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Call Number: VHS01483

by:  Jacques Deval; Danielle Darrieux; Arthur Mayer; Joseph Burstyn; SELF Société.; Tamarelle’s International Films

Format: VHS

Language: French

Publisher: Chico, CA : Tamarelle’s International Films, 1990.

Notes: Origonally released in 1936 (90 mins.)

Summary: Follows the fates of several of the women residing in a hotel for women only (no males allowed) in Paris.

OCLC #: 22997489

Added: April 27, 2011

Call Number: VHS01482

by:  Leni Riefensthal

Format: VHS

Language: [?]

Publisher: Tamarelle’s International Films.

Notes: [?]

Summary: The sacred mountain and White Flame.

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Added: April 27, 2011

Call Number: VHS01481

by:  Germaine Dulac

Format: VHS

Language: [?]

Publisher: Tamarelle’s International Films.

Notes: [?]

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Added: April 27, 2011

Call Number: VHS01479

by:  Co Hoedeman; Office national du film du Canada;

Format: VHS

Language: French

Publisher: Montréal : ONF, 1984.

Notes: Originally released in 1980 (115  min);

Summary: Film d’animation illustrant le processus de création par lequel passent divers enfants qui préparent des déguisements pour une mascarade. 

OCLC #: 77283467

Added: April 27, 2011

Call Number: VHS01478

by:  Jean Beaudin; National Film Board of Canada 

Format: VHS

Language: French

Publisher: National Film Board of Canada .

Notes: Originally released in 1980 (115  min);

Summary: [?]. 

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Added: April 27, 2011

Call Number: VHS01477

by:  Michel Brault, Marcel Carrière; National Film Board of Canada 

Format: VHS

Language: French

Publisher: National Film Board of Canada .

Notes: Originally released in 1963 (105  min);

Summary: [?]. 

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Added: April 27, 2011

Call Number: VHS01476

by:  Jean Beaudin; Pierre Mignot; Monique Champlain; Michelle Dandavino; Francoise Berd; Maurice Blackburn; Jean Marc Garand; Marcel Sabourin; Monique Mercure; Marthe Thierry; Catherine Tremblay; Mariette Duval; Denis Hamel; Stephane Lécuyer; Jacques Bilodeau; Colette Courtois; Nadeau, Marthe.; National Film Board of Canada 

Format: VHS

Language: French

Publisher: [Ottawa, Ont.] : Office national du film du Canada, 1976.

Notes: Originally released in 1977 (101  min);

Summary: Photographer J.A. Martin travels through rural Quebec at the turn of the century in his mobile horse and buggy photographic studio. He is accompanied, for the first time, by his wife; and the film is basically a study of a marital relationship. 

OCLC #: 17606555

Added: April 27, 2011

Call Number: VHS01475

by:  National Film Board of Canada

 Format: VHS

Language: [?]

Publisher: National Film Board of Canada.

Notes: Originally released in 1971 (117  min);

Summary: [?]. 

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Added: April 27, 2011

Call Number: VHS01674

by:  Claude Jutra; Clement Perron; Jacques Gagnon; Jean Duceppe; Olivette Thibault; Janus Films.; The Voyager Press & Co. [199?]

 Format: VHS

Language: French with English Subtitles

Publisher: The Voyage Company in connection with Janus Films and Voyager Press.

Notes: Originally produced as motion picture in 1971 (104 min); Janus Films.

Summary: Set in cold rural Quebec at Christmas time, we follow the coming of age of a young boy and the life of his family which owns the town’s general store and undertaking business. 

OCLC #: [?]

Added: April 26, 2011

Call Number: VHS01673

by:  Agnès Varda; Jean-Claude Drouot; Claire Drouot; Sandrine Douot; Oliver Drouot; Marie-France Boyer; Jean Rabier; Claude Beausoliel; Janus Films.; Ciné Tamaris (Firm); Home Vision (Firm);

Format: VHS

Language: French with English Subtitles

Publisher: The Voyage Company in connection with Janus Films and Voyager Press.

Notes: Videocassette release of the Janus Films 1965 motion picture. Image and sound restored in 1996 by Agnès Verda and Cine-Tamaris (79 min).

Summary: Francois is a young carpenter married with Therese. They have two little children. All goes well, life is beautiful, the sun shines and the birds sing. One day, Francois meets Emilie, they fall in love and become lovers. He still loves his wife and wants to share his new happiness with her.

 OCLC #: [?]

Added: April 26, 2011

Call Number: VHS01672 Copy 1

VHS01672 Copy 2

by:  Jules Dassin; Jean Servais; Carl Mohner; Robert Manuel; Perlo Vita; Marie Sabouret; Janine Darcey; Claude Sylvain; Marcel Lupovici; Pierre Grassel; Robert Hossein; Magali Noel; Dominique Maurin; Georges Auric; Jacques Larue; M Phillippe Gerard; Auguste Le Breton;

Format: VHS

Language: French with English Subtitles

Publisher: Video Award Motion Pictures, Inc. VA5007

Notes: Originally produced as motion picture in 1955 (117 min). Based on the novel by Auguste Le Breton.
Summary: After five years in prison, Tony le Stéphanois meets his dearest friends Jo and the Italian Mario Ferrati and they invite Tony to steal a couple of jewels from the show-window of the famous jewelry Mappin & Webb Ltd, but he declines. Tony finds his former girlfriend Mado, who has become the lover of the cruel and greedy gangster, Pierre Grutter, owner of the night-club L’ Âge d’ Or. Furious, Tony beats Mado and takes her jewels. Tony changes his mind about the heist, on the condition that they hit the jeweler’s safe, too. Mario,suggests they employ the services of his compatriot César, an expert safe-cracker. The four team up and plan to pull of the heist. Intrigue, suspense, betrayal and seduction follow in this 1950s French Film Noir Classic.

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Added: April 26, 2011

Call Number: VHS01671

by:  Jean Gabin; Simone Simon; Jean Renoir; Emile Zola;

Format: VHS

Language: French with English Subtitles

Publisher: Video Award Motion Pictures, Inc. VA5009

Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1938 (102 min).

Summary: From the Émile Zola novel “La Bête Humaine” comes a story of deep tragedy. Jacques (Jean Gabin) comes from a long line of alcoholics, and though he abstains from the drink himself, he cannot escape another curse his family has passed down to him – the urge, the madness, to kill. Jacques is a railroad engineer, and he falls in love with a young woman (Simone Simon) who is already married. His happiness with her is short lived, but not because of her marriage to another man. In one of Jacques’ cursed and sudden attacks of rage, he murders her. What follows is story of the heights of heartbreak and the depths of simplicity.

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Added: April 26, 2011

Call Number: VHS01670

by:  Agnès Varda; Corinne Marchand; Antoine Bourseillet; Balzac Video.; Rome Paris Films.;

Format: VHS

Language: French

Publisher: [France] : Balzac Video ; [Chicago : Facets Multimedia] [distributer, 198-?]

Notes: Videocassette release of a 1961 motion picture by Agnes Varda (90 min).

Summary: This movie shows us Cléo, a French singer, who is afraid of getting the result of of a test from her doctor. She believes that she has cancer and will die of the disease. We follow her for two hours while she cruises through the streets of Paris. At the end, she meets a soldier who is going to the war in Algeria the next day.

OCLC #: 17014521

Added: April 26, 2011

Call Number: VHS01669

by: Abel Gance; Séverin Mars; Ivy Close; Gabriel de Gravone;

Format: VHS

Language: Silent film, French intertitles

Publisher: Foreign Film Classics Presents The Silent Screen Movie Classics

Notes: Originally broadcast in 1922 (130 min). Originally running nine hours, this epic tragedy is notable for the way it foreshadows Gance’s later ‘Napoleon’ in its use of innovative cinematic devices, particularly rapid cutting.

Summary: Sisif, a railwayman, and his son Elie fall in love with the beautiful Norma, whom Sisif rescued from a train crash and raised as his daughter, with tragic results.

OCLC #: [?]

Added: April 26, 2011

Call Number: VHS01668

by: Montréal, Québec : Société Radio-Canada, [Sept., 30th, 1998].

Format: VHS

Language: French

Publisher: CBC Radio Canada, Archives Dept., Montreal, Quebec: 1998.

Notes: Originally broadcast in 1967 on the television program, “Le Sel de la semaine”(20 min).

Summary: Fernand Séguin interviews Jack Kérouac about his travels, his childhood, and his writing and inspiration. OCLC #: [?]

Added: April 26, 2011

Call Number: VHS01667

by: Myriame El Yamani, Anne-Marie Sirois; National Film Board of Canada

Format: VHS

Language: French

Publisher: [Montréal] : O.N.F., 1994.

Notes: Originally released in 1994 (6 min, 19 sec).

Summary: This consumer-social awareness cartoon tells the story of thousands of chickens crammed into the cruel and artificial universe of the poultry industry. One on top of the other, these chickens are mechanically force-fed, caged and tied to a timed laying schedule. This cartton asks important questions about the principles of profitability and conditioning in the manufacturing of human food.

OCLC #: [?]

Added: April 26, 2011

Call Number: DVD00542

by Simon Channing-Williams; Mike Leigh; Jim Broadbent; Allan Corduner; Timothy Spall; Lesley Manville; Ron Cook; Shirley Henderson; Wendy Nottingham; Kevin McKidd; Arthur Sullivan; W S Gilbert; Carl Davis; Thin Man Films (Firm); Greenlight Fund (Firm); Newmarket Capital Group LP.; USA Home Entertainment (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English  

Publisher: [S.l.] : USA Home Entertainment, ©2000.

Notes:Videodisc release of the 1999 motion picture (161 min). Includes theatrical trailer, TV spots, featurette, photo gallery, cast & crew biographies and filmographies. Nominated for 4 Academy Awards in 2000.

Summary: Tensions abound and the music swells in the story about the famous musical team of Gilbert and Sullivan. The two men who were extremely different in size and stature were even more different in temperament and style. Yet, they still managed to create memorable theater. This is the story of the making of one of their most famous collaborations, “The Mikado”.

OCLC #: 44722195

Added: April 26, 2011

Call Number: DVD00969

by Edward Small; George Bruce; Harry J Essex; Harold R Green; Rowland Brown; Phil Karlson; John Payne; Coleen Gray; Preston Foster; Neville Brand; Lee Van Cleef; Jack Elam; Dona Drake; Mario Siletti; George E Diskant; Edward L Ilou; Buddy Small; Paul Sawtell; Dark City (Firm); Associated Players and Producers (Firm); Image Entertainment (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English  

Publisher: Chatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment, [2002]

Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1952 (99 mins); Special Features: Still & Lobby Card Gallery, Cast & Crew Bios and Noir Filmographies, Exclusive Interview with Star Coleen Gray, Rare Trailer for Director Phil Karlson’s “5 Against the House”.

Summary: An ex-con trying to go straight is framed for a million dollar armored car robbery and must go to Mexico in order to unmask the real culprits.

OCLC #: 50510582

Added: April 26, 2011

Call Number: DVD00996

by Sol C Siegel; Joseph L Mankiewicz; Jeanne Crain; Linda Darnell; Ann Sothern; Kirk Douglas; Paul Douglas; Barbara Lawrence; Jeffrey Lynn; Connie Gilchrist; Florence Bates; Hobart Cavanaugh; Arthur C Miller; J Watson Webb; Alfred Newman; Vera Caspary; John Klempner; Christopher Mankiewicz; Kenneth L Geist; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.; 

Language: English  

Publisher: Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2005].

Notes: Originally released in 1949 (103 mins; Black & White); Adapted by Vera Caspary from the novel : Letter to Five Wives / by John Klempner; Nominated for three 1950 Academy Awards; Special features: optional commentary by Christopher Mankiewicz with Joseph L. Mankiewicz biographers Kenneth Geist and Cheryl Lower ; “Linda Darnell: Hollywood’s Fallen Angel”, an A & E Network Biography program (45 min.); Fox Movietone News (Oscar footage); restoration comparison; theatrical trailer (3 min.)

Summary: Slice of Americana about three women on a group vacation receiving a letter from a flirt who has run off with one of their husbands- but who leaves the wives guessing as to whose husband has been stolen.

OCLC #: 57300248