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- Maren Ade
- Der Wald vor lauter Bäuman (The Forest for the Trees) (Germany, 2003)
- Directed by Maren Ade. Cast: Eva Lobau, Daniela Holtz, Jan Neumann. Bursting with idealism, Melanie Proschle, a young teacher from the countryside, starts her first job at a high school in the city; however, things don't go quite as she planned. She had hoped to be a 'fresh breeze' to the school, but her colleagues are annoyed by her new teaching methods. Not only that, Melanie hasn't one friend in her new town. Trying not to get discouraged, she attempts to form a relationship with her neighbor Tina. As Melanie's efforts become more and more desperate, Tina begins to withdraw. Soon Melanie is crossing borderlines and entangling herself in a spiral of lies. 81 min. DVD 6335
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- Chantal Akerman
- Chantal Akerman bibliography
- Les Années 80 (The Eighties) (Belgium / France, 1983)
- Director, Chantal Akerman. Cast: Aurore Clement, 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
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- De l'autre côté(France / Belgium / Australia / Finland, 2002)
- Through images and interviews with Mexicans and American law enforcement officers, this film examines the plight of poor Mexicans who try to emigrate to the United States illegally in hope of a better life. The use of cutting edge technology has stemmed the influx of illegal immigration in San Diego so now immigrants trek the mountains and deserts of Arizona to avoid detection, a much more dangerous route on which many have died. 99 min. Video/C 9303
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- La Captive (France / Belgium, 2000)
- Directed by Chantal Akerman. Cast: Stanislas Merhar, Sylvie Testud, Olivia Bonamy, Liliane Rovere, Aurore Clement. 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
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- Hôtel Monterey (In: Akermania. Volume one ) (Belgium / USA, 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 8267; vhs 999:980
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- J'ai faim, j'ai froid (I'm Hungry, I'm Cold; in: Akermania. Volume one) (France, 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. 999:980
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- Je, Tu, Il, Elle (I, you, he, she) (France / Belgium, 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 513; VHS 999:926
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- Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (France / Belgium, 1975)
- Directed by Chantal 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. 85 min. DVD 8267
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- News From Home (France / Belgium / West Germany, 1977)
- Director, 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. 90 min. DVD 8267
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- Nuit et jour (Night and Day) (France / Belgium / Switzerland, 1985 )
- 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. 999:3596
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- Les rendez-vous d'Anna (France / Belgium / West Germany, 1978)
- Director, Chantal Akerman. Cast: Aurore Clement, Helmut Griem, Magali Noel, Hanns Zischler.
An independent woman film-maker journeys through Germany, Belgium, and France, meeting a stream of friends, lovers, relatives, and strangers, and passing through alienating landscapes of anonymous hotel rooms, train stations, and cinemas. Special features: Entretien avec Babette Mangolte (2007; 31 min. : sd., col.); Entretien avec ma m?ere, Natalia Akerman (2007; 28 min. : sd., col.); Entretien avec Aurore Clement (2007; 18 min. : sd., col.) 122 min. DVD 8267
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- Saute ma ville (Blow Up My Town; in: Akermania. Volume one ) (Belgium, 1968)
- Shorter works directed by Chantal Akerman. 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. 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. 89 min. 999:980
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- About:
- Chantal Akerman par Chantal Akerman
- Part one opens with Akerman in her apartment describing the problems she encountered making this film. What emerges is a thoughful confession from this extremely perceptive filmmaker. Part two lets Akerman's films speak for her, taking clips from her extensive filmography including forays into experimental film, comedic shorts, musicals, narrative features -- including an early short that stars a very young Chantal. 1996. 64 min. Video/C 8314
- Akerman bibliography
- First Run/Icarus catalog description
- Allison Anders
- Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life) (1994)
- Directed by Allison Anders. Cast: Angel Aviles, Seidy Lopez, Jacob Vargas, Panchito Gomez, Jesse Borrego. The members of rival Latino gangs in Los Angeles are feuding, and the girl friends are trying to stay out of the struggle for power and survive. 96 min. DVD 6698; vhs 999:1334
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- Gregory Nava & Allison Anders.
- A segment from a TV series offering a behind-the-scenes look into the creative process of independent filmmaking. The first episode features film critic and journalist, Michael Fox in conversation with Mexican-American filmmaker Gregory Nava, who's films focus on cross-cultural issues and themes of struggles within immigrant life in the United States as portrayed in "Confessions of Amans, El Norte, Mi Familia, Selena, and American tapestry." In part two director and screenwriter Allison Anders chats about her commitment to telling women's stories in her films "Mi vida loca, Four rooms, Sugar town, Gas food lodging, Border radio." Video/C MM102
- TV Programs
- Sex & the City: The Big Time (DVD 1918); Drama Queens (DVD 1918); La Douleur Exquise! (DVD 997 ); The Caste System (DVD 997)
- Suzana Amaral
- Hour of the Star (A Hora da Estrela) (Brazil,1986)
- Directed by Suzana Amaral. A young woman from the countryside of northeast Brazil moves to the sprawling city of San Paolo. Her doomed quest for success amid the desperate poverty around her is tempered by the happiness she finds in her fantasies. Based on the novel by Clarice Lispector (Main Stack PQ9697.L585.H67131 1986]; Moffitt PQ9697.L585.H6713 1992.) 90 min. DVD 4300; vhs 999:1340
- Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Eleanor Antin
- Man Without a World (1994)
- Directed by Eleanor Antin. Cast: Pier Marton, Christine Berry, Anna Henriques, Eleanor Antin. A contemporary vision of an imagined 1928 Yiddish movie set in an Eastern European shtetl in pre-World War II. A young Jewish couple's romance is doomed by the arrival of a gypsy troupe and its sultry dancer. This dark comic melodrama encompasses the full cycle of life including abduction, seduction, dybbuks, exorcism, weddings and pograms. 98 min. Video/C 999:3717
- Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Louise Archambault
- Familia (Family) (Canada, 2005)
- Directed by Louise Archambault. Cast:Cast: Sylvie Moreau, Macha Grenon, Mylene St-Sauveur, Juliette Gosselin, Vincent Graton.
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
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- Gillian Armstrong
- Little Women (1994)
- Directed by Gillian Armstrong. Cast: Winona Ryder, Gabriel Byrne, Trini Alvarado, Samantha Mathis, Chris Kirsten-Durst, Claire Danes, Christian Bale, Eric Stoltz, Susan Sarandon, Mary Wickes.
Story of four sisters growing up together in Massachusetts during the Civil War. As the years pass they share some of their most cherished and painful moments of self-discovery as they become women. Based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott. 119 min. DVD 8424; vhs Video/C 999:1355
- Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- My Brilliant Career (Australia, 1979)
- Directed by Gillian Armstrong. Cast: Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Wendy Hughes, Robert Grubb, Max Cullen, Aileen Britton, Peter Whitford, Patricia Kennedy. Sybylla Melvyn struggles with the conflicts that we all have between ambition, family, love, and guilt in a most remarkable manner. Sybylla grows to understand that life is a series of trade-offs, and that no one can have it all, and that no one can please everyone. Simple yet universal themes told with charm, wit, and vulnerability. 100 min. DVD 4025
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- Dorothy Arzner
- Dorothy Arzner bibliography
- The Bride Wore Red (1937)
- Directed by Dorothy Arzner. Cast: Joan Crawford; Franchot Tone; Robert Young; Ferenc Molnár, An Italian count, seeking to prove that social position is a matter of luck, sends a struggling nightclub singer to a luxury resort to masquerade as a wealthy lady. 103 min. 999:3453
- Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Christopher Strong (1933)
- Directed by Dorothy Arzner. Cast: Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan, Jessie Ralph, Henry Daniell. A French courtesan with a passion for life and romance sacrifices her happiness to prove her love for a young man whose family disapproves of their relationship. 77 min. 999:3792
- Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Dance, Girl, Dance(1940)
- Directed by Dorothy Arzner. Cast: Maureen O'Hara, Louis Hayward, Lucille Ball, Virginia Field, Ralph Bellamy, Mary Carlisle, Katharine Alexander, Edward Brophy, Walter Abel, Harold Huber, Maria Ouspenskaya.
Bubbles loves to dance. But she also likes to eat. Her friend Judy may choose to suffer for her art, but not Bubbles. She swaps her ballet shoes for a G-string-- and turns patrons' fantasies into dollars as burlesque sensation Tiger Lily White. Vintage comedy short "Just a cute kid"; classic cartoon "Malibu Beach party." 89 min. DVD 8232
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- The Red Kimono (1925) Directed by Walter Lang.
- About:
- HerStory
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Ally Acker presents an archival journey from 1896 to the present of the pioneering female filmmakers who transformed the movies and challenged the industry. Using rare clips and interviews she recounts a ground-breaking herstory of Hollywood directors, screenwriters, producers, editors and executives left out of the history books. Featuring: Lillian Gish, Sherry Lansing, Ida Lupino, Euzhan Palcy, June Mathis, Lenore Coffee, Grace Cunard, Mary Pickford, Alice Guy Blache, Lois Weber, Dorothy Arzner, Nell Shipman, Frances Marion, Anita Loos, Mae West, Virginia Van Upp, Maya Deren, Germaine Dulac, Elaine May, Claudia Weill, Susan Seidelman, Sherry Lansing, Dede Allen. Based on the book: Reel Women: Pioneers of the Cinema, 1896 to the Present by Ally Acker (Main Stack PN1998.2.A24 1991) 1993. 55 min. Video/C 9416
- Jamie Babbit
- But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)
- Directed by Jamie Babbit. Cast: Natasha Lyonne, Clea DuVall, RuPaul Charles, Cathy Moriarty, Melanie Linsky, Eddie Cibrian, Wesley Mann, Richard Moll, Douglas Spain, Katharine Towne, Mink Stole, Bud Cort. Megan's super normal suburban existence is filled with friends, pom-poms and rah-rah enthusiasm until her parents suspect that she may, in fact, be showing deviant tendencies. 86 min. DVD 556
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- Yamina Bachir
- Rachida (Algeria / France, 2002)
- Director, Yamina Bachir. Cast: Ibtissem Djouadi, Bahia Rachedi, Rachida Messadouen, Zaki Boulenafed, Amel Chouikh, Abdelkader Belmokadem.
Rachida lives and teaches in an old neighborhood in Algeria. Like most Algerians, she thinks she is far removed from the bloody conflict the country is in, until one day she is attacked by a terrorist group. The terrorists ask her to plant a bomb in her school. After refusing, they shoot her in cold blood. Miraculously, she lives and seeks refuge in a neighboring village.
100 min. DVD 8058
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- Ruth Ann Baldwin
- '49-'17 (1917)
- Director, Ruth Ann Baldwin. Cast: Joseph Girard, Leo Pierson, William J. Dyer, George Raroe, Donna Drew, Jean Hersholt. A charming and suspenseful western parody about a millionaire who hires a wild west theatrical troupe to relive his past as a miner forty niner. 63 min. Video/C 999:2658
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- Marta Balletbò
- Costa Brava: (Family Album) (Spain, 1995)
- Directed by Marta Balletbò-Coll. Cast: Marta Balletbò-Coll, Desi del Valle, Montserrat Gausachs, Josef Maria Brugues, Ramon Mari, Sergi Schaaff. Anna lives in Barcelona where she works as a tour guide to pay the bills. Her dream is to perform her monologue, Love thy neighbor, on tour with Another Stage, a gay and lesbian theatre company based in San Francisco. On one of her tours she meets Montserrat, a Jewish seismic engineer, and their adventures and misadventures shape this romantic comedy. 92 min. 999:3766
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- Rakhshan Bani-etemad (Bani Etemad)
- The May Lady (Banu-yi Urdibihisht) (Iran, 2002)
- Directed by Rakhshan Bani Etemad. Cast: Minoo Farshchi, Mani Kasraian, Golab Adineh, Atefeh Razavi, Nayereh Farahani. A successful Iranian documentary filmmaker lives with her teenage son. Her family life is beset with problems, which become more complicated when she meets a man. At the same time, she is making a film on exemplary mothers, she finds that finishing the film might provide answers for her personal life. 86 min. DVD 3480
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- Nargess (Iran, 1992)
- Director, Rakhshad Bani-etemad. The tale of a tragic love triangle, notable for its exceptionally honest look at characters who live outside strict Islamic law. Afagh, is in danger of losing her rakish young lover, Adel. Then Adel meets Nargess, the angelic daughter of a poor family, and resolves to go straight after one last burglary. 100 min. 999:308
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- Under the Skin of the City (Zir-e poost-e shahr) (Iran, 2001)
- Director, Rakhshan Bani Etemad. Cast: Golab Adineh, Mohammad Reaz Forutan, Baran Kosari, Ebrahin Sheibani, Mohsen Ghazi Moradi, Mehraveh Sharifinia, Homeira Riazi, Ali Osivand, Mehrdad Falahatger. Tuba ia a factory worker and the matriarch of a raucous family. Her older daughter is pregnant and married to an abusive husband. The younger daughter is a high school student and is consumed with worry over a neighbor girl who suffers abuse at the hands of her father. Yuba's youngest son is caught up in political radicalism and is in danger of derailing his college aspirations. Her older son, Abbas wants to move to Japan to help support the family. After losing all his money in a scam, Abbas' desperation gets the better of his judgement and he becomes involved in a drug deal that nearly costs him his life. 90 min. 999:1713
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- Ana Belén
- Como Ser Mujer y no Morir en el Intento (Spain, 1991)
- Director, Ana Belén. Examines the complexities of Carmen's life, who at 42 is married to her third husband, Antonio, and has two children from previous marriages. She tries to carry on her professional career, without neglecting her relationship with Antonio, the house, her friends, or the emotional needs of the children. In Spanish without subtitles. 86 min. 999:3556
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- Ayelet Bargur
- As If Nothing Happened (Ke'Ilu klum lo kara) (Israel, 1999)
- Directed by Ayelet Bargur. Cast: Assaf Dayan, Rivka Neuman, Sivan Shavit. Lt. Ziv Gonan is returning to his Israeli army base from weekend leave. As he waits at the Beit Lid bus stop, a bomb explodes killing 18 people and wounding 62 others. Ziv's family hears of the bombing and agonizingly waits to hear what happened to him. 49 min. 999:3740
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- Maria Luisa Bemberg
- An Argentine passion : Maria Luisa Bemberg and her films
- Edited by John King, Sheila Whitaker and Rosa Bosch. London ; New York : Verso, 2000 (Main Stack PN1998.3.B457.A74 2000)
- Camila. (Argentina, 1984)
- Directed by Maria-Luisa Bemberg. Recounts the true story of a young Catholic socialite from Buenos Aires, Camila O'Gorman, who falls in love and runs away with a young Jesuit priest, Ladislao Gutierrez, in 1847. Eventually they are found and executed by the repressive government. 105 min. DVD 1552; vhs 999:244
- Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Crowdus, Gary. "Camila: An Interview with Susu Pecoraro." Cineaste, vol. 14 no. 3, 1986, pp: 25
- De Eso No Se Habla (I Don't Want to Talk About It) (Argentina/Italy, 1993)
- Directed by Maria-Luisa Bemberg. A sophisticated world traveller (Mastroianni) retires to a small town and is drawn to a much younger woman (Podesta). The smartest, most talented woman in town, she is in many ways a perfect match for him. But, because she is a dwarf, she has been sheltered by her overprotective mother from the realities of life. 102 min. 999:1382
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- Miss Mary (Argentina / USA, 1986)
- Director, Maria Luisa Bemberg. Cast: Julie Christie, Nacha Guevara, Tato Pavlovsky, Gerardo Romano. Set in Bueno Aires, this is the story of a cultured English governess whose display of compassion disrupts the tradition-bound existence of the wealthy household in which she works. 100 min. 999:3371
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- Senora de Nadie (Nobody's Wife) (Argentina, 1982)
- Directed by Maria Luisa Bemberg. Leonor is living the good life in Argentina: a husband, two kids, a comfortable home. But when she discovers her husband is cheating on her, that life collapses. Leonor flees the world she knows, finds a new job and begins to meet new men. From a distance, she cautiously observes her children. 90 min. DVD 2903
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- Yo, la peor de todas (I, the Worst of All) (Argentina, 1990)
- Directed by Maria Luisa Bemberg. Cast: Assumpta Serna, Dominique Sanda, Hector Alterio, Lautaro Murua, Alberto Segado, Franklin Caicedo, Graciela Araujo, Hugo Soto, Gerardo Romano, Margara Alonso, Lidia Catalano, Margarita Padin.
This historical drama tells the story of Juana Ines de la Cruz, one of the greatest poets of the Spanish Siglo de Oro. In order to pursue her passion for writing, Juana enters the convent. There, she develops an intimate relationship with the local Vicereine, who inspires her poetry. But when the forces of the Inquisition invade the convent, the women have only each other to turn to. Based on: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, o, Las trampas de la fe de Octavio Paz. 107 min. DVD 1718; vhs 999:1347
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- Yamina Benguigui
- 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
- Documentaries by Benguigui
- Memoires d'immigres DVD 5378
- The Perfumed Garden Video/C 8191
- Sabina Berman
- Entre Pancho Villa y una mujer desnuda (Between Pancho Villa and a naked woman) (Mexico, 1995)
- Directed by Sabina Berman and Isabelle Tardán. In this comedy Gina looks for a commitment from her longtime boyfriend Adrian. Angered by his refusal to marry and fed up with his sexist attitudes, she takes a younger man as her lover. Adrian, however, will not surrender his woman or his antiquated ways of thinking. Channeling the spirit of Pancho Villa himself, he tries to fully embrace his machismo and win back the passion of Gina. 100 min. Video 999:3375
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- Shari Springer Berman
- American Splendor (2003)
- Written and directed by Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman. Cast: Paul Giamatti, Hope Davis, Judah Friedlander, James Urbaniak, Earl Billings, James McCaffrey, Maggie Moore, Vivienne Benesch.
Pekar is a frustrated file clerk working at the local V.A. Hospital. He is also a comic book fan who befriends the young illustrator Robert Crumb and is soon inspired to create comic books based on his own life. Along his bumpy journey he meets, marries and falls in love with Joyce, an admiring comic book seller. Special features: audio commentary with directors and cast featurette: Sundance Channel's "Anatomy of a scene"; music only track: "American splendor song"; special "My movie year"; original theatrical trailer. 101 min. DVD 2333
- Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Sundance Festival: Grand Jury Prize - Dramatic Work (2003)
- National Society of Film Critics Awards - Best Picture (2003)
- Susanne Bier
- Open Hearts (Elsker dig for evigt) (Denmark, 2002)
- Directed by Susanne Bier and Anders Thomas Jensen. Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Sonja Richter, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Paprika Steen, Stine Bjerregaard, Birthe Neumann, Niels Olsen, Ulf Pilgaard.
A film about an engaged couple that is torn apart after the man is paralyzed in an accident, and the woman falls in love with the husband of the woman who caused the accident. 109 min. DVD 5412
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- Pensionat Oskar (Like It Never Was Before) (Sweden / Denmark, 1995)
- Directed by Susanne Bier. Cast: Loa Falkman, Stina Ekblad, Simon Norrthon, Sif Ruud, Ghita Norby.
The Runeberg family is an ordinary middle class Swedish family with a house in the suburbs, a car and three children. By vacationing in a rented house by the sea, the hope is that the tension and anxieties which exist between the husband Rune and his wife will disappear. However, instead of spending time with his family, Rune finds himself attracted to a young man. 108 min. DVD 2474
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- Kathryn Bigelow
- The cinema of Kathryn Bigelow: Hollywood transgressor
- Edited by Deborah Jermyn & Sean Redmond. London ; New York: Wallflower Press, 2003.
(PFA: PN1998.3.B544 C56 2003)
- Blue Steel (1989)
- Director, Kathryn Bigelow. Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver, Clancy Brown, Elizabeth Pena, Louise Fletcher.
In Manhattan, a rookie cop shoots and kills an armed robber. She doesn't know it, but an unidentified witness steals the assailant's gun and begins a deadly game of pursuit, with the unsuspecting cop as the target of a madman's obsession. 94 min. Video/C 999:2173
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- Loveless (1982)
- Director, Kathryn Bigelow and Monty Montgomery. Cast: Willem Dafoe, Marin Kanter, Robert Gordon, J. Don Ferguson.
A group of bikers on their way to the Florida Cycle Races stop for lunch in a small town diner. While repairs are being made on their motorcycles, their macho leader flirts with a waitress while his henchmen intimidate the diner's clientele. As night approaches, rednecks descend on the tiny restaurant and the stage is set for a violent and tragic showdown. 82 min. DVD 8183
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- Strange Days (1995)
- Director, Kathryn Bigelow. Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Michael Wincott, Vincent D'Onofrio. A thriller set in the urban inferno of 1999 Los Angeles. Lenny Nero sells dreams and hustles nightmares available on small disks that are viewable via a compact headpiece that makes every sensation immediate. Nero replays scenes of happier days with Faith Justin, who has run off with sadistic Philo Gant. As he attempts to win Faith back, he hooks up with an old friend, Lornette "Mace" Mason, and the two of them are caught in a deadly fantasy of conspiracy, murder and betrayal. 105 min. DVD 897
- Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Berrettini, M. Can "We All" Get Along? Social Difference, the Future, and Strange Days. Camera Obscura no. 50 (2002) p. 154-89
- Francke, L. "Virtual fears." Sight & Sound v. ns5 (December 1995) p. 6-9
- San Juan, R. M., et. al., "Virtual cities: film and the urban mapping of virtual space." Screen (London, England) v. 43 no. 3 (Aut 2002) p. 250-70
- Strick, P. "Strange days." Sight & Sound v. ns6 (January 1996) p. 53-5
- TV Programs
- Homicide: Life on the Streets: Lines of Fire;
Fallen Heroes: Part 2; Fallen Heroes: Part 1
- Lizzie Bordon
- Born in Flames (1983)
- Directed by Lizzie Borden. Cast: Honey, Adele Bertei, Jeanne Satterfield, Flo Kennedy, Ron Vawter, Eric Bogosian. A futuristic fable of feminist turmoil still brewing ten years after the Second American Revolution. When Adelaide Norris, the black radical founder of the Woman's Army, is mysteriously killed, a diverse coalition of women - across all lines of race, class, and sexual preference - emerges to blow the System apart. With their fury growing and all peaceful options exhausted, women overcome divisions of race, class, and sexual orientation to form a guerilla movement to take over control of the media. 80 min. DVD 6007; vhs 999:1837
- Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database
- Friedberg, Anne. "An Interview with Filmmaker Lizzie Borden." Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 37-45, Winter 1984.
- Lane, Christina. Feminist Hollywood : from Born in flames to Point break. Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2000. (MAIN: PN1998.2 .L35 2000)
- Lucia, Cynthia. "Redefining Female Sexuality in the Cinema: An Interview with Lizzie Borden." Cineaste: America's Leading Magazine on the Art and Politics of the Cinema, vol. 19, no. 2-3, pp. 6-10, 1992.
- Scott MacDonald; Lizzie Borden
Feminist Studies, Vol. 15, No. 2, The Problematics of Heterosexuality. (Summer, 1989), pp. 327-345.
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- Let's Talk About Sex (1994)
- Short film. Directed by Lizzie Borden; written by Lizzie Borden & Susie Bright. An uncompromising look at an aspiring young actress working as a phone sex operator who dramatically redefines the powers of sexual dynamics when she gets a caller to listen to her fantasies. DVD 2517
- IcíarBollaín
- Flores de Otro Mundo (Flowers from Another World) (1999)
- Directed by Icíar Bollaín. Cast: José Sancho, Luis Tosar, Lissete Mejia, Marlin Torres, Chete Lera. "Patricia, a woman from Dominican Republic, needs a home and an economic security that her illegal status in Madrid does not provide her. Milady, twenty, born in Havana and dying to travel the world. Marirosi has a job, a home, and the most complete solitude... just like Alfonso, Damien and Carmelo, men from the St. Eulalia, a village lacking both marrying women and future. A bachelors' party forces the encounter between them and the beginning of this bittersweet story of sharing a living." [IMDB] 100 min. DVD 5242
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- Catherine Breillat
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- Anatomie de l'Enfer (Anatomy of Hell) (France, 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
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- 36 fillette (France, 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
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- Romance (France, 1999)
- Directed by Catherine Breillat. Claiming he loves her, but that he has lost his desire for her, Marie's boyfriend, Paul, refuses to engage in sexual relations, catapulting Marie into a desperate search for intimacy and erotic fulfillment. 98 min. DVD 871
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- Sex Is Comedy (France / Portugal, 2002)
- Directed by Catherine Breillat. Cast: Anne Parillaud, Gregoire Colin, Roxane Mesquida, Ashley Wanninger, Dominique Colladant, Bart Binnema, Yves Osmu, Francis Seleck, Elisabete Piecho. For director Jeanne, sex is no laughing matter. She doesn't find it funny that her two leading actors can't stand each other when she's about to shoot the most important moment in her film ... the sex scene. The actress objects to nudity, the actor won't take off his socks, and the only thing heating up between them is their tempers. At her wits' end, Jeanne tries everything in her power to seduce, intimidate and sweet-talk her reluctant young lovers into performing the film's sexy final scene. 95 min. DVD 3840
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- Une vraie jeune fille (A Real Young Girl) (France, 1976)
- Directed by Catherine Breillat. Cast: Charlotte Alexandra, Hiram Keller, Rita Maiden, Bruno Balp, Georges Gueret, Shirley Stoler.
Alice has returned home from school for summer vacation and is stifled and bored by country life. She becomes infatuated with a young worker at her father's sawmill and when not lusting after him, she spends her days writing in her diary and dreaming up sexual fantasies. Based on the novel 'The air duct' by Catherine Breillat. 93 min.DVD 7169
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- Bad Girl
- Commentary: Lisbeth Lynghoft, Lene Borglum, Linda Williams, Luce Irigary, Benoite Groult, Catherine Breillat, Nina Hartley, Carol Queen, Annie Sprinkle, Virginie Despentes, Bernard Arcand, Jane Hamilton. Women filmmakes are directing and producing hard-corevideos to the female consumer. These women claim the right to pornography made by women for women and reject the censorship called for by feminists. Arethey simply business-women out for their share of oneof the most lucritive film markets, or avant-gardefeminists and advocates of new sexual relationships? This documentary features selected film clips and interviews with feminist authors, filmmakers,anthropologists, sexologists and porn producers,directors and activists. Dist. Cinema Guild. 2001. 58 min. Video/C 8928
- Hilary Brougher
- The Sticky Fingers of Time (1997)
- Director, Hilary Brougher. Cast: Nicole Zaray, Terumi Matthews, Belinda Becker, James Urbaniak.
A writer, Tucker Harding, is hired to cover an article on the hydrogen-bomb test, Nevada, 1952. While there, radiation mutates her code/soul, spawning in her the ability to travel through time by force of will. Not long after she is murdered by a woman from the future, Ofelia, intent on securing her own ability to time travel. However, before her death Tucker travels to the year 1997 where she meets Drew, a failed writer who has been infected with Tuckers original mutation since birth. 82 min. DVD 7612
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- Jane Campion
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- An Exercise in Discipline - Peel (Australia, 1982)
- Director, Jane Campion. A father along with his son and sister is driving back home in his car. The son continiously is throwing orange peels onto the road when suddenly the father stops the car and tells his son to pick the peels. His son disagrees on that and the sister is getting nervous, because she will be going to miss her favourite TV series. Finally everyone is getting pretty angry. 9 min. 999:1330
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- A Girl's Own Story (Australia, 1984)
- Director: Jane Campion. A look at three girls, young teens, in the era of the Beatles. Pam lives with parents who haven't spoken directly to each other in two years, using their daughters to talk across the table to each other. Gloria wants to play games with her boyfriend Graeme and ends up pregnant after a kissless, passionless introduction to sex. Stella becomes popular and puts her friendship with Pam on hold. Meanwhile, Pam's father and other predatory men lurk in the shadows around the girls. 27 min. DVD 6:1:2; vhs 999:1330;
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- Holy Smoke!(USA / Australia, 1999)
- Directed by Jane Campion. Cast: Kate Winslet, Harvey Keitel, Pam Grier, Julie Hamilton, Tim Robertson, Sophie Lee. While on a journey of discovery in exotic India, young Ruth Barron falls under the influence of a charismatic religious guru. Her desperate parents then hire P.J. Waters, a macho cult deprogrammer, who confronts Ruth in a remote desert hideaway. However, P.J. quickly learns that he has quite possibly met his match in the intelligent and iron-willed Ruth. 114 min. DVD 2758
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- In the Cut(Australia / USA / UK, 2003)
- Directed by Jane Campion. Cast: Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Nick Damici, Sharrieff Pugh. A lonely young English professor living in New York City gets tangled up in a murder investigation when a severed head is found in her garden. When she becomes involved with the homicide detective on the case, she realizes that the prime suspect may be closer than she likes to think. 118 min. DVD 4041
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- Passionless Moments (Australia, 1983)
- Director, Jane Campion. A voice says, "There are 1,000,000 moments in your neighborhood; each has a fragile presence which fades almost as it forms." Ten such moments are dramatized, from a chubby man exercising and realizing that "sex" and "thing" go together to an ill, bored child discovering that most pieces of paper fit on top of a Scotties box. Along the way, a child races time, a matron thinks she hears a woodpecker, an unfaithful gay man wonders why his eyes can't focus on two depths simultaneously, Angela thinks about her uncle's pet pig as she eats pork, beer-drinking Ed recalls his school football days and vows to get back in shape, and a bachelor remembers his mother. 13 min. 999:1330
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- The Piano (Australia / New Zealand / France, 1993)
- Directed by Jane Campion. Cast: Holly Hunter, Sam Neill, Harvey Keitel, Anna Paquin. A young mute woman and her child travel to New Zealand in the 1800's for an arranged marriage to a farmer there. After the marriage she meets another man, and the competition for her love begins. Only one of the men realizes that her affections can only be won through her beloved piano. 93 min. DVD 1167; vhs 999:1326
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- Cannes Film Festival - Palme d'Or (1993)
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director (1993)
- The Portrait of a Lady (UK / USA, 1996)
- Directed by Jane Campion. Cast: Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich, Barbara Hershey, Mary-Louise Parker, Martin Donovan, Shelley Winters, Richard Grant, Shelley Duvall, Christian Bale, Viggo Mortensen, Valentina Cervi, John Gielgud. Isabel Archer is a young woman of daring independence and equally fierce desires. But her head-strong innocence is no match for the manipulations of her duplicitous friend Madame Merle and the devious Gilbert Osmond. Based on the novel by Henry James. 144 min. DVD 714; vhs 999:1755
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- Sweetie (Australia, 1989)
- Directed by Jane Campion. Cast: Genevieve Lemon, Karen Colston, Tom Lycos, Dorothy Barry, Jon Darling, Michael Lake.
Dark comedy about the hazardous relationship between two sisters; button-down, superstitious Kay, and her rampaging sister, 'Sweetie.'
Special features: New transfer supervised by cinematographer Sally Bongers and approved by director Jane Campion; audio commentary featuring Campion, Bongers and screenwriter Gerard Lee; Making "Sweetie," a new video conversation between stars Genevieve Lemon and Karen Colston; Campion's earlyshort films: An exercise in discipline: peel, Passionless moments and A girl's own story; Jane Campion: the film school years: a 1989 interview with Campion and critic Peter Thompson; gallery of behind-the-scenes photos and production stills; original theatrical trailer; a new essay by film scholar Dana Polan. 99 min. DVD 6476
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- Two Friends (Australia, TV, 1986)
- Directed by Jane Campion. Cast: Kris Bidenko, Emma Coles, Kris McQuade, Peter Hehir, Alison Kerry Dwyer.
Two teenage friends become estranged when the once conventional Kelly becomes a mohawk-wearing punker who experiments with drugs and casual sex. This debut feature film of producer/director Jane Campion, remains one of her finest films. 79 min. DVD 1139
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- Portrait: Jane Campion and the Portrait of a Lady: An Unusually Extensive and Intimate Study of a Filmmaker at Work. DVD 1237
- Margarida Cardozo
- A Costa dos Murmúrios (The Murmuring Coast) (Portugal, 2005)
- Directed by Margarida Cardoso. Cast: João Ricardo, Dinarte Branco, Sandra Faleiro, Bia Gomes, Fernando Luis, Carlos Pimenta. During the war for independence Evita moves from Lisbon to Mozambique to marry Luis. Love and life are not what she thought they would be as she slowly discovers how different and disturbing life is from her peaceful European home in a country at war. When her husband is sent on a military mission she must fight loneliness along with racism, violence and injustice in Mozambique which makes life unbearable. 115 min. Non-US (PAL) format DVD 5211
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- Patricia Cardozo
- Real Women Have Curves (2002)
- Directed by Patricia Cardozo. Cast: America Ferrera, Lupe Ontiveros, Ingrid Oliu, George Lopez, Brian Sites. Should she leave home, go to college and experience life? Or stay home, get married, and keep working in her sister's struggling garment factory? It may seem an easy decision, but for the 18-year-old Mexican American Ana, every choice she makes this summer will change her life. 90 min. DVD 1658
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- Niki Caro
- Whale Rider (New Zealand, 2002)
- Directed by Niki Caro. Cast: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton, Cliff Curtis, Grant Roa, Mana Taumaunu, Rachel House. The Whangara people believe their ancestor Paikea was saved from drowning by riding home on the back of a whale. The tribal group has since granted leadership positions to the first-born males, believing them to be descendants of Paikea. But then a young mother dies in childbirth along with her newborn male son. His twin sister survives and the little girl, Pai, is brought up by her grandparents. Learning the skills of chiefdom from her uncle, Pai shows that she has natural leadership ability. 101 min. DVD 2127
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- North Country (2005)
- Directed by Niki Caro. Cast: Charlize Theron, Elle Peterson, Thomas Curtis, Frances McDormand, Sean Bean, Woody Harrelson, Jeremy Renner, Richard Jenkins, Sissy Spacek. Josey Aimes needs a job and goes to work at a Minnesota steel mine after splitting with her violent husband. But the job proves to be almost as harrowing as her marriage. The male miners are resentful of women taking their jobs, so the men verbally abuse and play humiliating pranks on the female miners. After being physically assaulted by a coworker, Josey tries to fight against the harassment, but none of the other women will join her case for fear that things will only get worse. A dramatization of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the U.S. - Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won a landmark 1984 lawsuit. 123 min. DVD 5207
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- Liliana Cavani
- Il Portiere di notte (The Night Porter) (Italy, 1974)
- Directed by Liliana Cavani. Cast: Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling, Philippe Leroy, Gabriele Ferzetti.
The chance meeting of a woman and a former Nazi SS officer brings back memories of their sado-masochistic relationship in a concentration camp years before. When the couple attempt to re-create their relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them. 118 min. DVD 2477
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- Gurinder Chadha
- Bend It Like Beckham (UK / Germany / USA, 2002)
- Directed by Gurinder Chadha. Cast: Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Anupam Kher, Archie Panjabi, Shaznay Lewis, Frank Harper, Juliet Stevenson. Eighteen year-old Jesminder's parents want her to be a nice, conventional Indian girl. But she just wants to play soccer like her hero, David Beckham. For Jess, that means kicking a ball around the local park with the lads until she's spotted by Jules, who invites her to join the local women's team. 112 min. DVD 1948
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- Bhaji on the Beach(UK, 1995)
- Directed by Gurinder Chadha. A comedy about a group of Indian women, living in England, who are brought together by a day at the beach. In the course of their day together , their ordinary lives become an extraordinary celebration. A unique look at female friendship. 100 min. 999:1331
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- Bride & Prejudice (UK / USA, 2004)
- Directed by Gurinder Chadha. Cast: Aishwarya Rai, Martin Henderson, Madira Babbar, Anupam Kher, Naveen Andrews, Namrata Shirodkar, Daniel Gillies, Indira Varma, Sonali Kulkarni, Nitin Ganatra, Ashanti. Based on Jane Austen's classic novel, Pride and Prejudice, with a Bollywood twist. In Ammritsar, the determined Mrs. Bakshi sets out to find matches for her four daughters. Second sister, Lalita, meets American Will Darcy - but is it love? 111 min. DVD 4541
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- What's Cooking? (UK / USA, 2000)
- Directed by Gurinder Chadha. Cast: Joan Chen, Julianna Margulies, Mercedes Ruehl, Kyra Sedgwick, Alfre Woodard, Maury Chaykin, Estelle Harris, Dennis Haysbert, Lainie Kazan, Victor Rivers, Douglas Spain. In Los Angeles' Fairfax district, four households celebrate Thanksgiving amidst family tensions. In the Nguyen family, the children's acculturation and immigrant parents' fears collide. In the Avila family, Isabel's son has invited her estranged husband to their family dinner. Audrey and Ron Williams want to keep their own family's ruptures secret from Ron's visiting mother. In the Seelig household, Herb and Ruth are unwilling to discuss that their grown daughter is living with her lover, Carla. 109 min. DVD 1622
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- Documentaries by Chada:
- What Do You Call an Indian Woman Who's Funny? Video/C 3758
- Acting our Age. Video/C 3830
- A Nice Arrangement. Video/C 3814
- I'm British But-- Video/C 3827
- Joan Chen
- Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl (China / Hong Kong / USA, 1998)
- Directed by Joan Chen. Between 1967 and 1976, nearly 8 million Chinese youths were "sent down" for specialized training to the remotest corners of the country. The young and beautiful Xiu Xiu dreamt of becoming a horse trainer in Tibet, far away from her busy city home. Her training begins in the isolated plains of Tibet but slowly Xiu Xiu discovers that she is unlikely to ever see her home again without a wealthy sponsor. Her world becomes a horrifying cage, where "patrons" promise her escape in exchange for her sexual compromise. 100 min. DVD 104; VHS 999:2417
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- Independent View: Joan Chen & Ruby Yang.
- A segment from a TV series offering a behind-the-scenes look into the creative process of independent filmmaking. In this episode two Chinese-American artists are spotlighted. The first part of the program presents an interview with actress and director, Joan Chen, who is one of a very few to attain a viable career in both Hollywood and Hong Kong. Part two features Chen-collaborator and director Ruby Yang. In addition to editing Chen's Autumn in New York and Xiu Xiu, Yang directed Citizen Hong Kong, a documentary about five Hong Kong residents and their views on Hong Kong's transition from British to Chinese rule. Video/C MM94
- Lisa Cholodenko
- High Art (Canada / USA, 1998)
- Directed by Joyce Chopra. Cast: Ally Sheedy, Radha Mitchell, Gabriel Mann, Patricia Clarkson, Bill Sage.
Lucy Berliner, a once-famous photographer, experiences a revitalized career when she meets Syd, a beautiful young assistant editor for a prestigious photography magazine. Withdrawn from the art world, Lucy is reawakened by Syd who offers her the hope of escaping her drug-filled world. Before Syd realizes it, she is drawn into Lucy's seductive and dangerous mix and is forced to make choices she never imagined. 103 min.DVD 3535
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- The L Word: Lynch Pin (DVD 5767)
- Six Feet Under: Familia (DVD 3945 )
- Joyce Chopra
- Smooth Talk (UK / USA, 1985)
- Directed by Joyce Chopra. Cast: Treat Williams, Laura Dern, Mary Kay Place, Elizabeth Berridge, Levon Helm.
Connie is a 15-year-od girl with two things on her mind, boys and how she looks. But when she flirts with an older, handsome and predatory stranger, she isn't prepared for the frightening and traumatic consequences. 92 min.DVD 5787
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- Sundance Festival: Grand Jury Prize - Dramatic Work (1986)
- Vera Chytilová
- Daisies (Sedmikrasky) (Czechoslovakia, 1966)
- Directed by Vera Chytilová. In this Czech new wave film two madcap teenage girls decide that since the world is spoiled they will be spoiled as well. Accordingly they embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world about them. 75 min. DVD 1825
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- Diamonds of the Night (Demanty noci) (Czechoslovakia, 1964)
- Directed by Jan Nemec. Diamonds of the night is a study of two Jewish boys who escape from a train which is transporting them from one concentration camp to another. The film goes beyond the theme of war and anti-Nazism to concern itself with man's struggle to preserve human dignity. 64 min. Video/C 999:3795
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- Shirley Clarke
- The Connection. (1961)
- Filmed version of a play with the same title by Jack Gelber. The play is about drug addicts waiting for a heroin dealer to bring the drug necessary for them to make their "connection." To help pass the time, four jazz musicians among the addicts start to play. The film was shot in a drug addict's apartment in New York City. Based on the Living Theatre production created in 1961, as directed by Judith Malina and designed by Julian Beck. Credits: Writer, Jack Gelber; producers, Lewis Allen, Shirley Clarke; director/editor, Shirley Clarke; production designer, Richard Sylbert; art director, Albert Brenner; director of photography, Arthur J. Ornitz; introduction, J.J. Burden. Performers: Warren Finnerty, Carl Lee, the Freddie Redd Quartet.
105 min. Video/C 999:893
- The Cool World (1967)
- Directed by Shirley Clarke. Realistic docu-dramatization of ghetto and gang life in 1960's Harlem with a focus on the fictional teenage gang leader, Duke. Based on the novel by Warren Miller and the play by Warren Miller & Robert Rossen. Video/C 999:1702
- Portrait of Jason (1967)
- A documentary autobiography of Jason which tells how he survived a life of street hustling. "Jason is the archetypical hipster of the period, the psychopath Norman Mailer's essay "The White Negro" describes, condemned to swing forever." 105 min. Video/C 999:893
- Nina Companeez
- 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
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- Sofia Coppola
- Lost in Translation(USA / Japan, 2003)
- Directed by Sofia Coppola. Cast: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris, Fumihiro Hayashi.
A middle-aged actor and the wife of a photographer meet while on business in Tokyo. They strike up an unusual friendship in the hotel bar that helps them both overcome boredom and loneliness. 102 min. DVD 2289
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- Marie Antoinette (Japan / France / USA, 2006)
- Directed by Sofia Coppola. Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Marianne Faithfull, Steve Coogan, Judy Davis, Jason Schwartzman, Rose Byrne, Al Weaver, Shirley Henderson, Molly Shannon, Rip Torn.
An impressionistic retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and to the end of her reign as queen and ultimately the fall of Versailles. Based on the book by Antonia Fraser. 123 min. DVD 6399
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- The Virgin Suicides (1999)
- Directed by Sofia Coppola. Cast: James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, Scott Glenn, Michael Pare, Danny DeVito ; narrated by Giovanni Ribisi. When school hunk Trip Fontain convinces the beautiful but sheltered Lisbon sisters to go to the prom, the romantic fantasies of a group of neighborhood boys threaten to come true--until all are engulfed in a stunning chain of events that will change their lives forever. 96 min. DVD 577
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- Sally Cruikshank
- Quasi etc.
- Cartoons created and produced by Sally Cruikshank. Quasi cabaret trailer (1980, 2 min.) -- Quasi at the Quackadero (1975, 10 min.) -- Make me psychic (1978, 8 min.) -- Face like a frog (1987, 5 min.) Quasi at the Quackadero: A science fiction animated film about a boy who goes with a grownup friend and a robot to an amusement park of the future which has a time-hole pavillion for entering the past. Make me psychic: Anita visits a futuristic joke shop and buys a "Mesmerama" machine to increase her psychic abilities. Face like a frog: Features songs performed by Danny Elfman who appears as a lizard in this animated short. 25 min. Video/C 999:3677
- Julie Dash
- Daughters of the Dust (USA / UK, 1991)
- Directed by Julie Dash. Tells the story of a large African-American family as they prepare to move North at the dawn of the 20th century. Explores the unique culture of the Gullah people. 113 min. DVD 168; Video 999:887
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- Illusions (1983)
- Directed by Julie Dash. Cast: Lonette McKee, Rosanne Katon, Ned Bellamy, Jack Radar.
Story takes place in 1942 and is about Mignon Dupree, a black woman studio executive who appears to be white, and Ester Jeeter, a black woman who is the singing voice for a white Hollywood star. The film follows the struggles of the women as well as the use of motion picture films in Hollywood during wartime. 34 min. Video/C 999:1365; also on Video/C 3181
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- The Cinematic Jazz of Julie Dash.
- Afro-American filmmaker, producer, writer and director Julie Dash talks about her life and work and the difficulties she has had getting her films distributed and accepted. Interspersed with her comments are clips from three of her films, Daughters of the Dust, Illusions, and Diary of an African Nun, and she talks about the making of a fourth film, Four Women. One of her principal aims, she says, is "to redefine images of black women on the screen." 1992. 27 min. Video/C 7081
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A documentary tracing the careers of inspiring African American women filmmakers from the early part of the 20th century to the present. Realizing that she wasn't going to find her sisters in cinema in Hollywood, the producer traveled the independent path to uncover a wide range of films directed by African American women outside of the Hollywood studio system. Early filmmakers include Tressie Souders, Zora Neale Hurston, Madame C. J. Walker, Maya Angelou, Madeline Anderson, Kathleen Collins Prettyman, Darnell Martin, Kasi Lemmons, Julie Dash and Eloyce Gist. Produced and directed by Yvonne Welbon. 2003. 62 min. Video/C MM408
- Teresa de Pelegri
- Seres queridos (Only Human) (Spain/Argentina/Portugal/UK, 2004)
- Directors, Teresa de Pelegri & Dominic Harari. Cast: Norma Aleandro, Guillermo Toledo, Maria Botto, Marian Aguilera, Fernando Ramallo. When Leni comes home to introduce her fiance Rafi to her idiosyncratic Jewish family, everything goes smoothly until the lovers belatedly reveal that Rafi is Palestinian. 86 min. DVD 6585
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- Donna Deitch
- Common Ground (2000)
- Directed by Donna Deitch. Cast: Edward Asner, Beau Bridges, Harvey Fierstein, Brian Kerwin, Margot Kidder, Dan Lauria, James LeGros, Brittany Murphy, Jason Priestley, Mimi Rogers, Helen Shaver, Eric Stoltz, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Steven Weber. Three short stories dealing with the theme of homosexuality. In "A Friend of Dorothy's," (written by Paula Vogel) a woman joins the Navy during the 1950's and discovers lesbianism. In "M. Roberts," (written by Terrence McNally) a teacher in a 1970's classroom struggles with his closeted gay status. In "Andy and Amos", (written by Harvey Fierstein) a father wrestles with his own emotional acceptance of a present day wedding between his son and another man. 104 min. 999:2877
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- Desert Heart.(1985)
- Directed by Donna Deitch. It is 1950s Nevada, and Professor Vivian Bell arrives to get a divorce. She's
unsatisfied with her marriage, and feels out of place at the ranch she stays on, she
finds herself increasingly drawn to Cay Rivers, an open and self-assured lesbian,
and the ranchowner's daughter. The emotions released by their developing
intimacy, and Vivian's insecurities about her feelings towards Cay, are played out
against a backdrop of rocky landscapes and country and western songs. [from Internet Movie Database] DVD 7641; vhs 999:1632
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- The Women of Brewster Place (TV, 1988)
- Directed by Donna Deitch. Cast: Oprah Winfrey, Robin Givens, Cicely Tyson, Jackee, Larenz Tate, Lynn Whitfield, Mary Alice, Olivia Cole, Moses Gunn, Paula Kelly, Leon Lonette McKee, Barbara Montgomery, Phyllis Yonne Stickney, Paul Winfield, William Allen Young. The story of Mattie Michael, a proud, big-hearted woman whose life has been plagued by misfortunes, landing her alone and penniless in a crumbling ghetto tenement on Brewster Place. She gradually unites the other tenement women to help them struggle for a new life. 180 min. DVD 610
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- Bobo, Jacqueline. Seiter, Ellen. "Black Feminism and Media Criticism: The Women of Brewster Place." In: Vision/re-vision: adapting contemporary American fiction by women to film / edited by Barbara Tepa Lupack. pp: 145-57. Bowling Green, OH : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, c1996. (Main Stack PN1997.85.V57 1996)
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- Beau Travail (France, 1998)
- Director, Claire Denis. 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)
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- 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
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- J'ai pas sommeil (I Can't Sleep) (France / Switzerland, 1994)
- Director, Clair 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. 999:3268
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- S'en fout la mort (No Fear, No Die) (France / West Germany, 1990)
- Director, Claire Denis. Cast: Isaach de Bankole, Alex Descas, Solveig Dommartin, Christopher Buchholz, Jean-Claude Brialy. Set in France, Dah, an African immigrant, and Jocelyn, a West Indian man, supply and train fighting cocks for a sleazy French saloon owner. Once Dah becomes entangled with the owner's mistress, all four characters are cast into a violent circle of gambling, desire, and agony that spins out of control. 97 min. 999:3247
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- Virginie Despentes
- Baise-moi (Rape Me) (France, 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
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- About:
- Bad Girl
- Commentary: Lisbeth Lynghoft, Lene Borglum, Linda Williams, Luce Irigary, Benoite Groult, Catherine Breillat, Nina Hartley, Carol Queen, Annie Sprinkle, Virginie Despentes, Bernard Arcand, Jane Hamilton. Women filmmakes are directing and producing hard-corevideos to the female consumer. These women claim the right to pornography made by women for women and reject the censorship called for by feminists. Arethey simply business-women out for their share of oneof the most lucritive film markets, or avant-gardefeminists and advocates of new sexual relationships? This documentary features selected film clips and interviews with feminist authors, filmmakers,anthropologists, sexologists and porn producers,directors and activists. Dist. Cinema Guild. 2001. 58 min. Video/C 8928
- Maya Deren
- Maya Deren, Priestess (University of Texas, American Studies Dept.)
- Books/articles about Deren in the Berkeley Library
- Divine Horsemen: the Living Gods of Haiti.
- Maya Deren's film chronicles a journey into the world of the Voudoun religion of Haiti. A film by Maya Deren. Filmed in Haiti 1947-1951.
he narration was adapted from the book by Maya Deren, Divine horsemen : the living gods of Haiti." 52 min. DVD 6393; vhs Video/C 1924
- Maya Deren: (Collected) Experimental Films.
- Contents: Meshes of the afternoon (1943) -- At land (1944) -- A Study in choreography for camera (1945) -- Ritual in transfigured time (1945) -- Meditation on violence (1948) -- The very eye of night (1952-59). Examples of Maya Deren's work evoke and exemplify the American avant-garde film movement of the 40's and 50's. 76 min. DVD 1431; vhs 999:437
- Maya Deren. Volume 1: Dances for the Camera.
- Contents: Study in choreography for the camera (1945) / Maya Deren and Talley Beatty -- Ritual in transfigured time (1946) / Maya Deren, Frank Westbrook -- Meditation on violence (1948) / Maya Deren, performed by Chao Li Chi -- Very eye of night (1955) / Maya Deren, performed by the Metropolitan Opera Ballet School, with choreography by Anthony Tudor. 50 min. Video/C 5294
- About:
- In the Mirror of Maya Deren
- A documentary which combines excerpts from Maya Deren's films Meshes of the afternoon, At land, and Ritual in transfigured time with archival footage and observances from acolytes and contemporaries such as Stan Brakhage, Jonas Mekas, Katherine Dunn and Judith Malina. c2001. 101 min.
- J'ai pas sommeil (I Can't Sleep) (France / Switzerland, 1994)
- Director, Clair 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. 999:3268
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- Invocation: Maya Deren.
- Profile of the life and work of Maya Deren, a pioneer producer
of avant-garde films. Includes film clips of examples of her work. 53 min. Video/C 3350
- Sabrina Dhawan
- Saanjh (As Night Falls) (India, 2000)
- Directed by Sabrina Dhawan. A crowded compartment on an Indian night train is beset by mob mentality when a low-caste mother discovers one of her twin babies has died en route. Succumbing to selfishness and supersitition her follow passengers bully the mother to dispose of the infant in the Ganges, in this potent and courageous examination of the moral implications of class, caste and cultural differences. 24 min. 999:3287
- Nana Djordjadze (Dzhordzhadze)
- A Chef In Love (Mille et une recettes du cuisinier amoureux; Shekvarebuli kulinaris ataserti retsepti) (France / Georgia / Ukraine / Belgium, 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. 999:3517
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- Döris Dörrie
- Manner... (Men) (West Germany, 1985)
- Directed by Doris Dorrie. Cast: Uwe Ochsenknecht, Ulrike Kriener, Heiner Lauterbach, Janna Marangosoff, Marie-Charlotte Schuler. An uptight ad executive becomes very jealous when he learns that his wife is having an affair, so he befriends her lover and becomes his roommate, with hilarious consequences. 95 min. 999:3151
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- Germaine Dulac
- Dulac bibliography
- Seashell and the Clergyman (1928).
- 31 min. DVD 4095; DVD 4191; also on VHS
Video 999:778; Video 999:838
- The Smiling Madame Beudet (1928).
- Smiling Madame Beaudet, one of the first feminist motion pictures, is the story of an intelligent woman trapped in a loveless marriage. 26 min. Video 999:838
- Cheryl Dunye
- Greetings from Africa (1994)
- Directed by Cheryl Dunye. In this short a lesbian, played by director Dunye, searches for someone to date. Then she meets L, a beautiful woman who leads her in and out of hot water. 8 min. 999:3345
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- She Don't Fade(1991)
- Shae Clark, a black lesbian played by director Dunye, expounds upon her sexuality and her approach to women. 24 min. Video/C 3287
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- Stranger Inside. (TV, 2001)
- Written and directed by Cheryl Dunye. Cast: Yolanda Ross, Davenia McFadden, Rain Phoenix, Ella Joyce, Conchata Ferrell, Lee Garlington, LaTonya T. Hagans, Medusa.
Treasure Lee just moved out of "juvenile" into the State Pen. Now she needs to learn how the system works, search out where the power lies, and find herself a new lover. She soon meets Brownie, a jail-toughened lifer, who works through her extended family of loyal girls. The closer Treasure gets to Brownie, the more enemies she makes. 90 min. DVD 3368
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- The Watermelon Woman. (1996)
- Written and directed by Cheryl Dunye. Cheryl, a young black woman working in a video store, is making a documentary about an obscure black actress from the 1930's. When she discovers that the actress (known as "the Watermelon Woman") had a white lesbian lover, Cheryl finds a white women lover for herself. 79 min. DVD 3614; vhs 999:1830
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