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1) Green zone
Language
English
Description
During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors were dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that inverts the purpose of their mission.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, a.k.a. OSS 117 who in the tradition of Maxwell Smart and Inspector Clouseau somehow succeeds in spite of his ineptitude. After a fellow agent is murdered Hubert is ordered to take his place.
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
DVD.
Language
English
Description
Tells the dramatic story of Edmond Dantes, a young French sailor who is falsely denounced as a political traitor and unjustly imprisoned for eighteen years without trial. After a daring escape, Dantes flees to the island of Monte Cristo, where he finds a colossal treasure bequeathed to him by a dying fellow inmate. Using these riches, he assumes a new identity and devises a plan of vengeance upon all those who betrayed him.
5) Viva Maria!
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Somewhere in Middle America, 1907: Maria II, the daughter of an Irish terrorist, meets Maria I, the singer of an circus after the death of her father. She decides to stay with the circus. On her debut as a singer, she accidentally invented a strip-tease, that made the circus famous. But they meet a socialist revolutionary and find themselves leading a revolution against the dictator, the capitalists and the church.
6) Jour de fête
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (86 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
In this enchanting debut feature, Jacques Tati stars as a fussbudget of a postman who is thrown for a loop when a traveling fair comes to his village. Tati shot this film simultaneously in black and white and in an untested color process that proved impossible to print copies of. In 1964 he re-edited it with added hand-colored footage, and in 1995 the full-color film was able to be released from the original color negatives.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (163 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
During the Nazi occupaton of France during World War II, the nation's movie studios continued to operate. Jean Devaivre is an assistant director for Continental Pictures, a studio which has recently been taken over by the Germans and is headed by Dr. Greven. With a wife and son to support, Devaivre feels he has little choice but to continue with his work. Screenwriter Jean Aurenche, a man who lives for wine, women and song, refuses to work for Greven,...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher, the first and only female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. One of the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male-dominated world.
9) PlayTime
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A nearly wordless comedy about confusion in an age of high technology.
10) Mon oncle
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A supremely amusing satire of mechanized living and consumer society.
Series
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (133 min.) : sound, black and white; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In August 1944, the Allied army is closing in on Paris. German commander and art fanatic Colonel Von Waldheim steals a vast collection of rare French paintings and loads them onto a train bound for Berlin. When a beloved French patriot is murdered while trying to sabotage Von Waldheim's scheme, Labiche, a stalwart member of the Resistance, vows to stop the train at any cost.
12) Amélie
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Amélie Poulain has led a sheltered life, educated at home by her parents, she lives in a fantasy world of her own. When she finally leaves home and finds work as a waitress in a Parisian café, life is uneventful until a chain of extraordinary events leads her to the discovery of a box containing a schoolboy's long forgotten mementos. It is then that Amelie discovers her vocation in life - helping others find love and happiness - which she sets about...
Series
Criterion collection volume 6
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Dramatized adaptation of the classic fairy tale. Tells the fable of the kindly beast and the self-sacrificing beauty whose love releases the prince in him. Contains such visual displays as tears that become real diamonds and walls that grow arms to light Beauty's path through the castle of the Beast.
14) Renoir
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 111 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Jean Renoir, son of the Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste, returns home in the summer of 1915 to Southern France after being wounded in World War I and meets a young woman who inspires both himself and his father.
"Set on the French Riviera in the summer of 1915, Gilles Bourdos' lushly atmospheric drama RENOIR tells the story of celebrated Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, in declining health at age 74, and his son Jean, who returns...
15) Lucy
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 30 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An action-thriller that tracks a woman accidentally caught in a dark deal who turns the tables on her captors. Altered by a dangerous new drug allowing her to use 100% of her brain capacity, Lucy transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.
Series
Criterion collection volume 478
Pub. Date
©2009
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (94 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (44 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.)
Language
Français
Description
Feature : "[T]his surreal fever dream, or nightmare, gorgeously fuses the past with the present in telling its ambiguous tale of a man and a woman who may or may not have met a year ago, perhaps at the very same cathedral-like, mirror-filled château they now find themselves wandering. Unforgettable in both its confounding details (gilded ceilings, diabolical parlor games, a loaded gun) and haunting scope, Resnais' investigation into the nature of...
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