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La Dolce Vita

Monday, October 27th, 2008
The Sweet Life
Call Number: VHS00182 Copy 1
VHS00182 Copy 2
by Federico Fellini; Marcello Mastroianni; Anita Ekberg;
Format: VHS
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Publisher: Copy 1: [New York] : Goodtimes Home Video, ©1992.; Copy 2: Los Angeles, CA : Republic Pictures Home Video, [1989],
Notes: Originally released in 1960 (174 mins.); Nominated for four 1962 Academy Awards;
Summary: This controversial and award-winning film tells of the decadent life on Rome’s Via Veneto through the eyes a cynical journalist.
OCLC #: 27204547
Added: October 27, 2008
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…And God Created Woman

Monday, October 27th, 2008
 
Et Dieu… créa la femme
Call Number: VHS00181
by Raoul J Lévy; Roger Vadim; Brigitte Bardot; Curd Jürgens; Jean-Louis Trintignant; Jeanne Marken; Jean Tissier; Isabel Corey; Jacqueline Ventura; Jacques Ciron; Paul Faivre; Jany Mourey; Philippe Grenier; Mary Glory; Georges Poujouly; 
Format: VHS
Language: French
Publisher: Woodlands, CA : Westlake Entertainment Group, 1995.
Notes: Originally released in 1956 (92 mins.);
Summary: Juliette is an 18 year-old orphan whose unbridled appetite for pleasure shakes up all of St. Tropez. Her sweet but naïve husband Michel endures beatings, insults and mambo in his attempts to tame her wild ways.
OCLC #: 39394181
Also: Edition also contains That Naughty Girl (VHS00181);
Added: October 27, 2008
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That Naughty Girl

Monday, October 27th, 2008
Cette Sacrée Gamine
Call Number: VHS00181
by Michel Boisrond; Jean Bretonnière; Brigitte Bardot; Françoise Fabien
Format: VHS
Language: French dubbed into English
Publisher: Woodlands, CA : Westlake Entertainment Group, 1995.
Notes: Originally released in 1956 (90 mins.);
Summary: A night club singer who is looking out for a young girl (Brigette Bardot) finds out that she is not the innocent young thing he first thought.
OCLC #: 39394181
Also: Edition also contains …And God Created Woman (VHS00181);
Added: October 27, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

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Anna Karenina

Monday, October 27th, 2008
 
Anna Karenina
Call Number: VHS00180 Copy 1
VHS00180 Copy 2
by Clemence Dane; Salka Viertel; S N Behrman; Clarence Brown; Greta Garbo; Fredric March; Freddie Bartholomew; Maureen O’Sullivan; May Robson; Basil Rathbone; Reginald Owen; Leo Tolstoy; MGM/UA Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: Swedish with English subtitles
Publisher: Copy 1: Culver City, CA : MGM/UA Home Video, ©1990.; Copy 2: Culver City, CA : MGM/UA Home Video, [1987]
Notes: Originally released in 1935 (96 mins.); Based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy;
Summary: In this story of doomed love set during the reign of Czar Nicholas I of Russia, the wife of a Russian aristocract falls for a dashing cavalry officer.
Also: See the Julien Duvivier directed Anna Karenina (VHS00088); 
OCLC #: Copy 1: 27215432; Copy 2: 16668402;
Added: October 22, 2008
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The Double Life of Veronique

Monday, October 27th, 2008
 
La Double vie de Véronique
Call Number: VHS00179
by Irène Jacob; Krzysztof Kieślowski; Miramax Films.; Sideral Productions.; Studio Tor.; Studio Canal+.;
Format: VHS
Language: French, Polish and Italian with English subtitles
Publisher: [United States : Miramax Home Video ; Hollywood, Calif. distributed and marketed exclusively by] Paramount Pictures, 1992.
Notes: Originally released in 1991 (96 mins.);
Summary: Weronika is a Polish choir soprano, and her double, Véronique, is a French music teacher. Though they are unknown to each other, the two women share an enigmatic, purely emotional bond
OCLC #: 26731294
Added: October 27, 2008
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Open City

Monday, October 27th, 2008
Roma, città aperta or Rome, Open City
Call Number: VHS00178
by Roberto Rossellini; Sergio Amidei; Federico Fellini; Film Classics (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: Italian, with English subtitles
Publisher: [Hollywood, CA] : Film Classics
Notes: Originally released in 1946 (105 mins.); Nominated for one 1947 Academy Award;
Summary: An inspirational film, and representative of neo-realistic cinema, about Rome during the Nazi occupation. A priest who is helping the Italian resistance fighters is discovered and arrested by the SS.
OCLC #: 42886741
Added: October 27, 2008
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Jules and Jim

Monday, October 27th, 2008
Jules et Jim
Call Number: VHS00177 Copy 1
VHS00177 Copy 2
by François Truffaut; Oskar Werner; Henri Serre; Jeanne Moreau; Henri Pierre Roché; Films du carrosse (Firm); Video Dimensions.;
Format: VHS
Language: French with English subtitles
Publisher: Copy 1: New York : Video Dimensions, [1984?]; Copy 2: [S.l.] : Janus Films : Public Media Home Vision [distributor], 1992.
Notes: Originally released in 1962 (100 mins.); Based on the novel by Henri-Pierre Roche;
Summary: The friendship of Jules, who is German, and Jim, who is French, and their twenty year love for the same woman.
OCLC #: Copy 1: 11586736; Copy 2: 82545836
Added: October 27, 2008
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Yaaba

Monday, October 27th, 2008
Yaaba
Call Number: VHS00176
by: Idrissa Ouédraogo; Fatimata Sanga; Noufou Ouédraogo; Roukietou Barry; New Yorker Films.; Arcadia Films.; Films de l’avenir.; Thelma Film AG.; New Yorker Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: Mooré, with English subtitles
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : New Yorker Video, [©1999]
Notes: Originally released in 1989 (90 mins.);
Summary: A young girl and her cousin Bila happen upon an old witch outcast by their village many years before. Although forbidden by his parents to have any contact with the old lady, Bila is drawn to her mystique and the fear she brings to the village.
OCLC #: 43602217
Added: October 27, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

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Det Sjunde Inseglet

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
The Seventh Seal or The 7th Seal
Call Number: VHS00175 Copy 1
VHS00175 Copy 2
by Ingmar Bergman; Allan Ekelund; Max von Sydow; Bibi Anderson; Nils Poppe; Gunnar FIscher; Lennart Wallen
Format: VHS
Language: Swedish with English subtitles
Publisher: Copy 1: Pearl Entertainment, Inc. 1991; Copy 2: Los Angeles, Calif. : Embassy Home Entertainment, ©1987.;
Notes: Originally released in 1957 (93 mins.); based on the play by Ingmar Bergman;
Summary: In medieval Sweden a knight returns from war only to find a ravaged homeland. He meets up with a group of travelling players and eventually confronts the embodiment of death with whom he engages in a game of chess for his life. The knight and Death play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval the plague has caused.
OCLC #: 156737659
Added: October 22, 2008
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The Blue Angel

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Der Blaue Engel
Call Number: VHS00174 Copy 1
VHS00174 Copy 2
by Josef Von Sternberg; Marlene Dietrich; Emil Jannings; Hans Albers; Rosa Valetti; Heinrich Mann;
Format: VHS
Language: German with English subtitles
Publisher: Copy 1: Eatontown, NJ : Royal Sound Video.; Copy 2: Burbank, CA : Viking Video Classics, 1986.
Notes: Originally released in 1930 (98 mins.); Adapted from the novel by Heinrich Mann;
Summary: One of the early sound masterpieces of German cinema, this film made Marlene Dietrich an international star and helped assure director Joseph von Sternberg a place in cinematic history. The story is a gripping portrait of a middle-aged professor who is degraded by his obsession with a tawdry cafe entertainer.
OCLC #: 52170547
Added: October 22, 2008
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