Kramer vs. Kramer

April 20, 2011
Kramer vs. Kramer
Call Number: BLU00001
by Stanley R Jaffe; Robert Benton; Dustin Hoffman; Meryl Streep; Jane Alexander; Justin Henry; Avery Corman; Columbia Pictures Corporation.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm).;
Format: Blu-ray
Language: English
Publisher:  Culver City, CA : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2009].
Notes: Originally released in 1979 (105 min.); Based on the novel by Avery Corman; Nominatd for nine 1980 Academy Awards; Special features: BD-Live: “Finding the truth: the making of Kramer vs. Kramer” documentary
Summary: Ted Kramer is a young husband and father who loves his family and his job. He spends most of his time at work. When he returns home late one evening, his wife Joanna confronts and then leaves him. This forces Ted to become the sole caregiver to their six-year-old son. Now, Ted must learn to be a father while balancing the demands of his high-pressure job. Just as Ted begins to adapt to his new role, Joanna returns wanting her son back.
OCLC #: 310127020
Added: April 20, 2011
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La maternelle

April 18, 2011
La Maternelle (“The Kindergarten”)
Call Number: VHS01660
by Paulette Elambert; Madeleine Renaud; Sylvette Fillacier; Léon Frapié; Richard Peña; Jean Benoit-Lévy; Marie Epstein; Water Bearer Films (Firm); Metropolis Pictures Corp.;
Format: VHS
Language: French with English subtitles
Publisher:  [S.l.] : Waterbearer Films, ©1992.
Notes: Originally released in 1933 (83 min. Black & White) Based on a novel by Léon Frapié.
Summary: A compassionate story of the sad faced, squalid children of the Paris slums who find daily sanctuary in “La Maternelle” from the ugliness and terror of their lives at home.
OCLC #: 27375438
Added: April 18, 2011
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Maryland Deathfest: The Movie

Maryland Deathfest: The Movie
Call Number: IND00010
by: David Hall; Ryan Taylor; Evan Harting;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Handshake Productions;
Notes: Originally released in 2010 
Summary: After 8 years, over 200 different bands representing 20 countries, and several venue changes, the Maryland Deathfest (or “MDF” for short) has developed into the premier metal festival in the United States, and one of the most talked about festivals internationally.
OCLC #: [?] additional information from production website
Added: April 18, 2011
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Waiter from Hell

Waiter from Hell
Call Number: IND00009
by: Michael McCallum;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Rebel Pictures, in association with UnSAFE Film Office and Vernacular Films
Notes: Originally released in 2010 
Summary: A trilogy of short film comedies from Rebel Pictures which premiered in December, 2010..
OCLC #: [?] additional information from production website
Added: April 18, 2011
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Lucky

Lucky
Call Number: IND00008
by: Michael McCallum; Justin Muschong; Grace Anne Rowan; Marianne Bacon; Jonathan Worful; Anthony E. Griffin; Stuart Poltrock;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Rebel Pictures, in association with UnSAFE Film Office and Vernacular Films
Notes: Originally released in 2011 (100 mins).
Summary: Moving from relationship to relationship over the past four years, Henry struggles to meet the right woman for him. He’s tried to make it work with them all: the jealous one, the young one, the sensitive one and the crazy one.
When his relationship with Jamie, the ex-girlfriend of an old friend, becomes more serious, Henry’s problems reveal a larger issue he has to deal with before he can find a way to be happy.
Lucky is a dramatic comedy from the makers of the award winning feature films, Fairview St. and Handlebar. A contemporary character study about the relationships between men and women fused with the visual sensibilities and storytelling technique defining the leading edge in Michigan made true independent cinema today.
OCLC #: [?] additional information from production website
Added: April 18, 2011
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Tartuffe, or, The imposter

April 17, 2011
Tartuffe
Call Number: VHS01659
by Antony Sher; Nigel Hawthorne; Christopher Hampton; Alison Steadman; Molière; RKO Home Video.; Royal Shakespeare Company.; Stratford-Barbican Television.; British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service.; Opix Video.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher:  [Encino, Calif.] : RKO Home Video : Distributed by Opix Video, ©1984.
Notes: Originally released for TV in 1983 (110 min.) Based on the play Tartuffe by Moliére.
Summary: Clutching ever-present rosary beads, shifting uncomfortably within the hairshirt he wears as continual penance–and always eyeing the women as they pass–Tartuffe, Moliére’s master of unctuous evil, insinuates himself into a wealthy Parisian household in this indictment of religious hypocrisy. Posing as a holy man, the wily Tartuffe entrances Orgon, a credulous well-to-do merchant, bent on bestowing his worldly goods, social position, and nubile daughter on the perfidious fraud. Tartuffe delights in accepting it all–and also arranges a little depraved dalliance with Orgon’s young wife, Elmire.
OCLC #: 13533546
Added: April 17, 2011
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Diva

Diva
Call Number: VHS01658
by Wilhelmenia Fernandez; Jean-Jacques Beineix; Irene Silberman; Frédéric Andrei; Delacorta; Greenwich Film Associates.; Films Galaxie.;
Format: VHS
Language: French with English subtitles
Publisher: Greenwich Film Associates, Los Angeles, Ca. : MGM-UA Home Video,1981.
Notes: Originally released in 1981 (123 min.) Winner of four French film awards.
Summary: A romantic thriller about an opera buff who bootlegs the only recording of one of the world’s top opera stars. Two tapes, two Parisian mob killers, one corrupt policeman, an opera fan, a teenage thief, and the coolest philosopher ever filmed. Murder, lust, greed, and satire dominate as police, blackmailers, and others surface on a chase for the bootlegged tape.
OCLC #: [?]
Added: April 17, 2011
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Charles et Lucie

Charles et Lucie (“Charles and Lucie”)
Call Number: VHS01657
by Daniel Ceccaldi; Ginette Garcin, Claude Makovski, Kelly Kaplan, Jean Chapot, Pierre Perret.
Format: VHS
Language: French with English subtitles
Publisher: Santa Monica, Calif. : Video Vision, ©1980.
Notes: Originally released in 1979 (96 min.) 
Summary: A comedy about a couple of Parisians with not much going for them. They are getting to the end of their resources when suddenly Lucie is advised that she has inherited a beautiful mansion on the French Riviera. Off they go driving to the Riviera with their dreams of riches, but they later find that not everything is exactly as they imagined it would be.
OCLC #: [?]
Added: April 17, 2011
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Men

Men
Call Number: VHS01656
by Doris Dörrie; Heiner Lauterbach; Uwe Ochsenknecht; Ulrike Kriener; OLGA Film.; Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen.; Vista Home Video.;
Format: VHS
Language: Dubbed into English from German
Publisher: New York : Vista Home Video, ©1985.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1985 (99 min).
Summary: A man’s wife leaves him to take up with an artist, so the man responds by becoming the artist’s roommate.
OCLC #: 18407266
Added: April 17, 2011
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Quatre femmes d’Égypte (Four Women of Egypt)

April 13, 2011

Quatre femmes d’Égypte (Four Women of Egypt)
Call Number: VHS01655
by Tahani Rached; Eric Michel; National Film Board of Canada.;
Format: VHS
Language: French
Publisher: [Montréal] : Office national du film du Canada, ©1997.
Notes: (90 min) This moving film won the public award and the prize for feature-length documentary at the International Documentary Film Festival in Odivelas, Portugal, and the audience award and the prize for best documentary at the Arab Screen Independent Film Festival in London, England. It also screened at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1998.
Summary: How can people get along when their beliefs collide? Tahani Rached probes this question in Quatre femmes d’Égypte (Four Women of Egypt), a portrait of four friends who couldn’t be more different. Muslim, Christian, or non-religious, they all love their country but have radically different visions of what that society should be, ranging from a secular or socialist state to an Islamic one. This moving film won the public award and the prize for feature-length documentary at the International Documentary Film Festival in Odivelas, Portugal, and the audience award and the prize for best documentary at the Arab Screen Independent Film Festival in London, England. It also screened at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1998.
OCLC #: 437575653
Added: April 13, 2011
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Warrior songs

April 10, 2011

Warrior Songs – King Gesar
Call Number: VHS01654
by Tom Perlmutter; Renée Blanchar; Cécile Chevrier,Yo Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, Peter Serkin, National Film Board of Canada.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Publisher: Montréal : National Film Board of Canada, ©1997.
Notes: English original documentary produced by Great Eastern Cine Productions Ltd., in association with Les Productions du Phare-Est inc., in co-production with the NFB (English Program/Documentary – East – Halifax), with the participation of Telefilm Canada, in association with Bravo!, The Nova Scotia Film Development Corporation, Film New Brunswick, Vision TV, CFCF-12 Montreal and with the financial support of the Cable Production Fund and Rogers Telefund;Based on: King Gesar / by Peter Lieberson and Douglas Penick.
Summary: The legendary warrior-king Gesar of Ling is brought to life in this operatic interpretation of an ancient Tibetan legend. Music, dance and storytelling are blended to recount his battle against demons threatening to enslave humanity.
OCLC #: 631987634
Added: April 13, 2011
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A Question of Silence

A Question of Silence
Call Number: VHS01653
by:  Marleen Gorris; Matthijs van Heijningen; Edda Barends; Nelly Frijda; Cox Habbema; Henriëtte Tol; Eddy Brugman; Hans Croiset; Erik Plooyer; Lodewijk de Boer; Quartet/Films (Firm); Sigma Filmproductions.; Embassy Home Entertainment (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: Dutch with English subtitles
Publisher: Los Angeles, CA : Embassy Home Entertainment, ©1986.
Notes: Videocassette release of the 1983 motion picture. (92 min.)
Summary: Three women, all strangers to each other, meet in a dress boutique. One of the three is approached by the male proprietor as she is shoplifting a garment. When he approaches her the other two join her in beating the man to death.
OCLC #: 190828091
Added: April 10, 2011
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Sweet Movie

Sweet Movie
Call Number: VHS01652
by Dusan Makavejev; Carole Laure; Pierre Clémenti; Anna Prucnal; Sami Frey;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Chicago : Facets Video, ©2000.
Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1974. (99 min.) In English and other languages with English subtitles.
Summary: When the Parisian bourgeois Geneviève Le Theil travels to Dijon to resolve outstanding subjects in the inheritance left by her wealthy aunt, she mistakenly opens the door of another room in the hotel, finding a suicidal near death on the bed. Later Geneviève goes to the hospital and is introduced to Renaud Sarti, the nihilistic alcoholic vagrant she saved. Geneviève falls in love for Renaud and brings him to her apartment in Paris, initiating a destructive, masochistic and corrupt relationship with the abusive man.
OCLC #: 45998390
Added: April 10, 2011
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Medea

April 7, 2011

Medea
Call Number: VHS01651
by Robinson Jeffers; Zoe Caldwell; Judith Anderson, Dame; Mitchell Ryan; Robert Whitehead;
Format: VHS
Language: Anciet Greek with English Subtitles
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities, ©1982.
Notes: Filmed at the Eisenhower Theater, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. (90 min).
Summary: Kennedy Center production of Euripides’ classic tragedy about a woman driven by emotion beyond the brink of rationality.
OCLC #: 11099705
Added: April 7, 2011
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Le repos du guerrier = Warriors rest

Le Repos du Guerrier or “The Warrior’s Rest”
Call Number: VHS01650
by Brigitte Bardot; Robert Hossein; Christiane Rocheford; Roger Vadim; Claude Choublier; Francis Cosne; Michel Serrault; Robert Dalban; Macha Méril; James Robertson Justice; Armand Thirard; Michel Magne; Cocinor (Firm); Video France (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: French with English Subtitles
Publisher: [Indianapolis, IN : Kartes Video Communications, 1986, 1962]
Notes: Videocassette release of a 1962 French motion picture (98 min). Based on the novel of the same title by Christiane Rochefort. Film is also under the title “Love on a Pillow”.
Summary: When the Parisian bourgeois Geneviève Le Theil travels to Dijon to resolve outstanding subjects in the inheritance left by her wealthy aunt, she mistakenly opens the door of another room in the hotel, finding a suicidal near death on the bed. Later Geneviève goes to the hospital and is introduced to Renaud Sarti, the nihilistic alcoholic vagrant she saved. Geneviève falls in love for Renaud and brings him to her apartment in Paris, initiating a destructive, masochistic and corrupt relationship with the abusive man.
OCLC #: 46988396
Added: April 7, 2011
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What does she want : women with a past

What does she want : women with a past

Call Number: VHS01649

by Lyn Blumenthal, Maureen Clavel, Hannah Alderfer, Barbara Kruger, Lynn Tillman, Hene Seglove, Mindy Faber, Ardele Lister, Brana Miller, Fronza Woods, Max Almy, Willard Van Dyke
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: New York, NY : Video Data Bank, ©1987.
Notes: Originally released in 1987 (72mins.);” What does she want ; program six: We are not sugar and spice and everything nice” contains 8 shorts from a larger feminist project.
Summary: “We are not sugar and spice and everything nice” takes us from teenaged girls with their mothers, to a teenaged girl who leaves home; from girls constructing themselves in the “image” of women, to women deciding on a different image; and from the family that stays together, to the couple that is dissolving its marital bond, revealing many different views of relatedness and relationships.
Includes: Hene Seglove’s Mom Tapes (1972, b&w, 1 min); Mindy Faber’s Suburban Queen (1985, color, 7 min); Ardele Lister’s Split (1981, color, 20 min); Brana Miller’s That’s It Forget It (1985, color, 5 min); Fronza Wood’s Killing Time (1978, b&w, 9 min); Chevrolet Impala Commercial (1950, b&w, 2 min); Max Almy’s Modern Marriage (1979, color, 3 min); Willard Van Dyke’s This Charming Couple (1950, b&w, 22 min).
OCLC #: 317400053
Added: April 7, 2011
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Le 7e voyage de La Mouette

April 6, 2011
Le 7e Voyage de La Mouette or “The Seagull’s 7th Tour”
Call Number: VHS01648
by  François Aubry; Louise Dupont; Philippe d’ Hauterive; Jacques Turgeon; Office national du film du Canada. Programme du Québec.
Format: VHS
Language:  French
Publisher:[Montréal] : Office national du film du Canada, ©2001.
Notes: Originally released in 2001 (52 mins.);
Summary: This sensitive and beautiful French-Canadian documentary is set along Canada’s beautiful coast in Moyenne-Côte-Nord, where Louise and Philippe along with their three sons, Simon, Felix, and Etienne have fallen on hard times and have just been evicted from their home. Meanwhile, in different part of the country, The Seagull Drama Troupe is setting out on their 7th Canadian tour, this time by way of the maritimes along Newfoundland. On one of their stops in a small sea village, the Seagull troupe is joined by the d’Hauterive family who used to be traveling balladeers and marionette players. As the Seagull Drama Troupe and friends travel across the gorgeous Canadian countryside making music and art, they meet Louise, Philippe and sons.  Both the down-and-out family and the eclectic troupe will be changed forever on the extraordinary journey of the Seagull’s 7th Canadian tour!
OCLC #: [?]
Added: April 6, 2011
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L’homme à tout faire

L’homme a tout faire or “The Handyman”
Call Number: VHS01647
by  Micheline Lanctôt, Jocelyn Bérubé, Janette Bertrand, Andrée Pelletier, Normand Sarazin, and Madeleine Guérin, Malo Films Canada.
Format: VHS
Language:  French, English subtitles
Publisher: René Malo Films [198?]
Notes: Originally released in 1980 (99 mins.);
Summary: Handyman is a succinct little French-Canadian film dealing with those who never get what they really want because they don’t know how. The title character Armand Dorion, played by Jocelyn Berube, has convinced himself that no woman will have anything to do with him. We are shown that Armand could end his loneliness in a minute if he’d only speak up for himself. When he finally does get up the gumption to begin a romance, it’s with a married woman who is as self-defeating as he…
OCLC #: [?]
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Néa

Nea
Call Number: VHS01646
by Nelly Kaplan; Ann Zacharias; et al
Format: VHS
Language:  French, English subtitles
Publisher: Burbank, Calif. : RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, ©1978.
Notes: Originally released in 1976 (103 mins.);
Summary: Sybille, a 16 year old girl, writes erotic novels and is striving to overcome the hypocrisy and repression of her father’s home. Finally with the help of her publisher, Axel Thorpe, Sybille manages to get her novel published.
OCLC #: 11851410
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Mélodie en sous-sol = The big grab

Melodie En Sous-Sol or “Any Number Can Win” or “The Big Grab”
Call Number: VHS01645
by John Trinian; Jean Gabin; Alain Delon; Jacques Charles Bar; Henri Verneuil; Kartes Video Communications.;
Format: VHS
Language:  French, English subtitles
Publisher: Indianapolis, IN : Kartes Video Communications, ©1986.
Notes: Originally released in 1963 (118 mins.); Based on a novel by John Trinian.
Summary: A gangster plans the crime of the century by seducing a showgirl at a gambling casino. The robbers escape without being noticed, but the witnesses can identify the bags which hold the loot. The gangster decided to hide the evidence in the swimming pool when he finds himself surrounded by unsuspecting police. The latch on one of the bags comes loose and the stolen money floats to the top of the pool drawing the attention of the police. The gangsters slip away empty handed.
OCLC #: 15313853
Added: April 6, 2011
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