French DVD's and Videos at OSU Libraries

French Films and Operas in OSU Libraries

Notes: titles held in the Journalism Library must be viewed in that library; titles held in the Music Library and the Main Library can be checked out and taken home. Most of the titles below are DVD's or VHS cassettes, but a few are Beta and laserdisc.

2 ou 3 Choses que je Sais d'Elle = 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her / Anouchka Films; Argos-Films; Parc Film; Les Films du Carrosse; a New Yorker Film release. 1 videocassette (84 min.) Videocassette release of the 1966 motion picture. In French with enhanced English subtitles. VHS format.
Juliette, a bourgeois housewife, is a loving wife and mother whose domestic moments alternate with her days and nights as a call girl.
LOCATION =JOU PN1997 .D48 1996 VIDEOTAPE

2 Secondes = 2 Seconds / Max Films presente; un film de Manon Briand. 1 videodisc (105 min.) DVD format. In English and French; subtitles in English.
A champion mountain bike racer named Laurie hesitates at the start gate, and the two seconds lost cost her the race--and her place on the team. Forced into retirement, she is delighted to discover a job as a bike messenger. By chance, she meets Lorenzo, a cantankerous Italian bike shop owner and former champion himself. Their mutual love and appreciation of cycling draw them together in spite of initial clashes. One night, they decide to face each other in a peculiar duel. Lorenzo shows Laurie how every victory is relative and that--speaking of relativity--speed is not the only way to bring time to a halt.
LOCATION =MIC PN1997 .A14 1998 DVD

A Bout de Souffle = Breathless / [produced by Georges de Beauregard]; directed by Jean-Luc Godard; original screenplay, Francois Truffaut. 1 videocassette (90 min.) French dialogue, English subtitles. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1959. VHS format.
The French new wave story of a careless existentialist thief and murderer who has an affair with an American student.
LOCATION = JOU PN1997 .A2 1999 VIDEOTAPE
LOCATION = JOU PN1997.A2 1985 VIDEOTAPE

A Nous la Liberte / Films Sonores Tobis. United States: Criterion Collection, [2002] 1 videodisc (83 min.) In French with optional English subtitles. Originally released as a motion picture in 1931. DVD format.
A satire on factory life centering on the activities of a couple of ex-prisoners, one of whom, an ambitious crook, becomes the boss of a large factory while the other, a sentimental old tramp, becomes a worker there. Eventually both discover that happiness and peace of mind cannot be bought with money and revert to their former life as vagabonds. This film inspired Charlie Chaplin's Modern times.
LOCATION = JOU PN1997 .A21122 2002 DVD

An Affair of Love / FineLine Features; Artemis Productions present un coproduction avec Les Productions Lazennes ... [et al.]; avec la participation de Canal+; un scenario de Philippe Blasband; produit par Patrick Quinet; un film de Frederic Fonteyne. 1 videodisc (78 min.) DVD format. In French with English subtitles. Originally produced as a motion picture in 2000.
The story of a couple whose affair begins as a purely sexual arrangement. They share no personal information including their names. It is a perfect relationship until they fall in love.
LOCATION = JOU PN1995.9.M27 A44 2001 DVD

Afrique, je te Plumerai = Africa, I'm Going to Fleece You / un film de Jean-Marie Teno; une coproduction Les Films du Raphia (France) et Raphia Films Production (Cameroun) avec la collaboration de la ZDF. 1 videocassette (89 min.): In French with English subtitles. VHS format.
A compelling and sardonic essay on the history of colonialism in Cameroon, and by extension, on the African continent. Focuses on historical as well as contemporary European cultural domination, particularly in the publishing and media industry.
LOCATION = MIC DT572 .A35 1992 VIDEOTAPE

Aime Cesaire: A Voice for History = une Voix pour l'Histoire / Saligna and So On ... [et al.] 3 videocassettes (160 min.) In French with English subtitles. VHS format.
Pt. 1. The vigilant island = L'ile veilleuse -- pt. 2. Where the edges of conquest meet = Au rendez-vous de la conquete -- pt.3. The strength to face tomorrow = La force de regarder demain. This three part series chronicles the life of the Martinique author Aime Cesaire. After WWII, Cesaire served as mayor of Fort-de-France and Martinique's representative in the French National Assembly during the crucial years of decolonization. He discusses the difficulty of balancing the life of a poet with that of a practical politician for over 50 years.
LOCATION =MIC PQ2605.E74 Z52 1994 VIDEOTAPE

Akermania. Volume One / compilations & translations World Artists Cinema Corporation. 1 videocassette (ca. 89 min.) J'ai faim, j'ai froid in French with new English subtitles. VHS format.
J'ai faim, j'ai froid (I'm hungry, I'm cold 1984 ): two young Belgian girls run away from their home in Brussels. They spend a day and an evening in Paris looking for food and love, with comic and poignant results.
Saute ma ville (Blow up my town; 1968): a young woman comes home to her apartment in Brussels, where she cooks pasta and seals herself in with duct tape. The story ends with a bang. Akerman's first film made at the age of 18.
Hotel Monterey (1974): a stark, silent look at a N.Y. pension hotel.
LOCATION =JOU PN1995.9.E96 A4653 1992 VIDEOTAPE

Alphaville: Une Etrange Aventure de Lemmy Caution / UGC/D.A. International; distribue par Athos Film; Andre Michelin, Filmstudio presentent le neuvieme filme de Jean Luc Godard. 1 videodisc (99 min.) In French with optional English subtitles. Originally released as motion picture in 1965.
Secret agent Lemmy Caution travels to another galaxy and finds himself in a computer-run society which is dedicated to technology and outlaws emotion.
LOCATION =JOU PN1995.9.S26 A57 1998 DVD
LOCATION =JOU PN1995.9.S26 A57 1996 videotape
LOCATION = JOU PN1997 .A517 1988 VIDEOTAPE

Les Amants du Pont-Neuf = The Lovers on the Bridge / a Leos Carax film; written and directed by Leos Carax. Montreal, Quebec: Alliance Atlantis, 2000. 1 videocassette (126 min.) In French with English subtitles. VHS format.
A homeless artist who is losing her sight finds herself drawn into a passionate relationship with a troubled street performer. Despite all obstacles, they find love and shelter on the famed Pont-Neuf bridge in Paris. But in time, their unlikely love will be tested as the artist's secret past catches up with her.
LOCATION = JOU PN1995.9.F67 A42 2000 VIDEOTAPE

Amelie / Victoires Production ... [et al.] Burbank, CA: Miramax Home Entertainment: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2002] 2 videodiscs (122 min.) Originally issued as a motion picture in 2001. In French with yellow English subtitles. DVD format.
Amelie 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 cafe, 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 in her own way. When Amelie falls in love herself, she realizes that making neat solutions is not as easy as it seems.
LOCATION = MIC PN1997.2 .A53 2001 DVD

L'Ancien Regime / realisation, Bernard Jannin; commentaire ecrit et dit par Francois Furet. 1 videocassette (52 min.) Originally produced as a television program in 1989. In French. VHS format.
This programs shows Versailles and its political purposes in the years before the French Revolution. After the death of Louis XIV, new political concepts were prevalent: the ideals of Montesquieu, Diderot and the Encyclopedie, Voltaire and Roussseau, and the satires of Beaumarchais.
LOCATION =JOU DC138 .A63 1994 VIDEOTAPE

Angano, Angano: Nouvelles de Madagascar = Angano, Angano: Tales from Madagascar / par Marie-Clemence et Cesar Paes; direction de production, Marie-Clemence Blanc-Paes; realisation, Cesar Paes; Laterit Productions. 1 videocassette (64 min.) VHS format. In Malagasy and French with English subtitles.
Venerable, contemporary storytellers recount the founding myths of Malagasy culture: the creation of man and woman, the origin of rice cultivation, the reason for animal sacrifice. The tales flow into and out of stunning scene of Malagasy life which gives birth to the stories and which they in turn explain.
LOCATION = MIC GR360.M2 A64 1989 VIDEOTAPE

L'Annee Derniere a Marienbad = Last Year at Marienbad / Pierre Courau et Raymond Froment prsentent. 1 videodisc (94 min.) DVD format. French and Italian dialogue with English subtitles. Videodisc release of the 1961 motion picture.
"A handsome stranger tries to convince a lovely young woman that they had a passionate affair a year ago "perhaps at Marienbad", but she claims not to remember him. He haunts her mind with images by mixing memory and fantasy, fear and desire"--Container.
LOCATION =JOU PN1997 .A4671 1999 DVD

Antilles Francaises: Guadeloupe, Martinique. Roanoke, VA: Gessler Pub. Co., [1990?] 1 videocassette (55 min.) VHS format.
Describes the people, places, beaches, customs, and industries of Guadeloupe and Martinique.
LOCATION = MIC F2151 .A58 1990 VIDEOTAPE

Un Artiste Republicain en Colere, Honore Daumier / SFP; productrice deleguee, Raluca Sterian-Nathan; realisation, Roland Hollinger. 1 videocassette (60 min.) VHS format. Narrated in English.
This program chronicles the great satirist and caricaturist of the 19th century, Honore Daumier, whose works depict the history of France during the July Monarchy and the Second Empire, showing us the people who made and who were made by the historical events.
LOCATION =JOU NC1499.D24 A2 1993 VIDEOTAPE

Avoir 20 Ans dans les Aures / l'Unite de production cinematographique. 1 videocassette (100 min.) VHS format. Videocassette release of a 1962 (?) motion picture.
True account of events that took place in Algeria (April, 1961), during the French-Algerian War, involving lieutenant Perrin's "Commando des Bretons", also called "Commando des cheveux longs."
LOCATION = MIC IN PROCESS

Baise-Moi/ Remstar Distribution; Toute premiere fois presente avec la participation de Canal+; un film de Virginia Despentes et Coralie Trinh Thi; produit par Philippe Godeau. 1 videodisc (77 min.) French language soundtrack with English subtitles. Originally released as a motion picture in 2000. Based on the novel of the same name by Virginie Despentes & Coralie Trinh Thi. DVD format.
"Manu is violently raped by a group of savage young thugs. Nadine, a tough-skinned prostitute, sells her body but refuses to give up her soul. Chance unites them and together they decide to alter their destinies. Angry at the world, the embark on a twisted, rage-filled road trip"--Container.
LOCATION = JOU PN1995.9.F78 B35 2000 DVD

Balzac: A Life of Passion / a coproduction of TFI/GMT Productions, TaurusFilm, Mediaset SPA, DD Productions in association with BetaFilm. 1 videodisc (200 min.) In French; subtitles in English. DVD format.
A bio-pic about the passionate life of the great French novelist, Honore de Balzac, who was ignored by critics and harassed by debt-collectors and sustained by the Russian countess whom he loved his entire life.
LOCATION = MIC PQ2178 .B124 2000 DVD

Bande a Part = Band of outsiders / producteurs, Anouchka Films, Orsay Films; cinema, Jean-Luc Godard. 1 videodisc (95 min.) In French with English subtitles. Based on the novel Fool's gold by Dolores Hitchens. Videodisc release of the 1964 motion picture.
Two burglars plan a robbery with a young woman they just met.
LOCATION = JOU PN1995.9.G3 B25 2003 DVD
LOCATION =JOU PN1995.9.G3 B25 1992 VIDEOTAPE

Battle of Algiers / Stella productions; a film of Gillo Pontecorvo. 1 videocassette (125 min.) French and Arabic dialogue with English subtitles. Original title: La Battaglia di Algieri. Originally released by Igor Films in France in 1966 as a motion picture. VHS format.
Dramatization of the conflict between Algerian nationalists and French colonialists that culminated in Algeria's independence in 1962.
LOCATION =MAIN PN1997 .B377 1993 VIDEOTAPE

Beau Travail / une coproduction La Sept Arte, Tanais Com, SM Films; produit par Jerome Minet et Patrick Grandperret; scenario, Jean-Pol Fargeau et Claire Denis; un film de Claire Denis. 1 videodisc (90 min.) In French with English subtitles. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1999. DVD format.
Story of a sergeant in the French Foreign Legion in Djibouti whose ordered life is turned upside down with the arrival of a new recruit who finds favor with the unit's commander. Loosely based on Herman Melville's Billy Budd.
LOCATION = MIC PN1997 .B3495 2002 DVD

Belle de Jour / un film de Luis Bunuel; [presented by] Miramax Films and Martin Scorsese. 1 videocassette (100 min.) French with yellow English subtitles. Based on the novel by Joseph Kessel. Videocassette release of the 1967 motion picture. VHS format.
Subtle, erotic film about a wealthy young surgeon's wife who indulges her masochistic fantasies by working as a part-time prostitute in a Paris brothel.
LOCATION = MIC PN1997 .B425 1995 VIDEOTAPE

La Belle et la Bete= Beauty and the Beast / a film by Jean Cocteau; story, dialogue, and directed by Jean Cocteau; an Andre Paulve production. 1 videocassette (90 min.) French dialogue, English subtitles. Based on a fairy tale by Mme. Leprince de Beaumont. Originally produced as motion picture in 1946. VHS format.
A beautiful girl, held captive in an enchanted castle, falls in love with the beast who is her captor.
LOCATION = MIC PN1997 .C669 1986 VIDEOTAPE

La Bete Humaine / Paris Film production; un film de Jean Renoir. [Hollywood, CA]: 1 videocassette (90 min.): Based on the novel by Emile Zola. French with English subtitles. A release of the 1938 motion picture. VHS format.
A psychopathic train driver falls for a married woman, plans with her to kill her husband, but finally strangles her instead.
LOCATION = MIC PN1995.9.D6 B47 1980 VIDEOTAPE

Black and White in Color/ Michael Arthur Film Productions. Irvine, CA, 1987. 1 videocassette (88 min.): A videocassette release of the 1977 motion picture by Allied Artists. French dialogue, English subtitles. VHS format.
The idyllic life in a French-African settlement is rudely interrupted in 1915 by news of war in Europe. The French gamely assemble a rag-tag army of native soldiers to try to capture a neighboring German settlement. The result is a classic farce whose comedy is enlivened by the antic clash of African versus European customs.
LOCATION = MIC PN1995.9.F67 B56 1987 VIDEOTAPE

(Trois coleurs.) Bleu = Three Colors, Blue / a film by Krzysztof Kieslowski; Touchstone Home Video and Miramax Films presents a Marin Karmitz/MK2 Productions SA production. 1 videocassette (100 min.) VHS format. French with English subtitles.
One volume of a trilogy. A young woman is left devastated by the unexpected death of her husband and child. She retreats from the world around her, but is soon reluctantly drawn into an ever-widening web of lies and passion as the dark, secret life of her husband begins to unravel.
LOCATION =JOU PN1997 .B6747 1994b VIDEOTAPE
LOCATION =MIC PN1997 .B6747 1994 VIDEOTAPE

Bob le Flambeur / produit par l'Organisation generale cinematographique, Productions cyme, Play art; scenario original de Melville; adaptation de Melville et Auguste le Breton; dialogues de Auguste le Breton; un film de Melville. 1 videodisc (102 min.) In French with optional English subtitles. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1955. DVD format.
Bob the gambler and his friends learn that the Deauville Casino expects to pull in 800 million francs. On the night of the heist Bob plays the casino tables until the appointed time. Before the dawn breaks, some of the men and women will win, some will lose, and some will die.
LOCATION = JOU PN1995.9.G26 B63 2002 DVD

Le Bonheur = Happiness / directed and written by Agnes Varda. 1 videocassette (85 min.) French with new electronic English subtitles. Videocassette release of the Janus Films 1965 motion picture. VHS format.
An amiable, young carpenter decides that he will be happiest with both a wife and a mistress. His affair leads to tragedy for his wife.
LOCATION =JOU PN1995.9.F67 B65 1997 VIDEOTAPE

Les Bonnes Femmes / un film de Claude Chabrol; scenario et dialogues de Paul Gegauff; adaptation de Claude Chabrol; une production Robert et Raymond Hakim ; co-production Paris Film Production, Panitalia. 1 videodisc (93 min.) In French with English subtitles. Originally produced as motion picture in 1960. DVD format.
Four Parisian shop girls, Ginette, Rita, Jacqueline and Jane seek fulfillment and love. Rita has a fiance whose family is obsessed with social status. Jane has a boyfriend in the army, but she still enjoys herself with chance encounters. Ginette has a secret passion that keeps her away from her colleagues at nights. Jacqueline is lonely, but a mysterious motorcyclist constantly follows her.
LOCATION = JOU PN1995.9.F78 B6555 2000 DVD

Borom Sarret = The Wagoner / un film de Sembene Ousmane. [New York]: Released by New Yorker Films, [2000?] 1 videocassette (20 min.) VHS format. In Wolof and French with English subtitles. Videocassette release of the 1963 motion picture.
Tells the story of a cart-taxi driver who goes to the city to make a living, but out of sympathy with other poverty-stricken people, works for free and goes hungry himself.
LOCATION = MIC PN1995.9.E96 B67 2000 VIDEOTAPE

Le Bouillon d'awara [videorecording] = Awara soup / un film de Cesar Paes ; produit par Marie-Clemence Blanc Paes.
In French, French Creole, Taki-Taki, Portuguese, Hmong, and Javanese with English subtitles.
San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, c1995.
LOCATION = mic. F2471.A1 B68 1995 VIDEOTAPE.

Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme = The Would-be Gentleman / Video Images. Sandy Hook, Conn.: Video Yesteryear, 1982. 1 videocassette (97 min.): Music by Jean Baptist Lully. In French, captions in English. Originally released as a motion picture in 1958. VHS format.
A screen adaptation of Moliere's comedy, this is a lively satire on the pretensions of a rich but silly man to the snobberies of the aristocracy.
LOCATION = MIC PN1997 .B6784 1982 VIDEOTAPE
LOCATION = MIC PN1997 .B6784 1996 VIDEOTAPE

Boy Meets Girl / Forum Distribution presente; Abilene presente; un film de Leos Carax. 1 videodisc (100 min.) French dialogue with optional English subtitles. Originally released as a motion picture in 1984. DVD format.
An aspiring filmmaker and a suicidal young woman, both reeling from failed romances, embark on an affair that has disastrous consequences.
LOCATION = JOU PN1995.9.M27 B68 2001 DVD

Bye Bye Africa / un film de Mahamat Saleh Haroun; [presentent] les productions de la lanterne. 1 videocassette (86 min.) Originally produced in 1998. In French and Arabic with English subtitles.
In this reflexive docudrama about the difficulties of making films in Africa, an exiled film director returns to Chad after the death of his mother. There he discovers, as a result of wars, that motion picture theaters have been abandoned in favor of makeshift video theaters often in private homes. Haroun visits a producer who suggests that he make a film using a video camera and concludes that the important thing is to continue to produce films no matter what the circumstances.
LOCATION =MIC PN1993.5.C27 B9 1999 VIDEOTAPE

Cafe au Lait / Les Productions Lazennec presentent en coproduction avec La SFP Cinema, une coproduction Franco-Belge, avec Nomad Films, avec la participation de Canal + 1 videocassette (94 min.) In French with yellow English subtitles. Originally produced as motion picture in 1993. VHS format.
Lola, a West Indian beauty, confronts her two lovers with her impending motherhood, then flatly refuses to reveal which of the two men is the father.
LOCATION =MIC PN1997 .C2335 1996 VIDEOTAPE

Camp de Thiaroye / Societe Nouvelle de Promotion Cinematographique (S.N.P.C.) presente; une co-production S.N.P.C., E.N.A.P.R.O.C., S.A.T.P.E.C.; avec la participatio de Filmi Doomi Reew, Filmi Kajoor [Thies]; scenario, dialogue et realisation, Sembene Ousmane, Thierno Faty Sow. 1 videocassette (152 min.) In Wolof and French with English subtitles. Originally released as a motion picture in 1987. VHS format.
African soldiers, returning home after fighting in World War II, are massacred by French colonial authorities in a dispute over pay.
LOCATION =MIC DT549.9.T54 C366 1997 VIDEOTAPE

Celine et Julie Vont en Bateau = Celine and Julie go Boating / Les Films Du Losange. 2 videocassettes (193 min.) In French with yellow English subtitles. Videocassette release of the 1974 motion picture. VHS format.
"A brilliantly allusive meditation on the nature of fantasy, this is regarded by many as Jacques Rivette's most accomplished film. Two girls meet and wind up sharing each others' lives -- same flat, same bed, same fiancé, same clothes -- even the same imagination. The film spins a circular, tortuous fantasy around their lives while at the same time acting as a meditation on the art of cinema itself"--Container.
LOCATION =JOU PN1995.9.F78 C45 1997 VIDEOTAPE

Le Cercle Rouge / Rialto Pictures; produced by Robert Dorfmann; written and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. 2 videodiscs (140 min.) In French with English subtitles. Originally released as a motion picture in 1970. DVD format.
A master thief is fresh out of prison. But instead of toeing the line, he finds his steps leading back to the shadowy world of crime.
LOCATION = JOU PN1997 .C373 2003 DVD

Cet Obscur Objet du Desir = That Obscure Object of Desire / un film de Luis Bunuel; scenario de Luis Bunuel en collaboration de Jean-Claude Carriere; un film produit par Serge Silberman; Janus Films; Greenwich Film Productions. [S.l.]: 1977. 1 videocassette (104 min.). In French with English subtitles. Originally produced as motion picture in 1976. A foreign film (France, Spain). Intended audience: Adults. VHS format.
A wealthy older man has an affair with a young maid played by two different actresses in this darkly humorous satire on sexual obsession.
LOCATION = MIC PN1997 .C3746 1977 VIDEOTAPE

Chacun Cherche son Chat = When the Cat's Away / Aissa Djabri, Farid Lahouassa & Manuel Munz presentent une coproduction Vertigo productions, France 2 cinema avec la participation de Canal+; un film ecrit et realise par Cedric Klapisch. 1 videocassette (91 min.) Originally produced as a motion picture in 1996. VHS format. In French with yellow English subtitles.
Romantic comedy set in Paris about a young woman, her missing pet and her search for true love.
LOCATION =JOU PN1995.9.F67 C43 1997 VIDEOTAPE

Challenges of French Pronunciation [Scottsdale, AZ]: Teacher's Video Company; [1999?] 1 videocassette (ca. 51 min.) VHS format.
Take your students on an exciting journey of discovery in this one-of-a-kind educational video presentation. Students do the teaching, so your entire class will be captivated. Entertaining skits, colorful graphics, tasteful humor, and effective repetition make this a memorable lesson.
LOCATION = MIC PC2137 .C53 1999 VIDEOTAPE

La Chambre Verte = The Green Room / a co-production of Les Films du Carrosse/Les Productions Artistes Associes. 1 videocassette (95 min.) VHS format. In French with English subtitles. Based on Henry James story, The altar of the dead. Videocassette release of the 1978 motion picture.
"In a most personal and rigorous film, Francois Truffaut becomes Julien Davenne, a man who so loves the dead that he can no longer love the living. Davenne's obsession with the memory of the dead wife has spread to encompass all those he knew who are now gone, a process heightened by his guilt of surviving the first World War"--Slipcase.
LOCATION =MIC PQ1223 .C45 1993 VIDEOTAPE

Chantal Akerman par Chantal Akerman / [presentent] AMIP, La Sept-ARTE, I'Ina/CHEMAH I.S.; written and directed by Chantal Akerman. 1 videocassette (64 min.) In French with English subtitles. Originally produced in France in 1996. VHS format.
Part one opens with Akerman in her apartment describing the problems she encountered making this film. What emerges is a thoughtful confession from this extremely perceptive filmmaker. Part two lets Akerman's films speak for her, taking clips from her extensive filmography including forays into experimental film, comedic shorts, musicals, narrative features - including an early short that stars a very young Chantal.
LOCATION =WMN PN1998.3.A435 C53 1996 VIDEOTAPE

Le Charme Discret de la Bourgeoisie = The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie / The Criterion Collection; Janus Films; Rialto Pictures; Studio Canal; Serge Silberman presente un film de Luis Bunuel; scenario de Luis Bunuel avec la collaboration de Jean-Claude Carriere; un film produit par Serge Silberman. 2 videodisc (101, 98 min.) In French with English subtitles. Originally produced as motion picture in 1972. DVD format.
Disc one. Feature ; El naufrago de la calle de Providencia = The castaway on the street of Providence, 24-minute documentary homage to Bunuel by his longtime friends Arturo Ripstein and Rafael Castanedo made in 1970 ; original theatrical trailer --
Disc two. A proposito de Bunuel = Speaking of Bunuel, 98-minute documentary produced in 2000 on the life and work of Bunuel by Jose Luis Lopez-Linares and Javier Rioyo (French and Spanish with optional English subtitles).
LOCATION = JOU PN1997 .C444 2001 DVD

Le Charme Discret de la Bourgeoisie = The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie / Lumiere Pictures and Serge Silberman. 1 videocassette (105 min.) Original French with English subtitles. VHS format.
Luis Bunuel assembles his all-star French cast at an elegant dinner party. However, whenever the dinner guests try to eat, they are interrupted. Reality and illusion blend as the interruptions are used by the filmmaker as an excuse for his surrealistic sequences. Wealthy socialites and diplomats, even radical terrorists, are lampooned.
LOCATION =JOU PN1997 .C444 1996 VIDEOTAPE
LOCATION = MIC PN1997 .C444 1985 VIDEOTAPE

Un Chien Andalou: Land Without Bread. New York, N.Y.: Interama Video Classics; c1990. 1 videocassette (44 min.) VHS format. Un chien Andalou is a silent film with musical accompaniment; French intertitles and English subtitles. Land without bread is in English.
Un chien Andalou. Version integrale sonorisee. A surrealistic movie written over the course of a three-day exchange of fantasies and dreams between Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali. With Simonne Mareuil and Pierre Batchef. Originally released 1928 (16 min.)
Land without bread: unpromised land / produced and directed by Luis Bunuel. Photography, Elie Lotar. Filmed in Las Hurdes region of Spain, April-May, 1932. Original title: Las Hurdes : tierra sin pan. English narration by Pierre Unik added. Bunuel's only documentary film, portraying the everyday lives of indigent peasants in one of Spain's most desolate regions (27 min.)
LOCATION = JOU PN1997 .C45351 1990 VIDEOTAPE

Cleo de 5 a 7 / Rome Paris Films; scenario et realisation, Agnes Varda. 1 videodisc (90 min.) In French, with optional English subtitles. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1962. DVD format.
A girl waiting for the result of a medical examination wanders around Paris thinking she has cancer.
LOCATION = JOU PN1995.9.F67 C54 2000 DVD

Code Inconnu: Recit Incomplet de Divers Voyages = Code Unknown / a MK2 Production-Les Films Alain Sarde. 1 videodisc (113 min.) In French with English subtitles. DVD format.
On a bustling Paris street corner, four separate lives intersect, interweaving the stories of a promising actress, her photojournalist boyfriend, a teacher of African descent, and a Romanian illegal immigrant. A portrait of life in a fractured, lonely world.
LOCATION = JOU PN1995.9.F78 C64 2002 DVD

Comment ca va? = How is it Going? / [written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Mieville] 1 videocassette (78 min.) French dialogue, English subtitles. Originally produced as motion picture in France in 1976. VHS format.
A middle-aged Communist editor and his young typist and collaborator set out to make a videotape about their magazine and printing plant. The young typist/collaborator takes issue with the rough cut. The film goes on to prove the corruptness of the entire process of gathering and transmitting information.
LOCATION =JOU PN1997 .C7655 1995 VIDEOTAPE

En Compagnie d'Antonin Artaud = My Life and Times with Antonin Artaud / Archipel 33, Laura Productions, La Sept, France 2 presentent; Gerard Mordillat, Jerome Prieur; producteur delegue, Denis Freyd; realisation, Gerard Mordillat. 1 videocassette (93 min.) In French with English subtitles. Based on Jacques Prevel's En compagnie d'Antonin Artaud. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1993. VHS format
Presents the last two years of the life of French poet, madman, genius, and theatrical impresario, Antonin Artaud. The film is based on the diaries of Jacques Prevel, a poet who befriended Artaud in 1946 when he was released from an insane asylum.
LOCATION =MIC PN1995.9.B55 E5 1996 VIDEOTAPE

Confidentially Yours = Vivement Dimanche / directed by Francois Truffaut; screenplay by Francois Truffaut, Suzanne Schiffman, Jean Aurel. 1 videocassette (ca. 110 min.) French with English subtitles. Originally produced as motion picture in 1983. Based on: The long Saturday night / Charles Williams. VHS format.
When businessman Julien Vercel is accused of murdering his wife and her lover, he hides in his office to avoid capture. It is up to his secretary Barbara, who is secretly in love with him, to prove his innocence.
LOCATION = MIC PN1997 .C78 1999 VIDEOTAPE

Le Consulat et l'Empire / de Francois Furet et Roger Stephane; La Sept, F.R.3 et l'Auditorium de l'Etoile avec la participation de la Mission du Biecntenaire de la Revolution Francaise et du Centre National de la Cinematographie (C.N.C.); commentaire ecrit et dit par Francois Furet; producteur delegue Jean-Jacques Touboul; realisation Jacques Trefouel. 1 videocassette (52 min.) VHS format. Originally produced for television in 1989.
This program covers the creation of the new government following Napoleon's overthrow of the directory. It also covers creation of the civil code and the administrative organization.
LOCATION =JOU DC148 .C74 1994 VIDEOTAPE

Contempt / Avco Embassy Publishing Corp. Los Angeles, CA , c1987. 1 videocassette (102 min.) In French with English subtitles. Videocassette release of the 1964 motion picture. "VHS"Hi-fi/mono. Based on the novel Il disprezzo (A ghost at noon) by Antonio Moravia. Original film, Le mepris, made 1964 in France and Italy. VHS format.
French dramatist writing a screenplay for an American producer disagrees with the producer on how film should be done. After an argument between her husband and the producer, the writer's wife has an affair with the producer and regards the writer with contempt, presumably because of his attitudes and behavior.
LOCATION = JOU PN1997 .M435 1987 VIDEOTAPE

Des Contes d'Hoffman = Some Tales of Hoffmann / Opera de Lyon; Jacques Offenbach. 1 videodisc (120 min.). Opera; sung in French with English subtitles. Conceived by the Opera de Lyon. Adaptation based on Michael Kay's edition of Offenbach's Les Contes D'Hoffmann. DVD.
LOCATION = MUS M1500.O32 C66 1999 DVD

The Count of Monte Cristo/ a co-production of TF1/Mediaset/Taurus Films in association with Roissy Films and Bravo. 4 videocassettes (ca. 480 min.) VHS format. French with English subtitles. Originally produced for French television in 1998.
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.
LOCATION = MIC PQ2226 .A63 1999 VIDEOTAPE

Coup de Foudre / Gaumont. New York: Fox Lorber Home Video, c1998. 1 videodisc (112 min.) In French with English subtitles. DVD format. Originally released as a motion picture in 1983.
Set in Lyons in the 1950's, this is the story of Madeleine and Lena who are trapped in a rut of middle-class complacency. Their relationship deepens into a dependency that eventually bursts the confines of the provincial society around them.
LOCATION =MIC PN1997 .C82775 1998 DVD

The Crime of Monsieur Lange / Interama Video Classics; Oberon. New York: Interama Video Classics, 1988. 1 videocassette (89 min.) "In French with English subtitles."Based on the story by Jean Renoir and Jean Castanyer. Videocassette release of the 1935 motion picture of Le crime de Monsieur Lange. VHS format.
A group of workers take over a publishing house when its crooked owner, Batala, absconds. Batala returns to resume control, but one of the workers, Lange, kills him to save the collective.
LOCATION = JOU PN1997 .C864 1988 VIDEOTAPE

Cyrano de Bergerac / Orion Pictures Corporation; presented by Rene Cleitman and Michel Seydoux. 1 videocassette (138 min.) VHS format. In French with yellow English subtitles. Adapted from the novel by Edmond Rostand. Videocassette release of the 1990 motion picture.
In 17th-century Paris, a long-nosed poet and swordsman helps his handsome friend win the girl he himself loves.
LOCATION = MIC PN1997 .C94 1991 VIDEOTAPE

Diaboliques = The Devils / produit et dirige par H.G. Clouzot; scenario et dialogues de H.G. Clouzot et Jerome Geronim. 1 videodisc (116 min.) DVD format. In French with English subtitles. Adapted from the novel: Celle qui n'etait plus / Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. Originally released as a motion picture in 1955.
Horror classic that influenced the 1960 movie, Psycho, by Alfred Hitchcock. Tells the story of a sadistic headmaster of a Parisian boarding school who is murdered by his wife and mistress, whom he has mistreated. The women dump his body in a swimming pool. When the pool is drained, the body has disappeared. Then come reports of sightings, terrifying his killers.
LOCATION =MIC PN1997 .D49 1998 DVD

Dialogues des Carmelites: Opera en Trois Actes et 12 Tableaux / une production Bel Air Media en coproduction avec France 3, Opera national du Rhin; producteur delegue, Francois Duplat; realisation, Don Kent; musique de Francis Poulenc; texte ... de Georges Bernanos. 1 videodisc (149 min.) Sung in French, with optional English or Japanese subtitles. DVD. Filmed during a live performance at the Opera nationale du Rhin in 1999. Program notes in German, French and English (33 p. : ill) laid in container.
LOCATION =MUS M1500.P68 D52 1999 DVD

Diary of a Country Priest / directed by Robert Bresson. New York, NY: Kino International/Kino Video, c2001. 1 videocassette (115 min.) VHS format. In French with English subtitles. Videocassette release of the French motion picture Journal d'un cure de campagne originally produced in 1950 and released in 1951.
Recounts the story of a devout and withdrawn young priest's assignment to his first rural parish. Disliked and misunderstood by his parishioners, his only support comes from a neighboring vicar who recognizes his near-sainthood.
LOCATION = JOU PN1997 .D496 2001 VIDEOTAPE

Danton / Gaumont, une coproduction Franco Polonaise, Gaumont-TFl Films production, S.F.P.C.-T.M. avec la participation du Ministere de la culture, Paris, et Films Polski; un film d'Andrzej Wajda. 1 videocassette (137 min.) In French with English subtitles. Based on the play: L'affaire Danton / by Stanisawa Przybyszewska. Originally issued as motion picture in 1982. VHS format.
Georges Danton, the popular revolutionary leader, returns to Paris at a time when the new Republic is in disarray. Robespierre and his allies have set up a monstrous dictatorship, beginning the infamous "Reign of Terror." Danton pleads with the people for an end to the bloodshed which violates the spirit of their revolution.
LOCATION =MAIN DC146.D2 D35 1999 VIDEOTAPE

Les Demoiselles de Rochefort = Young girls of Rochefort / Mag Bodard et Gilbert de Goldschmidt presentent; coproduction Parc Film, Madeleine Films; scenario, dialogues, chansons de Jacques Demy; producteur delegue Mag Bodard. 1 videodisc (125 min.) In French with English subtitles. Originally released as a motion pictures in 1967. DVD format.
Catherine Deneuve and her sister Francoise Dorleac play twins living in the picturesque seaside village of Rochefort-- Delphine teaches dance while Solange composes and gives piano lessons. As the girls dream of success and romance in the far-off big city, they don't realize that true love may be just around the corner.
LOCATION =JOU PN1995.9.M86 D45 2000 DVD

Detective / Alain Sarde, Sara Films, JLG Films. 1 videocassette (95 min.) In French with English subtitles. Originally released as a motion picture in 1985. VHS format.
An unhappily married couple attempts to collect a debt from a boxing manager with ties to the mob. A hotel detective tries to solve a two-year old murder case with his tense nephew. Presents Godard's views on modern life, ranging from pornography to language to film itself.
LOCATION =JOU PN1995.9.D4 D485 1998 VIDEOTAPE

Diabolo Menthe = Peppermint Soda / Gaumont/New Yorker Films; Les Films de L'Alma- Alexandre Films. 1 videocassette (97 min.) In French with English subtitles. Originally released as motion picture in 1977. VHS format.
The spirited and entertaining tale of two teen-aged sisters living in Paris in the turbulent year of 1963.
LOCATION =JOU PN1995.9.Y6 D57 1993 VIDEOTAPE

Le Diner de Cons = The Dinner Game / Lions Gate Films; Gaumont. 1 videocassette (81 min.) Videocassette release of the 1998 motion picture. In French with English subtitles. Based on the play by Francis Veber. VHS format.
Pierre and his snobbish friends have a standing date for dinner. Every week, they compete to see who can bring the biggest idiot to the party.
LOCATION = MIC PN1997 .D5266 2000 VIDEOTAPE

Un Divan a New York = A Couch in New York / U.G.C./D.A. International; Regine Konckier et Jean-Luc Ormieres presentent; une coproduction Les Films Balenciaga ... [et al.]; scenario de Chantal Akerman et Jean-Louis Benoit; ecrit et dialogue par Chantal Akerman; un film produit par Regine Konckiert et Jean-Luc Ormieres. 1 videodisc (104 min.) English and French with English subtitles. DVD format.
A New York psychoanalyst decides to spice up his life by swapping apartments with a wild and carefree dancer in Paris.
LOCATION = JOU PN1995.9.F67 D58 2000 DVD

Divine Carcasse / Underworld Films; produced and directed by Dominique Loreau. 1 videocassette (60 min.) In French, Fon and Yoruba with English subtitles. VHS format.
"Divine Carcasse is an unusual hybrid, a half fictional, half ethnographic film. It is a study in cultural contrast, between a desacralized, materialistic European view of reality and an animist, pre-industrial African one. Belgian director Dominique Loreau has described her film as an encounter with another culture, another way of relating to the world, objects and death, one that challenges our own relationships to the world"--From the California Newsreel Web site.
LOCATION =MIC DT541.4 .D57 1998 VIDEOTAPE

Domicile Conjugal = Bed and Board/ Films du carrosse, Valoria films, FIDA Cinematografica; scenario et dialogue, Francois Truffaut, Claude de Givray, Bernard Revon; producteur delegue, Marcel Berbert; mise en scene, Francois Truffaut. 1 videodisc (100 min.) In French with English subtitles. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1970. DVD format.
The fourth and penultimate film in Truffaut's semi-autobiographical series about Antoine Doinel depicts our hero in the early years of marriage. Antoine and Christine become the proud parents of a son, but Antoine soon tires of domesticity and is lured into a disastrous affair with a Japanese girl.
LOCATION =JOU PN1995.9.F67 D66 1999 DVD

Egloge de l'Amour = In Praise of Love / Manhattan International Pictures presentent un film de Jean-Luc Goddard, Avventura Films, Peripheria, Canal+, Arte France Cinema, Vega Film, TSR. 1 videodisc (98 min.) French dialogue, English subtitles. Originally released as a motion picture in 2001. DVD format.
LOCATION = JOU PN1997.2 .E35 2003 DVD

The Eighties = Les Annees 80 / a film by Chantal Akerman; produced by Paradise Films. 1 videocassette (82 min.) In French with English subtitles. Originally produced in Belgium in 1983. VHS format.
The Eighties is a film about a musical in the making. It provides insights into behind-the- scenes drama and, at the same time, is a preview of Akerman's forthcoming shopping mall musical, Window shopping.
LOCATION = JOU PN1995.9.E96 E37 1990 VIDEOTAPE

Emporte-Moi = Set Me Free / Merchant Ivory Productions presents; a film by Lea Pool. 1 videocassette In French with English subtitles. VHS format.
1963 will be the year that changes the life of 13 year old Hanna. In a movie theatre she discovers Nana, played by Anna Karina in Jean-Luc Godard's My life to live. At the end of the year, Hanna comes to understand the message of the sensuous and bewitching Nana. She is free to live her life as she wishes.
LOCATION = JOU PN1995.9.F35 E56 2000 VIDEOTAPE

Les Enfants du Paradis = Children of Paradise / Societe nouvelle Pathe cinema; un film de Marcel Carne; 2 videodiscs (190 min.) Dialogue in French with English subtitles. DVD release of the 1945 motion picture.
Drama about the theater and the individuals that made the stage their life. Includes the love story of four men for one woman. pt. 1. The boulevard of crime -- pt. 2. The man in white.
LOCATION = JOU PN1997 .E63 2002 DVD

Les Enfants Gates = Spoiled Children / Corinth Films. 1 videocassette (113 min.) VHS format. Video cassette release of the motion picture produced in 1977. In French with English subtitles.
LOCATION =JOU PN1997 .E6585 1994 VIDEOTAPE

L'Enfant Sauvage = The Wild Child / Les Films du carrosse, Les Productions Artistes associes; scenario, adaptation et dialogue, Francois Truffaut et Jean Gruault; producteur delegue, Marcel Berbert; mise en scene Francois Truffaut. 1 videocassette (86 min.) French dialogue with English subtitles. Based on Memoire et rapport sur Victor de l'Aveyron by Jean Itard. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1969. VHS format.
Follows the capture of a young boy found living like an animal in the forest. Dr. Jean-Marc- Gaspard Itard of the National Institute for the Deaf and Dumb, Paris, believes the child can be transformed into a civilized being. The doctor removes the boy from the institute into his own home. The boy, named Victor, is divided between his longing for the wilderness and his new life with the doctor. Itard, whose teaching strategies survive today in the Montessori Method, is unsure whether he is helping a savage become human or turning a forest child into a semi-civilized idiot.
LOCATION = MIC PN1997 .T731 1991 VIDEOTAPE

Et Dieu-- Crea la Femme = God Created Woman / distribue par Cocinor; Raoul J. Levy presente ... un film ecrit et realise par R. Vadim; scenario original de R. Vadim et R. Levy; produit par Raoul J. Levy; IENA; U.C.I.L.; Cocinor. 1 videodisc (98 min.) In French with English subtitles. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1956. DVD format.
Juliette is an 18 year-old orphan whose unbridled appetite for pleasure shakes up all of St. Tropez. Her sweet but naive husband Michel endures beatings, insults and mambo in his attempts to tame her wild ways.
LOCATION = JOU PN1997 .E8 2000 DVD

Faat Kine / Filmi Doom Reew Dakar-Senegal presente; film de Sembene Ousmane; directeur de production Wongue Mbengue; scenario, dialogues, realisation, Sembene Ousmane. 1 videcassette (121 min.) In French and Wolof with English subtitles. VHS format.
Faat Kine, an independent single mother, a gas station operator born the same year as Senegalese independence, 1960, reflects back on her life.
LOCATION = MIC PN1997 .F18 2000 VIDEOTAPE

Faust: Opera in Five Acts/ music by Charles Gounod; libretto by Jules Barbier & Michel Carre, after the poem by Goethe. 1 videocassette (155 min.) Sung in French with Japanese subtitles. Live recording made at the Theatre National L'Opera de Paris on March 30, 1976. VHS format.
LOCATION = MUS M1500.G68 F38 1990 VIDEOTAPE

Femmes aux Yeux Ouverts = Women with Open Eyes / un film de Anne Laure Folly; produit par Amanou Production. San Francisco: c1993. 1 videocassette (52 min.) In French with English subtitles. Series title from container. VHS format.
Surveys social conditions faced by women in Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal and Benin, including circumcision, forced marriage, AIDS, and economic repression. Examines grass-roots efforts toward education and improvement as Africa opens to democracy.
LOCATION = MIC HQ1788 .F45 1994 VIDEOTAPE

Une Femme est une Femme = Woman is a Woman / written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard; produced by Carlo Ponti and Georges de Beauregard. 1 videodisc (84 min.) In French with English subtitles. Originally released as a motion picture in 1961 by Rome Paris Films. DVD format.
When the beautiful Angela wants to have a baby and her lover refuses to participate, she looks to recruit his best friend.
LOCATION =JOU PN1995.9.M27 F443 1998 DVD

La Fille Mal Gardee / Australian Broadcasting Corporation; produced & directed by Virginia Lumsden. 1 videocassette (104 min.) VHS format. Recorded live at the Victorian Arts Centre, June 20, 1989. Ballets.
Set in a village in the French countryside, tells of the difficult path of true love, as Widow Simone is determined to betroth her willful daughter Lise to the eccentric son of a rich farmer, but Lise and her lover Colas conspire to thwart the widow's plans.
LOCATION =MUS GV1790.F5 F54 1994 VIDEOTAPE

Le Fils de Gascogne = Son of Gascogne / une co-production Sybarite, Cadrage S.A., France 2 avec la participation du Centre National de la Cinematographie; scenario, Patrick Modiano et Pascal Aubier; adaptation et dialogues, Pascal Aubier; mise en scene de Pascal Aubier. 1 videodisc (106 min.) French with English subtitles. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1995. DVD format.
"You're a provincial kid in Paris and suddenly you're the center of attention: Movie stars, famous directors and sexy women are doting on you because they all think you're the son of their long-dead legendary friend. You never knew your dad, the facts of this famous guy's life suggest that he might have fathered you. Your mom tells you nothing. All the fuss makes you uncomfortable at first but soon you find it's rather fun to be the son of the famous Gascogne. And in the midst of all of this you fall in love. It is, after all, springtime in Paris"--Container.
LOCATION = JOU PN1995.9.M27 F54 2000 DVD

For Ever Mozart: 36 Personnages en Quete d'Histoire = 36 Characters in Search of History / Avventura Films ... [et al.] 1 videocassette (85 min.) In French with English subtitles. Originally produced as motion picture in 1996. VHS format.
A film director attempts to stage a Musset play in war-torn Sarajevo. Director Godard makes many references to his earlier films, notably Weekend, Les carabiniers, and Contempt.
LOCATION =JOU PN1997 .F666 1999 VIDEOTAPE

Forbidden Games = Jeux Interdits / Times Film Corp. 1 videocassette (85 min.) VHS format. In French with English subtitles. Videocassette release of the 1951 motion picture. Based on a story by Francois Boyer. Winner of the 1952 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
"During WW2, young Parisian girl is orphaned and taken in by simple peasant family, she develops friendship with their youngest son, and shares with him a private world which the grownups cannot understand"--Leonard Maltin's TV movies and video guide.
LOCATION = MIC PN1997 .F673 1987 VIDEOTAPE

Francois Truffaut: In Conversation with Richard Roud / [presented by] Camera Three. 1 videocassette (27 min.) Originally produced for broadcast on the television program Camera Three in 1977. In English and in French with English voice overs. VHS format.
Richard Roud interviews the French film producer, Francois Truffaut on both his film career and his films. Includes clips from some films to illustrate his techniques.
LOCATION =MIC PN1998.A3 T7 F72 1997 VIDEOTAPE

Francois Truffaut: Portraits Voles / Chrysalide Films presente une coproduction Chrysalide Films, France 2 Cinema - Ina Entreprise avec la participation de Canal+, Mcenas et Premiere; un film de Serge Toubiana et Michel Pascal. 1 videocassette (93 min.) In French with English subtitles. VHS format.
"Francois Truffaut: Stolen Portraits delivers deep insight into one of the most celebrated French directors in the world. ... Stolen Portraits is made up of accounts by friends, colleagues, actors and actresses, filmmakers and relatives commenting on the man and his work. Featured are extracts from his films, rare and unpublished photos, and archive material that will present a new look at an extraordinary man. Highlights include clips from The 400 Blows, Stolen Kisses, The Man who Loved Women, and The Woman Next Door"--Container.
LOCATION =MIC PN1998.A3T7 F73 1995 VIDEOTAPE

French in Action: The Capretz Method / a co-production of WGBH-TV, Wellesley College, and Yale University; realise par Pierre J. Capretz et Barry Lydgate; ecrit par Pierre J. Capretz. 14 videocassettes (1560 min.) In French and English. VHS format.
Part of a course on French language and culture. The student is instructed in French language and culture by seeing people interact in true-to-life situations, while speaking idiomatic, natural French. The course is based on the teaching method of Pierre J. Capretz of total immersion learning.
LOCATION = MIC PC2121 .F734 1987 VIDEOTAPE

Le Gai Savoir = The Joy of Learning. Brooklyn, NY: New York Film Annex, [1998] 1 videocassette (96 min.) VHS format. French with English subtitles. Originally released as a motion picture in France in 1968.
Emile and Patricia stumble across each other in an abandoned TV studio. They meet for 7 nights to plan for a new cinema.
LOCATION =JOU PN1995.9.E96 G34 1998 VIDEOTAPE

Le Genou de Claire = Claire's Knee / Les Films du losange, Barbet Schroeder; production, Pierre Cottrell; [ecrit et realise par] Eric Rohmer. 1 videodisc (ca. 106 min.) In French with English subtitles. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1970. DVD format.
Satirizes a diplomat's sexual temptations. On vacation without his fiancée, he flirts with a brash, charming nymphet, while harboring a secret, peculiar obsession for her stunning teenage sister.
LOCATION =JOU PN1995.9.F67 G4 1997 DVD

Le Gone du chaaba [videorecording] / Les Films du Jour et Doriane Films presentent ; un film de Christophe Ruggia.
Based on the autobiographical novel by Azouz Begag Originally released as a motion picture by Vertigo Productions in 1997.
Written and directed by Christophe Ruggia ; produced by Farid Lahouassa ; original music by Safy Boutella.
Set in 1956 France in a city slum outside of Lyons, a poor Algerian father wants his son to be the best in school, although the boy is not very gifted.
Columbus, OH : University Technology Service, Ohio State University, 2004.
Issued as a SECAM version reformatted to NTSC at the Ohio State University
LOCATION = mic. PQ2662.E343 G65 2004 Videotape.

Grand illusion / Canal+ Image International. 1 videodisc (111 min.) French with English subtitles. Videodisc release of a 1938 motion picture.
A classic tale of adventure. Duty and honor conflict in a German prisoner of war camp during World War I, when an aristocratic French officer becomes friends with the commandant yet must cooperate with his comrades in a daring escape.
LOCATION =JOU PN1997 .G725 1999 DVD
LOCATION = JOU PN1997 .G725 1990 VIDEOTAPE
LOCATION =MIC PN1995.9.W3 G735 1999 VIDEOTAPE

La Guerre est Finie = The War is Over / une co-production Franco-Suedoise Sofracima/ Europa Film. 1 videcassette (116 min.) In French with English subtitles. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1966. VHS format.
An aging Spanish revolutionary on the run from government agents reflects on the meaning of his life of violent, idealistic struggles. A chance encounter with a student terrorist revives his militant passions.
LOCATION = JOU DP269.8.M6 G8 2000 VIDEOTAPE

L'Heure Espagnole; L'Enfant et les Sortileges / Maurice Ravel. Montvale, N.J.: Pioneer Artists, c1987. 1 videodisc (102 min.) Title from container; title on disc: Double bill / Ravel. Two one act operas; 1st work after the poem by Franc-Nohain; 2nd work after the poem by Colette. Sung in French; English subtitles by Gillian Widdicombe. A BBC Television production by arrangement with Glyndebourne, in association with the National Video Corporation. Digital recording, stereo., CX encoded.
LOCATION = MUS M1500.R38 H4 VIDEODISC

Hiroshima, Mon Amour. New York: Video Dimensions, [198- ?]. 1 videocassette (90 min.) Beta format. French dialogue, English subtitles.
A French actress falls in love with a Japanese architect in post-World War II Hiroshima while filming on location in Japan.
LOCATION = JOU PN1997 .H561 VIDEOTAPE
LOCATION = JOU PN1997 .H561 1994 VIDEOTAPE
LOCATION = JOU PN1997 .H561 1997 VIDEOTAPE

Histoire du Soldat. Suite. New York: Elektra Entertainment, [1993]. 1 videodisc (66 min.)Ballets. Program notes in English ([5] p.) inserted in container. Elektra Entertainment: 40163-6. Extended play (CLV); CX encoded.
LOCATION = MUS GV1790.S9 H5 VIDEODISC

Un Homme et une Femme 20 Ans Deja / une production Claude Lelouch; scenario original et mise en scene, Claude Lelouch; adaptation et dialogues, Claude Lelouch ... [et al.]; une production Films 13 en association avec Sofica Cinergie et Sofimage. 1 videocassette (112 min.) VHS format. French dialogue, English subtitles. Videocassette release of the 1986 motion picture by Warner Bros. Pictures.
Twenty years after a script girl and a daredevil race driver fell in love, the ex-lovers meet to make a film about their love affair.
LOCATION = JOU PN1997 .L4261 1987 VIDEOTAPE

L'Homme qui Aimait les Femmes = Man who Loved Women / une co-production Les Films du carrosse et Les Artistes associes; scenario original de Francois Truffaut, Michel Fermaud, Suzanne Schiffman; mise en scene, Francois Truffaut. 1 videocassette (119 min.) Dialogue in French, subtitles in English. Originally produced as motion picture in 1977. VHS format.
A man approaching middle age whose magnificent obsession is the opposite sex, is inexorably drawn to one woman after another. He cannot love merely one woman, because no one woman embodies all the enchanting qualities of her gender.
LOCATION =MIC PN1997 .H646 1993 VIDEOTAPE

Les Huguenots / in association with RM Arts and British Satellite Broadcasting; the Australian Opera; music by Giacomo Meyerbeer; libretto by Augustin Eugene Scribe. 2 videocassettes (200 min.) Opera in 5 acts. Sung in French, with English subtitles. Filmed at the Sydney Opera House.
LOCATION = MUS M1500.M49 H83 1990 VIDEOTAPE

Ici et Ailleurs = Here and Elsewhere / Coralie International and JR Films. 1 videocassette (ca. 55 min.) Videocassette release of the 1970 motion picture. In French with English subtitles. VHS format.
Started under the title Until Victory and intended as a record of the Palestine Revolution, this film underwent radical transformation after a massacre by Hussein's troops, focusing on how cinema must film history as it happens.
LOCATION =JOU PN1995.9.H5 I3943 1993 VIDEOTAPE

Inch'Allah dimanche [videorecording] / a Bandits Longs/ARP production in association with Phillpe Dupois-Mendel ; un film ecrit et realise par Yamina Benguigui.
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 with the enaction of 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 mother-in-law and a neighbor who is afraid of Zouina's otherness. Zouina finally begins to feel a sense of acceptance when she meets a cosmetics factory worker who sparks in Zouina an interest in French culture and her new world. This curiosity and longing for freedom and experience drive Zouina to take secret excursions with her children on Sundays, the one day that her husband and mother-in-law are out of the house. Through these little adventures, she comes to terms with the difficulties of immigration, women's rights and adapting to a new culture
[S.l.] : Distributed by Film Movement, 2003.
LOCATION = mic. DC34.5.A4 I53 2003 DVD.

Irma Vep / Dacia Films presente; avec la participation de Canal+; ecrit et realise Olivier Assayas; produit par Georges Benayoun. 1 videodisc (95 min.) In French with English subtitles. Originally released as a motion picture in 1996. DVD format.
Aging director Henri Vidal has decided to film a remake of the legendary silent serial, Les vampires, in hopes of making a comeback. Vidal chooses Cheung to play Irma Vep, the leader of a band of jewel thieves. Arriving in Paris unable to speak a word of French, Cheung finds herself stuck in the middle of a stressful situation when the production begins to fall apart and Vidal suffers a nervous breakdown.
LOCATION =JOU PN1997 .I655 1998 DVD

Jacquot / a Cine-Tamaris production; a film by Agnes Varda. 1 videocassette (118 min.) Originally issued as motion picture 1991. French with yellow English subtitles. VHS format.
A child is brought up in a mechanic's shop where everyone likes to sing. He develops a great love for puppets and musicals. Although he tries to make movies, his father forces him to study mechanics. This movie is the story of the childhood of the director Jacques Demy, his brother, friends, games, young loves, and first attempts at making movies.
LOCATION =JOU PN1995.9.F67 J23 1994 VIDEOTAPE

Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast / Lopert Films, Inc. 1 videodisc (93 min.) Originally released as a motion picture in 1946. In French with optional English subtitles.
A fable about a kindly beast and the self-sacrificing beauty whose love releases him from a terrible magic spell.
LOCATION =JOU PN1997 .C669 1998 DVD
LOCATION = MIC PN1997 .J419 1946 VIDEOTAPE

JLG/JLG / [written and directed by] Jean-Luc Godard. 1 videocassette (65 min.) French dialogue, English subtitles. Originally released in France as a motion picture in 1994. VHS format.
"Godard stars as a fictional character of his own creation, musing about in his actual home in Rolle, Switzerland. In the dead of winter, he suffers the rude interruption of critics and the cheeky services of a pretty maid, while contemplating the end of western culture, cinema and his own mortality. A busy day...but still with time for tragedy, tennis and television"--Container.
LOCATION =JOU PN1998.3.G63 J448 1996 VIDEOTAPE

Le Journal d'une Femme de Chambre / JanusFilms ... [et al.] presente un film de Luis Bunuel; adaptation et dialogue, Luis Bunuel et Jean Claude Carriere; un film realise en co-production franco-italienne Speva Films ... [et al.]; produit par Serge Silberman, Michel Safra. 1 videodisc (98 min.) French language soundtrack (mono) with optional English subtitles. Based on the novel Le journal d'une femme de chambre by Octave Mirbeau. Originally released as a motion picture in 1964. DVD format.
A chambermaid with Paris flair gets a job at a country estate. The family she works for and the other staff members are a strange sort and she must learn the ways of country living and neighbor rivalry. After a child is murdered near the estate, she begins to have her suspicions as to whom may be responsible.
LOCATION = JOU PN1997 .J63 2001 DVD

Jules et Jim = Jules and Jim / Les Films du carrosse et S.E.D.I.F.; adaptation et dialogue, Francois Truffaut et Jean Gruault; mise en scene, Francois Truffaut. 1 videodisc (105 min.) In French with English subtitles. Based on the novel by Henri-Pierre Roche. Originally issued as a motion picture in France in 1962.
Before World War I in Paris, a girl alternates between a French student, Jim, and a German student, Jules. After the war, they meet again and form a constantly shifting triangle.
LOCATION =JOU PN1997 .J823 1999 DVD
LOCATION = MIC PN1997 .J823 1999 VIDEOTAPE

Jupiter's Thigh / directed by Phillippe de Broca. Los Angeles, CA: Embassy Home Entertainment; [United States]: Released by Quartet/Films Inc., c1986. 1 videocassete (96 min.)"Original French language version, subtitles in English"--Container. Released as motion picture by Les Films Ariane, c1979. VHS format.
Comedy about a married couple, a college professor and a female inspector of police, seeking the missing parts of a Grecian statue.
LOCATION = MIC >PN1997 .J84 1986 VIDEOTAPE

Le Jupon Rouge = Manuela's Loves / un film ecrit, produit et realise par Genevieve Lefebvre; Antares Films. 1 videocassette (ca. 90 min.) VHS format. In French with English subtitles. Videocassette release of the 1987 motion picture.
Shifting attractions are played out between three women of different ages.
LOCATION =JOU PN1997 .J8433 1997 VIDEOTAPE

Karen Blixen's Babettes Gaestebud = Babette's Feast. / Metro Goldwyn Mayer; Just Betzer prsenterer en film af Gabriel Axel. 1 videodisc (103 min.) In Danish and French with optional soundtrack in English or Spanish; with optional subtitles in English, French or Spanish. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1987. DVD format.
With the mysterious arrival of Babette, a refugee from France's civil war, life for two pious sisters and their tiny hamlet begins to change. Before long, Babette has convinced them to try something other than boiled codfish and ale bread--a gourmet French meal! Her feast scandalizes the elders, except for the visiting General. Just who is this strangely talented Babette, who has terrified this pious town with the prospect of losing their souls for enjoying too much earthly pleasure?
LOCATION = JOU PN1997 .B32 2001 DVD

Keita!: l'Heritage du Griot == Keita!: The Heritage of the Griot / AFIX Productions; Les Productions de la Lanterne; Sahelis Productions; L'Etat de Burkina. 1 videocassette (94 min.) Videocassette release of the [1994] motion picture. VHS format. In Jula and French with English subtitles.
Based on one of the most important works of African oral literature, the Sundjata epic. When a djeliba, a master griot or bard, arrives mysteriously at the home of Mabo Keita to teach him "the meaning of his name," the boy and griot are inevitably brought into conflict with his Westernized mother and schoolteacher, who have rejected African tradition. The griot reveals to Mabo the story of his distant ancestor, Sundjata Keita, the 13th century founder of the great Malian trading empire.
LOCATION =MIC PN1997 .K38 1994 VIDEOTAPE

The Killing Game = Jeu de Massacre / written and directed by Alain Jessua. 1 videocassette (95 min.) French with English subtitles. VHS format.
An author of pulp comic book adventures (Cassel) and his illustrator/wife (Auger) are intrigued by an obviously depraved young rich man who claims to have lived out the adventures depicted in their comics. When they visit the young man's villa and discover his wealth, they are inspired to create new adventures with their newfound, wealthy friend as the hero. The young man unfortunately takes the new stories more seriously than anticipated and begins living the stories out - catching up the artist and his wife in the adventures.
LOCATION =JOU PN1997 .J48 1994 VIDEOTAPE

Lakme / Leo Delibes; [libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille] 1 videocassette (155 min.) VHS; stereo. Opera in three acts. Recorded at the Sydney Opera House, August 18, 1976. Sung in French.
LOCATION = MUS M1500.D44 L34 1991 VIDEOTAPE

The Last Metro = Le Dernier Metro / Les Films Du Carrosse; mise en scene Francois Truffaut. 1 videocassette (131 min.) VHS format. In French with English subtitles. Videocassette release of the 1980 motion picture.
In Nazi-occupied Paris, Jewish director Lucas Steiner is forced to hide in the basement of his theatre while his wife stars in its latest production. Romantic tensions mount as she and her leading man begin to fall in love. At the same time, a pro-Nazi theatre critic ensconces himself in the theatre causing stress to the entire cast.
LOCATION = MIC PN1997 .D453 1999 VIDEOTAPE

Liubov k Trem Apelsinam = The Love of Three Oranges. Long Beach, Calif.: Pioneer Classics, c1995. 1 videodisc (105 min.) Extended play CLV. Libretto by the composer and Vera Janacopoulos (after Gozzi).
LOCATION = MUS M1500.P76 L6 VIDEODISC

Loulou / produced by Gaumont Films and Action Films. 1 videocassette (110 min.) Videocassette release of the 1980 motion picture. French with English subtitles. VHS format.
Story about a woman who leaves her husband and goes to live with an unemployed man called Loulou.
LOCATION = JOU PN1995.9.F67 L68 1990 VIDEOTAPE

Lucie Aubrac / October Films presents a Renn Productions production; a film by Claude Berri. 1 videocassette (116 min.) French with English subtitles. Based on the book Outwitting the Gestapo / by Lucie Aubrac. Originally released as a motion picture in 1997. VHS format.
Based on a true story, this is the dramatic tale of a husband and wife along with their associates in the French Resistance during several months of 1943.
LOCATION =JOU D802.F8 A792 1999 VIDEOTAPE

Lumiere et Compagnie = Lumiere & Company / une production Cineteve ... [et al.]; realisation, Sarah Moon. 1 videodisc (88 min.) English and French with optional English subtitles. Originally produced in 1995.
To commemorate the Centennial of the Lumiere Brothers' first motion picture, leading international filmmakers created their own one minute Lumiere Film, using the restored original camera.
LOCATION =JOU PN1995.9.E96 L84 1997 DVD
LOCATION = MIC PN1995.9.E96 L84 1996 VIDEOTAPE

Lumumba: la Mort du Prophete = Lumumba : The Death of the Prophet / une production Velvet Film GmbH, Berlin, Cinemamma GmbH, Zurich en association avec La SEPT ... [et al.]; a film by Raoul Peck. 1 videocassette (ca. 69 min.) In French, with English subtitles. Originally presented in 1991. VHS format.
Reexamines the independence struggle in the Belgian Congo and its leader, Patrice Lumumba. This multi-award-winning film recounts Lumumba's tragic 200 day rule culminating with his assassination. Combines archival documentary footage of Lumumba with the memories of journalists who reported from the Congo.
LOCATION =MAIN DT658.2.L85 L87 1992 VIDEOTAPE

Ma Nuit Chez Maud = My Night With Maud / [presentee par] Les Films du Losange, Barbet Schroeder et Pierre Cottrell. 1 videodisc (111 min.) DVD format. In French with English subtitles. Originally released as a motion picture in 1968.
Jean-Louis Trintignant plays an engineer seeking the perfect mate. Just when he thinks he has found her, he finds himself accidentally spending the night sharing the bed of a seductive divorcee, Maud.
LOCATION =JOU PN1995.9.F67 M24 1997 DVD

Ma Vie en Rose = My Life in Pink / a Sony Pictures Classics release; directed by Alain Berliner; produced by Carol Scotta for Haut et Court; in co-production with La Sept Cinema ... [et al.] 1 videodisc (ca. 88 min.) Originally released as a motion picture in 1997. In French with English subtitles.
Ludovic is waiting for a miracle. With six-year-old certainty, he believes he was meant to be a little girl and that the mistake will soon be corrected. But where he expects the miraculous, Ludo finds only rejection, isolation and guilt--as the intense reactions of family, friends, and neighbors strip away every innocent lace and bauble.
LOCATION =JOU PN1995.9.F67 M22 1999 DVD

Madame Bovary / MK2 Productions SA/C.E.D. Productions/FR3 Films Production; production director, Yvon Crenn; producer, Marin Karmitz; director, Claude Chabrol. l videocassette (130 min.) French, with English subtitles. Based on the novel, Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert. Videocassette release of the 1990 motion picture. VHS format.
Emma Bovary is a woman possessed by a burning hunger for life and love--and a passion that can never be fulfilled. Feeling trapped in a loveless marriage, Emma indulges herself in a lifestyle of reckless overspending and a series of shocking affairs which threaten to destroy her and everyone around her.
LOCATION =MIC PN1997 .M324 1992 VIDEOTAPE

Madame de -- / produite par Franco London Film, Indusfilms, Rizzoli Film; un film de Max Ophuls. 1 videocassette (100 min.) In French with English subtitles. Based on the novel by Louise de Vilmorin. Released as a motion picture in 1953. VHS format.
Tragic misunderstandings arise when a society wife sells her earrings and tells her husband she has lost them.
LOCATION =JOU PN1995.9.M3 M33 1994 VIDEOTAPE

Mademoiselle Striptease / produced by Les Films E.G.E.- Hoche Productions. [Rahway, NJ]: Vintage Video, 1990. 1 videocassette (99 min.) In French with English subtitles. Originally released as a motion picture in 1956. VHS format.
The scandals of a community are revealed in a book that arouses the curiosities of everyone in town.
LOCATION = MIC PN1997 .M3246 1990 VIDEOTAPE

Maitresse / film de Barbet Schroeder. [France]: Proserpine Editions, 1986. 1 videocassette (112 min.) Not-rated. VHS format.
LOCATION = MIC PN1997 .M24134 1986 VIDEOTAPE

La Maman et la Putain = The Mother and the Whore / une co-production Elite Films ... [et al.]; scenario, dialogues, direction, Jean Eustache. 2 videocassettes (215 min.) VHS format. French with enhanced English subtitles. Originally produced as motion picture in 1973.
Story of the obsessive sexual relationship between an intellectual, his lover, and a kinky nurse. Explores the cultural phenomenon of sex without love.
LOCATION =JOU PN1997 .M3254 1998 VIDEOTAPE

Man Ray Films / Centre Georges Pompidou. Paris: Editions du Centre Pompidou: c2001. 1 videocassette (112 min.) VHS format. Originally produced individually as silent motion pictures. Titles in French; captions in French with English subtitles; credits in English. Films restored by Musee national d'art moderne and Centre Pompidou, under the direction of Jean-Michel Bouhours. Musical reconstructions from Man Ray's personal record collection by Jacques Guillot; video editing, Didier Coudray.
This videocassette includes the four films which established Man Ray as a major figure of the 1920s avant-garde cinema: Le Retour a la raison and Emak Bakia (influenced by the Dada spirit), L'Etoile de mer (a surrealist film), Les Mysteres du chateau du de (bordering on surrealism), as well as eleven short "autobiographical" films.
LOCATION = FIN N6537.R3 M34 2001 VIDEOTAPE

Manon des Sources: Jean de Florette 2eme Partie / Renn Productions presente; adaptation Claude Berri, Gerard Brach; une coproduction Renn Productions ... [et al.]; un film de Claude Berri. 1 videodisc (114 min.) French language soundtrack with subtitles available in English, French and Spanish. Sequel to: Jean de Florette. From the novel by Marcel Pagnol. Originally released as a motion picture in 1986. DVD format.
Ten years after the tragic events of Jean de Florette, Manon (Jean's daughter) seeks revenge against those she holds responsible for her father's death.
LOCATION = JOU PN1995.9.F78 M365 2001 DVD

La Mariee Etait en Noir / une co-production franco-italienne, Les Films du Carrosse, Les Productions Artistes Associes, Dino De Laurentiis Cinematografica; adaptation et dialogue, Francois Truffaut et Jean-Louis Richard; dirigee par Andre Girard; mise en scene, Francois Truffaut. 1 videocassette (108 min.) VHS format. In French with English subtitles. Based on the novel by William Irish. Originally released as motion picture in 1968.
After a bridegroom is shot on the steps of the church on his wedding day, his widow traces the group of men responsible and eliminates them one by one.
LOCATION = MIC PN1997 .M365143 1991 VIDEOTAPE

A Married Woman = La Femme Marriee / Anounchka Films/Orsay Films. 1 videocassette (94 min.) VHS format. Videocassette release of the 1964 French motion picture. In French with English subtitles.
In one of his first films to critique the position of women in contemporary society, Jean Luc Godard uses a documentary-like style to examine the life of a French married woman torn between her husband and her lover.
LOCATION = JOU PN1997 .F451 1980z VIDEOTAPE

Maryse Conde: Devoile son Coeur = Maryse Conde, Expressions Ethniques de la Mosaique des Ameriques. / Full Duck Productions. Boulder, CO: Mosaic Media, 2003. 1 videocassette (50 min.) French dialogue. VHS format.
One of a series of dynamic interviews with writers and artists whose roots lie in the Caribbean present vision, passion and art, along with historical background and visual illustration. The author discusses her passion for honesty, love of family and her respect for the craft of writing.
LOCATION = MIC PQ3949.2.C65 Z473 2003 VIDEOTAPE

Mauvaise Graine = Bad Seed / Film Preservation Associates. 1 videocassette (77 min.) VHS format. Originally released as a motion picture in 1933. French dialogue, English subtitles.
Henry Pasquier, the spoiled son of a wealthy doctor, who discovers high-octane thrills, jazz-era romance and a sense of purpose in life when he unwittingly falls into the company of an organized ring of car thieves. After befriending Jean, a dapper young chap with a curious fetish for men's neckties, Henry falls in love with Jean's sister Jeannette, who works as car-bait for the gang, luring love-hungry Parisian gentlemen away from their chrome-plated carriages.
LOCATION =MIC PN1997 .M41145 1996 VIDEOTAPE

Memoires d'immigrés = Immigranr Memories, the North African Inheritance. A film by Yamina Benguigui.
In this three-part documentary on Maghrebian immigration to France, Yamina Benguigui weaves together narratives from three different times.
[Paris] : Canalt & Bandits, 1997.
Location = Mic. DC34.5 N67 B455 1997 VIDEOTAPE

Mepris = Contempt / Avco Embassy Publishing Corp. 1 videocassette (102 min.) In French with English subtitles. Videocassette release of the 1964 motion picture. VHS format. Based on the novel Il Disprezzo (A ghost at noon) by Antonio Moravia. Original film, Le Mepris, made 1964 in France and Italy.
French dramatist writing a screenplay for an American producer disagrees with the producer on how film should be done. After an argument between her husband and the producer, the writer's wife has an affair with the producer and regards the writer with contempt, presumably because of his attitudes and behavior.
LOCATION = JOU PN1997 .M435 1987 VIDEOTAPE

Michel de Montaigne: Ecrivains, Temoins de Leur Temps: Montaigne, 1533-1592 / La Cinquieme-CNDP; realisation, Jacqueline Margueritte; scenario, Claudine Cerf. 1 videocassette (14 min.) VHS format. In French. Originally released in 1996.
Michel de Montaigne, and the world he encountered and described in his work Essais.
LOCATION = JOU PQ1643 .M525 1999 VIDEOTAPE

Mobutu, King of Zaire: an African tragedy / Les Films de la Passerelle, Image Creation, Les Films d'Ici present a series by Thierry Michel; produced by Christine Pireaux, Martine Barbe, Serge Lalou. 3 videocassettes (52 min. each) VHS format. Dialogue in French with English subtitles; some English voice commentary.
"The definitive visual record of the rise and fall of Joseph Desire Mobutu, ruler of Zaire (the Congo) for over 30 years. Drawing upon 140 hours of rare archival material found in Kinshasa, and 50 hours of interviews with those once close to him, it tells the story of the man at the heart of Central Africa's post-colonial history"--Container.
LOCATION = MIC DT658.25 .M638 1999 VIDEOTAPE

Mon Coeur est Temoin = My Heart is my Witness. / un film de Louise Carre; [presented by] Les Films Virage [and] La Maison des quatre [in association with] l'Office National du Film du Canada [and] Z'Yeux noirs movies. 1 videocassette (56 min.) VHS format. In French with English subtitles.
Dramatization of correspondence and interviews with women from Africa and the Middle East about the condition of women in their countries.
LOCATION =WMN HQ1870.9 .M66 1996 VIDEOTAPE

Mon Oncle / a Walter Reade Organization, Inc. presentation; a Franco Italian coproduction for Specta-Gray-Alter Films in association with Films del Centauro. 1 videocassette (110 min.) VHS format. Original French language version with English subtitles. Videorecording of the 1958 motion picture.
A comedy in which the vague and clumsy M. Hulot, in contrast to his more wealthy sister and brother-in-law, is constantly at odds with the modern world.
LOCATION = MIC PN1997 .M5838 1986 VIDEOTAPE

Mon Oncle d'Amerique = My Uncle from America / producit par Philippe Dussart; scenario et dialogues, Jean Gruault; inspire par les travaux du Henri Laborit; realisation, Alain Resnais. 1 videocassette (123 min.) VHS format. Videocassette release of a film originally produced in 1980. French dialogue; English subtitles.
Jean, Rene, Janine: two men and a woman from different generations and different backgrounds, whose paths meet at a crisis point in mid-life. Faced with disappointment and frustration, all three muse about a legendary "uncle in America", a guardian angel who gives them their hearts' desires and them exactly what they want to hear.
LOCATION =JOU PN1995.9.F67 M63 1993 VIDEOTAPE

Monsieur Hire / Orion Pictures; a film by Patrice Leconte. 1 videocassette (88 min.) Originally produced by Orion Pictures in 1990. French with yellow English subtitles. Adapted from the novel "Les Fiancailles de Monsieur Hire" by Georges Simenon. VHS format.
When a beautiful woman discovers she's being spied on by a cold, repressed neighbor, she becomes the aggressor in an erotically charged relationship that leads to a deadly game of cat-and-mouse.
LOCATION =JOU PN1995.9.F67 M64 1999 VIDEOTAPE

Mr. Hulot's Holiday / directed by Jacques Tati; produced by Fred Orain; a Janus Films presentation. 1 videocassette (86 min.) VHS format. French dialogue with English subtitles. Originally released as motion picture in the United States as: Vacances de Monsieur Hulot. 1953.
Presents a series of humorous impressions and incidents at a seaside Brittany resort where Jacques Tati's famous character Mr. Hulot has gone on vacation. Principally visual humor; soundtrack is mostly ambient sound.
LOCATION = MIC PN1997 .M733 1984 VIDEOTAPE

Muriel, ou, Le Temps d'un Retour / [presented by] Anatole Dauman; realisation, Alain Resnais; scenario et dialogues, Jean Cayrol. 1 videocassette (116 min.) French with English subtitles. Videocassette release of a 1965 French motion picture. VHS format.
A lonely woman is trying to sort her memories and present desires for the resumption of a long past love.
LOCATION =JOU PN1995.9.F67 M875 1993 VIDEOTAPE

La Noire de-- / Filmi Domirev presente; escrit et realise par Sembene Ousmane. 1 videocassette (56 min.) In French with English subtitles. Originally released as a motion picture in 1965.
A young Senegalese girl leaves to work for a European family in Antibes. The harsh treatment leads her to commit suicide.
LOCATION = MIC PN1997 .N6344 2001 VIDEOTAPE

Nuit et Brouillard = Night and Fog / a Janus Films presentation; une co-production, Como-Films, Argos-Films, Cocinor; realisation, Alain Resnais; texte, Jean Cayrol; direction de la production en exterieurs, Edouard Muszka. 1 videocassette (30 min.) French with "new electronic" English subtitles. Based on the book Tragedie de la deportation by Olga Wormser and Henri Michel. Originally released as a documentary film in 1955. VHS format.
Combines film footage and photography shot inside Nazi concentration camps with scenes of the death camps taken 10 years after the war. Narration describes the horrors that took place there.
LOCATION =JOU DS135.P6 N85 1997 VIDEOTAPE
LOCATION = JDC DS135.P6 N85 1900z VIDEOTAPE

Les Nuits Fauves = Savage Nights / director, Cyril Collard; screenplay, Cyril Collard, Jacques Fieschi. 1 videocassette (122 min.) In French with yellow English subtitles. Originally released as a motion picture in 1992. VHS format.
Adapted from the director/star's semi-autobiographical novel, this film portrays the reckless bisexual lifestyle of a young man Jean (played by Collard) living under the threat of Aids.
LOCATION =JOU PN1995.9.A435 N84 1994 VIDEOTAPE

Numero Deux = Aumero Deux = Number Two / Coralie International and JR Films. 1 videocassette (83 min.) In French with English subtitles. Originally released in France as a motion picture in 1975. VHS format.
Godard's exploration of the modern family unit and how it suffers in the computerized, capitalistic world.
LOCATION =JOU PN1995.9.E96 N864 1995 VIDEOTAPE

Nuovo Cinema Paradiso / a Miramax Film; an Italian-French coproduction Cristaldifilm Rai/Tre Forum (Rome)/Les Films Ariane TF1 Films Production (Paris) 1 videodisc (ca. 174 min.) Widescreen; original 1990 theatrical version. In Italian and French with English subtitles. Rated R for some sexuality. DVD format.
A young boy in a small Italian village is befriended by the projectionist at the movie theater, the Cinema Paradiso. As the boy grows up, he learns to love films, and is encouraged by his good friend to pursue his dream of one day making movies.
LOCATION = JOU PN1997 .C5167 2003 DVD

Ouvrieres du Monde = Working Women of the World / a film by Marie France Collard. 1 videocassette (53 min.) French with English subtitles. VHS format.
Focusing on Levi Strauss & Co., "Working Women Of The World" follows the relocation of garment production from Western countries to nations such as Indonesia and the Philippines.
LOCATION = WMN HD6223 .O87 2000 VIDEOTAPE
LOCATION = MAIN HD6223 .O87 2000 VIDEOTAPE

Overemer = Overseas / directed by Brigitte Rouan; Paul E. Cohen presents a co- production between Paradise Productions and Lira Films; Aries Film Releasing L.P. 1 videocassette (96 min.) French with English subtitles. Originally produced as motion picture in 1992. VHS format.
For three beautiful sisters, the lush and privileged life of French colonial Algeria creates an oasis in the center of a harsh desert when revolution and dramatic social change erupts around them.
LOCATION =JOU PN1995.9.F67 O83 1992 VIDEOTAPE
LOCATION =MIC PN1995.9.F67 O83 1992 VIDEOTAPE

Parapluies de Cherbourg = The Umbrellas of Cherbourg / Parc Film-Madeleine Films, Paris, Beta Film, Munich; Mag Bodard presente; scenario et dialogue de Jacques Demy; musique ecrite et dirigee par Michel Legrand; un film de Jacques Demy. 1 videodisc (ca. 88 min.) In French with optional English subtitles. Originally produced as motion picture in 1964. DVD format.
A tender, bittersweet love story, sung throughout in French.
LOCATION =JOU PN1995.9.M86 P34 1997 DVD
LOCATION =MIC PN1995.9.M86 P34 1997 DVD

Passeport a l'Afrique Francophone: A Resource for the French Language Classroom / African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 1 videocassette (ca. 200 min.) VHS format.
Instructs students in the French language by presenting video clips from the people of Benin.
LOCATION = MIC PC3680.A38 P37 2003 VIDEOTAPE

Passion / un film de Jean Luc Godard. 1 videocassette (88 min.) Videocassette release of the 1982 motion picture. French dialogue with English subtitles. VHS format.
A Godard-like director is trying to film a movie in the style of the great painters-- Rembrandt, Goya, El Greco. The film is plagued by difficulties as the money for the film begins to run out, he can't seem to find the right lighting and the film has no story. In the middle of this intense situation, he starts a simultaneous affair with two women. Hanna, the owner of the hotel, and Isabelle, a factory worker who is trying to stir up a revolt.
LOCATION =JOU PN1997 .P37712 1998 VIDEOTAPE

La Passion de Jeanne D'Arc = The Passion of Joan of Arc / Janus Films; Gaumont; [presente par] la Societe generale de films; un film de Carl Th. Dreyer; scenario, Carl Theodor Dreyer avec la collaboration de Joseph Delteil. 1 videodisc (82 min.) Silent film with French intertitles, optional English subtitles and optional oratorio soundtrack sung in Latin and French. Originally released as a silent motion picture in France in 1928. DVD format.
Optional soundtrack features Richard Einhorn's oratorio "Voices of light" inspired by the silent motion picture and performed by Anonymous 4, Susan Narucki, the Netherlands Radio Choir and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic. Dramatization of the life of Joan of Arc centering on her trial and execution.
LOCATION =JOU PN1997 .S228 1999 DVD

La Patinoire = Ice Rink / scenario et dialogues Jean-Philippe Toussaint; Les Films des Tournelles ... [et al.]; produit par Anne-Dominique Toussaint, Pascal Judelewicz; un film de Jean-Philippe Toussaint. 1 videodisc (80 min.) In French and English with English subtitles. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1998. DVD format.
An American actor arrives on a film set to find a wacky cast: a director willing to suffer for his art, the entire Lithuanian National Hockey Team, their ditzy interpreter, a crew that can't skate, and a persistent video crew.
LOCATION = JOU PN1995.9.M65 P37 2001 DVD

Perceval le Gallois / Les Films du losange, Barbet Schroeder, FR3, [in cooperation with] ARD, SSR, RAI, Gaumont. 1 videodisc (140 min.) In French with English subtitles. Originally produced in France as a motion picture in 1978. DVD format.
A stylized film adaptation of Chretien de Troyes' 12th century Arthurian romance featuring the knight Perceval.
LOCATION = JOU PN1995.9.A75 P37 2000 DVD

Phedre / directed by Pierre Jourdan; a Nicole Stephane production. Sandy Hook, CT: Video Yesteryear: c1983. 1 videocassette (93 min.) In French with English subtitles. Video release of the 1968 motion picture, originally presented by Elem Perry Fleetwood Films and distributed by Altura Films International, Inc. Based on the play by Jean Racine. Program notes in pocket. VHS format.
Racine's adaptation of the legend of Thesus, king of Athens, his wife, Phedre, and his son, Hippolyte, written in 1677.
LOCATION = MIC PN1997 .P48 1983 VIDEOTAPE

Pierre et Gilles: Love Stories / directed by Mike Aho. [New York, NY?]: Water Bearer Films, 2000, c1997. 1 videocassette (57 min.) In French and some English with English subtitles. VHS format.
Explores two of the most original contemporary French artists, one a photographer and the other a painter, who create works based popular imagery and play between stereotypes of religion, sexuality and cultures.
LOCATION = FIN TR647 .P53 2000 VIDEOTAPE LOCATION = JOU TR647 .P53 2000 VIDEOTAPE

Le Plaisir / a C.C.F.C. production; produced by E. Harispuru and Stera Film; a Max Ophuls production ; adapted by Jacques Natanson and Max Ophuls. 1 videocassette (94 min.) French dialogue, English narration, English subtitles. Based on three short stories by Guy de Maupassant entitled: Le masque, Le Maison Tellier, and Le modele. VHS format.
The first story, "The mask," focuses on an aging rouge who dances in a mask in order to hide his wrinkles. The second story, "The model," concerns a model who throws herself from a window to express her love for a painter. The third story, "The house of Madame Tellier, " has Madame Tellier closing the brothel to allow everyone to celebrate her neice's first communion.
LOCATION =MIC PN1995.9.F67 P5142 1994 VIDEOTAPE

Portraits Chinois = Shadowplay / Vanguard Cinema presents a Phaedra Cinema release; a film by Martine Dugowson. 1 videodisc (105 min.) Videodisc release of the 1997 motion picture. In French and Vietnamese with English subtitles. DVD format.
An amusing look at a circle of friends in Paris and their romantic difficulties.
LOCATION = JOU PN1997 .P6643 2000 DVD

Prenom Carmen = First Name, Carmen / Alain Sarde presente ... la co-production Sara Films, JLG Films, Films A2 ; scenario adaptation, Anne-Marie Mieville; un film de Jean- Luc Godard. 1 videodisc (85 min.) In French with English subtitles. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1983. Adapted from the novel Carmen by Prosper Merimee.
"Set in contemporary France, the beautiful terrorist Carmen is involved in a bank robbery in which she seduces Joseph, a young policeman, during his attempts to arrest her"--Container.
LOCATION =MIC PN1997 .P667 1998 DVD
LOCATION = JOU PN1997 .P667 1989 VIDEOTAPE

La Promesse / Films du Fleuve, Samsa Film, RTBF, Canal+; a film by Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne. 1 videodisc (93 min.) Originally released as a motion picture in 1996. In French with English and Italian subtitles. DVD format.
The life of a fifteen-year old changes forever when he makes a promise to a dying man.
LOCATION = MIC PN1997 .P75725 2001 DVD

Quai des Orfevres / a film by Henri-Georges Clouzot. 1 videodisc (106 min.): In French with optional English subtitles. Originally released as a motion picture in 1957. Based on the book "Legitime Defense" by Stanislas-Andre Steeman. DVD format.
Set within the vibrant dancehalls and historic crime corridors of 1940s Paris, a singer with "stars in her eyes" ignores the protest of her covetous husband and pursues a meeting with a lecherous movie financier. When her husband attempts to crash the rendevous, murder ensues. Enter the detective, whose seasoned instincts lead him down a circuitous path of alibis.
LOCATION = JOU PN1995.9.F54 Q8 2003 DVD

Quartier Mozart / une production Kola Case ... [et al.]; ecrit, produit et realise par Jean-Pierre Bekolo; scripte, Felicite Oyono. 1 videocassette (81 min.) In French with English subtitles. VHS format.
Queen of the 'Hood is a proud young girl who doesn't want to be taken advantage of by men. She befriends a local sorceress who helps her enter the body of a young man, My Guy, so she can discover for herself the real "sexual politics" of the quarter. Meanwhile, the sorceress assumes the shape of Panka, a familiar comic figure in Cameroonian folklore with sexual powers. In this sex farce, women's wisdom and "witchcraft" help to temporarily regain the balance of power in a sexist world.
LOCATION =MIC PN1997 .Q254 1992 VIDEOTAPE

Les Quatre Cents Coups = The 400 Blows / scenario de Francois Truffaut; adaptation de M. Moussy et F. Truffaut; dialogues de Marcel Moussy; mise in scene de Francois Truffaut; une co-production S.E.D.I.F., Les Films du carrosse. 1 videodisc (99 min.) In French with optional English subtitles. Originally issued as a motion picture in France in 1959. DVD format.
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.
LOCATION =JOU PN1997 .Q28 1999 DVD

Qui etes-vous Mr. Sorge? / Cinema Entertainment Ltd. 1 videocassette (130 min) VHS format. In French with English subtitles.
This docu-drama presents the case of Richard Sorge, a German journalist covering World War II in Japan. The screenplay was co-written by Hans Otto Meissner, the Chief of Protocol at the German Embassy in Tokyo during the war. He plays himself in the film. Official records show that Sorge was hanged as a Soviet spy on Nov. 7, 1944. As the film begins, several of the characters offer their conflicting opinions on Sorge's alleged espionage activities and reported death. The story then moves into reenactment of the events which led up to his capture. Sorge is credited with warning Moscow that the German army would invade but Japan would not. This allowed the Soviets to concentrate on their defense against the Nazi attack on Stalingrad, an event which had a great impact on the outcome of the war. The film ends much as it begins, with Meissner interviewing Sorge's associates and getting conflicting views about whether Sorge was executed, exchanged to the Soviets for Japanese prisoners or somehow managed to escape to freedom.
LOCATION = JOU PN1995.9.S68 Q84 1961 VIDEOTAPE

Red / a co-production of MK2 Productions SA, France 3 Cinema, CAB Productions SA, "TOR" Production, with the participation of Canal+ and Television Suisse Romande. [S.l.]: Miramax Home Entertainment; Burbank, Calif., c1994. 1 videocassette (99 min.) Videocassette release of the 1994 motion picture. Rated R. In stereo. VHS format.
The final installment in the director's trilogy named after the colors of the French flag, Red is the story of a beautiful young woman and her meeting with an unusual stranger- a meeting that leads her down a path of intrigue and secrecy.
LOCATION = MIC PN1997 .R3298 1994 VIDEOTAPE

The Red Balloon / a Films Montsouris production; written and directed by Albert Lamorisse. 1 videodisc (42 min.) Originally produced as a motion picture in 1956, first released in France as Le ballon rouge. DVD format.
Two magical views of balloons. A young boy in Paris makes friends with a red balloon that has a mind of its own. The dreaded pincushion man spreads terror throughout balloon land by throwing his needles. Both film and cartoon are without dialogue.
LOCATION = MIC PN1997 .R32987 2002 DVD

Red Kiss = Rouge Baiser / a feature film by Vera Belmont; Stephan Films production in association with Films A2. 1 videocassette (110 min.) VHS format. French with English subtitles.
Caught up in the romantic idealism of Paris in the 1950's, fifteen-year-old Nadia discovers the conflicts between the powers of love and political conviction.
LOCATION = JOU PN1997 .R684 1991 VIDEOTAPE

Les Rendez-vous d'Anna / une co-production Helene Films-Unitee Trois (Paris), Paradise Films (Bruxelles), Z.D.F. (Mainz); un film ecrit et realise par Chantal Akerman; producteur delegue, Alain Dahan. 1 videocassette (120 [i.e. 127] min.) VHS format. Videocassette release of the 1978 motion picture.
Anna, an independent film director, journeys through Germany, Belgium and France to promote her new work and encounters a variety of people.
LOCATION = JOU PN1997 .R45 1990 VIDEOTAPE

Les Rendez-vous de Paris / per Eric Rohmer; directed and written by Eric Rohmer; producer, Francoise Etchegaray. 1 videocassette (100 min.) In French with enhanced English subtitles. Originally produced as motion picture in 1995. VHS format.
A comedy about three young couples as they face the vanities, cruelties and deceptions of their romantic entanglements.
LOCATION =JOU PN1995.9.F67 R446 1997 VIDEOTAPE

Le Retour de Martin Guerre = The return of Martin Guerre / [presentee par] La societe francaise de production cinematographique, La societe de production des films Marcel Dassault, France region 3. 1 videodisc (123 min.) In French with English subtitles. Originally produced as motion picture in 1982.
The plot revolves around the unraveling of the identity of a 16th century peasant who disappeared as a young husband, and the man who returns to resume his marriage nine years later.
LOCATION =MIC PN1997 .R48 1997 DVD
LOCATION = MIC PN1997 .R48 1996 VIDEOTAPE

Rien ne va Plus = The Swindle / MK2 Productions; a film by Claude Chabrol. 1 videocassette (105 min.) A videocassette release of the 1997 motion picture. In French with English subtitles. VHS format.
Betty and Victor are a pair of scam artists. One day Betty brings in Maurice, a courier for money-laundering mobsters. Using millions to lure Victor into her con, Betty arranges what she thinks is the perfect shakedown.
LOCATION = MIC PN1997 .R539 2000 VIDEOTAPE

Le Roman d'un Tricheur = The Story of a Cheat / La Societe Films Sonores Tobis presente; une production Cineas; [conceived and directed by Sacha Guitry] 1 videocassette (83 min.) In French, with English subtitles. Based on the novel: Memoires d'un tricheur / by Sacha Guitry. Originally released as a motion picture in 1936. VHS format.
The hero discovers at the tender age of 11 that dishonesty is probably the best policy and then sets out to put his theory into practice.
LOCATION =JOU PN1995.9.C55 R644 1994 VIDEOTAPE

Romeo et Juliette / music by Charles-Francois Gounod; libretto by Jules Barbier and Miche Carre; production of the Royal Opera in co-production with the Theatre du Capitole Toulouse and Opera-Comique Paris. 1 videocassette. 170 min VHS. Sung in French subtitled in English. Filmed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
LOCATION =MUS M1500.G68 R65 1994 VIDEOTAPE

Rosetta / October Films; Les Films du Fleuve/ARP. 1 videocassette (95 min.) Videocassette release of the 1999 motion picture. In French with English subtitles. VHS format.
Rosetta, a shy 17-year-old girl, lives with her alcoholic mother in a trailer park in Belgium. Desperate to live a normal life, her one ambition is to get and keep a job.
LOCATION = MIC PN1997 .R677 2000 VIDEOTAPE

Rostov-Luanda / un film de/ein Film von Abderrahmane Sissako; une production de/eine Produktion von Movimento en coproduction avec/in Ko-Produktion ZDF, RTBF & Morgane Films. 1 videocassette (59 min., 36 sec.) French and Portuguese with English subtitles. VHS format.
Sissako spent a year in Rostov on the Don and there became friends with a young man from Angola. This film chronicles the director' s search for a friend of the past. In this personal retrospective, Sissako encounters present-day Angola and traces the great lines of Africa's recent history.
LOCATION =MAIN DT611.9.L6 R67 1997

Samson et Dalila / by Camille Saint-Saens; produced by BBC TV in association with Covent Garden Video Productions. New York, N.Y.: Thorn EMI HBO Video, 1981. 1 videocassette (135 min.)VHS format. Sung in French. Contains English subtitles.
A dramatization of Chapter 16 of the Book of Judges in which Samson, an Israelite judge of extraordinary strength, was betrayed to the Philistines by Delilah who cut his hair as he slept and thus deprived him of his strength.
LOCATION = MUS M1500.S225 S35 VIDEOTAPE

Samt al-qusur = The Silences of the Palace = Les Silences du Palais / a Mat Films, Cinetelefims, Magfilm coproduction. 1 videocassette (127 min.) VHS format. Arabic/French with English subtitles.
Set in Tunisia in the 1950's. Alia, the young servant-girl played by Hend Sabri, is misused by her masters and wooed by the rebel.
LOCATION =JOU PN1997 .S2835 1995 VIDEOTAPE

Shoah / a film by Claude Lanzmann: co-production by Les Films Aleph and Historia Films. [Hollywood, CA]: Paramount Video; New York, NY:1985. 5 videocassettes (570 min.) VHS format. Accompanied by booklet. Issued in slipcase. Interviewees speak in their own language with a French translation and English subtitles.
Interviews with death-camp survivors and Nazi functionaries. Shows present-day view of some of the concentration camps.
LOCATION = JDC DS135.P7 S5263 1985 VIDEOTAPE

Simone Barbes ou la Vertu / MK 2 Diffusion presente; film de Marie-Claude Treilhan. 1 videodisc (76 min.) French language with English subtitles. Originally released as a motion picture in 1979. DVD format.
"Simone is a quirky usherette who works at a Paris porno theater where she and a jaded, wise-cracking friend pass the time by making fun of the theater's embarrassed clientele. When Simone isn't working, she watches her lesbian lover perform an elaborate burlesque parody at a seedy nightclub where intimacy is a commodity to be bargained for. But when Simone embarks on an erotic adventure of her own, her cynical urban facade is stripped away, revealing a vulnerable young woman adrift in an emotional wasteland where sex is a dangerous game strictly for kicks."--Container.
LOCATION = JOU PN1995.9.L48 S46 2000 DVD

Soigne ta Droite! = Keep Your Right Up! / Gaumont, JLG Films, Xanadu Films, RTSR French production [presentement]; written & directed by Jean-Luc Godard. 1 videodisc (82 min.) French dialogue, English subtitles. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1987. DVD format.
"The Idiot" (also known as "The Prince") has been guaranteed financing for a film, but only if he can deliver it within 24 hours. He encounters all sorts of hilarious problems as he attempts to do so. Meanwhile, a pop group works on a new album.
LOCATION = JOU PN1995.9.C55 K33 2001 DVD

The Sorrow and the Pity: Chronicle of a French Town During the Occupation = La Chagrin et la Pitie: Chronique d'une Ville Francaise Sous l'Occupation / a Milestone Film release; director, Marcel Ophuls ; producers, Andre Harris and Alain de Sedouy. 2 videocassettes (ca. 250 min.) Videocassette release of the 1969 motion picture. English, French and German dialogue, with subtitles. VHS format.
Through interviews with participants and newsreel footage, examines the occupation of France by the Germans during World War II as it occurred in the French city of Clermont-Ferrand. Concentrates on the themes of collaboration and resistance.
LOCATION = MIC DC397 .C374 2000 VIDEOTAPE

Sous les Toits de Paris = Under the Roofs of Paris / Les Films Sonores Tobis presents a film by Rene Clair; Janus Films. 1 videocassette (92 min.) In French with English subtitles. Videocassette release of the 1930 motion picture. VHS format.
A Parisian street singer falls in love with a girl, fights her lover, and proves himself innocent of theft.
LOCATION = MIC PN1995.9.F67 S68 2000 VIDEOTAPE

Special Police / une film de Michel Vianey. 1 videocassette (ca. 92 min.) In French with yellow English subtitles. VHS format.
When Isabelle's brother is murdered, she contacts a police inspector who discovers that her brother was involved in an unsavory political movement.
LOCATION =JOU PN1995.9.G3 S73 1993 VIDEOTAPE

The Spirit of Freedom / written by Bernard-Henr Levy; directed by Alain Ferrari; English language version produced by Mark Kidel with Illuminations TV. 4 videodiscs (52 min. each) Dialogue in English and French; subtitles in English. Originally produced as documentary film in France in 1990. DVD format.
Explores the evolution of the French intellectuals of the 20th century, including their political and social views. Includes archival film footage.
[pt. 1-2] Great expectations; Days of contempt -- [pt. 3-4] Lost illusions; The demise of the prophets.
LOCATION = MIC DC33.7 .S67 2003 DVD

Stavisky / une co-production Franco-Italienne; Cerito Films, Films Ariane, Euro International Films. 1 videodisc (112 min.) Originally released as a motion picture in 1974. In French with English subtitles. DVD format.
An exquisite recounting of the climatic days in 1933 in the career of Stavisky, the con man turned international financier whose ruin resulted in political scandal and his own mysterious death.
LOCATION = JOU PN1997 .S7 2002 DVD
LOCATION = JOU PN1997 .S7 2000 VIDEOTAPE

The Story of Adele H. = L'Histoire d'Adele H. / Les Films du Carrosse, Les Productions Artistes Associes. Culver City, CA: MGM/UA Home Video, 1991. 1 videocassette (VHS) (97 min.) Based on the published journals of Adele Hugo. Originally issued as a motion picture in 1975. Dialogue in French with English subtitles. VHS format.
Based on the true story of Adele Hugo's obsessive and one-sided love affair with a lieutenant in the English Army, which took her from her family and home to Halifax and then Barbados to pursue a womanizer who wished to have nothing more to do with her. She distorts reality to ease her pain and finally obsession becomes madness.
LOCATION = MIC PN1997 .S725 1991 VIDEOTAPE

Summer / Les Films du Losange. 1 videocassette (98 min.) In French with English subtitles. VHS format.
After a disastrous stay in the mountains, Delphine (Marie Riviere) ends up on the beaches of Biarritz where she meets Lena (Carita), a Swedish girl who smothers her with good advice. Delhire decides to go home after finding her efforts to have a good time were failing, only to meet the perfect stranger at the train station.
LOCATION = MIC PN1997 .S822 1986 VIDEOTAPE

Sur la Terre Comme au Ciel = Between Heaven and Earth / Man's Films. 1 videocassette (80 min.) VHS format. Videocassette release of the 1992 motion picture. In French with English subtitles.
A single career woman, a television journalist, finds herself pregnant, and enjoys a normal pregnancy until she covers a violent political demonstration. Then her baby begins talking to her, saying that unborn children don't want to enter a world full of trouble. When she discovers that many pregnancies are overdue and induced labors result in still born births, she decides to try to convince her child to give the world a chance.
LOCATION =JOU PN1995.9.F78 S87 1994 VIDEOTAPE

La Sylphide / Pierre Lacotte. Sea Bright, N.J.: Kultur International Films, 1971. 1 videocassette (81 min.)Title from videocassette label. VHS format.
A soon-to-be married, young Scottish farmer falls in love with a woodland sylph. He follows her only to lose both her and his bride-to-be.
LOCATION = MUS GV1790.S95 S95 VIDEOTAPE

Tartuffe / de Moliere; RTF & La Societe des comediens francaise; realisation, Pierre Badel. 1 videocassette (120 min.) In French with English subtitles. VHS format.
Tartuffe, Moliere's master of unctuous evil, insinuates himself into a wealthy Parisian household in this indictment of religious hypocrisy.
LOCATION = MIC PQ1842 .A1 1989 VIDEOTAPE

La Terreur / de Francois Furet et Roger Stephane; une coproduction la SEPT, F.R.3. et l'Auditorium de l'Etoile; avec la participation de la Mission du Bicentenaire de la Revolution Francaise et du Centre National de la Cinematographie et du Centre National de la Cinematographie (C.N.C.); commentaire ecrit et dit par Francoise Furet; producteur delegue, Jean-Jacques Touboul; realisation, Chantal Rogeon. 1 videocassette (52 min.) VHS format. In French. Original French television production.
Examines the rise of the Jacobins, the trial of the king, the fall of the Girondists, the Revolutionary government, suspension of the constitution, centralization of power in the hands of the committees--the Reign of Terror.
LOCATION =JOU DC148 .T37 1994 VIDEOTAPE

Le Theatre de Tadeusz Kantor = The Theatre of Tadeusz Kantor / un coproduction CNRS Audiovisuel et Arcanal ministere de la Culture; un film de Denis Bablet; direction de la production Barbarine Feinberg; adaptation [par] Sally Jane Norman. 1 videocassette (145 min.) Dialogue in French, English and Polish; subtitles in English. Originally produced as documentary film in France in 1985. VHS format.
Documentary on the life and works of a true genius of the 20th century Polish theater. Traces his roots as a visual artist in Poland and explores his ingenious methods of designing the props. Includes rare scenes of Kantor at work with the dedicated actors in his troupe Teatre Cricot 2.
LOCATION = MIC PN2859.P66 K374 1991 VIDEOTAPE

Therese / Circle Films; a film by Alain Cavalier. 1 videocassette (90 min.) French with English subtitles. VHS format.
The story of St. Therese, the little flower.
LOCATION = MIC BX4700.T5 T43 1986 VIDEOTAPE

Tirez sur le Pianiste = Shoot the Piano Player /Les Films de la Pleiade. 1 videodisc (84 min.) In French, with English subtitles. From the novel "Down there" by David Goodis. Originally released as a motion picture in 1960. .
A timid cafe pianist has given up his career as a concert pianist, a career which had destroyed his marriage. Events force his involvement with gangsters who once again cause him to be responsible for the destruction of his life.
LOCATION =JOU PN1997 .T53 1999 DVD
LOCATION = MIC PN1997 .T53 1999 VIDEOTAPE

Two English Girls = Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent / Les Films du Carrosse-Cinetel; film by Francois Truffaut. 1 videocassette (130 min.) VHS format. French language with English subtitles. Based on the novel "Les deux Anglaises et le continent" by Henri Pierre Roche. Videocassette release of the 1971 motion picture.
Two English sisters at the turn of the century are in love with the same man for seven years. His inability to choose between them (compounded by his overpossessive mother), and the girls' own powerful passions-- both expressed and repressed-- create a painful, emotionally charged triangle.
LOCATION = MIC PN1997 .D478 1999 VIDEOTAPE

Uranus / Prestige Films; Renn Productions. 1 videocassette (100 min.) VHS format. French with English subtitles. Videocassette release of the 1991 motion picture. Based on the novel by Marcel Ayme.
Set in a small village in post-World War II France. An informer seeking revenge on a tavern owner claims a Nazi collaborator is hiding in the tavern. This throws the village into an uproar.
LOCATION =JOU PN1995.9.F67 U73 1992 VIDEOTAPE

Vagabond = Sans Toit ni Loi / Cine Tamaris. [Irvington, NY]: Criterion Collection, c2000. 1 videodisc (105 min.) Videodisc release of the 1985 motion picture. French with English subtitles. DVD format.
An aimless drifter wandering through the wintry French countryside encounters violence, hunger, fear and cold, yet touches the lives of the people she meets with her own ideas of freedom.
LOCATION = JOU PN1995.9.F67 S34 2000 DVD

Viagem ao Principio do Mundo = Journey to the Beginning of the World / Madragoa Filmes ... [et al.]; argumento e dialogos de Manoel de Oliveira; produzido por Paulo Branco; realizacao de Manoel de Oliveira. 1 videocassette (95 min.) Originally released as a motion picture in 1997. In French with English subtitles. VHS format.
An aging film director, on location in Portugal, takes three actor friends on a driving tour of a mountain village where oneof the actors, born in France but of Portuguese descent, is united with an elderly aunt he has never met. The filmmakers speculate on beginnings and endings, what remains of the past and what is lost.
LOCATION =MIC PN1995.9.F67 V4753 1999 VIDEOTAPE

La Vie est Belle = Life is Rosy / production, Lamy Films, Stephan Films, Sol'oeil Films en co-production avec l'O.Z.R.T. (Office zairois de radiodiffusion et de television ... [et al.]; scenario, Ngangura Mweze, Maryse Leon, Benoit Lamy; realisation, Benoit Lamy, Ngangura Mweze. 1 videocassette (83 min.) In French with English subtitles. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1987. VHS format.
La Vie est belle tells the rags to riches story of Kourou, a poor rural musician who realizes that to succeed in today's music world he must go to the city and break into radio and television. In Kinshasa he uses his wit and talent to win a beautiful wife, trick his greedy boss and succeed in singing his "theme song" on national television. Although the film is primarily entertainment, it reveals much about class divisions, male-female relations, the desires of the urban poor, and the economic and social problems confronting rural immigrants to the cities of Zaire.
LOCATION = MIC PN1997 .V539 1991 VIDEOTAPE

La Vie Parisienne / a co-production by l'Opera National de Lyon / Ile de France Opera and Ballet/Opera de Montpelier/Allianco Operas. 1 videodisc (161 min.) Sung in French. Recorded in 1991. DVD format.
A swift-moving pageant of characters and events capturing the spirit of Paris in the 1860s.
LOCATION = MUS M1500.O32 V43 2002 DVD

La vie Quotidienne a la Cour de Versailles aux XVIIeme et XVIIIeme Siecles / S.F.P. et Hachette; un film ecrit et realise par Dominique Delouche; producteur, Roger Fauriat. 1 videocassette (60 min.) VHS format. Narration in English, dramatic sequences in French. Based on the book of the same title by Jacques Levron. Made in 1981.
Presents an overview of royal life at the courts of Louis XIV, Louis XV, and Louis XVI at the palace of Versailles in documentary sequences and dramatic readings from the memoirs of courtiers and members of the royal family.
LOCATION =JOU DC33.4 .V54 1993 VIDEOTAPE

La Vie sur Terre = Life on Earth / Carole Scotta and Caroline Benjo present a WinStar Cinema and Arte/Haut et Court presentation; a film by Abderrahmane Sissako. 1 videodisc (61 min.) Originally broadcast as part of the television program 2000 Vu Par in 1998. In French and Bambara, with English subtitles. DVD format.
A film about the significance of the start of the 21st Century for people still struggling to enter the 20th. Abderrahmane Sissako's solution was to improvise a 'fictional documentary' out of daily life in Sokolo, his father's village in Mali near the southeastern corner of Mauritania. He then overlaid these vignettes with readings from Aime Cesaire ... Behind all of this, he weaves the melancholy tones ["Folon"] of the great Malian tenor, Salif Keita and music by other artists.
LOCATION = MAIN PN1997 .V5394 2000 DVD

Les Violons du Bal / produit par Port Royal Films. 1 videocassette (105 min.) French with English subtitles. Videocassette release of the 1974 motion picture. VHS format.
Filmmaker Michel Drach tells the story of his childhood during World War II and his family's escape from the Nazis. But no producer would finance the project until he cast Jean-Louis Trintignant as himself. The film intercuts between his present quest to make the film and the past viewed from a child's perspective.
LOCATION =JOU PN1995.9.F67 V528 1993 VIDEOTAPE

Vivre sa Vie: Film en Douze Tableaux = My Life to Live : A Film in Twelve Scenes / Les Films de la Pleiade. 1 videodisc (85 min.) In French with English subtitles. Originally released in 1962 as motion picture. Based on a work by Marcel Sacotte. DVD format.
Tells the story of Nana, a young mother who leaves her family behind to pursue an acting career, but instead slips into a life of prostitution on the streets of Paris.
LOCATION =JOU PN1997 .V5685 1998 DVD

Les Voleurs = Thieves / [presented by] Alain Sarde; un film de Andre Techine. 1 videocassette (116 min.) French with yellow English subtitles. VHS format.
A sophisticated professor falls in love with a young thief and falls into a world of murder and self-destruction.
LOCATION =JOU PN1995.9.F67 V64 1996 VIDEOTAPE

Waiting for Happiness: a film / by Abderrahmane Sissako. [New York: New Yorker Films], 2002. 1 videocassette (95 min.) Originally released as a motion picture in 2002. In French with English subtitles. VHS format.
Abdallah returns to his homeland, a seaside town of Nouadhibou in Mauritania, for an indeterminate amount of time. Now a stranger to his own community and language, the young man tries to absorb as much local color (literally and figuratively) before embarking for Europe.
LOCATION = MAIN PN1997.2 .W3 2002 VIDEOTAPE

Un Week-end sur Deux = Every Other Weekend / by Sara Films. 1 videocassette (100 min.) In French with yellow English subtitles. Originally produced as motion picture in 1989. VHS format.
Camille, a once-famous television actress, is hoping to revive her relationship with her two young children. She divorced her husband and gave up her kids in pursuit of her career, but now, with that career declining, she wants to be a mother again and kidnaps the children in a desperate effort to recreate her lost family unit.
LOCATION =JOU PN1995.9.M63 W43 1996 VIDEOTAPE

Werther / Jules Massenet; podla romanu J.W. Goetheho libreto napisali E. Blau, P. Milliet, a G. Hartmann; vyrobila, Ceskoslovenska televizia Bratislava v koprodukcii s TV2000 a ZDF. 1 videodisc (101 min.) Videodisc release of the television production made in 1985. Opera; sung in French. DVD
Werther by Jules Massenet, after Goethe's novel, is the story of a young poet and his tragic love affair with Charlotte, the eldest daughter of the town Magistrate.
LOCATION = MUS M1500.M415 W4 1999 DVD

White / Miramax Films presents a Marin Karmitz/MK2 Productions SA production; a film by Krzysztof Kieslowski, Janusz Gajos, Jerzy Stuhr. [Burbank, Calif.]: Miramax Home Entertainment, [1995]. 1 videocassette (92 min.) French and Polish with yellow English subtitles. Originally released as motion picture in 1994. Hi-fi Dolby surround stereo; digitally mastered. Rated R. "This film has been modified from its original version. It has been formatted to fit your TV."VHS format.
Part of a trilogy of films (Three colors) by director Krzysztof Kieslowski, White presents the mysterious tale of a man whose life disintegrates when his beautiful wife of six months deserts him. Forced to begin anew, he rebuilds his life, only to plan a dangerous scheme of vengeance against her.
LOCATION = MIC PN1997 .W48978 1995 VIDEOTAPE

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