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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
Added: November 4, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Archive for the ‘Film Catalog’ Category
Victim
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008A Night in Tuscany
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008Andrea Bocelli: A Night in Tuscany
Call Number: VHS00257
by David Amphlett; Lana Topham; Nuccia Focile; Zucchero Sugar Fornaciari; Sarah Brightman; Marta Sanchez; Marcello Rota; Gian Paolo Mazzoli; Giacomo Puccini; Giuseppe Verdi; Francesco Cilèa; Orchestra filarmonica italiana.; Sociatà Corale Pisana.; Propaganda Films Europe.; PolyGram Visual Programming.; PolyGram Video (Firm)
Format: VHS
Language: Sung primarily in Italian
Publisher: New York : PolyGram Video, ©1997.
Notes: Originally released in 1997 (86 mins.);
Summary: A concert of arias and popular songs that Andrea Bocelli with others gave in Pisa.
Chapters: Nessun dorma / Puccini (Turnadot) — La Donna è mobile / Verdi (Rigoletto) — Lamento di Federico / Ciléa (L’Arlesiana) — E lucean le stelle / Puccini (Tosca) — O soave fanciulla (with Nuccia Focile) / Puccini (La Bohème) — Brindisi (with Nuccia Focile) / Verdi (La Traviata) — Torna a Surriento — Santa Lucia luntana — O sole mio / Di Capua ; Capurro — Con te partirò — Romanza — E chiove — Voglio restare cosi — Caruso — Miserere (with Zucchero) — Time to say goodbye (with Sarah Brightman) — Vivo por Ella (with Marta Sanchez) — Il mare calmo Della Sera
OCLC #: 43413260
Added: November 4, 2008
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L'Histoire d'Adèle H.
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008The 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
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Friends
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008Friends
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
Added: November 4, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Mirt Sost Shi Amit
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008Harvest: 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
Added: November 4, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Pépé le Moko
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008Pépé 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
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
La Règle du jeu
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
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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
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Fintar O Destino
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008Dribbling Fate
Call Number: VHS00251
by Fernando Vendrell; Carlos Germano; Betina Lopes; Manuel Estevão; David & Golias (Firm); Radiotelevisão Portuguesa.; California Newsreel (Firm); et al
Format: VHS
Language: Portuguese and Criolo with English subtitles
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, ©1998.
Notes: Originally released in 1944 (124 mins.); Based on the novel by Enid Bagnold; Nominated for 5 Academy Awards
Summary: Fintar o destino is the Library of African Cinema’s first sports film — but a sports film with a distinctly African twist. It is the story of the aging sport hero who holds onto his past so strongly he destroys his present. At the same time, this film explores a much broader tension, personal and political, between remaining true to one’s dreams or making the best of the limited opportunities around us
OCLC #: 41109731
Added: November 3, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
A Kid in King Arthur's Court
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008A Kid in King Arthur’s Court
Call Number: VHS00249
by: Michael Gottlieb; Thomas Ian Nicholas; Joss Ackland; Art Malik; Mark Twain; Walt Disney Home Video (Firm); Tapestry Films.; Trimark Pictures.
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, Calif. : Walt Disney Home Video, ©1995.
Notes: Originally released in 1995 (90 mins.)
Summary: 14-year-old Little Leaguer Calvin Fuller is in an earthquake which sends him through a time rift into King Arthur’s court. Arthur is in danger of losing his kingdom and Calvin must find a way to conquer his fears and help Arthur save his realm.
OCLC #: 42479259
Added: November 3, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
La Petite Vendeuse de Soleil
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun
Call Number: VHS00250
by Lissa Baléra; Taïrou M’Baye; Djibril Diop Mambéty; Silvia Voser; Wasis Diop; Cephéide Productions.; Maag Daan.; Waka Films.;
Format: VHS
Language: Wolof with English subtitles
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel [distributor], 1999.
Notes: Originally released in 1999 (45 mins.);
Summary: Parable uses the struggles of a young crippled girl in Dakar trying to earn her living in the market place selling newspapers to mirror Africa’s role in the international marketplace.
OCLC #: 42662780
Added: November 3, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection