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Flame

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Flame
Call Number: VHS00262
by Ingrid Sinclair; Barbara Jago; Philip Roberts; Simon Bright; Joel Phiri; Marian Kunonga; Ulla Mahaka; João Costa; Elisabeth Moulinier; Black & White Film Company.; JBA production.; Onland Productions.; California Newsreel (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: San Francisco : California Newsreel, [1996]
Notes: Originally released in 1996 (87mins.);
Summary: Dramatization of the role of women fighters in the Zimbabwean liberation struggle, and of the abuses committed against women and peasants in the military and in Zimbabwean society at large.
OCLC #: 39491396
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Princesse Tam Tam

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
 
Princess Tam Tam
Call Number: VHS00261
by Edmond T Gréville; Josephine Baker; Albert Préjean; Germaine Aussey; Axlixo Grenet; Jacques Dallin; Kino International Corporation.;
Format: VHS
Language: French with English subtitles 
Publisher: [S.l.] : Arys Production ; [New York, N.Y.] : Kino International Corp., ©1989.
Notes: Originally released in 1935 (80 mins.);
Summary: An exotic Pygmalion-like musical comedy about a French author who goes to North Africa to write a novel but becomes distracted and entranced by a native girl whom he transforms into a princess.
OCLC #: 84395093
Added: November 4, 2008
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Wu kui

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
The Wooden Man’s Bride
Call Number: VHS00260
by Jianxin Huang; Shi Zhang; Lan Wang; Pingwa Jia; Xi’an dian ying zhi pian chang.; Evergreen Entertainment (Firm); Arrow Releasing (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: Chinese with English subtitles  
Publisher: Los Angeles, CA : Evergreen Entertainment, [1995]
Notes: Originally released in 1994 (114 mins.); Based on a novel by Jia Pingau;
Summary: Love story set in the 1920’s in China’s remote northwestern desert, this is the story of a young man who falls in love with the bride he has been hired to transport to her arranged marriage.
OCLC #: 42484698
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My Life to Live

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
 
Jean-Luc Godard’s Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux
Call Number: VHS00259
by Jean Luc Godard; Anna Karina; Saddy Rebbot; Marcel Sacotte; New Yorker Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: French with English subtitles  
Publisher: New York : New Yorker Video, ©1991.
Notes: Originally released in 1962 (85 mins.); based on a work by Marcel Sacotte;
Summary: Nana leaves her husband and child, turns to casual prostitution, meets a pimp and becomes a professional and tries to quit when she falls in love.
OCLC #: 37799492
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Victim

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
 
Victim
Call Number: VHS00258
by Basil Dearden; Michael Relph; Dirk Bogarde; Sylvia Syms; Dennis Price; Nigel Stock; Public Media Incorporated.; Home Vision (Firm); Janus Films.; Allied Film Makers.;
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: Chicago : Home Vision Cinema, ©1997.
Notes: Originally released in 1961 (100 mins.);
Summary: Dramatization of the problems of the criminalization of homosexual acts between consenting adults. Bogarde plays a successful barrister who places his career on the line by ‘coming out’ in order to expose a blackmail racket. It was the first British film to concentrate on male homosexuality and was made with the specific intention of supporting the new recommendations of the 1957 Wolfenden Committee for the partial decriminalization of male homosexual acts.
OCLC #: 37729923
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L'Histoire d'Adèle H.

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
The Story of Adele H.
Call Number: VHS00256
by François Truffaut; Nestor Alemendros; Maurice Jaubert; Jean Gruault; Suzanne Schiffman; Isabelle Adjani; Bruce Robinson; Sylvia Marriott; Joseph Blatchley; Ivry Gitlis; Roger Corman; New World Pictures (Firm); Films du carrosse (Firm); Productions artistes associés.; MGM/UA Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: French with English subtitles  
Publisher: Culver City, Calif. : MGM/UA Home Video, ©1990.
Notes: Originally released in 1975 (97 mins.); Based on the published journals of Adele Hugo; Nominated for one 1976 Academy Award;
Summary: Adele, the sensitive daughter of Victor Hugo, becomes involved in a romance that is self-destructive.
OCLC #: 63533305
Added: November 4, 2008
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Friends

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Friends
Call Number: VHS00255
by Elaine Proctor; Kerry Fox; Dambisa Kente; Michele Burgers; Channel Four Films (Firm); First Run/Icarus Films.; First-Run Features (Firm); et al
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: New York : First Run/Icarus Films, 1994.
Notes: Originally released in 1994 (109 mins.);
Summary: Passion and politics mix in this drama set in South Africa about three young women, a white political activist, a black school teacher, and a Afrikaner archaeologist, all close friends.
OCLC #: 34347454
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Mirt Sost Shi Amit

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Harvest: 3000 Years
Call Number: VHS00254
by Haile Gerima; Kasu Asfaw; Adane Melaku; Gebru Kassa; Mypheduh Films.;
Format: VHS
Language: Amharic with English subtitles  
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Mypheduh Films, Inc., [1993?]
Notes: Originally released in 1975 (150 mins.);
Summary: Set in Ethiopia, a peasant family struggles for survival on the farm of a wealthy feudal landowner. The film’s pace and visual style is geared to the rhythms of daily life, providing a sensitive portrayal of the details and dramas of everyday reality. The drama is set in motion by the teen-age son and daughter who contest traditional social roles, the tyrannical behavior of the landowner and the visionary and revolutionary deeds of the local madman.
OCLC #: 41395981
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Pépé le Moko

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Pépé le Moko
Call Number: VHS00253
by Julien Duvivier; Ashelbe.; Jean Gabin; Murray Hill Video.;
Format: VHS
Language: French with English subtitles  
Publisher: New York : Murray Hill Video, [198-?]
Notes: Originally released in 1937 (90 mins.); Based on the novel by Roger d’Ashelbé (Henri La Barthe);
Summary: A Parisian gangster is safe from the police while hiding in the Casbah section of Algiers, but he falls in love and follows the lady into danger.
OCLC #: 19686306
Added: November 3, 2008
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La Règle du jeu

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
 
The Rules of the Game
Call Number: VHS00252 Copy 1
VHS00252 Copy 2
by Jean Renoir; Nora Gregor; Nouvelles éditions de films (Firm); Murray Hill Video.;
Format: VHS
Language: French with English subtitles  
Publisher: Copy 1: New York : Murray Hill Video, ©1985?.; Copy 2: [Chicago, Ill.] : Home Vision Cinema, [after 1992].
Notes: Originally released in 1939 (107 mins.);
Summary: A satire on the decadence of the pre-World War II French aristocracy. Renoir paints a picture of a social world where pleasure is the prize, where intrigue, guile and the lack of honesty are part of the “rules” of a dying class. Unpopular on its first release at the eve of World War II, the film was withdrawn and suppressed until the late 50’s when a complete print was found and restored.
OCLC #: 11743875
Added: November 3, 2008
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