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Series
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
In the aftermath of World War II, France attempted to replenish its weakened work force by recruiting men from North Africa. In 1974, the French government relaxed its immigration policy by enacting the "family reunion" law, a euphemism which allowed families of Algerian men to join them. Zouina is a woman who parts tearfully from her mother in the port of Algiers; she finds herself feeling imprisoned between a distant husband who scorns her, a hostile...
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 4
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Based on a true story. A man and his family journey 2000 miles across the hinterlands of Brazil on bicycles in a search for the good life they hope to find in Rio de Janeiro.
3) Hop
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
All Justin and his father want is to enjoy a soccer game together. This sparks a chain of events that leads to his father's deportation, and Justin finds himself alone and on the run. Enlisting the help of a former anarchist, Justin embarks on a thrilling adventure to re-unite with his father. But to fight the system, he will need to apply the secret of the Hop.
4) Manito
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 77 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Winner of the Special Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival, portrays 48 tense hours in the lives of a Latino family in the Washington Heights section of New York City, especially the relationship between two second-generation Dominican brothers.
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"In the midst of struggling to overcome her self-destructive behavior, the youngest of three sisters, Agnes, returns to her hometown in Nova Scotia determined to confront the past. Her arrival sets in motion a chain of events that allows a family of women to re-connect with the world and with each other in their own ways"--Container insert.
6) Morlang
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Morlang, a successful artist, learns that Ellen, his wife and muse of 15 years, has had an affair, he reacts by having an affair with a young admirer. The results are unexpected and devastating and strains the married couples' relationship even more. The film is loosely based on a true story.
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 5
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A comedy drama about two parentally-neglected teenagers, Placid Lake and Gemma, who find the courage to believe in themselves.
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 2
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Carol, a 12-year-old Spanish-American girl from New York, travels with her mother to Spain in the spring of 1938, at the height of the Spanish Civil War. Separated from her beloved father, she arrives in her mother's home village and transforms the secretive family environment. Her innocence and rebellious nature drive her at first to reject a world that is both new and foreign. But she soon journeys into adulthood through a friendship with the village...
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 10
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A story of three sisters coming of age in a wildly dysfunctional family in the 1960s.
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 6
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Maiquel lost a bet and had to dye his hair blonde. This triggers a head-on collision with destiny in which Maiquel goes from nobody to hero to outlaw-- all in 24 hours.
11) Raja
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 3
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Raja is a nineteen-year-old orphan girl literally and figuratively scarred by life. Fred is an emotionally bankrupt westerner living amid his plush gardens and palm trees. Set against the backdrop of contemporary Marrakech, Raja is a cross-cultural drama about a wealthy middle-aged Frenchman's complex relationship with young woman. Fred's attempts to seduce Raja, and their mutual attempt at manipulation, are fractured by their gross disparity of income,...
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 7
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 digital videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tom is a charismatic late-night radio talk show host, whose unconventional upbringing has made him a little too quick to fall in love and marry, resulting in three divorces before the age of 40. Fay is his total opposite. Her romantic ideal has not yet been attained and is unlikely ever to be met due to her impossibly high expectations as a result of living with the perfection that is her parents' rock solid marriage.
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 12
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
[Widescreen ver.]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
"Three women: a mother, her daughter, and a prostitute have been living in a hotel in the center of town amid creeping fundamentalism. Goucem, the daughter, has chosen a modern, emancipated life, spending steamy weekends in nightclubs. Fifi, her faithful friend, prostitutes herself under the thumb of a local protector. Papicha, the mother, eats pizzas in front of the television, torn between fear and nostalgia"--Container.
14) Spare parts
Series
Film Movement volume 3, film 11
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Slovenian
Description
Hard-drinking, chain-smoking Ludvik spends his nights smuggling illegal refugees in his van from Croatia, across Slovenia, and into Italy. The young and inexperienced Rudi is his new assistant. Together they cope with life in a rundown town, home to the only nuclear power plant in former Yugoslavia.
15) Wilby wonderful
Series
Film Movement volume 3, film 2
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A comedy focusing on the residents of a tiny island town of Wilby during the course of a strange twenty-four hours.
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
[Fullscreen presentation].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Let the church say Amen: "Blocks away from the White House and the Capitol stands a tiny storefront church, endeavoring to combat the street violence, unemployment, and homelessness that threaten American families living in poverty. Over the course of a year, this feature-length documentary ... follows four church members as they work to fulfill their dreams for a better life."--Container.
A stolen moment: "In the future, the world has fallen victim...
17) Arranged
Series
Film Movement series. volume 5 volume film 12
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Arranged: Ditmas Park, Brooklyn. A young Orthodox woman, Rochel Meshenberg, is about to begin her first year as a special education teacher at the local public school. She is also about to begin the process of finding a husband via the time-tested method of using a "shadchen," or matchmaker. As the school year gets underway, Rochel meets Nasira Khaldi, a Muslim woman of Syrian descent. Nasira is also a first-year teacher. The two young women - Rochel...
Series
Film Movement volume 6, film 7
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
"It is summer, and thirty-year-old Antoine is forced to leave the city to return to his family in Provençe. His father is sick, so he must assume the lifestyle he thought he had shed: driving the family grocery cart from hamlet to hamlet, delivering supplies to the few remaining inhabitants. Accompanied by Claire, a friend from Paris whom he has a secret crush on, Antoine gradually warms up to his experience in the country and his encounters with...
19) Lake Tahoe
Series
Film Movement volume 7, film 3
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
After crashing the family car, teen-age Juan walks the streets all day searching for someone to help fix it. He meets an elderly mechanic whose only companion is a boxer dog, a young mother who wants to sing in a punk band, and a teenage mechanic who loves martial arts and Kung Fu philosophy. As the day drags on, it is revealed that the sadness and silence in Juan's family is due to the death of his father.
Después de chocar el auto de la famila,...
20) Somers Town
Series
Film Movement volume 7, film 8
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (70 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tomo, just turned sixteen, and released from social care, runs away to London from a lonely difficult life in the Midlands. Marek, a Polish immigrant, lives with his father who drinks with his friends most evenings after working on a construction site. Marek is a keen photographer, quiet and sensitive. He is not comfortable in his father's world. Both struggle to make sense of their new world, and a chance meeting in Somers Town, London leads the...