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1) Vodka lemon
Author
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
Armenian
Description
A small Armenian village faces tough times after the collapse of the Siviet Union. Hamo is a widower with a small military pension and three useless sons. While making one of his daily visits to his wife's grave he meets Nina and the two begin to date.
Publisher
French Connection Films
Language
English
Description
Recent Alzheimer's research reveals that the parts of the brain related to emotions and creativity are largely spared by the disease. This program explores how some day care centers, nursing homes and assisted-living facilities are achieving positive results with creative based therapies, using drawing, painting and museum visits to improve quality of life and to restore a dialogue between caregivers and families.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
Français
Description
A re-imagined account of the early life of Maria Anna 'Nannerl' Mozart, five years older than Wolfgang and a musical prodigy in her own right. Originally the featured performer, Nannerl has given way to Wolfgang as the main attraction, as their strict but loving father Leopold tours his talented offspring in front of the royal courts of pre-French revolution Europe.
5) Aleksandra
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Language
Russian
Description
In a desolate, sun-sorched corner of the world, an elderly woman has come to see her beloved grandson. He is a young officer stationed at a remote military outpost. With the enemy just beyond the compound, she wanders the barracks, observing the routines of military life, before making a sudden trip into the outlying countryside.
7) Renoir
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
Français
Description
Set on the French Riviera in the summer of 1915, Jean Renoir -- son of the Impressionist painter, Pierre-Auguste -- returns home to convalesce after being wounded in World War I. At his side is Andrée, a young woman who rejuvenates, enchants, and inspires both father and son. Renoir locates a fascinating moment of change, with one century's way of thinking giving way to the next.
Publisher
Cohen Media Group, LLC
Edition
Full screen.
Language
Français
Description
A continuation of director Claude Lanzmann's documentary Shoah, comprised of interviews conducted with four women from four different areas of Eastern Europe, each finding herself improbably alive after the end of the war.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
Français
Description
A wealthy industrialist is found murdered in his home while his family gathers for the holiday season. The house is isolated and the phone lines have been found to be cut. Eight women are his potential murderers. Each is a suspect and each has a motive. Only one is guilty.
10) The class
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
Français
Description
Based on Bégaudeau's autobiographical novel. François and his fellow teachers prepare for a new year at a high school in a tough Paris neighborhood. Armed with the best intentions, they brace themselves to not let discouragement stop them from trying to give the best education to their students. Cultures and attitudes often clash in the classroom, a microcosm of contemporary France. As amusing and inspiring as the teenaged students can be, their...
11) Jour de fête
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Language
Français
Description
In this enchanting debut feature, Jacques Tati stars as a fussbudget of a postman who is thrown for a loop when a traveling fair comes to his village. Tati shot this film simultaneously in black and white and in an untested color process that proved impossible to print copies of. In 1964 he re-edited it with added hand-colored footage, and in 1995 the full-color film was able to be released from the original color negatives.
Publisher
Olive Films : Paramount
Language
Français
Description
The year is 1941, and a tiny Jewish community in France is faced with some shocking news: the Nazis are coming. But Shlomo, the not-so-foolish village idiot, has a plan; before the Germans can dispatch them to camps, the townspeople will 'deport' themselves - to freedom. In a daring race against time, they build their own train and, masquerading as Nazis and their prisoners, attempt one of the greatest escapes in history.
14) Tati shorts
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Edition
DVD special edition.
Language
Français
Description
The charming short films directed by Jacques Tati.