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 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 36 fillette (1988) Directed by Catherine Breillat. Cast: Delphine Zentout, Etienne Chicot, Olivier Parni`ere, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Berta Dominquez D., Jean-Francois 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 Adair, G. "A nos amours." Sight & Sound v. 53 (Summer 1984) p. 222-3 Frodon, J. M. "A Nos Amours (1983)." Film Comment v. 40 no. 3 (May/June 2004) p. 46 Rapfogel, J. A "nos amours." Cineaste v. 31 no. 4 (Fall 2006) p. 80-1UCB users only Stein, E. "A nos amours." Film Comment v. 20 (November/December 1984) p. 64 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; vhs 999:98 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Kramer, S.P. "René Clair: Situation and Sensibility in A Nous la Liberté." (Article). Literature/Film Quarterly XII/2, Apr 84; p.142-144. René Clair bibliography Aaltra: A Road Movie (France/Belgium 2004) Directed by Gustave de Kervern and Beno?t Del?pine. 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 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 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 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 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. 999:3501 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database L'Allée du Roi(1996) Director, Nina Companeez. 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. 115 min. DVD 3697; vhs 999:2285 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Daney, S. "Falling out of love [The Lover]." Sight & Sound v. ns2 (July 1992) p. 14-16 Metzger, S. "Filmic revisions of Vietnam and the MIAs." (male Indochinese asexuals). Quarterly Review of Film and Video v. 19 no. 2 (2002) p. 107-21 Romney, J. "L'Amant." Sight & Sound v. ns2 (July 1992) p. 38-9 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. 999:3455 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Louis Malle 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 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 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 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 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. 93 min. DVD 115; DVD 4210 (PAL format); VHS 999:154 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database 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. 999:3597 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database 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 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 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 de poche (Small Change) (1976) Directed by François Truffaut. Cast: Nicole Felix, Tania Torrens, Jean-Francois 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 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 Artemisia (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 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; vhs 999:3729 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Louis Malle bibliography 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 3482; vhs 999:2965; 82 min. version: DVD 1720; vhs 999:5 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 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 Robert Bresson bibliography 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 Movie Review Query Engine L'Auberge espagnole (The Spanish Apartment) (2002) Directed by Cedric Klapisch. Cast: Romain Duris, Judith Godr?eche, 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 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; 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 François Truffaut bibliography La Balance (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. 999:3572 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database 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. 999:991 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database 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 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 Jean Renoir bibliography 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 Le Beau mariage (1982) Directed by Eric Rohmer. Cast: Beatrice Romand, Andre 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 9100 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. 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 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 (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 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 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 Betty (1991) Directed by Claude Chabrol. Cast: Marie Trintignant, Stephane Audran, Jean-Francois 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 Les Biches (1968) Directed by Claude Chabrol. Cast: Stephane Audran, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacqueline Sassard, Serge Bento. A young female student is seduced by an elegant older woman who spirits her away to St. Tropez. Here a handsome young male guest comes between the two lovers. The older woman is beset by jealousy, madness and ultimately, murder. A study in bisexuality and upper-class decadence. 95 min. DVD 1728; vhs 999:685 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) (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 Bob Le Flambeur (Bob the Gambler) (1955) Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. Cast: Isabel Corey, Daniel Cauchy, Roger Duchesne, Guy Decomble, Andr?e 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: 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 Video 999:1982 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 Bye-Bye (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. 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 (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 Café au lait (Métisse) (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. 999:3496 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database 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; VHS 999:976 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. 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 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; VHS 999:1154 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database 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 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 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 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. 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 Jean Renoir. 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 Jean Renoir bibliography 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." 193 min. 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 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; vhs 999:773 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Marcel Pagnol bibliography Cet obscur objet du désir (That Obscure Object of Desire) (1977) Directed by Luis Buñuel. 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 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. Set in Paris, 1895, the plot concerns a frantic search for a duplicate of a Leghorn straw hat eaten by a horse. The hat is needed to allay a jealous husband's suspicion that his wife has been unfaithful. 114 min. 999:641 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database René Clair bibliography Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie (Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie) (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 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 Chien Andalou (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; 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. An ironic tragicomic account of a declasse romantic triangle that leads to murder. 55 min. 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 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) (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 DVD 360; vhs 999:1377 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database La Cité des enfants perdus (The City of Lost Children) (1995) Directed by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Cast: Ron Perman, Daniel Emilfork, Judith Vittet, Dominique Pinon, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Genevi?ve 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 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 awaRené ss. 90 min. DVD 1181; vhs 999:2203 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 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 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. 999:2065 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 Robert Bresson bibliography 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 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) (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. 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 Bernard Tavernier bibliography 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 Les Cousins (The Cousins) (1959) Directed by Claude Chabrol. Cast: Gérard Blain, Jean Claude Brialy, Juliette Mayniel, Claude Cerval. A law student stays with his sophisticated cousin in Paris, and his life is altered. 110 min. 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-Claude Petit. Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Jacques Weber, Anne Brochet, Vincent Perez, Roland Bertin. In 17th-century Paris, a long-nosed poet and swordsman helps his handsome friend win the girl he himself loves. 138 min. 999:505 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database 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 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. Robert Bresson bibliography Danton (France / Poland / West Germany, 1982) Directed by Wojciech Wajda. Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Patrice Chereau, Roger Planchon, Jacques Villeret, Angela Winkler, Boguslaw Linda. 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. 137 min. 999:198 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database 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 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 Dentellière (Lacemaker) (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. 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. 131 min. DVD 1216; vhs 999:1095 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database 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; VHS 999:983 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database 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 Les Diaboliques (1954) Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. Cast: Cast: Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot, Charles Vanel, Paul Meurisse. Mystery drama about murder in a private school for boys. The wife and the mistress of a tyrannical headmaster dispose of him only to be mystified by the disappearance of his body and ghostly hints of his presence. 109 min. 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 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, CCast: Marina Vlady, Anna Duperey, Roger Montsoret, Raoul Levy, Jean-Luc Godard.ast: Marina Vlady, Anna Duperey, Roger Montsoret, Raoul Levy, Jean-Luc Godard.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 Domicile conjugal (Bed and Board) (1970) Directed by François Truffaut. 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 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 S?awomir 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 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. Non-US format DVD (PAL). 108 min. DVD 3655 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Jean-Pierre Melville bibliography 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 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 To the top 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. 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 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 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 D?; (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.999:2267; also on 999:878 and 999:2001 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 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 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 Podalyd?es, 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