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1) Godzilla
Series
Criterion collection volume 594
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
It's also a remarkably humane and melancholy drama made in Japan at a time when the country was still reeling from nuclear attack and H-bomb testing. Its rampaging radioactive beast, the poignant embodiment of an entire populations fears, became a beloved international icon of destruction, spawning more than twenty sequels and spinoffs. Here, we present the original, 1954 Japanese version, along with Godzilla: King of the Monsters!, the 1956 American...
Publisher
Gravitas
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (105 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
Description
Uzumasa, Japan's Hollywood, has produced many beloved jidaigeki period films, but would not be the same without the kirareyaku, actors who never see the limelight. This story of the end of their era is told with melancholy and soul.
3) Biutiful
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 147 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Uxbal is a man on the wrong side of the law who struggles to provide for his children on the dangerous streets of Barcelona. As fate encircles him, Uxbal learns to accept the realities of life, whether bright, bad, or biutiful.
"...strong stuff, it will leave you shaken."--Philadelphia Inquirer
"Bardem's soulful turn lends this haunting meditation a sense of hope..."--USA Today
"...it's a gorgeous, melancholy tone poem about love, fatherhood and...
4) Nostalghia
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
1983.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (126 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Nostalghia is Andrei Tarkovsky's brooding late masterpiece, a darkly poetic vision of exile. It was the first of his features to be made outside of Russia, the home to which he would never return. Tarkovsky explained that in Russian the word "nostalghia" conveys "the love for your homeland and the melancholy that arises from being far away." This debilitating form of homesickness is embodied in the film by Andrei (Oleg Yankovsky, The Mirror), a Russian...
5) Frantz
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (114 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Deutsch
Description
Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War, FRANTZ recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eyes of the war's "lost generation": Anna, a bereft young German woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien, a French veteran of the war who shows up mysteriously in her town, placing flowers on Frantz's grave. Adrien's presence is met with resistance...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 270 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"This program includes material that may not be appropriate for younger viewers. Viewer discretion is advised."--
"1900s Vienna is a hotbed of philosophy, science and art, where a clash of cultures and ideas collide in the city's grand cafes and opera houses. Brilliant Dr. Max Liebermann is a student of Sigmund Freud, and together with Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt, they investigate a series of unusual and disturbing murders."--
7) Amour Fou
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (96 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Deutsch
Description
Forever under-appreciated and melancholy, Heinrich is a young poet in Romantic Era Berlin who determines his best way out of despair is to end it all, and he sets about finding a woman to join him in his predetermined departure. Recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, the well-off but unremarkable Henrietta, fascinated by Heinrich's controversial "The Marquise of O," finds his offer intriguing, if a bit strange. And yet, she agrees to navigate...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1954.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (96 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Max and Riton pull off a job together, a burglary of fifty million gold bars at Orly. The milieu, unaware of who committed the crime, finally discovers the truth from Riton's mistress... Winner of the Best Actor Award at the **Venice International Film Festival.** *"It's Gabin's show all the way, anticipating the melancholy, atmospheric gangster pictures of Jean-Pierre Melville that started to appear a couple years later." - Jonathan Rosenbaum, **Chicago...
9) Detention
Publisher
Dekanalog
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (103 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
We're in 1962 Taiwan, during the time of the White Terror, with martial law in full force on the island. In this time of extreme repression, all ideas considered to be dissident are banned, and the culprits are tortured or executed. Tsuihua Secondary School is not an exception from this oppression. Despite close surveillance by the military police, Professor Chang (Fu Meng-Po) runs an underground literary club where he and his students learn about...
Publisher
FUNimation
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Blu-ray format, English version.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (650 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
"Lawrence, a traveling merchant searching for profit, finds a naked girl with the ears and tail of a wolf asleep in his cart. Her name is Holo -- a harvest goddess with an untamed beast lurking inside who longs to return to her beloved northern home. Armed with his street smarts and her animal insticts, a simple peddler and a forgotten deity begin a journey through the wild countryside. Along their path, the riches of happiness shall be reaped, even...
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