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Publisher
Entertainment One Film USA
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (192 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Bertrand Tavernier's personal journey through French cinema, from films he enjoyed as a boy to his own early career, told through portraits of key creative figures.
Publisher
Distributed by Fox Lorber Associates
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
An impulsive young art student, tired of the complications of freedom and insecurity, ends an affair with a painter and decides she wants to get married. She picks out a prosperous lawyer and confidently sets out to catch him, only to be ensnared by her increasingly obsessive scheming when she refuses to accept his polite indifference.
6) 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.
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (96 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 leaflet.
Language
Français
Description
One of the great, unfinished works in film history, Inferno, by Henri-Georges Clouzot was an audaciously experimental film with a virtually unlimited budget that was stopped only three weeks into production. Working closely with Clouzot's widow, Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea reconstruct Clouzot's original vision, filling and explaining the gaps with new interviews, re-enactments and Clouzot's own notes and storyboards, delivering an in-depth...
Series
Criterion collection volume 418
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Director-approved special ed.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 354 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
La Ponté Courté. A film about a fishing town and a couple who are evaluating their changing relationship. Varda juxtaposes the two tales to create a unique perspective on life.
Cléo from 5 to 7. A girl waiting for the result of a medical examination wanders around Paris thinking she has cancer; the film focuses on her ever-changing moods, and her search for answers.
Le bonheur. Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse young husband...
10) 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.
Series
Language
Français
Description
A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together.
"The Ambassador of the small South American country of Miranda is trafficking in drugs with some French bourgeois friends of his. But every time they want to have dinner together, their plans are put off due to unexpected events. In their quest of a lavish feast, the dividing-line between reality...
Publisher
Wellspring Media
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
In this remake of Fingers, Tom, a ne'er-do-well, works with two scheming real estate men who have little or no morals. He decides to return to the piano, practicing Bachs' Toccata in E Minor for an important audition that could be a life-changing event.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Full screen special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
Français
Description
Train engineer Jacques lusts after the wife of his co-worker Robaud. Robaud kills his boss and Jacques witnesses the murder. In order to keep Jacques quiet, Robaud allows Jacques to have an affair with his wife, creating a tragic love triangle.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Widescreen
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
French secret agent Joss Baumont has been assigned the treacherous task of killing an African president. However, due to a series of drastic political changes, the mission is negated. The tables turn on Baumont when the person responsible for assigning him the task turns him in to the African authorities. Sentenced to long-term imprisonment, Baumont makes a daring escape with the intent of fulfilling the Secret Service's murderous request as a reprisal...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Eight French Christian monks live in harmony with their Muslim brothers in a monastery in the mountains of North Africa in the 1990's. When a crew of foreign workers are massacred by an Islamic fundamentalist group, fear sweeps though the region. The army offers them protection, but the monks refuse. Should they leave? Despite the growing menace in their midst, they slowly realize that they have no choice but to stay, come what may.
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Angelique, a young student, is in love with a married doctor. She tries to convince him to leave his pregnant wife. Is the love affair the one-sided obsession of a desperate woman clinging to a hopeless dream, and turning it into a nightmare when she realizes it may not come true?
Series
Criterion collection volume 216
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (106 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (22 p. ; 18 cm.)
Language
Français
Description
Cloaked in a comedy of manners, this scathing critique of corrupt French society is about a weekend hunting party at which amorous escapades abound among the aristocratic guests, which are also mirrored by the activities of the servants downstairs.
Series
Criterion collection volume 196
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (27 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm)
Language
Français
Description
Set in 1959, a French actress and a Japanese architect engage in a brief, intense affair in postwar Hiroshima, their consuming mutual fascination impelling them to exorcise their own scarred memories of love and suffering.
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