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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: 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: [?]. 

OCLC #: [?]

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: [?]. 

OCLC #: [?]

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.

 OCLC #: [?]

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.

 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: VHS01665

by: Herménégilde Chiasson; Diane Poitras; Office national du film du Canada. Studio documentaire Acadie. Programme français.;

Format: VHS

Language: French

Publisher: [Montréal] : L’Office, ©1999.

Notes: Originally released in 1999 (48 min).

Summary:Very popular social activity, photography has also become, over the years, a form of communication of the twentieth century. Eleven Canadian photographers are state of their journey, their research and ideas behind their work. Reflection on the beauty and meaning of images, this documentary allows us to admire quantity of works of renowned artists on the international scene and representative of art photography in Canada and the wide variety of practices and techniques found there.

OCLC #: 49881079

Added: April 24, 2011

Call Number: VHS01663

by: Moufida Tlatli; Youssef Ben Youssef; Anouar Brahem; Claude Bennys; Mondher Dhrif; Camille Cotte; Kerim Hammouda; Ghalia Lacroix; Hend Sabri; Amel Hedhili; Najia Ouerghi; Sami Bouajila; Kamel Fazaa; ICA Projects.;

Format: VHS

Language: Arabic and French with English subtitles

Publisher: [Bethesda, Md.] : Capitol Home Video, 1996.

Notes: Originally released in 1996 (136 min);

Summary: As Alia, the daughter of a beautiful servant, Khedija, grows up in the king’s palace at the end of the French colonial rule in Tunisia, she realizes the sexual favours required of her mother and other servants, as she, herself, is misused by those in power around her. Women had to live in silence, a silence so profound, they may come to doubt their own past — even their own existence — yet they survived these political realities with courage, comradship, and the resources of their bodies.

OCLC #: 48041030

Added: April 24, 2011

Call Number: VHS01643

by Agnès Varda; Patricia Mazuy; Oury Milshtein.;
Format: VHS
Language:  French, English subtitles

Publisher: Beverly Hills, CA : Pacific Arts Video, ©1985.
Notes: Originally released in 1985 (105 mins.);

Summary: The story of Mona, an aimless drifter whose only desire in life is to be truly free. As she wanders through the wintry French countryside, she encounters violence, hunger, fear, and cold.
OCLC #: 29269328.
dded: April 6, 2011
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Call Number: VHS01642

by Sophie Bissonnette; Martin Duckworth; Joyce Rock; Ateliers audio-visuels du Québec.;
Format: VHS
Language:  French, English subtitles

Publisher: [Montréal] : Ateliers Audio-visuels du Québec, 1980.
Notes: Originally released in 1980 (73 mins.);

Summary: Documentary account of the role played by the wives of the striking INCO workers in the 10-month 1978-79 strike in Sudbury, Ontario, and of the conflicts and tensions between the Wives Supporting the Strike committee and the union.
OCLC #: 222604068.
dded: April 6, 2011
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Call Number: VHS01640

by Josefina Molina; Concha Velasco; St. Paul Video.; Televisión Española.;
Format: VHS
Language:  Spanish, English subtitles

Publisher: Boston, MA : Distribuido por Daughters of St. Paul, ©1983.
Notes: Originally broadcast in 1984 (440 mins.);

Contains: 1. Camino de perfección (Way of perfection)
2. Cuentas de conciencia (Accounts of conscience)
3. Desafío espiritual (Spiritual challenge)
4. Castillo interior (The interior castle)
5. Fundaciones (Foundations)
6. Visita de descalzas (A visit to the Discalced nuns)
7. Vida (Life)
8. Hija de la iglesia (Daughter of the church).
OCLC #: 34543051.
dded: April 6, 2011
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Call Number: VHS01639

by Marianne Klara Schäfer; Wolfgang Joop; Violetta Sanchez; Video City Productions.; Art House Video.
Format: VHS
Language:  German

Publisher: [S.l.] : Art House Video, ©1986.
Notes: Originally released in 1985 (90 mins. )

Summary: Rudiger and Vera find out they are brother and sister just before their wedding. The wedding is cancelled, Vera returns to Florence in a state of shock. Then to make matters worse, she descovers she is pregnant.
OCLC #: 17277109
dded: April 5, 2011
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Call Number: VHS01638

by Norman McLaren; Les Grands ballets canadiens.; National Film Board of Canada.; Simon and Schuster Communications, inc;
Format: VHS
Language:  French, English subtitles?

Publisher: Northbrook, Ill. : Simon & Schuster Communications, 1969.
Notes: Originally released in 1968 (14 mins. Black & White); Nominated for one 1969 Academy Award;

Summary: Illuminates the grace, beauty, and movement of the classical ballet form through the use of strobe-like or multi-image patterns. Features Margaret Mercier and Vincent Warren of Les Grands ballets canadiens.
OCLC #: 80787901.
dded: April 3, 2011
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Call Number: VHS01637

by Léa Pool; Michel Langlois; Association coopérative des productions audio-visuelles;
Format: VHS
Language:  French, English subtitles?

Publisher: [?].
Notes: Originally released in 1984 (90 mins.?);

Summary: A filmmaker is housed in a hotel, time of filming, with his lead actress to play the role of a singer suffered a nervous breakdown. There they meet a resident at the hotel, with a sad face, recognize and believe in this unknown evil has strayed soul suffered his heroine.
OCLC #: 50867394.
dded: April 3, 2011
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Call Number: VHS01630

by Tonino Cervi; Tonino Guerrra; Monica Vitti; Richard Harris; Michelangelo Antonioni;
Format: VHS
Language:  English

Publisher:  [Australia] : Madman : The AV Channel [distributor], ©2006.
Notes: Originally released in 1964(Aprox. 116 mins.); In Italian, subtitles in English.

Summary: A woman finds herself unable to adjust to her urban environment after being involved in an automobile accident. An affair fails to cure her ills and she recedes further into neurotic isolation.
OCLC #: 271297639
Added: April 1, 2011
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection