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Blood of a Poet

Monday, October 27th, 2008
Le Sang d’un poète
Call Number: VHS00201
by Jean Cocteau; Video Images.; Reel Images.;
Format: VHS
Language: French
Publisher: [United States] : Video Images ; Monroe, Conn. : Reel Images, 1980
Notes: Originally released in 1930 (53 mins.); Edition includes program card;
Summary: An avant-garde film built around a character who lives what he creates.
OCLC #: 74387111
Added: October 27, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

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Sanders of the River

Monday, October 27th, 2008
Alexander Korda’s Sanders of the River
Call Number: VHS00199
by Zoltan Korda; Alexander Korda, Sir; Paul Robeson; Leslie Banks; Nina Mae McKinley; Edgar Wallace; London Film Productions.; Samuel Goldwyn Home Entertainment (Firm); Embassy Home Entertainment (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: [United States] : Samuel Goldwyn Home Entertainment ; Los Angeles, Calif. : Embassy Home Entertainment, [1987], ©1935.
Notes: Originally released in 1935 (85 mins.); Based on the novel by Edgar Wallace
Summary: Story of the British colonial administrator’s attempts to keep peace in Nigeria and to civilize warring natives.
OCLC #: 42495230
Added: October 27, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

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La Symphonie Pastorale

Monday, October 27th, 2008
The Pastoral Symphony
Call Number: VHS00195
by Jean Delannoy; Jean Aurenche; Pierre Bost; Armand Thirard; Georges Auric; Michèle Morgan; Pierre Blanchar; Line Noro; Andrée Clément; Jean Desailly; André Gide; Janus Films.; Public Media Home Vision.;
Format: VHS
Language: French with English subtitles
Publisher: [S.l.] : Janus Films : Public Media Home Vision, [1996?]
Notes: Originally released in 1946 (105 mins.); From the novel by André Gide;
Summary: A well-meaning Swiss pastor takes a blind orphan into his home in a mountain village. As she grows into a beautiful woman, his passion for her destroys the happiness of his wife and son
OCLC #: 36400972
Added: October 27, 2008
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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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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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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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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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Tales of Courage

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
 
Tales of Courage
Call Number: DVD00041
by Johnny Cash; Martin Sheen; Sidney Poitier; Kim Cattrall; Eartha Kitt
Format: DVD
Language: English  
Publisher: Woodland Hills, CA : St. Clair Entertainment Group, Inc., 2006.
Notes: Originally released between 1939 – 1987; Bonus features: Johnny Cash bio, classic radio episode of “Blind Courage,” movie trailers;
Chapters: Disc 1: The pride of Jesse Hallam/(Johnny Cash) — The conflict/(Martin Sheen) — Escape from Sobibor/(Alan Arkin) —
Disc 2: Mark of the hawk/(Sidney Poitier, Clinton Macklin, Eartha Kitt) — Crossbar/(Kim Cattrall, Brent Carver) — The ballad of Andy Crocker/(Lee Majors) —
Disc 3: Firehouse/(Michael Lerner, Richard Roundtree) — The stars that look down/(Michael Redgrave) — Cry of the penguin/(John Hurt, Hayley Mills
OCLC #: 95581234
Added: October 22, 2008
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