Titles: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W-Y Z Titles are listed aphabetically in French Film and French WWII Occupation French History and Culture African cinema (including films from Francophone Africa) Experimental and Avant-Garde Films (for early French avant-garde films) French Cinema Bibliography Luis Buñuel bibliography Jean-Luc Goddard bibliography Jean Renoir bibliography François Truffaut bibliography 8 femmes (France | Italy, 2002) Directed by François Ozon. Cast: Danielle Darrieux, Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle Béart, Fanny Ardant, Virginie Ledoyen, Ludivine Sagnier, Firmine Richard. A wealthy industrialist is found murdered in his home while his family gathers for the holiday season. The house is isolated and the phone lines have been found to be cut. Eight women are his potential murderers. Each is a suspect and each has a motive. Only one is guilty. Based on the play Huit femmes by Robert Thomas. 111 min. DVD X3409 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Ozon, François 8 femmes : scénario adapté de la pièce de théâtre de Robert Thomas, Huit femmes, comédie policière en trois actes créée le 28 août 1961 au Théâtre Edouard-VII / François Ozon ; avec la collaboration de Marina De Van. Paris : Editions de La Martinière, c2002. (Main (Gardner) Stacks PN1997.2 H84 2002) 35 rhums (35 Shots of Rum) (France | Germany, 2008) Directed by Claire Denis. Cast: Alex Descas, Mati Diop, Nicole Dogué, Grégoire Colin. Lionel is a middle-aged widower who makes his living driving a train and shares an apartment with his twenty-something daughter Josephine. Lionel and Josephine have a warm and caring relationship. Lionel's on-and-off girlfriend Gabrielle and their footloose friend Noe live in the same building. Together the four have fallen into a casual family relationship. But when Josephine and Noe become more than friends, Lionel is on edge. 102 min. DVD X3953 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database 36 fillette (1988) Directed by Catherine Breillat. Cast: Delphine Zentout, Etienne Chicot, Olivier Parnière, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Berta Dominquez D., Jean-François Stevenin. Lili, at fourteen, is literally busting out of her children's size dress. While on vacation with her family, she vows to lose her virginity and soon attracts the attention of a good looking, middle-aged playboy. With the skill of an adult and the naivete of a child, Lili seduces him. Her involvement with this older man and a chance encounter with a musician further her journey towards sexual awakening. 88 min. DVD 7171 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Catherine Breillat bibliography À Ma soeur (The Fat Girl) (2001) Directed by Catherine Breillat. Cast: Anais Reboux, Roxane Mesquida, Libero de Rienzo, Arsinee Khanjian, Romain Goupil, Laura Betti. A daring and provocative exploration of the complexities of sexual awakening involving 12-year-old Anais. With her family on holiday by the sea, she yearns for the experience of first love. However, she experiences it by proxy when her beautiful older sister, Elena gets involved with an older boy. Soon Elena's naive hopes of romance will be shattered setting a chain of events in motion that will shatter her family forever. Non-US format DVD. 83 min. DVD 2646 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database À Nos amours (1983) Directed by Maurice Pialat. Cast: Sandrine Bonnaire, Dominique Besnehard, Maurice Pialat, Evelyne Ker, Cyr Boitard, Pierre-Loup Rajot, Cyril Collard. A study of a working class girl of fifteen who, looking for the affection she is denied at home, enters a series of casual sexual affairs, eventually marries, then leaves her husband to fly off to America. Non-US format Special features (Disc one): Original theatrical trailer ; (Disc two): "The human eye" a 1999 documentary on the film; archival interview with Maurice Pialat on the set; a 2003 interview with Sandrine Bonnaire; new interviews with filmmakers Catherine Breillat and Jean-Pierre Gorin; actor auditions. 102 min. DVD 6661 (Criterion); copy 2: DVD 3408(PAL) DVD. In French without subtitles. Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards César Awards - Best Film À Nous la liberté (1931) Directed by René Clair. Cast: Henri Marchand, Raymond Cordy, Rolla France, Paul Olivier, André Michand, Germaine Aussey, Jacques Shelly, Leon Lorin, William Burke, Vincent Hyspa. A landmark film in early sound production this is a left-wing satirical comedy about two ex-convicts, one of whom works his way up from salesman to factory owner. He oversees a highly mechanised operation where the workers are reduced to mere automatons. Blackmailed over his past, he joins up with his old cellmate, and the pair take to the road as tramps. Frequently acknowledged as the inspiration for Chaplin's "Modern times." Special feature: Entr'acte (1924), the classic surrealist short by Clair and artist Francis Picabia. 83 min. DVD 1274 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Dale, R. C. "A Clash of Intelligences: Sound vs. Image in René Clair's A nous, la liberté." French Review, vol. 38, no. 5, pp. 637-44, Apr 1965 UC users only Kramer, S.P. "René Clair: Situation and Sensibility in A Nous la Liberté." (Article). Literature/Film Quarterly XII/2, Apr 84; p.142-144. UC users only René Clair bibliography Aaltra: A Road Movie (France/Belgium 2004) Directed by Gustave de Kervern and Benoît Delépine. Cast: Benoît Delepine, Gustave Kervern, Jan Bucquoy, Pierre Carl, Michel de Houx, Isabelle Delepine, Jason Flemying, Noel Godin, Christine Grulois, Aki Kauresmaki, Bouli Lanners, Vincent Patar, Benoît Poelvoorde, Chrisophe Salengro, Vincent Tavier. In this hilarious comedy two rural neighbors who hate each other, end up paralyzed after they get tangled in a tractor during a fight. Full of spite they decide to roll across Europe to exact revenge from the tractor's manufacturer. 90 min. DVD 6304 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database [Absinthe] The Four Earliest Known Absinthe-related Films Presents four movies from the silent film era concerning the distilled, highly alcoholic spirit absinthe. Almost from the very outset motion picture producers found a lucerative niche producing films with an anti-alcohol message. The 1902 film "Les victimes de l'alcoolisme" was the first attempt by the newly formed Pathé company to exploit the burgeoning demand for anti-absinthe and anti-alcohol propaganda. "Les Victimes de l'alcool" (1911), a far more sophisticated film, was enthusiastically promoted by the temperance movement and was a huge success for Pathé. "Absinthe" (1913) is the only surviving U.S.-made absinthe related motion picture from the pre-ban era, featuring one of the very few filmed versions of absinthe being prepared and consumed. Contents: La Bonne absinthe / produced by Gaumont Film Company ; directed by Alice Guy (1899, 1 min.) -- Les Victimes de l'alcoolisme / produced by Pathé ; directed by Ferdinand Zecca (1902, 4 min.) -- Les Victimes de l'alcool / produced by Pathé ; directed by Gerard Bourgeois (1911, 26 min.) -- Absinthe / produced by the Gem Motion Picture Company ; starring Glen White and Sadie Weston (1913, 12 min.) DVD X2294 Adieu, Gary (France, 2009) Directors, Nassim Amaouche. Cast: Jean-Pierre Barci, Dominique Reymond, Yasmine Belmadi. When their factory is closed down, some irreducible people stay to live in the factory city where they've been spending all their lives. Some of them also keep going to work, to repair the machinery. Soundtrack and subtitles in French without English subtitles. 76 min. DVD X4736 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Adieu Philippine (France | Italy, 1962) Directors, Jacques Rozier. Cast: Jean-Claude Aimini, Daniel Decamps, Stefania Sabatini, Yveline Céry, Vittorio Caprioli. Michel is working in a television crew while he waits to be shipped out with the French Army to Algeria. He meets two young actresses, Liliane and Juliette, who join him as he spends his last days of liberty. 106 min. DVD X5379 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Une Affaire de femmes (Story of women) (1988) Director, Claude Chabrol. Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Francois Cluzet, Marie Trintignant, Nils Tavernier. To survive Nazi-occupied 1940's France, Marie turns to illegally aborting pregnancies for a hefty fee. As her income increases, Marie moves her family to a posh apartment. Completely seduced by her lifestyle, Marie ignores her shell-shocked husband Paul. Things take a disastrous turn after one of Marie's "customers" dies and her husband turns her over to the authorities. Inspired by the real-life of Marie-Louise Girard, who was executed in 1943 by the Vichy Government, who'd declared abortion as a Crime Against the State because it diminished the number of potential soldiers. 108 min. DVD 7256 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards Golden Globe Award - Best Foreign Language Film National Board of Review, USA - Best Foreign Language Film National Society of Film Critics - Best Foreign Language Film New York Film Critics Association Awards - Best Foreign Language Film Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Foreign Language Film Scullion, Rosemarie. "Family Fictions and Reproductive Realities in Vichy France: Claude Chabrol's Une Affaire de femmes." In: Identity papers : contested nationhood in twentieth-century France / Steven Ungar and Tom Conley, ed. Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, c1996. [full-text available online (UCB users only); print: Main (Gardner) Stacks DC34 .I34 1996] Webster, Robert M. "Une Affaire de femmes." The French Review, Vol. 65, No. 3 (Feb., 1992), pp. 507-508 UC users only Claude Chabrol bibliography Une Affaire de goût (A Matter of Taste) (1999) Directed by Bernard Rapp. Cast: Bernard Giraudeau, Jean-Pierre Lorit, Florence Thomassin. Frederic Delamont, a wealthy businessman, hires Nicolas, a young waiter, to be his personal food taster--with escalating stakes. Delamont's shrewd, bizarre plan is to make Nicolas into a counterpart so sensitive that he can anticipate and share all of his employer's exact tastes. 88 min. DVD 1703 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Noh, David "A Director of Taste: France's Bernard Rapp Concocts a Psychological Tale of Manipulation." Film Journal International, vol. 104, no. 9, pp. 24-28, Sept 2001 L'âge d'or (Golden Age) (1930) Directed by Luis Buñuel. Using a melange of strange and unrelated images, this is a statement by Bunuel on the nature of the bourgeoisie, the church and the police. 62 min. DVD 3140; vhs 999:102 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Un air de famille (Family Resemblances) (1996) Directed by Cédric Klapisch. Cast: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Catherine Frot, Agnès Jaoui, Clare Maurier, Wladimir Yordanoff. A dysfunctional family eats dinner together one night a week. On this particular Friday family politics and squabbles disrupt a birthday party, thus illuminating some universal truths about family life. 105 min. DVD X5592; vhs 999:3147 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards César Awards, France - Best Supporting Actor (Jean-Pierre Darroussin); Best Supporting Actress (Catherine Frot) Lucia, Cynthia. "The Last Time He Saw Paris: An Interview with Cédric Klapisch." Cineaste, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 10-14, 1997 UC users only Ali-Baba (et les Quarante Voleurs) (1954) Directed by Jacques Becker. Cast: Fernandel (Ali-baba), Samia Gamal (Morgiane), Dieter Borsche (Abdul), Henri Vilbert (Cassim), Edouard Delmont (Morgiane's father). In this film adaptation of the story of Ali Baba and the forty thieves Ali Baba accidentally discovers the magic cave where Abdul and his band of thieves hide their treasure. He takes enough gold to buy a slave girl from his master to be his wife, but sinister plans are being made to spoil his wedding night. Includes belly dances by women in the marketplace and Cassim's harem. 90 min. vhs 999:3501 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Cardullo, Bert. "André Bazin, "The Cinema of Jacques Becker": Four Original Reviews." Literature Film Quarterly; 2006, Vol. 34 Issue 4, p252-256, 5p UC users only Á l'intérieur (1986) Director, Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury. Cast: Béatrice Dalle, Alysson Paradis, Nicolas Duvauchelle, François-Régis Marchasson, Nathalie Roussel, Aymen Saidi. Pregnant photojournalist Sarah Scaragato has just lost her husband in a fatal car accident and is in recovery when her baby is due on Christmas Eve. Morose, she rejects friend and family visits, opting to stay home. A bewitched predator, played by Beatrice Dalle, senses Sarah's vulnerability and seizes upon it like a spider capturing prey in its web. The tale, woven around maternal psychosis, reveals the killer's haunting preoccupation with stealing Scaragato's unborn baby. Each character who enters Sarah's house, the "war zone" as one doomed policeman puts it, encounters the wrath of two women fighting with mirror shards, knitting needles, scissors, hurled kitchen appliances, and even a homemade bayonette. 82 min. DVD X3545 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database L'Allée du Roi(1996) Director, Nina Companeez. Cast: Dominique Blanc, Mauricio Buraglia, Didier Sandre, Valentine Varela. A historical drama based on the recollections of Françoise d'Aubigne, Marques de Maintenon, wife to Louis XIV, the King of France. In French without substitles. 240 min. DVD 4510 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (Alphaville) (1965) Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Cast: Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff, Laszlo Szabo, Michel Delahaye, Howard Vernon. A story which unfolds in a utopian world of the future. Alphaville is governed by a totalitarian system in which the individual counts for almost nothing, and an alienated society has no use for art, poetry, love, or even thought. People are reduced essentially to the level of robots. 98 min.DVD 86; vhs 999:73 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database L'Amant (The Lover) (France / UK / Vietnam, 1992) Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. Cast: Jane March, Tony Leung, Frederique Meininger, Arnaud Giovaninetti, Melvil Poupaud. A poor French teenager embarks on a love affair with a wealthy Chinese man in 1929 French colonial Vietnam, defying the boundaries of age, race and class. From the novel by Marguerite Duras. 115 min. DVD 3697; vhs 999:2285 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Les Amants (The Lovers) (1958) Directed by Louis Malle. Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Alain Cuny, Jean-Marc Bory, Judith Magre. Landmark film of both modern French cinema and screen eroticism that portrays a fashion-dominated provincial wife whose shallow life changes overnight when she encounters an unpretentious young man. 89 min. DVD 9353 (PAL); vhs 999:3455 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards Venice Film Festival - Special Jury Prize Louis Malle bibliography Banned and Censored Films (for the controversy and court cases related to this film) Les Amants criminels (Criminal Lovers) (2005) Directed by François Ozon. Cast: Natacha Regnier, Jérémie Renier, Miki Manojlovic, Salim Kechiouche, Yasmine Belmadi. Alice and Luc find themselves in a terrifying trap when they sneak out into the woods to cover up a crime they committed together and then cannot find their way back out. 96 min. DVD X4015 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database François Ozon bibliography Les Amants réguliers (Regular Lovers) (2005) Directed by Philippe Garrel. Cast: Louis Garrel, Clotilde Hesme, Julien Lucas, Eric Rulliat, Nicolas Bridet, Mathieu Genet, Raissa Mariotti, Caroline Deruas-Garrel, Rebecca Convenant. Regular Lovers is a rapturous paean to Paris in '68 love, youth, and disillusionment. A student poet is grappling in tumult with a doomed romance of the famous Parisian riots. 175 min. DVD 8142 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards César Awards, France Venice Film Festival - Silver Lion, Best Director Amélie(1996) See Le fabuleux destin Amélie Poulain L'amour braque (France, 1985) Directed by Andrzej Zulawski. Cast: Sophie Marceau, Francis Huster, Tchéky Karyo, Christiane Jean, Jean-Marc Bory, Michel Albertini, Saïd Amadis, Roland Dubillard, Ged Marion, Serge Spira, Julie Ravix. Intended as homage to Dostoyevsky and loosely based on his novel 'The Idiot', L'Amour Braque is the story of a mad love-triangle: Léon, Marie, and Mickey. Zulawski's postmodern existentialist adaptation is presented with an intense sense of visual style suggestive of the hyper-realistic and chaotic world of "Bande-Dessinée". From start to finish the screen is filled with outbursts of energy and eruptions of emotional violence where "notions of performance as madness" are choreographed into a perverse, bloody ballet. Written by Etienne Roda-Gil; loosely based on the novel, "The Idiot", by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Special features (Disc 1): Audio commentary with director Andrzej Zulawski & writer Daniel Bird; Exclusive new video interview with Sophie Marceau (24 min); video interview with directory of photography J.F. Robin (24 min.); rare archival interviews & behind the scenes footage (16 min.); theatrical trailer; image gallery. 105 min. DVD X5767 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Atkinson, Michael. "Trouble Every Day From Amour Fou to Primal Scream: Inside the Movie Madhouse of Andrzej Zulawski.." Film Comment, Jan/Feb2003, Vol. 39 Issue 1, p38, 4p UC users only Un amour de Swann (Swann in Love) (France / West Germany, 1984) Directed by Volker Schlöndorff. Cast: Jeremy Irons, Alain Delon, Ornella Muti, Fanny Ardant, Marie-Christine Barrault, Anne Bennent, Nathalie Juvet. Set in Paris in the 1890s, Swann falls in love with a young courtesan, and soon finds himself tormented by his unrelenting sexual desire. Based on Marcel Proust's monumental masterpiece of modern literature, this elegant, sensual film recreates the glittering, lost world of the aristocracy. Based on the novel by Marcel Proust. 110 min. DVD X111 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Proust on Film bibliography L'Amour l'après-midi (Chloe in the Afternoon) (1972) Directed by Eric Rohmer. Cast: Bernard Verley, Zouzou, Françoise Verley, Daniel Ceccaldi. Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Hélène, 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. 88 min. DVD 2518; vhs 999:2509 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Eric Rohmer bibliography L'Amour en fuite (Love on the Run) (1979) Directed by François Truffaut. Cast: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Marie-France Pisier. In Truffaut's fifth and final film of his semi-autobiographical "Antoine Doinel" series, Doinel is now in his thirties, newly divorced and René wing love affairs with several women from his past. But when his mother dies, he is forced to confront his emotional immaturity and inability to sustain a lasting relationship. 95 min. DVD 1727, part 4; DVD 350; vhs 999:2433 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database François Truffaut bibliography L'Amour à mort(1984) Directed by Alain Resnais. Cast: Sabine Azema, Fanny Ardant, Pierre Arditi, Andre Dussolier, Jean Daste. Elisabeth and Simon have been together as a couple for only a few months when Simon dies. To everyone's surprise he revives after a few minutes and appears to be quite healthy again. The couple's relationship appears to become more intense, but Simon is unable to come to terms with his near-death experience, feeling an irresistible desire to withdraw from life. Their friends Judith and Jerome, a married couple of Protestant pastors, try to offer guidance and consolation through theological and philosophical discussions, but the couple are beyond their reach, and the persuasive music of 'the other,' of a love beyond death, exerts an irresistible attraction. 88 min. DVD 9803 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Alain Resnais bibliography L'Amour par terre (Love on the Ground) (1984) Directed by Jacques Rivette. Cast: Jane Birkin, Geraldine Chaplin, André Dussollier, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Facundo Bo, Isabelle Linnartz, Sandra Montaigu. A film director (Clément) invites two actresses to his home to work on a performance. A magician named Paul is his current lover and lives in Clément's home. After the actresses arrive, they find themselves influenced by Paul's magic. 129 min. DVD 4584 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Jacques Rivette bibliography Les amours de la reine Élisabeth (Queen Elizabeth) (France, 1912) Directed by Louis Mercanton and Henri Desfontaines. Cast: Sarah Bernhardt, Lou Tellegen, Max Maxudian. Episodes from the life of Elizabeth I, Queen of England (1533-1603) focusing on her ill-fated love affair with Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex. Based on the play by Emile Moreau. Originally released as a silent film in 1912, by a French production company working in London and released in France under the title: Les amours de la reine Élisabeth. Premiered in the United States in July 1912 with the title Queen Elizabeth. 45 min. DVD X4473 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Anatomie de l'Enfer (Anatomy of Hell) (2003) Directed by Catharine Breillat. Cast: Amira Casar, Rocco Siffredi. A man rescues a woman from a suicide attempt in a gay nightclub. Walking the streets together, she propositions him: She'll pay him to visit her at her isolated house for four consecutive nights. There he will silently watch her. He's reluctant, but agrees. As the four nights progress, they become more intimate with each other, and a mutual fascination/revulsion develops. By the end of the four-day "contract", these two total strangers will have had a profound impact on each other. Based on Breillat's novel, Pornocratie. 80 min. DVD 7170 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Les anges exterminateurs (The Exterminating Angels) (France, 2006) Directed by Jean-Claude Brisseau. Cast: Frédéric van den Driessche, Maroussia Dubreuil, Lise Bellynck, Marie Allan. François is a filmmaker holding auditions for his upcoming film about female pleasure. He expects the process to be unconventional but cannot predict the danger that so much arousal can cause. As his female cast embarks on a journey of intense physical pleasure-seeking they become emotionally involved with the director and each other, bringing new meaning to the warning to never mix business with pleasure. 99 min. DVD X3450 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database L'Année dernière à Marienbad (Last Year at Marienbad) (1961) Directed by Alain Resnais. Cast: Giorgio Albertazzi, Delphine Seyrig, Sacha Pitoeff. Among an assembly of guests in a vast baroque mansion, the narrator/hero tries to persuade a woman that they have met before, and that she has agreed to go away with him, leaving the man (her husband, perhaps) who has accompanied her to this mansion. Introduces Resnais' unconventional editing techniques. Special features (DVD X6721): Disc 1: Original theatrical trailer and Rialto's rerelease trailer -- Disc 2: New audio interview with Resnais, recorded exclusively for this release ; New documentary on the making of Last year at Marienbad, featuring interviews with many of Resnais' collaborators ; New video interview with film scholar Ginette Vincendeau on the history of the film and its many mysteries ; "Toute la memoire du monde" documentary (1956); "Le chant du styrene" documentary (1958). A booklet featuring an essay by critic Mark Polizzotti and a section on Alain Robbe Grillet's evolving attitude toward the film, including the author's introduction to the published screenplay and comments by film scholar Francois Thomas. Also contains two shorts: Toute la mémoire du monde: "A poetic piece about the French national library in Paris and the archiving of memory that looks forward to his later films." Styrene [aka: Le chant du styrene] : This short film was "shot in the Pechiney polystyrene factories and features boldly abstract color images and voice-over text [written] by Raymond Queneau." 93 min. DVD X6721; DVD 115 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards Venice Film Festival - Golden Lion Award Les Années 80 (The Eighties) (1983) Director, Chantal Akerman. Cast: Aurore Clément, Lio, Magali Noel, Pascale Salkin. The Eighties is a film about a musical in the making. It provides insights into behind-the-scenes drama and, at the same time, is a preview of Akerman's forthcoming shopping mall musical, "Window Shopping." 82 min. vhs 999:3597 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Les années lumière (Light Years Away) (Switzerland | France, 1981) Director, Alain Tanner. Cast: Trevor Howard, Mick Ford, Odile Schmitt, Bernice Stegers. A young drifter meets up with a strange old man who claims that he has been taught to fly by birds. Based on the novel by Daniel Odier "La voie sauvage" 115 min. DVD X4940 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Leach, Jim. A possible cinema : the films of Alain Tanner / by Jim Leach. Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1984. (Main (Gardner) Stacks PN1998.A3 T264 1984) Antoine et Collette (1962) Directed by François Truffaut. Part of Truffaut's saga of Antoine Doinel, following the character (played by Jean-Pierre Leaud) from his stormy teens through marriage, children, divorce, and adulthood. 30 min. DVD 1727, part 1 François Truffaut bibliography L'appartement (The apartment) (France | Spain | Italy, 1996) Directed by Gilles Mimouni. Cast: Romane Bohringer, Vincent Cassel, Jean-Philippe Ecoffey, Monica Bellucci, Sandrine Kiberlain, Olivier Granier. Max, a young corporate hotshot, is planning a marriage, investigating a murder, chasing after a lost love and getting bizarrely hooked up with a mystery girl. 116 min. DVD 9310 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards - Best Foreign-language Film César Awards, France - Best First Work; Most Promising Actress (Monica Bellucci) L'appât (Fresh bait) (1995) Directed by Bertrand Tavernier. Cast: Marie Gillain, Olivier Sitruk, Bruno Putzulu, Clotilde Courau, Marie Ravel, Philippe Duclos, Richard Berry. A drama based on a shocking true story of greed and murder. Getting rich quick is the idea; robbery, torture, and murder are the plan. Nathalie, Eric, and Bruno lure men with the promise of sex with Nathalie. Two men enter the apartment, never to be seen alive again. 112 min. DVD 8822 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database L'Argent (Money) (1983) Directed by Robert Bresson. Cast: Christian Patey, Vincent Risterucci, Caroline Lang, Sylvie Van den Elsen. Adapted from the story "The forged note" by Tolstoy, Bresson's film tells of the tragic chain of events which ensue when two schoolboys pass a forged banknote in a photography shop. The note is transferred to the unwitting Yvon, a delivery driver, who is arrested for possessing it. Despite being cleared by the court, Yvon loses his job and becomes trapped in a disastrous spiral of theft, imprisonment and murder. Special features: 2 interviews with Robert Bresson; Interview with Marguerite Duras; Theatrical trailer. 82 min. DVD 9438 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Robert Bresson bibliography L'Argent (Money) (1928) Directed by Marcel L'Herbier. Cast: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Pierre Alcover, Yvette Guilbert, Antonin Artaud. Business tycoons Saccard and Gunderman lock horns when the former tries to raise capital for his faltering bank. To inflate his stock, Saccard concocts a duplicitous publicity stunt involving the unwitting aviator Hamelin and a flight across the Atlantic, much to the dismay of his wife Line. The Hamelins become pawns in a high-stakes chess game played out by unscrupulous speculators. Based on L'Argent by Émile Zola. Special features: newly improvised musical accompaniment by French composer and pianist Jean-Francois Zygel ; About L'argent (1928) ; Jean Dréville's 40 min "making of" documentary ; Marcel L'Herbier: Poet of the silent art (2007) ; a 54 min documentary profile ; archival footage of Brigitte Helm arriving in Paris and screen-tests of the actors ; a demonstration of L'Herbier's innovative sound techniques. 165 min. DVD X6013 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database L'Argent de poche (Small Change) (1976) Directed by François Truffaut. Cast: Nicole Felix, Tania Torrens, Jean-François Stevenin, Chantal Mercier. A poetic comedy about a group of children as they experience life from early childhood to adolescence. Truffaut interweaves vignettes of puppy love, school days, bragging rights, trips to the movie house, loving parents and one boy's escape from child abuse, as he explores the range of young emotions from humour to fantasy to the serious side of life. 105 min. DVD 513; vhs 999:2187 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database L'armée du crime (Army of Crime) (France, 2009) Directed by Robert Guédiguian. Cast: Virginie Ledoyen, Simon Abkarian, Robinson Stevenin, Grégoire LePrince-Ringuet, Lola Naymark, Yann Tregouët, Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin. In Paris, 1941, Armenian poet Missak Manouchian leads a motley crew of foreign-born resistance fighters in clandestine battle against the Nazi occupation. An initially reluctant Manouchian and his team must resort to guerilla tactics and radical measures in the name of liberty. News of their daring attacks, including the assassination of an SS general, eventually reaches Berlin. 138 min. DVD X5559 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database L'armée des ombres (Army of Shadows) (France / Italy, 1969) Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. Cast: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret, Paul Crauchet, Claude Mann, Christian Barbier, Serge Reggiani. A civil engineer who is one of the French Resistance's chiefs is given away by a traitor and interned in a camp. He manages to escape, and joins his network at Marseilles, where he makes the traitor be executed... Follows the everyday life of the French Resistants : their solitude, their fears, their relationships, the arrests, the forwarding of orders and their carrying out. Special features: Audio commentary by film historian Ginette Vincendeau; new interviews with Lhomme and editor Francoise Bonnot; archival video excerpts, including on-set footage and interviews with Mellville, cast members, writer Joseph Kessel, and real-life Resistance fighters; "Jean-Pierre Melville et 'L'armee des ombres'" (2005), a short program on the director and his film; "Le journal de las Resistance" (1944), a rare short documentary shot on the front lines of the final days of German-occupied France; and a film restoration demonstration by Lhomme. 145 min. DVD 7536 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards New York Film Critics Circle Awards Los Angeles Film Critics Association National Society of Film Critics Artemisia (France / Germany / Italy, 1997) Directed by Agnes Merlet. Cast: Michel Serrault, Valentina Cervi, Miki Manojlovic, Brigitte Catillon, Maurice Garrel, Emmanuelle Devos. Tells the provocative true story of the beautiful and talented daughter of one of Italy's greatest painters. When Artemisia Gentileschi is forbidden to fully pursue her own passion of painting, she convinces a renowned artist to tutor her. He not only liberates her into the world of art but initiates her into the world of sex and love. 96 min. DVD 6109 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Charbonnier, J. M. "Identifications d'une femme: Artemisia Gentileschi." [profile of the 17th century artist and film by Agnes Merlet]. Beaux Arts Magazine no. 160 (September 1997) p. 82-7 Eades, Caroline. "Mainstreaming the Margins in France: Three Films au Féminin." In: Women filmmakers : refocusing / edited by Jacqueline Levitin, Judith Plessis, and Valerie Raoul. Vancouver : UBC Press, 2002. Full text available online (UC Berkeley users only); Print: Main (Gardner) Stacks PN1995.9.W6 W655 2003) Felleman, Susan. "Dirty Pictures, Mud Lust, and Abject Desire: Myths of Origin and the Cinematic Object." Film Quarterly 55:1 (Fall 2001) p. 27-40 UC users only Garrard, M. D. "Artemisia's trial by cinema." [film about A. Gentileschi]. Art in America v. 86 no. 10 (October 1998) p. 65+ Lent, Tina Olsin. "'My heart belongs to daddy': the fictionalization of Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi in contemporary film and novels." Literature-Film Quarterly 34.3 (July 2006): 212(7).UC users only Vidal, B. "Feminist Historiographies and the Woman Artist's Biopic: The Case of Artemisia." Screen, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 69-90, Spring 2007 UC users only Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (Elevator to the Gallows) (1957) Directed by Louis Malle. Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly. The plot to murder his lover's husband backfires when the murderer is stuck in an elevator on the way out. Meanwhile, his car is stolen by two young delinquents who kill some German tourists with his gun and now he is charged with two murders. With a very cool musical score by Miles Davis. 87 min. DVD 5933; DVD 9353 (PAL); DVD 9353 vhs 999:3729 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database L'Atalante (1934) Directed by Jean Vigo. 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 men. Restored with additional footage, 87 min. DVD X6356; DVD 1720; DVD 3482 (non-US format DVD) vhs 999:2965 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database L'Atlantide (Queen of Atlantis) (1921) Directed by Jacques Feyder. Cast:Jean Angelo, Georges Melchior, Stacia Napierkowska, Marie-Louise Iribe. Two young officers, Saint-Avit and Morhange, get lost in the desert and become prisoners of the beautiful Antinea, queen of Atlantis. Saint-Avit is blinded by his love for her, and she orders him to kill his comrade. "Filmed on location in the Sahara, the desert, with its burning sun and vast expanse of sand, is the real star of this adventure." 163 min. DVD 6474 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Au bonheur des dames (1930) Directed by Julien Duvivier. Cast: Dita Parlo, Ginette Maddie, Andrée Brabant, Pierre de Guingand. Denise, an orphaned girl, moves to Paris where she hopes to find work at her uncle's store. But the glamorous department store 'Aux Bonheur des Dames' across the street crunches all the little businesses around. She finds a position there despite the fact that the store is threatening to put her uncle out of business. Based on a novel by Emile Zola. Bonus features: Introduction by French film collector Serge Bromberg; featurette on recording the music score; La ventre d'un magasin: a short documentary about a department store. 89 min. DVD X2002 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Walter, Klaus Peter. "La Rançon du progrès: Naturalistic discourse and two adaptation of Zola's Au bonheur des dames." In: Zola and film : essays in the art of adaptation / edited by Anna Gural-Migdal and Robert Singer ; with a foreword by Brigitte Emile-Zola. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2005. (Main (Gardner) Stacks PQ2538 .Z64 2005) Wolter, Jennifer. "Viewing Au boneur des dames in the context of occupied France." In: Zola and film : essays in the art of adaptation / edited by Anna Gural-Migdal and Robert Singer ; with a foreword by Brigitte Emile-Zola. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2005. (Main (Gardner) Stacks PQ2538 .Z64 2005) Au Coeur du Mensonge (1998) Directed by Claude Chabrol. Cast: Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacques Gamblin, Antoine de Caunes, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi. Set in a French fishing community, Rene is a primary suspect in the rape and murder of a young girl. His wife Viviane supports him even while conducting an affair with a celebrity writer. Rene and Viviane's lives come under close scrutiny, which puts further strain on their relationship. Meanwhile the chief of police is also looking at a TV journalist, a small-time crook who fences stolen goods, and a curious married couple who run a local shop. 113 min. DVD 6603 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Claude Chabrol bibliography Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) Directed by Robert Bresson. Cast: Anne Wiazemsky, François LaFarge, Philippe Asselin, Nathalie Joyaut. Man's inhumanity to man is the central and often cruel theme of Bresson's perhaps most well rounded and moving film. Balthazar, a donkey, is the main character, and the film traces his birth, life and death and the various tasks he is set: drawing a carriage, a child's plaything, circus attraction, turning a grindstone, and finally a drug smuggler's transport. PAL format. 91 min. DVD 5385; vhs 999:3256 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Au Revoir les Enfants (Goodbye, Children) (1987) Directed by Louis Malle. Based on the director's life, this film chronicles Malle's experiences during the German occupation of France in World War II. Julien (Malle) is 12 years old, and the smartest boy in his class at a Catholic boarding school when a new student appears. The two form a friendship and Julien soon discovers that his new friend is a Jew who must be hidden in their school from German soldiers. 103 min. DVD 5379; vhs 999:1434 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards César Awards - Best Film; Best Director Venice Film Festival - Golden Lion Award Malle, Louis. Au revoir les enfants : a screenplay / by Louis Malle ; translated from the French by Anselm Hollo. New York : Grove Press, 1988. (Main (Gardner) Stacks PN1997.R53413 M31 1988) L'Auberge espagnole (The Spanish Apartment) (2002) Directed by Cedric Klapisch. Cast: Romain Duris, Judith Godreche, Audrey Tautou, Cecile De France, Kelly Reilly, Cristina Brondo, Federico D'Anna, Barnaby Metschurat, Christian Pagh, Kevin Bishop, Xavier de Guillebon. Xavier is a straight-laced French college senior who moves to Barcelona as part of a student exchange program, much to the dismay of his beautiful girlfriend. But sharing cramped quarters with students from all over Europe quickly leads to multi-cultural chaos as Xavier gets an eye-opening lesson on how to live, love, laugh and party. 122 min. DVD 2837 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Amago, Samuel. "Todo sobre Barcelona: Refiguring Spanish Identities in Recent European Cinema." Hispanic Research Journal; Feb2007, Vol. 8 Issue 1, p11-25, 15p UC users only Blum-Reid, Sylvie. "Away from Home? Two French Directors in Search of their Identity." Quarterly Review of Film & Video, Jan2009, Vol. 26 Issue 1, p1-9, 9p UC users only Ezra, Elizabeth; Sánchez, Antonio. "L'Auberge espagnole (2002): transnational departure or domestic crash landing?" Studies in European Cinema, 2005, Vol. 2 Issue 2, p137-148, 12p UC users only Lucia, Cynthia. "The Last Time He Saw Paris: An Interview with Cédric Klapisch." Cineaste, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 10-14, 1997 UC users only Avant que j'oublie (Before I Forget) (2007) Directed by Jacques Nolot. Cast: Jacques Nolot, Jean-Pol Dubois, Marc Rioufol, Bastien d'Asnières, Gaetano Weysen-Volli. A tale of a downward spiraling gay gigolo, struggling to cope with his advancing age, poverty, loneliness, writers block, and the increasing complications of HIV disease. Ultimately, he must face his inner demons in order to be free of them. 108 min. DVD X5278 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Aventure Malgache (with Bon Voyage) (1944) Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Two films made by Hitchcock during WW II at the request of the British government. When viewed by government officials they decided that the films were inflammatory and withheld them from distribution. The first, Bon Voyage, is about an RAF pilot who has escaped from a POW camp and made his way back to London with the help of the French resistance. The second, Aventure malgache, is set in Vichy-controlled Madagascar where the Resistance leader battles to keep his island free. 58 min. DVD 1031; vhs 999:990 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob (The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob) (1973) Director, Gérard Oury. Cast: Louis De Funes, Marcel Dalio, Suzy Delair. Victor Pivert, a blustering, anti-Semitic French factory owner en route to his daughter's wedding, unwittingly stumbles on a group of Arab terrorists. After Victor is captured and escapes, he hides himself by dressing up as a rabbi, leading to one madcap situation after another. 100 min. DVD 2478 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database To the top Baise-moi (Rape Me) (2000) Directed and written by Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi. Cast: Raffaela Anderson, Karen Bach. Manu is violently raped by a group of savage young thugs. Nadine, a tough-skinned prostitute, sells her body but refuses to give up her soul. Chance unites them and together they embark on a twisted rage-filled road trip of sex and murder. A vividly nihilist road movie set in France, controversial for its violence and real sex scenes. 77 min. DVD 1834 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Baisers volés (Stolen Kisses) (1968) Directed by François Truffaut. Featuring Jean-Pierre Leaud, Delphine Seyrig, Claude Jade, Michel Lonsdale, Harry Max, André Falcon, Daniel Ceccaldi, Claire Duhamel. The third in the Antoine Doinel series, (first told in the film The 400 Blows) and in many respects the autobiography of François Truffaut. After his dishonorable discharge from the army, Antoine embarks on a series of ill-fated jobs, finally settling on an amusing stint as a private dectective. In his ever-turbulent love life, he finds himself torn between an attractive, serious-minded young violinist and a glamorous, older married woman. 90 min. DVD 1727, part 2; DVD 116 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA - Best Director François Truffaut bibliography Le Bal (Italy | France | Algeria, 1983) Directed by Ettore Scola. Cast: Christophe Allwright, Aziz Arbia, Marc Berman, Regis Bouquet, Chantal Capron, Liliane Delval, Martine Chauvin, Francesco De Rosa, Rossana Di Lorenzo, Etienne Guichard, Raymonde Heudeline, Arnault LeCarpentier, Olivie Loiseau, Nani Noel, Jean-Claude Penchenat, Jean-François Perrier, Anita Picchiarini, François Pick, Genevieve Rey-Penchenat, Danielle Rochard, Monica Scattini, Michel Toty, Michel van Speybroeck. Le Bal takes place in a hypothetical Parisian dance hall and its plot is communicated entirely through mime, its pop music soundtrack and period ballroom dances. The prologue section, set in present time, introduces viewers to the cast of characters. The music begins and in a series of flashback sequences that use key moments in modern French history as their backdrop, viewers are presented with a clever yet poignant social commentary of prewar, postwar and modern times. 107 min. DVD X4394 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database La Balance (The Nark) (1982) Directed by Bob Swaim. Cast: Nathalie Baye, Philippe Leotard, Richard Berry. The special French police force, the Territorial Brigade, needs an informer after the murder of one of their own. They put the squeeze on Dede, a pimp, and Nicole, his girlfriend. 104 min. vhs 999:3572 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards César Awards - Best Film Le Ballon rouge (Red Balloon) (1956) Directed by Albert Lamorisse. Academy award winning children's film about a young French boy who makes friends with a bright red balloon that joins him as he goes to school, plays with his friends, etc. No dialogue, entire story told in music and sound. 34 min. DVD 9639; vhs 999:991 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards Cannes Film Festival - Best Short Film: Palme d'Or Bande à part (Band of Outsiders) (1964) Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Cast: Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur, Sami Frey. Loneliness and desperation of French urban life are major themes in this film about three young Parisians who rob a suburban house only to find that their carefree caper has tragic consequences. "This Godard film is like a reverie of a gangster movie--a gangster movie as students in an espresso bar might remember it or plan it. It has the gangster-film virtues (loyalty, daring) but they are mixed with innocence, amorality, lack of equilibrium. It's as if a French poet took a banal American crime novel and told it to us in terms of the romance and beauty he read between the lines." [Pauline Kael, 5001 Nights at the Movies. (Main Stack PN1995.K19 1982)] 95 min. DVD 1539; vhs 999:756 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database La Bande des quatre (Gang of Four) (1988) Directed by Jacques Rivette. Cast: Ines d'Almeida, Laurence Cote, Ir`ene Jacob, Bulle Ogier, Fejria Deliba, Benoît Regent. Anna, Joyce, Claude and Lucia are all students under the tutelage of Constance Dumas. Lucia moves in with the other girls in a small house outside of Paris. Soon after, Lucia is attacked on the street outside her home and saved by a mysterious stranger. Then she discovers that the stranger is involved with all the girls and is hiding a dark secret inside the house. 155 min. DVD 4584 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Jacques Rivette bibliography Barbe bleue (Bluebeard) (France, 2009) Directed by Catherine Breillat. Cast: Dominique Thomas, Lola Creton, Daphne Baiwir, Marilou Lopes-Benites, Lola Giovannetti. Tells the story of young Marie-Catherine, child bride to an aristocratic ogre with a reputation for murdering his wives. The Princess must employ all her cunning to outwit her husband and escape a potentially unpleasant fate. 80 min. DVD X3972 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Les Bas-Fonds (The Lower Depths) (1936) Directed by Jean Renoir. Cast: Jean Gabin, Louis Jouvet, Jany Holt, Junie Astor, Vladimir Sokoloff. A Baron, forced by circumstances, gives up his life of luxury and takes up residence in the slums of Paris. The Baron observes the frustrated romance between Wasska Pepel and Natacha, the thwarted dreams of an actor, and the oppressive cruelties of landlord Kostileff. 93 min. DVD 2769 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Bazin, André; Gray, Hugh (translator) "The Destiny of Jean Gabin." In: Rediscovering French film / edited by Mary Lea Bandy ; introduction by Richard Roud. New York : Museum of Modern Art ; Boston : Distributed by New York Graphic Society Books, Little, Brown, c1983. (Main (Gardner) Stacks; PFA PN1993.5.F7 R39 1983) Gruber, Helmut "Jean Gabin: Doomed Worker-Hero of a Doomed France." International Labor and Working-Class History No. 59, Workers and Film: As Subject and Audience (Spring, 2001), pp. 15-35 UC users only Slavitt, David R. "Jean Gabin: A Screen Image." Hopkins Review, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 275-293, 2008 Spring UC users only Vincendeau, Ginette. "Anatomy of a Myth: Jean Gabin." Nottingham French Studies, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 19-31, 1993 Spring Vincendeau, Ginette. "From proletarian hero to godfather: Jean Gabin and 'paradigmatic' French masculinity." In: Me Jane : masculinity, movies, and women / edited by Pat Kirkham and Janet Thumin. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1995. Main (Gardner) Stacks; Moffitt PN1995.9.M46 M35 1995) La Bataille du Rail (The Battle of the Rails) (1946) Directed by René Clément. Cast: Marcel Barnault, Jean Clarieux, Jean Daurand, Tony Laurent, Lucien Desagneaux, François Joux, Pierre Latour. During the occupation of France by Nazi Germany, French railway workers bravely battled the Nazis on many fronts, from transporting forbidden mail to committing acts of sabotage. They became an invaluable part of the French resistance. 85 min. DVD 5097 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards Cannes Film Festival - Best Director; International Jury Prize Bowles, Brett. "Documentary Realism and Collective Memory in Post-War France, 1945-1955." Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television, Jun2007, Vol. 27 Issue 2, p251-258, 8p UC users only Danks, Adrian. "Border Crossings: Placing Rene Clement's La Bataille du rail." Senses of Cinema, vol. 27, pp. (no pagination), July 2003 UC users only Lindeperg, Sylvie. "Political and Narrative Ambiguities in La Bataille du Rail." Historical Reflections; Summer2009, Vol. 35 Issue 2, p142, 21p UC users only Torchin, Leshu. "La Bataille du Rail/Forbidden Games." Cineaste, Winter2006, Vol. 32 Issue 1, p66-68, 3pUC users only Watts, Philip. "Of Heroes and Traitors: Two Early Films by René Clément." In: Rhine crossings : France and Germany in love and war / edited by Aminia M. Brueggemann and Peter Schulman. Albany : State University of New York Press, c2005. (Main (Gardner) Stacks PT123.F7 R45 2005) Le Beau mariage (1982) Directed by Eric Rohmer. Cast: Beatrice Romand, André Dussollier, Arielle Dombasle, Thamila Mezbah, Feodor Atkine, Vincent Gauthier, Sophie Renoir. An impulsive young art student, tired of the complications of freedom and insecurity, ends an affair with a painter and decides she wants to get married. She picks out a prosperous lawyer and confidently sets out to catch him, only to be ensnared by her increasingly obsessive scheming when she refuses to accept his polite indifference. 95 min. DVD 9458; DVD 9100 (non-US DVD; French w/out English subtitles) Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Eric Rohmer bibliography Le Beau Serge (Handsome Serge) (1958) Directed by Claude Chabrol. Cast: Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Bernadette Lafont, Michele Meritz, Edmond Beauchamp. Theology student François returns to his native Creuse and finds that the village hasn't changed much in the past decade, but his old friend Serge has become a drunkard. François tries to find out what happened to him and then attempts to help him. 98 min. DVD X6491; vhs 999:3655 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Harper, Dan. "Claude Chabrol's Le Beau Serge" Senses of Cinema, vol. 13, pp. (no pagination), Spring 2001. Claude Chabrol bibliography Beau Travail (1998) Director, Claire Denis. Cast: Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Gregoire Colin, Richard Courcet. 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. 90 min. DVD 2901; vhs 999:3161 (PAL format tape) Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Bedwin Hacker (France / Morocco / Tunisia, 2002) Directed by Nadia El Fani. Cast: Sonia Hamza, Muriel Solvay, Nadia Saiji, Tomer Sisley, Xaviers Desplas. From a remote mountain village in Tunisia a female hacker hijacks the airwaves in Northern Africa and France to broadcast political messages. When a French intelligence officer gets on the case, things quickly turn into a cat-and-mouse game as the two women play each other to get what they want. 105 min. DVD 5763 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Martin, Florence.. "Transvergence and cultural detours: Nadia El Fani's Bedwin Hacker (2002)." Studies in French Cinema, 2007, Vol. 7 Issue 2, p119-129, 11p UC users only La Belle et la bête (Beauty and the Beast) (1946) Directed by Jean Cocteau. Cast: Jean Marais, Josette Day. 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. 90 min. DVD 216; vhs 999:113 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Belle de Jour (France / Italy, 1967) Directed by Luis Buñuel. Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Geneviève Page. Subtle, erotic film about a wealthy young surgeon's wife who indulges her masochistic fantasies by working as a part-time prostitute in a Paris brothel. 95 min. DVD 1104; vhs 999:1113 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards Venice Film Festival - Golden Lion Award La belle endormie (The Sleeping Beauty) (2010) Directed by Catherine Breillat. Cast: Carla Besnaïnou, Julia Artamonov, Kerian Mayan, David Chausse. Cursed at birth by an evil fairy, Anastasia is destined to prick her finger and die at the age of sixteen. When three feckless fairy sisters discover this, they hatch a plan to alter the curse: rather than die, Anastasia will sleep for 100 years and live in a world of dreams. Through her active dream life, Anastasia will find love, loss and possibly a waking life. French provocateur Breillat continues her deconstruction of classic fairytales with her latest, 'The Sleeping Beauty'. 82 min. DVD X6857 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Une belle fille comme moi (A Gorgeous Girl Like Me; Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me) (1972) Directed by François Truffaut. Cast: Bernadette Lafont, Claude Brasseur, Charles Denner, Guy Marchand. While researching his book, a naive sociologist embarks on a programme of interviews with female criminals. Camille Bliss tells him the story of her life and finally entangles him in her web of deceit and murder. Based on the novel: Such a gorgeous kid like me by Henry Farrell. 93 min. DVD X2057 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database François Truffaut bibliography La Belle Noiseuse (The Beautiful Troublemaker) (1990) Directed by Jacques Rivette. Cast: Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin, Emmanuelle Beart. Piccoli stars as a famous artist who has suffered painter's block since abandoning his masterpiece, a painting of his wife Liz, entitled `La Belle Noiseuse'. Disturbing tensions develop when a young artist and his girlfriend, visiting him in his South of France retreat, inspire him to return to the canvas, using the girl as his new model. 229 min. DVD 5522; DVD 4585 (PAL, without subtitles) Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards Cannes Film Festival: Grand Prize Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Foreign Film La Belle personne (1990) Directed by Christophe Honoré. Cast: Léa Seydoux, Louis Garrel, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet. Having just lost her mother, 16-year-old Junie changes schools in Paris in the middle of the school year. A classmate seduces her, but her true passion is for Nemours, her Italian teacher. An adaptation of Madame de Lafayette's novel La princesse de Clèves, originally published in 1678. Originally Special features: Hôtel Kuntz, short film by Christophe Honoré (2008, 15 min.) 98 min. DVD X5378 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Vanderschelden, Isabelle "The 'beautiful people' of Christophe Honoré: New Wave legacies and new directions in French auteur cinema." Studies in European Cinema; 2010, Vol. 7 Issue 2, p135-148, 14p UC users only Belle toujours (Portugal / France, 2006) Directed by Manoel de Oliveira. Cast: Michel Piccoli, Bulle Ogier, Ricardo Trêpa, Leonor Baldaque, Júlia Buisel. A sequel to Luis Buñuel's 1967 film Belle de jour. Thirty-eight years after their last encounter, Henri thinks he sees Séverine, now a widow. He blackmails her into seeing him by threatening to reveal her dark secret-- that years ago she had been a prostitute. Special features: Interviews with Manoel de Oliveira, Michel Piccoli, Bulle Ogier and Ricardo Trêpa; featurette on the film's world premiere at the Venice Film Festival; trailer; film and set stills gallery; credits. 70 min. DVD X2153 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Brody, Richard. "Belle toujours." New Yorker, 6/11/2007, Vol. 83 Issue 16, p32-32 UC users only Brooke, Michael. "Belle toujours." Sight & Sound, Sep2009, Vol. 19 Issue 9, p85-85, 1/8p UC users only Kuehner, Jay. "Belle toujours." Cinema Scope, Spring2007, Issue 30, p74-75, 2p UC users only Martin, Adrian. "Belle toujours." Sight & Sound, Dec2008, Vol. 18 Issue 12, p53-53UC users only Rosenbaum, Jonathan. "The Classic Modernist." Film Comment; Jul/Aug2008, Vol. 44 Issue 4, p44-50, 7p UC users only La Bête humaine (The Human Animal) (1938) Directed by Jean Renoir. Cast: Jean Gabin, Simone Simon, Fernand Ledoux, Julian Carette, Blanchette Brunoy. A visually stunning adaptation of Zola's novel of passion, violence and destiny. Railroad engineer Jacques Lantier, descended from a family subject to madness, falls in love with a beautiful married woman, the seemingly innocent, sensuous Severine. Plotting together to kill her husband, circumstances spin out of control, and he strangles her instead. 104 min. DVD 5029; DVD 3494 (PAL); vhs 999:1917 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Bazin, André; Gray, Hugh (translator) "The Destiny of Jean Gabin." In: Rediscovering French film / edited by Mary Lea Bandy ; introduction by Richard Roud. New York : Museum of Modern Art ; Boston : Distributed by New York Graphic Society Books, Little, Brown, c1983. (Main (Gardner) Stacks; PFA PN1993.5.F7 R39 1983) Gruber, Helmut "Jean Gabin: Doomed Worker-Hero of a Doomed France." International Labor and Working-Class History No. 59, Workers and Film: As Subject and Audience (Spring, 2001), pp. 15-35 UC users only Slavitt, David R. "Jean Gabin: A Screen Image." Hopkins Review, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 275-293, 2008 Spring UC users only Vincendeau, Ginette. "Anatomy of a Myth: Jean Gabin." Nottingham French Studies, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 19-31, 1993 Spring Vincendeau, Ginette. "From proletarian hero to godfather: Jean Gabin and 'paradigmatic' French masculinity." In: Me Jane : masculinity, movies, and women / edited by Pat Kirkham and Janet Thumin. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1995. Main (Gardner) Stacks; Moffitt PN1995.9.M46 M35 1995) Vincendeau, Ginette. "The Beast's Beauty: Jean Gabin, Masculinity and the French Hero." In: Women and film : a Sight and sound reader / edited by Pam Cook and Philip Dodd. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1993. (Main (Gardner) Stacks PN1995.9.W6 W63 1993) Betty (1991) Directed by Claude Chabrol. Cast: Marie Trintignant, Stephane Audran, Jean-François Garreaud, Yves Lambrecht, Christiane Minazzoli, Pierre Vernier. Betty Etamble, a promiscuous and alcoholic woman who has lost her family, ends an evening at a bar and meets Laure, an elegant retiree who lives in a luxury hotel. Laure takes the girl under her wing, and gradually details of her sinister story unfold and evolves into a lethal game of cat and mouse. 105 min. DVD 6597 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Claude Chabrol bibliography Betty Blue (37°2 le matin) (1986) Directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix. Cast: Jean-Hugues Anglade, Beatrice Dalle, Gérard Darmon, Consuelo De Haviland. Zorg was living a quiet and peaceful life until Betty, a beautiful, wild and unpredictable young woman, walks in. When Betty's wild manners start to get out of control, Zorg sees the woman he loves slowly going insane. Can his love prevail? Based on the novel by Philippe Djian. 105 min. DVD X3349 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Betty Fisher et autres histoires (Alias Betty) (France / Canada, 2001) Directed by Claude Miller. Cast: Sandrine Kiberlain, Nicole Garcia, Mathilde Seigner, Luck Mervil, Edouard Baer, Stephane Freiss, Yves Jacques, Roschdy Zem. Betty is a best selling novelist who has invented her name to escape a troubled past made worse by her emotionally unstable and violent mother. When her young son is killed in an accident, her mother brings her a "replacement", a boy she kidnapped off the street. 98 min. DVD 3893 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis (Welcome to the Sticks) (France, 2008) Directed by Dany Boon. Cast: Kad Merad, Dany Boon, Zoé Felix, Anne Marivin, Philippe Duquesne, Guy Lecluyse. Post office manager Philippe longs for a transfer to the sunny, sophisticated south of France. But when his attempt to cheat his way into a transfer backfires, he is sent instead to Nord-Pas de Calais. This northern province is known for its chilly dampness, its drunken, unemployable population, its terrible food and an impenetrable dialect known as Ch'timi. But Philippe soon learns to love these people so much that he must devise a strategy, with the help of the natives, to keep his left-behind wife from discovering his secret. 106 min. DVD X6299 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Biquefarre (France / Canada, 1983) Directed by Georges Rouquier. Cast: Henri Rouquier, Maria Rouquier, Roger Malet. Thirty-seven years after "Farrebique," Georges Rouquier, the French director, returned to the farming community in Aveyron in south-central France to continue the story of the Rouquier family, his cousins, who had been featured in the earlier film. The film records, in quasi-documentary style, the revolutionary changes that have taken place not only in agriculture, but also in the social and economic life of the community. 90 min. DVD X4641 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Blanc (White; Three Colors: White; Bialy; Trois couleurs: Blanc) (1993) Director, Krysztof Kieslowski. See East Europe Cinema filmography DVD 1749; vhs 999:2280 Bleu (Trois Couleurs: Bleu; Blue) (France / Poland / Switzerland / UK, 1993) Directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski. Cast: Juliette Binoche, Benoît Regent, Hélène Vincent, Florence Pernel, Charlotte Very, Emmunuelle Riva. 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. 99 min. DVD 1748; vhs 999:2346 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards Venice Film Festival, Golden Lion Award Blue Jeans (1958) Directed by Jacques Rozier. Cast: René Ferro, Francis de Peretti, Elisabeth Klar, Laure Coretti; narrator, Pierre Michaël. In this film short two young men who drive a Vespa try to pick up girls in Cannes. 22 min. DVD X5382 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Bob Le Flambeur (Bob the Gambler) (1955) Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. Cast: Isabel Corey, Daniel Cauchy, Roger Duchesne, Guy Decomble, Andrée Garet. Bob the Gambler finds out that the Deauville Casino expects to pull in 800 million francs on a certain date. On the night of the heist, Bob plays at the casino tables where before dawn breaks some of the men and women will win, some will lose and some will die. 95 min. DVD 1264; vhs 999:413 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Bon voyage (with Aventure malgache) (1944) Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Two films made by Hitchcock during WW II at the request of the British government. When viewed by government officials they decided that the films were inflammatory and withheld them from distribution. The first, Bon Voyage, is about an RAF pilot who has escaped from a POW camp and made his way back to London with the help of the French resistance. The second, Aventure malgache, is set in Vichy-controlled Madagascar where the Resistance leader battles to keep his island free. 58 min. DVD 1031; vhs 999:990 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Le Bonheur (Happiness) (1965) Directed by Agnes Varda. Cast: Jean-Claude Drouot, Claire Drouot, Marie-France Boyer, Sandrine Drouot, Oliver Drouot. An amiable, young carpenter decides that he will be happiest with both a wife and a mistress. His affair however, leads to tragedy as his wife tries to accept the situation but at a picnic drowns herself. Special DVD features: "The two women of Le bonheur" (2006), a short film; Thoughts on "Le bonheur" (2006), a discussion; two short pieces by Varda investigating people's idea of happiness; "Jean-Claude Drouot returns" (2006) featurette; segment from the 1964 television program Demons et merveilles du cinema, featuring footage of Varda shooting Le bonheur; interview with Varda from 1998; "Du cote de la cote" (1958), a short film; theatrical trailer; production notes. 85 min. DVD 9074; vhs 999:1982 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database La bonne année (Happy New Year) (1973) Directed by Claude Lelouch. Cast: Lino Ventura, Françoise Fabian, Charles Gérard, André Falcon. Simon develops an intricate plan to meet the lovely lady who operates the antique shop next to Van Cleef & Arpels, the location of his next jewelry heist. The attraction is undeniable, but Simon is a professional and will not let romance get in his way --or will he? 102 min. DVD X2053 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Les Bonnes femmes (Good Girls) (1965) Directed by Cladue Chabrol. Cast: Bernadette Lafont, Clotilde Joano, Stephane Audran, Lucile Saint-Simon, Mario David. In the drab Paris of the early sixties, four shop-keeping girls are looking for love. While their lecherous boss savors every opportunity to deliver a dressing down, the girls find emotional escape by flirting with delivery men, wandering the and gossiping about the enigmatic motorcyclist who hangs about. A tense yet airy drama that characterizes the best films of the French new wave. 93 min. DVD 320 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Claude Chabrol bibliography Le Boucher (The Butcher) (1969) Directed by Claude Chabrol. Cast: Stephane Audran, Jean Yanne, Antonio Passalia. 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. 87 min. DVD 1733 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Boudu sauvé des eaux (Boudu Saved From Drowning) (1932) Directed by Jean Renoir. Cast: Michel Simon, Marcelle Hainia, Severine Lerczynsha, Jean Gehret, Max Dalban, Jean Baste, Charles Granval. A well-off bookseller rescues a tramp from a suicidal plunge into the Seine and his family dedicates itself to reforming him. He shows his gratitude by shaking the household to its foundations, challenging the hidebound principles of his hosts. Special DVD features: Archival introduction by Jean Renoir; excerpt from a "Cineastes de notre temps" program, featuring Renoir and Michel Simon; new video interview with filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin; archival interview with Eric Rohmer; interactive map of 1930s Paris, featuring locations for the film; a new essay by Renoir scholar Christopher Faulkner. 87 min. DVD 4359; vhs 999:118 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database La Boulangère de Monceau (The Girl at the Monceau Bakery) (1963) Directed by Eric Rohmer. Cast: Barbet Schroeder, Claudine Soubrier, Michèle Girardon. The story of a young man who becomes infatuated with a woman he sees on the street, but after several days without seeing her again sets his sights on a girl in the local bakery, eventually having to choose between them. (DVD 211 includes Suzanne's Career/La Carriere de Suzanne, another of the "six films that make up the Moral Tales.") (26 min.) DVD 6054; DVD 211 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Eric Rohmer bibliography À Bout de souffle (Breathless) (1960) Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Liliane David, Daniel Boulanger, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, Francois Truffaut. In this groundbreaking new wave classic a playful car thief accidentally shoots a policeman, then hides out in Paris with a hip American girl, trying to hustle enough cash for a getaway. DVD 8726 includes: Disc one: Archival interviews with director Jean-Luc Godard and actors Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, and Jean-Pierre Melville ; French theatrical trailer -- Disc two: new video interviews with Coutard, asst. director Pierre Rissient, and filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker ; new video essays: filmmaker Mark Rappaport's Jean Seberg and critic Jonathan Rosenbaum's "Breathless as Criticism" ; "Chambre 12, Hotel de Suede," an 80 min. French documentary about the making of Breathless with members of the cast and crew ; "Charlotte et son Jules," a 1959 short by Godard starring Belmondo ; plus: a book featuring an essay by scholar Dudley Andrew, writings by Godard, Francois Truffaut's original film treatment, and Godard's scenario. 90 min. DVD 8726; DVD 937; vhs 999:417 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Buffet froid (1979) Director, Bertrand Blier. Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Bernard Blier, Jean Carmet, Genevieve Page, Denise Gence, Carole Bouquet. Black comedy about solitude and dishumanization of the modern world, through the adventures of three men. First introduced is Alphonse Tram, an unemployed young man. His only neighbour is the police chief-inspector Morvandieu. Then a third man appears : he is Alphonse's wife's murderer. 90 min. DVD X2872 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Bye-Bye (France / Belgium / Switzerland, 1995) Director, Karim Dridi. Cast: Sami Bouajila, Nozha Kouadra, Philippe Ambrosini. After a family tragedy, two young French-Arab brothers leave Paris and end up on the door step of their uncle and his family in Marseilles. Once there, the two are pulled apart as one is seduced by the streets and its life of drugs and crime, while the other desperately seeks to rescue his brother without falling to its temptations. 107 min. vhs 999:3497 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database To the top Ça commence aujourd'hui (It All Starts Today) (1999) Directed by Bertrand Tavernier. Cast: Philippe Torreton, Nadia Kaci, Maria Pitarresi. Daniel is schoolmaster of a kindergarten in a small French town. The local economy, which depended entirely on coal production, has been mired in a depression ever since the mines were closed. When their parents fall into utter discouragement or even poverty because of prolonged unemployment, the children suffer the consequences. Daniel is confronted daily with difficult situations and he feels required to deal with them although they are outside the scope of his responsibilities. 114 min. DVD 8816 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Caché (France / Austria / Germany / Italy, 2005) Directed by Michael Haneke. Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Maurice Benichou, Annie Girardot, Bernard Le Coq, Walid Afkir, Lester Makedonsky, Daniel Duval, Nathalie Richard, Denis Podalydes, Aissa Maiga. A talk show host and his wife and son seem to be living an ideal life until clandestinely-filmed videotapes of their private lives start to show up on their front porch. As the tapes reveal more secrets, the resulting stress and fear leads to conflict, obsession, and deceit for the couple and brings back episodes from the husband's childhood when he wronged a young Algerian boy. Special features: Interview with director Michael Haneke and Serge Toubiana (ca. 25 min.); behind-the-scenes featurette (ca. 32 min.). 118 min. DVD 6929 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards Cannes Film Festival - Best Director César Awards, France - Best Director Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Foreign Language Film San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award - Best Foreign Language Film Café au lait (Métisse) (France / Belgium, 1993) Directed by Mathieu Kassovitz. Cast: Julie Mauduech, Herbert Kounde, Mathieu Kassovitz, Vincent Cassell, Jean-Pierre Cassell. Lola, a West Indian beauty, confronts her two lovers with her impending motherhood, then flatly refuses to reveal which of the two men is the father. At first, they compete for the right to help Lola through her pregnancy, but soon the three come to a bohemian accord to share the responsibilities of parenthood. 94 min. DVD X4786 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Higbee, Will. "The return of the political, or designer visions of exclusion? The case for Mathieu Kassovitz's 'fracture sociale' trilogy." Studies in French Cinema; 2005, Vol. 5 Issue 2, p123-135, 13pUC users only La Cage aux folles (1979) Directed by Edouard Molinaro. Cast: Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Serrault, Michel Galabru, Claire Maurier, Remi Laurent, Carmen Scarpitti, Benny Luke, Luisa Maneri. A farce involving a flamboyant homosexual couple's attempt to appear to be conventional parents in front of the prospective in-laws of the son of one of the men. 99 min. DVD 782 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards César Awards, France - Best Actor (Michel Serrault) Golden Globe Awards - Best Foreign Film National Board of Review, USA - Best Foreign Film Sikov, Ed. "Homosexuals, Bandits, and Gangsters: Gay Images in La Cage aux Folles." Cineaste, vol. 11 no. 4. 1982. pp: 30-35. Tavernier-Courbin, Jacqueline. "La Cage aux Folles as Comedy of Manners: From the Play to the Film." Thalia: Studies in Literary Humor, vol. 7 no. 2. 1984 Fall-Winter. pp: 44-50. La Cage aux folles II (1981) Director, Marcello Danon. Cast: Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Serrault, Marcel Bozzuffi, Paola Barboni, Giovanni Vettorazzo, Benny Luke. Continues the story of Albin and Renato, a gay couple who are proprieters of a transvestite nightclub. When Albin feels his attractiveness to Renato is waning, he sets out to make Renato jealous, with the disasterous yet hilarious result of embroiling them in a spy caper. 100 min. DVD 783 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Sikov, Ed. "Homosexuals, Bandits, and Gangsters: Gay Images in La Cage aux Folles." Cineaste, vol. 11 no. 4. 1982. pp: 30-35. Tavernier-Courbin, Jacqueline. "La Cage aux Folles as Comedy of Manners: From the Play to the Film." Thalia: Studies in Literary Humor, vol. 7 no. 2. 1984 Fall-Winter. pp: 44-50. Camille Claudel (1989) Directed by Bruno Nuytten. Cast: Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Madeleine Robinson, Laurent Grevill, Philippe Clevenot. A historically accurate depiction of one of the most important collaborations in the history of art, that of legendary sculptor Rodin, and the creative prodigy Camille Claudel. 149 min. DVD 518 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards César Awards - Best Film Capitaine Conan (1996) Directed by Bertrand Tavernier. Cast: Philippe Torreton, Samuel Le Bihan, Bernard Le Coq, Catherine Rich, François Berléand, Claude Rich. Conan, a dedicated career soldier, serves the band of fifty French irregulars under his command in the Great War. After the signing of the 1919 Armistice, Conan lays down his arms and attempts to extricate his men from the war but his troops continue to fight for nine months after the war is ended. Based on the novel by Roger Vercel. 130 min. DVD 1256 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards César Awards - Best Director Le caporal épinglé (The Elusive Corporal (1962) Directed by Jean Renoir. Cast: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claude Brasseur, O.E. Hasse, Claude Rich, Jacques Jouanneau, Mario David, Jean Carmet, Guy Bedos, Sacha Briquet. Set in a German P.O.W. camp in 1940, this is the story of a French corporal who is determined to escape to return to Paris and fight once more. 96 min. DVD 7586 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Jean Renoir bibliography La Captive (2000) Directed by Chantal Akerman. Cast: Stanislas Merhar, Sylvie Testud, Olivia Bonamy, Liliane Rovere, Aurore Clément. Simon is obsessed with Ariane and keeps her as his willing captive. She tolerates his elaborate desires, his endless interrogations and surveillance. Still Ariane is able to maintain her own reserve of privacy, her own mental and physical freedom. Although often affectionate to Simon, Ariane prefers women and so leads a double life. But this only magnifies Simon's pain until his obsessive desires culminate in devastation and tragedy. 118 min. DVD 2321 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Beugnet, Martin; Schmid, Marion. "Filming jealously: Chantal Akerman's La Captive (2000)." Studies in French Cinema; 2002, Vol. 2 Issue 3, p157, 7p UC users only McKibbin, Tony. "La Captive and the power of love." Studies in French Cinema; 2003, Vol. 3 Issue 2, p93-99, 7p UC users only Chantal Akerman bibliography Les Carabiniers (1963) Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Cast: Albert Juross, Marino Mase, Catherine Ribeiro, Geneviève Galea, Jean Brassat, Gérard Poirot. Centers on two peasants who join the King's army. Seduced by the promise of riches, the two leave their wives and embark into the war sending postcards home that detail their conquests. Upon their return, they learn that a peace treaty has been signed and in turn, are betrayed by the king for their overzealousness. 80 min. DVD 1835 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Jean-Luc Godard bibliography Carlos (France | Germany, TV, 2010) Directed by Olivier Assayas. Cast: Êdgar Ramírez, Juana Acosta. Tells the story of Venezuelan revolutionary Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the 1975 OPEC meeting. 326 min. DVD X5040 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards Golden Globes - Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television Hoberman, J. "Sympathy for the Devil." Film Comment, Sep/Oct2010, Vol. 46 Issue 5, p48-53, 6p UC users only Porton, Richard. "Demystifying Carlos: An Interview with Olivier Assayas." Cineaste, Winter2010, Vol. 36 Issue 1, p16-22, 7p UC users only White, Rob. "Interview with Olivier Assayas." Film Quarterly, Winter2010, Vol. 64 Issue 2, p74-77, 4p UC users only Un Carnét de Bal (1937) Directed by Julien Duvivier. Cast: Marie Bell, Françoise Rosay, Harry Baur, Louis Jouvet, Fernandel. Story of a widow who uncovers a 20-year old dance card from a ball and decides to find all her former partners. None of the men have come out well and the one man she truly loved committed suicide and orphaned his son. The widow adopts the boy. 125 min. Video/C 999:3769 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database La Carrière de Suzanne (Suzanne's Career) (1963) Directed by Eric Rohmer. Cast: Catherine Sée, Philippe Beuzen, Christian Charrière, Diane Wilkinson. Examines the relationship between a timid Parisian student, and his lecherous friend, who both become interested in the same girl. (DVD 211 includes The Girl at the Monceau Bakery/La Boulangère de Monceau, another of the "six films that make up the Moral Tales.") 52 min. DVD 6053; DVD 211 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Carrosse d'or (The Golden Coach)(1953) Director Jean Renoir. Cast: Anna Magnani, Odoardo Spadaro, Nada Fiorelli, Dante, Duncan Lamont, Paul Campbell, Jean Debucourt. An eighteenth-century comic fantasy about a viceroy in Central America who receives a golden coach and gives it to the tempestuous star of a touring commedia dell'arte company. 103 min. DVD 2914 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Jean Renoir bibliography Casque d'or (Golden Marie)(1952) Director Jacques Becker. Cast: Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Claude Dauphin, Raymond Bussières, Gaston Modot, Paul Barge, Dominique Davray, Daniel Mendaille. In an open-air dance hall, the members of Leca's gang are relaxing with their ladies. One of the ladies, Marie, meets Manda, who is a carpenter by trade. Marie's man Roland is a jealous sort and does not like the idea of Marie and Manda becoming friendly, and Leca himself has his eye on Marie. What follows is a story of love, death, friendship and jealousy during the Belle Epoque. Special features: Audio commentary by film scholar Peter Cowie; 1995 video interview with actor Serge Reggiani; 1960 interview with actress Simone Signoret from the French television program 'Cinepanorama'; excerpt from an episode of the French television series 'Cineastes de notre temps', dedicated to Jacques Becker; rare, silent behind-the-scenes footage of Becker on the set, with commentary by film scholar Philip Kemp; new essay by Kemp. 94 min. DVD 6623 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Andrew, Dudley. "Casque d'or, casquettes, a Cask of Ageing Wine: Jacques Becker's Casque d'or (1952)." In: French film, texts and contexts / edited by Susan Hayward and Ginette Vincendeau. London ; New York : Routledge, 1990. (Main (Gardner) Stacks; Moffitt PN1993.5.F7 F74 1989) Hayward, Susan. "Signoret's star persona and redressing the costume cinema: Jacques Becker's Casque d'Or (1952)." Studies in French Cinema, 2004, Vol. 4 Issue 1, p15-28, 14p UC users only Céline et Julie vont en bateau (Céline and Julie Go Boating) (1974) Directed by Jacques Rivette. Cast: Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Marie-France Pisier, Philippe Clévenot, Barbet Schroeder. "A brilliantly allusive meditation on the nature of fantasy, this is regarded by many as Jacques Rivette's most accomplished film. Two girls meet and wind up sharing each others' lives -- same flat, same fiance, same clothes -- even the same imagination. The film spins a circular, tortuous fantasy around their lives while at the same time acting as a meditation on the art of cinema itself." Special DVD features (Disc 2): New filmed introduction by Jonathan Romney on Rivette and Céline and Julie go boating; "Toute la mémoire du monde" (Alain Resnais, 1956, 20 min., English subtitles); "The haunted curiosity shop" (R.W. Paul, 1901, 2 min., silent); Illustrated booklet containing a review by Tom Milne; interviews with Dominique Labourier, Juliet Berto and Jacques Rivette; Susan Seidelman's reflections on her Rivette-inspired Desperately Seeking Susan; director biography. 193 min. DVD X3117; vhs 999:1758 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Le Cercle rouge (Red Circle) (1970) Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. Cast: Alain Delon, André Bourvil, Gian Maria Volante, Yves Montand, Paul Crauchet, François Perier. A master thief is fresh out of prison. But instead of toeing the line, he finds his steps leading back to the shadowy world of crime. He, a notorious escapee, and an alcoholic ex-cop plan a jewel heist, while being persued by a police superintendent. 140 min. DVD 2201 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database La Cérémonie (1996) Directed by Claude Chabrol. Featuring Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacqueline Bissett, Jean Pierre Cassel. An eccentric housekeeper for a wealthy French family and her boisterous postal worker friend unleash a vicious rampage against the bourgeois family. 111 min. DVD 2889; vhs 999:2192 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards César Awards, France - Best Actress (Isabelle Huppert) Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Foreign Film National Society of Film Critics - Best Foreign Language Film Venice Film Festival - Best Actress (Isabelle Huppert); Best Actress (Sandrine Bonnaire) César (Fanny Trilogy) (1936) Directed by Marcel Pagnol. This is the last film of Pagnol's Fanny trilogy (titles: Marius, Fanny, César). Fanny's son César is told his real father is not Fanny's husband but rather Marius. The young man sets out to find his father and through his efforts Fanny and Marius, still in love, are finally united after 20 years. 133 min. DVD 2751 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Marcel Pagnol bibliography Cet obscur objet du désir (That Obscure Object of Desire) (France / Spain, 1977) Directed by Luis Buñuel. Cast: Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Angela Molina, Julien Bertheau, Andre Weber, Milena Vukotik, Maria Asquerino, Pieral. A middle-aged man falls in love with a much younger woman in this satire on sexual obsession. 100 min. DVD 944; vhs 999:1590 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Foreign Film National Board of Review, USA - Best Foreign Language Film; Best Director National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA - Best Director Ceux qui m'aiment prendront le train (Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train(1988) Directed by Patrice Chéreau. Cast: Pascal Greggory, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Charles Berling, Bruno Todeschini. Jean-Baptiste is a French painter who has requested to be buried in his hometown of Limoges. When he dies, his friends take the train from Paris to Limoges to attend his funeral. During this journey, they all review their lives and relationships. 122 min. DVD X3717 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database La chambre(1972) Directed by Chantal Akerman. In this experimental short film the furniture and clutter of one small apartment room becomes the subject of a moving still life. 11 min. DVD X2624 La Chambre Vert (The Green Room) (1947) Directed by François Truffaut. Cast: François Truffaut, Nathalie Baye, Jane Lobre, Jean Dasté, Jeane-Pierre Ducós, Monique Dury, Jean -Pierre Moulin, Antoine Vietz. A masterpiece about grief and survival. In an unusual twist François Truffaut stars in this haunting tale of a man whose heartwrenching grief over the death of his wife inadvertently leads him to a young widow. Based on the novels "The Beast of the Jungle" and "The Altar of the Dead" by Henry James. 94 min. DVD X6353 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Un Chant d'Amour (1947) Jean Genet's story of male prisoners and a prison guard expressing self love and love for each other. Male homosexual expression is shown together with masturbation, sadism, and fantasy. 28 min. DVD 5413; vhs 999:1070 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Giles, Jane. The Cinema of Jean Genet: Un Chant d'amour / Jane Giles. London: BFI Publishing, 1991. (Main Stack PN1998.A3.G445 1991) Adnum, Mark. "Un Chant d'amour." Senses of Cinema: An Online Film Journal Devoted to the Serious and Eclectic Discussion of Cinema. 27: (no pagination). 2003 July-Aug. Barbaro, Fabrice. "Les idoles et la distance" (Un chant d'amour, Genet's only film) Cahiers du Cinema no435 Sept 1990. p. 74-5 Giles, Jane. "Un chant d'amour par Jean Genet" Artforum International v 26 Jan 1988. p. 102-6 Giles, Jane. The cinema of Jean Genet : Un chant d'amour / Jane Giles. London : BFI Publishing, 1991. (Main Stack PN1998.A3.G445 1991) Oswald, Laura. "The Perversion of I/Eye in Un Chant d'amour." Enclitic, vol. 7 no. 2. 1983 Fall. pp: 106-115. Un Chapeau de paille d'Italie (Italian Straw Hat) (1927) Directed by René Clair. Cast: Albert Préjean, Marise Maia, Olga Tschekowa, Alice Tissot, Alexis Bondireff, Vital Geymond. A bridegroom is riding to his marriage when his horse eats a straw hat hanging on a branch while its owner, a married lady, enjoys a tryst behind the bush with her lover, a fierce hussar. She cannot go home without her hat, so the groom interlaces his wedding with an attempt to find madam a twin chapeau, launching a series of misunderstandings and embarrassments. From the play by Eugene Labiche and Marc Michel. 114 min. DVD X3605; vhs 999:641 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Savage, John. "L'Amour Fou: nationalism, patriarchy and the nuptial farce in L'Âgege d'or and Un chapeau de paille d'Italie." Studies in French Cinema, 2007, Vol. 7 Issue 3, p243-258, 16p UC users only René Clair bibliography Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie (Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie) (France / Italy / Spain, 1972) Directed by Luis Buñuel. Cast: Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Stephane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Bulle Ogier, Paul Frankeur, Julien Bertheau. An all-star French cast assembles for an elegant dinner party, but whenever they try to eat, something happens to interrupt them. Mixes biting social satire with bold surrealistic invention as the dinner party serves to lampoon such targets as diplomats, wealthy socialites and even radical terrorists. 100 min. DVD 445; vhs 999:78 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards Academy Award - Best Foreign Language Film National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA - Best Foreign Language Film; Best Director Le Château de ma mère (My Mother's Castle) (1991) Directed by Yves Robert. Cast: Phillippe Caubère, Nathalie Roussel, Thérèse Liotard, Didier Pain. The story of Marcel Pagnol's childhood holidays in Provence continues in My Mother's Castle. During a Christmas in the region Marcel's affection for the area deepens and he also learns to love and appreciate his Mother's true nature. Based on the work of Marcel Pagnol. 98 min. DVD 2922; vhs 999:960 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Le cheval d'orgueil (The Proud Ones)(1980) Directed by Claude Chabrol. Cast: Jacques Dufilho, Bernadette Le Saché, François Cluzet, Paul Le Person. A lyrical tale of Brittany from 1908 to 1918. The film shows the hardships and joys of French peasant life focusing on the story of a young couple who meet, marry, and soon have a son. Too poor to own a horse, they are content to ride "the horse of pride," an adage passed down from generation to generation. Based on the novel by Pierre-Jakez Hélias. 118 min. vhs 999:3905 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Chien Andalou (France, 1929) Directed by Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dali. This surrealistic movie was written over the course of a three day exchange of fantasies and dreams with Salvador Dali. Silent with musical accompaniment and original French intertitles. 16 min. DVD 3341; DVD X2181; also vhs 999:2252; vhs 999:173 (with 'Land Without Bread') Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database La Chienne (1931) Directed by Jean Renoir. Cast: Michel Simon, Janie Marèze, Georges Flamant, Magdalaine Berubet. "Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to Adele, a terror. By chance, he meets Lucienne, "Lulu", and make her his mistress. He thinks he finally met love, but Lulu is nothing but a streetwalker, in love with Dede, her pimp. She only accepts Legrand to satisfy Dede's needs of money." [IMDB] 55 min. vhs 999:576 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Des Chiens dans la Neige (Wolves in the Snow) (Canada, 2002) Directed by Michel Welterlin. Cast: Marie-Josee Croze (as Marie Jose Croze), Jean Philippe Ecoffey, Romano Orzari, Anne Roussel, Antoine Lacomblez. Antoine has been cuckolding Lucie for years. A violent marital argument ensues resulting in Antoine's death. After lying about Antoine's whereabouts, Lucie discovers his secret life of gangsters, money laundering and violence. Followed, threatened and badgered by the gangsters, Lucie becomes trapped by her deceit. The body of Antoine disappears, other corpses appear, and the money, very quickly, becomes only the pretext of an alarming turn of events. 95 min. DVD 6345 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database La Chinoise (1968) Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Cast: Anne Wiazemsky, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Michel Semeniako, Juliet Berto. Centers upon a small group of Parisian students who discuss the implications of the cultural revolution in China and how it may be possible to effect, by means of terrorism, a similar political and cultural upheaval in the West. Non-US format DVD (PAL, Region 2). 93 min. DVD 4262 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Chocolat (UK/US 2000) Directed by Lasse Hallstrom. Cast: Juliette Binoche, Judi Dench, Alfred Molina, Lena Olin, Johnny Depp. 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. 122 min. DVD 1745 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Jacobs, Robert Nelson. Chocolat : a screenplay / Robert Nelson Jacobs. New York : Hyperion, c2000. (Main (Gardner) Stacks PN1997.C469 J3 2000) Chocolat (France / West Germany / Cameroon, 1989) Directed by Claire Denis. Cast: Giulia Boschi, Isaach de Bankole, François Cluzet, Cecile Ducasse, Mireille Perrier. Frances Dalens has returned to Cameroon to trace her past. Soon the sights, sounds and smells sweep her back to her childhood and memories of the people who populated her youth. This is a mesmerizing memoir of life in colonial Africa in the 1950s, as seen through the unblinking eyes of the young daughter of a French official. 105 min. DVD 781; vhs 999:2088 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Les Choristes (The Chorus) (France / Switzerland / Germany, 2004) Directed by Christophe Barratier with Jean-Paul Bonnaire, Marie Bunel and Jean-Baptiste Maunier. Cast: Gérard Jugnot, François Berléand, Kad Merad, Jean-Paul Bonnaire, Marie Bunel, Paul Charieras. Unemployed music teacher Clément Mathieu becomes the supervisor at a French boarding school for the rehabilitation of minors. Dismayed by the repressive administration, he works to positively transform the students' lives through music. 97 min. DVD 3914 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database La Chute de la maison Usher (Fall of the House of Usher) (1928) Directed by Jean Epstein; Assistant Director, Buñuel. In an aristocratic English family the young lord finds to his horror, while painting his wife's portrait, that as the work progresses life drains from his lady. In this poetic horror film, called by some the most outstanding achievement of this genre, an absolute mastery of editing and rhythm is employed with lighting and Gothic sets combining to impart an unearthly sense of mystery. Based on two short stories by Poe, "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Oval Portrait". Silent film with music and French intertitles. 44 min. DVD 360; vhs 999:1377 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Le cimetière des voitures (Car Cemetery) (France, 1983) Directed by Fernando Arrabal. Cast: Alain Bashung, juliet Berto, Micha Bayard, Roland Amstutz, Denis Manuel. Combining punk rock and post-apocalyptic mayhem, Arrabal's outrageous adaptation of his infamous stage play is a gallows-humor romp in a wretched dystopia. The inhabitants of a junkyard at the edge of a nuclear crater live hand to mouth all the while being hounded by authorities from a corrupt government. Among them is Emanou, a punk rock star agitator doomed to betrayal by one of his own. A raucous and absurd retelling of the Christ story with thugs, murderers, pimps and punks. 87 min. DVD X2901 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Cinépoèmes & films parlants A collection of ten short films directed by the writer, Pierre Alferi, between 2000 and 2002, with music composed by Rodolphe Burger. The booklet contains English translations of extracts from Le Cinéma des familles. Contents" Films parlants: La Berceuse de Broadway -- La protection des animaux -- Coincés -- Élenfant -- Cinépoèmes: Elvin Jones -- Lapins du soir -- Atman -- Nuitée -- Ne l'oublie pas -- Tante Élisabeth. In French without English subtitles. 82 min. DVD X774 La Cité des enfants perdus (The City of Lost Children) (France / Germany / Spain, 1995) Directed by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Cast: Ron Perman, Daniel Emilfork, Judith Vittet, Dominique Pinon, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Geneviève Brunet, Odile Mallet, Mireille Mosse. This fantastically-twisted fairy tale is chock-full of curious characters and special effects. A sad and heartbroken madman, Krank, is aging prematurely because he can't dream. He kidnaps little children, hoping that eventually he will find a way to steal their sleeping thoughts. The story takes the form of a quest, as a sentimental harpooner-turned-fairground strongman, One, sets out to find his young brother on a dilapidated oil rig. He soon falls in love with the gutsy nine-year old girl (who is head of the orphan gang), and together they run a gauntlet of fantastical dangers as they join hearts and hands to save a small boy's dreams from the madman's master plan. 114 min. DVD 3014; vhs 999:2352 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database La classe de neige (Class Trip)(France, 1998) Directed by Claude Miller. Cast: Clement Van Den Bergh, Lokman Nalcakan, Francois Roy, Yves Verhoeven, Emmanuelle Bercot, Tina Sportolaro. Nicolas is an insecure child plagued by visions of disaster. On a class trip to the ski country, Nicolas is befriended by the class bully. When one of Nicolas's visions mirrors a true-life murder, they set out to solve the crime. Based on the novel by Emmanuel Carrere. 96 min. DVD X3578 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards Cannes Film Festival - Jury Prize Classe tous risques (The Big Risk)(1960) Directed by Claude Stutet. Cast: Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marcel Dalio, Claude Cerval, Jacques Dacqmine. After hiding out in Milan for nearly a decade, former gang boss Abel Davos sneaks back into Paris, along with his children and appointed guardian, Eric Stark. Beset by backstabbing former friends, Abel begins a journey through the postwar Parisian underworld that is both throat grabbing and soul searching. A character study of a career criminal at the end of his rope. Special features: Excerpts from "Claude Sautet ou la magie invisible:" a 2003 documentary on the director by N.T. Binh and Dominique Rabourdin; interview with Classe tous risques novelist and screenwriter Jose Giovanni; archival interview footage featuring actor Lino Ventura discussing his career; original French and U.S. theatrical trailers; booklet: features new essays by director Bertrand Tavernier and Binh, a reprinted interview with Sautet, and a 1962 tribute by Jean-Pierre Melville. 108 min. DVD X94 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Cléo de 5 à 7 (Cleo from 5 to 7) (1961) Directed by Agnes Varda. Cast: Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray, Dorothee Blank, Michel Legrand, Jose-Luis de Vilallonga. An intimate portrait of a woman who is waiting to learn if she has terminal cancer. The beautiful but spoiled Cleo searches for answers with a fortune-teller, then seeks comfort in the familiar as she shops for a hat, talks with friends, and rehearses a song. Shot almost entirely on location, this visually entrancing film captures the look, feel, and sounds of Paris as Cleo views the world with a new awareness. 90 min. DVD 1181; vhs 999:2203 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Coco avant Chanel (Coco Before Chanel) (France, 2009) Directed by Anne Fontaine. Cast: Alessandro Nivola, Audrey Tautou, Emmanuelle Devos, Marie Gillain. Years after being abandoned at an orphanage by her father, Gabrielle Chanel finds a job in a tailor shop where she meets, and soon begins an affair with French millionaire Etienne Balsan. Through Baron Balsan she is introduced into French society and given the opportunity to design her own style of hats. Though her career takes off, her personal life becomes more complicated when she falls in love with Balsan's former best friend Arthur Capel. Adapted from the novel L'irreguliere by Edmonde Charles-Roux. Special features: Walking the red carpet: from Los Angeles to New York ; Coco before Chanel "La rencontre" ; the making of Coco before Chanel ; commentary with writer/director Anne Fontaine, theatrical trailer. 110 min. DVD X2737 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Besserglik, Bernard. "Coco Before Chanel" Film Journal International, Sep2009, Vol. 112 Issue 9, p35-35 UC users only Ritterbusch, Rachel. "Anne Fontaine and Contemporary Women's Cinema in France." Rocky Mountain Review, Fall2008, Vol. 62 Issue 2, p68-81, 14pUC users only Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (France, 2009) Directed by Jan Kounen. Cast: Anna Mouglalis, Mads Mikkelsen.By the 1920s, Coco Chanel has established herself in the world of fashion. After a disastrous reaction to an early production of his Rite of Spring ballet, Igor Stravinsky has become a penniless refugee living in exile. When the two are introduced, the attraction is immediate and together they embark on a passionate affair, which results in a period of great artistic achievement for both artists. Based on the novel by Chris Greenhalgh.110 min. DVD X4665 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages (Code Unknown: Incomplete Yales of Several Journeys)(France / Germany / Romania, 2000) Director, Michael Haneke. Cast: Juliette Binoche, Thierry Neuvic, Ona Lu Yenke, Sepp Bierbichler, Arsinee Khanjian. On a bustling Paris street corner four separate livesintersect, interweaving the stories of a promising actress, her photojournalist boyfriend, a teacher of African descent and a Romanian illegal immigrant in this portrait of life in a fractured, lonely world. 113 min. DVD 2051 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Un cœur en hiver (A Heart in Winter) (1992) Directed by Claude Sautet. Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart, André Dussollier. Camille, a concert violinist, becomes intrigued by her lover's business partner, Stephane. She interprets his distance as a sign of intellectual seduction. The love triangle that develops reveals the complexity and imperfection of the three characters. Special features: Claude Sautet interview; French TV appearances by Claude Sautet and André Dussollier; excerpt from the documentary "Claude Sautet ou la magie invisible"; original French theatrical trailer. 101 min. DVD X3760 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database (2006) Coeurs (Private Fears in Public Places)(France | Italy, 2006) Directed by Alain Resnais. Cast: Sabine Azéma, Isabelle Carré, Laura Morante, Pierre Arditi, André Dussollier, Lambert Wilson, Claude Rich. Interweaves multiple stories set in a magically snowbound Paris where six lonely souls converge and commingle in their search for lasting connections. Based on the play: Private fears in public places / by Alan Ayckbourn. 120 min. DVD X6630 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database La Collectionneuse (Collector-Girl) (1966) Directed by Eric Rohmer. Cast: Patrick Bauchau, Daniel Pommereulle, Haydee Politoff, Alain Jouffroy. A witty and erotic look at the theme of resisting sexual temptations. Two older men spend their holidays in a house near St. Tropez with a beautiful young girl who collects men the way some people collect art. Both men try to resist being added to her collection, however, they soon fall victim to her charms. 88 min. DVD 4346 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Eric Rohmer bibliography Le colonel Chabert (1994) Directed by Yves Angelo. Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Fabrice Luchini, André Dussollier, Claude Rich. Colonel Chabert has been severely wounded in the French-Russian Napoleonic war to the point that the medical examiner has signed his death certificate. When he regains his health and memory, he goes back to Paris, where his "widow", Anne has married the Count Ferraud and is financing his rise to power using Chabert's money. Chabert hires a lawyer to help him get back his money and his honor. 78 min. DVD X2872 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Le combat dans l'île (Fire and Ice) (1962) Directed by Alain Cavalier. Cast: Romy Schneider, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Henri Serre.A story of love, loyalty and betrayal with a backdrop of political upheaval. Clement is part of a right-wing political movement and an active terrorist determined to spread chaos among the Western nations . Betrayed by his comrade, he takes his long-suffering wife and seeks refuge in a friend's house. Complications arise when affection blossoms between his wife and his friend. Special features: "France 1961" by Alain Cavalier (2010) ; rare behind-the-scenes photos, including images from the archive of Louis Malle. 104 min. DVD X4587 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Comment ça va? (How is it Going?) (1976) Directed by Jean-Luc Godard and Anne Marie Mieville. Cast: Michel Marot, Anne-Marie Mieville. A middle-aged Communist editor and his young typist and collaborator set out to make a videotape about their magazine and printing plant. The young typist/collaborator takes issue with the rough cut. The film goes on to prove the corruptness of the entire process of gathering and transmitting information. 78 min. vhs 999:2065 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database La Commune (Paris, 1871) (France, 2000) Directed by Peter Watkins. La Commune was the name given to the revolutionary government established by the people of Paris in 1871. This presents an in-depth account of the major characters of the Commune of 1871 whose members followed either Louis August Blanqui or the philosopher Pierre Joseph Proudhon. The film travels back to 1871 and is not only a lesson in history but presents a demonstration of how history is shaped, and re-shaped, by the tellers of the tale. In this particular case activities of the Commune are broadcast by a journalist for Versailles Television who presents the official view while a Commune television station is set up to present the perspectives of the Paris rebels. 345 min. DVD X5780; Video/C 9477 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où; il veut (Man Escaped) (1956) Director, Robert Bresson. Cast: François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock. Based on a true story, tells of a French Resistance fighter who is sent to an infamous prison in 1943, where 7,000 of the 12,000 prisoners housed there died either by natural means or by execution. Lt. Fontaine is certain that execution awaits him, and begins planning his escape. For a period of time he goes it alone, but reluctantly takes on a partner. He gets some help from a couple of prisoners allowed to stroll in the exercise yard, but for the most part he is a figure of isolation. 100 min. DVD 2770 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Un conte de noël (Christmas Story) (2008) Director, Arnaud Desplechin. Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Mathieu Amalric, Anne Consigny, Melvil Poupaud, Emmanuelle Devos, Chiara Mastroianni, Emile Berling, Hippolyte Girardot, Laurent Capelluto, Françoise Bertin, Samir Guesmi. Junon is the matriarch of the troubled Vuillard family, who come together at Christmas when they learn she needs a bone marrow transplant from a blood relative. The Vuillard's shared history of physical and mental illness, estrangement, self harm, and loss doesn't lead itself to the idea of a cheerful holiday season. Hopefully the Christmastime reunion, a scheme concocted by three of the youngest family members, will finally bring peace to their family. Special features: "L'aimée:" Desplechin's 2007 documentary about the selling of his family home; new documentary featuring interviews with Desplechin and actors Mathieu Amalric and Catherine Deneuve; original theatrical trailers. 152 min. DVD X4060 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Contes des Quatre Saisons (Tales of the Four Seasons) (1989-1998): Conte de Printemps (A Tale of Springtime) (1989) Directed by Eric Rohmer. Cast: Anne Teyssedre, Hugues Quester, Florence Darel. Romantic comedy about Jeanne, a philosophy teacher who doesn't want to stay at her boyfriend's apartment while he's away. At a party, she meets Natacha who invites Jeanne to stay with her at her father's place, since he's at his girlfriend's most of the time. What Natacha really wants is to start a romance between Jeanne and her father. Non-US (PAL) format DVD. 103 min. DVD 6387 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Conte d'Hiver (A Winter's Tale) (1988) Directed by Eric Rohmer. Cast: Charlotte Very, Frederick Van Den Driessche, Herve Furic, Michel Voletti. On holiday in Brittany, Felice has an idyllic romance which results in the birth of her child. She loses touch with the father and becomes obsessed with the lost love of her life. Non-US (PAL) format DVD. 110 min. DVD 6388 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Conte d'Ete (A Summer's Tale) (1989) Directed by Eric Rohmer. Cast: Melvil Poupaud, Amanda Langlet, Aurelia Nolin, Gwenaelle Simon. A graduate student takes a vacation and while waiting for his girlfriend, he becomes attracted to two other women. For the next three weeks, he must decide which woman he wants. Non-US (PAL) format DVD. 113 min. DVD 6389 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Conte d'automne (An Autumn Tale) (1990) Directed by Eric Rohmer. Cast: Marie Riviere, Beatrice Romand, Alain Libolt, Didier SAndré , Alexia Portal. Best friends Magali, a widowed winegrower, and Isabelle, a happily married bookshop owner, have known each other since childhood. Magali admits that she would enjoy some male companionship, prompting Isabelle to place a lonely hearts ad on her behalf, with unexpected results. Non-US (PAL) format DVD. 107 min. DVD 6390 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards National Society of Film Critics Best Foreign Language Film La Coquille et le clergyman (The Seashell and the Clergyman) (1927) Directed by Germaine Dulac. A clergyman, committed by his calling to celibacy but in love with a romantic beauty, is afflicted by sexual torments he is unable to resolve. Silent with music and French intertitles. 32 min. DVD 4095; vhs 999:838 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Le Corbeau (The Raven) (1943) Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. Cast: Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Micheline Francey, Helena Manson, Jeanne Frusier-Gir, Sylvie, Liliane Maigne, Pierre Larquey, Noel Roquevert. A mysterious writer of poison pen letters, known only as Le Corbeau, plagues a French provincial town, unwittingly exposing the collective suspicion and rancor seething beneath the community's calm surface. Brilliantly captures the spirit of paranoid pettiness and self-loathing turning an occupied French town into a twentieth-century Salem style witch-hunt. Made during the Nazi occupation of France, the film was attacked from all sides and banned after the Liberation. 91 min. DVD 3276; vhs 999:1650 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Le Corniaud (The Sucker) (France / Italy, 1964) Directed by Gérard Oury. Cast: Bourvil, Louis de Funes, Venantino Venantini, Jacques Eyser, Henri Virlojeux. After the luxury car of an import-export businessman crashes into his car, Antoine Marechal is offered, as compensation, an all-expenses-paid trip to Naples in a Cadillac. Marechal accepts eagerly, never dreaming what he is transporting. 90 min. vhs 999:3174 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Coup de Torchon (1981) Directed by Bernard Tavernier. Cast: Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Stephane Audran, Eddy Mitchell, Guy Marchand, Irené Skobline. After Lucien Cordier, the only police officer in a small African village is ridiculed by the local pimp, cheated on by his wife, and suffers his mistresses being beaten, he begins to get rid of the evil ones in his life. 128 min. DVD 1797 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Speck, Oliver C. "The cesspool of colonial cinema: Coup de torchon by Bertrand Tavernier." Studies in French Cinema, 2006, Vol. 6 Issue 3, p207-217, 11p UC users only Bernard Tavernier bibliography Coup pour coup (Blow for Blow)(France / West Germany, 1971) Director, Marin Karmitz. Cast: Anne-Marie Bacquiér, Danielle Chinsky, Eva Damien, Maité Delamarre, Annick Fougery, Jean Hébert, Anne Lipinska, Christiane Rorato, Andre Rouyer, Jean Tervoort, André Watt. Collectively made by more than 100 factory workers, peasants, students, musicians and film-makers, this is a fictionalized account of a wildcat strike at a garment factory in France during which the seamstresses demand better working conditions. Special features: [Disc 1] preface and interviews (75 min.) ; [Disc 2] Le journal du tournage de Coup pour coup / document exclusif commente par Marin Karmitz (121 min.) ; Le conflict LIP 1973-1974 / Dominique Dubosc (59 min.) ; Presentation de Dominique Dubosc (10 min.) 161 min. DVD X2062 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Le couple témoin (The Model Couple)(France / Switzerland, 1977) Director, William Klein. Cast: Andre Dussolier, Anemone, Georges Descri?eres, Jacques Boudet. The French Ministry of the Future chooses two "normal", white, middle-class citizens for a national experiment. They will be monitored and displayed on television in a model apartment outfitted with state-of-the-art products and non-stop surveillance--the template for "a new city for the new man." 101 min. DVD 9849 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Rapfogel, Jared. "The Delirious Fictions of William Klein.." Cineaste; Fall2008, Vol. 33 Issue 4, p20-23, 4p UC users only Cour Toujours (Dad on the Run) (2000) Director, Dante Desarthe. Cast: Clément Sibony, Rona Hartner, Isaac Sharry, Marie Desgranges, Emmanuelle Devos. Jonah, a young musician and father to a newborn son, learns at the last minute that, according to an obscure Jewish custom, he must rush to bury the foreskin of his just-circumcised son. 89 min. DVD 1709 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Cousin cousine (1975) Directed by Jean-Charles Tacchella. Cast: Marie Christine Barrault, Victor Lanoux, Marie-France Pisier, Guy Marchand, Ginette Garcin, Sybil Maas. During the chaos of a large wedding replete with drunken relatives, two cousins by marriage meet for the first time. Marthe has an adulterer for a husband, while Ludovic is burdened with a hyperactive, over-sensitive wife, and both are dissatisfied with life. Deciding that they should see more of each other, they find that they greatly enjoy each other's company. PAL, region 2. 91 min. DVD X3928 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Les Cousins (The Cousins) (1959) Directed by Claude Chabrol. Cast: Gérard Blain, Jean Claude Brialy, Juliette Mayniel, Claude Cerval. A sly moral fable about a provincial boy who comes to live with his sophisticated bohemian cousin in Paris. Through these seeming opposites, the filmmaker conjures a piercing, darkly comic character study that questions notions of good and evil, love and jealousy, and success in the modern world. Special DVD features: 2011 documentary by filmmaker Pierre-Henri Gibert about the making of Les cousins ; theatrical trailer ; booket featuring an essay by film critic Terrence Rafferty. 110 min. DVD X6532; vhs 999:673 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Claude Chabrol bibliography Crainquebille (1922) Directed by Jacques Feyder. Cast: Maurice de Feraudy, Françoise Rosay, Felix Oudart. In this great satirical classic of the French cinema a Parisian street merchant is unjustly accused and jailed but afterwards finds happiness as a tramp. 77 min. DVD 6474 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (Crime of Monsieur Lange) (1936) Directed by Jean Renoir. Cast: René Lefevre, Florelle, Jules Berry, Marcel Levesque, Sylvia Bataille, Nadia Sibirskaia. A group of workers take over a publishing house when its crooked owner, Batala, absconds. Batala returns to resume control, but one of the workers, Lange, kills him to save the collective. 89 min.DVD 3494 (PAL); vhs 999:583 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Les croix de bois (Wooden Crosses) (1932) Directed by Raymond Bernard. Cast: Pierre Blanchar, Gabriel Gabrio, Charles Vanel, Raymond Aimos, Antonin Artaud, Paul Azais, Rene Bergeron, Raymond Cordy. Film adaptation of the anti-war novel by Roland Dorgelès that follows a French regiment in World War I as it trudges from patriotism to disillusionment. 113 min. DVD 8175 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) Directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau. Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Jacques Weber, Anne Brochet, Vincent Perez, Roland Bertin. Cyrano, a master swordsman and poet, feels he cannot woo his beloved Roxane due to an unfortunate physical flaw: his grotesquely large nose. Resigning himself to helping another suitor, the dashing yet tongue-tied Christian, Cyrano uses his mastery of words to win Roxane for him. But when Roxane finds that she has fallen for Christian's mind - and not for his beauty - which of her two suitors will finally possess her heart? 138 min. DVD X2841; vhs 999:505 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards Golden Globe Awards - Best Foreign Language Film National Board of Review, USA - Best Foreign Language Film César Awards - Best Film; Best Director Toronto International Film Festival - People's Choice Awards To the top Daddy Nostalgie (1992) Directed by Bertrand Tavernier. Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Jane Birkin, Odette Laure, Emmanuelle Bataille, Charlotte Kady. A drama about reconciliation and family ties. This is the story of a daughter's return to the family villa to spend time with her mother and her dying father. Daddy and daughter have never been close, but they begin to develop a belated bond of intimacy and come to know and understand one another for the first time. 105 min. DVD 8827 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Leahy, James. "Daddy Nostalgie." Sight & Sound, Jun91, Vol. 1 Issue 2, p40-40 UC users only Paletz, G.M. "Daddy Nostalgie." Film Quarterly; Spring92, Vol. 45 Issue 3, p45, 5p UC users only Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (The Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne) (1944) Directed by Robert Bresson. Cast: Cast: Maria Casarès, Paul Bernard, Elina Labourdette, Lucienne Bogaert, Jean Marchat. Hélène, a sophisticated but jaded socialite, realizes she has become indifferent to her longtime lover so she introduces him to her friend Agnes, hoping they will be attracted to one another. They are, but Agnes has a dark secret in her past, one which jeopardizes any chance for their happiness together. 83 min. DVD 2476; vhs 999:1342 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Powers, John. "Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne." (Review) Film Comment v35, n3 (May, 1999):38.UC users only Robert Bresson bibliography Danton(France / Poland / West Germany, 1982) Directed by Andrzej Wajda. Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Patrice Chereau, Roger Planchon, Jacques Villeret, Angela Winkler, Georges Danton, the popular revolutionary leader, returns to Paris at a time when the new Republic is in disarray. Maximilien Robespierre and his allies have set up a monstrous dictatorship, beginning the infamous "Reign of Terror." Danton pleads with the people for an end to the bloodshed which violates the spirit of their revolution. 166 min. DVD X1609; vhs 999:198 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards - Best Foreign-language Film César Awards - Best Director De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté (The Beat That My Heart Skipped) (France, 2005) Directed by Jacques Audiard. Cast: Romain Duris, Niels Arestrup, Linh-Dan Pham, Aure Atika, Emmanuelle Devos, Jonathan Zaccai, Gilles Cohen. In this remake of Fingers, Tom, a ne'er-do-well, works with two scheming real estate men who have little or no morals. He decides to return to the piano and become a concert pianist, like his mother. His piano teacher is a Chinese piano virtuoso who has recently come to live in France. She doesn't speak a lick of French so music becomes the only language they have in common. Before long, Jacques' bid to be a better person means that he begins to yearn for true love. But, when he finally has the chance of winning his best friend's wife, his passion only succeeds in scaring her. And then, one day, his dubious past comes to light... 107 min. DVD X608 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards - Best Foreign-language Film César Awards - Best Film; Best Director Dobson, Julia. "Jacques Audiard and the filial challenge." Studies in French Cinema; 2007, Vol. 7 Issue 3, p179-189, 11p UC users only Décade prodigieuse (Ten Days' Wonder) (Italy / France, 1972) Directed by Claude Chabrol. Cast: Orson Welles, Anthony Perkins, Marlene Jobert, Michel Piccoli. Divided into 10 days, the story focuses on the wealthy Van Horns. Orson Welles plays the eccentric tycoon who lives in an Alsatian chateau with his young wife and his adopted son, a sculptor given to hallucinatory fits that cause him to fear he has unknowingly committed murder. Of course, wife and son are having a passionate affair and being blackmailed, which sets in dizzying motion the complex plot. 105 min. DVD 1730 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Dédée d'Anvers (1947) Directed by Yves Allégret. Cast: Simone Signoret, Bernard Blier. Dédée works as a prostitute in the "Big Moon" nightclub. She falls in love with an Italian sailor, Francesco, with consequences for all those around them. 100 min. DVD X2716 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Le déclin de l'empire Américain (The Decline of the American Empire) (Canada, 1986) Directed by Denys Arcand. Cast: Dominique Michel, Dorothee Berryman, Louise Portal, Pierre Curzi, Remy Girard, Yves Jacques, Genevieve Rioux, Daniel Briere, Gabriel Arcand. Four university teachers gather to prepare a dinner. Remy is a married man, Claude a homosexual, Pierre has a girlfriend and Alain is a bachelor. Amongst them, they discuss sex, the female body and their affairs with them. Their dinner guests Louis, Dominique, Diane and Danielle are waiting at a health gym. They also discuss sex, the female body and, naturally, men. Later in the evening they meet and have dinner where candid conversations are brought out at the dinner table, where more revelations, confrontation - and sex - begin. 102 min. DVD X3765 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Delicatessen (France, 1991) Directors, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro. Cast: Dominique Pino, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Karin Viard. In this futuristic comedy, set in a starving, post-holocaust France, a butcher keeps his customers supplied by his cannibalistic tendencies. But when his daughter falls in love with a circus performer, only an underground band of vegetarian freedom fighters can save her beloved from the meat cleaver. 100 min. DVD 5505; also DVD 2648 (PAL, 95 min.) Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (The Young Girls of Rochefort) (1967) Directed by Michel Legrand. Cast: Catherine Deneuve, George Chakiris, Françoise Dorleac, Jacques Perrin, Michel Piccoli. Delphine and Solange are twin sisters living in the picturesque seaside village of Rochefort-- Delphine teaches dance while Solange composes and gives piano lessons. As the girls dream of success and romance in the far-off big city, they don't realize that true love may be just around the corner. 112 min. DVD 1172 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database La Demoiselle d'honneur (The Bridesmaid) (France | Germany | Italy, 2004) Directed by Claude Chabrol. Cast: Benoît Magimel, Laura Smet, Aurore Clément, Bernard Le Coq, Solène Bouton, Anna Mihalcea. It's love at first sight when bridesmaid Senta falls into the life of a handsome young Phillipe at the wedding of his younger sister. As passion for one another intensifies, Phillipe slowly discovers that Senta is shrouded in mystery. When one day she asks Phillipe to perform a terrible deed as proof of his love for her, Phillipe must come to terms with who his lover might really be. Based on the novel by Ruth Rendell. 106 min. DVD X3327 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database La Dentellière (Lacemaker) (France / Switzerland / West Germany, 1977) Directed by Claude Goretta. Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Yves Beneyton, Florence Giorgetti, Anne-Marie Duringer. A shy beautician falls rapturously in love with a handsome student who is captivated by her gracefulness but his inability to appreciate her inner beauty leads to heartbreaking tragedy for the fragile young woman. 107 min. vhs 999:2904 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Le Dernier métro (Last Metro) (1980) Directed by François Truffaut. Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Poiret, Heinz Bennent. In Nazi-occupied Paris the jewish director of the Montmartre theatre is in hiding. In his absence, the theatre is run by his wife who is determined to protect her husband. Special features DVD X1689: Disc one: New audio commentary by Annette Insdorf, author of François Truffaut; audio commentary by actor Gérard Depardieu, historian Jean-Pierre Azéma, and Truffaut biographer Serge Toubiana. Disc two: Deleted scene; French television excerpts featuring interviews with Truffaut and actors Catherine Deneuve, Depardieu, and Jean Poiret; new video interviews with actors Andréa Ferréol, Sabine Haudepin, and Paulette Dubost, second assistant director Alain Tasma, and camera assistants Florent Bazin and Tessa Racine, in which they discuss The last metro's ensemble performances and visual style; a video interview with the celebrated cinematographer Nestor Almendros, detailing his collaborations with Truffaut; "Une histoire d'eau," a 1958 short film by Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard; theatrical trailer.131 min. DVD X1689; also DVD 1216 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards César Awards - Best Film; Best Director Le Dernier tango à Paris (Last Tango in Paris; Ultimo tango a Parigi) (Italy / France, 1972) Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Cast: Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider, Maria Michi, Giovanna Galletti, Jean-Pierre Leaud. An American widower in Paris, desolate at the unexplained suicide of his wife, plunges into an erotic affair with a young French girl half his age with tragic consequences 131 min. DVD 303 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Désiré (1937) Directed by Sacha Guitry. Cast: Sacha Guitry, Jacqueline Delubac, Jacques Baumer, Saturnin Fabre, Alys Delonde, Arletty, Pauline Carton. A valet begins a flirtation with his employer, who is in turn involved with a class-obsessed politician. 97 min. DVD X4410 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Moine, Raphaëlle. "The star as the 'great man' in French cinema:the example of Sacha Guitry." Studies in French Cinema, 2004, Vol. 4 Issue 1, p77-86, 10p UC users only Détective (1985) Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Cast: Nathalie Baye, Claude Brasseur, Johnny Hallyday, Laurent Terzieff, Aurelle Doazan, Jean-Pierre Leaud. A take on modern morality and popular culture set amidst the confines of a decaying Parisian hotel. The plot is set in motion when a miserably married couple attempt to collect a debt from mob-plagued boxing manager, the mischievously named Jim Fox Warner. Meanwhile, a house detective tries to solve an old murder case. 94 min. DVD 9296 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Les Deux Anglaises (Two English Girls) (1971) Directed by François Truffaut. Cast: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Kika Markham, Stacey Tendeter, Sylvia Marriott, Philippe Leotard. Two English sisters at the turn of the century are in love with the same man for seven years. His inability to choose between them (compounded by his overpossessive mother), and the girls' own powerful passions -- both expressed and repressed -- create a painful, emotionally charged triangle. 130 min. DVD 1246; vhs 999:2421 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Deux fois cinquante ans de cinéma français (2 x 50 Years of French Cinema) (1995) Directed by Anne-Marie Mieville and Jean-Luc Goddard. Rather than exulting the achievements of the last hundred years this entry laments the ways that cinema has been forgotten. It is a work of sadness, but also of mischievous and quirky humour. 1998. Video/C MM444 Deux ou trois choses que je sais d'elle (Two or Three Things I Know About Her) (1966) Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Cast: Marina Vlady, Anny Duperey, Roger Montsoret, Jean Narboni, Christophe Bourseiller, Joseph Gehrard, Raoul Levy, Yves Beneyton, Juliet Berto, Helena Bielicic, Marie Bourseiller, Robert Chevassu, Blanding Jeanson, Benjamin Jules-Rosette, Jean-Pierre Laverne, Jean-Patrick Lebel, Anna Manga, Claude Miller, Helene Scott. The "her" in the film refers to Paris. Inspired by a real article on housewife prostitution, the film examines Godard's theory that if you lived in Paris (at the time) one had to prostitute oneself to survive. This "sociological fable" is shot through the eyes of Juliette, a housewife who spends one day a week in central Paris selling her body on the street in the hope that she will be able to escape the high rise suburban drudgery in which she lives with her family, and find happiness. Disc set includes book (50 p.) on making of the film. 84 min. DVD 8461; vhs 999:1761 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Deux secondes (2 secondes) (Canada, 1998) Director, Manon Briand. A champion mountain bike racer named Laurie hesitates at the start gate, and the two seconds lost cost her the race--and her place on the team. Forced into retirement, she is delighted to discover a job as a bike messenger. By chance, she meets Lorenzo, a cantankerous Italian bike shop owner and former champion himself. Their mutual love and appreciation of cycling draw them together in spite of initial clashes. One night, they decide to face each other in a peculiar duel. Lorenzo shows Laurie how every victory is relative and that--speaking of relativity--speed is not the only way to bring time to a halt. 105 min. DVD 1070 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Le deuxième souffle (Second Breath)(France, 1966) Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. Cast: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Christine Fabrega, Raymond Pellegrin, Marcel Bozzufi, Paul Frankeur, Denis Manuel, Jean Negroni. Gustave Manda, better known as Gu, a dangerous gangster, escapes from jail. He goes to Paris to join Manouche and other friends, and becomes involved in a gangland killing. Before leaving the country with Manouche, Gu needs a final job to get some money. But that's not so simple when you have Inspector Blot tracking you, and have to deal with the consequences of the shooting in Paris. Special features: Audio commentary featuring film scholar Ginette Vincendeau; new video interview with director Bertrand Tavernier (publicity agent on the film); archival footage featuring interviews with Melville and actor Lino Ventura; original theatrical trailer; new and improved English subtitle translation; a new essay by film critic Adrian Danks. 144 min. DVD X647 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Jean-Pierre Melville bibliography Les Diaboliques (1954) Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. Cast: Cast: Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot, Charles Vanel, Paul Meurisse. Suspense classic that influenced the 1960 movie, Psycho, by Alfred Hitchcock. Tells the story of a sadistic headmaster of a Parisian boarding school who is murdered by his wife and mistress, whom he has mistreated. The women dump his body in a swimming pool. When the pool is drained, the body has disappeared. Then come reports of sightings, terrifying his killers. Adapted from the novel: Celle qui n'etait plus by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. Special features (DVD X5815): New digitally restored version with extensive special features. Selected-scene commentary by French film scholar, Kelley Conway ; new video introduction with by Serge Bromberg ; new video interview with novelist and film critic Kim Newman ; original theatrical trailer ; Booklet featuring an essay by film critic Terrence Rafferty. 109 min. DVD DVD X5815; DVD 345; vhs 999:124 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Diagonale du Fou (Dangerous Moves) (1984) Directed by Richard Dembo. Cast: Michel Piccoli, AlexAndré Arbatt, Leslie Caron, Liv Ullmann. A senior Soviet chessmaster and his former star pupil, now a dissident living in exile, square off in a highly publicized chess tournament. Both become pawns however in a much larger political game. 110 min. DVD 5543 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Diaboliquement vôtre( Italy | France | West Germany, 1967) Director, Julien Duvivier. Cast: Alain Delon, Senta Berger, Peter Mosbacher, Claude Pieplu, Albert Augier, Sergio Fantoni. George Campo searches desperately for his sanity after a near-fatal car crash and three weeks in a coma, when he awakens to a strange new life and can't remember a thing. He becomes convinced that someone wants him dead. 93 min. DVD X4672 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Dieu est grand, je suis toute petite (God Is Great and I'm Not) (France, 2001) Directed by Pascale Bailly. Cast: Audrey Tautou, Edouard Baer, Julie Depardieu, Atman Kelif, Catherine Jacob, Philippe Laudenbach, Mathieu Demy. Twenty-year-old model Michele's search for happiness gives new meaning to religious fervor as she enthusiastically jumps from Catholicism, Buddhism and finally attempts to convert to Judaism after meeting a handsome Jewish veterinarian. 95 min. DVD X3074 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Un dimanche à la campagne (A Sunday in the Country) (1984) Directed by Bertrand Tavernier. Cast: Louis Ducreux, Michel Aumont, Sabine Azema, Genevieve Mnich, Monique Chaumette. Monsieur Ladmiral, an aging impressionist painter, spends his usual Sunday afternoon visit with his family ruminating over life's small pleasures and inevitable disappointments until his daughter Irene arrives. Irene, a whirlwind of activity for whom life itself is an art, has a magical reviving effect on her father and the world suddenly takes on the beautiful hues and feelings of an Impressionist masterpiece. 94 min. DVD 8832 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Le Dîner de Cons (Dinner Game) (1998) Director, Francis Veber. Cast: Jacques Villeret, Thierry Lhermitte, Frances Huster, Alexandra Vandernoot, Daniel Prevost, Catherine Frot. Pierre and his snobbish friends have a standing date for dinner. Every week, they compete to see who can bring the biggest idiot to the party. 80 min. DVD 3631 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Diva (1981) Director, Jean-Jacques Beineix. Cast: Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez, Frederic André i, Richard Bohringer, Thuy An Luu, Roland Bertin, Gérard Darmon. Cynthia Hawkins is the operatic superstar whose refusal to make a recording frustrates her adoring public. A young fan named Jules makes a secret tape and is stalked by thugs who plan to blackmail the diva. Jules also accidently taped, in addition to the concert, film which proves a top mobster's role in an international sex and drug ring and now two hired killers are out to get the tape. 123 min. DVD 697; vhs 999:2953 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Allmer, Patricia. "'Window Shopping?'-Aesthetics of the Spectacular and Cinéma du Look." Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies, 2004 Feb Dagle, Joan. "Effacing race: The discourse on gender in Diva." Post Script, Winter91, Vol. 10 Issue 2, p26-35, 10p Garrity, Henry A. "Pop-Culture Love in Diva: Objects as Icon, Index, and Syntagma." In: Sex and love in motion pictures : proceedings of the Second Annual Film Conference of Kent State University. [Kent, Ohio] : Romance Languages Dept., Kent State University, c1984. (Main (Gardner) Stacks PN1995.9.S45 F551 1984) Hagen, W. M. "Performance Space in Diva." Literature Film Quarterly, 1988, Vol. 16 Issue 3, p155, 5p UC users only Higbee, Will. "Diva." In: The cinema of France / edited by Phil Powrie. London ; New York : Wallflower, 2006. (Main (Gardner) Stacks PN1993.5.F7 C56 2006) Jameson, Fredric. "On Diva." Social Text, vol. 6, pp. 114-19, 1982 Fall UC users only Levin, David J. "Is there a text in this libido? Diva and the rhetoric of contemporary opera criticism." In: Between opera and cinema / edited by Jeongwon Joe and Rose Theresa. New York : Routledge, 2002. (Music ML2100 .B47 2002) Powrie, Phil. "Diva's Deluxe Disasters." Nottingham French Studies, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 109-20, 1993 Spring White, Mimi. "They All Sing …: Voice, Body, and Representation in Diva." Literature and Psychology, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 33-43, 1988 Domicile conjugal (Bed and Board) (1970) Directed by François Truffaut. Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Hiroko Berghauer, Barbara Laage, Danièle Girard, Silvana Blasi, Daniel Boulanger, Daniel Ceccaldi, Pierre Fabre, Jacques Jouanneau, Jacques Rispal, Claude Véga. The fourth and penultimate film in Truffaut's semi-autobiographical series about Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Leaud) depicts our hero in the early years of marriage. Antoine and Christine become the proud parents of a son, but Antoine soon tires of domesticity and is lured into a disastrous affair with a Japanese girl. 100 min. DVD 1727, part 3; DVD 337; 999:2190 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database François Truffaut bibliography Le Dossier 51 (1978) Directed by Michel Deville. Cast: Françoise Bellard, Patrick Chesnals, Jenny Cleve. The story of a rising French diplomat who is being recruited by an unnamed secret agency. Special features: Ni stars ni paillettes et une caméra subjective, interviews with Michel Deville and Gilles Perrault (28 min.) ; featurette Faire du cinéma : Raconter en photos (5 min). 105 min. DVD X4431 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database La Double Vie de Véronique (The Double Life of Veronique) (France/Poland/Norway, 1991) Directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski. Cast: Irene Jacob, Philippe Volter, Sandrine Dumas, Halina Gryglaszewska, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Jerzy Gudejko, Claude Duneton. Weronika is a Polish choir soprano, and her double, Veronique, is a French music teacher. Though they are unknown to each other, the two women share an enigmatic, purely emotional bond. The two were born on the same day and each senses that somewhere there exists another person with whom their lives are intertwined. Special features: (Disc one:) Audio commentary by film scholar Annette Insdorf; three short documentary films by Kieslowski: "Factory" (1970), "Hospital" (1976), and "Railway station" (1980); "The musicians" (1958), a short film by Kieslowski's teacher Kazimierz Karabasz; U.S. ending. -- (Disc two): "Kieslowski - dialogue" (1991), a documentary; rare behind-the-scenes footage; "1966-1988: Kieslowski, Polish filmmaker", a 2005 documentary; new video interviews with cinematographer Sawomir Idziak and composer Zbigniew Preisner; a 2005 interview with actress Ir`ene Jacob; a booklet featuring new essays by Jonathan Romney, Slavoj Zizek, and Peter Cowie, and excerpts from "Kieslowski on Kieslowski." 97 min. DVD 6605 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards National Society of Film Critics Best Foreign Language Film Le Doulos (1968) Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani, Jean Desailly, Michel Piccoli. A complicated thriller about the fatalistic relationship between two men, Maurice, a crook just out of prison, and Silien, a mysterious, cryptic informer caught up in the complex relationship between the criminal underworld and the police. In French without subtitles. DVD X646; copy 2 DVD 3655 (Non-US format DVD (PAL)) Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Jean-Pierre Melville bibliography Drancy avenir (France, 1997) Directed by Arnaud des Pallières. Cast: Aude Amiot, Thierry Bosc, Anne-Lisa Nathan. Presents three stories about the Holocaust and how it affected the lives of three people: one the last Holocaust survivor, one doing research on a concentration camp in Drancy, and the third about a ship's captain and his journey into an unknown territory. This experimental film attempts to address the problem of how to explain to the next generation why Hitler's extermination of Jews and gypsies took place and found support inside and outside Germany. 84 min. DVD X3139 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Drôle de drame ou L'étrange aventure de Docteur Molyneux (Bizarre, Bizarre) (1937) Directed by Marcel Carné. Cast: Michel Simon, Françoise Rosay, Louis Jouvet, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jean-Louis Barrault, Nadine Vogel. A quiet botanist is the secret author of a popular crime novel. His peaceful existence is threatened when a crazed fan vows to kill the author of "The model crime." The convoluted plot involves a group of Victorian Englishmen who get so enmeshed in lies and disguises, murders and supposed murders, intrigues and romances, that Scotland Yard and the participants themselves are confused. 109 min. DVD 4793 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Turk, Edward Baron. "Marcel Carné's Deceptive Comedy...... Drôle de drame." Literature/Film Quarterly. 1980. Vol. 8, Iss. 3; p. 165 (5 pages) UC users only Marcel Carné bibliography Drôle de Félix (Adventures of Felix) (2000) Directors, Olivier Ducastel & Jacques Martineau. Cast: Sami Bouajila, Patachou, Ariane Ascaride, Pierre-Loup Rajot, Charly Sergue, Maurice Benichou. This French comedy-drama features Felix, an unemployed, gay Frenchman of Arab descent, who has a series of adventures during a trek through the French countryside. The film examines the familiar theme of a man's search for his identity. Felix is forced to confront the anger he feels toward his father for abandoning him, and the fear and shame he feels, living as an outsider in a predominantly straight, Caucasian world. 95 min. DVD 1706 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Depuis qu'Otar est parti... (Since Otar Left) (France | Belgium | Georgia, 2003) Directed by Julie Bertuccelli. Cast: Esther Gorintin, Nino Khomassouridze, Dinara Droukarova, Temour Kalandadze, Roussoudan Bolkvadze, Sacha Sarichvili, Douta Skhirtladze, Abdallah Moundy. Three generations of women--ninety something grandmother Eka, her middle-aged daughter Marina, and twentyish, multilingual, well-educated, lively granddaughter Ada--share a rundown flat in T'bilisi, the capital city of the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. Theirs is an accidental matriarchy, as Eka's beloved only son, the titular Otar, is in France. A trained doctor, he sends money home from his menial jobs as an undocumented laborer. Eka lives for his occasional letters and telephone calls, so when he is killed in an accident, Marina and Ada weave an intricate web of deception to spare the old woman from heartbreak. But what will happen when Eka decides to visit Otar in Paris? 99 min. DVD X5310 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Du coté d'Orouët (1973) Directed by Jacques Rozier. Cast: Caroline Cartier, Danièle Croisy, Françoise Guéguan, Patrick Verde, Bernard Menez. Three single women from Paris take a three-week vacation in Orouët on the Atlantic coast of France. 154 min. DVD X5380 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database To the top L'Eclisse (Eclipse) (Italy / France, 1962) Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. Cast: Alain Delon, Monica Vitti, Francisco Rabal. A young woman, after breaking off an affair with an older man, finds herself in Rome and alone. She becomes friends with a young stockbroker, but after he has an accident, she once again finds herself alone. 123 min. DVD 3644; vhs 999:131 Awards Cannes Film Festival - Special Jury Prize L'ecole des facteurs (1947) Directed by and starring Jacques Tati. "In his office, the chief postman of a French rural community puts three junior postmen through a course of intensive training. The aim is to reduce the time of their postal round so that they can catch the airmail plane on time. In the classroom, Franç ois may be the star pupil, but when he gets back to his daily round, countless obstacles prevent him from succeeding in his mission..." [filmsdefrance.com] 18 min. Included on DVD 895 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Eden a l'ouest (Eden is West) (France | Greece | Italy, 2009) Directed by Costa-Gavras. Riccardo Scamarcio, Juliane Köhler, Ulrich Tukur. Elias is a young man from a nameless country in the Mediterranean who has paid a smuggler a handsome fee to be hidden inside a ship making its way to Europe. When immigration authorities stage a surprise inspection, Elias jumps ship along with a number of other unauthorized passengers, and hours later washes up at a luxury resort on a Greek island. There he meets Nick Nickelby, a traveling magician who gives Elias a job as a temporary assistant and invites him to visit him in Paris. When Nickelby moves on, Elias decides to make his way to the fabled city, which is the beginning of a long and sometimes dangerous journey. Cast: 107 min. DVD X5067 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Édith et Marcel (France, 1983) Directed by Claude Lelouch. Cast: Evelyne Bouix, Marcel Cerdan jr., Jaques Villeret, Francis Huster. This tragic musical drama chronicles the star-crossed love between beloved French singer Edith Piaf and World Middleweight boxing champion Marcel Cerdan who died in a plane crash. The tumultuous affair is paralleled by the love affair of a French POW and his young pen pal who get engaged after writing to each other for four years and having never met. Their romances are framed by the sad, torchy songs of Piaf. 156 min. DVD X2052 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Eldorado (1921) Directed by Marcel L'Herbier. Cast: Eve Francis, Jaque Catelain, Marcel, Pardot. This early French film broke new ground with its combination of avant garde and traditional narrative techniques. This tale of a dancer rejected by her lover and forced to endure other indignities in order to support her child is told in expressionistic style, with camera angles and architectural design defining the emotional states of the characters even more than the plot. 98 min. vhs 999:3423 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Elena et les hommes (Elena and Her Men) (Italy / France, 1956) Director, Jean Renoir. Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Jean Marais, Mel Ferrer, Jean Richard, Juliette Greco, Pierre Bertin, Magali Noel. Set amid the military maneuvers and Quatorze de Juillet carnivals of turn-of-the-century France, Jean Renoir's romantic comedy stars Ingrid Bergman as a Polish princess who drives men of all stations to fits of desperate love. 95 min. DVD 2914 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Jean Renoir bibliography Elle s'appelait Sarah (Sarah's Key)(France, 2010) Directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner. Cast: Kristin Scott Thomas, Niels Arestrup, Melusine Mayance. In modern-day Paris, a journalist finds her life becoming entwined with a young girl whose family was torn apart during the notorious Vel d'Hiv round up, which took place in Paris, in 1942. She stumbles upon a family secret which will link her forever to the destiny of a young Jewish girl, Sarah. Adapted from the novel by Tatiana de Rosnay. 111 min. DVD X6786 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Éloge de l'amour (In Praise of Love) (2001) Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Cast: Alain Sarde, Ruth Walburger, Bruno Putzulu, Cecile Camp, Jean Davy, Françoise Verny, Audrey Klebaner, Jeremie Lippmann, Claude Baignieres. This film is divided into two sections which pivot on the death of a young woman. In Part one Edgar, a film director, has searched out Elle to star in a film he is trying to make depicting what he calls the four stages of love. The second part of the film flashes back two years to the time when Edgar first met Elle, the granddaughter of an elderly couple, veterans of the French Resistance, who were selling the rights to their story. 98 min. DVD 1817 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database McNeill, Isabelle. "Phrases, monuments and ruins: melancholy history in Éloge de l'amour (2001)." Studies in French Cinema; 2003, Vol. 3 Issue 2, p111-120, 10p UC users only Morrey, Douglas. "History of resistance / resistance of history: Godard's Éloge de l'amour (2001)." Studies in French Cinema, 2003, Vol. 3 Issue 2, p121-130, 10p UC users only Sofair, Michael. "In Praise of Love (Éloge de l'amour)." Film Quarterly Dec 2004, Vol. 58, No. 2: 36-44.UC users only Jean-Luc Godard bibliography Emak Bakia (Silent, with intertitles in French, 1927) Directed by Man Ray. Three experimental short films by Man Ray: Retour a la raison (1923); Emak Bakia (1927); Les mysteres du chateau du Dé; (1929). In Emak Bakia all the principles of surrealism are followed as Man Ray uses light patterns from rotating objects to exhibit his early Dadaistic affiliations. Retour a la raison was made by sprinkling various items on raw stock and exposing them to light. In Les mystères du château du Dé, a modern villa is the scene of an unsolved mystery. 50 min.vhs 999:2267; also on vhs 999:878 and vhs 999:2001 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database The Emperor of Peru (France | Canada, 1982) Directed by Fernando Arrabal. Cast: Mickey Rooney, Anick, Jonathan Starr, Ky Huot Uk, Monique Mercure, Guy Hoffmann. This charming story follows two siblings, Toby and Liz whose family temporarily decides to foster a young Cambodian boy, Hoang. The three children soon discover a crippled railroad engineer in the woods who sparks a string of fantasies and wild ideas which culminate in their decision to restore an abandoned train so they can go to Cambodia to reunite the boy with his family. 81 min. DVD X2899 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database L'emploi du temps (Time Out) (France, 2001) Directed by Laurent Cantet. Cast: Aurélien Recoing, Karin Viard, Serge Livrozet. Tells the story of Vincent, a middle-class family man recently fired from his drab, middle-management job. Unable to tell his family about his firing, Vincent spends his workdays driving around the French countryside - "business trips" he tells his wife - keeping intact the reassuring routine of going to work and coming home to his wife and kids. As his family grows suspicious of his evasive behavior, Vincent is forced to spin a new tale, pretending to get a job working for the U.N. In a bid to keep the money coming in, he recruits old friends to invest in an imaginary emerging-markets investment scheme. Vincent also falls in with Jean-Michel, a black market dealer whose ignominious past serves as an ominous warning for Vincent's present course. Despite his efforts to maintain an undisturbed surface, Vincent's wife begins to suspect something amiss. 128 min. DVD X4383 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database En compagnie d'Antonin Artaud (My Life and Times with Antonin Artaud) (France, 1993) Directed by Gérard Mordillat. Cast: Sami Frey, Marc Barbe, Julie Jezequel, Valerie Jeannet, Clotilde de Bayser, Charlotte Valandrey. Presents the last two years of the life of French poet, madman, genius, and theatrical impressario, Antonin Artaud. Based on the diaries of Jacques Prevel, a poet who befriended Artaud in 1946 when he was released from an insane asylum. Special features: Documentary by Gerard Mordillat and Jerome Prieur (1933, 21 min.) "Jacques Prevel, de colere et de haine," an intimate portrait of the poet Jacques Prevel, a very close disciple of Artaud, based on the accounts of those close to him ; booklet including interviews with the directors and profiles of the participants ; optional subtitles ; scene selection. 93 min. DVD 5094 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database L'Enfant (The Child) (2005) Directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. Cast: Jeremie Renier, Deborah Francois, Jeremie Segard, Fabrizio Rongione, Olivier Gourmet. When a small-time crook and his young girlfriend have a child, he decides to sell the baby for money. When his girlfriend finds out, she goes into shock. While she recovers in the hospital, he tries to get their son back and redeem himself. 96 min. DVD 6096 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards Cannes Film Festival: Palme d'Or Badt, Karin. "The Dardenne Brothers at Cannes: "We Want to Make it Live." Film Criticism, Fall2005, Vol. 30 Issue 1, p64-71, 8p UC users only Berlant, Lauren. "Nearly Utopian, Nearly Normal: Post-Fordist Affect in La Promesse and Rosetta." Public Culture, vol. 19, no. 2 [52], pp. 273-301, Spring 2007 UC users only Bickerton, Emilie. "Reinventing Realism: The Art and Politics of the Dardenne Brothers." Cineaste, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 14-18, Spring 2006 UC users only Sklar, Robert. "The Terrible Lightness of Social Marginality: An Interview with Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne." Cineaste, 31:2 (Spring 2006) p. 19-21 UC users only L'Enfant sauvage (The Wild Child) (1969) Directed by François Truffaut. A film based upon the true journal account of a French physician, Dr. Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard of the National Institute for the Deaf and Dumb, Paris, who undertook the task of effecting the education of a child found living like an animal in the forest in 1798. Itard, whose teaching strategies survive today in the Montessori Method, was unsure whether he was helping a savage become human or turning a forest child into a semi-civilized idiot. 86 min. DVD 1263; vhs 999:1420 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards National Board of Review, USA - Best Foreign Language Film; Best Director Les Enfants du paradis (Children of Paradise) (1949) Directed by Marcel Carné. Cast: Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, Pierre Renoir, Maria Casares. Story of theatrical society in 19th century Paris and the love between the mime Debureau and the beautiful courtesan Garance who is also loved by an aristocrat, a criminal, and an actor. 195 min. DVD 1126; vhs 999:539 (2 cassettes) Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Les enfants du siècle (Children of the century)(1999) Directed by Diane Kurys. Cast: Juliette Binoche, Benoit Magimel, Stefano Dionisi, Robin Renucci, Karin Viard, Isabelle Carre, Patrick Chesnais, Arnaud Giovanetti, Denis Podalydès, Olivier Foubert, Marie-France Mignal, Michel Robin. A dramatization of the love affair between the authors George Sand and Alfred de Musset that scandalized their families, friends and the salons of Paris in nineteenth century France. 137 min. DVD 8161 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Des enfants gâtés (Spoiled Children) (1997) Directed by Bertrand Tavernier. Cast: Michel Piccoli, Christine Pascal, Michel Aumont, Gerard Jugnot. A succesful writer sequesters himself in a drab modern apartment to finish his latest script, but is drawn into an affair with a beautiful young and unemployed publisher's assistant and into her involvement with a fight for tennants' rights against a landlord who believes in neither human dignity nor architectural beauty. 110 min. DVD 8828 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Les enfants terrible(1950) Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. Cast: Nicole Stephane, Edouard Dermithe, Renee Cosima, Jacques Bernard, Roger Gaillard, Maurice Revel, Adeline Aucoc. Voice: Jean Cocteau. Elisabeth is very protective of her teenage brother Paul, who has been injured in a snowball fight at school and has to rest in bed most of the time. The siblings are inseparable, living in the same room, fighting, playing secret games, and rarely leaving the house. Paul's friend, Gerard, often drops by to stay with them. One day Elisabeth brings home Agathe to live with them. She bears a strong resemblance to Dargelos, a schoolboy whom Paul had a crush on and the same boy who injured him. When Paul and Agathe become attracted to each other, Elizabeth becomes very jealous. Special features: Audio commentary by writer, film critic, and journalist Gilbert Adair; interviews with producer Carole Weisweiller, actors Nicole Stephane and Jacques Bernard, and assistant director Claude Pinoteau; "Around Jean Cocteau" (2003), a short video by filmmaker Noel Simsolo discussing Cocteau and Melville's creative relationship; theatrical trailer; gallery of behind-the-scenes stills; a booklet featuring a new essay by critic Gary Indiana, a tribute by Stephane, an excerpt from Rui Nogueira's "Melville on Melville" and drawings by Cocteau. Based on the 1929 novel "Les enfants terribles" by Jean Cocteau. 106 min. DVD 8315 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Sterritt, David. "Les Enfants terribles." Cineaste. Spring 2008. Vol. 33, Iss. 2; pg. 60, 3 pgs UC users only Turk, Edward Baron. "The Film Adaptation of Cocteau's Les Enfants terribles." Cinema Journal, Spring80, Vol. 19 Issue 2, p25-40, 16pUC users only Jean-Pierre Melville bibliography L'enfer (1994) Directed by Claude Chabrol. Cast: Emmanuelle Beart, Francois Cluzet, André Wilms, Marc Lavoine, Nathalie Cardone, Mario David, Christiane Minazzoli, Dora Doll, Jean-Pierre Cassel. Paul and Nelly are a picture-perfect bride and groom and work hard to make their hotel a success. However, Paul can't shake the nagging feeling that Nelly is having an affair, and his jealousy grows to insane proportions. 100 min. DVD 6604 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database The Enter the Void (France | Germany | Italy | Canada, 2009) Directed by Gaspar Noé. Cast: Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, Cyril Roy, Olly Alexander, Masato Tanno. "Tokyo's nasty underside, seen primarily through the eyes of Oscar, a druggie, whose sister Linda is a stripper. Oscar also has flashbacks to his childhood when trauma upends the siblings. Oscar's drug-fed hallucinations alter Tokyo's already-disconcerting nights, and after the police shoot him, he can float above and look down: on his sister's sorrow, on the rooms of a love hotel, and on life at even a molecular level. The spectrum's colors can be beautiful; it's people's colorless lives that can be ugly. And what of afterlife, is there more than a void?" [IMDB] 161 min. DVD X5558 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Entr'acte (Avant garde. #2) (1924) Directed by René Clair. Three experimental films produced in the 1920s: Entr'acte, by René Clair (1924); Symphonie diagonale, by Viking Eggeling (1924); L'Etoile de mer, by Man Ray (1928). 42 min.DVD 4095; also on DVD 1274; vhs 999:289 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Entre les murs (The Class) (2008) Directed by Laurent Cantet. Cast: François Bégaudeau, Nassim Amrabt, Laura Baquela, Juliette Demaille, Cherif Bounaïdja Rachedi. François and his fellow teachers prepare for a new year at a high school in a tough neighborhood. Armed with the best intentions, they brace themselves to not let discouragement stop them from trying to give the best education to their students. Cultures and attitudes often clash in the classroom, a microcosm of contemporary France. As amusing and inspiring as the teenaged students can be, their difficult behavior can still jeopardize any teacher's enthusiasm for the low-paying job. François insists on an atmosphere of respect and diligence. Neither stuffy nor severe, his extravagant frankness often takes the students by surprise. But his classroom ethics are put to the test when his students begin to challenge his methods. Inspired by the novel Entre les murs by François Bégaudeau. 130 min. DVD X1877 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards Cannes Film Festival: Palme d'Or L'Esquive (Games of Love & Chance) (2003) Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche. Cast: Osman Elkharraz, Sara Forestier, Sabrina Ouazani, Nanou Benhamou, Haffet Ben-Ahmed, Aurelie Ganito, Carole Franck, Hajar Hamlili, Rachid Hami, Meriem Serbah, Hanane Mazouz, Sylvain Phan. A sensitive portrait of a group of teenagers living in the projects outside Paris and surviving in a world marginalized by society. Set during preparations for a school production, it captures the affections, quarrels, and jealousies as well as the budding romance between childhood friends Krimo, who is very shy, and Lydia, the fiery blonde star of the school production. 117 min. DVD 5446 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards César Awards - Best Film; Best Director Nettelbeck, Colin "Kechiche and the French Classics: Cinema as Subversion and Renewal of Tradition." French Cultural Studies October 2007 18: 307-319, UC users only Porton, Richard. "Marivaux in the 'Hood: An Interview with Abdellatif Kechiche." Cineaste, Winter2005, Vol. 31 Issue 1, p46-49, 4pUC users only Swamy, Vinay. "Marivaux in the suburbs: Reframing language in Kechiche's L'Esquive (2003)." Studies in French Cinema; 2007, Vol. 7 Issue 1, p57-68, 12p UC users only Strand, Dana. "Être et parler: Being and speaking French in Abdellatif Kechiche's L'Esquive (2004) and Laurent Cantet's Entre les murs (2008)." Studies in French Cinema, 2009, Vol. 9 Issue 3, p259-272, 14p UC users only D'Est (Belgium / France / Portugal, 1993) Directed by Chantal Akerman. Filmmaker Akerman makes a voyage from East Germany, across Poland and the Baltics, to Moscow, shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Bloc. Without dialogue or commentary, but with a soundtrack rich in the noises and voices of these lands, the film is composed of faces, landscapes, cities and ordinary lives -- fascinating and unforgettable. 110 min. DVD X2303 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Et Dieu... créa la femme (And God Created Woman) (France / Italy, 1956) Directed by Roger Vadim. Juliette Hardy (Brigitte Bardot) is sexual dynamite, and has the men of a French town panting. Antoine, the only man who moves her wouldn't dream of settling down with a woman considered the town tramp. While Antoine's away, his younger brother Michel proposes to Juliette and she accepts out of liking rather than love. But what will happen when Antoine returns? 92 min. En francais: DVD 3582 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Mancini, Michele "So Who Created...Vadim." (Interview). Film Comment XXIV/2, Mar-Apr 88; p.18-23. Director Roger Vadim discusses highlights of his career, and his remake "And God created woman". Roger Vadim bibliography État de siège (State of Siege) (France / West Germany / Italy, 1973) Directed by Costa Gavras. Cast: Yves Montand, Renato Salvatori, O. E. Hasse. A drama based on the true story of the interrogation and execution of CIA agent Dan Mitrione by urban guerillas, the Tupamoros of Uruguay. Kidnapped by the revolutionaries, Mitrone who had been training the country's police in sophisticated counter-insurgency and torture techniques, was held hostage in exchange for the release of political prisoners. Shot in Chile with the approval of President Allende shortly before his assassination, the film was the first to detail the uglier side of the kind of paramilitary training that the U.S. has often performed for its allies. PAL format tape. 120 min. vhs 999:3237 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database L'éternel retour (Eternal Return) (1943) Directed by Jean Delannoy; screenplay, Jean Cocteau. A young man and his uncle have a deep friendship that is threatened when the young man falls in love with the uncle's wife. 100 min. vhs 999:231 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Sims, Gregory. "'Tristan en chandail': poetics as politics in Jean Cocteau's 'L'Eternel Retour.'" (cinema of the Occupation) French Cultural Studies, Feb 1998 v9 n1 p19(32) UC users only Étoile de mer (Starfish; Avant garde #2) (1928) Directed by Man Ray. Three experimental films produced in the 1920s: Symphonie diagonale, by Viking Eggeling (1924); L'Etoile de mer, by Man Ray (1928); Entr'acte, by René Clair (1924). 42 min. DVD 4191; also included on vhs 999:2267; 999:2001; 999:289 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Exiles (France / Japan, 2004) Directed by Tony Gatlif. Cast: Romain Duris, Lubna Azabal, Leila Makhlouf, Zouhir Gacem, Habib Cheikh. A young couple, both of Arabic descent, leave Paris with no money, jobs, or connections, and travel to their ancestral home of Algeria. In search of re-connecting to their roots, they cross three countries by foot, bus, train, and hitched rides. 104 min. DVD 5393 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database To the top Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (Amélie from Montmartre) (France / Germany, 2001) Director, Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Cast: Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus, Serge Merlin. Amelie is a young woman who had a decidedly unusual childhood; misdiagnosed with an unusual heart condition, Amelie didn't attend school with other children, but spent most of her time in her room, where she developed a keen imagination and an active fantasy life. Despite all this, Amelie has grown into a healthy and beautiful young woman who works in a cafe and has a whimsical, romantic nature. She decides to step into the lives of others around her to help them out. 122 min. DVD 1214 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards Broadcast Film Critics Association Critics' Choice Awards César Awards - Best Film; Best Director Toronto International Film Festival - People's Choice Awards Familia (Family) (Canada, 2005) Directed by Louise Archambault. Cast: Sylvie Moreau, Macha Grenon, Mylene St-Sauveur, Juliette Gosselin, Vincent Graton. Familia: Mimi, a divorced aerobics instructor, who's up to her ears in debt, leaves Montreal with her 14-year-old daughter and moves in with her childhood friend, Janine. Mimi's rebellious teenage daughter and Janine's shy daughter become friends, leading to unforseen tensions that force both generations to reassess their values. 102 min. DVD 6322 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Fanfan la Tulipe (Italy | France, 1952) Directed by Christian-Jaque. Cast: Gérard Philipe, Gina Lollobrigida, Marcel Herrand, Olivier Hussenot, Henri Rollan, Nerio Bernardi, Jean Marc Tennberg, Geneviève Page, Sylvie Pelayo, Lolita de Silva, Irène Young, Georgette Anys, Hennery, Lucien Callamand, Gil Delamare, Jackie Blanchot, Joe Davray, Gerard Buhr, Georges Demas, Jean Parédès, Noël Roquevert, Jean Debucourt. Charming rogue Fanfan flits from one adventure to the other after evading marriage by joining the army in the midst of the Seven Years' War. He's motivated less by patriotism than by a consultation with Adeline, a voluptuous phony fortuneteller who promises that he will find glory in the army, even win the hand of King Louis XV's daughter. Herself the daughter of a recruiting sergeant, Adeline is a charlatan, but the irrepressible Fanfan sets about fulfilling his "destiny," even as his would-be soothsayer finds herself falling in love with him. 99 min. DVD X4066 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Fanny (Fanny Trilogy) (1932) Directed by Marcel Pagnol. This is the second film of Pagnol's Fanny trilogy (titles: Marius, Fanny, César). Fanny, daughter of a fishmonger loves Marius son of a saloon owner, who has just gone to sea for an extended period. Fanny discovers she is pregnant and marries a rich older man, to give her son legitimacy. Marius returns planning to marry Fanny, but his father knowing who fathered Fanny's child sends Marius away to prevent complications. 120 min. DVD 2751 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Marcel Pagnol bibliography Fantôme de la liberté (Phantom of Liberty) (1974) Directed by Luis Buñuel. Buñuel attacks society's false ideas of liberty from religion to politics using humor from high wit to low comedy. 104 min. DVD 5921; vhs 999:989 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Fantômas (1913-1914) Directed by Louis Feuillade. Films from the silent serial crime saga with the evil Fantômas battling Inspector Juve. Based on novels by Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain. [Disc 1]. Fantômas(A l'ombre de la guillotine) (1913, 54 min.). Juve contre Fantômas(1913, 60 min.). Le mort qui tue (1913, 91 min.) -- [Disc 2]. Fantômascontre Fantomas (1914, 59 min.). Le faux magistrat (1914, 70 min.). Special features. Photography, Georges Guerin and Albert Sorgius. Cast: Rene Navarre, Edmond Breon, Georges Melchior, Renee Carl, André Luguet, Yvette André yor. Special features: Photo gallery, covers of the novels, sinister crime stories of the time, illustrated filmographies, a comparison of the original novels with the films, interviews with Marcel Allain, clips from the show "Pour le plaisir" (Rendez-vous avec Fantômas, created by Georges Franju, 1966) and "Bonnes adresses pour rever" (created by Roland Bernard, 1969). DVD 5868 Farinelli, il Castrato (Belgium / France / Italy / USA, 1994) Directed by Gérard Corbiau. Cast: Stefano Dionisi, Enrico Lo Verso, Elsa Zylberstein, Jeroen Krabbé. The true story of a world famous castrato in the 18th century. With charisma, talent, drive and success, Farinelli had everything: money, talent, fame, women, and the voice of an angel. He becomes obsessed with earning the respect of his brother's rival, the composer Handel. 110 min. DVD X1393 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards Golden Globe Awards - Best Foreign Language Film Fascination (France, 1979) Director, Jean Rollin. Cast: Brigitte Lahaie, Franca Mai, Jean-Marie Lemaire, Cyril Val. Fascination follows a swaggering thief who hides out in a lavish chateau, holding the occupants at gunpoint. When night falls, he realizes that these two maids are not only deadlier than he imagined, but are gatekeepers to a ring of women with a thirst for blood. 81 min. DVD X6905 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Faubourg 36 (Paris 36)(France / Germany / Czech Republic, 2008) Directed by Christophe Barratier. Cast: Gérard Jugnot, Clovis Cornillac, Kad Merad, Nora Arnezeder. When Pigoil's adulterous wife leaves with his beloved son, he gambles everything to get him back. As the previous manager of the now closed Chansonia Theatre, he makes a deal with the new owner to give him one month to turn the theater around and make a profit. Special features: Deleted scenes ; commentary with director Christophe Barratier and actress Nora Arnezeder ; Nora Arnezeder: the young revelaton's beautiful adventure ; The film locations: Thomas Lautner's Making of ; Paris 36: interview with the actors. 120 min. DVD X2299 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Fausse alerte (The French Way) (1940) Director, Jacques de Baroncelli. Cast: Josephine Baker, Micheline Presle, George Marchal, Raymond Aimos, Jean Tissier, Gabrielle Dorziat, Saturnin Fabre, Marguerite Perry, Lucien Baroux. A rare wartime musical comedy featuring Josephine Baker as a Parisian cabaret singer who assists two lovers in the face of their parents' disapproval while trying to re-open her nightclub. Includes Baker and chorus girls in cabaret rehearsals and performances. 74 min. vhs 999:3498 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database La Fausse suivante (False Servant) (2000) Directed by Benoît Jacquot. Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Kiberlain, Pierre Arditi, Mathieu Amalric, AlexAndré Soulie. Based on the popular stage play by the 18th century author Marivaux, filmed in a theater using vintage costumes and minimal props to help retain the flavor of the stage production. An attractive heiress disguises herself as a man as she travels for a weekend getaway to the estate of her friend the Countess. En route, the heiress, introducing herself as "The Chevalier," meets Lelio, the Countess's fiancee who confides that he isn't really in love with the Countess and he's hoping that someone else will take her off his hands. The heiress agrees as "the Chevalier" to romance the Countess. PAL format DVD (non-US standard). 85 min. DVD 1333 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Brunette, Peter; Peary, Gerald. "A Child of the New Wave: An Interview with Benoît Jacquot." Cineaste vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 23-27, 2000 UC users only Frodon, Jean-Michel. "'Rester malades du cinma': Conversation entre Andrée Téchiné et Benoît Jacquot." Cahiers du Cinéma, vol. 596, pp. 18-20, December 2004 Lardoux, Xavier. Le cinema de Benoît Jacquot Paris : Editions PC, 2006. (MAIN: PN1998.3.J28 L27 2006) La Femme d'à côté (The Woman Next Door) (1981) Directed by François Truffaut. Featuring Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Henri Garacin, Michele Baumgartner, Roger Van Hool, Veronique Silver. Former lovers find themselves unintentionally reunited seven years later as neighbors in a small French village. Although they are now married to different people, their ill-fated relationship rekindles, causing irrevocable damage to all parties. 106 min. DVD 1081; vhs 999:2407 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Une Femme douce (A Gentle Woman) (1969) Directed by Robert Bresson. Dominique Sanda, Guy Frangin, Jane Lobre, Dorothee Blank, Claude Ollier. When the teenage wife of a pawnbroker suddenly and inexplicably commits suicide, her distraught husband tries to understand why. As the story unfolds in flashbacks, a pattern of miscommunication and abuse is revealed. 89 min. vhs 999:1980 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Robert Bresson bibliography Une Femme est une femme (Woman is a Woman) (1961) Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. A nightclub stripper wants to have a baby and settle down with her lover. When he refuses, she turns to his best friend. 85 min. DVD 847; vhs 999:452 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database La Femme infidèle (The Unfaithful Wife) (1969) Directed by Claude Chabrol. In this sharp comedy with a sting aimed at the facade of a loveless marriage, a man suspects his wife of infidelity so he hires a private detective to watch her, who confirms his worst fears. Darkly amusing and accurately observed, this is the film which established Chabrol as a master of the off-beat thriller. 94 min. DVD 1729; vhs 999:3205 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Claude Chabrol bibliography Une femme mariée: Suite de fragments d'un film tourné en 1964 (A Married Woman) (1964) Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Cast: Macha Meril, Philippe Leroy, Bernard Noel, Roger Leenhardt, Rita Maiden. A married woman carrying on an affair with a married man discovers that she is pregnant. Double trouble follows: first, she is not sure who the father is; second, she doesn't know whether or not she loves either man. A look at modern relationships expressed largely through montages of pop art images and sounds. DVD special features: Archival 1966 interview with Chantal Goya; new video interviews with Goya, Kurant, and Jean-Luc Godard collaborator Jean-Pierre Gorin, conducted in 2005; video discussion of the film between French film scholars Freddy Buache and Dominique Paini; Swedish television footage of Godard directing the "film within the film" scene; trailers; 16-page booklet featuring a new essay by film critic Adrian Martin and a reprint of a report from the set by French journalist Philippe Labro. 98 min. DVD 4539; vhs 999:2007 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Jean-Luc Godard bibliography La Femme Nikita (1990) Directed by Luc Besson. Thriller about a street junkie who is picked up and recruited against her will for training in a secret government agency as a killer. In three years time she is transformed into a beautiful and sophisticated woman, and soon falls in love with a soft-spoken romantic. When she receives a call and is ordered to kill someone she has to fight against the trap of her double life. 117 min. DVD 5948; vhs 999:1922 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database La Fiancée du pirate (A Very Curious Girl) (1969) Directed by Nelly Kaplan. Cast: Bernadette LaFont, Georges Geret, Michel Constantin, Julien Guiomar. A beautiful peasant girl is known intimately by most of the men in her village. Tired of enduring the physical abuse and the sexual exploitation for free, she starts to charge a fee for her services. Suddenly she has more power than she ever dreamed of. 105 min. vhs 999:1821 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Giukin, Lenuta. "Demystification and Webtopia in the Films of Nelly Kaplan" Cinema Journal 42:3 (Spring 2003) Go to Journal Issue p. 96-113 UC users only Kay, Karyn. "French Cinema: The Revenge of Pirate Jenny a Very Curious Girl: Part One." The Velvet Light Trap 9 (Summer 1973) p. 46 UC users only Richardson, Michael. "Nelly Kaplan and Sexual Revenge." In: Surrealism and cinema / Michael Richardson. Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2006. (Full text available online [UCB users only]; Print: Main (Gardner) Stacks PN1995.9.S85 R53 2006) Waldman, Diane. "French Cinema: The Eternal Return of Circe A Very Curious Girl: Part Two." The Velvet Light Trap 9 (Summer 1973) p. 49 UC users only Le feu follet (The Fire Within) (1963) Directed by Louis Malle. Cast: Maurice Ronet, Lena Skerla, Yvonne Clech, Hubert Deschamps, Jean-Paul Moulinot, Ursula Kubler, Jeanne Moreau. Describes the last 48 hours in the life of a dissolute playboy - an "old young man" who has used up his life and is heading relentlessly toward suicide. The ghosts of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Marilyn Mornroe are invoked in the film, but Malle's vision of alcoholism, dissolution and suicide is one without self-pity or spurious sociology. 103 min. DVD 9353 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards Venice Film Festival - Golden Lion Fille de l'eau (Whirlpool of Fate)(1925) Directed by Jean Renoir. Cast: Catherine Hessling, Pierre Philippe, Marc Rosaert, Harold Lewingston, Maurice Touze. After the suspicious death of her father a young girl runs away from her brutal uncle and joins a Gypsy camp. 72 min. DVD 7586 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Jean Renoir bibliography Le Film est déja commencé? (1951) Directed by Maurice Lemaitre. With "Film Annonce" - 8 min. (1993) This major work of lettrist cinema had as much direct or hidden influence on the New Wave as it does on today's Avant-Garde. Its first screenings in Paris in 1951 became major events. The critics despised it, but this work is and will remain a landmark in film history. 59 min. vhs 999:1962 Film socialisme(Switzerland | France, 2010) Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Cast: Catherine Tanvier, Christian Sinniger, Jean-Marc Stehlé, Agatha Couture, Eye Haidara, Marie-Christine Bergier, Nadége Beausson-Diagne, Mathias Domahidy, Quentin Grosset, Olga Riazonova, Maurice Sarfati, Dominique Devals, Louma Sanbar, Gulliver Hecq, Marine Battaggia, Elizabeth Vitali, Patti Smith, Lenny Kaye, Alain Badiou, Bernard Maris, Elias Sanbar, Robert Maloubier. Jean-Luc Godard presents a magisterial essay on the decline of European civilization. As a garish cruise ship travels the Mediterranean, Godard embarks on a filmic essay on the state of contemporary Europe, international politics, and Western history. In the tradition of his acclaimed political and essayistic films, Godard explores a wide range of contemporary cultural, political and historical themes with his distinctive and innovative cinematic style. 101 min. DVD X6015 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Le fils (The Son)(Belgium | France, 2002) Directed by Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne. Cast: Olivier Gourmet, Morgan Marinne, Isabella Soupart, Nassim Hassaïni, Kevin Leroy, Félicien Pitsaer, Rémy Renaud, Annette Closset, Fabian Marnette. A carpentry teacher as a rehabilitation center for teens struggles to maintain a professional distance from a new student until the revelation of a secret from the past binds them together. Bonus disc (70 min.): Interviews with directors and star, stills gallery, filmographies, and theatrical trailers of The Son, Rosetta and La Promesse. 101 min. DVD X4109 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards San Francisco Film Critics Circle - Best Foreign-Language Film Flandres (Flanders)(2006) Directed by Bruno Dumont. Cast: Adelaide Leroux, Samuel Boidin, Henry Cretel. Andre is forced to leave his secret love, Barbe, to serve as a soldier. On his last night of freedom, he witnesses Barbe and another local sleeping together in a parking lot. A twist of fate forces the two men to fight side by side. 91 min. DVD 8745 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards Cannes Film Festival: Grand Prize McGill, Hannah. "Flanders." Sight & Sound, Jul2007, Vol. 17 Issue 7, p49-49, 3/4p UC users only Wilson, Emma. "Days of Glory: Flanders." Film Quarterly, Fall2007, Vol. 61 Issue 1, p16-22, 7p UC users only Flic Story (1975) Directed by Jacques Deray . Cast: Alain Delon, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Claudine Auger, Renato Salvatori, Maurice Biraud. Based on the memoir of real life French police detective Roger Borniche, Flic Story recreates a violent post-war crime spree that shocked a nation still reeling from Nazi occupation. Based on the autobiography by Roger Borniche. 107 min. DVD X2431 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database France Tour Detour Deux Enfants (1978) In this intimately scaled study of the effect of television on a French family, Jean Luc Godard and Anne Marie-Mieville interview two children in contemporary France. Interviews, collages of television, cinema and advertising images are intercult with commentary by two adult television journalists. As they expose how a child's world is "programmed" by the institutions of family, school and television, Godard and Mieville posit the mass media as the pervasive cultural influence in the home, with television as the 20th century primer. Loosely inspired by G. Bruno's work: Le tour de la France par deux enfants. Originally produced in 1978. 54 min. each movement Mouvement 1-2 In movements 1 and 2 Godard's provocative questions range loosely around the children's perceptions and experiences of darkness, light, chemistry and physics. Video/C 6540 Mouvement 3-4. In movements 3 and 4 Godard's provocative questions range loosely around the children's perceptions and experiences of the familiar, geography, the unknown and techniques. Video/C 6541 Mouvement 5-6. In movements 5 and 6 Godard's provocative questions range loosely around the children's perceptions and experiences of impressions, dictation, pressures and the French culture. Video/C 6542 Mouvement 7-8. In movements 7 and 8 Godard's provocative questions range loosely around the children's perceptions and experiences of violence, grammar, disorder, and calculation. Video/C 6543 Mouvement 9-10. In movements 9 and 10 Godard's provocative questions range loosely around the children's perceptions and experiences of power, music, life story, and the economy. 54 min. Video/C 6544 Mouvement 11-12. In movements 9 and 10 Godard's provocative questions range loosely around the children's perceptions and experiences of reality, logic, dreaming, and morals. Video/C 6545 François Truffaut: Portraits volés Delivers deep insight into the celebrated French director through accounts by friends, colleagues, actors and actresses, filmmakers and relatives commenting on the man and his work. Featured are extracts from his films, rare and unpublished photos, and archive material that will present a new look at an extraordinary man. 1993. 93 min. Video/C 8114 French CanCan (1955) Directed by Jean Renoir. Featuring Jean Gabin, Françoise Arnoul, Maria Felix. A musical comedy about an aging theater impressario with a talent for transforming common working girls into dance hall sensations. Complications arise when he is captivated by Nini, a beautiful laundress, and decides to make her the star of his new show. Despite a jealous mistress and romantic intrigue, the show must go on. The film concludes with an exuberant, high-kicking cancan finale at the grand opening of the Moulin Rouge. 105 min. DVD 2913; vhs 999:3233 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Jean Renoir bibliography Slavitt, David R. "Jean Gabin: A Screen Image." Hopkins Review, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 275-293, 2008 Spring UC users only Vincendeau, Ginette. "Anatomy of a Myth: Jean Gabin." Nottingham French Studies, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 19-31, 1993 Spring Vincendeau, Ginette. "From proletarian hero to godfather: Jean Gabin and 'paradigmatic' French masculinity." In: Me Jane : masculinity, movies, and women / edited by Pat Kirkham and Janet Thumin. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1995. Main (Gardner) Stacks; Moffitt PN1995.9.M46 M35 1995) Le frisson des vampires (Shiver of the Vampires aka Strange Things Happen at Night) (France, 1971) Director, Jean Rollin. Cast: Sandra Julien, Jean-Marie Durand, Jacques Robiolles, Michel Delahaye, Marie-Pierre, Kuelan Herca, Nicole Nancel, Dominique. A young honeymooning couple stop for the night at an ancient castle. Unbeknownst to them, the castle is home to a horde of vampires, who have their own plans for the couple. 96 min. DVD X6904 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database To the top Gadjo Dilo (Crazy Stranger) (Romania / France, 1997) Directed by Tony Gatlif. Cast: Romain Duris, Rona Hartner, Isidor Serban, Ovidiu Balan, Angela Serban. A young French man, in search of a legendary Gypsy singer, is taken in by a Gypsy community in Romania. The inhabitants at first do not like him but as they grow to know him he is accepted and learns their ways of talking, drinking, dancing, and cursing. 96 min. DVD 6458; vhs 999:2256 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Blum-Reid, Sylvie. "Away from Home? Two French Directors in Search of their Identity." Quarterly Review of Film & Video, Jan2009, Vol. 26 Issue 1, p1-9, 9p UC users only Kessenides, Dimitra. "Gadjo Dilo." Cineaste, 1998, Vol. 23 Issue 4, p64, UC users only McGregor, Andrew. "French cinema in exile: trans-national cultural representation in Tony Gatlif's Gadjo Dilo." New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, 2008, Vol. 6 Issue 2, p75-83, 9p UC users only Orlean, Matthieu. "Gadjo dilo." Cahiers du Cinema, Apr 1998, Issue 523, p78-78, 1p Le Gai savoir (The Joy of Learning) (1968) Directed by Jean Luc Godard. Cast: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Juliet Berto. How do we learn? What do we know? Night after night, not long before dawn, Patricia and Emile meet on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse, and the pathe to revolution. Scenes of the May '68 student revolts, the Vietnam war, posters, photographs, and cartoons form the backdrops to their words, which themselves are often their subject, as are images, sounds and juxtapositions. Based loosely on Jean Jacques Rousseau's incendiary treatise, "Emile, or on education", Godard's "Le gai savoir" is a montage, a meditation, a reflection on ideas - and how filmmaking is a path. 96 min. DVD X3395; vhs 999:1104 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Gaumont Treasures: 1897-1913 This collection looks at pioneering French filmmakers from the Gaumont studio, with extensive examples of their work. Disc 1:Few individual artists have exerted as profound an influence upon the evolution of cinema as Alice Guy (later known as Guy-Blaché). With this collection of more than 60 films, culled from the world's leading archives and carefully mastered, Guy may no longer be seen as a "woman filmmaker." These films, produced by Guy for Gaumont before she moved to the U.S., reveal her to be an unqualified pioneer of motion pictures. Contents: Fisherman at the stream = Pêcheur dans le torrent (1897) -- Bathing in a stream = Baignade dans un torrent (1897) -- Serpentine dance = Bob Walter, Danse serpentine (1897) -- Turn-of-the-century blind man = Aveugle fin de siècle (1898) -- At the hypnotist's = Chez le magnétiseur (1898) -- Burglars = Cambrioleurs (1898) -- Disappearing act = Scène d'escamotage (1898) -- Surprise attack on a house at daybreak = Surprise d'une maison au petit jour (1898) -- At the club = Au cabaret (1899) -- Wonderful absinthe = Bonne absinthe (1899) Avenue de l'Opera (1900) -- Automated hat-maker and sausage-grinder = Chapellerie et charcuterie automatiques (1900) -- At the photographer's = Chez le photographe (1900) -- Dance of the seasons: winter, snow dance = Danse des saissons: L'Hiver, danse de la neige (1900) -- Landlady = Concierge (1900) -- Turn-of-the-century surgery = Chirurgie fin de siècle (1900) -- Pierrette's escapades = Fredaines de Pierette (1900) -- At the floral ball, featuring Miss Lally and Miss Julyett of the Olympia = Mesdemoiselles Lally et Julyett de l'Olympia, au bal de flore (1900) -- Cabbage-patch fairy = Fée aux choux (1900) Serpentine dance by Lina Esbrard = Lina Esbrard, Danse serpentine (1902) -- Midwife to the upper class = Sage-femme de première classe (1902) -- Untimely intrusion = Intervention malencontreuse (1902) -- Miss Dundee and her performing dogs = Miss Dundee et ses chiens savants (1902) -- How monsieur takes his bath = Comment Monsieur prend son bain (1903) -- Faust and Mephistopheles = Faust et Méphistophélès (1903) O'Mers in 'The Bricklayers' = O'Mers dans 'Les Maçons' (1905) -- Statue = La statue (1905) -- Magician's alms = Charité du prestidigitateur (1905) -- Clown, dog and balloon = Clown, chien et ballon (1905) -- Spain = Espagne (1905) -- Tango =Le Tango (1905) -- Malagueña and the bullfighter = Malagueña et le torero (1905) -- Cook & Rilly's trained rooster = Coq dressé de Cook et Rilly (1905) -- Cake walk, performed by Nouveau Cirque = Le Cake Walk du Nouveau Cirque (1905) -- Alice Guy films a 'Phonoscène' in the studio at Buttes-Chaumont, Paris = Alice Guy tourne une phonoscène sur le théâtre de pose des Buttes-Chaumont (1905) Saharet performs the Bolero = Saharet, Boléro (1905) -- Polin performs 'The anatomy of a draftee' = Polin, L'Anatomie du conscrit (1905) -- Dranem performs 'The true jiu-jitsu' = Dranem, Le Vrai Jiu-jitsu (1905) -- Dranem performs 'Five o'clock tea' = Dranem, Five O'clock tea (1905) -- Félix Mayol performs 'Indiscreet questions' = Félix Mayol, Questions indiscrètes (1905) -- Félix Mayol performs 'The Trottins' polka' = Félix Mayol, La Polka des trottins (1905) -- Félix Mayol performs 'White lilacs' = Félix Mayol, Lilas-Blanc (1905) Birth, the life and the death of Christ = Naissance, la vie et la mort du Christ (1906) -- Obstacle course = Course d'obstacle (1906) -- Madame's cravings = Madame a des envies (1906) -- Sticky woman = Femme collante (1906) -- Hierarchies of love = Hiérarchie dans l'amour (1906) -- Cruel mother = Marâtre (1906) -- Story well spun = Histoire roulante (1906) -- Drunken mattress = Matelas épeliptique (1906) -- Parish priest's Christmas = Noöl de Monsieur le curé (1906) -- Truth behind the ape-man = Vérité sur l'homme-singe (1906) -- Consequences of feminism = Résultats du féminisme (1906) -- Ocean studies = Effets de mer 1906) -- Game-keeper's son = Fils du garde-chasse 1906) -- Race for the sausage = Course à la saucisse (1907) -- Glue = Glu (1907) -- Fur hat = Bonnet à poil (1907) -- Cleaning man = Frotteur (1907) -- Four-year-old hero = Héroïne de quatre ans (1907) -- Rolling bed = Lit à roulettes (1907) -- Irresistible piano = Piano irrésistible (1907) -- On the barricade = Sur la barricade (1907) -- Dirigible 'Homeland' = Ballon dirigeable 'Le Patrie' (1907). DVD X2028 Disc 2: This collection looks at pioneering French filmmakers from the Gaumont studio, with extensive examples of their work. Best remembered today for his espionage serials Les Vampires and Fantômas, Louis Feuillade had a more varied and profound influence upon French cinema than many of his followers realize. For more than a decade, he was the artistic director at Gaumont, encouraging the rise of such filmmakers as Abel Gance and Léonce Perret. This collection of films offers a wider view of Feuillade's directorial efforts -- but, admittedly, it is only a small portion of the nearly 800 films he is believed to have directed. Contents: Colonel's account = Récit du colonel (1907) -- Very fine lady = Dame vraiment bien [in collaboration with Romeo Bosetti] (1908) -- Spring = Printemps (1909) -- Fairy of the surf = Fée des grèves (1909) -- Custody of the child = Possession de l'enfant (1909) -- Defect = Tare (1911) -- Roman orgy = 'Orgie romaine (1911) -- Trust, or the battles for money = Trust, ou les batailles de l'argent (1911) -- Heart and the money = Coeur et l'argent [in collaboration with Léonce Perret] (1912) -- Obsession = Hantise (1912) -- Tragic error = Erreur tragique (1913) -- Bout de Zan steals an elephant = Bout de Zan vole un éléphant (1913) -- Agony of Byzance = Agonie de Byzance (1913) -- Special feature : Louis Feuillade: Master of many forms (ca. 11 min.) DVD X2029 Disc 3: This collection looks at pioneering French filmmakers from the Gaumont studio, with extensive examples of their work. Until now, the films of Léonce Perret have been virtually unseen in the United States, yet he was a hugely influential figure in the growth of the French film industry. As an actor, he appeared in more than 100 films from 1909 to 1916, including the long-running series of "Léonce" comedies. But his greater contribution was as a director who set the standard to which other French filmmakers aspired. His films had a technical mastery and aesthetic grace that allowed them to reveal subtleties of character and meaning. Contents: Mystery of the rocks of Kador = Mystère des roches de Kador (ca. 44 min., 1912, hand-tinted) -- Child of Paris = Enfant de Paris / written and directed by Léonce Perret ; photography, Georges Specht ; cast, Léonce Perret, Louis Leubas, Maurice Lagrenée, Émile Keppens (ca. 124 min., 1913) -- Special feature: Léonce Perret: The filmmaker's filmmaker (ca. 18 min.). DVD X2030 Gaumont Treasures Volume 2, Disc 1, Emile Cohl During its second decade of existence, the Gaumont Film Company continued to prove itself an indomitable force in cultivating and advancing the fledgling art of cinema. It was also a place of great technical innovation. This film showcases the work of animator Emile Cohl that includes explorations of 2 dimensional animation, puppetry, etc. with some occasional live action. Contents: Fantasmagoria (1908, 2 min.) -- The Puppet's nightmare (1908, 2 min.) -- Drama at the puppets' house (1908, 3 min.) -- The Magic hoop (1908, 5 min.) -- The Little soldier who became a god (1908, 4 min.) -- The Boutdebois brothers (1908, 2 min.) -- Transfigurations (1909, 6 min.) -- Let's be sporty (1909, 5 min.) -- Japanese fantasy (1909, 1 min.) -- The Happy microbes (1909, 4 min.) -- Modern eduacation (1909, 3 min.) -- The Living fan (1909, 4 min.) -- Spanish clair de lune (1909, 4 min.) -- The Next door neighbors (1909, 4 min.) -- Crowns (1909, 5 min.) -- Delicate porcelains (1909, 3 min.) -- Monsieur clown among the Lilliputians (1909, 4 min.) -- Comic mutations (1909, 3 min.) -- Matrimonial shoes (1909, 5 min.) -- The Enchanted spectacles (1909, 5 min.) -- Affairs of the heart (1909, 4 min.) -- Floral frameworks (1910, 5 min.) -- The Smile-o-scope (1910, 5 min.) -- Childish dreams (1910, 5 min.) -- En route (1910, 6 min.) -- The Mind of the café waiter (1910, 5 min.) -- Master of a fashionable game (1910, 4 min.) -- Petit chantecler (1910, 7 min.) -- The Twelve labors of Hercules (1910, 7 min.) -- Petit Faust (1910, 5 min.) -- The Neo-impressionist painter (1910, 6 min.) -- The Four little tailors (1910, 7 min.) -- Art's infancy (1910, 4 min.) -- The Mysterious fine arts (1910, 5 min.) -- The Persistent salesman (1910, 8 min.) -- A History of hats (1910, 5 min.) -- Nothing is impossible for man (1910, 6min.) -- Mr. Crack (1910, 5 min.) -- Bébé's masterpiece (1910, 4 min.) -- Music-mania (1910, 5 min.). DVD X5732 Gaumont Treasures Volume 2, Disc 2, Jean Durand During its second decade of existence, the Gaumont Film Company continued to prove itself an indomitable force in cultivating and advancing the fledgling art of cinema. It was also a place of great technical innovation. This film focuses on the work of filmmaker Jean Durand who specialized in slapstick and innovated the "French Western". Contents: Comedies. Calino's baptism (1911, 3 min.) -- Calino wants to be a cowboy (1911, 6 min.) -- Zigoto and the affair of the necklace (1911, 8 min.) -- Calino, the love tamer (1912, 6 min.) -- Zigoto's outing with friends (1912, 5 min.) -- Oxford vs. Martigues (1912, 4 min.) -- Onésime goes to hell (1912, 7 min.) -- Calin, station master (1912, 6 min.) -- Onésime, clockmaker (1912, 5 min.) -- Onésime vs. Onésime (1912, 8 min.) -- Zigoto drives a locomotive (1912, 6 min.) -- Onésime gets married... so does Calino ( 1913, 7 min.) -- Onésime: Calino's inheritance (1913, 1 min.) -- Onésime loves animals (1913, 6 min.) -- Onésime, trainer of men and horses (1913, 13 min.) -- Onésime and the heart of a gypsy (1913, 7 min.) -- Onésime, you'll get married... or else! (1913, 7 min.) -- Onésime's theatricla debut (1913, 10 min.) -- Onésime's family drama ( 1914, 7 min.) -- Dramas. The Railway of death (1912, 17 min.) -- Burning heart: an Indian tale (1912, 13 min.) -- Under the claw (1912, 25 min.). DVD X5733 Gaumont Treasures Volume 2, Disc 3, Jacques Feyder and the Early Masters of French Cinema During its second decade of existence, the Gaumont Film Company continued to prove itself an indomitable force in cultivating and advancing the fledgling art of cinema. It was also a place of great technical innovation. This film highlights the romantic comedies of Jacques Feyder, while paying tribute to some of French cinema's lesser-known pioneers. Contents: Heads... and women who use them / Jacques Feyder (1916, 36 min.) -- Friendly Advice / Jacques Feyder (1916, 16 min.) -- Biscot on the wrong floor / Jacques Feyder (1916, 15 min.) -- The Long arm of the law / Roméo Bosetti (1909, 7 min.) -- The Barges / George-André Lacroix (1911, 10 min.) -- La Marseillaise / Etienne Arnaud (1912, 10 min.) -- A Drama of the air / René le Somptier (1913, 17 min.) -- Child's play / Henri Fescourt (1913, 12 min.) -- Feet and hands / Gaston Ravel (1915, 17 min.) -- Anonymous films. Factory drama (1912, 13 min.) -- The Pavements of Paris (1912, 13 min.) -- The Fairy's farewell (25 sec.). Le Gendarme à New York (1965) Directed by Jean Girault. Cast: Louis De Funes, Michel Galabru, Jean LeFebvre, Christian Marin, Alan Scott, Geneviève Grad. The St. Tropez police squad goes to the International Police Convention in New York City to represent France. The daughter of the squad's sergeant stows away on the ship and turns the trip into a disaster for her father. 100 min. vhs 999:3173 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Le Genou de Claire (Claire's Knee) (1969) Directed by Eric Rohmer. Satirizes a diplomat's sexual temptations. On vacation without his fiancee, he flirts with a brash, charming nymphet, while harboring a secret, peculiar obsession for her stunning teenage sister. (One of the six films that make up the "Moral Tales".) 106 min. DVD 341; vhs 999:2508 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Jones, Edward T. "Desire under the Helms of Rohmer and Buñuel: Claire's Knee and That Obscure Object of Desire." Literature-Film Quarterly. 9(1):3-7. 1981 UC users only Eric Rohmer bibliography Germinal (1993) Directed by Claude Berri. Cast: Miou-Miou, Renaud, Jean Carmet, Judith Henry, Jean-Roger Milo, Gérard Depardieu, Laurent Terzieff, Bernard Fresson, Jean-Pierre Bisson, Jacques Dacqmine, Anny Duperey. Recreates the gut-wrenching poverty and intense struggles of striking French coal-miners in 1884 at the Voreux mines through the bitter toils of Maheu and his family and Etienne, an organizer for the miner's new union. As conditions in the mines worsen, Etienne convinces Maheu to organize a a miner's strike but when the miners finally do strike the owners send in armed soldiers to defend the mines. Based on a novel by Emile Zola. 166 min. DVD X5621; vhs 999:3286 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Gervaise (France, 1956) Directed by René Clément. Cast: Maria Schell, François Périer, Suzy Delair, Jacques Harden, Jany Holt, Mathilde Casadesus, Florelle, Armand Mestral. A story of mid-19th-century Parisian slums in which a young girl's dreams of a happy home and a successful laundry are cruelly destroyed by a drunken husband. Based on Emile Zola's L'Assommoir. 117 min. DVD X4386 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Zola on film bibliography Le gitan (The Gypsy)(France | Italy, 1975) Director, José Giovanni. Cast: Alain Delon, Annie Girardot, Paul Meurisse. A long-suffering gypsy sets out to steal from the rich to provide sustenance to his fellow gypsies, all of them desperate and treated like trash by French society. Constatly outwitting the authorities as he moves deftly from place to place with the help of accomplices, this king of beggars ultimately cannot break the chain of displacement. 102 min. DVD X4673 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse (The Gleaners and I) (2000) Director, Agnes Varda. The first of Varda's efforts to be 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 or find a use for what others have cast off. The director likens gleaning to her own profession -- that of collecting images, stories, fragments of sound, light, and color. 82 min. DVD 1281 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database La Gloire de mon père (My Father's Glory) (1991) Directed by Yves Robert. Cast: Phillippe Caubère, Nathalie Roussel, Thérèse Liotard, Didier Pain. The enchanting story of Marcel Pagnol's childhood in the south of France, and a very special summer when he was 11 years old. In the countryside of Provence he fell under the spell of the rugged hills, made new friends and strengthened the unique bond with his father. Based on the work of Marcel Pagnol. 110 min. DVD 2933; vhs 999:959 Credits and Other information from the Internet Movie Database Golem, l'esprit de l'exil (Golem, the Spirit of Exile) (Germany / Netherlands / UK /France / Italy, 1991) Directed by Amos Gitai. Cast: Hanna Schygulla, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Ophrah Shemesh, Mireille Perrier, Sotigui Kouyate, Samuel Fuller, Bernardo Bertolucci, Fabienne Babe, Bernard Eisenschitz, Philippe Garrel. An allegory of the Golem, a Jewish mythical creature personifying displacement and exile, this film tells the story of a woman (similar to the biblical Ruth) and her sisters, who are forced into exile after the death of their husbands. It is set in 1990s Paris, where the director was living in self-imposed exile following the ban on his 1982 documentary in Israel. The recurring theme of the film is migrations and unrooting, like the legendary Golem. 115 min. DVD X2100 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Le Gone du Chaâba (The Kid from Chaaba) (1997) Director, Christophe Ruggia. Cast: Bouzid Negnoug, Mohamed Fellag, Nabil Ghalem. Set in 1956 France in a city slum outside of Lyons, a poor Algerian father wants his son to be the best in school, although the boy is not very gifted. 105 min. DVD 1265 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Le Goût des autres (The Taste of Others) Directed by Agnes Jaoui. Cast: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Alain Chabat, Agnes Jaoui, Gérard Lanvin, Christiane Millet, Wladimir Yordanoff. The lives and loves of several completely opposite men and women artfully intersect in what becomes a delightfully funny web of romantic entanglements! While negotiating differences in wealth and status, style, and taste, this vivid collection of characters mix and match in outrageously volatile combinations! 112 min. DVD 1158 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards César Awards - Best Film Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brûlantes (Water Drops on Burning Rocks) (2000) Directed by François Ozon. Cast: Bernard Giraudeau, Malik Zidi, Ludivine Sagnier, Anna Thompson. A young man, who is sexually confused, falls in love with an older man. When his ex-fiance comes to see him he needs to decide who he loves more. Unable to cope, he decides to take drastic measures. Based on the play "Tropfen auf Heisse Steine" by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. 81 min. DVD X4257 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database La graine et le mulet (The Secret of the Grain) (France, 2007) Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche. Cast: Habib Boufares, Hafsia Herzi, Faridah Benkhetache.. "At the port of Sète, Mr. Slimani, a tired 60-year-old, drags himself toward a shipyard job that has become more and more difficult to cope with as the years go by. He is a divorced father who forces himself to stay close to his family despite the schisms and tensions that are easily sparked off and that financial difficulties make even more intense. He is going through a delicate period in his life and, recently, everything seems to make him feel useless: a failure. He wants to escape from it all and set up his own restaurant. However, it appears to be an unreachable dream given his meager, irregular salary that is not anywhere near enough to supply what he needs to realize his ambition. But he can still dream and talk about it with his family in particular. A family that gradually gives its support to this project, which comes to symbolize the means to a better life. Thanks to its ingeniousness and hard work, this dream soon becomes a reality...or almost." [IMDB] 180 min. DVD X4185 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards César Awards - Best Film; Best Director French Syndicate of Cinema Critics - Best Film Venice Film Festival - Special Jury Prize; FIPRESCI Prize Nettelbeck, Colin "Kechiche and the French Classics: Cinema as Subversion and Renewal of Tradition." French Cultural Studies October 2007 18: 307-319, UC users only La Grande Bouffe (1973) Directed by Marco Ferrerin. Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret, Ugo Tognazzi, Andréa Ferreol, Solange Florence, Blondeau Giorgetti, Michele AlexAndré , Monique Chaumette. Four world-weary middle-aged men decide to gorge themselves to death in one final orgiastic weekend full of gourmet food, call girls, and a hefty, lusty schoolteacher. Special DVD feature: Excerpt from the documentary "Marco Ferreri: the director who came from the future." 130 min. DVD X1672 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards César Awards - Best Film La Grande Illusion (The Grand Illusion) (1937) Directed by Jean Renoir. Jean Renoir's classic anti-war film. A non-inflammatory World War I film set on the front in 1916, before American involvement. It is a study of a prisoner of war camp and the disillusionment of captors and prisoners alike. 111 min.DVD 141; DVD 3494; vhs 999:82 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards National Board of Review, USA - Best Foreign Film New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Foreign Film Venice Film Festival - Best Overall Artistic Contribution (Jean Renoir) Spaak, Charles Grand illusion; a film by Jean Renoir. Translated from the French by Marianne Alexandre and Andrew Sinclair. New York, Simon and Schuster [1968] (Main (Gardner) Stacks PN1997.G68 G6813) Spaak, Charles La grande illusion: [a film by] Jean Renoir; translated from the French by Marianne Alexandre and Andrew Sinclair. London, Lorrimer Publishing, Ltd., 1968. (Main (Gardner) Stacks PN1997.G68 G6813 1968) Permanent link for this record: Le Grand Voyage (2004) Directed by Ismael Ferroukhi. Cast: Nicolas Cazale, Mohamed Majd, Jacky Nercessian. A few weeks before his college entrance exams, Reda, a young man who lives in the south of France, finds himself obligated to drive his father to Mecca. The wide cultural and generational gap between the two is worsened by their lack of communication. Reda finds it hard to accommodate his father, who demands respect for himself and his pilgrimage. From France, through Italy, Serbia, Turkey, Syria, Jordan to Saudi Arabia, the two embark on a road trip that will change their lives. 108 min. DVD 6328 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database La Guerre est finie (The War Is Over) (1966) Directed by Alain Renais. Cast: Yves Montand, Ingrid Thulin, Geneviève Bujold, Jean Daste. In this complex and perceptive film an aging Spanish revolutionary finds his idealism destroyed when he returns from exile to visit his longtime mistress. 120 min. DVD 5935; vhs 999:2013 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Vaughan, Hunter. "The philosophical war: Beyond the Cartesian subject in Alain Resnais's La Guerre est finie (1966)." Studies in French Cinema, 2011, Vol. 11 Issue 2, p125-137, 13p UC users only Alain Resnais bibliography La gueule ouverte (The Mouth Agape) (France, 1974) Director, Maurice Pialat. Cast: Nathalie Baye, Hubert Deschamps, Philippe Léotard, Monique Mélinand, Henri Saulquin, Alain Grestau, Anna Gayane. When cancer strikes the mother of a family, everyone in the family expresses a previously invisible caring and tolerance of the others. The father has always been a bit of a drunk, and is forever chasing younger women. Despite that, he and his wife care for each other, and he tends attentively to her in her last days while remaining unchanged in character. The son and daughter-in-law, whose marriage is somewhat sterile, have similarly penetrating interactions with the dying mother. Special features (Disc one): Original French trailer [2:50] ; footage from the shoot of La gueule ouverte, with commentary [11:00] ; 2004 interview with Pialat's ex-wife, Micheline Pialat [12:00] ; 2004 interview with actress Nathalie Baye [8:00] ; Janine by Maurice Pialat (1961) [17:00] ; 6 x Maurice Pialat trailers. Special features (Disc two): Two early short-films by Pialet: Droles de bobines [Funny reels] (1957), L'Ombre familiere [The familiar shadow] (1958) ; the six short 1964 essay-documentaries made by Pialat in, and about, Turkey: Bosphore [Bosporus], Byzance [Byzantium], La corne d'or [The golden horn], Istanbul ; Maitre Galip [Master Galip, and Pehlivan ; 2004 interview with cinematographer Willy Kurant [16:00] ; 1987 interview with Pialat about the Cinémathèque Française [14:00] ; excerpt from a 2002 Pialat masterclass, discussing Maitre Galip [10:00]. 97 min. DVD X2774 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database To the top La Haine (Hate) (1995) Directed by Mathieu Kassovitz. Said is an Arab, Hubert is black, Vinz is a Jew, all living in Paris. Each of them needs to vent the anger they feel about the police brutality that landed another friend in the hospital. Vinz finds a Smith & Wesson .44 that sparks the shocking climax after the boys tangle with the cops and a gang of skinheads. Special features (ca. 135 min.) (Disc 1): Video introduction by Jodie Foster (14:51); Audio commentary by director Mathieu Kassovitz; Theatrical trailers. (Disc 2): "Ten Years of La haine" (83:25); "Social Dynamite" (33:59); "Preparing for the Shoot" (5:57); "Making of a Scene" (6:36); Deleted and extended scenes (5:57); Still gallery. Essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau, and appreciation by Costa-Gavras in booklet. 95 min. DVD 7386; vhs 999:1644 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards Cannes Film Festival - Best Director César Awards, France - Best Film Le harem de Mme Osmane (The Harem of Madame Osmane) (France | Spain | Morocco, 2000) Directed by Nadir Moknèche. Cast: Carmen Maura, Myriam Amarouchène, Linda Slimani, Nadia Kaci, Biyouna, Thamila Mesbah-Detraz. An off-beat comedy that takes an unconventional look at the problems of contemporary Algeria. As the country veers toward civil war, Madame Osmane exercises a casual dictatorship over the tenants of her apartment building. A former freedom fighter whose husband -- also an ex-freedom fighter -- is living in France with another woman, Madame Osmane is determined to control the lives of her daughter Sakina, her batty maid, Meriem, French-born wife Yasmine and various other tenants. 100 min. DVD X2711 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien (With a Friend Like Harry) (2000) Directed by Dominik Moll. Cast: Laurent Lucas, Sergi Lopez, Mathilde Seigner, Sophie Guillemin. Michel, who wrote poetry, and Harry, a rich spoiled brat, were school chums. Now twenty years later, Michel, who is married with three young girls, meets up with Harry on the way to Michel's summer home. Harry "forces"his way into their lives and nothing will be the same again. Trying to make Michel's life "easier", Harry embarks on a path that will become self-destructive. 116 min. DVD 1018 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Haut, bas, fragile (Up, Down, Fragile) (2001) Directed by Jacques Rivette. Cast: Marinanne Denicourt, Nathalie Richard, Laurence Cote, André Marco, Bruno Todeschini, Wilfred Benaiche, Marcel Bozonnet, Philippe Dormoy, Pierre Lacan, Stephanie Schwartzbrod, Christine Vezinet, Anna Karina, Enzo Enzo. A luminously unique romantic musical set in summertime Paris. In beautiful sun drenched streets, cafes and parks three young lives intersect and are changed by an artist, a mystery, and a gun. 164 min. DVD 4585 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Hélas pour moi (Oh, Woe Is Me) (1993 ) Director, Jean-Luc Godard. Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Laurence Masliah, Bernard Verley, Aude Amiot. God may have entered the body of Simon to experience love and desire with Simon's wife Rachel. Based in part on the Greek legend of Amphitryon, the film is set in a small Swiss town on Lake Geneva. Based on the play Amphitrion 38 by Jean Giraudoux. 83 min. DVD 9296 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Les herbes folles (Wild Grass) (France | Italy, 2009) Director, Alain Resnais. Cast: Mathieu Kassovitz, Anouk Grinberg, Sandrine Kiberlain, Jean-Louis Trintignant. Restricted from service during World War II a young Frenchman can only watch as the war ends without him. He decides to flee to Paris where his inspired gift of deception leads to a tenaciously drawn plan to reinvent himself with a new heroic identity as a leader of the French Resistance. 105 min. DVD 9832; vhs 999:3451 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Un héros très discret (A Self-made Hero) (1997) Director, Jacques Audiard. Cast: Mathieu Kassovitz, Anouk Grinberg, Sandrine Kiberlain, Jean-Louis Trintignant. Restricted from service during World War II a young Frenchman can only watch as the war ends without him. He decides to flee to Paris where his inspired gift of deception leads to a tenaciously drawn plan to reinvent himself with a new heroic identity as a leader of the French Resistance. 105 min. DVD 9832; vhs 999:3451 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Forbes, Jill. "Politicians And Performers: 'Un héros très discret.'" Australian Journal of French Studies, Jan1999, Vol. 36 Issue 1, p125-135, 11p L'heure d'été (Summer Hours) (2008) Director, Olivier Assayas. Cast: Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, Jérémie Rénier, Edith Scob, Dominique Reymond, Valérie Bonneton, Jean-Baptiste Malartre, Isabelle Sadoyan, Kyle Eastwood, Alice de Lencquesaing, Emile Berling. The divergent paths of three adult siblings collide when their mother, heiress to an exceptional 19th century art collection, dies suddenly. Special features (Disc two): New video interview with director Assayas ; making-of documentary featuring interviews with Assayas and actors Charles Berling and Juliette Binoche, and showing the cast and crew on set ; 'Inventory', an hour-long documentary by Olivier Geoinard, shot partly in Paris's Musée d'Orsay, that examines the film's approach to art ; booklet featuring an essay by critic Kent Jones. 103 min. DVD X3754 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Foreign-Language Film National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA - Best Foreign-Language Film New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Foreign Film Maule, Rosanna. "The Difficult Legacy of the Nouvelle Vague: Olivier Assayas and French Film Authors at the End of Auteurism." In: Beyond auteurism: new directions in authorial film practices in France, Italy Bristol, UK ; Chicago, USA : Intellect, c2008. (Full text available online [UCB users only]) Une hirondelle a fait le printemps (The Girl from Paris) (2001) Directed by Christian Carion. Cast: Michel Serrault, Mathilde Seigner, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Frederic Pierrot, Marc Berman, Francoise Bette, Christophe Rossignon, Roland Chalosse. Sandrine is a successful Parisienne who tires of her job in the rat race and decides to buy Adrien's isolated farm with the caveat that he remain onsite for a period of time. A touching story of growth and change and of the glorious ability of nature to stir the depths of one's heart. 103 min. DVD 8256 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Hiroshima mon amour (1959) Directed by Alain Resnais. During the filming of an anti-war film in Japan, a French actress falls in love with a Japanese architect. While sharing an intimate relationship, they also begin sharing the memories of a war experience at opposite sides of the world. 91 min. DVD 1716; vhs 999:28 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards French Syndicate of Cinema Critics - Best Film New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Foreign Language Picture L'Histoire d'Adèle H. (The Story of Adele H) (1975) Directed by François Truffaut. Based on a true story, this film concerns Adele (Isabelle Adjani), the younger daughter of the famous author Victor Hugo, who follows her lover, Lt. Pinson, to Nova Scotia in 1863. Refusing to acknowledge his rejection of her, Adele continues to pursue Pinson for years, until her obsession gives way to madness. 97 min. DVD 517; vhs 999:2265 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Histoire de Marie et Julien (The Story of Marie and Julien) (2003) Director, Jacques Rivette. Cast: Emmanuelle Béart, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Anne Brochet, Bettina Kee, Olivier Cruveiller. A pair of ex-lovers get back together. Julien is a clock repairman whose girlfriend has left him. Marie is a mysterious woman whose boyfriend has died. Now that they have no emotional entanglements, they slowly begin a new relationship. 150 min. DVD X3221 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Histoire d'O (The Story of O)(France / West Germany / Canada, 1975) Directed by Just Jaeckin. Cast: Corinne Clery, Anthony Steel, Udo Kier, Jean Gaven. O is taken by her boyfriend, Rene, to a bizarre retreat, where she is trained in bondage and sexual perversion. Rene discharges a personal debt by transferring possession of O to his step-brother. 98 min. DVD X677 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Histoire(s) du cinema: [introduction a une veritable histoire du cinema la seule la vraie] [SOUND RECORDING] Videographic film history essays by Jean Luc Godard (the sound track to a video by the same name), consumed with nostalgia for old movies and unusual image-mixing techniques. This provacative, wildly multiple video-poem is about an old man, his editing suite and his cultural lamentations. Text in French, with English and German translations. Based on Godard's book Histoire(s) du cinema 4vol (Main Stack PQ2667.O315.H57 1998) SOUND/D 84 Histoires extraordinaires (Spirits of the Dead) (1968) Presents three films based on the dark prose of Edgar Allan Poe. Metzengerstein, directed by Roger Vadim, with Jane Fonda and Peter Fonda, is the tale of a young woman who believes the spirit of the cousin she loved, killed in a stable fire she started, is in a horse that escaped. William Wilson, directed by Louis Malle, with Brigitte Bardot and Alain Delon, is the story of a mean-spirited Austrian officer who kills his doppelganger in a duel. Toby Dammit, directed by Federico Fellini, with Terence Stamp, is about a film star who takes off on a drunken spree after his film is completed, and was liberally adapted from Edgar A. Poe's novel Don't Wager Your Head to the Devil. 121 min. DVD 1819 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database L'Homme blessé (The Wounded Man) (1983) Directed by Patrice Chéreau. Cast: Jean-Hugues Anglade; Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Roland Bertin, Claude Berri, Gérard Desarthe, Armin Müller-Stahl, Lisa Kreuzer. In a large provincial railroad station, a young man, himself being pursued by a voyeuristic homosexual doctor, becomes romantically obessed with, and tries to win the love of, another much older man. Special features (Disc 2): Clip de Jane Birkin : "Et quand bien même" réalisé par Patrice Chéreau (3 min) ; 1983, la sortie à Cannes : portrait de Patrice Chéreau par Raymond Depardon ; interventions télévisées de Yves Mourousi et S. Daney (25 min) ; Hervé Guibert invité à Apostrophes (15 min) ; Interviews de Jean-Hugues Anglade, C. de Vivaise, R. Berta et Patrice Chéreau par Jean-Marie Charuau (45 min) ; Diaporama. 106 min. DVD X5350 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Des hommes et des dieux (Of Gods and Men) (France, 2010) Directed by Xavier Beauvois. Cast: Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale, Olivier Rabourdin, Philippe Laudenbach, Jacques Herlin. Based on true events, tells the story of eight French Christian monks who live in harmony with their Muslim brothers in a monastery in the mountains of North Africa in the 1990s. When a crew of foreign workers are massacred by an Islamic fundamentalist group, fear sweeps though the region. The army offers them protection, but the monks refuse. Despite the growing menace in their midst, they slowly realize that they have no choice but to stay, come what may. 123 min. DVD X6139 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards Cannes Film Festival - Grand Prize Un Homme et une femme (A Man and a Woman) (1966) Directed by Claude Lelouch. Cast: Anouk Aimee, Jean Louis Trintignant, PIerre Barouh, Valerie Lagrange, Henri Chemin, Yane Barry, Paul Le Person, Simone Paris. A love story of two tragically widowed people, a daredevil race-car driver and a movie script girl who meet while visiting their children's boarding school. They soon share a love filled with warmth, humor and truth, and intertwined with the demands of career and parenthood. 103 min. DVD 5526; vhs 999:735 (Dubbed into English) Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards Special Academy Award - Foreign Language Film Cannes Film Festival - Palme d'Or Golden Globe Awards - Best Foreign Language Film Claude Lelouch bibliography L'homme qui aimait les femmes (The Man Who Loved Women) (1977) Directed by François Truffaut. Cast: Charles Denner, Brigitte Fossey, Nelly Borgeaud, Genevieve Fontanel, Leslie Caron, Nathalie Baye, Jean Dasté. The story of Bertrand Morane, a bachelor who is obsessed with women. Bertrand is no Don Juan-he is an intelligent and sensitive man who adores women of all ages, shapes and sizes. In an effort to understand his obsession, Bertrand writes his memoirs and remembers all the women he has loved. 119 min. DVD X3186 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Un Homme qui dort (The Man Who Sleeps) (1974) Directed by Bernard Queysanne. Cast: Jacques Spiesser (student), Ludmila Mikael (voice/narrator). In this French tour-de-force a young student (Jacques Speisser) decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior is coupled with a strange clarity of insight about the world around him. His inner musings as he wanders the luminous streets of Paris are narrated in the form of an unwritten diary by Ludmila Mikael. Contents: Disc 1: Version originale française avec la voix de Ludmila Mikaël (77 min.) ; Versions américaine (voix de Shelley Duvall), allemande (voix d'Andrea Kopsch) et espagnole ; La bande-annonce originale. -- Disc 2: Supplements: 1 ire-traduire Georges Pérec (71 min.) ; Propos amicaux à propos d'espèces d'espaces (32 min.) ; Deux documentaires de Bernard Oueysanne autour de l'oeuvre et de la personnalité de Georges Pérec. 77 min. DVD X1839 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Hôtel des Amériques (Hotel America) (1981) Directed by André Téchiné. Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Patrick Dewaere, Etienne Chicot, Sabine Haudepin, Dominique Lavanant. Helène, a distracted anesthetist, almost runs down Gilles one evening on a Biarritz street. She is still numb from the drowning death earlier that year of her lover, a visionary architect. Gilles presses for a relationship, then backs away, deciding she could never love someone of lower class and limited prospects. But she does fall in love with him and gradually her depression eases. As she heals, he becomes obsessed with her lover's talents and his own limitations, behaving bizarrely and pushing her away. 95 min. DVD X61 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Hôtel du nord (1938) Directed by Marcel Carne. Cast: Annabella, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Louis Jouvet, Arletty, Paulette Dubost, Andrex, Bernard Blier, François Perier. The Hôtel du Nord is a family-run hotel on the edge of the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris. As the family is celebrating a first communion, a young couple checks in, planning a double suicide. Only one shot is fired, and the man, Pierre, flees leaving his lover, Renée, to die in the room. But, he leaves the gun behind and she survives. A series of convoluted affairs between hotel patrons and staff, as well as passion-feuled travels across France, ensue - all to end the story in perfect symmetry. Based on the novel by Eugene Dabit. 92 min. DVD X5849 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Hôtel Monterey (1974) Shorter works directed by Chantal Akerman. Hôtel Monterey: A stark, silent look at a New York pension hotel. J'ai faim, j'ai froid (I'm hungry, I'm cold): Two young Belgian girls run away from their home in Brussels. They spend a day and an evening in Paris looking for food and love, with comic and poignant results. Saute ma ville: A young woman comes home to her apartment in Brussels, where she cooks pasta and seals herself in with duct tape. The story ends with a bang. Akerman's first film made at the age of 18. 89 min. DVD X2624; also DVD 8267; vhs 999:980 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Chantal Akerman bibliography Hui Clos(1954) Directed by Jacqueline Audry. Cast: Arletty, Frank Villard, Gaby Sylvia, Yves Deniaud, Nicole Courcel, Jean Debucourt, Paul Frankeur, Giani Esposito Adapted from the play by Jean-Paul Sartre, a philosophical melodrama of three people tearing each other to pieces. Considered the author's most famous drama with its immortal sentence "L'enfer, c'est les autres" (Hell is other people). 95 min. vhs 999:3807 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Humanité(1999) Directed by Bruno Dumont. Cast: Emmanuel Schotte, Severine Caneele, Philippe Tullier, Ghislain Ghesquiere, Ginette Allegre. Pharaon de Winter is a police detective who lives with his mother in a working-class town in northern France. He agonizes over the evil he confronts every day during the course of his work. The brutal rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl tests Pharaon's profound humanity to its limits as the investigation proceeds to its climax, and as Pharaon struggles to grasp the crime's meaning. 148 min. DVD 5619 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards Cannes Film Festival: Grand Prize Peranson, Mark; Picard, Andrea. "A humanist philosophy: interview(s) with Bruno Dumont." Cineaction, 2000, Issue 51, p69-72, 4p Picard, Andrea. "Lessons in humanity." Cinema Scope; Sep 1999, Issue 1, p8-9, 2p Rosenbaum, J. "Overrated Solutions: L’humanité." In: Essential cinema : on the necessity of film canons / Jonathan Rosenbaum. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. (Full text available online (UC Berkeley users only); Print: Main Stack; Moffitt; PFA PN1994.R5684 2004) Hurlevent (Wuthering Heights) (1985) Director, Jacques Rivette. Cast: Fabienne Babe, Lucas Belvaux, Sandra Montaigu, Alice de Poncheville. Based on Emily Bronte's 19th-century novel, this film sets the drama in the French countryside of the 1930s. Tells the story of the tormented love affair between two childhood sweethearts, Catherine, a headstrong young woman, and Roc, a fiery young gypsy. 126 min. DVD 1818; DVD 4584 (PAL) Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database L'Hypothèse du tableau volé (The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting) (1978) Directed by Raul Ruiz. A pedantic art collector guides the viewer around six paintings by Frederic Tonnerre, a fictitious 19th century artist, as the mystery of the disappearance of the seventh unfolds. The paintings are shown as tableaux vivants which begin to move, forcing the viewer to examine the links between art and its interpreters, between words and images. 87 min. DVD 6572; video Video/C 3972 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Elsaesser, Thomas. "Raoul Ruiz’s Hypothèse du Tableau Volé." In: European cinema: face to face with Hollywood / Thomas Elsaesser. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press 2005. (Full text available online (UCB users only); Print: Main (Gardner) Stacks PN1993.5.E8 E525 2005) To the top I Want to Go Home(1989) Directed by Alain Resnais. Cast: Adolph Green, Laura Benson, Linda Lavin, Gerard Depardieu, Micheline Presle, John Ashton, Geraldine Chaplin, Caroline Sihol. In a satire of French and American culture, an American cartoonist accepts an invitation to show his work at an exclusive Parisian gallery, hoping to reconcile with his estranged daughter living in France, who is trying to rid herself of her American provinciality. 101 min. DVD 9802 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Ici et ailleurs (Here and Elsewhere). Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Initially begun as a documentary portraying a sympathetic view of Palestinian revolutionaries, this film was ultimately transformed into a filmed essay addressing the relationship between politics and image and the problems of documentary filmmaking. After the filmmakers returned to France, a massacre by Hussein's troops killed most of the film subjects. At this point Godard joined the production and produced a film presenting the parallel lives of two families -- one French, one Palestinian -- with the film questioning the images and suggesting that documentaries present a false, constructed vision of reality. 1970. 55 min. Video/C 6879 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Il y a longtemps que je t'aime (I've loved you so long)(France | Germany , 2008) Directed by Philippe Claudel. Cast: Kristin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstein, Serge Hazanavicius, Laurent Grévill, Frédéric Pierrot. Summary A shell-shocked Juliette is released from prison after serving 15 years for murdering her young son. As life has moved on, she must relearn certain basics. After being banished from her family, she is now reunited with her younger sister, Lea. Hopefully, Juliette will learn to forgive herself in the process. 117 min. DVD X1612 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards - Best Foreign-language Film Inch'Allah Dimanche (Algeria / France, 2001) Director, Yamina Benguigui. Film about the "family reunion," the French government's euphemism for a 1974 law allowing Algerian wives to rejoin their husbands working in France. Strong-willed Zouina parts tearfully from her mother in the port of Algiers; once in France, she and her three small children are at the mercy of her mother-in-law and confused by the strange customs of their local grocer and garden-obsessed neighbor. The radio is her only window on life and on the women of this new country. 98 min. DVD 1907 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Alion, Yves. "Inch'Allah Dimanche: Entretien avec Yamina Benguigui." Avant Scène Cinéma, vol. 506, pp. 136-38, November 2001 Fauvel, Maryse. "Yamina Benguigui's Inch' Allah dimanche: unveiling hybrid identities." Studies in French Cinema; 2004, Vol. 4 Issue 2, p147-157, 11p UC users only Fenner, Angelica. "Aural Topographies of Migration in Yamina Benguigui's Inch'Allah dimanche." Camera Obscura: A Journal of Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies, vol. 22, no. 66[3], pp. 93-127, 2007 UC users only Humblot, Catherine Documentaires et reportages: "Mémoires d'immigrés, l'héritage maghrébin" CinémAction 87 (April-June 1998) India Song (1974) Directed by Marguerite Duras. Cast: Delphine Seyrig, Michel Lonsdale, Matthieu Carri?ere, Claude Mann, Vernon Dobtcheff, Didier Flamand, Claude Juan. The wife of a French vice-consul in 1930s India begins having affairs in order to escape her boredom. Her husband pretends not to notice because he understands the cause of her behavior. The accompanying feature length making-of documentary includes interviews with Duras and the actors and crew of the film. Special features: La couleur des mots : India song / Le Bureau d'amination culturelle du Minist?ere des relations exterieures presente ; Medias et Medias presente ; entretiens, Dominique Noguez ; realisation Jerome Beaujour, Jean Mascolo. (1984, 67 min.) ; Duras filmography ; shooting script plans ; photos ; About the DVD version. 114 min. DVD 2869; vhs 999:1087 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Indochine (1992) Directed by Regis Wargnier. Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Perez, Linh Dan Pham, Jean Yanne, Dominique Blanc, Henri Marteau. Eliane, a rubber plantation owner in French Indochina, hides her torrid love affairs with upper-class society. But when her adopted Indochinese daughter innocently falls in love with Eliane's secret lover, the scandal may destroy their family. 156 min. DVD 2131; vhs 999:1125 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards Special Academy Award - Foreign Language Film Golden Globe Awards - Best Foreign Language Film National Board of Review, USA - Best Foreign Language Film Les Innocents (The Dreamers) (2003, France/Italy) Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Cast: Michael Pitt, Eva Green, Louis Garrel, Robin Renucci, Anna Chancellor. When French twins - a brother and sister - invite a man to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in which nothing is off limits and anything is possible. 115 min. DVD 3043 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Les Innocents aux mains sales (Innocents with Dirty Hands) (1972) Directed by Claude Chabrol. Cast: Romy Schneider, Rod Steiger, Paolo Giusti, Jean Rochefort. Julie and her young lover Jeff plot to murder Julie's rich husband Louis Wormser and make it look like an accident. After the deed, Jeff disappears and Julie is arrested on suspicion of murder, but through the efforts of a clever lawyer she is released. Upon returning home, she discovers her husband Louis has returned in what proves to be the first of many plot twists in this tense thriller. 121 min. DVD 1731 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Claude Chabrol bibliography Inspecteur Lavardin (1986) Director, Claude Chabrol. Cast: Jean Poiret, Jean-Claude Brialy, Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Luc Bideau, Jacques Dacqmine. Poiret arrives at a cozy, seaside village to investigate the bizarre murder of an eminent Catholic author. The usually cool sleuth is shaken when he discovers that the victim's widow is none other than his old flame. 100 min. DVD 6596 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Claude Chabrol bibliography Á l'intérieur (1986) Director, Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury. Cast: Béatrice Dalle, Alysson Paradis, Nicolas Duvauchelle, François-Régis Marchasson, Nathalie Roussel, Aymen Saidi. Pregnant photojournalist Sarah Scaragato has just lost her husband in a fatal car accident and is in recovery when her baby is due on Christmas Eve. Morose, she rejects friend and family visits, opting to stay home. A bewitched predator, played by Beatrice Dalle, senses Sarah's vulnerability and seizes upon it like a spider capturing prey in its web. The tale, woven around maternal psychosis, reveals the killer's haunting preoccupation with stealing Scaragato's unborn baby. Each character who enters Sarah's house, the "war zone" as one doomed policeman puts it, encounters the wrath of two women fighting with mirror shards, knitting needles, scissors, hurled kitchen appliances, and even a homemade bayonette. 82 min. DVD X3545 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database L'intrus (The Intruder) (2003) Directed by Claire Denis. Cast: Michel Subor, Grégoire Colin, Katia Golubeva, Bambou, Florence Loiret-Caille, Lolita Chammah, Alex Descas, Hong-suk Park, Dong-ho Kim, Se-tak Chang, Henri Tainanuarii, Jean-Marc Teriipaia, Anna Tetuaveroa, Edwin Aline, Béatrice Dalle. Louis is a brooding loner who lives with two large white dogs in a forest near the French-Swiss border. His estranged son Sidney lives with his wife in a village nearby. Louis is carrying on an affair with the local pharmacist and carrying a torch for a beautiful, feral local dog breeder. He suffers a mild heart attack, and buys a new heart on the black market. Then he travels to South Korea, where he buys a boat and sails it to his former home, a dilapidated shack on a remote island south of Tahiti. His dream is to find the son he sired decades earlier when he lived there. However, once he is settled, his body begins to reject the alien heart. Inspired by the book L'intrus by Jean-Luc Nancy. Special features: Interview with Claire Denis (36 min.); Filmographies [text feature]; Original theatrical trailer (2 min.); Trailer gallery (11 min.). 126 min. DVD X5825 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Les Invasions barbares (Barbarian Invasions) (Canada | France, 2003) Directed by Denys Arcand. Cast: Remy Girard, Stephane Rousseau, Marie-Josee Croze, Roy Dupuis. It's not easy for a narrow-minded professor to reconcile with his equally stubborn son. But soon, father and son find themselves gathering with their wide and colorful circle of family and friends to confront their differences, confess their secrets, and celebrate life. 99 min. DVD 5525 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards Academy Award - Best Foreign Language Film Broadcast Film Critics Association Critics' Choice Awards - Best Foreign Language Film National Board of Review, USA - Best Foreign Language Film César Awards - Best Film; Best Director Auteur/provocateur : the films of Denys Arcand / edited by André Loiselle and Brian McIlroy. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1995. (Main (Gardner) Stacks PN1998.3.A735 A88 1995) Imboden, Roberta. "The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions barbares)." Film Quarterly, Spring2005, Vol. 58 Issue 3, p48-52, 5p UC users only Invitation au voyage(France, 1937) Directed by Germaine Dulac. Leaving her husband and child one evening a woman meets a marine officer in a cabaret, but he leaves her when he discovers that she is married. Her dreams dashed, she returns home. Based on the poem by Charles Baudelaire. 26 min. DVD X5062 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Irma Vep (1996) Directed by Olivier Assayas. Cast: Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Nathalie Richard. 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. 95 min. DVD 4136 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Irréversible (2002) Directed by Gaspar Noé. Cast: Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel, Philippe Nahon, Jo Prestia. Alex and Marcus are a couple whose story is told over the course of a fateful evening in a series of long takes. An emotional odyssey that unspools in reverse from gut-wrenching violence to sweetly observed moments of sublime tenderness. 90 min. DVD 8759 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database To the top JCVD(Belgium / Luxembourg / France, 2008) Directed by Mabrouk El Mechri. Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme, François Damiens, Zinedine Soualem, Karim Belkhadra, Jean-François Wolff, Anne Paulicevich, Liliane Becker. JCVD, an out of luck actor, returns to his childhood home of Brussels. When he goes into a post office to receive a wire transfer, he finds himself in the middle of a hostage situation. Due to an unfortunate mistake, the police believe JCVD is responsible for the crime. As the events are played from different perspectives, JCVD finds himself protecting the hostages, as well as serving as their negotiator. JCVD is forced to accept responsibility for crimes he didn't commit, as well as the life mistakes that he did make. 97 min. DVD X1618 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database JLG/JLG (1995) Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. "Godard stars as a fictional character of his own creation, musing about in his actual home in Rolle, Switzerland. In the dead of winter, he suffers the rude interruption of critics and the cheeky services of a pretty maid, while contemplating the end of western culture, cinema and his own mortality. A busy day... but still with time for tragedy, tennis and television." 65 min. vhs 999:2102 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database J'Accuse (1937) Directed by Abel Gance. J'Accuse was first released in 1919 as a silent film, but during the late thirties, appalled at the prospect of a second World War, Gance retold his story in a vastly different version to challenge the awful onslaught of history. Jean Diaz is a research scientist who survived the carnage of WWI and swears to dedicate his life to ending war, a burden which drives him to madness. When he discovers his work is being exploited by the military-industrial establishment, he summons up the millions of dead soldiers from World War I to rise from their graves, to bring the world to its senses. Gance's monumental work anticipated the terrible destructive capability of modern weapons and remains a powerful statement for today. J'accuse is a World War I drama considered to be one of the most technically advanced films of the era and the first major pacifist film. It was referred to by Gance as "a human cry against the bellicose din of armies." Stars Marise Dauvray as Edith, a young woman who is unhappily married to an older man François, but is actually in love with a young poet Jean Diaz. Both Jean and François end up on the front lines of World War I while Edith is captured by German forces and suffers atrocities at the hands of the soldiers. Gance contrasts individual human suffering with the larger horrors of was, depicted with stark realism. Paris pendant la guerre (Paris during the war): A rare comical look at Parisian life during wartime. These short vignettes feature several popular performers of the day (including: Félix Galipaux, M. Rablet, Marcel Simon, M. Boucot, Jane Faber) ; also includes François Poulbot's famous political cartoons. 166 min. DVD X665 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database J'ai faim, j'ai froid (I'm Hungry, I'm Cold) (1984) Shorter works directed by Chantal Akerman. J'ai faim, j'ai froid (I'm hungry, I'm cold): Two young Belgian girls run away from their home in Brussels. They spend a day and an evening in Paris looking for food and love, with comic and poignant results. Hôtel Monterey: A stark, silent look at a New York pension hotel. Saute ma ville: A young woman comes home to her apartment in Brussels, where she cooks pasta and seals herself in with duct tape. The story ends with a bang. Akerman's first film made at the age of 18. 89 min. vhs 999:980 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Chantal Akerman bibliography J'ai pas sommeil (I Can't Sleep) (1994) Director, Claire Denis. Cast: Katerina Golubeva, Richard Courcet, Vincent Dupont. A "granny killer" is loose in Paris, inciting fear and havoc amongst its residents. Based on the true story of Thierry Paulin, who with his male lover murdered over 20 elderly women in Paris in the 1980s, this is an eerily atmospheric portrait of urban alienation and arbitrary violence. 115 min. DVD X1120; vhs 999:3268 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Je Rentre à la maison (Vou para Casa; I'm Going Home) (France/Portugal, 2001) Directed by Manoel de Oliveria. Cast: Michel Piccoli, Antoine Chappey, Catherine Deneuve, John Malkovich, Leonor Baldaque, Leonor Silveria. The comfortable daily routines of an aging Parisian actor are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash. Having to take care of his now-orphaned grandson, he struggles to go on with his lifelong acting career but finally becomes convinced that its time to retire. 90 min. Non-US (PAL) format DVD. DVD 5271 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Je, Tu, Il, Elle (I, you, he, she) (1974) Directed by Chantal Akerman. Julie stays in a virtually bare room writing a long love letter, with which she becomes increasingly frustrated. She hitchhikes along the Brussels highway, where she is picked up by a truck driver. Arriving at the apartment of her former lesbian lover, Julie spends the night but silently leaves the apartment next morning. 90 min. DVD X2625; also DVD 8267; DVD 513; vhs 999:926 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Chantal Akerman bibliography Je vous salue, Marie (Hail Mary) (1985) Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Cast: Myriem Roussel, Thierry Rode, Philippe Lacoste, Malachai Jara Kohan, Juliette Binoche. A film which presents the Virgin Birth in contemporary terms. When a teenage virgin innocent becomes pregnant the girl, her fiance, family, and friends struggle to cope. 107 min. Special feature: Le livre de Marie (The book of Mary), by Anne-Marie Mieville (1985, 28 min). DVD 6375 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Jean-Luc Godard bibliography Jean de Florette (1986) Directed by Claude Berri. Cast: Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil, Elisabeth Depardieu, Margarite Lozano. The story of Jean Cadoret, a man who inherits a farm from his mother and foolishly hopes to become a gentleman farmer. But even before he arrives, his powerful neighbor Cesar, is plotting to steal his land. With the help of his corrupt nephew, the collusion of the clannish villagers and the added effects of a severe drought, Cesar hatches a wicked scheme that drives Jean to the brink of desperation. From the novel by Marcel Pagnol. 122 min. DVD 514; vhs 999:383 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards - Best Film; Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Daniel Auteuil) César Awards, France - Best Actor (Daniel Auteuil) National Board of Review, USA - Best Foreign Language Film Jeanne Dielman 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Belgium / France, 1975) Directed by Chantal Anne Akerman. Cast: Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte, Henri Storck. Chronicles mundane episodes from the daily life of a 40-year-old housewife/prostitute who snaps when faced with intense emotion and commits a horrifying crime. Special features DVD X1959: Restored digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Chantal Akerman; "Autour de Jeanne Dielman:" a documentary shot by actor Sami Frey and edited by Agnes Ravez and Akerman, made during the filming; new interviews with Akerman and cinematographer Babette Mangolte; excerpt from "Chantal Akerman par Chantal Akerman:" a 1997 episode of the French television program Cinéma de notre temps; interview with Akerman's mother, Natalia; archival television interview excerpt featuring Akerman and star Delphine Seyrig; "Saute ma ville:" (1968), Akerman's first film, with an introduction by the director. A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Ivone Margulies. 85 min. DVD X1959; DVD 8267 (non-US format DVD) Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Autour de Jeanne Dielman (1975-2004) An unpublished documentary on the filming of "Jeanne Dielman" mounted by Chantal Akerman and Agnes Ravez and filmed throughout the shooting by Sami Frey. Looks at the relationships during rehearsals between Delphine Seyrig, Chantal Akerman and the team, almost exclusively female. Special feature: Entretien avec Chantal Akerman (1966; 17 min. : sd., col.) 78 min. DVD 8267 Jeanne la Pucelle - Les Batailles (Joan the Maid - The Battles) (1994) Directed by Jacques Rivette. Cast: Sandrine Bonnaire, André Marcon, Jean-Louis Richard, Marcel Nozonnet, Patrick LeMauff, Didier Sauvegrain, Jean-Pierre Lorit, Bruno Wolkowitch. Tells the story of Joan of Arc recorded in meticulous detail, relying on original court transcripts and eyewitness accounts. "The Battles," the first segment of this two-part account of her life, follows Joan from her birth in 1412 describing her early life, to her response to inner voices during battles at Orleans culminating with the defeat of the English at Tourelles. 112 min. DVD 1171; vhs 999:2371 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Jeanne la Pucelle - Les Prisons (Joan the Maid - The Prisons) (1994) Directed by Jacques Rivette. Cast: Sandrine Bonnaire, André Marcon, Jean-Louis Richard, Marcel Nozonnet, Patrick LeMauff, Didier Sauvegrain, Jean-Pierre Lorit, Bruno Wolkowitch. "The Prisons," the second segment in a two-part account of the life of Joan of Arc, begins in June, 1429, as Joan rejoins the Dauphin at Loches and embarks on a series of French victories over the English. But in May of the following year, Joan is captured and imprisoned. In January of 1431, the trial of Joan of Arc begins and during five months, she faces her two judges; accused of sorcery, impurity, wearing men's clothing and refusal to submit to English rule, she is condemned as a heretic and burned at the stake. 116 min. DVD 1171; vhs 999:2372 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database J'embrasse pas (I Don't Kiss) (France / Italy, 1991) Directed by André Téchiné. Cast: Philippe Noiret, Emmanuelle Beart, Manuel Blanc, Helène Vincent, Ivan Desny, Christophe Bernard, Roschdy Zem, Raphaeline Goupilleau, Michèle Moretti. Pierre breaks away from his family life in rural France and moves to Paris where he finds it harder than expected to become an actor. He rejects the help of an older gay man and lives on the streets, where he meets a young female prostitute. 116 min. DVD X61 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Jésus de Montréal (Jesus of Montreal) (Canada | France, 1989) Directed by Denys Arcand. Cast: Lothaire Bluteau, Catherine Wilkening, Johanne-Marie Tremblay, Remy Girard, Robert Lepage, Gilles Pelletier, Yves Jacques. A Montreal shrine seeks to inspire its congregants by modernizing its staging of the Passion play. A promising cast of vibrant young actors are signed on - one fresh from perfume commercials, another from the pornographic film industry, and another who had an affair with the basilica's priest - quickly drive the production on to become a smash hit. But as the play enjoys success, the actors become more and more challenged to separate their real lives from their lives onstage. 119 min. DVD 3163 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards Cannes Film Festival - Jury Prize; Prize of the Ecumenical Jury Toronto International Film Festival - International Critics Award (FIPRESCI) Auteur/provocateur : the films of Denys Arcand / edited by André Loiselle and Brian McIlroy. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1995. (Main (Gardner) Stacks PN1998.3.A735 A88 1995) Baugh, Lloyd. Imaging the divine : Jesus and Christ-figures in film / Lloyd Baugh. Kansas City, MO : Sheed & Ward, c1997. (Main (Gardner) Stacks PN1995.9.J4 B38 1997) Grace, Pamela. "The Gospel According to Matthew (1964) and Jesus of Montreal (1989): the alternative hagiopic." In: The religious film : Christianity and the hagiopic / Pamela Grace. Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. (Full text available online [UC Berkeley users only]; Print: Main (Gardner) Stacks PN1995.9.R4 G73 2009) Miles, Margaret R. "Jesus of Montreal." In: Seeing and believing : religion and values in the movies / Margaret R. Miles. Boston : Beacon Press, 1996. (Main Stack PN1995.9.R4.M56 1996) O'Brien, Tom. "Jesus of Montreal." Film Quarterly, Fall90, Vol. 44 Issue 1, p47-50, 4p UC users only Staley, Jeffrey Lloyd. "Jesus of Montreal, 1989." In: Jesus, the Gospels, and cinematic imagination : a handbook to Jesus on DVD / Jeffrey L. Staley and Richard Walsh. Louisville, Ky. : Westminster John Knox Press, c2007. (Main (Gardner) Stacks PN1995.9.J4 S73 2007) La Jetée (1962) Directed by Chris Marker. "Earth lies ruined in the aftermath of a nuclear war. The few surviving humans begin researching time travel, in hopes of sending someone back to the pre-war world in search of food, supplies, and hopefully some sort of solution to mankind's imminent demise. The protagonist is a man whose retention of a single, vague childhood memory (that of witnessing a murder on the jetty at Orly airport) is the basis for his being chosen to travel back in time. His journey leads him towards an enigmatic and paradoxical destiny. This fascinating story is told primarily with still photographs; the film contains only one moving image." [Internet Movie Database]. 42 min. DVD 6:1:2 [NOTE: this version with English voice over only]; DVD 1917 (PAL); vhs 999:778 and vhs 999:1437 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard (1975) Directed by Marcel Bluwal. Cast: Danièle Lebrun, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Françoise Giret, Claude Brasseur, André Huguet, Henri-Jacques Huet. A comic romance based on the 1730 play by Marivaux. In French without subtitles. 93 min. Video/C 9354 Jeux interdits (Forbidden Games) (1952) Directed by René Clément. An orphaned girl in 1940s France is taken in by a farm family. The story focuses on the relationship which grows between the girl and the family's youngest son. 84 min. DVD 4992; vhs 999:133 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards Honorary Academy Award - Foreign Language Picture Venice Film Festival - Golden Lion Award Benson, Ed. "The Screen of History in Clément's Forbidden Games." Literature/Film Quarterly. 2005. Vol. 33, Iss. 3; p. 207 (10 pages) UC users only Cardullo, Bert; Bazin, André. "André Bazin on René Clément and Literary Adaptation: Two Original Reviews." Literature Film Quarterly, 2002, Vol. 30 Issue 1, p2, 11p UC users only Torchin, Leshu. "La Bataille du Rail/Forbidden Games." Cineaste, Winter2006, Vol. 32 Issue 1, p66-68, 3pUC users only Le Joli Mai (1963) Directed by Chris Marker and Pierre L'Homme. A series of interviews with ordinary people in the streets of France speaking about their lives and feelings while living in France in May of 1962, the year the Algerian War came to an end. Commentary spoken by Yves Montand (French version), Simone Signoret (English version). 119 min. DVD X5801 [preservation copy]; vhs 999:2111 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Jonas qui aura 25 ans en l'an 2000 (Jonah Who Will be 25 in the Year 2000) (1976) Directed by Alain Tanner. Cast: Jean-Luc Bideau, Myriam Mezi`ere, Miou-Miou, Jacques Denis. This high-spirited, freewheeling comedy tells the story of eight French veterans of 1968, stranded between revolution and accomodation in the 1970s. Among them a sexy secretary with mystical beliefs, a disillusioned journalist turned gambler, a supermarket cashier who gives away food and a highly unorthodox teacher each providing their own eccentric solutions to the problems of society. 110 min. vhs 999:2882 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Barkan, Joanne. "Jonah After the Year 2000." Dissent , Winter2004, Vol. 51 Issue 1, p105-108, 4p UC users only Bates, Robin "Holes in the sausage of history: May '68 as absent center in three Europan films." Cinema Journal Vol XXIV nr 3 (Spring 1985); p 24-42. Berger, John. Jonah who will be 25 in the year 2000 = Jonas qui aura 25 ans in l'ans 2000 / a film by Alain Tanner Berkeley, Calif. : North Atlantic Books, c1983 (Main (Gardner) Stacks PN1997 .J5613 1983) Horton, Andrew. "Alain Tanner's "Jonah": Echoes of Renoir's "M. Lange"." Film Criticism, Spring80, Vol. 4 Issue 3, p25-30, 6p UC users only Leach, Jim. A possible cinema : the films of Alain Tanner / by Jim Leach. Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1984. (Main (Gardner) Stacks PN1998.A3 T264 1984) Stam, Robert. "Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000: The Subversive Charm of Alain Tanner." Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, vol. 15, pp. 1, 5-7, 1977 July Joueur d'échecs (The Chess Player) (1925) Directed by Raymond Bernard. Cast: Pierre Blanchar, Charles Dulin, Edith Jehanne, Camille Bert, Pierre Batchell, Marcelle Charles-Dulin. An early silent costume drama set in the court of Catherine the Great, the film combines romance, politics, and war with the story of the invention of the chess-playing automaton. 140 min. DVD 1796 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Jour de fête (1949) Directed by Jacques Tati. Cast: Jacques Tati, Guy Decomble, Paul Frankeur, Santa Relli, Maine Vallee. Comedy about the effects of the arrival of a travelling fair to a small village, where rural postman Francois is unduly influenced by a newsreel about the super-efficient U.S. mail service. Notable as the first feature film of Jacques Tati. 76 min.DVD X6118 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Le Jour se l&egravJacques Tatie;ve (Daybreak) (1939) Directed by Marcel Carné. Cast: Jean Gabin, Arletty, Jules Berry, Jacqueline Laurent. A sympathetic factory worker finds the only way to free the woman he loves from the arms of another is to commit murder. Afterwards he locks himself in his furnished room and starts remembering how he was led to the killing. He met Françoise, a young fleurist, and they fell in love but ... 88 min.DVD X2434; vhs 999:1059 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Bazin, André; Gray, Hugh (translator) "The Destiny of Jean Gabin." In: Rediscovering French film / edited by Mary Lea Bandy ; introduction by Richard Roud. New York : Museum of Modern Art ; Boston : Distributed by New York Graphic Society Books, Little, Brown, c1983. (Main (Gardner) Stacks; PFA PN1993.5.F7 R39 1983) Gruber, Helmut "Jean Gabin: Doomed Worker-Hero of a Doomed France." International Labor and Working-Class History No. 59, Workers and Film: As Subject and Audience (Spring, 2001), pp. 15-35 UC users only Slavitt, David R. "Jean Gabin: A Screen Image." Hopkins Review, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 275-293, 2008 Spring UC users only Turim, Maureen. "Poetic Realism as Psychoanalytical and Ideological Operation: Marcel Carné's 'Le Jour se leve'." In: French film, texts and contexts Edited by Susan Hayward and Ginette Vincendeau. pp: 63-77. London ; New York : Routledge, 1989. (UCB Main PN1993.5.F7 F74 1989; UCB Moffitt PN1993.5.F7 F74 1990) Slavitt, David R. "Jean Gabin: A Screen Image." Hopkins Review, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 275-293, 2008 Spring UC users only Vincendeau, Ginette. "Anatomy of a Myth: Jean Gabin." Nottingham French Studies, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 19-31, 1993 Spring Vincendeau, Ginette. "From proletarian hero to godfather: Jean Gabin and 'paradigmatic' French masculinity." In: Me Jane : masculinity, movies, and women / edited by Pat Kirkham and Janet Thumin. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1995. Main (Gardner) Stacks; Moffitt PN1995.9.M46 M35 1995) Le Journal d'une femme de chambre (Diary of a Chambermaid) (1964) Directed by Luis Buñuel. Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Georges Geret, Daniel Ivernel, Françoise Lugagne, Muni, Jean Ozenne, Michel Piccoli. A chambermaid with Paris flair gets a job at a country estate and discovers the family she works for and the other staff members are a strange sort. She entrenches herself in sexual hypocracy and scandal with her philandering employer and when a child is murdered near the estate, she begins to have her suspicions as to whom may be responsible. 97 min. DVD 892; vhs 999:1060 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Buñuel, Luis. Le journal d'une femme de chambre. [Paris] Seuil [1971] (NRLF (UCB) PN1997 .B7946) Le Journal d'un curé de campagne (Diary of a Country Priest) (1950) Directed by Robert Bresson. Cast: Claude Laydu, Antoine Balpetre, Gaston Severin, Leon Arvel, Jean Danet, André Guibert, Nicole Ladmiral, Jean Riveyre, Jeanne Etievant, Bernard Hubrenne, Marie-Monique Arkell. A young country priest engenders hostility, indifference, and rejection among his parishioners. Stricken by cancer, he dies a lonely death. 120 min. DVD 2475 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Jours tranquilles à Clichy (Quiet days in Clichy) (1989) Director, Claude Chabrol. Cast: Nigel Havers, André w McCarthy, Barbara De Rossi, Stephanie Cotta, Eva Grimaldi, Isolde Barth. A womanizing photographer takes up residence with an impoverished writer in the promiscuous red light district of 1930's Paris. Together, they spend days at the club Melody, a place of ill-repute where prostitutes satisfy the passions and desires of their clientele. Adapted from the novel of the same title, written by Henry Miller. 100 min. vhs 999:2900 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Judex (1917) Directed by Louis Feuillade. One of cinema's first 'superheroes,' the mysterious Judex in these early silent films is torn between an oath of justice against the wealthy banker Favraux, who had earlier wronged his family, and his secret love of Favraux's daughter, Jacqueline. This framework is the basis of a series of extraordinary and engaging incidents involving Judex's brother, the evil Diana Monti and her accomplices, the detective Cocatin, and the charming Licorice Kid. Disc 1: Prologue -- 1. The mysterious shadow -- 2. The atonement -- 3. The fantastic dog pack -- 4. The secret of the tomb -- 5. The tragic mill -- Disc 2: 6. The Liquorice Kid -- 7. The woman in black -- 8. The underground passages of the Chateau-Rouge -- 9. When the child appeared -- 10. Jacqueline's heart -- 11. The water goddess -- 12. Love's forgiveness. Features a newly recorded score by Robert Israel. Also included: The music of Judex, an 18 minute featurette in which Robert Israel discusses scoring Judex and an essay by film historian Jan-Christopher Horak. 315 min. DVD 6178 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Judex (1963) Directed by Georges Franju. Cast: Channing Pollock, Francine Bergé, Edith Scob, Théo Sarapo, Sylvia Koscina. Concerns a wicked banker, his helpless daughter, and a mysterious avenger. It plays like a fairy tale, one in which Franju creates a dazzling clash between good and evil, eschewing interest in the psychological aspects of his characters for unexplained twists and turns in the action. Special features: Interview with Jacques Champreux (the grandson of Louis Feuillade) filmed in 2007, discussing Georges Franju and their collaboration adapting the work of his grandfather. 94 min. DVD X1679 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Le juge et l'assassin (The Judge and the Assassin) (1975) Directed by Bertrand Tavernier. Cast: Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Michel Galabru, Jean-Claude Brialy. France, 1893. Joseph Bouvier, a former Sergeant in the French military, shoots his beloved and attempts to kill himself. Having survived with two bullets in his brain, he is released from the Dole medical facility, a place of mental and physical filthiness. Then begins a five-year period of wandering on the roads of the South East of France, during which Bouvier rapes and eventually kills two dozen defenseless shepherds and farm servants of both sexes. Judge Rousseau thinks this case would help his career as a right wing politician and therefore issues warrants of arrests to find any hobo fitting the description. But if Bouvier was declared insane, the Judge's plan may become a trap... Based on the career, trial and execution of Joseph Vacher, at whose trial the judge was Émile Fourquet. 121 min.DVD X6011 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Jules et Jim (Jules and Jim) (1961) Directed by François Truffaut. Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre, Vanna Urbino. In the bohemian Paris of 1912, two inseparable bon vivants fall in love with the same young woman. She capriciously marries one of them and thereupon begins a tale of the long, torturous emotional adjustments the three must make. Special features (Criterion disc DVD 4347): New, restored high-definition digital transfer supervised by director of photography Raoul Coutard; Commentary with co-writer Jean Gruault, Truffaut collaborator Suzanne Schiffman, editor Claudine Bouche, and Truffaut scholar Annette Insdorf; Commentary with actress Jeanne Moreau and Truffaut biographer Serge Toubiana; New video interview with director of photography Raoul Coutard; Exclusive video interview with Jean Gruault; New Video conversation between film scholars Robert Stam and Dudley André w; 1969 segment from the French program 'L'Invite du Dimanche,' featuring Truffaut and Moreau; Excerpts from an episode of the French TV program 'Cineastes de notre temps' dedicated to Truffaut; Truffaut on novelist Henri-Pierre Roche, from the 1966 French program 'Bibliotheque de poche'; Archival audio interview with Truffaut. 106 min.DVD 4347; DVD 126; vhs 999:62 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Juste avant la nuit (Just Before Nightfall) (1971) Directed by Claude Chabrol. Cast: Stephane Audran, Michel Bouquet, François Perier, Jean Carmet, Marina Ninchi, Dominique Zardi, Henri Attal, Paul Temps. Charles Masson, an advertising executive, is having an affair with Laura, the wife of his best friend, the architect François Tellier. When one of their S&M games goes too far, Laura is accidentally strangled. Even though the police are struggling to solve the murder, Charles finds it difficult to cope with the situation and to live a normal life with his two children and loving wife Hel`ene. From Chabrol's most revered period of work between 1968 and 1974, this is a masterful exploration into friendship and the darker sides of human nature. 102 min. DVD 5414 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Claude Chabrol bibliography Juve contre Fantômas (Silent; 1913-14) Directed by Louis Feuillade. The Simplon Express disaster (23 min.) -- The haunted Villa (23 min.) Episodes of the Fantomas silent film serial about the adventures of Fantomas, the mysterious bandit in a black hood who is relentlessly tracked by Juve, the detective. Fantomas was an immense worldwide success and helped establish the advent of film serials in the United States. 47 min. included on DVD 5868; also on vhs 999:1926 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database To the top L.627 (1992) Directed by Bertrand Tavernier. Cast: Didier Bezace, Jean-Paul Comart, Charlotte Kady, Jean-Roger Milo. Using the French anti-drug statute L.627 as its title and collaborating with a fifteen-year veteran of the Paris police, Tavernier plunges into the story of Lulu, a quietly dedicated narcotics cop who becomes part of a small, ill-equiped, but spirited drug squad often taking the law into their own hands. 145 min. DVD 8823 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database La France (France, 2007) Directed by Serge Bozon. Cast: Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory, Guillaume Depardieu, Guillaume Verdier, François Négret, Laurent Talon, Pierre Léon, Benjamin Esdraffo, Didier Brice, Laurent Lacotte, Laurent Valero, Lionel Turchi, Bob Boisadan. French farm girl Camille is awaiting news of her husband, who is fighting at the front. After she receives an enigmatic letter ending their relationship, she dresses up as a boy and joins a wandering regiment in search of her estranged love. Skirting the edges of battlefields, the platoon haunts the screen like shell-shocked specters, awakening for four uncannily beautiful musical numbers played on homemade string instruments. 102 min. DVD X3883 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Dargis, Manohla. "World War I on Their Minds, '60s Pop in Their Hearts." New York Times; 07/11/2008, p16, 0p Peranson, Mark. "Band on the Run: Serge Bozon's La France." Cinema Scope, Winter2008, Issue 33, p6-10, 5p UC users only Smith, Gavin. "La France." Film Comment; Jan/Feb2009, Vol. 45 Issue 1, p40-40 UC users only Lacombe Lucien (1974) Directed by Louis Malle. Cast: Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clément, Holger Lowenadler, Thérèse Giehse. Louis Malle's film brilliantly relates the story of a young opportunist French peasant who joins the Gestapo during the Nazi occupation. Despite being a collaborator he falls in love with the daughter of a Jewish tailor, with profound effects on her family. A subtle, complex tale of guilt, innocence and the amorality of power. 132 min. DVD 5381; vhs 999:3071 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards - Best Film National Board of Review, USA - Best Supporting Actor (Holger Löwenadler) National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA - Best Supporting Actor (Holger Löwenadler) Lady Chatterley (Belgium | France, 2006) Directed by Pascale Ferran. Cast: Marina Hands, Jean-Louis Coulloc'h, Hippolyte Girardot. A young woman, unable to be intimate with her husband after his war injuries, seeks solace and physical passion in the arms of a gamekeeper. Based on the novel by D.H. Lawrence. Special features: 40 minutes of never-before-seen footage, interviews, commentary, and more. 201 min. DVD X3772 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Laissez-passer (Safe Conduct) (2002) Directed by Bertrand Tavernier. Cast: Jacques Gamblin, Denis Podalydes, Charlotte Kady, Marie Desgranges, Ged Marlon, Philippe Morier-Genoud, Laurent Schilling, Maria Pitarresi, Marie Gillain. During the Nazi occupation of France during World War II, the nation's movie studios continued to operate. Jean Devaivre is an assistant director for Continental Pictures, a studio which has recently been taken over by the Germans and is headed by Dr. Greven. With a wife and son to support, Devaivre feels he has little choice but to continue with his work. Screenwriter Jean Aurenche, a man who lives for wine, women and song, refuses to work for Greven, and struggles to find a way to make a living with his words. 163 min. DVD 2684 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Kauffmann, Stanley. "Grace under pressure." The New Republic. Nov 4, 2002. Vol. 227, Iss. 19; pg. 22UC users only Lovejoy, Alice. "Safe Conduct." Film Comment, Nov/Dec2002, Vol. 38 Issue 6, p76, 1pUC users only Marcelle Clements. "When Moviemaking Was a Form of Resistance." New York Times. (Late Edition (East Coast)). Oct 13, 2002. pg. 2.11 Porton, Richard; Flitterman-Lewis, Sandy. "The spirit of resistance: An interview with Bertrand Tavernier." Cineaste. Spring 2003. Vol. 28, Iss. 2; p. 4 UC users only Lancelot du Lac (Lancelot of the Lake) (1974) Directed by Robert Bresson. Cast: Luc Simon, Laura Duke Condominas, Humbert Balsan, Vladimir Antolek-Oresek, Patrick Bernhard, Arthur De Montalembert, Charles Balsan. 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. 80 min. DVD 2755; vhs 999:1206 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Léon (The Professional) (1994) Director, Luc Besson. Cast: Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, Natalie Portman, Danny Aiello. When his next door neighbors are murdered, New York's top hit man becomes the unwilling guardian of their surviving 12-year-old daughter. He helps her track the psychotic agent who murdered her family so she can exact her revenge. A non-stop crescendo of action, suspense and surprises. 110 min. DVD 5805 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database La legge (The Law) (Italy | France, 1959) Directed by Jules Dassin. Cast: Gina Lollobrigida, Marcello Mastroianni, Yves Montand, Pierre Brasseur, Melina Mercouri. A beautiful young woman in a sleepy Italian village is desired by the son of a mobster, but she only has eyes for a handsome young engineer. Unfortunately, he is as poor as she is so Marietta decides to steal a dowry. In so doing she exposes the town's biggest lies. Based on the novel by Roger Vailland. Special features: Feature length audio commentary ; alternate ending ; 1958 episode of Cinépanorama ; 1957 television interview with La loi novelist Roger Vailland ; documentary ; original trailer ; exclusive essay by Haden Guest. 121 min. DVD X5122 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Léon Morin, prêtre (Leon Morin, Priest) (1961) Director, Jean-Pierre Melville. Cast: Emanuelle Riva, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Irene Tunc, Nicole Mirel, Gisele Grimm, Marco Béhar, Gérard Buhr. Léon Morin is a devoted man of the cloth who is also the crush object of all the women of a small village in Nazi-occupied France. He finds himself most drawn to a sexually frustrated widow, a borderline heretic whose relationship with her confessor is a confrontation with both God and her own repressed desire. Based on the novel by Béatrix Beck. 117 min. DVD X6146 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Le Léopard (1984) Director, Jean-Claude Sussfeld. Cast: Claude Brasseur, Dominique Lavanant, Marius Weyers, Max Megy, Nini Crepon. A French secret service agent who becomes a novelist after he is forced to retire, writes about experiences he had as a spy in his novel. Adventures ensue when he and his editor, whom the ex-spy regards as too stuffy for his own good, wind up in Africa where they must overcome their mutual dislike and investigate the murder of a renowned physicist. In French without subtitles. SECAM format. 96 min. vhs 999:3193 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Letter to Jane (France, 1972) Directors, Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin. "This extraordinary little movie emerges from the then recently formed French Dziga Vertov film collective, led by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin. The collective produced a number of provocative films that show a distinct move away from the more 'middle class' narratives of a film like Pierrot le fou (Godard, 1965). In Letter to Jane, a single news photograph (see further discussion below) first appears on the screen: it is of Jane Fonda towering above some Vietnamese, and on the sound track Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin discuss the implications of the photograph. Their talk is didactic, and reveals what Laura Mulvey referred to later as Godard's "always interesting" misogyny (quoted in Williams 1992: 84). Certainly the intensity of a film consisting of a still picture and two ideologues berating the subject of the picture has something of the feeling of a show trial about it. The Marxist/Maoist Dziga Vertov movement and Jane Fonda's own short career as a bourgeois idealist collide in what in retrospect is a film by two rather privileged intellectuals who both seem to lack a sense of history's ironies." [Dawson, J. 2002.] Includes 1972 video interview excerpt with Jean-Luc Godard; new video interview with Jean-Pierre Gorin; includes a booklet including essays by film critics J. Hoberman and Kent Jones and Godard biographer Colin MacCabe and an excerpted interview with Gorin and Godard from 1972. 52 min. DVD 3549 (supplement to DVD of Tout va bien) Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Dawson, Jonathan. "Letter to Jane." Senses of Cinema. no. 19, Mar-Apr 2002. Klein, Michael. "Letter to Jane." Film Quarterly, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Autumn, 1973), pp. 62-64 UC users only Letterist Films: Woman, Women (1978-1995) Various directors. Contents: Le temoin ou la timide esperance (The witness or timid expectations), Christiane Guymer (1984, 9 min.); Guimauve et baisers bleus (Blue kisses and marshmellows), Hélène Richol (1983, 10 min.); All women are Joan of Arcs, Suzanne Lemaitre, Maurice Lemaitre (1984, 20 min.); La femme n'est plus ce qu'elle e'tait! (Woman is not what she used to be), Hélène Richol (1978, 10 min.); End memory, Pip Chodorov (1995, 6 min.); Une histoire d'amour (Love, Maurice Lemaitre (1978, 9 min.). "If the woman is not what she used to be, she will soon become, through ongoing struggle, not the future of mankind, but her own future, as demonstrated in these letterist films. Proof that she must perhaps also find companionship with men in this creative combat is offered here as the focus on the woman or on women, can signify neither myth nor exclusion." 64 min. vhs 999:1963 Leurs premiers films (Their First Films) (1946-1971) Presents eight of the very first films of several French directors who went on to become household names in international cinema. Even in their first attempts it is easy to see what differentiated them from similar colleagues, and also how their styles became so coherent and indentifiable. Contents: L'amour existe, by Maurice Pialat (1961, b&w, 19 min.). Le chant du styRené , by Alain Resnais (1957, col., 14 min.). Charlotte et son Jules, by Jean-luc Godard (1958, b&w, 13 min.). Le coup du berger, by Jacques Rivette (1957, b&w, 27 min.). Histoire d'eau, by François Truffaut & Jean-Luc Godard (1958, b&w, 12 min.). Le labaratoire de l'Angoisse, by Patrice Leconte (1971, col., 11 min.). Les surmenes, by Jacques Doniol-Valcroze (1957, b&w, 19 min.). 24 heures de la vie d'un clown, by Jean-Pierre Melville (1946, b&w, 18 min.) (Note: search IMDB.com for more details on each filmmaker.) DVD 3134 Level Five (1997) Directed by Chris Marker. The French computer programmer Laura inherits the task of making a computer game of the Battle of Okinawa in Japan during WWII. She searches the Internet for information and interviews Japanese experts and witnesses. The extraordinary circumstances of the Battle lead her to reflect deeply on her own life and humanity in general, particularly the influence of history and memories. 105 min. vhs 999:3156 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Lèvres de sang (Lips of Blood) (France, 1975) Directed by Jean Rollin. Cast: Jean-Loup Phillipe, Annie Brilland, Natalie Perrey. A young man is plagued by visions of a castle and a ghostly woman in white, visions which eventually lead him to a cemetery of female vampires whom he releases onto the city of Paris. This explicit oedipal fantasy is crammed full of dark dungeons, lesbian sex, coffins, and surreal vampires. 90 min. DVD X6871 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Liaisons dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons) (1960) Directed by Roger Vadim. Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Gérard Philipe, Annette Vadim, Jeanne Valerie, Jean Louis Trintignant. Based on the 18th century novel that scandalized Parisian society and updated by Vadim. Valmont (Gérard Philipe) and Juliette (Jeanne Moreau) have an unusual open marriage in which adulterous affairs are encouraged. A Swiss ski resort provides the perfect backdrop for their perverse game of devastating the emotional lives of those around them. Their game backfires when Valmont breaks their cardinal rule by falling in love. Created is an unforgettable portrait of a decadent society where people become mere playing pieces in the game of seduction. 111 min. vhs 999:453 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Liliom (1934) Directed by Fritz Lang. Cast: Charles Boyer, Madeleine Ozeray, Florelle, Pierre Alcover, Robert Arnoux. Brash ne'er-do-well Liliom, played by Boyer with physical gusto and inner uncertainty, is a carnival barker until he encounters the ethereal Julie, whom he marries. When he is killed in a knife fight he is allowed to return to earth for one day to see how his wife and daughter are managing. Based on the play by Franz Molnar. 120 min. DVD 6861; DVD 2457 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Fritz Lang bibliography Lola (1961) Directed by Jacques Demy. Cast: Anouk Aimee, Marc Michel, Jacques Harden, Alan Scott, Elina Labourdette. In Nantes, a bored young man named Roland is letting life pass him by when he has a chance meeting with a woman he knew in his teens: she's Lola, now a cabaret dancer. She's also the devoted single mother of a young son, and she harbors the hope that his father, who deserted her during pregnancy, will return. Roland realizes he's in love with Lola, and this gives sudden purpose to his life. But how does she feel? Woven into the story are an American sailor who likes Lola and is kind to her son; a girl on the eve of her 14th birthday, when all things seem romantic; the girl's mother, a lonely widow; and, an aging woman who misses her son. And who's the rich guy in the Cadillac? 90 min. DVD 6660 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Lola Montès (1955) Directed by Max Ophüls. Cast: Martine Carol (Lola Montès), Peter Ustinov (Ringmaster), Anton Walbrook (King Ludwig), Henri Guisol (Maurice), Lise Delamare (Lola's mother), Paulette Dubost (Josephine), Oskar Werner (Student). Depicts, through flashbacks, the life of a famous courtesan, recounted as part of a lavish circus act. The ringmaster introduces and displays Lola Montes who recalls her romances with Franz Liszt, a student, and Ludwig, King of Bavaria before she was reduced by scandal, poverty and ill fortune to her present life as a circus performer. 110 min. DVD 189 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Burdick, Dolores M. "Lisa, Lola, and I: The Woman Unknown as the Woman Immortal in Ophuls and Robbe-Grillet." Michigan Academician, vol. 12 no. 3. 1980 Winter. pp: 251-259. Max Ophuls bibliography Un Long dimanche de fiançailles (A Very Long Engagement) (2004) Directed by Jean Pierre Jeunet. Cast: Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Jean-Pierre Becker, Dominique Bettenfeld, Jodie Foster. Mathilde is waiting desperately for her fiance to return from World War II. 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. 133 min. DVD 4169 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Lucie Aubrac (1997) Directed by Claude Berri. Cast: Carole Bouquet, Daniel Auteuil. Based on a true story, this is the dramatic tale of a husband and wife along with their associates in the French Resistance during several months of 1943. Activist Raymond Samuel is betrayed by a comrade and arrested by the Gestapo. His only hope is his beautiful wife, Lucie, who conceives a bold plan for her husband's escape -- flirting with the enemy and risking her life to free him. 116 min. vhs 999:2926 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Allison, Maggie. "From the Violence of War to the War against Intolerance: Representing the Resistant Woman, Lucie Aubrac." South Central Review, 2002, Vol. 19(4)-20 Issue 1, p119-134, 16p UC users only Hayes, Graeme. " Resistancialism revisited: masculinity and national identity in Claude Berri's Lucie Aubrac (1997)." Studies in French Cinema, 2001, Vol. 1 Issue 2, p108, 10p UC users only Hewitt, Leah D. "Identity Wars in "L'affaire (Lucie) Aubrac": History, Fiction, Film." Contemporary French Civilization, 1998, Vol. 22 Issue 2, p264-284, 21p Reid, Donald "The Grandchildren of Godard and the Aubracs: Betrayal, Resistance, and the People without the Memory." French Cultural Studies, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 76-92, Feb 2004 UC users only Aubrac, Lucie. Outwitting the Gestapo / Lucie Aubrac ; translated by Konrad Bieber with the assistance of Betsy Wing ; with an introduction by Margaret Collins Weitz. (Main (Gardner) Stacks D802.F8 A7913 1993) Lumière Brothers SEE Early Films Ma nuit chez Maud (My Night at Maud's) (1969) Directed by Eric Rohmer. Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault, Antoine Vitez. In this French romantic comedy an engineer is seeking the perfect mate. Just when he thinks he has found her, he finds himself accidentally spending the night sharing the bed of a seductive divorcee, Maud. 111 min. DVD 263; vhs 999:1426 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Ma saison préferéé (My Favorite Season) (1993) Directed by André Téchiné. Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Patrick Dewaere, Etienne Chicot, Sabine Haudepin, Dominique Lavanant. Helène, a distracted anesthetist, almost runs down Gilles one evening on a Biarritz street. She is still numb from the drowning death earlier that year of her lover, a visionary architect. Gilles presses for a relationship, then backs away, deciding she could never love someone of lower class and limited prospects. But she does fall in love with him and gradually her depression eases. As she heals, he becomes obsessed with her lover's talents and his own limitations, behaving bizarrely and pushing her away. 122 min. DVD X61 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Ma 6-T va crack-er (1997) Directed by Jean-François Richet. Cast: Arco Descat C., Jean-Marie Robert, Malik Zeggou, Mustapha Ziad, and Karim Rezeg. A portrait of the aimless lives of unemployed inner city youths living on society's fringe in the suburbs of a French city. The film centers on two teenaged gangs who terrorize their neighborhoods. There are few limits to their unpleasant philosophy of "desire equals acquisition." The film reaches its climax at a nightclub where the two rival groups collide when a gun fight breaks out. 97 min. DVD 8792 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Cieutat, Michel. "Ma 6-T va crack-er." CinemAction, 2002, Issue 103, p200-202, 3p; Higbee, William. "Screening the 'other' Paris: cinematic representations of the French urban periphery in La Haine and Ma 6-T Va Crack-er." Modern & Contemporary France, May2001, Vol. 9 Issue 2, p197-208, 12p UC users only Johnston, Cristina. "Gazon maudit, Douce France, Ma 6-T va crack-er and Belle Maman." In: French Minority Cinema Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2010 (Full text available online [UC Berkeley users only]) Joyard, Olivier. "La cite interdite." Cahiers du Cinema, Jul/Aug 1997, Issue 515, p72-73, 2p Kohn, Olivier. "Ma 6-T va crack-er." Positif, Jul/Aug 1997, Issue 437/438, p131-131, 1p; Primeau, Francois. "Ma 6-T va crack-er." Sequences, Mar/Apr 1999, Issue 201, p39-40, 2p Ma vie en rose (My Life In Pink) (1997) Directed by Alain Berliner. Cast: Michele Laroque, Jean-Philippe Ecoffey, Hélène Vincent, Georges Du Fresne, Daniel Hanssens, Laurence Bibot, Jean-François Gallotte, Caroline Baehr, Julien Riviere, Marie Bunel. With six-year-old certainty, Ludovic believes he was meant to be a little girl and that the mistake will soon be corrected. Instead of the miraculous, Ludo finds rejection, isolation and guilt as the intense reactions of family, friends, and neighbors strip away every innocent lace and bauble. 89 min. DVD 960 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards Golden Globe Awards - Best Foreign Language Film Madame Bovary (1934) Directed by Jean Renoir. Cast: Max Dearly, Valentine Tessier, Pierre Renoir, Daniel Lecourtois, Fernand Fabre. The wife of a stolid middle-aged doctor rebels at the provincial life forced upon her and engages in a series of illicit affairs, which ultimately lead to tragedy. 102 min.vhs 999:372 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Milhaud, Darius. Deux chansons : extraites du film Madame Bovary / de Jean Renoir ; d'apres Gustave Flaubert ; production Nouvelle Societe de ... Paris : Enoch, [c1934] (Music M1614.M55.M2) Madame Bovary (1991) Directed by Claude Chabrol. Emma Bovary (Isabelle Hubert) 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. 130 min.DVD X1090; vhs 999:1966 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Madame de (Earrings of Madame de...) (1953) Directed by Max Ophüls. Cast: Danielle Darrieux, Charles Boyer, Vittorio De Sica, Lea di Lea, Jean Debucourt. Tragic misunderstandings arise when a society wife sells her earrings and tells her husband she has lost them. Based on a novel by Louise de Vilmorin. 105 min. DVD 6371 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Mulvey, Laura. "The Earrings of Madame de... Film Quarterly Jun 2009, Vol. 62, No. 4: 16-19. UC users only Max Ophüls bibliography Made in U.S.A. (1967) Directed by Jean Luc Godard. Cast: Marianne Faithfull, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Anna Karina. A young journalist makes enquiries about the death of the man she loved, killed by the police. Her search plunges her into a dark world of murder, gangsters, spies and corrupt police. Based on The Jugger by Richard Stark. 81 min. DVD X1749; also DVD 3654 (in French without English subtitles). Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Jean Luc Godard bibliography Maelstrom (Canada, 2000) Directed by Denis Villeneuve. Tells the story of Bibiane, who accidentally hits a man while driving one rainy summer night. The victim is a fisherman who is left on the highway and returns home to slowly die. Guiltily attending the man's funeral, Bibiane strikes up a conversation with his son, Evian and soon the two have become romantically involved, with Bibiane unable to tell Evian her secret. In French Canadian with English subtitles. 86 min. DVD 1443 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Maîtresse (1975) Directed by Barbet Schroeder. Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Bulle Ogier, André Rouyer, Nathalie Keryan, Roland Bertin, Tony Taffin, Holger Lowenadler. A young man stumbles into a subterranean world of sadomasochism when he is implicated in a burglary of a Paris apartment. The apartment's mistress runs a two-floor operation, respectibility above and a dungeon of punishment-seeking clients below. Special features: Exclusive video interview with Schroeder; new essay by film critic Elliott Stein. 112 min. DVD X4072 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Maine Océan (1986) Directed by Jacques Rozier. Cast: Bernard Menez, Luis Régo, Yves Afonso, Pedro Armendáriz, Lydia Feld, Rosa- Maria Gomes. A lawyer comes to the aid of a Brazilian woman who is having a misunderstanding with two ticket-takers on the "Maine-Océan," a train which travels from Paris to Nantes. Later on, the four meet again on an island off the coast. 131 min. DVD X5382 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database La Maman et la putain (The Mother and the Whore) (1973) Directed by Jean Eustache. Cast: Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Françoise Lebrun, Isabelle Weingarten. Story of the obsessive sexual relationship between a disenchanted pseudo-intellectual, his lover, and a kinky nurse. Explores the cultural phenomenon of sex without love. 215 min. vhs 999:3728 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards Cannes Film Festival - Special Jury Prize Darke, Chris. "Three Images of May." Vertigo Summer2008, Vol. 3 Issue 9, p18-22, 5pUC users only Forbes, Jill. "Psychoanalysis as narrative in films by Jean Eustache." French Cultural Studies 14.3 (Oct 2003): 249-256. UC users only Katzman, Lisa. "The end of the world." Film Comment; Mar/Apr99, Vol. 35 Issue 2, p30, 7p UC users only Kauffmann, Stanley. "The Mother and the Whore" New Republic, 2/16/74, Vol. 170 Issue 7, p22-35, 2p Keith Reader. "The Mother and the Whore." Sight and Sound. Oct 1997. Vol. 7, Iss. 10; p. 28 (4 pages)UC users only Manon des sources (Manon of the Spring) (1988) Directed by Claude Berri. Cast: Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Beart. Ten years have passed since the tragic events of Jean De Florette. Jean's daughter, Manon, appears in town to accuse the Soubeyrans of killing her father. A tragedy results that nearly destroys Cesar, the neighbor who destroyed Jean. From the novel by Marcel Pagnol. 113 min. DVD 516; vhs 999:384 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards - Best Foreign Language Film César Awards, France - Best Supporting Actress (Emmanuelle Béart ) National Board of Review, USA - Best Foreign Language Film La Mariée était en noir (The Bride Wore Black) (1968) Directed by François Truffaut. Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Michel Bouquet, Jean Claude Brialy, Charles Denner, Claude Rich, Michel Lonsdale, Daniel Boulanger, Alexandra Stewart. After a bridegroom is shot on the steps of the church on his wedding day, his widow traces the group of men responsible and eliminates them one by one. 108 min. DVD 511; vhs 999:743 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Marius (Fanny Trilogy) (1931) Directed by Marcel Pagnol. Cast: Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Orane Demazis, Fernand Charpin. This is the first film of Pagnol's Fanny trilogy (titles: Marius, Fanny, César). Marius, son of César the owner of a cafe, is drawn to the sea, filled with dreams of faraway lands. He loves Fanny, but even this love is not as strong as his wanderlust. Fanny turns him loose to follow his dream. 121 min. DVD 2751; vhs 999:771 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Marcel Pagnol bibliography La Marseillaise (1938) Director, Jean Renoir. Cast: Pierre Renoir, Lise Delamare, Louis Jouvet, Andrex Andrisson, Paul Dullac, Julien Carette, Aime Clariond, Irene Joachim. Charts the progress of the French Revolution from the fall of the Bastille and its impact on the rural peasantry. Chronicles the slow erosion of the power of the aristocracy, the departure of Louis XVI from the palace, and the anticipated defeat of the Prussian army. The focus here is on the point of view of the common people. 132 min. DVD 7586 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Burley, Peter. "A farrago of nonsense? The French Revolution in the cinema." (cover story) History Today, May89, Vol. 39 Issue 5, p51-56, 6p UC users only Grindon, Leger "History and the Historians in "La Marseillaise"." Film History, Vol. 4, No. 3 (1990), pp. 227-235 UC users only Janes, Regina. "Danton Does Not Sing La Marseillaise: Andrzej Wajda, Jean Renoir, and Their French Revolutions."Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture. 25: 293-307. 1996., UC users only Robé, Chris. "Taking Hollywood Back: The Historical Costume Drama, the Biopic, and Popular Front U.S. Film Criticism: The French Resistance: Jean Renoir and La Marseillaise." Cinema Journal 48, Number 2, Winter 2009 UC users only Jean Renoir bibliography Martyrs (France | Canada, 2008) Directed by Pascal Laugier. Cast: A young woman's quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity. 96 min. DVD X6641 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Masculin féminin: 15 faits précis (Masculine Feminine) (1966) Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Cast: Chantal Goya, Marlene Jobert, Catherine-Isabelle Duport, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Michel Debord, Eva-Britt Strandberg, Birger Malmsten, Brigitte Bardot. An original concoction that mixes politics, sex, comedy, nostalgia with standard boy-meets-girl theme. Interviewer/journalist Leaud has an affair with would-be rock star Madeleine in 1960's Paris. Special features: Archival 1966 interview with Chantal Goya; new video interviews with Goya, Kurant, and Jean-Luc Godard collaborator Jean-Pierre Gorin, conducted in 2005; video discussion of the film between French film scholars Freddy Buache and Dominique Paini; Swedish television footage of Godard directing the "film within the film" scene; trailers; 16-page booklet featuring a new essay by film critic Adrian Martin and a reprint of a report from the set by French journalist Philippe Labro. 103 min. DVD 4771; vhs 999:93 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Georges Méliès: SEE Early Films Melo(1986) Directed by Alain Resnais. Cast: Sabine Azema, Fanny Ardant, Pierre Arditi, André Dussollier, Jacques Dacqmine, Hubert Gignoux, Catherine Arditi. Marcel and Pierre, two lifelong friends, are also concert violinists. While Marcel has gone on to stardom, Pierre has settled into a contented family life with his beautiful wife, Romaine. But all is not perfect: Pierre is unaware that Romaine is having an affair with Marcel. Special features: Original theatrical trailer; interview with producer Marin Karmitz on the making of the film, and on working with director Alain Resnais. 112 min. DVD 9803 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Le Mépris (Contempt) (1963) Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Cast: Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Giorgia Moll, Fritz Lang. A young French dramatist living in Rome is working on a rewrite of the Odyssey for an American film producer. His wife suddenly ceases to love him and has an affair with the producer which leads to death. 120 min. DVD 1467; vhs 999:948 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Merci pour le chocolat (Nightcap) (2000) Director, Claude Chabrol. Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Anna Mougalis, Rodolphe Pauly, Michel Robin, Mathieu Simonet, Brigitte Catillon. Mika is the couture-attired, oh-so-perfect head of a company that makes Swiss chocolate. André is her suave concert-pianist husband whose first wife died years ago in a mysterious car acident. How is it then that André 's teenage son has no musical talent, while the stunning Jeanne, who shares his birthday, is already a world-class pianist? And why does Mika insist that everyone sip the hot chocolate she prepares each 97 min. DVD 1690 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Claude Chabrol bibliography Mesrine: Part 1: Killer Instinct (2000) Director, Jean-François Richet. Cast: Vincent Cassel; Cécile De France; Gérard Depardieu; Gilles Lellouche; Roy Dupuis; Elena Anaya. Introduces us to Jacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier back home and living with his parents after serving in the Algerian War. Handsome and charming, he is soon seduced by the neon glamour of sixties Paris and the easy money it presents. Mentored by Guido, Mesrine soon moves swiftly up the criminal ladder, choosing the high-risk life of a gangster over the honest life of the hard-working family man. After pulling off an audacious heist, he and his lover Jeanne flee to Canada where the opportunity of one big payout lures him out of hiding and propels him towards international notoriety. 109 min. DVD X4427 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Mesrine: Part 2: Public Enemy Number 1 (2000) Director, Jean-François Richet. Cast: Vincent Cassel; Ludivine Sagnier; Mathieu Amalric; Gérard Lanvin; Samuel Le Bihan. Now back in France, Mesrine is finally in police custody and facing justice for his crimes, but he is soon on the run once again. After escaping a courtroom and kidnapping the judge at gunpoint, Mesrine is declared Public Enemy Number One and is eventually condemned to a maximum security prison where he writes his first memoirs, establishing himself as a household name and anti-hero across France. 128 min. DVD X4427 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Mille et une recettes du cuisinier amoureux (A Chef In Love)(Shekvarebuli kulinaris ataserti retsepti) (1997) Director, Nana Djordjadze. Cast: Pierre Richard, Micheline Presle, Nino Kirtadze Jean-Yves Gautier, Temour Kamkhadze. French chef Pascal Ichac travels to pre-Soviet Georgia to collect recipes. What he finds is a movable feast of food, music and festivals, along with an adventuresome travel companion, the princess Cecilia. But their romantic idyll is soon threatened by the barbarism of the Russian revolution. 100 min. vhs 999:3517 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Le Million (1931) Directed by René Clair. The lyric opera is set off against the bohemian life of two poor artists both in love with a ballerina. Their happiness depends on the finding of a lottery ticket. 81 min. DVD 215; vhs 999:23 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Fischer, Lucy. "René Clair, "Le Million", and the Coming of Sound." Cinema Journal, 16:2 (1977:Spring) p.34 UC users only René Clair bibliography Milou en mai (May Fools) Directed by Louis Malle. Cast: Michel Piccoli, Miou-Miou, Michel Duchaussoy, Dominique Blanc, Harriet Walter, Bruno Carette, Paulette Dubost. Set in 1968 France, this is a comic portrait of an upper-class family in revolt, a clan that gathers to bury their matriarch and ends up almost killing each other, scrounging, backstabbing, fighting tooth and nail over prized family heirlooms. 109 min. DVD X4806; vhs 999:3425 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Louis Malle bibliography Les Misérables (1998) Cast: Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush, Uma Thurman, Claire Danes, Hans Matheson, Peter Vaughan. A dramatization of Hugo's classic tale of the ex-convi Valjean, whose attempts at a normal life are disrupted by the fanatical police inspector Javert, and the French Revolution. 134 min. DVD 2771 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Les Misérables(1934) Director, Raymond Bernard. Cast: Harry Baur, Charles Vanel, Henry Krauss, Florelle, Gaby Triquet, Josselyne Gael, Jean Servais, Charles Dullin, Marguerite Moreno, Orane Demazis, Emile Genevois, Robert Vidalin. The story of Jean Valjean, the ex-convict who rises against all odds from galley slave to mayor, and the fanatical police inspector, Javert, who dedicates his life to recapturing Valjean. Disc 1: Les miserables, part one (109 min.) -- Disc 2: Les miserables, parts two and three (172 min.). DVD 8174 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Molière (1978) Directed by Ariane Mnouchkine. Cast: Philippe Caub`ere, Jean Daste, Josephine Derenne. How did Moliere, a child born in 1622 to working-class parents, become such a well-known author? This film dramatizes the life of an honest man who struggles incessantly to practice his art in a century of hypocrisy and repression. 290 min. DVD 4590 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Mon cas (France / Portugal, 1986) Directed by Manoel de Oliveira. Cast: Bulle Ogier, Luís Miguel Cintra, Axel Bougousslavsky, Fred Personne, Wladimir Ivanovsky, Henri Serre. An experimental film presenting four rehearsals for the same story, each with a distinct style: first in the perspective of a theatre play, second in the perspective of a silent film with Samuel Beckett speaking in the background, third in the perspective of a film of the 50s and finally in a biblical philosophical perspective based on the Book of Job. Based on the work "O meu caso" by José Regio with extracts from "Pour finir encore et autre foirades" by Samuel Beckett and the Book of Job. 88 min. DVD X2147 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Mon Oncle (1958) Directed by Jacques Tati. 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. 110 min. DVD 895; vhs 999:1094 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards Academy Award - Best Foreign Language Picture Cannes Film Festival - Special Jury Prize Mon Oncle Antoine (Canada, 1971) Directed by Claude Jutra. A story set in a Quebec asbestos town in the early 1940's before the days of miners' unions. Uncle Antoine owns the general store and is the local undertaker, with his nephew Benoît as an occasional helper. On Christmas Eve a combination of events forces Benoît to face the harsher realities of life. 104 min. DVD 1061 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Chase, Donald. "Eyes of the north." Film Comment, May/Jun99, Vol. 35 Issue 3, p76, 3p UC users only Leach, Jim. Claude Jutra : filmmaker / Jim Leach. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999. (Full-text available online [UC Berkeley users only]; Print: Main (Gardner) Stacks PN1998.3.J88 L43 1999) Quart, Leonard. "Mon oncle Antoine." Cineaste, Winter2008, Vol. 34 Issue 1, p71-71 UC users only Mon Oncle d'Amérique (My American Uncle) (1980) Directed by Alain Resnais. A case study of three characters pursuing their 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 intercut with footage from other movies. 123 min. DVD 1270; vhs 999:724 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Mon père, ce héros (1999) Director, Gérard Lauzier. Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Marie Gillain, Patrick Mille, Catherine Jacob, Charlotte de Turckheim, Jean-François Rangasamy, Koomaren Chetty, Evelyne Lagesse, Benoît Allemane, Nicolas Sobrido, Yan Brian. André, a divorced Frenchman takes his teenage daughter, Nicole, on vacation with him to Mauritius. She's desperate to appear as a woman and not a girl, so in order to impress a local boy, she makes up more and more ridiculous stories, starting with André being her boyfriend. André is desperate to make Nicole happy and so plays along with her crazy games, and the stories they make up get increasingly bizarre. 99 min. DVD X2872 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Mondo (1996) Directed by Tony Gatlif. Cast: Ovidiu Balan, Philippe Petit, Pierrette Fesch, Schahla Aalam, Jerry Smith, Maurice Maurin. Mondo, a 10-year-old gypsy boy, mysteriously appears in Nice, France and begins asking strangers if they would like to adopt him. As he wanders, he befriends a magician, a Vietnamese woman, a fisherman, and others. 78 min. vhs 999:3788 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Monsieur Hire (1990) Directed by Patrice Leconte. Michel Blanc, Sandrine Bonnaire, André Wilms, Luc Thuillier. When a beautiful woman discovers she's being spied on by a cold, repressed neighbor, she becomes the aggressor in an erotically charged relationship that leads to a deadly game of cat-and-mouse. 88 min. DVD 9817; vhs 999:2415 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Duffy, Jean H. "Message versus mystery and film noir borrowings in Patrice Leconte's Monsieur Hire." French Cultural Studies June 2002 13: 209-224 UC users only Monsieur Klein (Mr. Klein) (France | Italy, 1976) Directed by Joseph Losey. Cast: Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau, Francine Berge, Juliet Berto, Jean Bouise, Suzanne Flon, Massimo Girotti, Michel Lonsdale. Set in France in 1942 at the beginning of the Nazi occupation, Mr. Klein tells of one man's search for another who has stolen his identity. Robert Klein is a well to do French Catholic art dealer; he is charming, cultivated and ruthless. One day he learns of another Mr. Klein, a jew who is using his identity to cover anti-Nazi resistance activities. As Klein becomes obsessed with the search for his imposter, he meets an elegant society lady who is somehow involved with the Jewish Klein. Eventually, Klein's search becomes a trap into which he falls. 122 min. DVD 8269 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards César Awards - Best Film; Best Director Monsieur N (France / UK, 2002) Directed by Antoine de Caunes. Cast: Philippe Torreton, Richard E. Grant, Jay Rodan, Elsa Zylberstein. Story of the last years of the life of Napoleon Bonaparte, who was imprisoned by the British on St Helena. Napoleon retained a loyal entourage of officers who helped him plot his escape, and evaded the attentions of Sir Hudson Lowe, the island's overzealous Governor. 127 min. DVD 8099 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Monsieur Vincent (France, 1947) Directed by Maurice Cloche. Cast: Pierre Fresnay, Aime Clariond, Jean Debucourt, Lise Delamare, Germaine Dermoz, Gabrielle Dorziat, Pierre Dux, Yvonne Gaudeau. Tells the remarkable journey of St. Vincent de Paul, who rose from slavery to become a trusted advisor to queens and princes. A dramatic biopic that reveals how St. Vincent de Paul's commitment to the poor made him a great humanitarian. 114 min. DVD 9901 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards Honorary Academy Award - Foreign Language Picture La mort en direct (Death Watch)((France / West Germany / UK, 1980) Directed by Bertrand Tavernier. Cast: Romy Scheider, Harvey Keitel, Harry Dean Stanton, Therèse Liotard. Roddy has a camera implanted in his brain. He is then hired by a television producer to film a documentary of terminally ill Katherine, without her knowledge. His footage will then be run on the popular TV series, "Death Watch"... 128 min. DVD 8817 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Mort en ce jardin (Death in the Garden; La Muerte en este jardin; The Diamond Hunters) (1956) Directed by Luis Buñuel. Cast: Simone Signoret, Charles Vanel, Georges Marchal, Michel Piccoli, Tito Junco, George M. deHoyos. Rarely seen Luis Buñuel effort mixes "Wages of Fear"--styled thrills with the director's darkly satiric outlook on religion and human nature. After fleeing a diamond field in the Amazon, a group of misfits comes to depend on each other for survival in the jungle. The discovery of a crashed airplane sends them back to their greedy, violent ways. 97 min. DVD X2214; vhs 999:3688 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Mouchette (1967) Directed by Robert Bresson. Mouchette, a sensitive 14-year-old, lives amidst the peasant squalor of an isolated rural community. Her alcoholic father and terminally ill mother all but abandon her to become a child of the streets. Not surprisingly, her fate is sealed when she is abducted and raped by a half witted game poacher. Special DVD features: Audio commentary by renowned film scholar, critic, and festival programmer Tony Rayns; "Au hasard Bresson," documentary on the director; "Travelling" a segment from the cine-magazine TV series "Cinema"; original theatrical trailer cut by Jean-Luc Godard ; new essay by writer Robert Polito. 90 min.DVD 7392; 999:1979 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Mai, Joseph. "'New(er) stories': Narration and de-figuration in Robert Bresson's Mouchette (1967)." Studies in French Cinema, 2007, Vol. 7 Issue 1, p31-42, 12p UC users only Robert Bresson bibliography Mr. Freedom(France, 1969) Director, William Klein. Cast: John Abbey, Don Pleasance, Delphine Seyrig, Jean-Claude Drouot, Serge Gainsbourg, Yves Lefebvre, Rufus, Sabine Sun, Rita Maiden. Satire about American culture, nationalism, and political boorishness. Superhero Mr. Freedom goes to France to save it from Communism, but he spends more time creating mayhem than he does helping. 92 min. DVD 9848 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Rapfogel, Jared. "The Delirious Fictions of William Klein.." Cineaste; Fall2008, Vol. 33 Issue 4, p20-23, 4p UC users only Muriel, ou, Le temps d'un retour (1965) Directed by Alain Resnais. Cast: Delphine Seyrig, Jean-Pierre Kerien, Nita Klein, Jean-Baptiste Theirree, Claude Sainval, Laurence Badie. A lonely woman invites an old lover she hasn't seen in twenty years to visit; he arrives accompanied by his young mistress. Meanwhile her stepson is suffering from an episode in which a fellow soldier in the Algerian war tortured an Arab girl named Muriel. Special DVD features: Original French theatrical trailer (newly subtitled) ; chapter selection ; interactive menus. ncludes booklet containing a new essay by writer B. Kite; another new essay about the film by writer Anna Thomgate; a short piece on the film by Henri Langlois; and a critical "scrapbook" containing excerpts by Francois Truffaut, Jacques Rivette and more. 116 min.DVD X1686; vhs 999:2017 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Alain Resnais bibliography To the top Nada (1974) Directed by Claude Chabrol. Cast: Fabio Testi, Michel Duchaussoy, Maurice Garrel, Michel Aumont, Lou Castel, Didier Kaminka, Viviane Romance. French terrorists kidnap the American ambassador, leaving dead and wounded in their wake. Soon they begin quarreling as to his fate, while the police purge suspects in an attempt to destroy the Nada faction. As the violence escalates on both sides, the State and the terrorists are forced to use one another's methods in an increasingly desperate and relentless conflict. 107 min. DVD 1735 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Naissance d'un golem (Birth of a Golem) (France, 1985) Directed by Amos Gitai. Cast: Simone Benyamini, Rim Bani, Zare Vartinyan, Juliano Mer, Mohammed Bakri. In this beautiful transposition of the biblical story, Amos Gitai updates the passionate tale about the ruler of a great and sprawling kingdom who chooses as his queen a beautiful peasant girl named Esther. But when Esther hides her Jewish identity from her husband, a vicious cycle of revenge begins. 97 min. DVD X2100 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Nana (1926) Directed by Jean Renoir. Cast: Catherine Hessling, Werner Krauss, Jean Angelo, Pierre Philippe, Valeska Gert. In this early French silent film, a women rises from poverty to become a dance hall queen and courtesan in 1860s Paris, destroying the lives of the men who fall in love with her. From the novel by Emile Zola. 140 min. DVD 7586; also Non-US (PAL) format DVD 6052 DVD 6052 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Napoléon (1927) Directed by Abel Gance. Cast: Albert Dieudonne, Antonin Artaud, Abel Gance. This restored 1927 Abel Gance movie masterpiece which presents important early use of split screen, moving camera and Polyvision, has been painstakingly resurrected. It is a historical epic on the life of Napoleon from boyhood to military triumph including treatment of the French Revolution. 235 min. vhs 999:164 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Les naufragés de l'ile de la Tortue (The Castaways of Turtle Island) (1976) Directed by Jacques Rozier. Cast: Pierre Richard, Jacques Villeret, Jean-François Balmer, Pierre Barouh, Patrick Chesnais, André Cletienne, Maurice Risch, Nana Vasconcellos. Two travel agents in Paris create a scheme to sell customers the "Robinson Crusoe" experience. 140 min. DVD X5381 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Nés en 68: nous nous aimeront jusqu'à la mort (Born in '68)(France, 2008) Directors: Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau. Cast: Laetitia Casta, Yannick Renier, Yann Trégouët, Christine Citti, Marc Citti, Sabrina Seyvecou, Théo Frilet, Edouard Collin, Kate Moran, Gaëtan Gallier, Fejria Deliba, Slimane Yefsah, Matthias Van Khache. In 1968 a group of revolutionary French students experiences rebellion, enlightenment, and change while establishing a commune devoted to free love, anarchy, and nudism, only to see their children eventually engage in a similarly styled rebellion 20 years later. 167 min. DVD X1976 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Ne le dis à personne (Tell no one)(France, 2006) Directors: Guillaume Canet. Cast: François Cluzet, Marie-Josée Croze, André Dussollier, François Berléand, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Nathalie Baye, Jean Rochefort, Guillaume Canet, Marina Hands, Philippe Lefebvre, Gilles Lellouche, Jalil Lespert, Olivier Marchal, Florence Thomassin, Brigitte Catillon. Pediatrician Alexandre Beck...still grieves the murder of his beloved wife, Margot, eight years earlier. When two bodies are uncovered near where Margot's body was found, the police reopen the case and Alex becomes a suspect again. The mystery deepens when Alex receives an anonymous e-mail with a link to a video clip that seems to suggest Margot is somehow still alive and a message to 'Tell no one'. Based on the book by Harlan Coben. 131 min. DVD X3752 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards César Awards - Best Director; Best Actor (François Cluzet) Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud (France | Italy | Germany, 1995) Directed by Claude Sautet. Cast: Michel Serrault, Emmanuelle Beart, Jean-Hugues Anglade. Nelly is a disheartened young Parisian with marriage and financial troubles. Introduced to the wealthy Arnaud by a mutual friend, Nelly agrees to assist him in his memoirs. The unlikely couple initially develop a playful flirtation, but their budding relationship is threatened when Nelly becomes involved with Arnaud's charming editor. 102 min. DVD X3930 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards César Awards - Best Director News from Home (France / Belgium / West Germany, 1977) Directed by Chantal Akerman. Presents a series of abstract and fragmentary images of everyday urban life in 1970s New York City, accompanied by the distinctive narration of filmmaker Chantal Akerman as she dispassionately reads through her mother's alternately affectionate, melancholic, and sincere, but maternally manipulative letters from her native Belgium. Special features: Saute ma ville (1968; 13 min. :sd., b&w); La chambre (1972; 11 min. :si., col.) 88 min. DVD X2624; also DVD 8267 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Mamula, Tijana. "Matricide, Indexicality and Abstraction in Chantal Akerman's "News from Home" and "Là-bas"." Studies in French Cinema; 2008, Vol. 8 Issue 3, p265-275, 11p UC users only Chantal Akerman bibliography Noirs et blancs en couleur (Black and White in Color) (1977) Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. Cast: Jean Carmet, Jacques Dufilho, Catherine Rouvel, Jacques Spiesser, Dora Doll. The idyllic life in a French-African settlement is rudely interrupted in 1915 by news of war in Europe. The French gamely assemble a rag-tag army of native soldiers to try to capture a neighboring German settlement. The result is a classic farce whose comedy is enlivened by the antic clash of African versus European customs. 88 min. DVD 1667; vhs 999:333 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Kazecki, Jakub "Black and White in Color or Black Victory? The Comic Effect of Displacement in the Film Noirs et blancs en couleur (1976) by Jean-Jacques Annaud." In: Gender and laughter : comic affirmation and subversion in traditional and modern media / edited by Gaby Pailer ... [et al.]. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2009. (Main (Gardner) Stacks PN6147 .G46 2009) Kline, Michael. "War, Parody, and Historical Memory in Jean-Jacques Annaud's Black and White in Color." French Review: Journal of the American Association of Teachers of French, vol. 79, no. 3, pp. 586-96, Feb 2006 Notre Histoire (Our History)(France, 1984) Director, Bertrand Blier. Cast: Alain Delon, Nathalie Baye. A desperate alcoholic reaches a turning-point in his life when he meets a strange woman in a railway carriage: they make love, but then she leaves. Chasing after the girl, he clings to her as if she were his final chance. 111 min. DVD X4673 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Notre musique (France, 2004) Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Cast: Sarah Adler, Nade Dieu, Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Rony Kramer, Juan Goytisolo, Mahmoud Darwich, Jean-Paul Curnier, Pierre Bergounioux, Gilles Pecquex, Georges Aguilar, Leticia Gutierrez, Ferlyn Brass, Aline Schulmann, Simon Eine. Part poetry, part journalism, part philosophy, Notre Musique is master filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard's witty and lyrical reflection on war through the ages. The film is structured into three Dantean Kingdoms: Hell, Purgatory and Heaven. The journey begins in Hell, represented by modern war and then moves to Purgatory, set in Sarajevo. Finally, Paradise is conceived as a small beach guarded by Marines from the United States. At the same time, the film also follows the parallel stories of two Israeli Jewish women, one drawn to the light and one drawn towards darkness. 80 min. DVD 4029 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Rascaroli, Laura. "Performance in and of the Essay film: Jean-Luc Godard plays Jean-Luc Godard in Notre musique (2004)." Studies in French Cinema, 2009, Vol. 9 Issue 1, p49-61 UC users only Vincendeau, Ginette. "Notre musique" Sight & Sound, Jun2005, Vol. 15 Issue 6, p69-70, 2p UC users only Jean-luc Godard bibliography Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble (We Won't Grow Old Together) (1972) Directed by Maurice Pialat. Cast: Marlene Jobert, Jean Yanne, Patricia Pierangeli, Jacques Galland, Christine Fabrega, Macha Meril. This drama examines the final period of a long and ultimately unhappy affair. Married to Françoise, Jean an unpleasant and domineering man, has had a connection with Catherine for six years. Distressed Catherine takes refuge with her grandmother. Non-US format DVD. In French without subtitles. 107 min. DVD 3407 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Nouvelle Vague (New Wave)(1990) Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Cast: Alain Delon, Domiziana Giordano, Roland Amstutz, Laurence Côte. A wealthy woman slams her car into a hitchhiker on a winding country road. She takes him under her wing and what ensues is a brilliant allegory on the nature of God, the class struggle, and the eternal war between man and woman. 86 min. DVD X1262 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Jean-luc Godard bibliography La Nuit américaine (Day for Night) (1973) Directed by François Truffaut. Cast: Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Valentina Cortese, Jean Champion, Dani, Jea-Pierre Leaud, Alexndra Stewart, François Truffaut. This "homage to moviemaking," details the loves and lunacy of the closely-knit family of strangers that comprises an on-location film, cast and crew. 116 min.DVD 3524; vhs 999:1492 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards Academy Award - Foreign Language Picture British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards - Best Film National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA - Best Director, Best Film BAFTA Awards - Best Direction, Best Film New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director, Best Film Day for Night: [the complete script of the film] / François Truffaut ; translated by Sam Flores. New York: Grove Press: distributed by Random House, [1975] (Main Stack PN1997.N9.T7131) Crittenden, Roger. La Nuit Americaine London : BFI Pub., 1998. BFI film classics. (Main Stack PN1997.N9.C75 1998) La nuit Bengali (The Bengali Night)(France / Switzerland / UK, 1988) Directed by Nicolas Klotz. Cast: Hugh Grant, Supriya Pathak, Shabana Azmi, Anne Brochet, John Hurt. Allan is a British engineer who becomes entangled in a forbidden romance with his Indian employer's eldest daughter, Indira. As their passion ignites, the East-meets-West clash of cultures leads to surprising and tragic consequences. Based on a true story. Based on the novel by Mircea Eliade. 115 min. DVD X1750 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database La nuit de Varennes (That Night in Varennes) (France | Italy, 1982) Directed by Ettore Scola. Cast: Jean-Louis Barrault, Marcello Mastroianni, Hanna Schygulla, Harvey Keitel, Jean-Claude Brialy. In June 1791, Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette flee Paris at night. They are followed by a writer, Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne, Casanova himself, Thomas Paine, and various other famous and non-famous people who must confront their own political ideas. Based on the novel La nuit de Varennes, ou, L'impossible n'est pas français by Catherine Rihoit. 147 min. DVD X6009 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Nuit et jour (Night and Day) (1991) Director, Chantal Akerman. Cast: Guilaine Londez, Thomas Langmann, François Negret. Story of a summer in Paris and three young people. Jack drives a taxi at night, and his days are spent with Julie. When he introduces her to a friend, a young man who drives a taxi during the day, complications arise. 90 min. vhs 999:3596 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database La Nuit fantastique (The Fantastic Night) (1942) Directed by Marcel L'Herbier. Cast: Micheline Presle, Fernand Gravey, Marcel Levesque, Christiane Nere, Zita Fiore, Marguerite Ducouret, Jean Paredes, Michel Vitold, Paul Francoeur, Roger Caccia, Bernard Blier, Charles Grandval, Saturnin Fabre. This surrealistic French film centers around Denis, a philosophy student who works nights at the market selling flowers. His relationship with his fiance is on shaky grounds and he becomes fascinated with a mysterious woman in white who keeps appearing in his dreams. While napping one night he finds himself chasing her around Paris; to restaurants, the Louvre museum, to a mental asylum. When he discovers a plot to kill her he goes to great lengths to try to save her, thinking this is only a dream. 91 min. vhs 999:3424 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Nuits Rouges (1973) Directed by Georges Franju. Cast: Gayle Hunnicutt, Jacques Champreux, Josephine Chaplin, Ugo Pagliai, Gert Froebe. Summary Shadowman, a thief whose head is covered by a red mask, and his cat-suited assistant, try to find the fabled treasure of the ancient Knight Templars from a surviving sect in Paris. Special features: interview with Jacques Champreux, Nuits rouges writer, actor and grandson of Louis Feuillade, was filmed in 2007, discussing the film and Georges Franju. 104 min. DVD X1679 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Numéro deux (Number Two) (1975) Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Godard's exploration of the modern family unit and how it suffers in the computerized, capitalistic world. 86 min. vhs 999:1121 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database To the top On connaît la chanson (Same Old Song) (1997) Directed by Alain Resnais. Cast: Pierre Arditi, Sabine Azema, Jean-Pierre Bacri, André Dussollier, Agnès Jaoui, Lambert Wilson, Jane Birkin. Two Parisian sisters are caught in a web of dysfunctional relationships and romantic confusion. Odile, an upper-class wife and businesswoman, finds an escape from her submissive husband Claude when her old flame Nicholas unexpectedly returns. Camille, a naïve tour guide, falls for the slimy, young realtor Marc, overlooking Simon, a caring older man with a passion for history. 117 min. DVD X3925 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Opera de quat'sous (The Threepenny Opera; 3groschenoper) (1931) Directed by G. W. Pabst. Two versions of a 1931 motion picture, adapted from the play by Bertolt Brecht. Disc. 1. Dreigroschenoper (In German with English subtitles; 105 min.) -- Disc 2. L'opera de Quat'sous (In French with English subtitles; 98 min.) Cast: Rudolph Forster, Lotta Lenya, Carola Neher, Reinhold Schunzel. The story involves the charismatic Macheath, known as "Mack the Knife" and the complications which arise when he weds Polly Peachum, the daughter of "London's Beggar King," a sort of pimp of the destitute. Non-US format DVD. DVD 3593; vhs 999:185 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Orphée (Orpheus) (1949) Directed by Jean Cocteau. Cocteau's modern version of the Orpheus legend, based on his own play. 86 min. DVD 209; vhs 999:211 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Origine Contrôlée (Made in France) (France, 2001) Directed by Ahmed Bouchaala and Zakia Tahri. Cast: Patrick Ligardes, Ronit Elkabets, Isabelle Sadoyan, Atmen Kelif. Fancy Patrick is arrested by mistake and finds himself in a cell with Samia, an attractive Algerian, and Youssef, a cantankerous show off. All three are condemned to deportation. During their transfer to the airport, they manage to escape. When they are on the run the trio discover a taste for the unusual and learn to understand and love each other. DVD X6853 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Outremer (Overseas) (1990) Directed by Brigitte Roüan. Cast: Nicole Garcia, Marianne Basler, Brigitte Rouan, Philippe Galland, Pierre Doris. For three beautiful sisters, the lush and privileged life of French colonial Algeria creates an oasis in the center of a harsh desert when revolution and dramatic social change erupts around them. 96 min. vhs 999:3809 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Davidson, Naomi. "Naming la Guerre sans nom: Memory, Nation and Identity in French Representations of the Algerian War, 1963-1992." Paroles gelées, 16(2) 1998; pp" 79-81+ Durham, Carolyn A. "Strategies of subversion in colonial nostalgia film: militarism and marriage in Brigitte Roüan's Outremer." Studies in French Cinema, 2001, Vol. 1 Issue 2, p89, 9p UC users only Greene, Naomi "Empire as Myth and Memory." In: The historical film : history and memory in media / edited and with an introduction by Marcia Landy. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2001. (Main (Gardner) Stacks; PFA PN1995.9.H5 H59 2001) Greene, Naomi "Empire as Myth and Memory." In: Cinema, colonialism, postcolonialism : perspectives from the French and francophone world / edited by Dina Sherzer. Austin : University of Texas Press, 1996. (Main (Gardner) Stacks PN1993.5.F7 C4788 1996) Licops, Dominique. "Re-scripting history and fairy tales in Brigitte Rouan's Outremer." Women's Studies Quarterly; V. 30, NO. 1/2, SPRING/SUMMER, 2002; pp. 103-119, 17p UC users only Murphy, K. "Foreign parts." Film Comment, May/Jun91, Vol. 27 Issue 3, p9, 5p UC users only Murray, Alison. "Women, Nostalgia, Memory: Chocolat, Outremer, and Indochine." Research in African Literatures, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 235-244, 2002 Summer UC users only Philibert, Celine. "Memory Process and Feminine Desire in Claire Denis's Chocolat and Brigitte Rouan's Outremer." Journal of Third World Studies, Fall96, Vol. 13 Issue 2, p173-187, 15p Slawy-Sutton, Catherine. "Outremer and The Silences of the Palace: Feminist Allegories of Two Countries in Transition." Pacific Coast Philology, vol. 37, pp. 85-104, 2002 UC users only Weiss, John H. "Outremer." American Historical Review, 1993, Vol. 98 Issue 4, p1173-1174, 2p UC users only [Ozon, François] A Curtain Raiser and Other Shorts A curtain raiser (Un lever de rideau): Bruno and his friend Pierre are waiting for Rosette in Bruno's Parisian bachelor flat. She is late again, but this time, Bruno's mind is made up: if Rosette makes them wait for more than 45 minutes, it will be over between them. Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Louis Garrel, Vahina Giocante. (2006) (30 min.) X2000: The first morning of the new millennium. Three naked couples sleep, make love, and awake in an empty skyscraper littered with party debris. The world is silent and pregnant with new possibilities. Cast: Denise Schropfer Aron, Bruno Slagmulder. (1998) (5:00) Bed scenes (Scènes de lit): Seven bed scenes around various couples. A series of liberated comic sketches on sexual etiquette, unbridled passion, and post-coital after tastes. Cast: Valérie Druguet, Camille Japy, François Delaive, Evelyne Ker, Loïc Even, Lucia Sanchez, François Genty, Pascale Arbillot, Margot Abascal, Bruno Slagmulder, Sébastien Charles. (1997) (26:00) Little death (a petite mort): A devastating look at family relations. Paul, a young photographer who specializes in capturing men in ecstasy, hasn't spoken to his father in years. When his sister persuades him to visit his dying father in the hospital, Paul discovers that he can never escape his origins. Cast: Camille Japy, François Delaive, Jacques Martial. (1995) (26:00) Truth or dare (Action vérité): Four teens discover the pain and excitement of emerging sexuality while playing a harmless children's game. Cast: Farida Rahmatoullah, Aylin Argun, Fabien Billet, Adrien Pastor. (1994) (4:00) A Rose between us (rose entre nous): An eccentric British woman picks up a young apprentice hairdresser on a wild night in Paris. Cast: Rodolphe Lesage, Sasha Hails. Victor: François Genty, Isabelle Journeau. (1994) (27:00) Victor: A young man of good breeding keeps his dead parents in the bedroom of their sumptuous family cottage. Then begins a rebirth full of discoveries. DVD X4099 (1993) (14:00) DVD X4099 (Little Death) To the top Panique (1946) Directed by Julien Duvivier. Cast: Viviane Romance, Michel Simon, Max Dalban, Emile Drain. Two lovers frame a stranger for murder in this study of mob violence in the slums of Paris in the aftermath of World War II. 93 min. vhs 999:2455 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Wild, Florianne. "L'Histoire ressuscitée: Jewishness and Scapegoating in Julien Duvivier's Panique." In: Identity papers : contested nationhood in twentieth-century France / Steven Ungar and Tom Conley, ed Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, c1996. (Main (Gardner) Stacks DC34 .I34 1996) Parade (1973) Directed by Jacques Tati. Cast: Jacques Tati, Karl Kossinger, Michele Brabo, Pia Colombo. In this fantasy film Jacques Tati presents a humorous performance of circus acts before a cheering audience, including mimes, magicians, musicians, singers, jugglers, acrobats, and various others, as well as the audience itself. Tati himself appearing as Monsieur Loyal, presents many of his most famous music hall pantomimes. 88 min. vhs 999:3639 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (Umbrellas of Cherbourg) (1963) Directed by Jacques Demy. Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon, Marc Michel. 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. 90 min. DVD 3935; vhs 999:1823 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Awards Cannes Film Festival - Palme d'Or Paris (2008) Directed by Cédric Klapisch. Cast: Juliette Binoche, Romain Duris, Fabrice Luchini, Albert Dupontel, François Cluzet, Karin Viard, Mélanie Laurent, Gilles Lellouche, Zinedine Soualem, Julie Ferrier, Maurice Bénichou, Olivia Bonamy, Audrey Marnay, Annelise Hesme, Sabrina Ouazani, Xavier Robic, Emmanuel Quatra, Kingsley Kum Abang. While waiting for a heart transplant that could save his life, Pierre reunites with his sister and her lively children. This rediscovery of his family and observation of the teeming streets outside his window give Pierre hope, and a new sense of how he might spend the time still left to him. A story about the middle-class and bourgeois, immigrants and students, fashion models and the homeless, and all the lovers and strangers whose paths could cross and change in Paris. 129 min. DVD X3769 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Paris, je t'aime (I Love Paris) (2006) The world's top directors and some of America's top stars create a panoramic portrait of Paris in these 18 short films about the City of Lights. Each filmmaker brings their own personal touch, underlining the wide variety of styles, genres, encounters and the various atmospheres and lifestyles that prevail in the neighborhoods of Paris. Disc 1: Behind-the-scenes featurette; previews ; Disc 2: 18 behind-the-scene featurettes; video & split screen; storyboard. Quartier des Enfants Rouges / written and directed by Olivier Assayas -- Quartier Latin / directed by Frederic Auburtin, Gerard Depardieu ; written by Gena Rowlands -- Quais de Seine / directed by Gurinder Chadha ; written by Paul Mayeda Berges, Gurinder Chadha -- Tour Eiffel / written and directed by Sylvain Chomet -- Tuileries / written and directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen -- Bastille / written and directed by Isabel Coixet -- Père-Lachaise / written and directed by Wes Craven -- Parc Monceau / written and directed by Alfonso Cuaron -- Porte de Choisy / directed by Christopher Doyle ; written by Christopher Doyle, Gabrielle Keng, Kathy Li -- Pigalle / written and directed by Richard LaGravenese -- Quartier de la Madeleine / written and directed by Vincenzo Natali -- 14th arrondissement / directed by Alexander Payne ; written by Nadine Eid, Alexander Payne -- Montmartre / written and directed by Bruno Podalydès -- Loin du 16ieme / written and directed by Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas -- Place des Fetes / written and directed by Oliver Schmitz -- Place des Victoires / written and directed by Nobuhiro Suwa -- Faubourg Saint-Denis / written and directed by Tom Tykwer -- Le Marais / written and directed by Gus Van Sant. Additional directors, Frederic Auburtin, Gerard Depardieu, Gurinder Chadha, Sylvain Chomet, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Isabel Coixet, Wes Craven, Alfonso Cuaron, Christopher Doyle, Richard LaGravenese, Vincenzo Natali, Alexander Payne, Bruno Podalydes, Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas, Oliver Schmitz, Nobuhiro Suwa, Tom Tykwer, Gus van Sant ; music, Pierre Adenot. Fanny Ardant, Leila Bekhti, Melchior Beslon, Juliette Binoche, Seydou Boro, Steve Buscemi, Sergio Castellitto, Willem Dafoe, Gerard Depardieu, Cyril Descours, Marianne Faithfull, Ben Gazzara, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Bob Hoskins, Olga Kurylenko, Li Xin, Elias McConnell, Aissa Maiga, Margo Martindale, Yolande Moreau, Emily Mortimer, Florence Muller, Nick Nolte, Bruno Podalydes, Natalie Portman, Paul Putner, Miranda Richardson, Gena Rowlands, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Ludivine Sagnier, Barbet Schroeder, Rufus Sewell, Gaspard Ulliel, Elijah Wood. 110 min. DVD 8839 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Paris nous appartient (Paris is Ours) (1959) Directed by Jacques Rivette. Cast: Betty Schneider, Giani Esposito, Jean-Claude Brialy. This French New Wave film tells the story of Ann, a Parisian student who learns that the deaths of her two friends were due to a fascist conspiracy centered in Paris. 138 min. DVD 6374; vhs 999:3561 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Lack, Roland-François. "Paris nous appartient: Reading Without a Map." Australian Journal of French Studies; May-Aug2010, Vol. 47 Issue 2, p133-145, 13p UC users only