Pas de deux
April 3, 2011Format: VHS
Language: French, English subtitles?
Notes: Originally released in 1968 (14 mins. Black & White); Nominated for one 1969 Academy Award;
OCLC #: 80787901.
dded: April 3, 2011
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Billy Elliot
March 31, 2011Billy Elliot
Call Number: VHS01620
by Stephen Daldry; Greg Brenman; Jon Finn; Lee Hall; Julie Walters;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Universal City, CA : Universal Studios, 2001.
Notes: (111 mins.) an original featurette with a closer look at the making of the film and the incredible ensemble of talent brought together; nominated for one academy award in 2001.
Summary: A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.
OCLC #: 47870795
Added: March 31, 2011
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
A Star is Born
Amahl and the Night Visitors
March 30, 2011Guys and dolls
March 29, 2011The Best little whorehouse in Texas
Summary: Town Sheriff and regular patron, fights to keep a historical whorehouse open when a TV preacher targets it as the Devils playhouse.
20 Movie Set – Classic Movie Musicals: Legends of the Stage & Screen
March 27, 2011Classic Movie Musicals: Legends of the Stage & Screen
Call Number: DVD01213
by Judy Garland; Frank Sinatra; Fred Astaire; Perry Como; Mill Creek Entertainment.;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: [Golden Valley, MN] : Mill Creek Entertainment, ©2010.
Notes: 4 videodiscs. Running Time Approx 26 hrs.
Summary: Title from disc. “Featuring performances by: Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Fred Astaire, Perry Como, the Andrews sisters, Adolphe Menjou, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Count Basie, Lena Horne, Cab Calloway, Nat “King” Cole, Jane Powell, Cyd Charisse…” – From disc container.
OCLC #: 671492920
Added: March 27, 2011
My Fair Lady
My Fair Lady
Call Number: DVD01059
by: Herman Levin; Alan Jay Lerner; Jack L Warner; George Cukor; Audrey Hepburn; Rex Harrison; Bernard Shaw; Frederick Loewe; Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967); Paramount Pictures Corporation.; CBS DVD (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language:English
Publisher: [Hollywood, Calif.] : Paramount : CBS DVD, c 2009.
Notes: Title from container. Originally released as a motion picture in 1964. Based on the play My fair lady, book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, music by Frederick Loewe; from the play by Bernard Shaw. Special features: audio commentary; vintage featurettes, footage and audio; alternate Audrey Hepburn vocals; posters and lobby cards with Rex Harrison radio interview; comments on a lady; trailers. Running time Aprox 170 min. Nominated for 12 Academy Awards in 1965.
Summary: In this beloved adaptation of the Broadway stage hit, Hepburn plays a sassy, working-class London street vendor, whom an arrogant professor attempts to turn into a sophisticated lady through proper schooling. But, when the humble flower girl blossoms into the toast of London’s elite, her teacher may have a lesson or two to learn himself.
OCLC #: 440853278
Added: March 27, 2011
Also available on VHS01385 OR See the Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard verison (Pygmalion) that inspired this film available on DVD at DVD00826
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Le maître de musique
March 25, 2011The Music Teacher
Call Number: VHS01588
by: Gerard Corbiau; José van Dam; Anne Roussel; Philippe Volter; Sylvie Fennec; Patrick Bauchau; Radio-Télévision belge de la communauté culturelle française.; K2-One (Firm); Orion Home Video);
Format: VHS
Language:French
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Orion Home Video, 1990.
Notes: Originally released in 1989 (aproox. 100 min.) Nominated for one 1989 Academy Award.
Summary:Shortly before the Great War, celebrated singer Joachim Dallayrac suddenly announces his retirement from the stage, leaving the opera world stunned. Dallayrac retreats to the country, devoting himself to training two young singers, the beautiful Sophie, who falls in love with him, and Jean, a singing thief who falls in love with Sophie. An international singing competition will lead either to fame and riches–or to the jealous Prince Scotti’s revenge against Dallayrac.
OCLC #:21538483.
Added: March 25, 2011
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Immortal Beloved
March 24, 2011Immortal Beloved
Call Number: VHS01581
by: Gary Oldman; Isabella Rossellini; Bernard Rose;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, [1995], ©1994.
Notes: Videocassette release of the 1994 motion picture. “This film has been modified from its original version. It has been formatted to fit your TV”–Container. Running Time Approx 121 min.
Summary: The life and death of the legendary Ludwig van Beethoven. Beside all the work he is known for, the composer once wrote a famous love letter to a nameless beloved and the movie tries to find out who this beloved was. Not easy as Beethoven has had many women in his life.
OCLC #:32800553
Added: March 24, 2011
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Brigadoon
Brigadoon
Call Number: VHS01578
by: Vincente Minnelli; Frederick Loewe; Alan Jay Lerner; Gene Kelly; MGM/UA Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Culver City, Calif. : MGM/UA Home Video, ©1988.
Notes: Videocassette release of the 1954 motion picture. Copyright 1954 Loew’s Inc., renewed 1982 Metro-Goldwyn Mayer. Running Time Approx 109 min.
Summary: Two Americans on a hunting trip in Scotland become lost. They encounter a small village, not on the map, called Brigadoon, in which people harbor a mysterious secret, and behave as if they were still living two hundred years in the past.
OCLC #:330524119
Added: March 24, 2011
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Fiddler on the roof
March 23, 2011Oliver!
March 21, 2011Oliver!
Call Number: VHS01540
by: Lionel Bart; Carol Reed; Ron Moody; Shani Wallis; Oliver Reed; Harry Secombe; Charles Dickens; Mark Lester; Jack Wild; Columbia Pictures.; Romulus Productions.; Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, ©1998.
Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1968. Running Time Aprox 145 min. Based on the book by Lionel Bart, which in turn was based on” Oliver Twist” by Charles Dickens. Academy Award for Best Picture, 1968.
Summary: A young orphan, Oliver is left to fend for himself until he is befriended by a band of young thieves who quickly train him in their craft. But Oliver is not content to be a thief for he knows that life holds great joys and true happiness cannot be stolen, but must be earned.
OCLC #: 39703126
Added: March 20, 2011
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Greatest Classic Films Collection – Best Picture Winners
March 18, 2011Summer Stock
March 15, 2011Ironweed Film Club No. 7: Private/ Seeds/ West Bank Story
February 28, 2011Summary: Mohammad, his wife Samia, and their five children live in a large, isolated house located midway between a Palestinian village and an Israeli settlement. Viewed as a strategic lookout point, the house is forcefully overtaken by Israeli soldiers, who confine Mohammad and his family to a few downstairs rooms in daytime and a single room at night. Against Samia’s wishes, Mohammad decides to keep the family together in the house until the soldiers move on, creating division among his family and a precarious relationship with the soldiers
Beaches
February 24, 2011Previously issued as motion picture in 1989. Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video. Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired. Nominated for a Academy Awards in 1989.
The Blues Brothers
February 16, 2011Originally released as a motion picture in 1980.