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1) Cold souls
Language
English
Formats
Description
Paul Giamatti stars as himself, agonizing over his interpretation of Anton Chekhov's Classic Play, "Uncle Vanya." Paralyzed by anxiety, he stumbles upon a solution via a New Yorker article about a high-tech company promising to alleviate suffering by extracting souls.. Giamatti enlists their service -- only to discover that his soul is the shape and size of a chickpea. His intention is to reinstate it once he survives the performance but complications...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1999, c1992
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young English boy, orphaned in a foreign land and terrorized for his political belief, turns to boxing. As he grows up fighting with his fists and leading with his heart, he takes on the system and the social injustices around him--finding that one person really can make a difference.
Publisher
Zeitgeist Video
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (162 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Documents the daily lives of a group of monks, who have taken a vow of silence, living in the Carthusian monastery of the Grande Chartreuse in the French Alps.
Publisher
Fox Lorber Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Fourteen-year-old Antoine Doinet lives in a cramped apartment with his mother and stepfather, neglected by them and unlucky at school. Living an intense imaginative life of his own he gets into trouble and is finally committed to reform school from which he escapes and runs towards the sea, which he has never seen.
Series
Criterion collection volume 350
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold. leaf
Language
Italiano
Description
An Italian girl is seduced by her sister's boyfriend, setting in motion a chain of events which looks with tongue in cheek at the Sicilian code of honor, as the patriarch of the family tries to get the scoundrel to do right by his daughter.
6) Lassie
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Carraclough family is forced to sell Lassie when they fall on hard times. On her journey of 500 miles, Lassie faces dangers, natural and human, and finds help in unexpected places as she returns to her home and the boy she loves.
7) East West
Publisher
Sony Picture Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Widescreen presentation.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Follows the story of an expatriate Russian and his French wife as they return to the Soviet Union in 1946 and learn to live in the post-war Soviet Union. The story eventually revolves around the struggle of Marie to decide if she should stay or leave.
Publisher
Miramax
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Unemployed music teacher Clement Mathieu becomes the supervisor at a boarding school for the rehabilitation of minors. Dismayed by the repressive administration, he works to positively transform the students' lives through music.
9) Love crime
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Within the sterile offices of a powerful multinational corporation, two women come to a face-off. Isabelle is a young executive under the orders of Christine, a powerful woman she absolutely idolizes. Confident of her control over Isabelle, Christine leads her into a confusing, perverse game of seduction and domination. A dangerous game that goes too far, to the point of no return.
10) Green card
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003?]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two strangers agree to a marriage of convenience. She gets the apartment of her dreams and he gets a green card to live in the U.S. The two encounter difficulties, and even worse, they just might be falling in love.
11) L'enfant
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 96 min.) : anamorphic, sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
When a small-time crook and his young girlfriend have a child, he decides to sell the baby for money. When his girlfriend finds out, she goes into shock. While she recovers in the hospital, he tries to get their son back and redeem himself.
12) Airheads
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tired of being rejected by record labels, the Lone Rangers (Brendan Fraser, Adam Sandler, Steve Buscemi), a toy-pistol-toting heavy metal group, stage a comic coup as they take over a radio station to play their demo for the masses.
Publisher
Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When gambling debt and an expensive courtship place working-class brothers in a financial bind, a rich uncle offers them an out in exchange for committing murder.
14) Army of shadows
Series
Criterion collection volume 385
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (145 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A civil engineer who is one of the French Resistance's chiefs is given away by a traitor and interned in a camp. He manages to escape and join his network at Marseilles, where he has the traitor executed.
15) State of play
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When D.C. reporter Cal McCaffrey is assigned to investigate the murder of an assistant to an up-and-coming politician, he uncovers a conspiracy that threatens to bring down the nation's power structures. In a town of spin-doctors and wealthy power brokers, he will discover one truth: when fortunes are at stake, no one's integrity, love, or life is safe.
16) Certified copy
Series
Criterion collection volume 612
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Two-DVD special ed.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
Français
Description
What seems at first to be a straightforward tale of two people getting to know each other over the course of an afternoon gradually reveals itself as something richer, stranger, and trickier: a mind-bending reflection on authenticity, in art as well as in relationships. Both cerebrally and emotionally engaging, reminds us that love itself is an enigma.
17) Days of glory
Publisher
Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007], c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The tale of a 1943 WWII French Algerian Unit facing discrimination by its European counterparts due to prejudice and ignorance. The French armed forces are preparing to land troops in Europe to win back their homeland from the Axis Powers, but they cannot accomplish their task without recruiting men from their African colonies. The Africans themselves start their long journey full of hope and anticipation, but as they get closer to their goal they...
Publisher
Spirit Level Film
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (9 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Takes the viewer on a high-speed Ferrari ride through the early morning streets of Paris, passing its most famous districts and giving a split second glimpse of well-known monuments and buildings. Narrowly avoiding pedestrians, policemen, and other traffic, the driver concludes his journey atop the hill at Sacre Coeur.
19) La mustache
Publisher
Koch Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
When a man shaves off his mustache, a trademark he's had for years, no one around him notices, instead insisting he's never even had one. Is he going insane, or is this some kind of strange conspiracy?
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Years after being abandoned at an orphanage by her father, Gabrielle Chanel finds a job in a tailor shop where she meets, and soon begins an affair with French millionaire Etienne Balsan. Through Baron Balsan she is introduced into French society and given the opportunity to design her own style of hats. Though her career takes off, her personal life becomes more complicated when she falls in love with Balsan's former best friend Arthur Capel.
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