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Dance With Me

Call Number: DVD01229

Director/Distributor: Vanessa Williams; Chayanne.; Kris Kristofferson; Jane Krakowski; Beth Grant; Joan Plowright; Randa Haines; Mandalay Entertainment (Firm); Columbia Pictures.; Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm)

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Universal City, CA : Universal Studios Home Entertainment [distributor, 2007]

Notes: Videodisc release of the 1998 motion picture, released by Columbia Pictures.
Formatted to fit the television screen.
Includes theatrical trailer and photo gallery.

Summary: Rafael, a young Cuban whose mother has just died, comes to the U.S. to meet his father, who runs a dance studio and is unaware of his paternal status. While dancers prepare for the World Open Dance championship in Las Vegas, it becomes clear that Rafael is a very good dancer, and Ruby is the studio’s best hope for the championship.

OCLC #: 40770794

Added: 3/23/15

This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection.

The Heiress

Call Number: DVD01228

Director/Distributor: William Wyler; Ruth Goetz; Augustus Goetz; Olivia De Havilland; Montgomery Clift; Ralph Richardson, Sir; Miriam Hopkins; Mona Freeman; Vanessa Brown; Selena Royle; William Hornbeck; Leo Tover; Aaron Copland; Henry James; Paramount Pictures Corporation.; Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm)

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Universal City, CA : Universal Studios Home Entertainment [distributor, 2007]

Notes: From the play by Ruth & Augustus Goetz & the novel “Washington Square” by Henry James.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1949.
Special features: introduction by “Turner Classic Movies” host and film historian Robert Osborne; theatrical trailer.

Summary: A wealthy girl falls in love with a penniless man her father is sure only wants her for her money. When she plans to elope, her father threatens to disinherit her. Will she still go through with the marriage?

OCLC #: 80155105

Added: 3/23/15

This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection.

Indochine

Call Number: DVD01227

Director/Distributor: Erik Orsenna; Louis Gardel; Catherine Cohen, scénariste.; Régis Wargnier; Alain Belmondo; Gérard Crosnier; Eric Heumann; Jean Labadie; Catherine Deneuve; Vincent Perez; Dan Linh Pham; Jean Yanne; Dominique Blanc; Henri Marteau; Carlo Brandt; Gérard Lartigau; Hubert Saint-Macary; Andrzej Seweryn; Patrick Doyle; Jacques Bufnoir; François Catonné;Gabriella Pescucci; Pierre-Yves Gayraud; Geneviève Winding; Agnès Schwab; Paradis film (Firm); Generale d’Images (Firm); B.A.C. Films.; Orly Films.; Ciné 5 (Firm); Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm); Sony Pictures Classics (Firm)

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: [United States] : Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment, ©2013

Notes: Originally produced as motion picture in 1992.
Special features: Theatrical trailers for Orlando and Farinelli, Talent files on the director (Wargnier) and two cast members (Deneuve and Pérez), Production notes.

Summary: Set in French Indochina in the 1930s as the Vietnamese begin to rebel against French colonialism. Dramatizes the last years of French rule through the relationship between plantation owner Éliane, French by birth but born and raised in Indochina, and her adopted daughter Camille, an orphaned Annamese princess who becomes a Vietnamese revolutionary and representative at the Geneva Conference after having a child by French officer Jean-Baptiste, Éliane’s past lover.

OCLC #: 43875401

Added: 3/23/15

This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection.

Hotel Rwanda

Call Number: DVD01226

Director/Distributor: Terry George; Don Cheadle; Sophie Okonedo; Joaquin Phoenix; Desmond Dube; David O’Hara; Andrea Guerra; Rupert Gregson-Williams; United Artists Corporation.; Lions Gate Entertainment (Firm); Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa.; Miracle Pictures (Firm : Los Angeles, Calif.); MGM Home Entertainment Inc.; Afro Celt Sound System (Musical group); et al

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: [United States] : Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment, ©2013

Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 2004.
Special features: optional audio commentary with Terry George Paul Rusesabagina, with select commentary by Wyclef Jean; optional audio commentary of select scenes with Don Cheadle; A message for peace : making Hotel Rwanda / produced & directed by Greg Carson (28 min.); Return to Rwanda (15 min.) which follows Rusesabagina as he returns to his native land; theatrical trailer.

Summary: Based on the true story of Paul Rusesabagina, a five-star-hotel manager who uses his wits and persuasion in striving to save more than 1,200 Tutsis and Hutus from being massacred by the Interahamwe militia during the 1994 Rwandan conflict.

OCLC #: 57673690

Added: 3/23/15

This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection.

The Forgotten Films of Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle

Call Number: DVD01225

Director/Distributor: Paul E Gierucki; Bruce Lawton; Roscoe Arbuckle; Minta Durfee; Dot Farley; Edgar Kennedy; Charlie Chaplin; Mack Swain; Phyllis Allen; Charley Chase; Alice Davenport; Mabel Normand; Harry McCoy; Al St John; Joe Bordeaux; Slim Summerville; Laughsmith Entertainment, Inc.; Mackinac Media (Firm)

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: [S.l.] : Mackinac Media [distributor], 2005.

Notes: “Each film features completely restored titles, intertitles, and several films include previously lost or alternate footage. Silent titles feature newly created scores.”–Disc container.
Bonus feature: Slide show: original Arbuckle artwork from ILM animator Tom Bertino.

Summary: Presents the films of Fatty Arbuckle, the grown-up fat boy of American silent cinema, who dominated silent film comedy from the days of Keystone until tragic events in 1921 shattered his career, throwing his film triumphs into obscurity. Blacklisted by Hollywood, Arbuckle continued directing dozens of film comedies under the pseudonym “William Goodrich” for almost another decade.

OCLC #: 61136580

Added: 3/23/15

This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection.

The Great Gatsby

Call Number: DVD01224

Director/Distributor: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce, (Screenwriter); Catherine Martin; Douglas Wick; Lucy Fisher; Catherine Knapman; Leonardo DiCaprio; Tobey Maguire; Carey Mulligan; Joel Edgerton; Isla Fisher; Jason Clarke; Elizabeth Debicki; Jack Thompson; Amitabh Bachchan; Craig Armstrong; Simon Duggan; Matt Villa; Jason Ballantine; Jonathan Redmond; F Scott Fitzgerald;Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ); Village Roadshow Pictures.; Arts and Entertainment Network.; Bazmark Films (Firm); Red Wagon Entertainment (Firm); Warner Home Video (Firm)

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Bazmark Film III Pty Ltd., Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2013]

Notes: Based on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2013.
Special features: The greatness of Gatsby (9 min.) ; “Within and without” with Tobey Maguire (9 min.) ; The swinging sounds of Gatsby (12 min.) ; The jazz age (16 min.) ; Razzle dazzle: the fashion of the ’20s (16 min.) ; Fitzgerald’s visual poetry (7 min.) ; Gatsby revealed ; deleted scenes ; 1926 The great Gatsby trailer.

Summary: The Great Gatsby follows viable writer Nick Carraway as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922. Chasing his own American dream, Nick lands next door to Jay Gatsby, and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy, and her husband, Tom Buchanan. Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the rich and their loves and deceits. As he bears witness, he pens a tale of impossible love, incorruptible dreams, and tragedy, and holds a mirror to our own modern times and struggles.

OCLC #: 853459227

Added: 3/23/15

This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection.