François Truffaut
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From a cinematic grand master, “one of the most readable books of movie criticism, and one of the most instructive” (American Film Institute).
An icon. A rebel. A legend. The films of François Truffaut defined an exhilarating new form of cinema for moviegoers the world over. But before Truffaut became a great director, he was a critic who stood at the vanguard, pioneering an innovative way to view...
An icon. A rebel. A legend. The films of François Truffaut defined an exhilarating new form of cinema for moviegoers the world over. But before Truffaut became a great director, he was a critic who stood at the vanguard, pioneering an innovative way to view...
2) Jean Renoir
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[1973]
Physical Desc
320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Series
Criterion collection volume 769
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Blu-ray.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out.
Language
Français
Description
The leading lady is recovering from a nervous breakdown, another performer is soused on the set, unions threaten to walk, shooting must finish before the insurance lapses and a cat can't hit its mark. Is this any way to make a film?
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
Digitally transferred version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A poetic comedy about a group of children in a French village as they grow from children to adolescents to adulthood. Truffaut interweaves vignettes of puppy love, school days, bragging rights, trips to the movie house, loving parents and one boy's escape from child abuse, as he explores the range of young emotions from humour to fantasy to the serious side of life.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
Collector's edition ; widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Roy Neary witnesses the arrival of flying saucer from an alien world. Thus begins an incredible series of events, culminating in the ultimate encounter with other-worlders as Neary is led aboard the awesome Mothership.
Series
Criterion collection volume 749
Publisher
The Criterion Collection, 2015
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A celebrated literary scholar, seemingly happily married, embarks on an affair with a gorgeous stewardess, who is captivated by his charm and reputation. As their romance gets serious, the film grows anxious, leading to a wallop of a conclusion.
Series
Criterion collection volume 534
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
François is a foster child on the cusp of his teens. Shuttled from one home to another, his behavior grows increasingly erratic, and his bonds with his surrogate parents perennially fraught.
Series
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Hailed as one of the finest films ever made, it charts, over twenty-five years, the relationship between two friends and the object of their mutual obsession. The legendary Franȯis Truffaut directs, and Jeanne Moreau stars as the alluring and willful Catherine, whose enigmatic smile and passionate nature lure Jules and Jim into one of cinema's most captivating romantic triangles. An exuberant and poignant meditation on freedom, loyalty, and the fortitude...
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (81 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (27 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Français
Description
Charlie is a timid café pianist who has given up his former life as a concert pianist, a career which had destroyed his marriage. However, events which he seems powerless to control force his involvement with a gang of crooks who once again cause him to be responsible for the destruction of his life.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 1 hr. 25 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Dramatized account of Dr. Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard's efforts to civilize a young boy who was discovered living wild in a forest. The boy, named Victor, becomes increasingly divided between his longing for the wilderness and his new life with the doctor. Itard, whose teaching strategies survive today in the Montessori Method, is unsure whether he is helping a savage become human or turning a forest child into a semi-civilized idiot.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The mail-order bride is a mystery. Her appearance doesn't match the photo she sent, her likes and dislikes aren't those described in her letters. By the time the lonely businessman husband discovers who she is, it is too late, and he will even kill to keep her.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Based on the true story of Adele Hugo's obsessive love affair which led her to run away from home to follow her womanizing lover across an ocean to Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Series
Publisher
KL Studio Classics
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A tobacco planter is waiting for his mail-order bride. The woman that shows up does not look like the picture, but he marries her anyway. Soon she flees with his money. He finds out it is not the right woman, and he tries to find her.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Blu-ray widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (98 minutes) : sound, color ; 12 cm.
Language
Français
Description
Adele, daughter of French author and patriot Victor Hugo, is beautiful, composed and filled with the same brilliant writing talent as her famous father. However, Adele is driven not by literary aspirations but by love. Impelled by a need that will not be denied, she has run away from home to follow her handsome, womanizing lover across an ocean to wintry Halifax, Nova Scotia. Wild with desire, she'll risk everything to renew their brief affair.
18) Fahrenheit 451
Language
English
Formats
Description
Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (approximately 412 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (72 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Français
Description
Five films featuring the enthusiastic, melancholic, and hopelessy romantic trouble maker Antoine Doinel, played by Jean-Pierre Léaud. The films take Doinel from his troubled childhood through myriad frustrations and romantic entanglements, from his stormy teens through marriage, children, divorce, and adulthood.
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Julie Kohler has just wed her childhood sweetheart. But just moments after the ceremony, her beloved is murdered on the steps of the church. Emotionally distraught, Julie becomes obsessed with her bridegroom's death and begins a descent into madness as she relentlessly pursues the men responsible.