violin in the 20th century and its most outstanding performers.
Publisher
Warner Home Video [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (300 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Begins with the 1947 U.N. decision to partition Palestine and charts the ensuing half-century of enmity, warfare, mediation and negotiations. Includes interviews and news clips of heads of state and other military and intelligence leaders. Episodes on the first disc cover Israel's struggle for statehood, including the victories against Arab armies in 1948 and 1967, and the history of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. The concluding program...
