Posts Tagged ‘Foreign Film’

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

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
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

A Chef in Love

Monday, October 27th, 2008
 
Shekvarebuli kulinaris ataserti retsepti or Les mille et une recettes du cuisinier amoureux
Call Number: VHS00194
by Nana Djordjadze; Marc Ruscart; Pierre Richard; Micheline Presle; Nino Kirtadze; Jean-Yves Gautier; Timour Kamkhadze; Irakli Kvirikadze; André Grall; Guiorgui Beridze; Sony Pictures Classics (Firm); Films du Rivage.; Sept Cinéma (Firm); Studio Adam et Eve.; Studio Babelsberg.; Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: French, Georgian and Russian with English subtitles
Publisher: Culver City, CA : Columbia Tristar Home Video, ©1997.
Notes: Originally released in 1996 (99 mins.); Nominated for one 1997 Academy Award
Summary: A free-spirited Frenchman’s romantic idyll with a princess in pre-Soviet Georgia is threatened by the barbarism of the Russian revolution.
OCLC #: 55852408
Added: October 27, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

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
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

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
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

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

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
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

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
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

Rowing with the Wind

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
 
Remando al viento
Call Number: VHS00171
by Hugh Grant; Lizzy McInnerny; Valentine Pelka; Elizabeth Hurley; José Luis Gómez; Virginia Mataix; Ronan Vibert; Jose Carlos Rivas; Gonzalo Suárez; Yvonne Blake; Alejandro Masso; Jose Salcedo; Carlos Suarez; Wolfgang Burman; Jose Jacoste; Miramax Films.; Iberoamericana de TV.; Viking Film (Firm); Ditirambo Films.; Televisión Española.; Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm); Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: [S.l.] : Miramax Home Entertainment ; Burbank, Calif. : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [1999?]
Notes: Videocassette release of the 1987 Spanish-Norwegian production (126 mins.);
Summary: While visiting friends at a secluded estate, an extraordinary woman, Mary Shelley, envisions a terrifying beast that turns into a human creation! From that moment on, she is powerless to stop the relentless torment of her sinister brainchild– a living nightmare that threatens to destroy all that she loves!
Also: See other films about the creation of the book Frankenstein: the Ken Russell directed Gothic (VHS00734); and the Ivan Passer directed Haunted Summer (VHS00720); In addition see other interpretations of Frankenstein: The James Whale directed, Frankenstein (VHS00354); the Charles Barton directed Bud Abbott & Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (VHS00759); the Roger Corman directed Frankenstein Unbound (VHS00760); and Kenneth Branagh directed Frankenstein (VHS00758/DVD00062);
OCLC #: 41408293
Added: October 21, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

The Elusive Corporal

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Le Caporal épinglé
Call Number: VHS00167
by Jean Renoir; Jean-Pierre Cassel; Claude Brasseur; O.E. Hasse; Video Images (Firm); Video Yesteryear.; Reel Images.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Sandy Hook, Conn. : Video Images [distributor], ©1991.
Notes: Originally released in 1962 (109 mins.); Based on the novel by Jacques Perret; Originally released in German and French, this edition has been dubbed in English; Edition contains program card;
Summary: Set in a German P.O.W. camp in 1940, this is the story of a French corporal who is determined to escape to return to Paris and fight once more.
OCLC #: 29696162
Added: October 21, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection