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Fost Sau n-a Fost?
Director: Corneliu
Porumboiu
2007
On the sixteenth year anniversary of the fall of Romanian dictator
Nicolae Ceausescu, a local anchorman of a nearby provincial town invites two
of his acquaintances to share their moments of revolutionary glory on his
talk show. One is an impish, insightful retiree who sometimes poses as Santa
Claus, the other a henpecked, hard-drinking teacher who has just devoted his
entire salary to his drinking debts. Together they will remember the day
when they stormed their town hall calling "down with Ceausescu." Or did
they? In Romanian. 89 min.
Call number: DVD 12:0 |
Burnt by the Sun / Utomlyonnye
Solnt̀sem
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
2003 (1994)
Nikita Mikhalkov directs and stars as Colonel S. Kotov, a hero of
the Revolution, who is
spending the summer
in the country with
his young daughter (Mikhalkov’s real-life daughter), his wife and her
eccentric family. But when his wife’s childhood love suddenly appears,
the idyllic summer day
takes a surprising turn. A lyrical film filled with beauty and warmth, it is
also an indelible account of a man dedicated to family and fatherland,
cruelly destroyed by
political paranoia.
In Russian. 135 min.
Call number: DVD burn |
East Side Story
Director: Dana Ranga
2000 (1997)
A delirious documentary that unveils a part of film history until now
unknown in the west: Soviet and eastern bloc communist musicals. Featuring
hearty peasants and workers singing and dancing their way through fields and
factories, these Hollywood-style musicals interpret American escapism in
socialist terms.
In German, Russian, Polish,
Romanian, Bulgarian, Czech with
English subtitles. 78 min.
Call number: DVD PN 1995.9 .M86 .E38 |
Genghis Blues
Director: Roko Belic
2000 (1999)
The story of a Paul Pena, a blind
American blues musician, and his trek to Tuva to live among its inhabitants
and compete in their triennial khoomei (throat singing) contest. He is
accompanied by a documentary film team and Tuvinian throat singer Kongar-ol
Ondar. Some parts in
Tuvinian.
90 min.
Call number: DVD ML 3680.7 .T9 G45 2000 |
Moartea domnului Lazarescu / The Death
of Mr. Lazarescu
Director: Cristi Puiu
2006
A 60-ish widower, living alone with his cats, feels sick enough one
evening to call an ambulance. This is the beginning of his Dantesque odyssey
deep into the bowels of a big city medical establishment..
In Romanian with English subtitles. 153 min.
Call number: DVD deat |
Osama
Director: Siddiq Barmak
2003
Chronicles the true story of a young
girl in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan who must disguise herself as a boy to save
her family from starvation. The first feature film made in Afghanistan in
the post-Taliban era.
In Pashtu with English subtitles.
83 min.
Call number: DVD osam |
The Story of the Weeping Camel
Director: Luigi Falorni and Byambasuren Davaa
2003
In the Gobi Desert, a family of nomads, who assist in the birth of its camel
herd, face a crisis when one white calf is rejected by its mother. With all
hope lost, the family sends its two young boys on a journey to a far-off
village to fetch a musician capable of performing a magical ceremony.
In Mongolian with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles. 87 min.
Call number: DVD stor
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The Vertical Ray of the Sun / Mùa Hè
Chiēu Thang Dúng
Director: Tran Anh Hung
(2001)
2000
Three sisters-Lien, Khanh, and Suong-whose parents have recently died come
together on the anniversary of the mother’s death, preparing the memorial
dinner. The men in their lives include their brother Hai, and husbands Kien
and Quoc. The family is, however, prey to all the romantic entanglements,
confessions, secrets, passions and troubles that eventually ensnare all.
With Chekhovian decorum, the film examines the domestic emotions and small
eruptions of feeling that punctuate the slow, vaguely sorrowful serenity of
the sister’s daily lives.
In Vietnamese with optional English subtitles. 112 min.
Call number: DVD vert
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Walk on Water
Director: Eytan Fox
2005
While on assignment in Berlin, a
homophobic Israeli intelligence agent is tasked with offing a Nazi war
criminal. However, he has a crisis of consciousness after he befriends a
target’s gay grandson.
In English, Hebrew or German, with
English subtitles. 103 min.
Call number: DVD walk
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VHS tapes in
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Thunder Over Mexico / Que Viva
Mexico
Director: Sergei M. Einstein
1985 (1931-32)
A video document of the history of Mexico, presented in four novellas:
Sandunga, an exposition of Tehuantepec jungles and the peaceful lifestyles
of their inhabitants; Manguei, a love story about a poor peon and his bride;
Fiesta, devoted to bullfighting and romantic love; and Soldadera, a
portrayal of the 1910 revolution in Mexico as depicted in the frescoes of
Sigueiros, Rivera, and Orosco. Russian narration, English subtitles. 85
min., b&w.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: VHS PN 1997 .Q37 1985 |
The Home and the World / Ghare-Baire
Director: Satyajit Ray
1984
A woman falls in love with her husband's boyhood friend and his political
ideals. Bengali and English dialogue with English subtitles. Based on the
novel of the same name, found in the stacks. 130 min.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: VHS PN 1997 .H664 1985 |
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DVDs in
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L'Auberge Espagnole /
The Spanish Apartment
Director: Cédric Klapisch
2003
When Xavier, a straight-laced French college senior, moves to
Barcelona as part of a student exchange program, he shares cramped quarters
with students from all over Europe. Xavier gets a hilarious, eye-opening
lesson on how to live, love, laugh...party!
Call number: DVD lau |
Dancer in the Dark
Director: Lars von Trier
2001 (2000)
Selma, a factory worker in
rural America and single mother, is losing her eyesight from a hereditary
disease. Determined to protect her 10-year-old son from
the same fate, Selma is
saving her money to get him an operation.
In
the evenings, Selma
escapes by rehearsing for a production of
The sound of music with
her best friend. When a neighbor betrays her trust, Selma’s life spirals out
of control and the
lines between reality and fantasy blur.
141 min.
Call number: DVD danc |
Hotel Rwanda
Director: Terry George
2004
The deeply moving true story of a five-star-hotel manager who used his
wits and words to save more than 1,200 lives during the 1994 Rwandan
conflict
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122 min.
Call number: DVD hote |
Lawrence of Arabia
Director: David Lean
2002 (1962)
The story of T.E. Lawrence, the heroic and troubled man who organized
the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached
a pinnacle of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military
obscurity. 227 min.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: DVD lawr |
The Mission
Director: Roland Joffé
2003 (1986)
A powerful epic about a man of the sword and a man of the cloth who unite to
shield a South American Indian tribe from brutal subjegation by 18th-century
colonial empires. Includes dialogue in the Guaraní Indian language. 2 discs,
125 min.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: DVD miss |
VHS tapes in
English with international cultural content
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Belly Pain
Director: Carl Ross
1992
A comedy set in Jamaica (poor quality tape). 80 min.
Call number: VHS PN 1997 .B455 |
Topkapi
Director: Jules Dassin
1995
(1964)
Thieves attempt to steal a museum treasure in
Istanbul. 120 min.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: VHS PR 6001 .M48 L59 |
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11/24/2008
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