Feature Films and Documentaries
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Eclisse, L (The Eclipse)
Michelangelo Antonio. 1 VHS cassette (123 mins.) : B&W. Italian with English subtitles, Feature film. Italy, 1962. Actors: Monica Vitti, Alain Delon.
Ehe der Maria Braun, Die (The Marriage of Maria Braun)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder. 1 VHS cassette (120 mins.) : color. German with English subtitles, Feature film. Germany, 1978.
"The Marriage of Maria Braun is the most spectacular film of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's career, and probably of the entire New German Cinema. Here his favorite leading actress, Hanna Schygulla, stars as a post WWII survivalist who uses equal doses of seduction and self-preservation to keep afloat in the troubled, cut-throat society of a Germany rebuilding its ravaged countryside and spirit. This deeply moving film is a successful mix of soap opera, sexual politics, offbeat comedy, and epic romance. Schygulla's shattering performance as Maria Braun established her as one of Europe's finest actresses." (from the video jacket)
El Greco
"Portrait of an Artist" series, 1982. Director: Yvon Gerault. 1 VHS cassette, (30 mins.): color. English, Documentary. USA, 1982.
"Here is a recreation of not only the events of El Greco's career, but also the pressures and emotions of the Counter-Reformation, which inspired his religious works. This program, filmed on location in Toledo and Venice, shows the settings familiar to the artist -- his house, the streets, churches, and countryside of Toledo-- and traces his beginnings as a Byzantine icon painter in Crete. El Greco's art expresses both the religion of his times and a private spiritual quest, explored here in masterpieces from great churches and museums of the world, from Madrid to New York." (from the video jacket)
Eles não usam Black Tie
Leon Hirszman. 1 VHS cassette (115 mins.) : color. Portuguese no subtitles, Feature film. Brazil, 1981. Actors: Carlos Alberto Riccelli, Bete Mendes, Fernanda Montenegro, Gianfrancesco Guarnieri.
Elisa Vida Mia. (Elisa My Life)
Carlos Saura. 1 VHS cassette (125 mins.):color. Spanish with English subtitles. Feature Film. Spain, 1977. Actors: Geraldine Chaplin, Fernando Rey.
"Fernando Rey was named Best actor at Cannes for his role in this poignant Saura drama about an estranged daughter who returns home to her ailing father who is writing his biography -- from her point of view. Ironically, as she experiences "her" recollections, she arrives at a deeper understanding of her father enabling the two to reunite. Saura's richly textured story subtly plays with memory and perspective gradually drwaing us into the emotional rapprochement acheived by the characters in the film." (from the video jacket)
Emerging Powers Mexico
Wall Street Journal. 1 VHS cassette (50 mins.): color. English, Documentary. USA, 1996.
"With vast resources, a new generation of U.S. trained managers and a large, young population, Mexico was Wall Street's darling of the emerging markets. But a series of crises led to brutal economic collapse. Will Mexico ever regain the world's confidence?"
Encuentro de Hombrecitos
1 VHS (10 mins) . Color. Encuentro de Hombrecitos. Spanish with English subtitles. Mexico.
"In the Mercado Mayorista de Frutas two boys work hard until dawn.These hombrecitos, little men, at 9- and 10-years old have a clear idea of the meaning of work, of poverty in Peru and of their future." (from the video jacket)
Enfant Savage, L (The Wild Child)
François Truffaut. 1 VHS cassette (86 mins.) BW. French with English subtitles. France,1970. Actors: François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Cargol. ISBN#0-7928-0886-x.
"In what has been called his most mature and aesthetic film to date, acclaimed director François Truffaut has created an absorbing, delicate and unpredictable as life itself. Based on the true account of Jean- Marc-Gaspard Itard, a doctor at The National Institute for the Deaf and Dumb in Paris, The Wild Child follows the capture of a young boy who is discovered living like an animal in the forest. Truffaut himself gives a memorable performance as Itard, unyielding in his belief that the child, played with a haunting precision by Jean-Pierre Cargol, can be transformed into a civilized being. Itard removes the young orphan from the institute and takes him into his own home. Victor, as the boy is now called, becomes increasingly divided between his longing for the wilderness and his new life with the doctor. But it is Itard, whose teaching strategies survive today in the Montessori Method, that has the most pressing ambivalence. Is he helping a savage become human, or turning a child of the forest into a semi-civilized idiot? The answers don't come easily in this intricate and thought-provoking film." (from the video jacket)
Enigma de Quetzalcoatl, El
Flims for the Humanities. 1 VHS cassette (56 mins.): color. Spanish with no subtitles, Documentary. USA, 1993.
"The myths if the man/god Quetalcoatl play a vital part in the history of both Aztecs and Mayas. his program examines the role of Quetzalcoatl in these two very dofferent cultures and his part in paving the way for the conquest." (from the video jacket)
Epic Voyages: First Crusade, The
Films for the Humanities. 1 VHS cassette (54mins.): color. English, Documentary.
"The march to Jerusalem was the greatest land journey of the Middle Ages. Recreating the 2,500-mile-trip from the green islands of northern Europe to the burning deserts of Sinai, the program leaves from the castle of Duke Godfrey de Bouillon, hero of the First Crusade, plodding along on a one ton descendant of medieval Christendom, climbing the Anatolian pleteau, seeing the Crusader castles and ancient battlefields in Syria, finally crossing the Jordan River and reaching the jewel in the Crusader's crown, Jerusalem." (from the video jacket)
Eroica
Andrzej Munk.1VHS.80mins.BW.Polish with English subtitles.Poland 1959.Actors:Edward Dziewonski, Kazimierz Opalinski, Leon Niemszyk. A bitter comedy about war heroism.
Escritores portugueses contemporáneos (Contemprary Portugeuse Writers)
Instituto de Cultura e Lingua Portuguesa (ICALP): Fernando Namora; Fernando Pessoa; Lidia Jorge; Fernando Dacosta; Miguel Torga; José Saraonago. 1 VHS cassette: color. Portuguese, no subtitles, Documentary. Portugal.
Espejo de Escritores
Ediciones del Norte. 5 part series; 1 VHS cassette (60 mins.) each. Spanish, no subtitles, Documentary. Interviews with, and information about famous authors:
- Manuel Puig
- Octavio Paz
- Angel Rama
- Severo Sarduy
- Vinas y Giardinelli
Evita: The Woman Behind the Myth
A&E Biography. 1 VHS cassette (50 mins.): color. English, Documentary USA, 1996.
"To some she was a hero. To others she was a symbol of naked ambition. To the world, she remains a legend. Eva Duarte Peron-- Evita--is one of the most controversial figures in history. A minor actress when she married Argentine president-to-be Juan Peron, her political power and prestige eventually equaled, or perhaps eclipsed, his. Was she a power-hungry opportunist, as detractors claim? Or was she really the savior of the working poor? A remarkable program, rare photographs and films tell Evita's real story, from her humble birth to her tragic death from cancer at 33. Close aides and bitter enemies offer firsthand accounts, and popular artists-- including playwright Tim Rice -- consider why she continues to fascinate us today." (from the video jacket)
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Fausta
Bruno Barreto. 1 VHS cassette (90 mins.) : color. Portuguese with English subtitles, Feature film. Brazil. Actors: Betty Faria, Daniel Filho, Brandao Filho.
"Betty Faria, stars as Fausta, a quirky cleaning lady whose sexy swinging hips open teh door to a more comfortable life. When an old widower breaks the ice and buys Fausta perfume, and a drink, she sees a way out both her dead-end marriage and the shanty town traps her. The bawdy sitcom hilarity of Fausta and her relationships are infused with a deeper message in the film's startling conclusion."
Federico García Lorca: A Murder in Granada
Films for the Humanities and Sciences. 1 VHS cassette (55 mins.): color. Spanish with English narration. USA 1995.
"This is the authoritative biography of García Lorca, containing all the family memorablia, his drawings and paintings, and the only remaining footage of the poet himself. The principal focus of the film is on Lorca's work." (from the video jacket)
Feliz ano velho
Roberto Gervitz. 1 VHS cassette: color. Portuguese, no subtitles, Feature film. Brazil, 1988. Actors: Marcos Breda, Malu Mader.
Femme Nikita, La
Luc Besson. 1 VHS cassette (117 mins.): color. French with English subtitles, Feature film. France, 1990.
"Internationally acclaimed director Luc Besson delivers a tour de force with his action-packed story of Nikita (Anne Parillaud), a ruthless street junkie whose killer instincts could make her the perfect weapon. Recruited against her will into a secret government organization by a sadistic man known only as Bob, Nikita is broken and remade. In three years, Bob transforms her into a sexy, sophisticated "lethal weapon" named Josephine. Released from the training compound, Nikita establishes a new identity and soon falls in love with Marco, a soft-spoken romantic. Six months later, she gets a call. She's been activated. From that moment, Nikita is caught in a web of intrigue and murder -- trapped in a double life as Marco's lover and Bob's hired gun. The thrilling, provocative climax makes 'La Femme Nikita' one of the most shocking and intelligent espionage adventures ever!" ( from the video jacket)
Ferdinando I, Re di Napoli (Ferdinand, King of Naples)
Gianni Franciolini. 1 VHS cassette (82 mins.): color. Italian, no subtitles, Feature film. Italy, 1959. Actors: Eduardo DeFilippo, Titina DeFilippo, Vittorio DeSica, Aldo Fabrizi, Marcello Mastroianni, Nino Taranto.
Fidel Castro
Producer: David Wolper. 1 VHS cassette (27 mins.): B&W. English, Documentary. Narrated by Mike Wallace. USA, 1993.
"Over six million Cuban people hailed Fidel Castro as their liberator, but in his lust for power he betrayed them. Castro began as an idealist, a patriot who was hailed as the "George Washington" of Cuba, but Castro betrayed his revolution and sold his country's birthrights to the communists. To the Cuban people it is unimportant whether Castro was a communist from the beginning or whether he sold out to the "Reds" after he took power. Those who fought with him, supported him, or hailed him are painfully aware that Fidel Castro has betrayed Cuba and his revolutionists. Follow the tyrrany of this self-proclaimed messiah as Fidel Castro's fiery rise to power ignites the fall of Cuban freedom." (from the video jacket)
Filles de Caleb, Les (The Daughters of Caleb)
Jean Beaudin / Cité Amérique. 4 VHS cassettes (10 episodes; 60 mins. each episode): Color. French (no subtitles), TV series. Canada, 1990.
"Les Filles de Caleb raconte avant tout l'histoire d'un femme dévouée et courageuse, Émilie Bordeleau, et de son amour pour Ovila Prnovost. À travers leur relations housleuse, c'est le portrait d'une société en plein bouleversement qui se dessine ence début de XXe siècle. Drames et désillusions, ambitions et passions se nouent et se dénouent au fil de l'une des séries les plus marquantes du paysage télévisuel québécois." (from the video container)
First Crusade, The: Epic Voyages of History
1 VHS cassette (54 mins.): color. Spanish with English subtitles. 1994.
"The march to Jerusalem was the greatest land journey of the Middle Ages. Recreating the 2,500-mile-trip from the green lands of northern Europe to the burning deserts of Sinai, the program leaves from the castle of Duke Godfrey de Bouillon, hero of the First Crusade, plodding along on a one-ton descendant of the medieval battle charger across the lands of medieval Christendom, climbing the Anatolian plateu, seeing the Crusader castles and ancient battlefields in Syria, finally crossing the Jordan River and reaching the jewel in the Crusader's crown, Jerusalem."
Flor de mi segreto, La (Flower of my secret, The)
Augustin Almodovar. 1 VHS cassette (107 mins.):color. Spanish with English subtitles. Spain, 1996. Feature Film. Actors: Marisa Paredes, Juan Echanove, Carmen Elias, Rossy de Palma, Chus Lampreave.
"Leo writes romance novels -- but with a loveless marriage she finds herself fresh out of inspiration. Angel is a tough and gruff journalist with an iron will and a heart of gold. When their paths happen to cross, they discover something neither of them had expected -- a real life love affair!" (from the video jacket)
Flowers for Guadalupe/Flores para Guadalupe: The Virign of Guadalupe in the lives of Mexican Women
Judith Gleason. 1 VHS cassette (57 mins.): color. Documentary.
"Flowers for Guadalupe/Flores para Guadalupe explores the importance of the Virgin of Guadalupe as a liberating symbol fro Mexican women today. In the course of this richly textured treatment of an evolving symbol, twent-three women speak out, in traditional testimonio format. This unusual 'contata' of women's voices representing urban, small-town, and rural communities, is intercut with scenes of daily somen's work and celebration of the virgin of Guadalupe in various contexts, including festivities organized by the Comité Guadalupano in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York. Women have been silenced for centuries in Mexico. By focussing on various feminine forms of devotion to the Virgin of Guadalupe as Mexican women's 'role model,' an entire world of consciousness unfolds. It is resilient, hard-working, often painful, violent world, encompassing women of all ages and from various walks of life. They belong to a wider world of popular devotion, historically both exploited and dismissed as unimportant by ecclesiastical authorities who would keep women in a place where they no longer want to be. The documentary follows an all-women's pilgrimage from Queretaro state throgh several arduous but joyful days as it weaves its way through difficult terrain, harsh weather and congested streets to the Virgin's shrine in Mexico Ciety. The songs of Rosa Martha Zarate, Mexico's 'singing nun,' sustains this nad every woman's pilgrimage." (from the video jacket)
Fogo e paixao
Isay Weinfeld and Marcio Kogan. 1 VHS cassette: color. Portuguese, no subtitles, Feature film. Brazil, 1988. Actors: Mira Haar, Cristina Mutarelli, Fernanda Montenegro, Paulo Autran, and others.
Fontainbleau: Un Rendez-vous de Châteaux
Films for the Humanities and Sciences. 1 VHS cassette (48 mins.): color. French, no subtitles, Documentary. USA, 1997.
"The Chateau of Fontainbleau epitomizes the grandeur and opulence of the French monarchy, conjuring images of courtly excesses and royal intrigues. A good portion of 17th- and 18th-century French history examined in this program lies hidden withing its walls. Cameras move through the rooms including the Salon de Jour, Baptistry, and Royal Apartments and examine various works of art and decorative appointments introduced by French monarchs from François I and Louis XIV to Napoleon Bonaparte. Expert commentary relates each feature, and the building itself, to specific periods in French history and to the political intrigues and private dalliances of Fontainbleau's royal occupants." (from the video jacket)
Fontana De Oro, La: Benito Perez Galdos
1 VHS cassette. Spanish with English subtitles.
"The seventy-seven novels of Perez Galdos--the greatest Spanish novelist of his day, probably the greatest to this day since Cervantes--are like one enormous canvas that depicts the whole of Spanish society. Characters and problems appear and reappear. Above all, there is a unity of vision. The program opens in the cafe from which the book takes its title. Shots are heard and the cafe quickly empties; only Coletilla remains. As he is about to leave, a group of liberals arrives and begins to rough him up; he is rescued by Bozmediano, who takes him home. Here Clara and Bozmediano meet...At the last, the story of intrigue love and politics comes to a happy and quiet ending."
Forbidden Games (Jeux Interdits)
René Clément. 1 VHS cassette (84 mins.): BW. French with English subtitles, Feature film. France, 1952.
Fortunata y Jacinta
Angelino Fons. 1 VHS cassette (108 mins.): color. Spanish with English subtitles.Feature Film. Actors: Emma Penella, Liana Orfei, Julia Gutierrez, Terele Pavez, Maximo Valverder, Bruno Corazari. Spain, 1969.
"Fortunata y Jacinta tells of two women who love the same man unfailingly: Juan Santa Cruz. One as his mistress, the other as his wife. The lives of these characters intertwine and are determined by the variegated fabric of delicate tradition and established vices, of shaky politics and intrigue of the society they live in. Based on the major novel (1877) by Benito PerezGaldos, Spain's greatest 19th century novelist." (from the video jacket)
Fracture du myocarde, La (Cross My Heart)
Jacques Fansten. 1 VHS cassette (105 mins.): color. French w/ English subtitles. France 1991.
"Not since 'Stand by Me' has a film captured all the innocence, pain, and fun of growing up. When Antoine and Jerome follow their best friend home from school one day, they discover why he has been acting so strange -- his mother has been dead for three days and he's been keeping it a secret for fear of being sent to an orphanage. That calls for a pact -- to preserve Martin's home life at all costs. They'll learn to cook, sign his report cards, even sell the furniture to keep him out of the clutches of meddlesome aunts. Filled with comic escapades and bittersweet adventures, 'Cross My Heart' brings back the magic and mystery of childhood." (from the video jacket)
French Revolution Reconsidered, The
Films for the Humanities, Inc., 1993. 52 mins. (color), 1 VHS cassette. Documentary; English.
"What is France like 200 years after the Revolution? Have the inequities which led to so much bloodshed been redressed, replaced with others, or are they forgotten? Does anyone really care about the issues -- and what they were anyhow? 48 Hours visits Paris on the eve of bastille Day to see whether things have changed or whether itis indeed true that "plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose." (from the video jacket)
Fresas y Chocolate (Strawberries & Chocolate)
Tomas Gutierrez Alea. 1 VHS cassette (104 mins.): color. Spanish with English subtitles, Feature film. Cuba, 1994.
"... the irresistable comedy treat that's received outstanding critical acclaim! Meet David -- a naive young college kid who's out on his own for the very first time. With the help of two extraordinary new friends, David soon learns everything there is to know about the things that aren't taught in school! Diego is the writer who teaches him about the passion of life... and Nancy is the woman who teaches him about love!" (from the video jacket)
Frida
Paul Leduc, 1985. 108 mins. (color), 1 VHS cassette (108 min.): color. Spanish with English subtitles, Feature film. Mexico, 1985. Actors: Ofelia Medina, Juan Jose Gurrola, Salvador Sanchez, Max Kerlow, Claudio Brook.
"On her deathbed artist Frida Kahlo conjures up images and memories of her life as a painter, revolutionary and woman of the world. Her stormy relationship with muralist Diego Rivera, her tender hospitality for an exiled Leon Trotsky, her struggle for acceptance as an artist, her affairs with David Siqueiros and others, and the travail of her illnesses and injuries are all recalled in a style reminiscent of her own, simultaneously sophisticated and primitive, flamboyant and delicate ... Ofelia Medina not only bears an uncanny resemblance to the renown and beloved artist, but her transparent and luminous portrayal eloquently expresses the inner for of the creative life lived to its fullest." (from the video jacket)
Frida Kahlo: Portrait of an Artist
Eila Hershon, Roberto Guerra, Wibke Von Bonin. 1 VHS cassette (62 mins.): color. English, Documentary. USA, 1983. Narrated by Sada Thompson.
"Frida Kahlo lived and worked at the center of the Mexican renaissance in the 1920s and 1930s. At the age of 16 Frida was involved in a road accident that left her in constant pain and subject to a series of operations. Her paintings reflect her constant struggle with her ravaged body. At the same time she was hailed as a surrealist by the artist André Breton, who described her art as 'playing alternately at being absolutely pure and absolutely pernicious.' For her husband, the cubist and muralist Diego Rivera, her painting 'was the greatest proof of the renaissance of the art of Mexico." (from the video jacket)
From Czar to Stalin
1 VHS cassette (93 mins.): B&W. Engliish, 1987. "Written by history. Drama and suspense beyond fiction."
From Dust and Ashes: Survivors, Scholars and Clergy Confront the Holocaust
Jim Spear. 1 VHS cassette (60 mins.): color. English, documentary. U.S.A., 1983. Conference at Kent State University.
Fuenteovejuna
Films for the Humanities, Inc. 2 VHS cassettes (142 mins.): color. Spanish. USA, 1993.
"The greatest Spanish work of the Siglo de Oro is here presented as a magnificent feature film that painstakingly re-creates the medieval world of Lope's play. Spain's greatest actors are cast in this RTVE production." (from the video jacket)
Für Amen und Alle Anderen (Fox and his Friends)
Rainer Fassbinder. 1 VHS cassette (123 mins.): color. German with English subtitles, Feature film. West Germany, 1975. Actors: Rainer Fassbinder, Peter Chatel, Karl-Heinz Bohm.
"Fassbinder's films have always been notable for the natural and knowing way in which homosexuality is introduced, but 'Fox and His Friends' is the first Fassbinder film in which it is made the central subject. A lower class carnival entertainer, professionally known as 'Fox the Talking Head,' strikes it rich, after a life of hard knocks, by winning the lottery. His new-found wealth attracts an elegant bourgeois lover, who proceeds to vamp Fox as thoroughly and unthinkingly as Theda Bara. This ill-fated romance between the capitalist and the lottery 'queen' makes for one of Fassbinder's most skillfully wrought films, expertly evoking a brittle, upper-class gay milieu." (from the video jacket)
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