Jane Sloan Media Librarian jsloan@rci.rutgers.edu August 2006

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Feature Films France

This guide is a browsing aid to selected titles in the video/DVD collections at Rutgers Libraries. The most up-to-date, accurate, and complete information regarding the libraries' holdings is available only through IRIS, our online catalog.

The 400 blows Les quatre cents coups 1992

First of Truffaut's Antoine Doinet series. 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.

1 videocassette (99 min.) :

DANA 462

Adolphe de Benjamin Constant 2003

1 videodisc (99 min.)

MEDIA 10-332

Alphaville 198-

Secret agent Lemmy Caution travels to Alphaville, a futuristic, computer-ruled city to bring back scientist Dr. Von Braun. Caution manages to foil the plans of the ruling computer, Alpha 60, but also reintroduces lost emotions to the heroine.

1 videocassette (VHS) (98 min.) :

MEDIA 2-338

Les anges du peche Angels of sin 199

Anne-Marie, a passionately devout novice in a Dominican convent whose mission is the rehabilitation of women's prison inmates, takes a strong interest in one prisoner, Thérèse, urging her to seek help from the sisters when her term is up. Thérèse does, but only after taking fatal revenge on the lover who'd caused her to be unjustly convicted and imprisoned.

1 videocassette (ca. 90 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5327

Artemisia 1998

Artemisia Gentileschi, the beautiful and talented daughter of one of Italy's greatest painters, is forbidden to fully pursue her own passion for painting. When she convinces renowned and unconventional Agostino Tassi to tutor her, he not only liberates her talent as an artist, but initiates her into the treacherous world of love.

1 videocasette (ca. 96 min.) :

MEDIA MEDIA 2-5648 10-107

Ascenseur pour l'échafaud Elevator to the gallows 1991

Love and fear produce death in this murder drama. The plot to murder his lover's husband backfires when Tavernier is charged with two other murders.

1 videocassette (87 min.)

JAZZ 426

Au hasard Balthazar 197-

Balthazar, a donkey, whose life and death provide the formal structure of the film, symbolizes the innocence of the physical world. In combination with the actions of the five protagonists, the donkey assumes human proportions.

1 videocassette (95 min.) :

MEDIA D-444

Au revoir les enfants Goodbye, children 1989

Boyhood memories of Catholic boarding school during the 1940s German occupation of France.

1 videocassette (103 min.) :

DANA. MEDIA 279 2-776

Le Bal 1984

Nominated for an Academy Award as Best Foreign Film of 1983. Set in a Parisian dance hall, everything is communicated via pantomime with no dialogue. The music tells the story, as each couple takes to the dance floor. The music and dance illustrate key moments in French social history. Based on the popular stage production, this film also won the Silver Bear award for direction at the Berlin Film Festival.

1 videocassette (VHS) (113 min.) :

MEDIA 2-265

Beau travail 2002

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.

1 videodisc (90 minutes)

MEDIA 10-149

Beauty and the beast La belle et la bête 1990?

Dramatized adaptation of the classic fairy tale. Tells the fable of the kindly beast and the self-sacrificing beauty whose love releases the prince in him. Contains such visual displays as tears that become real diamonds and walls that grow arms to light Beauty's path through the castle of the Beast.

1 videocassette (93 min.) :

DANA. MEDIA 273 2-125

La Bête humaine The human beast 198

A railroad engineer, who is subject to fits of madness, falls for an attractive married woman and becomes involved in circumstances he cannot control. Zola's haunting psychological drama of murder, revenge, conscience and the eternal triangle is transposed with ease into the 1930's by Renoir, who also preserves the train as an important setting, recurrant motif and "actor.".

1 videocassette (92 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1286

Blue 1994

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.

1 videocassette (98 min.) :

DANA 919

Bob le flambeur Bob the gambler 198-

Bob the gambler, a legendary Paris crook, attempts the biggest robbery of his career at the Deauville Casino.

1 videocassette (VHS) (100 min.) :

MEDIA 2-177

Le Bonheur 198-

A young happily married carpenter falls for another woman. He feels that he can love both women, and they will share him.

1 videocassette (87 min.) :

MEDIA 2-470

Les bonnes femmes The girls 199

A compassionate and archly ironic look at four shop girls whose dreams of a better life lead them to music hall singing, a pleasure seeking binge, an unhappy marriage and a doomed search for "true love" respectively.

1 videocassette (105 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2762

Le Boucher 1992

In a provincial French town, a sophisticated schoolmistress avoids attachments but strikes up a congenial friendship with the charmingly passionate local butcher, a veteran of Indochina. As a serial killer spreads terror throughout the countryside, the effort of these two people to come back from their emotional islands to some kind of mutual understanding and reality builds from oblique tenderness and humor to shattering tragedy.

1 videocassette (90 min.) :

MEDIA MEDIA 2-2655 7-87

Boudu saved from drowning Boudu sauvé des eaux 198-

A Parisian antiquarian bookseller saves a tramp, Boudu, from suicide in the Seine and, feeling responsible for him, lets him live in his house. Boudu totally disregards proprieties, seduces the wife and the maid. He marries the maid, but accidentally falls into the river after the ceremony, rediscovers his liberty, and returns to his wanderings.

1 videocassette (87 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1242

A bout de souffle Breathless 2001

A small-time hood kills a policeman and tries to leave France, but his American girlfriend betrays him to the police and he gets killed trying to escape.

1 videodisc (90 min.) :

MEDIA 10-205

La bête humaine 1938

Fate drives a man to murder and suicide. A railroad engineer, descended from a family subject to fits of madness, falls in love with a beautiful married woman. Plotting together to kill her husband, circumstances spin out of control, and he finally strangles her instead.

1 videocassette (75 min.)

MEDIA 2-6799

Camille Claudel 1989

International screen star Isabelle Adjan ; is the creative prodigy Camille Claudel. Gérard Depardieu is the legendary sculptor Rodin. This is the true story of their passionate obsession with art--and with each other.

1 videocassette (149 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1458

Carnival in Flanders La Kermesse héroïque 198

Tongue-in-cheek from start to finish, the story satirizes a favorite wartime theme, the daring and resourcefulness of citizens threatened by invaders. Set in Spanish-occupied Belgium in 1616, the film is noted for its subtle humor, witty acting and magnificent decor.

1 videocassette (90 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1135

Ceux qui m'aiment prendront le train Those who love me can take the train 2000

A minor painter, son of a wealthy family has died and wanted to be buried in his home town of Limoges. Those who loved him in various ways take the train and review their lives on the way to bury him.

1 videodisc (122 min.) :

MEDIA 10-20

Chaos 2003

Bourgeois couple Hélène and Paul witness Malika, a young prostitute, being attacked by thugs and Paul immediately speeds off. Remorseful, Hélène tracks down Malika in the hospital. As she nurses Malika back to health, Malika tells Hélène a shocking story of how she was turned into a sex slave by a vicious criminal organization. Hélène and Malika join forces to double-cross her pimps and gets both her freedom and her revenge.

1 videodisc (107 min.)

MEDIA 10-640

Chocolat 2001

When a single mother and her young daughter move to rural France and open a chocolate shop - with Sunday hours - across the street from the local church, they are met with some resistance from the rigidly moral community. But as soon as the townspeople discover their delicious products, their attitudes begin to change.

1 videocassette (ca. 122 min.) :

DANA 1650

Chocolat 2001

A young woman returns to Cameroon to trace her past in this enthralling depiction of a family's struggle during the final years of French colonialism in Africa that takes a profound look at the intricate nature of relationships in a racist society.

1 videodisc (106 min.) :

MEDIA 10-83

Cleo de 5 à 7 198-

A girl waiting for the results of a medical examination wanders around Paris thinking she has cancer.

1 videocassette (VHS) (90 min.) :

MEDIA 2-355

Cléo de 5 à 7 2000

A girl waiting for the result of a medical examination wanders around Paris thinking she has cancer.

1 videodisc (90 min.) :

MEDIA 10-29

Comment ca va? 1995

1 videocassette (78 min.) :

DANA 489

Contempt 1984

A young French dramatist living in Rome accepts an assignment to write a screenplay for an American film producer.

1 videocassette (102 min.) :

MEDIA 2-258

Contes des quatre saisons: Conte d'automne Tales of the four seasons: Autumn tale 1999

Magali is a 45-year old winegrower whose children have just left home and whose friends are trying to find her a man. The results are hilarious, heartwaming and totally unpredictable.

1 videocassette (ca. 110 min.)

MEDIA 2-6878

Le corbeau The raven 1943

Story of a community somewhere in France which is stirred to explosive suspicions by a flood of letters from an unknown "poison pen.".

1 videocassette (92 min.)

MEDIA D-425

"Coup de foudre" 1998

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.

1 videocassette (112 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5357

The Crucible 1995

John Proctor is a middle aged, married farmer whose infidelity leads to tragedy. When he ends the brief affair, his young mistress launches a vendetta, charging that Proctor's wife practices witchcraft. The accusation ignites a wave of hysteria among the villagers, culminating in a trial of both Proctor and his wife.

1 videocassette (108 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3032

Les dames du Bois de Bologne 1995

A woman who is growing apart from her lover finds he is also bored with the relationship. This disturbs her and she introduces him to a woman he finds appealing who has been a prostitute, a damaging circumstance to one of his class.

1 videocassette (83 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5328

Danton 1984

Historical drama portraying the aftermath of the French Revolution. The new Republic is in disarray, threatened by the dictatorship and "Reign of Terror" brought about by Robespierre, when Georges Danton, the popular revolutionary hero returns to Paris to plead with the people for an end to the bloodshed. What begins as a public cause soon turns into a personal conflict between Danton and Robespierre and Robespierre subsequently has Danton arrested for treason and condemned to the guillotine.

1 videocassette (VHS) (136 min.) :

MEDIA 2-231

Day for night 1989

An "homage to moviemaking," this film details the loves and lunacy of the closely-knit family of strangers that comprises an on-location film, cast and crew.

1 videocassette (116 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5213

La dentellière Lacemaker 199

A tragic love story about a shy beautician and a handsome but insensitive student.

1 videocassette (107 min.)

MEDIA 2-6699

Le Dernier metro The Last metro 1992

It is Paris, 1942, and against a backdrop of fear and desperation, a tender love story unfolds. A renowned Jewish theatrical director is forced to hide in the cellar of the theatre, leaving the management of the prestigious Montmartre to his devoted actress wife.

1 videocassette (131 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1770

Le diable probablement The devil, probably 1997

Story follows Charles and his quartet of friends, all in revolt against the pollution of an industrialized consumer society.

1 videocassette (95 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5398

Les Diaboliques The Devils 198

A murder mystery set in a French boarding school. The forceful mistress and ailing wife of a tyrannical headmaster plan an elaborate scheme to kill him. The plot goes awry leading to a chilling climax.

1 videocassette (116 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1820

Diabolo menthe Peppermint soda 1993

The spirited and entertaining tale of two teen-aged sisters living in Paris in the turbulent year of 1963.

1 videocassette (97 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5356

Diary of a country priest 198-

The first internationally recognized work of the French cinema's most spiritual artist-director was this adaptation of Georges Bernanos' novel about a priest with a small rural parish who is thwarted by his community for his extreme piousness while he is slowly dying of cancer.

1 videocassette (VHS) (116 min.) :

MEDIA 2-349

Enfants des courants d'air 2003

A little boy lives in a very, very poor neighborhood with his grandfather. The film follows his activities, and those of his friends, until his grandfather has an attack and they take him to the hospital. With minimal dialogue, of which only the last line is important "Wait for me!".

1 videodisc (25 min.)

MEDIA 10-352

Les Enfants du paradis Children of paradise 199-

Set in the theatre district of early 19th century Paris, this film re-creates a glittering world of backstage life. Garance, a stunning and elusive courtesan, is loved by four men--the mime Debureau, the ambitious actor Lemaitre, the nihilistic villain Lacenaire, and the snobbish aristocrat Monteray.

2 videocassettes (195 min.) :

MEDIA. MEDIA 2-1605 cassette 1 2-1606 cassette 2

Les Enfants terribles 1991

A orphaned brother and sister share a tortured relationship that is not lessened in intensity by their intimate involvements with other people.

1 videocassette (107 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1594

Le Fantôme de la liberté Phantom of liberty 1987

Bunuel attacks society's false ideas of liberty from religion to politics using humor from high wit to low comedy.

1 videocassette (105 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3579

La femme infidele 2003

A man suspects his wife of infidelity so he hires a private detective to watch her, who confirms his worst fears.

1 videodisc (94 min.) :

MEDIA 10-176

La fille seule A single girl 1997

Drama showing a day in the life of a young Parisian woman named Valerie who is beginning a new job and who reveals to her boyfriend that she is four weeks pregnant.

1 videocassette (90 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5058

The Four hundred blows Les Quatre cents coups 1986?

"Twelve-year-old Antoine Doinel ... is enduring a thoroughly dismal adolescence. His incapable parents are constantly at odds, his teachers are unfeeling and the correction officials he eventually encounters are brutally cruel. Trapped and tormented, Antoine increasingly turns to crime and faces a future as bleak and uncentain as his present hopeless existence unless he can discover his own well-spring of strength inside himself"--External container.

1 videocassette (VHS) (97 min.) :

MEDIA 2-247

French cancan une comédie musicale 1988

A night club owner tries to fulfill his dream of opening a cancan stage show, but must first overcome the complications caused by romantic love.

1 videocassette (105 min.) :

MEDIA 2-616

Le Gai savoir The Joy of learning 199

Emile and Patricia stumble across each other in an abandoned TV studio. They meet for 7 nights to plan for a new cinema.

1 videocassette (96 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5105

Germinal 1994

The story of a miner's strike that destroys one family, yet plants the seeds of change for future generations.

2 videocassettes (ca. 166 min.)

MEDIA 2-6659, 6660

Les glaneurs et la glaneuse 2002

"Varda's most recent effort-- the first filmed with a digital videocamera-- focuses on gleaners, those who gather the spoils left after a harvest, as well as those who mine the trash. Some completely exist on the leavings; others turn them into art, exercise their ethics, or simply have fun. The director likens gleaning to her own profession-that of collecting images, stories, fragments of sound, light, and color."--www.imdb.com.

1 videodisc (82 min.) :

MEDIA 10-146

Le Grain de sable The Grain of sand 1987

A psychological portrait of a woman isolated from her past and alienated by the present.

1 videocassette (90 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5331

Grand illusion 1984

Two French Air Corps officers, one an aristocrat, are shot down and captured during World War I. In spite of their different class backgrounds, they are drawn together in escape attempts. The aristocrat sacrifices his own chances in order to aid his companion's escape. An antiwar film that treats the disillusionment of prisoners and captors alike.

1 videocassette (112 min.) :

MEDIA 2-148

La grande illusion 1999

In this classic tale of adventure, duty and honor conflict in a German prisoner-of-war camp when an aristocratic French officer becomes friends with the commandant while cooperating with his comrades in a daring escape.

1 videodisc (114 min.) :

MEDIA 10-21

Gribouille 1919

A juror in a murder trial, convinced the defendant is innocent, hires her to work in his bicycle shop after she is aquitted. Her presence provokes conflicts within his family.

1 videodisc (75 min.)

MEDIA 10-334

Hail Mary 1986

A modern-day virgin named Mary inexplicably becomes pregnant in this controversial film which discards notions of divinity in favor of the celebration of a lively, intellectual humanism.

1 videocassette (107 min.) :

MEDIA 2-627

Hiroshima, mon amour 1984

1 videocassette (88 min.) :

MEDIA 2-180

Hiroshima, mon amour 1994

A French actress enters into a brief romance with a Japanese architect in 1959 Hiroshima. She relives a traumatic war time romance and tries to find truth, love, and freedom from a past that haunts them both.

1 videocassette (88 min.) :

DANA 338

Hiroshima mon amour 2003

A Japanese architect and a French actress engage in a brief intense affair in Hiroshima in 1959. Both deal with their personal memories of World War II--he by articulating his firsthand experience with nuclear disaster, she by remembering her traumatic affair with a German soldier.

1 videodisc (90 min.)

MEDIA 10-274

Irma Vep 1998

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.

1 videodisc (96 min.) :

MEDIA 10-07

Jean de Florette 1988

Jean, a simple man from the country, inherits his mother's farm and hopes to become a gentleman farmer. His greedy, powerful neighbor, however, knows of a hidden spring on Jean's property, and plots to steal both the land and the water. Part 1 of two parts; the storyline is continued in Manon of the spring.

1 videocassette (122 min.) :

DANA 318

Le jour se leve 1939

A worker shoots a man and locks himself in his room. In a series of flashbacks, the worker remembers the unhappy love affair with a young girl and resulting complications which led to the murder.

1 videocassette (ca. 85 min.)

MEDIA D-391

Jules et Jim 1986?

The story of a friendship between two men, one German and the other French, and their twenty-year love for the same woman.

1 videocassette (110 min.) :

MEDIA 2-223

L'Age d'or 199

Surrealistic film about two lovers who mock convention and the society intent on preventing them from satisfying their desire.

1 videocassette (62 min.) :

MEDIA DANA 2-3051 339

L'Amour, l'après-midi Chloe in the afternoon 1999

The last of Rohmer's Six moral tales. Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene, a teacher expecting her second child. In the afternoons, Frederic daydreams about other women, but has no intention of taking any action. One day, Chloe, who had been a mistress of an old friend, begins dropping by his office. They meet as friends, irregularly in the afternoons, till eventually Chloe decides to seduce Frederic, causing him a moral dilemma.

1 videocassette (98 min.)

MEDIA 2-6862

L'anglaise et le duc 2002

Beautiful aristocrat Grace Elliott enjoys her comfortable upper-middle class life and warm friendship with her former lover the Dike of Orleans, until the turbulent French Revolution of the 1790s frighteningly begins. Their friendhsip unravels as Grace risks her life taking in a fugitive against the Duke's wishes. Soon, Grace urges the Duke not to make a horrifying decision. But ultimately she's unable to prevent several bloody fates-- including the possibility of her own.

1 videocassette (ca. 129 min.)

MEDIA 2-6858

L'Argent 1993

Through the maneuverings of some upperclass boys and shopkeepers, a working class man's life is ruined. Based on a story by Tolstoy, L'Argent exposes the greed and corruption of the rich who ignore the effect of their uncaring attitude on the poor.

1 videocassette (82 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5381

L'Argent de poche Small change 1985?

A deceptively simple story of children and the world they live in, starring youngsters who had never before acted in movies.

1 videocassette (106 min.) :

MEDIA 2-14

L'Argent de poche Small change 1991

A film which communicates the perilousness and grace of childhood by depicting humorous, serious and occasionally some grim scenes from the lives of ten French schoolchildren living in Thiers, a small town in southern France.

1 videocassette (105 min.) :

DANA 296

L'Atalante 1985?

Story follows some newlyweds on their barge, the "L'Atalante," up the Seine River. The bride is bored and, craving the excitement of Paris, starts flirting with other men.

1 videocassette (VHS) (82 min.) :

MEDIA 2-235

L'emploi du temps = Time out 2002?

<36 Contents>Businessman Vincent is leading a double life. He was fired from his job and constructed an elaborate fantasy of employment that has become his full-time occupation. Vincent must decide which of his lives is more important.

<41 Library Location> 10-480 10-480

L'Enfant sauvage = Wild child 198

A dramatization of the account written by the French physician, Jean Itard, of a child found living like an animal in the forests of Southern France at the end of the 18th century. The doctor's attempts to recondition the boy provides a unique opportunity to examine the effects of environment and heredity on a child's development.

1 videocassette (85 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1784

L' été meurtrier One deadly summer 1987

"Isabelle Adjani gives a sizzling performance in this unrelenting and enticing psychological thriller. As a sexy, volatile and unattainable woman of mystery known only as "She," Adjani returns to the small village of her mother's youth. There she uses her unearthly sexuality and savage passion to destroy the lives of the three men who raped and beat her mother years before."--Container.

1 videocassette (134 min.) :

DANA 1207

Laissez-passer Safe conduct 2004

Set in wartime France, this film depicts life during the Nazi occupation, against the background of the French film industry. The story follows two men who struggle to maintain their integrity while working for the German controlled Continental Film Studios.

1 videocassette (163 min.)

MEDIA 2-6802

Lancelot du lac 1995

Set in the last days of the doomed quest by Lancelot and the rest of King Arthur's knights for the Holy Grail, this is a tale of the end of the age of chivalry and the death of a dream.

1 videocassette (80 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5334

Last year at Marienbad 198-

A drama in which there is a meeting of three nameless characters in a large country chateau.

1 videocassette (93 min.) :

MEDIA 2-161

Last year at Marienbad 1994

A drama in which there is a meeting of three nameless characters in a vast baroque palace that has become a hotel. A young man tries to renew a love affair with a woman who apparently remembers nothing of either the affair or the young man. Resnais and Robbe-Grillet construct a narrative where past, present and future, the real world and the imaginary, intersect and converge in a infinite play of possibilities.

1 videocassette (93 min.) :

DANA 337

Les liaisons dangereuses Dangerous liaisons 2004

The beautiful Madame de Merteuil seeks vengeance when her ex-lover tells her that he is now engaged to her young goddaughter, Cécile. She turns to her partner-in-crime, Valmont, famous for his Don Juan reputation to seduce Cécile. Valmont gets sidetracked when he goes to visit his aunt and falls for Madame Tourvel, a virtuous, married woman who knows of his womanizing ways, but that only makes the challenge more exciting to Valmont. Together, Madame de Merteuil and Valmont make a dangerous team and they will stop at nothing when it comes to matters of the heart.--Container.

3 videodiscs (200 min.)

MEDIA 10-431

The Lower depths Les bas fonds 198

The story of a group of social outcasts living together in a filthy rooming house: some trying to escape, some attempting to adjust, and others merely hoping to maintain their illusions.

1 videocassette (ca. 91 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1400

Lucrèce Borgia Au secours! ; La folie du Docteur Tube 2000

Contents: Lucrèce Borgia / Henri A. Ullmann présente une production La Compagnie du Cinéma ; scénario original de Léopold Marchand et Henri Ventresse ; mise en scène d'Abel Gance (1935, 92 min.) -- Au secors! / Experimental Films ; director, Abel Gance (1923, 23 min.) -- La folie du Docteur Tube / Cinémathèque Francaise ; director, Abel Gance (1916, 11 min.) Performer Note: Lucrèce Borgia: Edwige Feuillere, Gabriel Gabrio, Maurice Esconde, Roger Karl, Josette Day Performer Note: Au secors!: Max Linder Performer Note: La folie du Docteur Tube: Albert Dieudonne Added Title: Au secours Added Title: Folie du Docteur TubeLucrèce Borgia: Cesare Borgia sees a way to obtain power when his father Rodrigo is named Pope and lets nothing stand in his way, not even his family members. Au Secours! :Uses experimental editing and photography to illustrate a man's adventures in a haunted house. La Folie Du Docteur Tube: An experimental comedy about a mad scientist who discovers a sneezing powder that can alter someone's physique.

1 videodisc (126 min.)

MEDIA 10-598

Ma vie en rose My life in pink 1999

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.

1 videodisc (ca. 88 min.)

MEDIA 10-616

Madame Bovary 2002

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.

1 videodisc (143 min.)

MEDIA 10-241

Man Ray films 1998

Retour à la raison (1923, 2 min.) -- Emak Bakia (1926, 20 min.) -- L'étoile de mer (1928, 15 min.) -- Mysteres du château du Dé (1929, 25 min.) -- 10 home movies (b&w, silent): Rue Campagne-Premiere (1923-1929); Corrida (1929); Autoportrait ou Ce qui manque a nous tous (1930); Poison (1933-1935); L'Atelier du Val-de-Grace (1935); Course landaise (1937); La Garoupe (1937); Ady (1938); Dance (1938); Juliet (1940)"This videocassette includes the four films which established Man Ray as a major figure of the 1920s avant-garde cinema...as well as eleven [sic] short 'autobiographical' films"--Container.

1 videocassette (112 min.) :

DANA 1471

La Marseillaise chronique de quelques faits ayant contribué à la chute de la monarchie 1988

A dramatization of the French Revolution, from the period immediately preceeding it in 1790 up to the first bloody confrontation.

1 videocassette (130 min.) :

MEDIA DANA 2-617 931

Masculin, feminin 1991

An essential work of the French new wave, Musculin, feminin is one of Godard's most popular and romantic films. Revolving around the love affair between a young pseudo-revolutionary and a pretty pop singer, this insightful film explores the go-go generation, sexuality and Paris in the sixties.

1 videocassette (103 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1732

Mina Tannenbaum 1996

The humor and pain of female relationships is shown by mousy, introspective Mina and overweight, outgoing Ethel who meet at age seven. For the next 25 years their lives are intimately intertwined until they clash over their careers and the man they both want.

1 videocassette (128 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5369

Le moine et la sorcière Sorceress 1990

Story of a medieval French healer and her perseverance against a righteous monk, who comes to her village looking for heretics to condemn.

1 videocassette (98 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5666

Mon oncle 1993?

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.

1 videocassette (110 min.) :

DANA 935

Mon oncle d'Amérique 1987

A case study of three characters focusing on their pursuit of careers. This is intercut with segments of a lecture from Prof. Henri Laborit, a behavioral scientist speaking in pure documentary fashion, contributing his theories on memory. Also intercuts footage from other movies.

1 videocassette (123 min.) :

MEDIA 2-629

Mouchette 198-

A 14-year old friendless schoolgirl, Mouchette, lives with her alcoholic bootlegger father and bedridden dying mother. One day she witness a fight between Arsene and Mathieu. When she tries to console Arsene after he accuses himself of killing Mathieu, he misinterprets her actions and rapes her. Her mother's death and other tragedies increase her hostility and isolation from the world around her. She kills herself.

1 videocassette (90 min.) :

MEDIA 2-708

Mr. Hulot's holiday 1953-

Presents a series of humorous impressions and incidents at a seaside Brittany resort. Principally visual humor; soundtrack is mostly ambient sound.

1 videocassette (85 min.) :

MEDIA 2-166

Mr. Hulot's holiday 1995?

Tati portrays the endearingly eccentric character, Hulot, whose presence at a very proper French seaside resort provokes one outrageous catastrophe after another. Tati pays homage to the great classic selent comedies with a hilarious blend of colorful characters, sparse dialogue, sight gags, and an innovative sound track.

1 videocassette (86 min.) :

DANA 1206

Mr. Klein 1997

The intriguing story of one man in search of another who shares his name - a man who has stolen his identity. Eventually Klein's search for the imposter becomes a trap into which he falls.

1 videocassette (124 min.) :

MEDIA 2-6115

Le mépris Contempt 2002

Asked to write a screenplay for an American producer, a young French dramatist and his wife visit the producer's villa in Capri. There the wife and producer engage in an affair, which leads to death.

2 videodiscs (104 min.) :

MEDIA 10-173

Nenette et Boni Nennette and Boni 1997

19 year old Boniface Pavone writes in his journal of the erotic dreams he has of the wife of the neighborhood baker. His estranged little sister, Nenette, reappears with a surprising revelation that will change him forever.

1 videocassette (103 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5336

A nos amours 1985

Winner of the 1983 "CESAR" (The French "OSCAR") for best film. This is a powerful moving study of an 18 year old working class girl who enters a series of casual sexual relationships and experiences remorse at the loss of childhood innocence.

1 videocassette (VHS) (110 min.) :

MEDIA 2-248

A nous la liberté 1981?

A satire on factory life centering on the activities of a couple of exprisoners, one of whom, an ambitions 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 lives as vagabonds.

1 videocassette (87 min.) :

MEDIA 2-191

A nous la liberté 1994

Highly stylized comedy satirizing the mechanization of modern life. Considered to be the possible inspiration to Chaplin's "Modern times.".

1 videocassette (87 min.) :

DANA 950

Numero deux Aumero deux = Number two 1995

Godard's exploration of the modern family unit and how it suffers in the computerized, capitalistic world.

1 videocassette (88 min.) :

DANA 488

One sings, the other doesn't 1989

Follows the lives and friendship of two women over a period of 14 years as each seeks to control her destiny and find contentment.

1 videocassette (105 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2668

Orphée 1994?

The story--part Greek myth, part personal legend--revolves around the poet Orpheus (Jean Marais), who whiles away his time and talent in a Parisian cafe. In walks Princess Death (the beguiling Maria Casarès), a specter certain to wreak havoc in his life, but just as certain to resurrect his creative spirit.--Container.

1 videocassette (86 min.) :

DANA 991

Orphée 2000

Jean Cocteau turns the Orpheus legend into a story of a poet and his encounter with death and the middle world. In French with optional English subtitles.

1 videodisc (95 min.) :

MEDIA 10-34

Orpheus 1986

Cocteau's modern version of the Orpheus legend, based on his own play.

1 videocassette (86 min.) :

MEDIA 2-451

Les Parapluies de Cherbourg The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1997

Two lovers, separated by the Algerian war, meet again after she has remarried. A cinematic triumph unique in its presentation--all of the dialogue is sung. The haunting music and beautiful photography combine to make this an outstanding dramatic romance.

1 videodisc (ca. 91 min.) :

MEDIA 10-30

The Passion of Joan of Arc 1978

Depicts the trial of Joan of Arc at Rouen and her final burning at the stake. Particularly unusual camera angles were employed.

1 videocassette (120 min.) :

MEDIA 2-184

Pauline à la plage Pauline at the beach 1982

Explores the romantic and sexual entanglements of six people on summer holiday on the Normandy coast. A teenager, Pauline, and her first boyfriend observe the adult antics around them.

1 videocassette (VHS) (94 min.) :

MEDIA 2-272

Pépé le Moko tiré du roman d'Ashelbé 1980

A famous gangster is safe from the police while hiding in the Casbah section of Algiers. Love causes him to emerge and be shot.

1 videocassette (95 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1138

Place Vendôme 2002

The wife of a famous diamond jeweler is drawn back into the world of dealing jewels when her husband suddenly commits suicide.

1 videcassette (117 min.) :

MEDIA 2-6009

Playtime 1996?

A group of American tourists arrive in Paris, only to find that the city is indistinguishable from any other big city. Endless comedies ensue however, when the path of Monsieur Hulot (Tati) crosses that of the group.

1 videocassette (120 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3639

La prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV 1966

A television production which traces the creation of an absolute monarchy by France' s "Sun King," Louis XIV. Adapted from a story by Philippe Erlanger.

1 videocassette (100 min.) :

MEDIA MEDIA D-326 2-370

A propos de Nice 198

Vigo examines the French resort city of Nice while mixing experimental technique with social and poetic vision.

1 videocassette (22 min.)

MEDIA D-426

Les quatre cents coups The 400 blows 1999

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.

1 videodisc (99 min.) :

MEDIA 10-42

Querelle 1988

A look at the underworld of sailors in the French port of Brest. Querelle is a young sailor who finds himself involved in drug smuggling and homosexuality.

1 videocassette (110 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3476

Red 1994

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.

1 videocassette (99 min.) :

DANA 911

Ressources humaines Human resources 2004

<36 Contents>Franck, a Parisian business school student, takes an internship in the human resources department at the factory where his father has labored for the past 30 years. When Franck's efforts to better the company lead to the firing of many employees, including his father, a furious confrontation ensues, forcing father and son to ponder their relationship while realizing their individual lives.

<41 Library Location> 10-460

The Return of Martin Guerre 1984

In 15th century France, a young man returns home after many years absence to resume his life and marriage but is charged with being an imposter and is placed on trial.

1 videocassette (111 min.) :

MEDIA 2-67

Ridicule 1997

In a desperate quest to save his hometown, a young man quickly learns that a sharp wit is the key to open any door in the Versailles court of Louis XVI.

1 videocassette (103 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3985

Romance 1999

Although deeply in love with her boyfriend - and indeed sleeping in the same bed with him - a schoolteacher cannot handle the almost complete lack of intimacy he will allow. Increasingly frustrated, she gradually finds her sexual appetites leading her into ever more risky situations, including a developing one with the headmaster.

1 videodisc (95 min.) :

MEDIA 10-23

The Rules of the game La règle du jeu 1984

Complicated love intrigues among the high society guests at a weekend house party outside Paris are mirrored by parallel activities among the servants, showing the illnesses of a society locked into frivolous and futile social games.

1 videocassette (106 min.) :

DANA. MEDIA. MEDIA 216 2-189 2-331

S'en fout la mort 1992

Dah, an African immigrant, and Jocelyn, a West Indian man, hook up to supply and train fighting cocks for a sleazy French saloon owner. The two live in the back of the club, and while Jocelyn trainsthe birds, Dah becomes entangled with the owner's mistress. Soon all four are cast into a violent circle of gambling, desire and agony, spinning out of control.

1 videocassette (97 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5062

La salamandre 1994

A journalist who works from facts and a writer who relies on his intuition investigate the story of Rosemonde, a mysterious young woman who may have tried to kill her uncle. The more they learn of this fascinating woman, the more they are drawn to her.

1 videocassette (119 min.)

MEDIA 2-6686

Le sang d'un poet Blood of a poet 2000

An artist is driven mad by the sight of his own blood and a drawing of a mouth that seems to come to life. The combination sends him off on a series of bizarre adventures that strive to explain how artists become obsessed with their own works.

1 videodisc :

MEDIA 10-33

Le Sang d'un poète 198

A surrealistic allegorical myth, full of visual symbolism and abstract effects, about an artist who sacrifices himself to his art.

1 videocassette (55 min.) :

DANA 336

Sans toit ni loi Vagabond 2000

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.

1 videodisc (105 min.) :

MEDIA 10-31

Shoot the piano player Tirez sur le pianiste 1980

A café pianist, whose past is revealed in a flashback, becomes innocently involved in the dealings of a gang of petty crooks. His second chance at love and his plans to make a comeback as a concert pianist are ended when his girlfriend is killed by a stray bullet during a gunfight.

1 videocassette (84 min.) :

MEDIA 2-163

The Sorrow and the pity 1984

Examines the occupation of France by the Germans during World War II using reminiscences of individuals and officials involved in the events at the time. Concentrates on the themes of collaboration and resistance.

2 videocassettes (260 min.) :

MEDIA. MEDIA 2-50 cassette 1 2-51 cassette 2

Sous le sable Under the sand 2001

For years, Marie and Jean have spent their vacations at their country home. One day at the beach, Marie falls asleep while Jean goes for a swim. When she awakens, he is gone. Marie notifies the authorities and even after an extensive search, no body is found. Did he drown or did he just run off?

1 videocassette (95 min.) :

MEDIA 2-6048

Sur la terre comme au ciel = Between heaven and earth 1994

A pregnant woman tries to convince her unborn child that life on earth is worth living.

1 videocassette (80 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2641

Susanne Simonin, la religieuse The Nun 1990

Freely adapted from Diderot's classic 18th century novel, the film tells the story of a 16-year-old girl compelled by her mother to enter a convent. Convinced by the mother superior, the girl accepts her vows, but soon meets with harsh rigor and abuse when the kindly superior is followed by a cruel successor. Her desperate attempts at freedom land her first in another convent and finally, tragically, in the outside world.

1 videocassette (155 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2789

Le temps retrouvé 2001

Set in 1922, this film opens with the French author, Marcel Proust, on his deathbed remembering his life. Gradually his own experiences give way to the characters in his novels -- fiction eclipses reality as the author's creations combine with his own experiences. The result is a montage of moving snapshots and feverish dreams that make the film the ultimate in Proustian cinema.

1 videodisc (158 min.) :

MEDIA 10-96

Le Testament d'Orphée ou, Ne me demandez pas pourquoi 2000

A modern account of the Orpheus myth. An 18th-century poet travels through time on a quest for divine wisdom.

1 videodisc (80 min.) :

MEDIA 10-35

Trois couleurs Three colors. White 1994

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 a new, he rebuilds his life, only to plan a dangerous scheme of vengeance against her.

1 videocassette (92 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5531

Un Amour de Swann Swann in love 1985

"A wealthy gentleman who thrives in the finest circles of high society risks everything for his erotic obsession with a voluptuous, promiscuous courtesan"--External container.

1 videocassette (VHS) (110 min.) :

MEDIA 2-251

Un Condamné à mort s'est échappé ou, Le vent souffle ou il vent 1994

In 1943, Lt. Fontaine is captured by the Gestapo and is imprisoned in Fort Montluc. He carefully plans his escape but puts it off until sentenced to death.

1 videocassette (100 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2736

Un long dimanche de fiançailles A very long engagement 2005

<36 Contents>Mathilde is waiting desperately for her fiance to return from the war. When bad news arrives she refuses to believe he is dead. Instead, she begins her own investigation into his infantry, hiring a private detective and piecing together his war stories.

<41 Library Location> 10-580

Under the roofs of Paris Sous les toits de Paris 1983

A Parisian street singer falls in love with a girl, fights her lover, and proves himself innocent of theft. This light musical was director Clair's first sound film as well as the first French sound film.

1 videocassette (95 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1391

Une affaire de femmes Story of women 1992

A beautiful and childish woman's life is changed when she performs an abortion for a distraught neighbor.

1 videocassette (110 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2653

Une femme douce Gentle woman 1995

When the teenage wife of a pawnbroker suddenly and inexplicably commits suicide, her distraught husband tries to understand what could have led to such a desperate act. The story unfolds in flashbacks, revealing a pattern of miscommunication and abuse.

1 videocassette (89 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3418

Vagabond 1987

The story of Mona, an aimless drifter whose only desire in life is to be truly free. As she wanders through the wintry French countryside, she encounters violence, hunger, fear, and cold.

1 videocassette (105 min.) :

MEDIA 2-281

A very curious girl 2000?

A beautiful and poor girl is known intimately by most of the men in her village. Tired of enduring the physical abuse and the sexual exploitation, she starts to charge a fee for her services. This disrupts the smug patriarchal society of the village of Tellier.

1 videocassette (105 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5727

Viagem ao principío do mundo Journey to the beginning of the world 1999

An aging film director, on location in Portugal, takes three actor friends on a driving tour of a mountain village where one of 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.

1 videocassette (95 min.) :

DANA 1392

Vivre sa vie 198-

A film in twelve episodes that follows the unhappy experiences of a salesgirl who becomes a prostitute.

1 videocassette (VHS) (85 min.) :

MEDIA 2-368

Weekend 198

The violence and materialistic values of modern capitalistic society are attacked by Jean-Luc Godard as he follows a young French bourgeois couple on a nightmarish motoring weekend across the French countryside. The disintegration of society is seen symbolically as a holocaust of corpses and burning cars.

1 videocassette (ca. 95 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1843

Y aura-t-il de la neige à Noël? Will it snow at Christmas? 1997

A woman and her seven children live on a farm in Southern France. In spite of the hard work and the mediocre accommodation, their life would be a happy one, but for one person, the egotistical and authoritarian owner of the farm, who just happens to be the woman's lover and father of her children.

1 videocassette (90 min.) :

MEDIA. MEDIA 2-5494 2-5506

Z 1980

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1969. Political thriller about events preceding the military coup in Greece in the 1960s.

1 videocassette (128 min.) :

MEDIA 2-40

Zero de conduite Zero for conduct 1984?

A study of life in a French boarding school for boys, this is a series of vignettes lampooning the faculty and is climaxed by a surrealistic, dream-like rebellion of the entire student body.

1 videocassette (48 min.) :

MEDIA 2-106

The 400 blows Les quatre cents coups 1992

First of Truffaut's Antoine Doinet series. 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.

1 videocassette (99 min.) :

DANA 462

Adolphe de Benjamin Constant 2003

1 videodisc (99 min.)

MEDIA 10-332

Alphaville 198-

Secret agent Lemmy Caution travels to Alphaville, a futuristic, computer-ruled city to bring back scientist Dr. Von Braun. Caution manages to foil the plans of the ruling computer, Alpha 60, but also reintroduces lost emotions to the heroine.

1 videocassette (VHS) (98 min.) :

MEDIA 2-338

Les anges du peche Angels of sin 199

Anne-Marie, a passionately devout novice in a Dominican convent whose mission is the rehabilitation of women's prison inmates, takes a strong interest in one prisoner, Thérèse, urging her to seek help from the sisters when her term is up. Thérèse does, but only after taking fatal revenge on the lover who'd caused her to be unjustly convicted and imprisoned.

1 videocassette (ca. 90 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5327

Artemisia 1998

Artemisia Gentileschi, the beautiful and talented daughter of one of Italy's greatest painters, is forbidden to fully pursue her own passion for painting. When she convinces renowned and unconventional Agostino Tassi to tutor her, he not only liberates her talent as an artist, but initiates her into the treacherous world of love.

1 videocasette (ca. 96 min.) :

MEDIA MEDIA 2-5648 10-107

Ascenseur pour l'échafaud Elevator to the gallows 1991

Love and fear produce death in this murder drama. The plot to murder his lover's husband backfires when Tavernier is charged with two other murders.

1 videocassette (87 min.)

JAZZ 426

Au hasard Balthazar 197-

Balthazar, a donkey, whose life and death provide the formal structure of the film, symbolizes the innocence of the physical world. In combination with the actions of the five protagonists, the donkey assumes human proportions.

1 videocassette (95 min.) :

MEDIA D-444

Au revoir les enfants Goodbye, children 1989

Boyhood memories of Catholic boarding school during the 1940s German occupation of France.

1 videocassette (103 min.) :

DANA. MEDIA 279 2-776

Le Bal 1984

Nominated for an Academy Award as Best Foreign Film of 1983. Set in a Parisian dance hall, everything is communicated via pantomime with no dialogue. The music tells the story, as each couple takes to the dance floor. The music and dance illustrate key moments in French social history. Based on the popular stage production, this film also won the Silver Bear award for direction at the Berlin Film Festival.

1 videocassette (VHS) (113 min.) :

MEDIA 2-265

Beau travail 2002

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.

1 videodisc (90 minutes)

MEDIA 10-149

Beauty and the beast La belle et la bête 1990?

Dramatized adaptation of the classic fairy tale. Tells the fable of the kindly beast and the self-sacrificing beauty whose love releases the prince in him. Contains such visual displays as tears that become real diamonds and walls that grow arms to light Beauty's path through the castle of the Beast.

1 videocassette (93 min.) :

DANA. MEDIA 273 2-125

La Bête humaine The human beast 198

A railroad engineer, who is subject to fits of madness, falls for an attractive married woman and becomes involved in circumstances he cannot control. Zola's haunting psychological drama of murder, revenge, conscience and the eternal triangle is transposed with ease into the 1930's by Renoir, who also preserves the train as an important setting, recurrant motif and "actor.".

1 videocassette (92 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1286

Blue 1994

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.

1 videocassette (98 min.) :

DANA 919

Bob le flambeur Bob the gambler 198-

Bob the gambler, a legendary Paris crook, attempts the biggest robbery of his career at the Deauville Casino.

1 videocassette (VHS) (100 min.) :

MEDIA 2-177

Le Bonheur 198-

A young happily married carpenter falls for another woman. He feels that he can love both women, and they will share him.

1 videocassette (87 min.) :

MEDIA 2-470

Les bonnes femmes The girls 199

A compassionate and archly ironic look at four shop girls whose dreams of a better life lead them to music hall singing, a pleasure seeking binge, an unhappy marriage and a doomed search for "true love" respectively.

1 videocassette (105 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2762

Le Boucher 1992

In a provincial French town, a sophisticated schoolmistress avoids attachments but strikes up a congenial friendship with the charmingly passionate local butcher, a veteran of Indochina. As a serial killer spreads terror throughout the countryside, the effort of these two people to come back from their emotional islands to some kind of mutual understanding and reality builds from oblique tenderness and humor to shattering tragedy.

1 videocassette (90 min.) :

MEDIA MEDIA 2-2655 7-87

Boudu saved from drowning Boudu sauvé des eaux 198-

A Parisian antiquarian bookseller saves a tramp, Boudu, from suicide in the Seine and, feeling responsible for him, lets him live in his house. Boudu totally disregards proprieties, seduces the wife and the maid. He marries the maid, but accidentally falls into the river after the ceremony, rediscovers his liberty, and returns to his wanderings.

1 videocassette (87 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1242

A bout de souffle Breathless 2001

A small-time hood kills a policeman and tries to leave France, but his American girlfriend betrays him to the police and he gets killed trying to escape.

1 videodisc (90 min.) :

MEDIA 10-205

La bête humaine 1938

Fate drives a man to murder and suicide. A railroad engineer, descended from a family subject to fits of madness, falls in love with a beautiful married woman. Plotting together to kill her husband, circumstances spin out of control, and he finally strangles her instead.

1 videocassette (75 min.)

MEDIA 2-6799

Camille Claudel 1989

International screen star Isabelle Adjan ; is the creative prodigy Camille Claudel. Gérard Depardieu is the legendary sculptor Rodin. This is the true story of their passionate obsession with art--and with each other.

1 videocassette (149 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1458

Carnival in Flanders La Kermesse héroïque 198

Tongue-in-cheek from start to finish, the story satirizes a favorite wartime theme, the daring and resourcefulness of citizens threatened by invaders. Set in Spanish-occupied Belgium in 1616, the film is noted for its subtle humor, witty acting and magnificent decor.

1 videocassette (90 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1135

Ceux qui m'aiment prendront le train Those who love me can take the train 2000

A minor painter, son of a wealthy family has died and wanted to be buried in his home town of Limoges. Those who loved him in various ways take the train and review their lives on the way to bury him.

1 videodisc (122 min.) :

MEDIA 10-20

Chaos 2003

Bourgeois couple Hélène and Paul witness Malika, a young prostitute, being attacked by thugs and Paul immediately speeds off. Remorseful, Hélène tracks down Malika in the hospital. As she nurses Malika back to health, Malika tells Hélène a shocking story of how she was turned into a sex slave by a vicious criminal organization. Hélène and Malika join forces to double-cross her pimps and gets both her freedom and her revenge.

1 videodisc (107 min.)

MEDIA 10-640

Chocolat 2001

When a single mother and her young daughter move to rural France and open a chocolate shop - with Sunday hours - across the street from the local church, they are met with some resistance from the rigidly moral community. But as soon as the townspeople discover their delicious products, their attitudes begin to change.

1 videocassette (ca. 122 min.) :

DANA 1650

Chocolat 2001

A young woman returns to Cameroon to trace her past in this enthralling depiction of a family's struggle during the final years of French colonialism in Africa that takes a profound look at the intricate nature of relationships in a racist society.

1 videodisc (106 min.) :

MEDIA 10-83

Cleo de 5 à 7 198-

A girl waiting for the results of a medical examination wanders around Paris thinking she has cancer.

1 videocassette (VHS) (90 min.) :

MEDIA 2-355

Cléo de 5 à 7 2000

A girl waiting for the result of a medical examination wanders around Paris thinking she has cancer.

1 videodisc (90 min.) :

MEDIA 10-29

Comment ca va? 1995

1 videocassette (78 min.) :

DANA 489

Contempt 1984

A young French dramatist living in Rome accepts an assignment to write a screenplay for an American film producer.

1 videocassette (102 min.) :

MEDIA 2-258

Contes des quatre saisons: Conte d'automne Tales of the four seasons: Autumn tale 1999

Magali is a 45-year old winegrower whose children have just left home and whose friends are trying to find her a man. The results are hilarious, heartwaming and totally unpredictable.

1 videocassette (ca. 110 min.)

MEDIA 2-6878

Le corbeau The raven 1943

Story of a community somewhere in France which is stirred to explosive suspicions by a flood of letters from an unknown "poison pen.".

1 videocassette (92 min.)

MEDIA D-425

"Coup de foudre" 1998

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.

1 videocassette (112 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5357

The Crucible 1995

John Proctor is a middle aged, married farmer whose infidelity leads to tragedy. When he ends the brief affair, his young mistress launches a vendetta, charging that Proctor's wife practices witchcraft. The accusation ignites a wave of hysteria among the villagers, culminating in a trial of both Proctor and his wife.

1 videocassette (108 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3032

Les dames du Bois de Bologne 1995

A woman who is growing apart from her lover finds he is also bored with the relationship. This disturbs her and she introduces him to a woman he finds appealing who has been a prostitute, a damaging circumstance to one of his class.

1 videocassette (83 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5328

Danton 1984

Historical drama portraying the aftermath of the French Revolution. The new Republic is in disarray, threatened by the dictatorship and "Reign of Terror" brought about by Robespierre, when Georges Danton, the popular revolutionary hero returns to Paris to plead with the people for an end to the bloodshed. What begins as a public cause soon turns into a personal conflict between Danton and Robespierre and Robespierre subsequently has Danton arrested for treason and condemned to the guillotine.

1 videocassette (VHS) (136 min.) :

MEDIA 2-231

Day for night 1989

An "homage to moviemaking," this film details the loves and lunacy of the closely-knit family of strangers that comprises an on-location film, cast and crew.

1 videocassette (116 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5213

La dentellière Lacemaker 199

A tragic love story about a shy beautician and a handsome but insensitive student.

1 videocassette (107 min.)

MEDIA 2-6699

Le Dernier metro The Last metro 1992

It is Paris, 1942, and against a backdrop of fear and desperation, a tender love story unfolds. A renowned Jewish theatrical director is forced to hide in the cellar of the theatre, leaving the management of the prestigious Montmartre to his devoted actress wife.

1 videocassette (131 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1770

Le diable probablement The devil, probably 1997

Story follows Charles and his quartet of friends, all in revolt against the pollution of an industrialized consumer society.

1 videocassette (95 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5398

Les Diaboliques The Devils 198

A murder mystery set in a French boarding school. The forceful mistress and ailing wife of a tyrannical headmaster plan an elaborate scheme to kill him. The plot goes awry leading to a chilling climax.

1 videocassette (116 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1820

Diabolo menthe Peppermint soda 1993

The spirited and entertaining tale of two teen-aged sisters living in Paris in the turbulent year of 1963.

1 videocassette (97 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5356

Diary of a country priest 198-

The first internationally recognized work of the French cinema's most spiritual artist-director was this adaptation of Georges Bernanos' novel about a priest with a small rural parish who is thwarted by his community for his extreme piousness while he is slowly dying of cancer.

1 videocassette (VHS) (116 min.) :

MEDIA 2-349

Enfants des courants d'air 2003

A little boy lives in a very, very poor neighborhood with his grandfather. The film follows his activities, and those of his friends, until his grandfather has an attack and they take him to the hospital. With minimal dialogue, of which only the last line is important "Wait for me!".

1 videodisc (25 min.)

MEDIA 10-352

Les Enfants du paradis Children of paradise 199-

Set in the theatre district of early 19th century Paris, this film re-creates a glittering world of backstage life. Garance, a stunning and elusive courtesan, is loved by four men--the mime Debureau, the ambitious actor Lemaitre, the nihilistic villain Lacenaire, and the snobbish aristocrat Monteray.

2 videocassettes (195 min.) :

MEDIA. MEDIA 2-1605 cassette 1 2-1606 cassette 2

Les Enfants terribles 1991

A orphaned brother and sister share a tortured relationship that is not lessened in intensity by their intimate involvements with other people.

1 videocassette (107 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1594

Le Fantôme de la liberté Phantom of liberty 1987

Bunuel attacks society's false ideas of liberty from religion to politics using humor from high wit to low comedy.

1 videocassette (105 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3579

La femme infidele 2003

A man suspects his wife of infidelity so he hires a private detective to watch her, who confirms his worst fears.

1 videodisc (94 min.) :

MEDIA 10-176

La fille seule A single girl 1997

Drama showing a day in the life of a young Parisian woman named Valerie who is beginning a new job and who reveals to her boyfriend that she is four weeks pregnant.

1 videocassette (90 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5058

The Four hundred blows Les Quatre cents coups 1986?

"Twelve-year-old Antoine Doinel ... is enduring a thoroughly dismal adolescence. His incapable parents are constantly at odds, his teachers are unfeeling and the correction officials he eventually encounters are brutally cruel. Trapped and tormented, Antoine increasingly turns to crime and faces a future as bleak and uncentain as his present hopeless existence unless he can discover his own well-spring of strength inside himself"--External container.

1 videocassette (VHS) (97 min.) :

MEDIA 2-247

French cancan une comédie musicale 1988

A night club owner tries to fulfill his dream of opening a cancan stage show, but must first overcome the complications caused by romantic love.

1 videocassette (105 min.) :

MEDIA 2-616

Le Gai savoir The Joy of learning 199

Emile and Patricia stumble across each other in an abandoned TV studio. They meet for 7 nights to plan for a new cinema.

1 videocassette (96 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5105

Germinal 1994

The story of a miner's strike that destroys one family, yet plants the seeds of change for future generations.

2 videocassettes (ca. 166 min.)

MEDIA 2-6659, 6660

Les glaneurs et la glaneuse 2002

"Varda's most recent effort-- the first filmed with a digital videocamera-- focuses on gleaners, those who gather the spoils left after a harvest, as well as those who mine the trash. Some completely exist on the leavings; others turn them into art, exercise their ethics, or simply have fun. The director likens gleaning to her own profession-that of collecting images, stories, fragments of sound, light, and color."--www.imdb.com.

1 videodisc (82 min.) :

MEDIA 10-146

Le Grain de sable The Grain of sand 1987

A psychological portrait of a woman isolated from her past and alienated by the present.

1 videocassette (90 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5331

Grand illusion 1984

Two French Air Corps officers, one an aristocrat, are shot down and captured during World War I. In spite of their different class backgrounds, they are drawn together in escape attempts. The aristocrat sacrifices his own chances in order to aid his companion's escape. An antiwar film that treats the disillusionment of prisoners and captors alike.

1 videocassette (112 min.) :

MEDIA 2-148

La grande illusion 1999

In this classic tale of adventure, duty and honor conflict in a German prisoner-of-war camp when an aristocratic French officer becomes friends with the commandant while cooperating with his comrades in a daring escape.

1 videodisc (114 min.) :

MEDIA 10-21

Gribouille 1919

A juror in a murder trial, convinced the defendant is innocent, hires her to work in his bicycle shop after she is aquitted. Her presence provokes conflicts within his family.

1 videodisc (75 min.)

MEDIA 10-334

Hail Mary 1986

A modern-day virgin named Mary inexplicably becomes pregnant in this controversial film which discards notions of divinity in favor of the celebration of a lively, intellectual humanism.

1 videocassette (107 min.) :

MEDIA 2-627

Hiroshima, mon amour 1984

1 videocassette (88 min.) :

MEDIA 2-180

Hiroshima, mon amour 1994

A French actress enters into a brief romance with a Japanese architect in 1959 Hiroshima. She relives a traumatic war time romance and tries to find truth, love, and freedom from a past that haunts them both.

1 videocassette (88 min.) :

DANA 338

Hiroshima mon amour 2003

A Japanese architect and a French actress engage in a brief intense affair in Hiroshima in 1959. Both deal with their personal memories of World War II--he by articulating his firsthand experience with nuclear disaster, she by remembering her traumatic affair with a German soldier.

1 videodisc (90 min.)

MEDIA 10-274

Irma Vep 1998

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.

1 videodisc (96 min.) :

MEDIA 10-07

Jean de Florette 1988

Jean, a simple man from the country, inherits his mother's farm and hopes to become a gentleman farmer. His greedy, powerful neighbor, however, knows of a hidden spring on Jean's property, and plots to steal both the land and the water. Part 1 of two parts; the storyline is continued in Manon of the spring.

1 videocassette (122 min.) :

DANA 318

Le jour se leve 1939

A worker shoots a man and locks himself in his room. In a series of flashbacks, the worker remembers the unhappy love affair with a young girl and resulting complications which led to the murder.

1 videocassette (ca. 85 min.)

MEDIA D-391

Jules et Jim 1986?

The story of a friendship between two men, one German and the other French, and their twenty-year love for the same woman.

1 videocassette (110 min.) :

MEDIA 2-223

L'Age d'or 199

Surrealistic film about two lovers who mock convention and the society intent on preventing them from satisfying their desire.

1 videocassette (62 min.) :

MEDIA DANA 2-3051 339

L'Amour, l'après-midi Chloe in the afternoon 1999

The last of Rohmer's Six moral tales. Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene, a teacher expecting her second child. In the afternoons, Frederic daydreams about other women, but has no intention of taking any action. One day, Chloe, who had been a mistress of an old friend, begins dropping by his office. They meet as friends, irregularly in the afternoons, till eventually Chloe decides to seduce Frederic, causing him a moral dilemma.

1 videocassette (98 min.)

MEDIA 2-6862

L'anglaise et le duc 2002

Beautiful aristocrat Grace Elliott enjoys her comfortable upper-middle class life and warm friendship with her former lover the Dike of Orleans, until the turbulent French Revolution of the 1790s frighteningly begins. Their friendhsip unravels as Grace risks her life taking in a fugitive against the Duke's wishes. Soon, Grace urges the Duke not to make a horrifying decision. But ultimately she's unable to prevent several bloody fates-- including the possibility of her own.

1 videocassette (ca. 129 min.)

MEDIA 2-6858

L'Argent 1993

Through the maneuverings of some upperclass boys and shopkeepers, a working class man's life is ruined. Based on a story by Tolstoy, L'Argent exposes the greed and corruption of the rich who ignore the effect of their uncaring attitude on the poor.

1 videocassette (82 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5381

L'Argent de poche Small change 1985?

A deceptively simple story of children and the world they live in, starring youngsters who had never before acted in movies.

1 videocassette (106 min.) :

MEDIA 2-14

L'Argent de poche Small change 1991

A film which communicates the perilousness and grace of childhood by depicting humorous, serious and occasionally some grim scenes from the lives of ten French schoolchildren living in Thiers, a small town in southern France.

1 videocassette (105 min.) :

DANA 296

L'Atalante 1985?

Story follows some newlyweds on their barge, the "L'Atalante," up the Seine River. The bride is bored and, craving the excitement of Paris, starts flirting with other men.

1 videocassette (VHS) (82 min.) :

MEDIA 2-235

L'emploi du temps = Time out 2002?

<36 Contents>Businessman Vincent is leading a double life. He was fired from his job and constructed an elaborate fantasy of employment that has become his full-time occupation. Vincent must decide which of his lives is more important.

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L'Enfant sauvage = Wild child 198

A dramatization of the account written by the French physician, Jean Itard, of a child found living like an animal in the forests of Southern France at the end of the 18th century. The doctor's attempts to recondition the boy provides a unique opportunity to examine the effects of environment and heredity on a child's development.

1 videocassette (85 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1784

L' été meurtrier One deadly summer 1987

"Isabelle Adjani gives a sizzling performance in this unrelenting and enticing psychological thriller. As a sexy, volatile and unattainable woman of mystery known only as "She," Adjani returns to the small village of her mother's youth. There she uses her unearthly sexuality and savage passion to destroy the lives of the three men who raped and beat her mother years before."--Container.

1 videocassette (134 min.) :

DANA 1207

Laissez-passer Safe conduct 2004

Set in wartime France, this film depicts life during the Nazi occupation, against the background of the French film industry. The story follows two men who struggle to maintain their integrity while working for the German controlled Continental Film Studios.

1 videocassette (163 min.)

MEDIA 2-6802

Lancelot du lac 1995

Set in the last days of the doomed quest by Lancelot and the rest of King Arthur's knights for the Holy Grail, this is a tale of the end of the age of chivalry and the death of a dream.

1 videocassette (80 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5334

Last year at Marienbad 198-

A drama in which there is a meeting of three nameless characters in a large country chateau.

1 videocassette (93 min.) :

MEDIA 2-161

Last year at Marienbad 1994

A drama in which there is a meeting of three nameless characters in a vast baroque palace that has become a hotel. A young man tries to renew a love affair with a woman who apparently remembers nothing of either the affair or the young man. Resnais and Robbe-Grillet construct a narrative where past, present and future, the real world and the imaginary, intersect and converge in a infinite play of possibilities.

1 videocassette (93 min.) :

DANA 337

Les liaisons dangereuses Dangerous liaisons 2004

The beautiful Madame de Merteuil seeks vengeance when her ex-lover tells her that he is now engaged to her young goddaughter, Cécile. She turns to her partner-in-crime, Valmont, famous for his Don Juan reputation to seduce Cécile. Valmont gets sidetracked when he goes to visit his aunt and falls for Madame Tourvel, a virtuous, married woman who knows of his womanizing ways, but that only makes the challenge more exciting to Valmont. Together, Madame de Merteuil and Valmont make a dangerous team and they will stop at nothing when it comes to matters of the heart.--Container.

3 videodiscs (200 min.)

MEDIA 10-431

The Lower depths Les bas fonds 198

The story of a group of social outcasts living together in a filthy rooming house: some trying to escape, some attempting to adjust, and others merely hoping to maintain their illusions.

1 videocassette (ca. 91 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1400

Lucrèce Borgia Au secours! ; La folie du Docteur Tube 2000

Contents: Lucrèce Borgia / Henri A. Ullmann présente une production La Compagnie du Cinéma ; scénario original de Léopold Marchand et Henri Ventresse ; mise en scène d'Abel Gance (1935, 92 min.) -- Au secors! / Experimental Films ; director, Abel Gance (1923, 23 min.) -- La folie du Docteur Tube / Cinémathèque Francaise ; director, Abel Gance (1916, 11 min.) Performer Note: Lucrèce Borgia: Edwige Feuillere, Gabriel Gabrio, Maurice Esconde, Roger Karl, Josette Day Performer Note: Au secors!: Max Linder Performer Note: La folie du Docteur Tube: Albert Dieudonne Added Title: Au secours Added Title: Folie du Docteur TubeLucrèce Borgia: Cesare Borgia sees a way to obtain power when his father Rodrigo is named Pope and lets nothing stand in his way, not even his family members. Au Secours! :Uses experimental editing and photography to illustrate a man's adventures in a haunted house. La Folie Du Docteur Tube: An experimental comedy about a mad scientist who discovers a sneezing powder that can alter someone's physique.

1 videodisc (126 min.)

MEDIA 10-598

Ma vie en rose My life in pink 1999

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.

1 videodisc (ca. 88 min.)

MEDIA 10-616

Madame Bovary 2002

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.

1 videodisc (143 min.)

MEDIA 10-241

Man Ray films 1998

Retour à la raison (1923, 2 min.) -- Emak Bakia (1926, 20 min.) -- L'étoile de mer (1928, 15 min.) -- Mysteres du château du Dé (1929, 25 min.) -- 10 home movies (b&w, silent): Rue Campagne-Premiere (1923-1929); Corrida (1929); Autoportrait ou Ce qui manque a nous tous (1930); Poison (1933-1935); L'Atelier du Val-de-Grace (1935); Course landaise (1937); La Garoupe (1937); Ady (1938); Dance (1938); Juliet (1940)"This videocassette includes the four films which established Man Ray as a major figure of the 1920s avant-garde cinema...as well as eleven [sic] short 'autobiographical' films"--Container.

1 videocassette (112 min.) :

DANA 1471

La Marseillaise chronique de quelques faits ayant contribué à la chute de la monarchie 1988

A dramatization of the French Revolution, from the period immediately preceeding it in 1790 up to the first bloody confrontation.

1 videocassette (130 min.) :

MEDIA DANA 2-617 931

Masculin, feminin 1991

An essential work of the French new wave, Musculin, feminin is one of Godard's most popular and romantic films. Revolving around the love affair between a young pseudo-revolutionary and a pretty pop singer, this insightful film explores the go-go generation, sexuality and Paris in the sixties.

1 videocassette (103 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1732

Mina Tannenbaum 1996

The humor and pain of female relationships is shown by mousy, introspective Mina and overweight, outgoing Ethel who meet at age seven. For the next 25 years their lives are intimately intertwined until they clash over their careers and the man they both want.

1 videocassette (128 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5369

Le moine et la sorcière Sorceress 1990

Story of a medieval French healer and her perseverance against a righteous monk, who comes to her village looking for heretics to condemn.

1 videocassette (98 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5666

Mon oncle 1993?

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.

1 videocassette (110 min.) :

DANA 935

Mon oncle d'Amérique 1987

A case study of three characters focusing on their pursuit of careers. This is intercut with segments of a lecture from Prof. Henri Laborit, a behavioral scientist speaking in pure documentary fashion, contributing his theories on memory. Also intercuts footage from other movies.

1 videocassette (123 min.) :

MEDIA 2-629

Mouchette 198-

A 14-year old friendless schoolgirl, Mouchette, lives with her alcoholic bootlegger father and bedridden dying mother. One day she witness a fight between Arsene and Mathieu. When she tries to console Arsene after he accuses himself of killing Mathieu, he misinterprets her actions and rapes her. Her mother's death and other tragedies increase her hostility and isolation from the world around her. She kills herself.

1 videocassette (90 min.) :

MEDIA 2-708

Mr. Hulot's holiday 1953-

Presents a series of humorous impressions and incidents at a seaside Brittany resort. Principally visual humor; soundtrack is mostly ambient sound.

1 videocassette (85 min.) :

MEDIA 2-166

Mr. Hulot's holiday 1995?

Tati portrays the endearingly eccentric character, Hulot, whose presence at a very proper French seaside resort provokes one outrageous catastrophe after another. Tati pays homage to the great classic selent comedies with a hilarious blend of colorful characters, sparse dialogue, sight gags, and an innovative sound track.

1 videocassette (86 min.) :

DANA 1206

Mr. Klein 1997

The intriguing story of one man in search of another who shares his name - a man who has stolen his identity. Eventually Klein's search for the imposter becomes a trap into which he falls.

1 videocassette (124 min.) :

MEDIA 2-6115

Le mépris Contempt 2002

Asked to write a screenplay for an American producer, a young French dramatist and his wife visit the producer's villa in Capri. There the wife and producer engage in an affair, which leads to death.

2 videodiscs (104 min.) :

MEDIA 10-173

Nenette et Boni Nennette and Boni 1997

19 year old Boniface Pavone writes in his journal of the erotic dreams he has of the wife of the neighborhood baker. His estranged little sister, Nenette, reappears with a surprising revelation that will change him forever.

1 videocassette (103 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5336

A nos amours 1985

Winner of the 1983 "CESAR" (The French "OSCAR") for best film. This is a powerful moving study of an 18 year old working class girl who enters a series of casual sexual relationships and experiences remorse at the loss of childhood innocence.

1 videocassette (VHS) (110 min.) :

MEDIA 2-248

A nous la liberté 1981?

A satire on factory life centering on the activities of a couple of exprisoners, one of whom, an ambitions 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 lives as vagabonds.

1 videocassette (87 min.) :

MEDIA 2-191

A nous la liberté 1994

Highly stylized comedy satirizing the mechanization of modern life. Considered to be the possible inspiration to Chaplin's "Modern times.".

1 videocassette (87 min.) :

DANA 950

Numero deux Aumero deux = Number two 1995

Godard's exploration of the modern family unit and how it suffers in the computerized, capitalistic world.

1 videocassette (88 min.) :

DANA 488

One sings, the other doesn't 1989

Follows the lives and friendship of two women over a period of 14 years as each seeks to control her destiny and find contentment.

1 videocassette (105 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2668

Orphée 1994?

The story--part Greek myth, part personal legend--revolves around the poet Orpheus (Jean Marais), who whiles away his time and talent in a Parisian cafe. In walks Princess Death (the beguiling Maria Casarès), a specter certain to wreak havoc in his life, but just as certain to resurrect his creative spirit.--Container.

1 videocassette (86 min.) :

DANA 991

Orphée 2000

Jean Cocteau turns the Orpheus legend into a story of a poet and his encounter with death and the middle world. In French with optional English subtitles.

1 videodisc (95 min.) :

MEDIA 10-34

Orpheus 1986

Cocteau's modern version of the Orpheus legend, based on his own play.

1 videocassette (86 min.) :

MEDIA 2-451

Les Parapluies de Cherbourg The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1997

Two lovers, separated by the Algerian war, meet again after she has remarried. A cinematic triumph unique in its presentation--all of the dialogue is sung. The haunting music and beautiful photography combine to make this an outstanding dramatic romance.

1 videodisc (ca. 91 min.) :

MEDIA 10-30

The Passion of Joan of Arc 1978

Depicts the trial of Joan of Arc at Rouen and her final burning at the stake. Particularly unusual camera angles were employed.

1 videocassette (120 min.) :

MEDIA 2-184

Pauline à la plage Pauline at the beach 1982

Explores the romantic and sexual entanglements of six people on summer holiday on the Normandy coast. A teenager, Pauline, and her first boyfriend observe the adult antics around them.

1 videocassette (VHS) (94 min.) :

MEDIA 2-272

Pépé le Moko tiré du roman d'Ashelbé 1980

A famous gangster is safe from the police while hiding in the Casbah section of Algiers. Love causes him to emerge and be shot.

1 videocassette (95 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1138

Place Vendôme 2002

The wife of a famous diamond jeweler is drawn back into the world of dealing jewels when her husband suddenly commits suicide.

1 videcassette (117 min.) :

MEDIA 2-6009

Playtime 1996?

A group of American tourists arrive in Paris, only to find that the city is indistinguishable from any other big city. Endless comedies ensue however, when the path of Monsieur Hulot (Tati) crosses that of the group.

1 videocassette (120 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3639

La prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV 1966

A television production which traces the creation of an absolute monarchy by France' s "Sun King," Louis XIV. Adapted from a story by Philippe Erlanger.

1 videocassette (100 min.) :

MEDIA MEDIA D-326 2-370

A propos de Nice 198

Vigo examines the French resort city of Nice while mixing experimental technique with social and poetic vision.

1 videocassette (22 min.)

MEDIA D-426

Les quatre cents coups The 400 blows 1999

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.

1 videodisc (99 min.) :

MEDIA 10-42

Querelle 1988

A look at the underworld of sailors in the French port of Brest. Querelle is a young sailor who finds himself involved in drug smuggling and homosexuality.

1 videocassette (110 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3476

Red 1994

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.

1 videocassette (99 min.) :

DANA 911

Ressources humaines Human resources 2004

<36 Contents>Franck, a Parisian business school student, takes an internship in the human resources department at the factory where his father has labored for the past 30 years. When Franck's efforts to better the company lead to the firing of many employees, including his father, a furious confrontation ensues, forcing father and son to ponder their relationship while realizing their individual lives.

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The Return of Martin Guerre 1984

In 15th century France, a young man returns home after many years absence to resume his life and marriage but is charged with being an imposter and is placed on trial.

1 videocassette (111 min.) :

MEDIA 2-67

Ridicule 1997

In a desperate quest to save his hometown, a young man quickly learns that a sharp wit is the key to open any door in the Versailles court of Louis XVI.

1 videocassette (103 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3985

Romance 1999

Although deeply in love with her boyfriend - and indeed sleeping in the same bed with him - a schoolteacher cannot handle the almost complete lack of intimacy he will allow. Increasingly frustrated, she gradually finds her sexual appetites leading her into ever more risky situations, including a developing one with the headmaster.

1 videodisc (95 min.) :

MEDIA 10-23

The Rules of the game La règle du jeu 1984

Complicated love intrigues among the high society guests at a weekend house party outside Paris are mirrored by parallel activities among the servants, showing the illnesses of a society locked into frivolous and futile social games.

1 videocassette (106 min.) :

DANA. MEDIA. MEDIA 216 2-189 2-331

S'en fout la mort 1992

Dah, an African immigrant, and Jocelyn, a West Indian man, hook up to supply and train fighting cocks for a sleazy French saloon owner. The two live in the back of the club, and while Jocelyn trainsthe birds, Dah becomes entangled with the owner's mistress. Soon all four are cast into a violent circle of gambling, desire and agony, spinning out of control.

1 videocassette (97 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5062

La salamandre 1994

A journalist who works from facts and a writer who relies on his intuition investigate the story of Rosemonde, a mysterious young woman who may have tried to kill her uncle. The more they learn of this fascinating woman, the more they are drawn to her.

1 videocassette (119 min.)

MEDIA 2-6686

Le sang d'un poet Blood of a poet 2000

An artist is driven mad by the sight of his own blood and a drawing of a mouth that seems to come to life. The combination sends him off on a series of bizarre adventures that strive to explain how artists become obsessed with their own works.

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MEDIA 10-33

Le Sang d'un poète 198

A surrealistic allegorical myth, full of visual symbolism and abstract effects, about an artist who sacrifices himself to his art.

1 videocassette (55 min.) :

DANA 336

Sans toit ni loi Vagabond 2000

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.

1 videodisc (105 min.) :

MEDIA 10-31

Shoot the piano player Tirez sur le pianiste 1980

A café pianist, whose past is revealed in a flashback, becomes innocently involved in the dealings of a gang of petty crooks. His second chance at love and his plans to make a comeback as a concert pianist are ended when his girlfriend is killed by a stray bullet during a gunfight.

1 videocassette (84 min.) :

MEDIA 2-163

The Sorrow and the pity 1984

Examines the occupation of France by the Germans during World War II using reminiscences of individuals and officials involved in the events at the time. Concentrates on the themes of collaboration and resistance.

2 videocassettes (260 min.) :

MEDIA. MEDIA 2-50 cassette 1 2-51 cassette 2

Sous le sable Under the sand 2001

For years, Marie and Jean have spent their vacations at their country home. One day at the beach, Marie falls asleep while Jean goes for a swim. When she awakens, he is gone. Marie notifies the authorities and even after an extensive search, no body is found. Did he drown or did he just run off?

1 videocassette (95 min.) :

MEDIA 2-6048

Sur la terre comme au ciel = Between heaven and earth 1994

A pregnant woman tries to convince her unborn child that life on earth is worth living.

1 videocassette (80 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2641

Susanne Simonin, la religieuse The Nun 1990

Freely adapted from Diderot's classic 18th century novel, the film tells the story of a 16-year-old girl compelled by her mother to enter a convent. Convinced by the mother superior, the girl accepts her vows, but soon meets with harsh rigor and abuse when the kindly superior is followed by a cruel successor. Her desperate attempts at freedom land her first in another convent and finally, tragically, in the outside world.

1 videocassette (155 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2789

Le temps retrouvé 2001

Set in 1922, this film opens with the French author, Marcel Proust, on his deathbed remembering his life. Gradually his own experiences give way to the characters in his novels -- fiction eclipses reality as the author's creations combine with his own experiences. The result is a montage of moving snapshots and feverish dreams that make the film the ultimate in Proustian cinema.

1 videodisc (158 min.) :

MEDIA 10-96

Le Testament d'Orphée ou, Ne me demandez pas pourquoi 2000

A modern account of the Orpheus myth. An 18th-century poet travels through time on a quest for divine wisdom.

1 videodisc (80 min.) :

MEDIA 10-35

Trois couleurs Three colors. White 1994

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 a new, he rebuilds his life, only to plan a dangerous scheme of vengeance against her.

1 videocassette (92 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5531

Un Amour de Swann Swann in love 1985

"A wealthy gentleman who thrives in the finest circles of high society risks everything for his erotic obsession with a voluptuous, promiscuous courtesan"--External container.

1 videocassette (VHS) (110 min.) :

MEDIA 2-251

Un Condamné à mort s'est échappé ou, Le vent souffle ou il vent 1994

In 1943, Lt. Fontaine is captured by the Gestapo and is imprisoned in Fort Montluc. He carefully plans his escape but puts it off until sentenced to death.

1 videocassette (100 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2736

Un long dimanche de fiançailles A very long engagement 2005

<36 Contents>Mathilde is waiting desperately for her fiance to return from the war. When bad news arrives she refuses to believe he is dead. Instead, she begins her own investigation into his infantry, hiring a private detective and piecing together his war stories.

<41 Library Location> 10-580

Under the roofs of Paris Sous les toits de Paris 1983

A Parisian street singer falls in love with a girl, fights her lover, and proves himself innocent of theft. This light musical was director Clair's first sound film as well as the first French sound film.

1 videocassette (95 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1391

Une affaire de femmes Story of women 1992

A beautiful and childish woman's life is changed when she performs an abortion for a distraught neighbor.

1 videocassette (110 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2653

Une femme douce Gentle woman 1995

When the teenage wife of a pawnbroker suddenly and inexplicably commits suicide, her distraught husband tries to understand what could have led to such a desperate act. The story unfolds in flashbacks, revealing a pattern of miscommunication and abuse.

1 videocassette (89 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3418

Vagabond 1987

The story of Mona, an aimless drifter whose only desire in life is to be truly free. As she wanders through the wintry French countryside, she encounters violence, hunger, fear, and cold.

1 videocassette (105 min.) :

MEDIA 2-281

A very curious girl 2000?

A beautiful and poor girl is known intimately by most of the men in her village. Tired of enduring the physical abuse and the sexual exploitation, she starts to charge a fee for her services. This disrupts the smug patriarchal society of the village of Tellier.

1 videocassette (105 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5727

Viagem ao principío do mundo Journey to the beginning of the world 1999

An aging film director, on location in Portugal, takes three actor friends on a driving tour of a mountain village where one of 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.

1 videocassette (95 min.) :

DANA 1392

Vivre sa vie 198-

A film in twelve episodes that follows the unhappy experiences of a salesgirl who becomes a prostitute.

1 videocassette (VHS) (85 min.) :

MEDIA 2-368

Weekend 198

The violence and materialistic values of modern capitalistic society are attacked by Jean-Luc Godard as he follows a young French bourgeois couple on a nightmarish motoring weekend across the French countryside. The disintegration of society is seen symbolically as a holocaust of corpses and burning cars.

1 videocassette (ca. 95 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1843

Y aura-t-il de la neige à Noël? Will it snow at Christmas? 1997

A woman and her seven children live on a farm in Southern France. In spite of the hard work and the mediocre accommodation, their life would be a happy one, but for one person, the egotistical and authoritarian owner of the farm, who just happens to be the woman's lover and father of her children.

1 videocassette (90 min.) :

MEDIA. MEDIA 2-5494 2-5506

Z 1980

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1969. Political thriller about events preceding the military coup in Greece in the 1960s.

1 videocassette (128 min.) :

MEDIA 2-40

Zero de conduite Zero for conduct 1984?

A study of life in a French boarding school for boys, this is a series of vignettes lampooning the faculty and is climaxed by a surrealistic, dream-like rebellion of the entire student body.

1 videocassette (48 min.) :

MEDIA 2-106