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Call Number: DVD00372

by Alain Sarde; Ruth Waldburger; Jean Luc Godard; Sarah Adler; Nade Dieu; Jean-Christophe Bouvet; Rony Kramer; Juan Goytisolo; Maḥmūd Darwīsh; Jean-Paul Curnier; Pierre Bergounioux; Gilles Pecqueux; Georges Aguilar; Leticia Gutiérrez; Ferlyn Brass; Aline Schulmann; Simon Eine; Julien Hirsch; Jean Sibelius; Avventura Films.; Wellspring Media.; et al

Format: DVD

Language: French, English, Spanish, Hebrew, Arabic and Serbo-Croatian with English subtitles

Publisher: New York, NY : Wellspring Media, ©2005.

Notes: Originally released in 2004 (80 mins.);

Summary: Part poetry, part journalism, part philosophy, master filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard’s NOTRE MUSIQUE is a witty and lyrical reflection on war through the ages. The film is structured into three Dantean Kingdoms: Hell, Purgatory and Heaven. The journey begins in Hell (represented by modern war) and then moves to Purgatory (set in Sarajevo). Finally, Paradise is conceived as a small beach guarded by Marines from the United States. At the same time, the film also follows the parallel stories of two Israeli Jewish women, one drawn to the light and one drawn towards darkness.

OCLC #: 59717319

Call Number: DVD00496

by Jean-Pierre Dardenne; Luc Dardenne; Denis Freyd; Olivier Gourmet; Morgan Marinne; Isabella Soupart; Nassim Hassaïni; Kevin Leroy; Félicien Pitsaer; Rémy Renaud; Annette Closset; Fabian Marnette; Alain Marcoen; Igor Gabriel; Monic Parelle; Archipel 35 (Firm); Films du fleuve (Firm); Radio-Télévision belge de la communauté culturelle française.; New Yorker Video (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: French with English subtitles

Publisher: [United States] : New Yorker Video, [2004]

Notes: Originally released in 2002 (100 mins.); edition includes foreign trailer, interview with the Dardenne brothers, interview with Olivier Gourmet, still gallery and filmographies;

Summary: Oliver is working as a carpentry instructor in a French suburb. He develops an obsession with a new student and offers him friendship and advice with a frightening lack of affection. Oliver’s connection to the boy is slowly and painfully revealed.

OCLC #: 54540302

Call Number: DVD00565

by Gilles Sandoz; Tonie Marshall; Nathalie Baye; Bulle Ogier; Samuel Le Bihan; Jacques Bonnaffé; Mathilde Seigner; Audrey Tautou; Gérard De Battista; Michel Vandestien; Jacques Comets; Khalil Chahine; Agat Films & Cie. (Firm); Arte France cinéma (Firm); Studio Canal+.; Sofica Sofinergie 4 (Firm); Fox Lorber Films.; WinStar TV and Video (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: French with English subtitles

Publisher: New York, NY : Fox Lorber Films : Distributed by Winstar TV & Video, ©2001.

Notes: Originally released in 1999 (105 mins.); edition includes filmographies and the theatrical trailer;

Summary: Romantic comedy which follows the life of Angèle, a forty-something woman who makes her living at a Parisian spa and whose life has been a series of hedonistic and reckless one-night stands.

OCLC #: 47235689

Call Number: DVD00309

by Duncan Kenworthy; Tim Bevan; Eric Fellner; Richard Curtis; Alan Rickman; Bill Nighy; Colin Firth; Emma Thompson; Hugh Grant; Laura Linney; Liam Neeson; Martine McCutcheon; Michael Coulter; Nick Moore; Craig Armstrong; Joanna Johnston; Universal Pictures (Firm); Studio Canal+.; Working Title Films.; DNA Films.;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Universal City, CA : Universal, [2004].

Notes: Originally released in 2003 (135 mins.); edition includes feature commentary, deleted scenes with introductions by the director, the music of Love Actually and the music video for Kelly Clarkson’s The Trouble With Love Is;

Summary: It’s all about love and holiday cheer in London. The Prime Minister is smitten with his caterer; a widower’s young son nurses the ultimate schoolboy crush; a writer falls for his Portuguese housekeeper; a devoted wife and mother copes with her potentially unfaithful husband; and a lovelorn American is desperately attracted to a colleague.

OCLC #: 54357402

Call Number: DVD00169 Copy 1

DVD00169 Copy 2

by Issa Serge Coelo; Ismael Ben-Cherif; Pierre Guillaume; Pierre Javeaux; Haikal Zakaria; Abdoulaye Ahmat; Gérard Essomba Many; Sidiki Bakaba; Pierre Javaux Productions.; Sept/Arte (Firm); Kino International Corporation.; California Newsreel (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: Arabic and French with English subtitles

Publisher: New York : Kino on Video, [2004]

Notes: Originally released in 2000 (105 mins.);

Summary: 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.

OCLC #: 58528346

Call Number: DVD00317 Copy 1

DVD00317 Copy 2

by Bridget Pickering; Ngozi Onwurah; Zulfah Otto-Sallies; Latifah, Queen.;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: [New York, NY : Distributed by] Wellspring Media, Inc., [2002],

Notes: Originally released in 2001 (89 mins.); editions also contain three bonus short films: Bintou by Fanta Nacro, Riches by Ingrid Sinclair and One Evening in July by Raja Amari, as well as the theatrical trailer;

Summary: Three contemporary fables set in Namibia (Uno’s World by Bridget Pickering), Nigeria (Hang Time by Ngozi Onwurah) and South Africa (Raya by Zulfah Otto-Sallies). Each story presents a young person with great potential who is overwhelmed by poverty and makes bad choices when tempted to do wrong. Each film is introduced by Queen Latifah.

OCLC #: 51301393

Call Number: DVD00557 Copy 1

DVD00557 Copy 2

by Tahmīnah Mīlānī; Niki Karimi; Marila Zareʼi; Atila Pesiani; Iranian Film Society.; IranianMovies.com (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: Farsi with English subtitles

Publisher: Hayward, CA : Iranian Movies, 1998.

Notes: Originally released in 1998 (96 mins.);

Summary: Describes the lives of two women attending architectural school at Tehran University during the first turbulent years of the Islamic Republic.

OCLC #: 53083033

Call Number: DVD00534

by W S Van Dyke; William Powell; Myrna Loy; Maureen O’Sullivan; Warner Home Video (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, 2005.

Notes: Originally released in 1934 (91 mins.); edition includes The Thin Man trailer gallery; Nominated for four 1935 Academy Awards;

Summary: The jaunty whodunit that made William Powell and Myrna Loy the champagne elite of sleuthung. Nick and Nora Charles combine screwball romance with mystery.

Also: After The Thin Man available (VHS00290);

OCLC #: 61137339

Call Number: DVD00320

by Jonathan Demme; Denzel Washington; Meryl Streep; Liev Schreiber; Jon Voight; Kimberly Elise; Tak Fujimoto; Rachel Portman; George Axelrod; Richard Condon; Paramount Pictures Corporation.;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount, ©2004.

Notes: Originally released in 2004 (129 mins.); edition contains commentary, inside The Manchurian Candidate, The Cast of The Manchurian Candidate, 5 deleted/extended scenes, outtakes, Liev Schreiber screen test and political pundits; based upon the novel by Richard Condon and the 1962 John Frankenheimer-directed version;

Summary: When his army unit is ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saves his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, Major Ben Marco, is knocked unconscious. Using the incident for political gain, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, but Marco is haunted by dreams of what really happened in Iraq. As Marco investigates, the story begins to unravel. He begins to figure that the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed as part of a plot to get Shaw into the White House. Now the Manchurian Global corporation appears desperate to stop him from finding out.

Also: See the John Frankenheimer version The Manchurian Candidate (VHS00151)

OCLC #: 56556573

Call Number: DVD00268

by Hugh Hudson; Kim Basinger; Vincent Perez; Eva Marie Saint; Liam Aiken; Kuki Gallmann; Columbia Pictures.; Jaffilms (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2005]

Notes: Originally released in 2000 (115 mins.); edition includes HBO making of, theatrical trailer and production notes; Based on the book by Kuki Gallmann;

Summary: Epic tale of a woman’s quest for adventure and a new life in the majestic, untamed lands of rural Africa. A passionate film about love, loss and personal triumph.

Also: Available in VHS format (VHS00477);

OCLC #: 277050738

Call Number: Copy 1: DVD00190

Copy 2: DVD00190

by Alison Owen; Eric Fellner; Tim Bevan; Michael Hirst; Shekhar Kapur; Cate Blanchett; Geoffrey Rush; Christopher Eccleston; Joseph Fiennes; Richard Attenborough; PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (Firm); Channel Four Films (Firm); Working Title Films.; Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Universal City, Calif. : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, [2007]

Notes: Originally released in 1998 (124 mins.); edition includes a sneak peak at Elizabeth: The Golden Age; The Making of Elizabeth; Elizabeth featurette; Photo gallery and feature commentary with the directory; Nominated for seven 1999 Academy Awards;

Summary: Before the Golden Age, Elizabeth was a passionate and naïve girl who came to reign over a land divided by bloody turmoil. Amid palace intrigue and attempted assassinations, the young queen is forced to become a cunning strategist while weighing the counsel of her mysterious advisors, thwarting her devious rivals, and denying her own desires for the good of her country.

OCLC #: 154725577

Also: available on VHS at VHS01178

Call Number: DVD00180

by Patrick Swayze; Jennifer Grey; Linda Gottlieb; Emile Ardolino; Eleanor Bergstein; Kenny Ortega; Artisan Entertainment (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Santa Monica : Artisan Entertainment, ©1998.

Notes: Originally released in 1987 (105 mins.); edition includes the theatrical trailer, production notes and cast and crew biographies; Nominated for one 1988 Academy Award;

Summary: Summer romance between a dance instructor and a guest at a hotel in the Catskills.

OCLC #: 43937311

Call Number: DVD00166

by Jeanne Moreau; Gérard Philipe; Annette Vadim; Jean-Louis Trintignant; Roger Vadim; Roger Vailland; Claude Brulé; Choderlos de Laclos; Films Marceau.; Wellspring Media.;

Format: DVD

Language: French with English subtitles

Publisher: New York, NY : Wellspring Media, ©2002.

Notes: Originally released in 1959 (102 mins.); based on the book by Choderlos de Laclos;

Summary: Valmont and Juliette are two spouses who find sport in each other’s extramarital conquests. But while staying at a ski resort, their games of passion come to a tragic end when Valmont falls in love.

Also: See the Josée Dayan directed Dangerous Liasons (DVD00167);

OCLC #: 51882800

Call Number: DVD00589

by Rob Reiner; Billy Crystal; Meg Ryan; Carrie Fisher; Bruno Kirby; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.; Castle Rock Entertainment (Firm); Nelson Entertainment (Firm); Columbia Pictures.; MGM Home Entertainment Inc.;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment, ©2001.

Notes: Originally released in 1989 (96 mins.); edition includes seven minutes of new footage, audio commentary, making of documentary, music video and the original theatrical trailer; nominated for one 1990 Academy Award;

Summary: Will sex ruin a perfect relationship between a man and a woman? That’s what Harry and Sally debate during their first meeting and for the next eleven years.

OCLC #: 45967004

Call Number: DVD00171

by Ron Howard; Brian Grazer; John Calley; Akiva Goldsman; Tom Hanks; Audrey Tautou; Ian McKellen; Alfred Molina; Jürgen Prochnow; Jean Reno; Paul Bettany; Salvatore Totino; Hans Zimmer; Dan Brown; Columbia Pictures.; Imagine Entertainment (Firm); Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Culver City, CA : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2006]

Notes: Originally released in 2006 (149 mins.); edition contains 10 behind the scenes featurettes; based on the book by Dan Brown;

Summary: When respected American religious symbology expert Dr. Robert Langdon is summoned to the Louvre by French Captain Bezu Fache, he soon discovered that he is the number 1 suspect for the murder of a historian Langdon had been scheduled to meet with. Assisted by a French cryptographer and government agent named Sophie, Langdon is challenged to decipher a chain of cryptic codes and puzzles, all the while trying to stay ahead of Fache’s lawmen in a chase through the Louvre, and out into the Parisian cityscape, and finally across the channel to England.

OCLC #: 71036494

Call Number: DVD00346 Copy 1

DVD00346 Copy 2

DVD00346 Copy 3

by Lee Daniels; Milo Addica; Will Rokos; Marc Forster; Billy Bob Thornton; Heath Ledger; Halle Berry; Diddy; Mos Def, (Rapper); Coronji Calhoun; Peter Boyle; Roberto Schaefer; Matt Chessé; Frank Fleming; Monroe Kelly; Asche & Spencer (Musical group); Lion’s Gate Films.; Lee Daniels Entertainment (Firm); Studio S Home Entertainment (Firm); Trimark Home Video (Firm); Lions Gate Home Entertainment.;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: [United States] : Studio S : Trimark Home Video : Distributed by Lions Gate Home Entertainment, [2002].

Notes: Originally released in 2001 (112 mins.); Copy 1 edition includes behind-the-scenes footage, two audio commentaries, deleted scenes and outtakes and IFC’s anatomy of a scene; Nominated for two 2002 Academy Awards;  Copy 2 edition includes two audio commentaries, deleted scenes and outtakes and making of the music;

Summary: Hank and Leticia inhabit stark, queasy realities of the contemporary South, he as a death row corrections officer and she as the soon-to-be widow of an inmate whose execution Hank helps conduct. In the aftermath of the execution, both lose their children to tragic deaths and they form an unlikely bond.

OCLC #: Copy 1: 49231789; Copy 2: 232364494

Call Number: DVD00345 Copy 1

DVD00345 Copy 2

by Mira Nair; Caroline Baron; Sabrina Dhawan; Naseeruddin Shah; Lillete Dubey; Shefali Shetty; Vijay Raaz; Tilotama Shome; Vasundhara Das; Kulbhushan Kharbanda; USA Films (Firm); IFC Productions (Firm); Key Films.; Pandora Film (Firm); Paradis film (Firm); Mirabai Films (Firm); Universal Pictures (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Universal City, CA : Universal Studios, ©2002.

Notes: Originally released in 2002 (125 mins.); edition contains The Making of Monsoon Wedding and director’s commentary;

Summary: Love, lust and hope envelop an upper middle-class Indian family and their world-wide guests as they celebrate for four days the arranged marriage of their daughter to an East Indian man from Texas.

OCLC #: 50624860

Call Number: DVD00378 Copy 1

DVD00378 Copy 2

by Charles Gordon; Joe Johnston; Jake Gyllenhaal; Chris Cooper; Chris Owen; Laura Dern; Mark Ishham; Lewis Colick; Homer H Hickam; Universal Pictures (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Universal City, CA : Universal Studios, 1999.

Notes: Originally released in 1999 (108 mins.); edition contains feature commentary with the director, spotlight on location, production notes, talent bios, film highlights and the theatrical trailer; Based on the book “Rocket Boys” by Homer H. Hickam, Jr;

Summary: True story of a young boy growing up in Coalwood, West Virginia during the 1950’s who dreams of building rockets.

OCLC #: 41964875

Also: on VHS at (VHS00968)

Call Number: DVD00085

by Ang Lee; Larry McMurtry; Diana Ossana; James Schamus; Heath Ledger; Jake Gyllenhaal; Linda Cardellini; Anna Faris; Anne Hathaway; Michelle Williams; Randy Quaid; Gustavo Santaolalla; Annie Proulx; Focus Features.; River Road Entertainment (Firm); Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Universal City, CA : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, ©2006.

Notes: Originally released in 2005 (135 mins.); Based on the short story by Annie Proulx; Edition includes Directing from the Heart: Ang Lee, From Script to Screen and Sharing the Story: The Making of Brokeback Mountain; Nominated for eight 2006 Academy Awards;

Summary: It’s 1963, a time in the United States when life was simple, straightforward and the lines between the sexes and sex roles were crisply drawn and severely delineated. Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist find themselves thrown together when they are hired to tend sheep in the remote area of Brokeback Mountain, Wyoming. Because of the job, the two are forced to spend many hours together alone in the wild. Ennis and Jack are inexorably drawn to each other through their proximity, loneliness and through a shared lack of tenderness and emotion in their lives and are emotionally, physically and psychically bonded to each other almost from the start.

OCLC #: 63201832