Dr. Ralph H. Wolfe Viewing Center

Call Number: DVD00502

by Víctor Erice; Elías Querejeta; Angel Fernández Santos; Isabel Tellería; Ana Torrent; Teresa Gimpera; Fernando Fernán Gómez; Criterion Collection (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: Spanish with English subtitles

Publisher: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, ©2006.

Notes: Originally released in 1973 (99 mins.); edition contains The Footprints of a Spirit, a documentary featuring the director, producer, co-screenwriter and actore, new interviews and an essay by film scholar Paul Julian Smith;

Summary: Shortly after the Spanish civil war, a six-year-old girl attends a traveling movie show of Frankenstein and becomes haunted by her memory of it.

OCLC #: 225597025

Call Number: DVD00172

by Cristi Puiu; Rǎzvan Rǎdulescu; Bobby Paunescu; Anca Puiu; Ion Fiscuteanu; Luminița Gheorghiu; Gabriel Spahiu; Doru Ana; Dana Dogaru; Oleg Mutu; Andreea Paduraru; Mandragora (Firm); Tartan Video (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: Romanian with English subtitles

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA : Tartan Video USA, ©2006.

Notes: Originally released in 2005 (153 mins.); edition includes interview with the director, perspective of the U.S. healthcare system and a booklet featuring New York Times film article and Cinemascope interview;

Summary: A 60-ish widower, living alone with his cats, feels sick enough one evening to call an ambulance. This is the beginning of his Dantesque odyssey deep into the bowels of a big city medical establishment as Mr. Lazarescu and his paramedic search for medical care.

OCLC #: 70254930

Call Number: DVD00205

by Robert Lepage; Anne-Marie Cadieux; Marco Poulin; Benoit Jutras; TLA Releasing (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: French with English subtitles

Publisher: [United States] : TLA Releasing, 2006.

Notes: Originally released in 2003 (106 mins.); edition includes visual effects featurette and the original theatrical trailer;

Summary: Robert Lepage stars in the dual roles of Phillippe and Andre, brothers from Quebec at odds after the loss of their mother.

OCLC #: 66903088

Call Number: DVD00055

by Jean-Pierre Améris; Alain Layrac; Philippe Godeau; Alain Sarde; Maud Forget; Lou Dillon; Robinson Stévenin; Pan-Européenne (Firm); Films Alain Sarde (Firm); M6 films (Firm); Wellspring Home Video (Firm); et al.

Format: DVD

Language: French with English subtitles

Publisher: New York, NY : Wellspring, ©2003.

Notes: Originally released in 1999 (98 mins.); edition includes trailer gallery;

Summary: Delphine is a normal young girl until a new girl at school introduces her to Laurent, and Delphine falls in love. Working her hardest to make him love her drags her into prostitution.

OCLC #: 148122833

Call Number: DVD00042

by Catherine Breillat; Jean-François Lepetit; Amira Casar; Rocco Siffredi; Flach Film (Firm); C.B. Films, S.A.; Studio Canal+; Centre national de la cinématographie (France);

Format: DVD

Language: French with English subtitles

Publisher: [Los Angeles, Calif.] : Tartan Video, ©2004.

Notes: Originally released in 2004 (80 mins.); edition features interview with director, photo gallery and the theatrical trailer; based on the book Pornocratie by Catherine Breillat;

Summary: Over four nights in a house in the middle of nowhere, a woman on the verge pays a handsome stranger to watch her ‘where she’s unwatchable.

OCLC #: 57566697

Call Number: DVD00331

by Peter Brook; Michael Birkett; Adrian Mitchell; Glenda Jackson; Patrick Magee; Ian Richardson; Richard Peaslee; Peter Weiss; United Artists Corporation.; Royal Shakespeare Company.; MGM Home Entertainment Inc.;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : MGM DVD, ©2000.

Notes: Originally released in 1967 (120 mins.); includes original theatrical trailer; Based on Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats by Peter Weiss

Summary: The infamous Marquis de Sade, confined to an asylum, directs the other inmates in a re-enactment of the bloody assassination of French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat.

OCLC #: 249386774

Call Number: DVD00207

by Catherine Breillat; Jean-François Lepetit; Anaïs Reboux; Roxane Mesquida; Arsinée Khanjian; Romain Goupil; Libero de Rienzo; Laura Betti; Janus Films.; Radio-France. Direction France culture.; Flach Film (Firm); C.B. Films, S.A.; Arte France cinéma (Firm); Immagine & Cinéma.; Urania Pictures.;

Format: DVD

Language: French with English subtitles

Publisher: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, ©2004.

Notes: Originally released in 2001 (86 mins.); edition includes behind-the-scenes footage, two interviews with the director, French and U.S. theatrical trailers and an essay and interview with critics;

Summary: A daring and provocative exploration of the complexities of sexual awakening involving 12-year old Anaïs. With her family on holiday by the sea, she yearns for the experience of first love. However, she experiences it by proxy when her beautiful older sister, Elena, gets involved with an older boy. Soon Elena’s naive hopes of romance will be shattered setting a chain of events in motion that will shatter her family forever.

OCLC #: 57148478

Call Number: DVD00071

by William Hurt; Pascale Bussières; Marc Donato; Claude Bonin; Pete McCormack; Léa Pool; Monterey Media Inc.; PorchLight Entertainment (Firm); Galafilm Productions.; Global Arts.; Palpable Productions.; et al

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: [United States] : Monterey Video : Distributed by Monterey Media, [2006]

Notes: Originally released in 2004 (97 mins.); edition includes Mariposa Azul: A True Story, The Actor’s Experience, The True Inspiration: David Marenger interview, About a Butterfly Garden, Photo Gallery and trailer; based on a true story;

Summary: Tells the story of a terminally ill 10-year-old boy whose dream is to catch the most beautiful butterfly on Earth, the Blue Morpho. His mother persuades a renowned entomologist to take them to the jungle to search for it.

OCLC #: 65341814

Pixote: The Law of the Weakest or The Survival of the Weakest

Call Number: DVD00400

by Hector Babenco; Jorge Durán; Fernando Ramos da Silva; Marília Pera; José Louzeiro; HB Filmes.; Unifilm Inc.; Empresa Brasileira de Filmes.; New Yorker Films.; New Yorker Video (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: Portuguese with English subtitles

Publisher: New York : New Yorker Video, [2001]

Notes: Originally released in 1981 (127 mins.); edition includes director’s profile, filmography and production notes; Based on the novel by José Louzeiro;

Summary: Ten-year-old Pixote (Portuguese slang for ‘Peewee’) is one of three million homeless children in Brazil. Hauled off to a crowded detention center, wide-eyed Pixote witnesses rapes, beatings and other acts of random violence by both the guards and the inmates. With the transvestite Lilica and his lover Dito, Pixote escapes from the reform school where he and his friends hit the streets alone, embarking on a life of violence and crime.

OCLC #: 47229829

Call Number: DVD00396

by Roman Polanski; Robert Benmussa; Alain Sarde; Ronald Harwood; Adrien Brody; Thomas Kretschmann; Frank Finlay; Maureen Lipman; Emilia Fox; Ed Stoppard; Julia Rayner; Jessica Kate Meyer; Pawel Edelman; Wojciech Kilar; Władysław Szpilman; R.P. Productions.; Heritage Films (Firm : Warsaw, Poland); Studio Babelsberg.; Runteam Ltd.; Studio Canal+.; Universal Pictures (Firm); et al.

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Universal City, Calif. : Universal, ©2003.

Notes: Originally released in 2003 (150 mins.); edition includes insight into the making of the film, Roman Polanski’s own story of survival during WWII, behind-the-scenes interviews and clips of Wladyslaw Szpilman playing the piano; Based on the book Śmierć Miasta by Wladyslaw Szpilman; Nominted for seven 2004 Academy Awards;

Summary: Based on the memoirs of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew, who was a brilliant pianist. He watched as his family was shipped off to Nazi labor camps. He managed to escape and lived for years in the ruins of Warsaw, hiding from the Nazis.

OCLC #: 52498257

Call Number: DVD00450

by Nobuhiko Ōbayashi; Hitomi Kuroki; Kippei Shiina; Kyūsaku Shimada; Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha.; Home Vision Entertainment (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: Japanese with English subtitles

Publisher: [United States] : Homevision, 2004.

Notes: Originally released in 1998 (132 mins.); edition includes filmographies, the original theatrical trailer and liber notes by Richard Kadrey;

Summary: This film is based on the true story of Sada Abe, a Japanese Geisha, who murdered and castrated her lover in 1936. Explore Sada’s past; her rape at 14, her descent into prostitution, and the crime of passion that turned her into a media celebrity.

OCLC #: 56612405

Call Number: DVD00566

by Anh Hùng Trân; Christophe Rossignon; Nu Yên-Khê Tran; Sony Pictures Classics (Firm); Productions Lazennec.; Studio Canal+.; Arte France cinéma (Firm); Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: Vietnamese with English subtitles

Publisher: Les Productions Lazennec ; Culver City, CA : Distributed by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, ©2001.

Notes: Originally released in 2000 (112 mins.); edition includes theatrical trailers and filmographies;

Summary: Three sisters-Lien, Khanh, and Suong-whose parents have recently died come together on the anniversary of the mother’s death, preparing the memorial dinner. The men in their lives include their brother Hai, and husbands Kien and Quoc. The family is, however, prey to all the romantic entanglements, confessions, secrets, passions and troubles that eventually ensnare all. With Chekhovian decorum, the film examines the domestic emotions and small eruptions of feeling that punctuate the slow, vaguely sorrowful serenity of the sister’s daily lives.

OCLC #: 48623963

Call Number: DVD00460

by Jean-François Pouliot; Ken Scott; Roger Frappier; Luc Vandal; Raymond Bouchard; David Boutin; Benoît Brière; Pierre Collin; Rita Lafontaine; Allen Smith; Jean-Marie Benoit; Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm.; Max Films Productions.; Wellspring Media.;

Format: DVD

Language: French with English subtitles

Publisher: New York, NY : Wellspring Media, [2005]

Notes: Originally released in 2003 (109 mins.); edition includes the theatrical trailer;

Summary: St. Marie-La-Mauderne is a tiny fishing village in Quebec. For eight years the locals have stood in line for weekly welfare checks, remembering the good old days when the catch was good. A small company wants to build a factory on the island, but only if a full-time doctor lives in St. Marie. The situation seems hopeless until a young doctor in Montreal has an unfortunate incident with a traffic cop and finds himself on a boat to the faraway village. In order to convince Dr. Lewis to stay, the town resorts to just a bit of seductive subterfuge.

OCLC #: 57246051

Call Number: DVD00206

by Paul Apak Angilirq; Norman Cohn; Zacharias Kunuk; Natar Ungalaq; Sylvia Ivalu; Peter Henry Arnatsiaq; Lucy Tulugarjuk; Madeline Ivalu; Pauloosie Qulitalik; Eugene Ipkarnak; Pakak Innuksuk; Marie-Christine Sarda; Chris Crilly; James Ungalaaq; Igloolik Isuma Productions.; National Film Board of Canada.; Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: Inuktitut with English subtitles

Publisher: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, 2003.

Notes: Originally released in 2001 (161 mins.); edition includes theatrical trailers;

Summary: A small nomadic community is cursed by an unknown shaman. When Atanarjuat falls in love with a woman already promised to the son of the clan’s leader, he has to fight for her. She is won by Atanarjuat and the leader plots to attack him in his sleep. Escaping, he sets off running across the ice, embarking on a harrowing adventure of survival in the brutal wilderness. He returns stronger and wiser to reclaim his life and stop the curse that has divided his people.

OCLC #: 51675842

Call Number: DVD00142

by Alain Poiré; Francis Veber; Daniel Auteuil; Gérard Depardieu; Thierry Lhermitte; Michèle Laroque; Michel Aumont; Jean Rochefort; Alexandra Vandernoot; Luciano Tovoli; Hughues Tissandier; Georges Klotz; Vladimir Cosma; Miramax Zoë (Firm); Gaumont (Firm); Efve films.; TF1 Films Production.; Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: French with English subtitles

Publisher: Burbank, Calif. : Miramax Home Entertainment : Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2001].

Notes: Originally released in 2001 (85 mins.); edition includes theatrical trailer;

Summary: François Pignon, a very bland sort of man who works as an accountant in a condom factory, is about to be fired. His new neighbour comes up with an idea to prevent such a thing from happening: he creates photos and then spreads the rumor that François is gay so that the factory management might be afraid they’ll be sued for sexual discrimination. Of course, nothing happens as it should, but the changes in François Pignon’s life– and other people’s too – is drastic.

OCLC #: 48264897

Call Number: DVD00436

by Zhao Yu; Yimou Zhang; Ziyi Zhang; Honglei Sun; Hao Zheng; Yulian Zhao; Yong Hou; Cao Juiping; Zhai Ru; San Bao; Tong Huamiao; Bao Shi; Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia (Firm); Guangxi dian ying zhi pian chang.; Sony Pictures Classics (Firm); Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: Mandarin with English subtitles

Publisher: Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Classics : Distributed by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, [2001],

Notes: Originally released in 2000 (89 mins.); edition contains theatrical trailers and filmographies; Based on the novel Remembrance by Bao Shi;

Summary: As a son helps his mother arrange for the burial of his father in the traditional Chinese custom of his mother’s village, the beautiful and touching story of his parent’s courtship unfolds. His father was from the city and came to his mother’s village to become the schoolmaster. In the days of arranged marriages, the son discovers that his parents marriage was the first marriage based on love.

OCLC #: 48484249