Juliette Binoche
2) Elles
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 99 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A provocative and raw exploration of female sexuality, director Malgoska Szumowska's Elles paints an unromantic picture of upper-crust domesticity refracted through the vibrant eroticism of prostitution. Vacillating between opposing worlds defined alternatively by sexual freedom and constraint, Elles stars the fearless Juliette Binoche (Chocolat) as Anne, a well-off Parisian journalist investigating the lives of two student prostitutes (Joanna Kulig...
Series
Criterion collection volume 612
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Two-DVD special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
What seems at first to be a straightforward tale of two people getting to know each other over the course of an afternoon gradually reveals itself as something richer, stranger, and trickier: a mind-bending reflection on authenticity, in art as well as in relationships. Both cerebrally and emotionally engaging, reminds us that love itself is an enigma.
Publisher
Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Shows Camille Claudel, a protégé and mistress of Auguste Rodin, in 1915 when she was imprisoned in an insane asylum. Camille was also the sister of the Christian mystic poet Paul Claudel, the last of her family to pay her regular visits. Inspired by the correspondence between Paul and Camille, the movie focuses on Camille's struggle to maintain a sense of normalcy in a crowd of schizophrenics. Suffering from bouts of paranoia, she focuses on her...
5) Rendez-vous
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Nina moves to Paris to become an actress where she has a profound impact on three men.
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (118 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
On assignment while photographing a female suicide bomber in Kabul, Rebecca, one of the world's top war photojournalists, gets badly hurt. Back home, another bomb drops as her husband and daughters give her an ultimatum: her work or her family.
7) Cosmopolis
Publisher
Entertainment One
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Eric Packer, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager, heads out in his tricked-out stretch limo, while remotely wagering his company's massive fortune on a bet against the Chinese Yuan. Little does he know his perfectly ordered, doubt-free world is about to implode.
8) Chocolat
Series
Publisher
Miramax Films presents
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
[Miramax collector's series version includes The making of Chocolat, feature commentary with Lasse Hallstrm̲, David Brown, Kit Golden and Leslie Holleran, the costumes, production design featurette, and deleted scenes. English and French language tracks w
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in a small town in rural France in 1960. Vianne Rocher and her pre-teen daughter move to town and open a chocolate shop across from the local church just as Lent is beginning. Vianne's warm heart and delicious chocolate win over some of the townspeople, but the mayor and others object to her freethinking and iconoclastic ways.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 162 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
At the end of World War II, a mysterious, horribly burned man who claims not to remember his name, known only as the "English patient," lies near death in an Italian villa. He is cared for by a quietly desperate young nurse, Hana, herself a victim of the war. With her at the villa are Kip, a young Sikh bomb-disposal expert, and a shadowy thief with bandaged hands named Caravaggio. The key to the burned man's past may lie in his commonplace book, a...
10) Hail Mary
Publisher
New Yorker Films
Pub. Date
1985
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min., 37 sec.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A controversial film which is an updating of the story of Christ's birth.
11) Summer hours
Series
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
2 digital videodiscs (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The divergent paths of three adult siblings collide when their mother, heiress to an exceptional 19th century art collection, dies suddenly.
Publisher
Trimark Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Based on a true story about revenge, fear and redemption. In 19th century St. Pierre, a convict sentenced to death strives to better himself in the eyes of the police chief's beautiful wife and that of the town that she has him working in. Since there is no guillotine or executioner, one of each has to be sent for from France.
13) Godzilla
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
While investigating his mother's death in 1999 at a nuclear power plant, Ford Brody, discovers a conspiracy to hide the fact that giant monsters exist. But it doesn't take long for the world to also find out, as a "Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organism" attacks Hawaii and Godzilla turns up. Ford, a U.S. Navy officer who works with bomb disposal, helps the military to use warheads to defeat the monsters.
14) The staircase
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (520 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a true story, The Staircase follows writer and war veteran Michael Peterson after the suspicious death of his wife Kathleen. On December 9, 2001, Michael makes a frantic 911 call reporting Kathleen has fallen down the stairs of their Durham, NC home. But when the district attorney brings murder charges, members of Michael's blended family must choose whose side they're on and which version of events to believe. As the case becomes engulfed...