9/11

71 West Broadway, Ground Zero, N.Y.
Filmakers Library
2002
vhs--$195.00
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Like thousands of New Yorkers who live downtown, the filmmaker Beverly Peterson witnessed close-up the horrific events of 9/11. Her first instinct was to grab her video camera in order to bear witness to the tragedy unfolding. Filming became a way of surviving the following months as she documented what was happening to her community.
Beverly and her husband were forced to evacuate their apartment on West Broadway for several weeks. Then the hard work of cleaning up began. Some businesses in the neighborhood had been forced to close, others limped along, helping each other survive. Many were owned by recent immigrants to N.Y.C. who are featured in the film. The community was forced to organize to demand financial assistance from the government for the cleaning and rehabilitation of individual residences and businesses. They are still rebuilding their lives thanks to their strenuous efforts to help themselves and each other. A film by Beverly Peterson. (20 min., color)

The Twin Towers: A History
Filmakers Library
2002
Vhs--$295.00
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The Twin Towers have attained mythic status in the 21st century. The effect of their destruction and the tragic loss of life is engraved on the American consciousness.
Here is a fascinating history of the buildings that set the character of lower Manhattan and symbolized not only the power of New York City but American culture and financial dominance. The Twin Towers takes the viewer on an architectural journey that explores the design, construction and ultimate destruction of the 110-story buildings. Through interviews with architects, cultural historians, engineers and construction workers, a rich and absorbing story emerges.

It was David and Nelson Rockefeller who initially envisioned the development of lower Manhattan as the center for international trade. There is a certain irony in that they thought global trade would promote world peace. Japanese architect Minoru Yamasaki was chosen to design the World Trade Center, and despite some negative response toward the "spaghetti boxes," most believed these two major buildings would usher in the 21st Century.

The film describes the technical problems that were overcome, including the challenge to the ironworkers. It also recounts the daredevil stunts that the buildings attracted. Paul Goldberger, renowned architecture critic, and others contemplate the future of the site.
Directed by Kaye Wise Whitehead. (48 min., color)

"The commentary is insightful and the images are often fascinating." Library Journal
"This insightful homage is a worthy addition to the burgeoning list of September 11 programs." Booklist

Anthropology

Children of the Seven-Headed Snake
Filmakers Library
1999
vhs--$295.00
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In the kingdom of Cambodia the pace of life has always been determined by the Tonle Sap, which is both a river and a huge lake. Its waters abound with fish and its flooding supports the rice crop, so essential to the peasants. Cambodians say that the Tonle Sap contains a respected yet feared divinity: the sacred Naga, a giant seven- headed snake which they must honor on important holidays. One such occasion is the Water Celebration, when thousands of farmers come with their families to enjoy the boat races as well as to barter their rice for the fish which will feed their families for months to come. After the races, the "genies of protection" must be satisfied, granting the participants and their families safe passage back to their villages and a productive year. The genies are supernatural beings of animist origin which have haunted Cambodians for millennia, dating back to times before Buddhism. This colorful film also explores other areas bordering the Tonle Sap, one of which is the world-renowned Angkor Wat, where the Khmer civilization thrived eight centuries ago. The documentary provides a remarkable picture of a country that endured political upheaval and genocide, yet renewed itself by reconnecting with its ancient beliefs and traditions. Directed by Didier Fassio for Ampersand. (52 min., color)

Fishers of Dar
Filmakers Library
2002
vhs--$250.00
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Fishers of Dar explores the continuity and integrity of traditional fishing practices in contemporary Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Dar es Salaam is a metropolis of three million people, yet the city's demand for fish is entirely met by equipment and methods practiced there for centuries.

The film takes the viewer to the city harbor's pier and fish market and to a small fishing community nearby. The story begins before dawn, with small sailboats and bigger diesel-engined boats leaving for fishing grounds. After fishing, they return to unload and sell fish at market, auction or retail establishments. We also see fast food preparation, home-based work and leisure activities in the fishing community.
The film shows the hundreds of people who make a living in the process, before reaching the customer. We see fishermen and women, boat builders, boat crews, auctioneers, laborers and vendors. Not least are the women who come with buckets, buy and clean small fish and go home by bus to sell fried fish in the hundreds of smaller markets of the city. Recently the market was demolished to provide for expansion of the harbor. The age old process continues but under difficult new conditions. A film by Lina Fruzzetti, Akos Ostor and Stephen Ross. (37 min., color).

The Gospel According to the Papuans
Filmakers Library
1999
vhs--$350.00
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Records the influence of Christian missionaries on native beliefs of the Huli tribe of Papua New Guinea. Catholic, Lutheran, Seventh Day Adventists, Methodists and Apostolics have attempted to convert the tribe in past years. After heated debates comparing ancient spiritual beliefs with the tenets of Catholicism, Chief Ghini and many members of the tribe are baptized as Catholics. A film by Thomas Balmes ; a production of Canal+, les Films d'Ici, TBC Productions and Millenium Film. (52 min., color)

International Documentary Festival, Amsterdam, 2000
Margaret Mead Film Festival, 2000
"This production is flawless...Recommended for undergraduate courses in sociology or anthropology..." MCJournal: The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship

Inca Music, Journeys and Rituals
Filmakers Library
2002
vhs--$295.00
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Two Peruvian musicians, Ebert and Jabier, have dedicated their lives to researching the ancient musical traditions of Peru. Ebert reproduces the old instruments, using natural materials. He also collects the music for the Peruvian Institute for Culture and teaches it to children so it will survive. Directed by Anja Dalhoff, for Angel Productions. (30 min., color).

"Recommended. The viewer can see the effects of civilization, money and drinking on the sociology and anthropology of Peruvian society, especially in the remote villages." Dr. Brad Eden, Head Bibliographic and Metadata Services, University of Nevada, EMRO

Kennewick Man: An Epic Drama of the West
Filmakers Library
2001
vhs--$295.00
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When a human skull was found by the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington in 1996, it turned out to be one of the oldest and most complete skeletons ever found in North America, igniting a firestorm of controversy pitting scientists against Native Americans. The scientists demanded the right to study the bones, while the Umatilla Tribe believed the bones to be sacred and ancestral. When the American government ruled the bones would be repatriated, eight scientists then filed a lawsuit in order to block the action. This documentary explores the cultural assumptions and differing opinions among the various groups involved, looks at the far-reaching implications for the future of anthropology and present-day relations between Native and non-native people. A Riverside Films Production ; a film by Kyle Carver and Ryan Purcell. (86 min., color).

Listen to the Silence: Rhythm in African Music
Filmakers Library
2001
vhs--$295.00
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Taking off from the peace of nature, the singing cicadas, and the simple routines of the workday, this program explores a kaleidoscope of musical examples from Ghana: children's games and their musical bands; traditional drums; sensual dances; trance dances; animated funeral music, and other examples from the Ewe, Ashanti, Ga, and Frafra peoples of Ghana. Directed by Bishof, Loke Films. (52 min., color).

"This film provides important insights into communal African music, and how it is integral to social interaction. It is highly recommended for all students of African music, and for all scholars interested in understanding the importance of rhythm in these societies." Robert L. Wick, University of Colorado Educational Media Reviews Online

Mother's Day in Cuetzalan
Filmakers Library
Vhs--$295.00 (Spanish language version available)
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This film gives us an intimate look at a resilient and spirited woman whose forbearance and skill as a weaver keeps her family afloat through difficult economic times. Life in a small village in Mexico's Sierra Norte has not been easy for Panchita and other indigenous people. Through her eyes one can see how the forces of global economy affect her people. They have been marginalized by Mexico's central government. Their land has been degraded and waters polluted by industries in which they have no stake. Their religion and culture is challenged by the secular outside world.

The film shows us the busy Cuetzalan market where this champion weaver sells her wares. She speaks Spanish to tourists and bargains in her own Nahuatl idiom with local peasants. Panchita's everyday experiences are interwoven with memories of a difficult childhood and dreams of a better future for her children. She embroiders her stories with vivid strands of anecdotal feeling, fortitude, devotion and humor.

Panchita wants to arrange a "traditional" mother's day ceremony for her 80-year-old mother at the homestead in remote Topango, where most of her family still lives. The news of this impending event is reported by Cuetzalan_s indigenous radio, "The Voice of the Sierra," whose popular broadcasts reinforce the sense of community. An important film for anthropology and Latin American studies. A film by Judith Gleason. (59 min., color).

Our Nation: A Korean Punk Rock Community
Filmakers Library
2001
vhs--$295.00
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The rise of a new youth subculture in the Republic of Korea is an outgrowth of dramatic changes occurring there in the 1990's. The country elected its first civilian president, it experienced new prosperity, and became increasingly exposed to Western influences. Young Koreans became exposed to the internet and a steady stream of new musical influences. Our Nation is a stunning portrayal of how Korean youth are using punk rock to find their voices in a rapidly changing culture.

Through the eyes of two young college age fans, we journey through the underground punk rock scene. The small club "Drug" features bands with names like Crying Nut, No Brain and Weeper, and the all-female band Supermarket. To Americans the flashing lights, stomping bodies, blaring sounds and angry incantations are nothing new. But seeing it in an Asian culture known for restraint raises many questions. Sociology professor Cho Hae Joang provides a socio-historical overview of the youth subcultures in Korea, and the emergence of consumer capitalism with the concomitant economic crisis of the late 90's. Our Nation gives air to a multiplicity of voices on issues such as the role of the school system in the lives of Korean youth, their relationships with their parents, and indeed the impact of globalization on the culture. A documentary by Stephen J. Epstein and Timothy R. Tangherlini ; a Traumatic Production. (39 min., color.)

Association for Asian Studies, 2002
Chicago Asian American Showcase, 2002
New York Underground Film Festival, 2002
Seoul Punk Rock Film Festival, 2001
"recommended for Asian studies collections and public libraries in communities with active Korean patronage." Library Journal

Prayers of a Warlord
Filmakers Library
2002
vhs--$295.00
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For the first time a warlord opens his doors and takes us on an intimate tour to the heart of the Afghan feudal system. Mamour Hasan governs 50,000 people in Dash-Te-Qalah, in the north east corner of Afghanistan. They are largely Tajik and Pashtun. Gray bearded and mild mannered, with an army 10,000 strong, his authority is unchallenged. The film opens with the peaceful image of Hasan praying by the side of a river. Later he explains how he opposed the cruelty of the Taliban. Their version of Islam, he says, is not the true Islam, which is forgiving and tolerant.

We follow him through the busy local market, friendly but firmly collecting taxes from the vendors. This revenue stays in his domain. With it, he pays the army, supports the schools, and his Council of Elders takes care of those in need. He mediates justice in a benevolent way. Hassan has enlightened views on women, although his three wives refuse to be filmed. This documentary takes one to a world far from urban Kabul and global politics, but representative of much of the countryside.

Although the term "warlord" has been bandied about by journalists and commentators reporting on Afghanistan, this portrait of Mamour Hasan and his villagers illuminates a way of life, a social organization and indeed a mentality that needs to be understood by westerners considering the future of Afghanistan. A film by Pascale Bourgaux and Andrew Driver. (52 min., color)

Sentinels of the Earth
Filmakers Library
2002
vhs--$325.00
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This is an intimate portrait of a proud but little known indigenous people keeping stoically to their traditions, high in the Sierra de Santa Marta mountains of southeastern Mexico. Like the stalwart cornstalks that nourish them, the Popoluca won't be knocked over by the winds of global change. They stand sentinel over their culture.

The documentary, formatted in eight episodes, is contextualized by a richly illustrated Study Guide. Each episode captures an aspect of their unique culture. In their faithful recollection of an outlawed carnival celebration, old women do the traditional "Dance of the Tiger" to insure a good harvest from Homshuk, the corn god. In another segment we are shown how women collaborate to make a fuel -saving stove from clay mined from their soil. We see how Don Tomas brings rain through his falsetto chanting and libations to the rain god. We visit Apolinar's clinic where the healer cures clients through chants, herbs and laying on hands.

It is believed that the Popoluca speak the language of their Olmec ancestors. The filmmaker captures the essence of a spiritual and convivial people. A film by Judith Gleason. (104 min., color).

Singing Between Two Worlds: Learning Traditional Music in the Heart of Modern India
Filmakers Library
2001
vhs--$250.00
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Singing Between Two Worlds presents for the first time on film an in-depth look at the extraordinary approach to musical training fundamental to the classical music of India. This method is known as the guru shishya parampara. Through it, the Dagar brothers devote their lives to learning dhrupad vocal music, and strive to take their place among the twentieth generation of their family to have mastered this tradition. Viewers will gain an appreciation not only of the demands but also of the beauty of Indian classical music. A film by Ian Hardy. (23 min., color)

Taigana: The Last Reindeer People in Mongolia
Filmakers Library
Vhs--$195.00
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This fascinating film depicts the Taigana, an unusual tribe of nomads living in the mountainous Hovsgol region of Mongolia, near the Siberian border. Nomadism has deep spiritual meaning for the Taigana; their annual migration represents the cyclical nature of life to them and has profound sacred meanings. All their activities are dictated by the world of the spirits. They believe the valleys and mountains are inhabited by their forefathers and by the Supreme Divinity.

The Taigana are entirely dependent on their reindeer. They use the sturdy animals to move along the same paths their ancestors did for hundreds of years. Each family owns ten to seventy reindeer which provide most of the diet of the Taigana. The meat is dried and preserved while the milk is used for drinking and making cheese. The skin is utilized to make clothing for the extremely cold winter.

Unfortunately, in the mid-nineties the Mongolian government restricted theTaigana's movements with disastrous consequences. The tribe had to remain too long in their camps. As a result, reindeer waste increased, many reindeer sickened and died and forty per cent of the tribe contracted gastroenterological illness and diseases of the joints. The tribe wrote a desperate letter to international aid organizations protesting their conditions and help was sent by International Crossroads and the Mongolian Red Cross. Their struggles continue to this day. A film by Dino de Toffol & David Bellatalla. (17 min., color)

Cinema Studies

Acting in Film by Michael Caine
First Light Video Publishing
Vhs--$59.95
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Academy Award winning actor Michael Caine, internationally acclaimed for his talented performances in movies for over twenty-five years, shares his personal insights into the art and science of film acting. Mr. Caine gives you a once-in-a-lifetime chance to rob him blind! The man who's hypnotized the camera lenses for a quarter of a century reveals the most closely guarded secrets on script preparation. working with the director, forming a character, voice, sound, and movement. Pearl by pearl he lays out the Caine wisdom on everything from set politics to set decorum, the film bureaucracy and more! (60 min., color)

Chronicle of a Summer
First Run Icarus Films
1961
vhs--$440.00
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Paris. The summer of 1960. While war rages in Algeria and pre-independence Congo seethes with violence, ethnographic filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist Edgar Morin send two women out into the streets of the city to interview passersby.

Rouch, whose previous groundbreaking films were shot in Africa, and Morin, an academic and writer, were experimenting with a new kind of documentary film about their own society that would reveal the innermost truth of peoples' lives.

From a simple starting question - Are you happy, sir? - CHRONICLE OF A SUMMER delves deeper and deeper into the lives of its characters. They include Marceline, a Holocaust survivor; Angelo, who works grueling shifts in a Renault factory; Landry, a student from the Ivory Coast; and Marilou, a young, beautiful and deeply depressed Italian immigrant. As the film progresses, the light opening scenes give way to intimate revelations and hotly contested political arguments.

CHRONICLE OF A SUMMER is a true landmark in film history. Rouch and Morin were among the first filmmakers to use hand held sync sound 16mm equipment. They also coined the term cinŽma vŽritŽ to describe their approach, although their practice, placing people in situations and provoking responses, differs from what later came to be called vŽritŽ films. Their use of the urban landscape and groundbreaking cinematography (cameraman Raoul Coutard was among the crew members working on the film) deeply affected the French New Wave and much of subsequent documentary practice. The film's self-reflexive structure, in which Rouch and Morin screen the film for the participants to critique it on-screen, as well as their own reactions to the critique, is still, amazingly, contemporary.

More than 40 years later, CHRONICLE OF A SUMMER remains as ambitious, forward-looking and powerful as the day it was first released. (85 min., b&w)

Double Exposure: The Voice of the Camera
First Light Video Publishing
Vhs--$39.95 ; dvd--$44.95
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This program preserves a remarkable body of informational films with movie and media pioneers, contemporary film technicians and screen artists. It explores how films work technically and artistically and provides insight into the Hollywood camera and crew system. This program teaches students to develop an image from initial inspiration into a coherent and well-reasoned scene, to build camera skills and to enhance their ability to think, speak and write critically in an increasingly visual and technological culture. It provides significant role training and illustrates the collaborative craft of film and media pre-production, production, postproduction and distribution using pioneers, contemporary technicians and screen artists. Featured speakers include: Ed Di Giulio, Designer. Owen Roizman, ASC, Cinematographer. Victor J. Kemper, ASC, Cinematographer. Fred J. Koenkamp, ASC, Cinematographer. William A Fraker, ASC, Cinematographer. Ben Kufrin, Cinematographer. Tak Miyagishima, Engineering Panavision. Leonard Chapman, Chief Engineer, Chapman. Comes complete with detailed work book. The DVD features additional behind the scenes, filmographies, camera techniques and show specifications.

Program Highlights This program links historical film pioneers and Hollywood Directors of Photography with on camera interviews revealing format analysis of the following:The Steadicam á The Responsibilities of a Director of Photgraphy á Camera Framing á A Brief History of Panavision áCamera Movement áDrawing the Audience into the Film á Crossing the Line.

Remembrance of Things to Come
First Run Icarus Films
2001
vhs--$390.00
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REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS TO COME, the latest "cine-essay" of Chris Marker, is dense and demanding, a splendid reminder that his nimble, capacious mind has lost none of its agility, poetry, and power. Ostensibly a portrait of photographer Denise Bellon, focusing on the two decades between 1935 and 1955, the film leaps and backtracks, Marker-style, from subject to subject, from a family portrait of Bellon and her two daughters, Loleh and Yannick (the latter co-authored the film), to a wide-ranging history of surrealism, of the city of Paris, of French cinema and the birth of the cinŽmath�que, of Europe, the National Front, the Second World War and Spanish Civil War, and postwar politics and culture.

Full of Marker jokes (a great one about artists and cats), word play (Citroen/citron), filmic homages (Musidora makes a memorable appearance), peculiar art history, a consideration of the 1952 Olympics, and astounding segues from French colonialism in Africa to women in the Maghreb, to a Jewish wedding and gypsy culture in Europe, to Mein Kampf and the Nazi death camps (Birkenau, Auschwitz), the film opens with Dali and ends with Mompou, traversing in its short time a world of thought, feeling, and history.

A small masterpiece of montage, REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS TO COME is from moment to moment reminiscent of Resnais, Ivens, even Kubrick, but in its deployment of still photographs (as in La JetŽe), its theme of history and memory, its subject-skipping montage and rapid shuttle of wit and philosophy, REMEMBRANCE is pure, marvelous Marker. (42 min., b&w)

Criminology

Judgement Day: Should the Guilty Go Free
Films for the Humanities
2002
vhs--$129.95 ; dvd--$154.95
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Every year, hundreds of thousands of convicts appear before parole and clemency boards to plead for early release. This hard-hitting program draws viewers into the formidable decision-making process as boards in Boston, Las Vegas, and Leesville, Louisiana, grapple with harrowing cases of second-degree murder, armed robbery, and manslaughter. Compelling footage of the actual hearings, intense crime reenactments, and powerful interviews with parole and clemency board members, experts, and those most intimately touched by these violent felonies make this an educational experience not to be missed. Viewer discretion is advised. An HBO Production. (65 minutes, color)

Making a Comeback: The Fight Against Recidivism
Films for the Humanities
2002
vhs--$89.95 ; dvd--$114.95
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Marshall Allen is just one of the hundreds of thousands of Americans who leave state or federal prisons and return to their home communities each year. He is typical of the majority of convicts in the U.S. in that he served time on a drug chargeÑin his case, possession of crack cocaine. He is also not unusual in the failure of his first attempt to make it on the outside. But a second term behind bars has hardened his resolve to succeed. This ABC News program illustrates the hurdles and hardships facing paroled felons through the story of one man, a nonviolent offender who, like so many others, is trying to salvage what remains of his life. (21 minutes, color)

NYPD at Close Range
Films for the Humanities
2002
vhs--$539.95 (series) $149.95 individual title ; dvd--$639.95 (series) $174.95 individual title
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With nothing staged or dramatized, this 4-part series portrays with gritty, often sobering realism how crimes are solved by specialized units of the New York City Police Department. Cameras travel with the officers, capturing investigative details and the methods employed, while candid interviews and ongoing commentary lend further insight into the law enforcement profession. Individual titles include: The NYPD Narcotics Unit ; The NYPD Vice Division ; The NYPD Emergency Services Unit ; The NYPD Homicide Unit. 4-part series (54 minutes each, color).

Prison for Kids
Filmakers Library
2002
vhs--$295.00
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In a Phoenix, Arizona penitentiary, Sheriff Joe Arpalo has initiated an extremely controversial deterrent for juvenile delinquency, called "Smart Tents." It involves incarcerating children who have broken the law in a real prison for two days, to show them what they could become as adults if they don't clean up their act.

The sheriff's goal is "...to show the kids how you live if you commit any crime. Not just drugs, any crime. They are going to live in a tough, tough jail system. They don't like it. I hope they will never forget the nights they spent in the tents, eating bologna, wearing the striped uniform, being awake at night with the dogs. They learn the lesson like that. The parents and teachers go through their experience with them, so they're being educated too."

Neither the ACLU nor the Justice Department likes what Sheriff Arpalo is doing, but he feels he is accountable only to the public which elected him. One mother is sure her 13-year old son has been affected by the experience and hopes he will straighten out because of it. She insists she will bring him back repeatedly to make sure he understands the lessons to be learned there. A film by Patrick and Axel Charles-Messance. (26 min., color).

Sniper: Psychological Crossfire
Films for the Humanities
2003
vhs--$89.95 ; dvd--$114.95
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During a 23-day rampage that terrorized thousands, the "D.C. sniperÓ killed ten people, seriously wounded three, and turned out to be two men: John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo. As the definitive treatment of the story, this program chronicles the nationwide manhunt, providing in-depth biographical and psychological profiles of the men, as well as assessing the social impact of their grim spree on the community. Newsreel footage, 911 calls, photographs of the snipers and victims, and key legal documents are combined with expert commentary by FBI profilers, criminologists, and forensic psychologists, as well as interviews with Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose and Assistant Chief Bill O'Toole. Produced by CBS NEWS. (45 minutes, color)

Thanatos RX: The Death Penalty Debate in America
Filmakers Library
2001
vhs--$350.00
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Presents a balanced discussion of the death penalty in the United States, offering a wide range of perspectives including interviews with several current and former death row inmates, families of homicide victims and distict attorneys. Beginning with the history of controversial death penalty cases, legal experts, representatives of Amnesty International and The Innocence Project examine the death penalty as just retribution and its efficacy as a deterrence to crime. Produced by Marianne Galvin. (59 min., color).

Health / Wellness

Ebola War: The Nurses of Gulu
Filmakers Library
2002
vhs--$295.00
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When Ebola broke out in Northern Uganda, there were scant resources and little knowledge about how to deal with it at Lacor Hospital, in Gulu, Uganda. For nearly a month, medical staff treated Ebola patients without knowing what it was. Soon, however, it became clear that the nursing and medical staff were at risk from this haemorrhagic disease. In Ebola War, the nurses tell how they struggled to contain the outbreak. Through interviews, personal accounts and archival footage, this film documents a five-month heroic battle in an African hospital against a modern-day plague, and the final triumph over the outbreak. Produced by Alethia Productions. (46 min., color).

Laughing Club of India, The
Filmakers Library
2000
vhs--$295.00
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Five years ago in Bombay, Dr. Madan Kataria decided to find out whether or not "laughter is the best medicine". He gathered together a group of patients and neighbors to meet daily to laugh. After a time, Dr. Kataria found that the participants experienced improved health and decreased levels of stress. Thus was born across India the phenomenon of laughing clubs. Since then, clubs have spread to Europe and to the United States. A film by Mira Nair. (35 min., color).

Making of a Hangover
Films for the Humanities
2002
vhs--$129.95 ; dvd--$154.95
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Filmed under the watchful eyes of a team of researchers, this program scientifically tracks the physical and psychological changes in seven volunteersÑthree men and four women, ranging in age from 21 to 34Ñas they drink with their friends in a bar. Vital information is provided on alcohol's impact on the body, the worthlessness of inebriation remedies such as cold showers and coffee, the very present danger of alcohol poisoning, and genetic inputs for alcohol addiction. In addition, outstanding 3-D computer graphics illustrate alcohol's effects on the brain, stomach, heart, liver, and genitals. A police sobriety test is demonstrated. A Discovery Channel Production. (51 minutes, color)

Middle Eastern Studies

Eye of the Storm: Jerusalem's Temple Mount
Films for the Humanities
2002
Vhs--$149.95 ; dvd--$174.95
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At the heart of the Middle East conflict stands the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Holy ground for Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, this 35-acre plot is the world's most contested piece of land. Filmed on location, this timely program presents a wide array of perspectives on the role and future of the Temple Mount. Numerous interviews bring together political and religious activistsÑfrom moderate to radicalÑfrom all three faiths, including Jewish groups actively preparing for the reestablishment of King Solomon's Temple and evangelical Christians taking similar steps that they believe will hasten the Second Coming. (52 minutes, color)

Saudi Arabia and the U.S.: A Balancing Act
Filmakers Library
2002
Vhs--$195.00
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An overwhelming majority of the men responsible for hijacking planes on 9/11 were Saudis, yet historically the Saudis were our allies. What this film shows with indelible clarity is the deep rift within Saudi society between the extremely wealthy and corrupt royal family who are ostensibly our allies (and business partners) and the majority of people who live in poverty and resent the excesses of the monarchy.

Saudi exiles living in London keep close contact with dissidents at home via the internet in the hopes of fomenting a revolution. One of them observes that having an American air base in Saudi Arabia following the Gulf War was "a wake up call." The close relationship between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia dates back to 1945 when President Roosevelt, mindful of oil interests, forged ties.

King Faud who buttressed the close Saudi-American friendship is now frail and cannot function as ruler anymore. Prince Abdullah who is anti-American is taking over. Wahhabism, a reactionary sect within the Islam religion gets support from the government. The House of Saud refused to join America's "War on Terrrorism", nor would it close bank accounts held by Osama bin Laden. This is a grim but compelling report. Produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. (17 min., color)

Psychology

ADHD: Kids Out of Control
Filmakers Library
2001
vhs--$295.00
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is a complicated behavioral disorder which is difficult to diagnose, manifests itself in adults as well as children and has far reaching effects on the lives of those who suffer from it, as well as on their families. This remarkable film shows in a short space of time many variants - boys and girls of pre-school age through adulthood

Children with ADHD have difficulty focusing attention, act on sudden impulses, and are hyperactive. Their brains do not seem able to organize and prioritize thoughts and stimulation. These qualities lead to failure in school and at jobs, low self esteem, and an inability to sustain peer relationships. Children can be a danger to themselves and others. We learn that one of the children set a fire without realizing the consequences; another steals, another bites and causes disturbances in school. One mother recounts with pain the suicide of her son.

The only available pharmaceutical treatment is Ritalin, a compound similar to cocaine. Many parents want to avoid its use and try other strategies which are shown here. The film will sensitize educators and parents to a complex behavioral problem. Top Shelf Productions Limited. (47 min., color).

Blind Spot: Schizophrenia in the Family
Filmakers Library
Vhs--$250.00
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Vanessa enjoyed a loving, secure family life until the age of twelve when her sixteen-year-old sister began having schizophrenic episodes. From that moment on, life in the family was fraught with concern and anxiety for the mysterious, unpredictable and frightening behavior of her adored sibling. In Blind Spot, Vanessa expresses to her parents the anger, shame, and sense of deprivation she felt, not only for the "loss" of her sister but what she perceived as the loss of their nurturing. All their energy was diverted to the care of her sister.

In a mixture of painfully honest dialogue with her parents and evocative images of life with a schizophrenic family member, the film powerfully conveys the stresses on a family imposed by mental illness. Vanessa never learned to drive. Her sister was prevented from getting her driver's license by illness; her parents felt it was not appropriate for Vanessa to learn to drive before her older sister. Driving becomes a metaphor for moving on with her life. Now, an adult, Vanessa is able to ask her parents to be by her side as she practices driving. Life and hope renew for the family when Vanessa becomes a parent. Vanessa Laufer, director. Produced by Boja Vasic for TVOntario. (28 min., color).

Boys Alone
Filmakers Library
2001
vhs--$295.00
Public Performance Rights Included
Boys Alone is a riveting film of an English social experiment in which 10 eleven-year old boys are invited to be "home alone" without adult supervision for a week in a suburban house. The boys came in a variety of shapes, sizes, and backgrounds. They had different previous experiences in being away from home.

The film tests the common belief that a pack of boys left together in a house for a long period of time, will self-destruct, as they did in Lord of the Flies. In any group of boys, it is thought, fierce hierarchies will quickly form. The strongest and most assertive will survive; the most sensitive and vulnerable will suffer. But is it true? And if it is, how exactly does that process happen? What about the practicalities of daily life, like preparing meals or keeping themselves clean? The cinema verite camera allows us to observe their behavior up close. After a week together, when the experiment is finished, they return to their parents who are incredulous at what happened. The house has been trashed and the boys are physically and emotionally exhausted. Sociology and psychology students will find fascinating material in this film. Soul Purpose Productions Ltd.; Channel Four Television Corporation. (50 min., color).

Intuition
Filmakers Library
Vhs--$295.00
Public Performance Rights Included
This fascinating program investigates the historical, cultural and modern scientific approach to confirming the existence of our pre-cognitive abilities. Scientific researchers are pushing the science of parapsychology forward and are proving that a correlation exists between physical science and parapsychology.

How can one explain the powers some people have to foretell events? Some can pick horses, others predict accidents, or help the police find missing people. Einstein believed that intuition is just the projection of subconscious memories onto an unknowable future. Stanford University research scientist Russell Targ tries to reconcile psychic phenomena with modern physics. Parapsychologist Richard Brodden considers psychic ability to have evolved with human consciousness.

Others address healing practices such as therapeutic touch and distance healing. Astronaut Edgar Mitchell demonstrated a successful telepathy experiment from the moon with friends on earth. Parapsychology is being used in traditional contexts such as medicine and criminal justice, even as science is trying to understand its mysteries. With David Suzuki -- from The Nature of Things series, CBC. (48 min., color).

"may provide the starting point for a thought-provoking discussion on scientific method, cognition and the human need to understand the cosmos. Recommended." Linda Frederiksen, Washington State University for EMRO

Me, My Brain and I
Filmakers Library
2002
vhs--$350.00
Public Performance Rights Included
Bob thinks but doesn't feel. Christina feels but has trouble thinking. Virginia can neither think nor feel as she is pulled down into a spiral of darkness that zaps her very will to survive. Kent lives within a twenty-minute time span, unable to remember his past or plan for his future. Each of these people has had an injury to a part of the brain called the frontal lobes. Their stories, told in Me, My Brain And I, are helping neuroscientists unravel the mystery of what makes us distinctly human.

Not long ago, scientists believed the frontal lobes served no real purpose. Indeed, through the 1970's, the "frontal lobotomy" was a common treatment for severe depression, schizophrenia, alcoholism and a range of other social disorders. Now, three decades later, a whole new picture of the frontal lobes is emerging. Thanks in large part to the work of neuroscientist Donald Stuss and his colleagues in Toronto and Boston, scientists are realizing that within the network of cells and neurons that constitute this once misunderstood region of the brain exists unique abilities. Told through the remarkable stories of brain-injury patients, this program is as much about explaining this unique part of the brain as it is about exploring the essence of who we are. Produced for The Nature of Things, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. (52 min., color).

Trouble with Reading
Filmakers Library
Vhs--$250.00
Public Performance Rights Included
Why do so many children have such a hard time learning to read? What is at stake for them? Who can help them? This revealing documentary makes the important connection between early trouble with reading and serious behavioral problems in the classroom.

The film looks into the lives of four schoolchildren who struggle to read while their classmates progress to higher levels of achievement.

We discover their shame, frustration and coping strategies as a pattern emerges stemming from reading problems. Their home lives reveal common obstacles to learning: language barriers, social status, emotional problems and sensory deficiencies. Arturo, a rowdy seven-year-old, brings his teacher's reading lesson to a grinding halt. At recess, Melody, a fourth grader who reads at a first grade levels, shoves classmates half her size. Sparring in a boxing gym, Hakeem, sixteen, recounts his expulsion from school for aggressiveness and truancy.

The film shows that a tutoring program can dramatically improve reading skills. Hakeem describes his progress from fourth grade level to tenth after three years of tutoring. Unfortunately, more children need help than is available. A film by Stephen Richardson. (23 min., color).

Sociology

The Abortion War: Thirty Years After Roe vs. Wade
Films for the Humanities
2003
$vhs--$89.95; dvd--$114.95
In the years since the U.S. Supreme Court's legalization of abortion, the political scene has changed dramatically enough to threaten this landmark decision. On the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, this ABC News program surveys the current landscape of opinion and political alignment, examining the shift of momentum concerning abortion rights. Correspondent Dave Marash reports from Minnesota, which many see as the next battleground state, while anchor Chris Bury discusses the issue with a panel of women who hold disparate views on abortion rights. (22 minutes, color)

Failure to Protect
Films for the Humanities
2003
vhsÑ$149.95 ; dvd--$174.95
Public Performance Rights Included
As headlines trumpet cases of children becoming "lost" -and in some cases, dying- while in the care of the state or when the state does not act promptly to take custody, U.S. child welfare policies have come under intense questioning. But the answers are not simple. This Fred Friendly Seminar, moderated by Dateline NBC correspondent John Hockenberry, confronts the complexities of child safety and welfare policies and their effect on American families. Panelists include Kathleen Blatz, chief justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court; Dean Richard Gelles, of the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work; Sandra Jimenez, head of advocacy for New York City's Department of Homeless Services; Marcia Robinson Lowry, executive director of the advocacy group Children's Rights, Inc.; Cynthia McFadden, ABC News senior legal correspondent; Representative George Miller (D-CA), author of the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980; and Northwestern University School of Law Professor Dorothy Roberts, author of Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare. Additional resources are located online at www.fredfriendly.org and www.pbs.org. A FRONTLINE-Fred Friendly Seminars, Inc. Co-production with 10/20 Productions, LLC. (60 minutes, color)

First Person Shooter
Filmakers Library
2001
Vhs--$350.00
Public Performance Rights Included
Takes a definitive look at the world of video games, a 20-billion dollar industry that has raised serious questions about violence, addiction and the spawning of new forms of aggression among boys and young men. It covers the battle between the computer and video game industry and the "Peace warriors", a group of parents and activists. Cogent/Benger Productions, Inc. (50 min., color).

Women's Studies

Is It Really Me? How Teenage Girls View Their Bodies
Filmakers Library
Vhs--$295.00
Public Performance Rights Included
This delightful film shows ten young women who aspire to learn the craft of dancing in musical theater. These young women are taking a master class with Ann Reinking, veteran of the Broadway stage, and guest artist Gwen Verdon. With disarming candor the young dancers share with us their insecurities about their bodies.

Interspersed with lively song and dance routines, the talented young women explore their conflicted feelings about their appearance. As dancers they are constantly surrounded by mirrors which increase their self-consciousness. They are concerned about breasts, freckles, bottoms, height and weight. One laughs at recalling her first bra; another remembers her anorexic stage; while many express their "love/hate" relationship with their bodies. The distinguished mentors encourage the girls to concentrate on their inner selves and to express their feelings through movement. In this way, they guide them to mature, both as artists and as women.

Is It Really Me? speaks to all women who despair of attaining the perfect body. Brenda Siemer and Emma Morris, Sister Productions. (30 min., color).

Japanese Nightmare: Women Who Don't Want to Marry
Filmakers Library
Vhs--$295.00
Public Performance Rights Included
In Japan, more and more young women are rebelling against the societal norm. They do not want to settle down, marry and have families. Instead, more and more have careers and live with their parents enabling them to have disposable income which they spend for their own enjoyment. Prof. Yamada calls them "single parasites."

Although Japanese women have made strides in the marketplace, Japanese men still think of their wives as subserviant. Seeing their mothers' constricted lives, it is not surprising that so many young women have given up on marriage. However, the impact on the economy and on demographics is dramatic. The birth rate has fallen significantly (as it has in many Western countries) and every second pregnancy ends in abortion. As the population ages, a diminishing workforce will not be sufficient to support their elders' pensions. Produced and directed by Poul Erik Heilbuth and D. V. Andersen for DR TV. (28 min., color).

Life Matters: The Story of an Illegal Abortionist
Filmakers Library
2002
vhs--$295.00
Public Performance Rights Included
Tells the story of the filmmaker's father, Dr. Curtis Boyd, a one-time Baptist/Pentecostal preacher in rural east Texas who later in life, as his hometown's family physician provided thousands of illegal abortions prior to Roe vs. Wade. Includes interviews with Dr. Boyd, family and friends. A documentary by Kyle Boyd. (49 min., color).

"A high quality, sensitive approachÉ to the personal story." James T. Roderick, President, Planned Parenthood of North Texas
Silver Award, WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival, 2002
Great Lakes Film Festival, 2002

Sister Helen
Filmakers Library
2002
vhs--$295.00
Public Performance Rights Included
Sister Helen, a tough, 69-year-old Benedictine nun, runs the Travis Center, a clean and sober halfway house for recovering addicts and ex-convicts in the Mott Haven section of the South Bronx, New York. Mott Haven is the poorest congressional district in the nation, where extreme poverty, unemployment, drug abuse and crime have a distinct daily presence. The number of social service agencies set up to help the drug and alcohol-dependent in this community continues to be far too few to meet its rising demand.
She lives with 21 men of mixed race and economic backgrounds who are addicted to alcohol, drugs, or both. She runs a tough place. The rules include: required attendance at group meetings, random and humiliating urine samples, strict curfews, no lying, and any other thing Sister Helen wants when she wants it. She loves life and is often funny, but she is always on guard, trying to catch mistakes before they happen. She takes little chaff from the residents, frequently threatening to boot them out.

Sister Helen's tragic past holds the key to her present life and mission. Haunted by her own decades-long struggle with alcoholism and a string of tragic personal losses, including the violent murder of her 15 year-old son and the alcohol and drug-related deaths of her husband and second son, Sister Helen overcame her own alcoholism and established the center in 1989. A film by Rob Fruchtman and Rebecca Cammisa. (59 min. also available at 88 min., color).

Nomination, Outstanding Directorial Achievement, Directors Guild of America, 2003
Documentary Directing Award, Sundance Film Festival, 2002
Golden Hugo Award, Chicago International Film Festival, 2002
Jury Prize, Best Documentary Film, Newport Film Festival, 2002
Best Documentary Film Award, Nashville Film Festival, 2002
Best Documentary Film Award, Westchester Film Festival, 2002
Nomination, Distinguished Documentary Achievement, International Documentary Association, 2002
Gold Hugo Award, Best Documentary, Chicago International Film Festival, 2002
Documentary Directing Award, Sundance Film Festival, 2002.
Best Documentary, Nashville International Film Festival
Special Jury Prize, Newport Film Festival, 2002
Cleveland Film Festival, 2002
Montreal International Film Festival, 2002

The Size of It
Filmakers Library
2002
vhs--$225.00
Public Performance Rights Included
Americans do not take kindly to fat people. The media feeds us images of emaciated models, actors and actresses. Yet in The Size of It, four young women of considerable weight proudly proclaim that they can feel attractive and find love despite the disapproval of society (and their mothers!).

Dana, expresses her joie de vivre in belly dancing. Lisa describes how she came to terms with her weight by making a conscious decision to accept her size. She has to explain to her mystified mother that she loves herself in all her girth. She courageously invites her e-mail boyfriend to meet her. We see him catch his first approving glimpse of her at the airport. It seems to be love at first sight and they eventually settle in together.
While Janine is comfortable with her weight, she does have health concerns and considers surgery to reduce her size. As a single mother she worries that her weight might effect her longevity. Teresa believes no one will love her if she doesn't love herself. With her over-the-top sense of humor she has created a successful stand-up comedy act spoofing her corpulence. In this refreshing film, all four women express positive attitudes about their over-sized bodies in a delightfully forthright manner. Produced at USC School of Cinema-Television ; Dylan Robertson, Director. (30 min., color).

Recommended Feature Films/Documentaries New to DVD
(public performance rights are not included)

Release date: June 3

About Schmidt
New Line
2002
$27.98
Warren Schmidt has arrived at several of life's crossroads all at the same time. To begin with, he is retiring from a lifetime of service as an actuary for Woodmen of the World Insurance Company, and he feels utterly adrift. Furthermore, his only daughter Jeannie is about to marry a boob. And his wife Helen dies suddenly after 42 years of marriage. With no job, no wife, and no family, Warren is desperate to find something meaningful in his thoroughly unimpressive life. He sets out on a journey of self-discovery, exploring his roots across Nebraska in the 35-foot motor home in which he had planned to drive around the country with his late wife. Jack Nicholson stars.

A La Mode (Fausto)
Buena Vista
1994
$19.99
A charming and witty coming-of-age story set in Paris in 1964 and focusing on an orphaned teenager who becomes a tailor's apprentice. Soon the boy realizes his talent for designing clothes, while he falls for a sensuous female mechanic. Ken Higelin and Jean Yanne star in Remy Duchemin's film. In French with English subtitles.

Bent
MGM/UA
1997
$19.98
A gay man in a Nazi concentration camp falls in love with a fellow prisoner of war. Ian McKellen and Mick Jagger star. Based on the award-winning play.

Big Trail
Fox
1930
$19.98
Breck Coleman leads hundreds of settlers in covered wagons from the Mississippi River to their destiny out West. John Wayne stars.

Bitter Moon
New Line
1994
$19.98
A contemporary drama about an American in Paris who falls in love with a young French woman and how their relationship deteriorates into sexual extremes. Directed by Roman Polanski. Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas and Peter Coyote star.

Cahill: U.S. Marshall
Warner Bros.
1973
$19.98
A devoted lawman heads toward a confrontation with an outlaw gang that includes his two wayward sons. John Wayne stars.

Chicago: City of the Century
Warner Bros./PBS Home Video
2003
$79.98
Rising up as a fur trading post on the shore of Lake Michigan, it survived a devastating fire, gangsters, crooked politicians and a half-century World Series drought to become one of the nation's great cities. Follow the Windy City's colorful history with this "American Experience" program that takes you through Chicago's neighborhoods and traces its rise as an agricultural, manufacturing and business metropolis.

Chisum
Warner Bros.
1970
$19.98
It's good versus evil in a range war. John Wayne stars.

Code Hunter
Fox
2001
$9.98
After a secret government operative develops a computer program to control the weather, the program develops the ability to think independently and causes global hurricanes in an effort to kill millions of people. Enter a talented computer gamer and hacker-he is the only one who can possibly enter virtual reality and try to control the renegade program. With some help from a beautiful reporter and a few friends, me just may be able to make it.

Comancheros, The
Fox
1961
$19.98
Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros. John Wayne stars.

Congress, The
Warner Bros/PBS Home Video
1988
$19.98
In this enlightening, thoughtful look at one of America's most important and most misunderstood institutions, Ken Burns ("Baseball") uses historical photographs, newsreels and interviews to examine the issues, personalities and events that have helped shape Congress and the country for 200 years.

Count Basie at Carnegie Hall
Kultur
$19.98
Count Basie delivers a spectacular show live from Carnegie Hall on March 20, 1981 celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of his illustrious career. This all-star tribute celebration also features Sarah Vaughn, Tony Bennett, George Benson and Joe Williams.

Death and the Maiden
New Line
1994
$19.98
Roman Polanski's intense film of Ariel Dorfman's play stars Sigourney Weaver as a South American woman who believes that her lawyer husband's associate is the man who tortured and raped her years earlier. Against her husband's wishes, Weaver takes justice into her own hands, holding the man captive in order to force him to confess. Ben Kingsley and Stuart Wilson also star.

Die Another Day
MGM/UA
2002
$29.98
007 squares off against a cavalier diamond broker whose ties to a North Korean terrorist go deeper than anyone imagined.

Dora the Explorer: City of Lost Toys
Paramount
2002
$19.99
Dora and Boots need preschooler's help to solve problems and puzzles as they go in search of the City of Lost Toys!

Dr. Seuss: One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish / Are You My Mother?
Sony Music
$12.98
Animated versions of the classic Seuss stories.

Eat a Bowl of Tea
Columbia/TriStar
1989
$24.95
Evocative and enjoyable comedy from director Wayne Wang set in New York's Chinatown in the 1940s and concerning a young Chinese-American man whose happy (albeit arranged) marriage is jeopardized by the onset of stress-induced impotence. Gently funny charmer stars Russell Wong, Cora Miao, Victor Wong.

Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony: Not for Ourselves Alone
Warner Bros./PBS Home Video
1999
$29.98
Their 50-year friendship was driven by a common passion to win equal rights for women. Now filmmakers Ken Burns and Paul Barnes chronicle the lives of 19th-century social reformers Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, who spearheaded the suffragette movement and whose work continues to affect American society.

Fame (Special Edition)
Warner Bros
1980
$19.98
The Oscar-winning musical-drama based on New York's famed High School for the Performing Arts. The terms of several aspiring actors, singers, and dancers are followed in a moving style that blends gritty urban reality with vibrant song and dance numbers. Irene Cara, Barry Miller, Gene Anthony Ray, Maureen Teefy and Anne Meara star.

First Breeze of Summer
Kultur
1976
$24.95
A complex and emotional drama, this play deals with the conflicts between a stern, hard-working father and his two discontented sons. It also tells the story of the man's now elderly mother who recalls, through flashbacks, her youthful affairs with three different men who loved and abandoned her.

Freeman
Kultur
$24.95
This drama deals with the sad division between what a man hopes for and what he achieves. In the title role, Dick Anthony Williams portrays a naive, ambitious, recklessly optimistic man who finds himself in difficulty because of his unrealistic dreams.

Guests of the Nation
Kultur
1981
$24.95
This drama tells the story of Irish insurgents and the captured British soldiers whom they are assigned to guard. While confined to a remote farmhouse the foursome enjoy card playing, jig dancing, and a great deal of amiable bickering. Throughout the conviviality, however, Barney Callahan is haunted by the knowledge that reprisals will be in order if the Irish harm their British captives.

Guru, The (Special Edition)
Universal
2002
$26.98
Bollywood meets Hollywood in this engaging comedy starring Jimi Mistry as a cinema-obsessed Indian dance instructor who moves to New York to make it in American show business. His first film role turns out to be in an adult movie opposite porn starlet Heather Graham, but after meeting wealthy New Age devotee Marisa Tomei at a party, Mistry poses as a guru to win her--and new legions of help-seeking followers--over. With Rob Morrow, Michael McKean, Christine Baranski.

Half Moon Street
MGM/UA
1986
$14.95
Sigourney Weaver and Michael Caine star in this steamy romantic drama, as a Middle East scholar studying in London moonlights as an "escort" and finds herself falling for her latest client, a middle-aged British diplomat. With Patrick Kavanagh, Faith Kent.

Hanging Garden, The
MGM/UA
$19.98
The ghosts of the past are an ever-present reminder, as a gay man's return to his family's Nova Scotia home for his sister's wedding leads to a series of disturbing revelations, in this offbeat drama that jumps back and forth in time to present the family's history. Chris Leavins, Kerry Fox, Peter MacNeill, Troy Veinotte and Sarah Polley star.

Horseman on the Roof
Buena Vista
1995
$19.99
Rousing and romantic costume drama, set in 1830s France, from director/co-scripter Jean-Paul Rappeneau follows two strangers, a handsome horseman and a beautiful young woman, as they are brought together by fate and must cope with political turmoil and a cholera epidemic scare to make their way home. Juliette Binoche, Olivier Martinez, Jean Yanne star. In French with English subtitles.

House on Carroll Street
MGM/UA
1988
$14.95
Suspenseful blend of espionage and '50s "Red Scare" atmosphere stars Kelly McGillis as a young woman suspected of being a Communist sympathizer. While the FBI spies on her, she watches a government agent and uncovers a conspiracy involving ex-Nazi officials. Jeff Daniels, Mandy Patinkin co-star.

In Fashion
Kultur
1974
$24.95
This rollicking musical is set in Paris shortly after 1900. Full of chance meetings, mistaken identities, little deceits and big lies, this is a delightful French souffle with bouncy music, witty lyrics and plenty of laughs.

Invincible
New Line
2001
$26.98
Based on a true story, this is the compelling tale of a simple Jewish man who leaves his humble village to become a mythical strongman in Berlin. Directed by Werner Herzog.

It's My Party (Special Edition)
MGM/UA
1996
$19.98
Eric Roberts is a man expected to die of an AIDS-related illness in the next few days who decides to throw an all-day party for his family and friends, including his former lover, before taking his own life. Darkly humorous film from director Randal Kleiser ("Grease") also stars Lee Grant, Gregory Harrison, Marlee Matlin, Olivia Newton-John, George Segal.

Jeffrey
MGM/UA
1995
$19.98
Paul Rudnick scripted this screen adaptation of his hit off-Broadway comedy that takes a sardonically funny look at gay love in the age of AIDS. Steven Weber stars as Jeffrey, a New Yorker whose vow of celibacy is put to the test when he meets the man of his dreams--who turns out to be HIV-positive.

Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
Warner Bros
1972
$19.98
John Huston's flavorful western stars Paul Newman as the legendary, self-appointed "Law West of the Pecos," a one-time wanted man who arrives in the town of Vinegaroon, Texas, takes over as its judge and dispenses his own brand of justice. The great supporting cast Jacqueline Bisset, Victoria Principal, Stacy Keach, Anthony Perkins, and Ava Gardner as Lily Langtry.

Midnight Run
Universal
1988
$19.98
Robert De Niro as an irritable bounty hunter whose supposedly easy retrieval of a passive mob accountant turns into a gauntlet of hit men, FBI agents, and rival bail bondsmen. Charles Grodin is at his best as the nagging and glum $100,000 prize with an eerie talent for self-preservation.

My Beautiful Laundrette
MGM/UA
1985
$19.98
A Pakistani youth living in London starts working for his businessman uncle and is given a laundromat that he, along with his English male lover, renovates into a neighborhood landmark. Director Stephen Frears' offbeat, seriocomic look at modern British society stars Gordon Warnecke, Daniel Day-Lewis, Saeed Jaffrey.

Nazi Medicine / The Cross and the Star
First Run Features
$29.95
Two riveting documentaries by director John J. Michalczyk, which confront the horror of Jitler's Third Reich. "Nazi Medicine" studies the step by step process that led the German medical profession down the unethical road to genocide. It graphically documents the racial theories and eugenics principles that set the stage for the doctors' participation in sterilization and euthanasia, the selections at the death camps, as well as inhuman and unethical human experimentation. "The Cross and the Star" find echoes of anti Semitism in the otherwise profound, lyrical Gospel of St. John, the sermons of St. Augustine, the writings of Martin Luther, and in the voices of the Crusaders and the Spanish Inquisitors--all of which helped sow the ideological seeds that developed into Nazism.

North to Alaska
Fox
1960
$19.98
Sam and George strike gold in Alaska. George sends Sam to Seattle to bring George's fiance back to Alaska. Sam finds she is already married and returns instead with Angel.

Paper Chase, The
Fox
1973
$14.98
In this acclaimed drama, Harvard Law School student Hart (Timothy Bottoms) gets embroiled in a rivalry with no-nonsense Professor Kingsfield (Oscar-winning John Houseman), who delights in deflating his students' egos. When Hart falls in love with Susan (Lindsay Wagner), Kingsfield's daughter, the tension-filled student-teacher relationship is taken to another level. With Graham Beckel, Edward Herrmann; directed by James Bridges ("Urban Cowboy").

Patriots, The
Kultur
$24.95
This play is a look at the bitter discord between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton in the early days of the Republic. The play focuses on the conflict between the political and social goals of these two brilliant men: Jefferson, the far-sighted, egalitarian-minded democrat; and Hamilton, the short-tempered federalist with limited faith in the common man.

Picture Claire
First Look
2001
$24.98
In only a few hours, Claire's life will be turned upside-down. Escaping a group of vengeful drug dealers, she leaves town hoping to find Billy, the man of her dreams. But he's not everything he appears to be. Fighting against time, Claire must race to clear her name while staying alive.

Return to Snowy River
Buena Vista
1988
$19.99
Australia's breathtaking Victoria Alps set the backdrop for this spectacular epic saga. A fast-paced, action-packed story of a stormy romance caught up in a violent feud between landowners.

Rock Hudson's Home Movies
Water Bearer
1992
$39.95
Intriguing look at the gay life and films of Rock Hudson, as narrated by Hudson "himself" from beyond the grave. By looking at clips from the actor's most popular films like "Pillow Talk" and tracing his career from contract player to legend, this biography reveals secrets of Hudson's life which may have been on the screen all along. Eric Farr stars; Mark Rappaport directs.

South Park: The Complete Second Season
Warner Bros
$49.98
All eighteen episodes from the classic second season of Comedy Central's all-time highest rated series.

S.W.A.T. (The Complete First Season)
Columbia/TriStar
1975
$29.95
From producer Aaron Spelling comes one of the toughest, action-packed crime-fighting shows of them all: S.W.A.T. S.W.A.T. chronicled the covert missions of the LAPD's Special Weapons and Tactics unit, an elite five-man force tackling situations too dangerous for even the police to handle. The show introduced a new breed of hard-as-nails cops to audiences: Lt. Dan "Hondo" Harrelson, Officer Jim Street, Sgt. "Deacon"Kay, Officer Dominic Luca, and Officer T.J. McCabe.

Seabiscut (American Experience)
Warner Bros. / PBS Home Video
$19.98
The undersized, crooked-legged horse that went from being an also-ran to a national celebrity in the late 1930s is the focus of this "American Experience" documentary. Rare race footage and interviews tell the story of how auto magnate Charles Howard, taciturn trainer Tom Smith and boxer-turned-jockey Rod Pillard turned Seabiscuit into an equestrian legend.

Shakers: Hands to Work, Heart to God
Warner Bros. / PBS Home Video
1989
$19.98
Ken Burns offers a fascinating portrait of the people known as Shakers, members of the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, who are part of one of the most enduring movements in American religious history. The Shakers' beliefs (including their celibate lifestyle) and furniture-making abilities are examined through diaries and photographs.

Song of Bernadette (Special Edition)
Fox
1943
$19.98
The story of a young French girl Bernadette Soubirous, who sees a vision of a "beautiful lady" near her home in Lourdes 1858.

Songcatcher
Lion's Gate
2000
$19.99
When a college musicologist in the early 1900s is denied a promotion, she retreats to her sister's remote home in the Appalachians to get away from it all. There she discovers a rich musical culture evolved from Scotch-Irish folk songs that she sets out to collect and preserve, while at the same time falling for a disapproving mountain man. Writer/director Maggie Greenwald's lyrical drama stars Janet McTeer, Aidan Quinn, Jane Adams and Pat Carroll.

Spirit of '76 (Special Edition)
Warner Bros.
1990
$19.98
In the distant future, a time-travel mission is undertaken to the year 1776 to ask the Founding Fathers for solutions to their problems...but they end up in 1976 instead.

Stranger Among Us
Buena Vista
1992
$9.98
Tough New York detective Melanie Griffith, assigned to investigate the murder of a Hassidic Jew, goes undercover inside the insular community to learn the secret behind the killing, but the shiksa shamus is soon drawn to a handsome religious student. Sidney Lumet directs this engrossing blend of crime thriller, culture-clash drama and romance. John Pankow, Eric Thal co-star.

Sum of Us, The
MGM/UA
1994
$19.98
Exceptional and offbeat drama from Australia about a touching father-son relationship. In this case, Dad's a feisty widower who tries to assist his gay son in finding true love. As the camaraderie between the two strengthens, the father recalls his mother's secret lesbian relationship years earlier. Jack Thompson and Russell Crowe star.

Thoroughly Modern Millie
Universal
1967
$19.98
The "Roaring Twenties" live on in this Oscar-winning musical comedy of innocent girls, wild flappers, romance and crime. Julie Andrews and Mary Tyler Moore are the heroines, John Gavin the good guy, Carol Channing a dizzy heiress and Beatrice Lillie the head of a white slavery ring.

Truce, The
Buena Vista
1996
$19.98
Based on Italian author Primo Levi's autobiographical book "The Reawakening," this moving drama stars John Turturro as an Auschwitz survivor struggling to reclaim his humanity as he tries to reach his homeland in the turmoil of post-WWII Europe. With Rade Serbedzija, Teco Celio; directed by Francesco Rosi ("Three Brothers").

Unstrung Heroes
Buena Vista
1995
$9.99
Inspired by writer Franz Lidz's autobiographical book and directed by Diane Keaton, this poignant comedy-drama focuses on a 12-year-old son of a wacky inventor and sickly mother who is sent to live with two uncles--one of whom sees conspiracies everywhere and the other who collects junk obsessively. Andie MacDowell, John Turturro, Michael Richards and Nathan Watt star.

War and Peace
Image
1965
$79.99
This definitive version of Leo Tolstoy's literary classic boasts an unprecedented scale for its battle scenes, including a fully created regular army, over 120,000 soldier extras, and over 35,000 costumes, bringing heightened realism to such breathtaking setpieces as the Battle of Borodino and the 1812 Moscow fire. A sprawling production that nearly bankrupted the Soviet government, "War and Peace" chronicles the timeless romance between Natasha Rostova and Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, whose lives mirror the upheaval of the nation around them. In Russian with English subtitles.

Wigstock: The Movie
MGM/UA
1995
$19.98
"A celebration of life, liberty and the pursuit of big hair," New York City's annual Wigstock drag festival is the focus of this wild and exuberant documentary. See wild costumes and hairdos; celebrity guests such as supermodel RuPaul, rock group Deee-Lite and emcee the Lady Bunny; and dueling Tallulah Bankheads performing "Born to Be Wild."

Release date: June 10

Blind Husbands (1919) / The Great Gabbo (1929)
Kino
$29.95
In his directorial debut, Erich von Stroheim also stars as a handsome army officer having an affair with the wife of a staid doctor. The illicit affair leads to a dramatic conclusion in a mountain-climbing sequence. Gibson Gowland, Francelia Billington also star in this silent classic. Then, von Stroheim gives a mesmerizing performance in an early talkie drama about an unbalanced ventriloquist whose dummy becomes an extension of his personality and begins to take over his life. With Betty Compson, Marjorie King.

Brady Bunch Movie, The
Paramount
1995
$19.99
Mike and Carol have just one week to come up with $20,000 in back taxes or they'll lose their house to a scheming neighbor. To make matters worse, Marcia gets a swollen nose on date night, Cindy's addicted to tattling, and Jan's hearing a psychotic inner voice crying "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!" Of course, these are The Brady's, and when the kids enter a talent contest with a $20,000 purse...well, let's just say, "It's A Sunshine Day!"

By Brakhage
Criterion
$39.95
For over a half-century, independent filmmaker Stan Brakhage has explored the universal themes of life, death, love and the cosmos through more than 300 innovative shorts and features that experiment with the physical qualities of film, from scratching directly onto celluloid to running pasted-on moths' wings through an optical printer. Twenty-six of Brakhage's works--including "Desistfilm" (1954), "Window Water Baby Moving" (1959), "Mothlight" (1963), "The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes" (1971), "I...Dreaming" (1988) and "Stellar" (1993)--are included in this two-disc retrospective.

Chinese Roulette
Wellspring Media
1976
$24.98
The estranged parents of a crippled teenager find themselves in a miserably uncomfortable predicament when they both arrive at the family estate with their respective lovers. Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. In German with English subtitles.

Collected shorts of Jan Svankmajer, vol. 1
Image
2002
$29.95
For the past forty years, Jan Svankmajer has been hailed as one of cinema's most consistently surprising, wildly imaginative and remarkable surrealists of our time. Utilizing a delirious combination of puppets, humans, stop-motion animation and live action, Svankmajer's films conjure up a dreamlike universe that is at once dark, macabre, witty and perversely visceral. This collection of remarkable short works pays tribute to an artist that has mesmerized audiences the world over, inspiring filmmakers from the Brothers Quay to Tim Burton and Terry Gilliam. Volume 1 includes: "The Fall of the House of Usher," "A Game with Stones," "Et cetera," "Punch and July," "The Flat," "Picnic with Weissmann," "A Quiet Week in the House."

Collected Shorts of Jan Svankmajer, vol. 2
Image
2002
$29.95
For the past forty years, Jan Svankmajer has been hailed as one of cinema's most consistently surprising, wildly imaginative and remarkable surrealists of our time. Utilizing a delirious combination of puppets, humans, stop-motion animation and live action, Svankmajer's films conjure up a dreamlike universe that is at once dark, macabre, witty and perversely visceral. This collection of remarkable short works pays tribute to an artist that has mesmerized audiences the world over, inspiring filmmakers from the Brothers Quay to Tim Burton and Terry Gilliam. Volume 2 includes: "Dimensions of Dialogue," "Down to the Cellar," "The Pendlum, the Pit and Hope," "Meat Love," "Flora," "The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia," "Food," The BBC Documentary "Animator of Prague"; Selected Svankmajer Poems.

D-Day: The Battle That Liberated the World
Central Park
$19.98
June 6, 1944: In the largest covert operation in history, an unprecedented Allied force stormed the beaches of Normandy. The risky maneuver caught the Axis forces by surprise, marking a major turning point in World War II. Using actual battle footage, this documentary recreates the events that led to this remarkable and risky operation. Now you can witness the long term, painstaking campaign that changed the world.

Desperate Hours
Paramount
1955
$19.99
Director William Wyler's Suspense classic marks the only time cinema giants Humphrey Bogart and Fredric March worked together. The result is everything you'd expect: taut, terrifying and terrific. Bogart plays an escaped con who has nothing to lose. March is a suburban everyman who has everything to lose-his family is held hostage by Bogart. As The Desperate Hours tick by, the two men square off in a battle of wills and cunning that tightens into an unforgettable, fear-drenched finale.

Experiment in Terror
Columbia/TriStar
1962
$19.95
Dedicated F.B.I. agent John Ripley fights to protect Kelly Sherwood from a ruthless killer. Unless his plans to rob the bank succeed, the unseen assailant - identifiable only by his asthmatic breathing - threatens to murder Kelly and her teenage sister, Toby. To save the two terrorized sisters, the F.B.I. sets up an elaborate trap using Kelly as a decoy, but the killer gets away. Nerve-racking suspense builds as Kelly, now panic-stricken, continues to act as bait long enough to let the Feds trap the killer. Unless they act quickly, the woman in distress will become the casualty of a deadly experiment in terror!

Fear of Fear
Wellspring Media
1975
$24.98
After having her second child, a middle-class housewife begins experiencing intense inexplicable fear and turns to drugs and alcohol in order to alleviate her terror. Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. In German with English subtitles.

Food of Love
TLA Releasing
2002
$29.99
The first English-language film from Spain's Ventura Pons ("Beloved/Friend") tells of Paul Bishop, a novice pianist who volunteers to serve as page turner for his idol, classical pianist Paul Rhys. Months later, Bishop and Rhys begin an intimate relationship after Rhys, travelling with divorced mother Juliet Stevenson, sees the musician in Barcelona. Complicating matters is Rhys' manager and lover (Allan Corduner), whom Bishop meets while studying in New York. Based on a novella by David Leavitt.

Foolish Wives / The Man You Love to Hate
Kino
$29.95
Double Feature: "Foolish Wives"-An American diplomat's wife falls under the spell of a phony Russian Count. "The Man You Loved To Hate"-Blends revealing interviews, rare photographs and clips from von Stroheim's legendary and lesser-known works to create a fascinating tribute to one of American cinema's most complex artists.

Frida (Special Edition)
Buena Vista
2002
$29.99
This film chronicles the life of artist Frida Kahlo, from her humble upbringing to her worldwide fame. The film shows the turbulence and controversy that surrounded both Frida and her husband, Diego Rivera, from their complex and enduring relationship to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women.

Giant (Special Edition)
Warner Bros
1956
$26.99
Sprawling drama of two generations in a wealthy Texas cattle clan, with Rock Hudson as the headstrong family head, Elizabeth Taylor as his wife, and James Dean (in his final film) as the ranch hand in love with Taylor. Carroll Baker, Dennis Hopper, Sal Mineo also star; George Stevens directs.

Gods of the Plague
Wellspring Media
1969
$24.98
Just released from prison, a petty crook reunites with his nightclub singer girlfriend and joins a Bavarian hit man named "Gorilla" for a number of scores leading up to a supermarket shootout. Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. In German with English subtitles.

Is Paris Burning?
Paramount
1968
$19.99
As the Nazi jackboot marches through Europe, the freedom fighters of Paris mount a brave resistance. An insane and desperate Hitler sends a top general to determine if the Nazis can hold the city. If not, Paris will be burned. "Is Paris Burning?" is a staggering portrait of heroism and brotherhood, and one of the most riviting stories to come out of World War II.

Love is Colder Than Death
Wellspring Media
1969
$24.98
After refusing to join a crime syndicate, a small-time pimp befriends a fellow hood and sets out on a wave of shoplifting and murder that culminates with a botched bank robbery. Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. In German with English subtitles.

Murphy's War
Paramount
1971
$19.99
A powerhouse performance by Peter O'Toole propels this tale of a WWII seaman determined to wreak his revenge on the German U-boat whose treacherous attack left him the sole survivor. Directed by Peter Yates.

Old School
Universal
2003
$26.99
Three men, disenchanted with life, decide to form their own fraternity in hopes of recapturing the glory of their college years.

Once Upon a Time in America
Warner Bros.
1984
$26.99
Sprawling gangster opus from Sergio Leone follows the rise to power of New York hoods Robert De Niro and James Woods, showing them at various times of their lives from the '20s to the '60s. Violent, controversial and engrossing; with Treat Williams, Elizabeth McGovern, Burt Young, Tuesday Weld, Joe Pesci and Jennifer Connelly (her film debut).

Passion (Special Edition / 1995)
Image
1995
$24.99
Loosely based on the Italian film "Passion D'Amore," this Stephen Sondheim musical stars Best Actress Tony-winner Donna Murphy as Fosca, a sickly, unattractive woman obsessively in love with handsome soldier Giorgio (Jere Shea). Her devotion to him moves Giorgio, even as he continues his affair with the married Clara (Marin Mazzie). Winner of the Best Musical of 1994.

Queen Kelly (Special Edition)
Kino
1929
$29.95
Gloria Swanson stars as a virginal convent student who attracts the eye of a rakish European prince about to wed a sadistic queen. Writer/director Erich von Stroheim's lavish, unfinished silent masterwork (he was fired by producer Joseph Kennedy) is presented here in its most complete reconstructed edition, using stills and title cards to finish the story.

Right Stuff (2- Disc Special Edition)
Warner Bros.
1983
$26.99
Spectacular adventure of the birth of the Space Age and America's Mercury astronauts combines sweeping action, humor and human drama. Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Barbara Hershey and Dennis Quaid star; written and directed by Phil Kaufman from Tom Wolfe's novel.

This is Coronation Street
Acorn Media
1960
$39.95
It's as British as the Union Jack, bobbies and Buckingham Palace. Coronation Street, the longest-running drama serial in the world and the most popular program on British television to this day, is a must have for Anglophiles and anyone interested in television history. As an introduction to this British institution, Acorn Media is presenting a unique double-volume set containing both the show's 40th anniversary special and the first five episodes. "40 Years On Coronation Street" contains rarly seen archival footage and interviews with cast members past and present. This special also features British celebrities talking about what the series has meant to them. "The First Five Episodes" show how it all began. These are the programs that hooked a nation and kept it tuning in for more.

Release date: 6/17

Bank, The (Special Edition)
New Yorker
2001
$19.95
When a brilliant young mathematician, on the verge of discovering a formula that could predict the fluctuations of the stock market, is hired by a corrupt bank CEO, the two men will play a deadly game of deception and revenge, while initiating one of the biggest banking scandals in history.

Bartleby (1970)
Image
1970
$19.99
Updated to 1970s London, this faithful adaptation of Herman Melville's classic follows a young accounting clerk rebelling against his employer by responding to demands to do work by saying, "I prefer not to." This is carried on ad absurdum until the office is in chaos because the other employees must do Bartleby's work. His boss is unable to fire or help him and eventually has him placed in a mental hospital. Paul Scofield stars.

Beatles, The: The Journey
Music Video
$19.95
This DVD/CD combo takes a look at the remarkable formation and rise of the world's first supergroup. DVD: Utilizing rare, archival footage, news reels and interviews, this program charts the Beatles success and follows their careers through to the untimely deaths of John Lennon and George Harrison. CD: The Beatles talk about their remarkable success, their thoughts and beliefs. This audio CD provides ubtriguing insoght into a world there "Beatlemania" had captured the hearts and minds of young and old alike. John Lennon talks about the ups and downs of their relationship with the media and the differences within the supergroup. The CD also contains rare interview material and will be a treasured memory of a time never to be repeated.

Christ in Concrete (Special Edition)
Criterion
1949
$24.99
In 1939, novelist Pietro di Donato wrote an incendiary novel called Christ in Concrete, a bestseller and Book of the Month selection about Italian-American immigrants working the construction trade in New York at the onset of the Great Depression. This work of hard-edged social criticism, filled with closely observed naturalist detail and gifted poetry, was turned into an extraordinary motion picture in 1949 by blacklisted filmmaker Edward Dmytryk. Part neorealist, part melodrama, part film noir, it won top awards at festival across Europe but was all but banned in the United States. Also known as Give Us This Day and Salt to the Devil, Christ in Concrete was suppressed, lost, and almost forgotten, but it remained Dmytryk's personal favorite and became a holy grail to dedicated film fans. Now with the participation of the di Donato family, this vital film is back in this deluxe DVD edition!

Heaven (2002)
Buena Vista
2002
$29.99
Working from a script by late filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski, "Run Lola Run" director Tom Tykwer delivers a striking drama. Teacher Cate Blanchett, a British woman working in Italy, takes matters into her own hands when she believes local authorities botched the investigation into her husband's drug-related death. After a bomb she made targeting a drug dealer kills innocent bystanders, Blanchett is taken into police custody, where she meets translator Giovanni Ribisi, who eventually helps her escape.

Narc
Paramount
2002
$29.95
After his partner is killed, intense narcotics agent Ray Liotta is teamed with disgraced ex-junkie detective Jason Patric to crack the case. Now, the pair are forced to overcome their numerous differences and extreme personal demons as they race to discover the shocking truth behind the murder. Gritty drama co-stars Chi McBride, Busta Rhymes.

Night Flight from Moscow
Ventura
1972
$14.98
Gripping story of Cold War espionage stars Yul Brynner as a defecting Soviet spy who has a list of KGB agents at work in Western nations. But if the list is correct, then every country has been infiltrated at the highest levels, and the future of the world is at stake! Henry Fonda, Dirk Bogarde, Virna Lisi also star. AKA: "The Serpent."

Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky In Our Times
First Run Features
2002
$24.95
Described by the New York Times as "the most important intellectual alive," writer/social critic Noam Chomsky shares his views on recent global affairs in this provocative program culled from a series of lectures. Chomsky details how many events--including the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America--are the by-product of decades of U.S. intervention abroad and a foreign policy that, at times, seems inconsistent with pronounced moral standards.

Topper / Topper Returns
Artisan
$19.98
Spirit-filled madcap comedy stars Cary Grant and Constance Bennett as the fun-loving Kirbys, who come back as ghosts after being killed in a car accident. Realizing they may never get to Heaven, they set about to redeem themselves by teaching stern bank president Roland Young how to enjoy life. Co-stars Billie Burke, Hedda Hopper, Eugene Pallette, Arthur Lake. Next up, Young plays detective in a haunted house, helping spectral Joan Blondell track down her own killer, in this spook-filled comedy/mystery, the third in the popular series. Co-stars Billie Burke, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Carole Landis, Dennis O'Keefe and Patsy Kelly.

Under Capricorn
Image
1949
$19.99
Alfred Hitchcock's chilling suspenser stars Joseph Cotten as a convicted killer banished to Australia with wife Ingrid Bergman, who is also his victim's sister. Deeply troubled and mentally fragile, Bergman begins to lose her grip on reality. But the sudden appearance of an old friend forces her to wonder if she's really going insane or if she's at the center of a nefarious conspiracy. Michael Wilding, Cecil Parker co-star.

Release date: 6/24

Afghan Stories
Vanguard
2002
$24.95
Filmed during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, this unblinking documentary provides a harrowing look at the war-torn land through the eyes of those in the midst of the conflict. Includes interviews with an Afghan royal and former Taliban prisoner, a refugee couple trying to escape, a peace activist and his militaristic son, and an international aid worker, as well as American and Afghan soldiers.

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Criterion
1974
$39.95
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, already the director of almost twenty films by the age of 29, paid homage to his cinematic hero, Douglas Sirk, with this updated version of Sirk's All That Heaven Allows. Lonely widow Emmi Kurowsky (Brigitte Mira) meets Arab worker Ali (El Hedi ben Salem) in a bar during a rainstorm. To their own surpriseÐÐand to the shock of family, colleagues, and drinking buddiesÐÐthey fall in love. In Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Angst essen seele auf), Fassbinder expertly uses the emotional power of the melodrama to underscore the racial tensions threatening German culture. In German with English subtitles.

All the Love You Cannes
Ventura
2002
$14.95
The Toxic Avenger at Cannes? Now we've seen everything! Join Toxie, Sgt. Kabukiman and Troma founder Lloyd Kaufman as they wreak havoc at the prestigious film festival. This side-splitting documentary showcases Kaufman and company as they wheel and deal, encounter Quentin Tarantino and Roger Ebert, stage a mock gunfight and much, much more!

Ballad of Narayama
Home Vision
1983
$29.95
Shohei Imamura's passionate, graphic depiction of life in a 19th-century Japanese village beset by years of lean harvests where the old are taken to the mountains to die. An elderly woman, resigned to her fate, tries to solve her family's problems before her final trip. Sumiko Sakamoto, Ken Ogata star. In Japanese with English subtitles.

Best of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Warner Music
$49.95
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In was an overnight sensation. With it's fast paced format and continuous barrage of hilarious content and cameo appearances by major celebrities and politicians, the show was a trendsetter. It introduced catchphrases like "You bet your sweet bippy," "Live from beautiful downtown Burbank," "Verrry interesting," and "Here comes da judge." The show also established an impressive cast of then little-known comedians: Lily Tomlin, Goldie Hawn, Henry Gibson, Ruth Buzzi, JoAnne Worley, Arte Johnson, and many others made Laugh-In a genuine television classic. Features six of the best, unedited episodes of the groundbreaking television series.

Black and White in Color
Home Vision
1976
$29.95
Set in the Ivory Coast during the first World War, a group of bungling French colonials learn that their country is at war with Germany. Spurred on by a capricious moment of patriotism, the Frenchmen decide to attack their German neighbors who reside in a colony up river, thus touching off a brutal series of hilariously unfortunate events. Academy Award winner, Best Foreign Film. In French with English subtitles.

Black Picket Fence
Image
2002
$19.99
Tiz has a dream. He wants to be asuccessful hip-hop rapper, get out of the projects and have a nice house in the suburbs where he can chill without worrying about a bullet in his back. But at 25, with a young son and close friends depending on him, is real escape ever possible? An inspiring story of survival, this hard-hitting documentary from award-winning Sergio Goes follows Tislam Miller, a struggling rapper in the public housing projects of Brooklyn's East New York. Mentored by the legendary Kool G Rap, Tiz is making impressive strides in his career but remains tied to his old life, primarily through his drug-dealing best friend, Mel, who has just gotten out of prison. With candid interviews, lyrical moments of grim beauty and powerful verite footage taking us beyond rap world stereotypes, Black Picket Fence is an powerful experience honored by the Brooklyn International Film Festival.

Blue Diner
First Look
2000
$24.98
When Elena mysteriously loses her ability to speak Spanish, her first language, her mother believes that Elena is trying to reject their past. Food, love and deep family ties ultimately unite them as they begin to build lives in their Boston neighborhood.

Century of Warfare (A&E)
A&E
1994
$139.95
Horses and steamships were still the military order of the day at the dawn of the 20th century, but by the 1990s weapons of unparalleled sophistication and destruction changed forever the nature of warfare. This 26-episode History Channel series traces the evolution of land, sea and air weaponry and vehicles and chronicles the significant leaders and conflicts from World War I to Operation Desert Storm.

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
Columbia/TriStar
2003
$26.95
When a tanker explosion unleashes a deadly virus on a Martian colony, Spike Spiegel and his bounty-hunting gang are the only ones who can hunt down the terrorist responsible and bring him in...or are they? A mysterious government operative called Elektra is also on the case, and she may know more than she lets on, in this feature-length anime tale.

Dangerous Moves
Home Vision
1984
$19.95
Winner of 1984's Best Foreign Film Oscar, this Swiss drama looks at a chess tournament and the two Soviet contestants, a middle-aged Jew with a weak heart and a younger man who had defected to the West. As the matches intensify, their struggle becomes a symbol of East-West relations. Michel Piccoli, Alexandre Arbatt, Leslie Caron, Liv Ullmann, Michel Aumont star. In French with English subtitles.

Dark Blue (Special Edition)
MGM/UA
2002
$26.98
Days before the 1991 riots in Los Angeles, a crooked LAPD officer (Kurt Russell) is assigned to a quadruple murder that resulted from a robbery ordered by his corrupt boss (Brendan Gleeson). Instructed to close the case quickly and quietly, Russell's investigation is hampered by a rookie partner, who's also Gleeson's nephew, and a deputy chief of police (Ving Rhames) who's gunning for his badge.

Hiroshima Mon Amour (Special Edition)
Criterion
1959
$39.95
Director Alain Resnais' classic haunting story of two people, a beautiful French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada), who find escape from dark memories in a brief but meaningful love affair, weaves complex images and flashbacks in its depiction of the horrors of war.

Hours, The
Paramount
2002
$29.95
Nicole Kidman delivers an Oscar-winning performance as author Virginia Woolf in this poignant tale that focuses on three women, living in different times but bound by a common thread. In 1929, Woolf fights a losing battle with mental illness as she begins to write her novel "Mrs. Dalloway." Twenty-two years later, a suburban housewife (Julianne Moore) finds solace in the book while struggling with her dreary life. And a present-day literary editor (Meryl Streep) represents a modern Clarissa Dalloway who faces mortality as she plans a party for her friend, a prominent writer dying of AIDS. With Ed Harris, Claire Danes, Jeff Daniels and John C. Reilly.

I Fidanzati
Criterion
1962
$29.95
Ermanno Olmi's masterful second feature is the tender story of a young Milanese couple whose strained relationship is tested when the man accepts a new job in Sicily. With the separation come loneliness, nostalgia, and, perhaps, some new perspectives to rejuvenate their love. Olmi's deep humanism charges this moving depiction of ordinary men and women, and the pitfalls of the human heart. In Italian with English subtitles.

Il Posto
Criterion
1960
$29.95
When young, fragile Domenico (Sandro Panseri) ventures from the small village of Meda to Milan in search of employment, he finds himself on the bottom rung of the bureaucratic ladder in a huge, faceless company. The prospects may be daunting, but Domenico finds reason for hope in the fetching new worker Antonietta (Loredana Detto). A tender coming-of-age story and a sharp observation of dehumanizing corporate enterprise, Ermanno Olmi's Il Posto is a touching and hilarious tale of one young man's stumbling entrance into the perils of modern adulthood.

Incubus (Special Edition)
Ventura
$19.95
Lady Luck comes in many disguises. For ill-fated artist Johan Harker, she took the form of Lorna, a beautiful woman with unearthly desires. Lorna grants Johna his wish for riches and success beyond his wildest dreams, but happiness lasts only until Johan's beautiful daughter Lucy reaches the age of her ripening. Now Lorna will come calling for what Johan owes: Lucy's soul. She's no longer Daddy's little girl, she's the spawn of Satan.

Intacto
Studio
2001
$24.99
Offbeat chiller centers on an enigmatic Holocaust survivor (Max Von Sydow) who uses his ability to control the luck of those around him to operate a high-stakes underground casino. But when a young gambler (Eusebio Poncela) with a similar gift goes on a winning streak, Sydow "steals" his luck, forcing him to lose everything. Vowing revenge, Poncela recruits the sole survivor of a plane crash who may be the only one with enough good fortune to beat Sydow at his own twisted game. With Leonardo Sbaraglia, Monica Lopez. In English and Spanish with English subtitles.

Israel in a Time of Terror
Ventura
2003
$24.95
Author and radio host Dennis Prager conducts an unsettling tour through the streets of Israel, where ordinary citizens find themselves in a constant struggle for survival. In-depth interviews and disturbing location footage combine to present a glimpse of the violence that has gripped the nation.

John Lee Hooker: That's My Story
New Video
$24.95
Filmed just one year after his death, "John Lee Hooker: That's My Story" takes audiences inside the life and times of this Blues legend, and the music that influenced a rising generation of rockers. John Lee tells the tales himself, with help from his family and musical colleagues including Eric Clapton, Bonnie Raitt and Carlos Santana. From his youth as a son of a sharecropper, through his experiences touring the Jim Crow South, to his performances in San Francisco's Boom Boom Room during the last few years of his life, this film chronicles Hooker's path to becoming "The Godfather Of Blues

Joni Mitchell: Shadows and Light
Sony Music
1979
$19.98
Shadows And Light captures Joni performing live at the Santa Barbara Bowl in 1979. This is Joni at her best-with the greatest backing group of musicians in history! Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays, Jaco Pastorius, Michael Becker, Don Alias and The Persuasions provide an amazing platform for Joni's songs. Long out of print, this highly sought-after concert will finally be made available to her dedicated fans and music lovers all over.

Lan Yu
Strand
2001
$29.99
Lan Yu is set against the Tianamen Square uprising. Lan Yu tells the story of a young, gay architecture student and his ongoing relationship with an older, successful businessman. the handsome playboy-businessman must choose between his comfortable, yet closeted life in the straight world, or an honest, yet subversive life with the student. Directed by Stanley Kwan. In Chinese with English subtitles.

Life and Debt
New Yorker
2001
$29.95
Documentarian Stephanie Black delivers a scathing account of the effects of globalization on Third World economies. Specifically, the dire conditions faced by Jamaican farmers and factory workers who struggle in abject poverty, while visiting Americans and Western Europeans regard their country as a tourist spot. Narrated by Jamaica Kincaid, whose book "A Small Place" inspired the film.

Live from Baghdad (Special Edition)
Warner Bros.
2002
$26.98
Gripping true inside story of CNN's coverage of the 1990 Gulf War, focusing on the efforts of producers Robert Wiener (Michael Keaton) and Ingrid Formaneck (Helena Bonham-Carter) to scoop the big three networks on news about the conflict. In an attempt to break the big stories, Wiener forms a relationship with Naji Al-Hadithi (David Suchet), the Iraqi Minister of Information. With Lili Taylor and Bruce McGill as Peter Arnett.

Long Ships, The
Columbia/TriStar
1963
$24.95
Thrilling seafaring saga in which Viking warrior Richard Widmark and Moorish chieftain Sidney Poitier race to find a fabled treasure known as the Golden Bell. With Russ Tamblyn, Oscar Homolka, Lionel Jeffries.

Lost in La Mancha
A&E
2002
$29.95
A tantalizing documentary as hilarious as it is tragic - this film tracks maverick filmmaker Terry Gilliam's madcap mission to film "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote". With an all-star cast featuring Johnny Depp, Gilliam struggles to complete his masterpiece, all the while beset by obstacles of such proportions taht not even Hollywood could have concocted them. Narrated by Jeff Bridges.

Night and Fog (Special Edition)
Criterion
1955
$14.95
Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, filmmaker Alain Resnais documented the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust, Night and Fog (Nuit et Brouillard) contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps' quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage. With Night and Fog, Resnais investigates the cyclical nature of man's violence toward man and presents the unsettling suggestion that such horrors could come again.

Popeye
Paramount
1980
$19.99
The legendary, beloved anvil-armed sailor of the seven seas comes magically to life in this delightful musical, starring Robin Williams as Popeye, who meets all challenges with the unshakable philosophy "I yam what I yam and that's all that I yam." Shelley Duvall is Popeye's devoted long-limbed sweetie, Olive Oyl, one of the fimiliar and loveable characters who join Popeye in his adventures in the harbor town of Sweerhaven. Meet Wimpy and Bluto and all the other cartoon favorites in this happy, tuneful, fun-for-the-whole family movie! Directed by Robert Altman.

Punch Drunk Love (Special Edition)
Columbia/TriStar
2002
$26.95
This change of pace for Adam Sandler stars the comic actor as a bathroom supplies salesman who has a problem with his anger and is obsessed with winning airline frequent flier mileage from clipping pudding wrappers. The lonely Sandler's life is changed when he meets shy Brit Emily Watson, but interfering with the relationship are thugs who want to collect money they claim Sandler owes from a phone sex bill. Philip Seymour Hoffman and Luis Guzman also star in this quirky romantic tale from Paul Thomas Anderson ("Magnolia").

RFK
Fox
2002
$19.99
This dynamic film focuses on five years in the life of Robert F. Kennedy, covering brother John's murder in 1963 to his own 1968 assassination at the hands of Sirhan Sirhan. Linus Roache turns in a tour-de-force lead performance as the driven politician who, as depicted here, seeks advice from the ghost of his deceased brother and learns the "true story" behind JFK's assassination. With James Cromwell, Martin Donovan, Ving Rhames and David Paymer.

Russia: Land of the Tsars
New Video
2003
$39.95
It's forests stretch from Europe to the Pacific. It's winters have vanquished the mightiest armies ever mustered. It's people have borne the excesses of some of history's most notorious rulers. Filmed on location throughout Russia, enriched by exclusive visits to important sites and museums, and filled with commentary from renowned scholars, this kaleidoscopic, captivating portrait of Russia's imperial past, stretches from the migrations of the Russe Vikings in the 10th century, to the brutal end of the Romanovs with the murder of Tsar Nichols and his family in 1918. It is an epic tale dominated by legendary figures including Ivan The Terrible, Peter The Great and Catherine The Great.

Soul Food: Season 1
Paramount
2000
$79.99
The complete first season of the Showtime television series.

Warm Water Under A Red Bridge
Home Vision
2001
$29.95
A frustrated unemployed architect learns of a treasure hidden inside an old house near a red bridge in a remote fishing village. Upon arriving he encounters, among numerous colorful characters, a beautiful young woman with an "unusual" condition who lives with her grandmother in the old house. Be it chance or fate, the relationship that builds between them becomes both vital and volatile. Directed by Shohei Imamura. In Japanese with English subtitles.

Wave Twisters (Special Edition)
Image
2001
$19.98
An eye-popping, hip-hop-meets-Hanna-Barbera animated adventure synched skratch for skratch with DJ QBert's turtable masterpiece of the same name, this sci-fi-/kung fu epic seamlessly integrates dazzling visuals to original musical compositions. The Inner Space Dental Commander must fulfill his destiny by reviving the "Lost Arts" (breakdancing, rapping, graffiti and skratching), so he and his posse (mischievouc droid Rubbish, lovely assistant Honey, and B-Boy Grandpa) battle their way through an increasingly surreal collection of villains, pratfalls, and boobytraps. Sampling from a wide variety of techniques from traditional cell animation to 3D to photo collage, Wave Twisters takes the Fantasia concept to the next, dizzying level!

You Only Live Once
Image
1937
$19.98
Henry Fonda delivers a fine performance as an ex-con falsely accused of robbing a bank in Fritz Lang's stylish drama. After getting out of prison, convicted felon Fonda vows to turn his life around. But being in the wrong place at the wrong time turns him and dedicated girlfriend Sylvia Sidney into fugitives on a desperate run for their lives. With Barton MacLane, Jean Dixon.

Release date: 6/30

Advocate, The
Buena Vista
1993
$19.99
A courtroom thriller with a passionate edge, it's the story of a dynamic young lawyer whose quest for the simple life leads him to a law position in a small rural town. What he finds instead is a disturbing case of murder, seduction, and corruption -- a case that reveals the mystery beneath the village's quiet facade. Yet as he searches for answers, he finds himself drawn into a web of intrigue and betrayal.

Anastasia (1956) (Special Edition)
Fox
1956
$19.98
In her first American film in eight years, Ingrid Bergman won an Academy Award for her portrayal of the amnesiac found on the streets of Paris by ex-Russian general Yul Brynner and coached by him to impersonate the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas. But could this impostor actually be the real Anastasia? With Helen Hayes, Ivan Desny.

Babe, The
Universal
1992
$19.98
John Goodman puts on the pinstripes to play baseball legend Babe Ruth in this exciting account of "The Sultan of Swat's" colorful life. The film follows "The Bambino" from his early years at a boy's school in Baltimore to his glory days with the Yankees and his sad final season with the Boston Braves. Kelly McGillis, Bruce Boxleitner and Trini Alvarado also star.

Barbra Streisand DVD Gift Set
Warner Bros.
$62.95
Four feature films: "What's Up, Doc?", "The Main Event", "Up The Sandbox" and "Nuts".

Brighton Beach Memoirs
Universal
1986
$14.98
New York, the 1930s...and a young man's mind is on the Yankees and sex (not necessarily in that order), as well as trying to deal with his argumentative family. Personal, telling, and touching, Neil Simon's acclaimed comic memoir stars Blythe Danner, Bob Dishy, Judith Ivey and Jonathan Silverman.

Chaplin DVD Giftset
Warner Bros.
$89.95
Four feature films from the genius of Charlie Chaplin: "The Gold Rush" - A lone prospector, searching for gold, stumbles onto unsavory characters and love. "The Great Dictator" - In this classic satire on Nazi Germany, dictator Adenoid Hynkel has a double - a poor Jewish barber - who is one day mistake for Hynkel. "Limelight" - A fading comedian and a suicidally despondent ballet dancer must look at each other to find meaning and hope in their lives. "Modern Times" - It's man vs. machine as the Little Tramp takes on the industrialized world!

Cold Comfort Farm
Universal
1995
$14.98
After she's left an orphan, tidy, aspiring novelist Kate Beckinsale heads to the country to live on her cousins' farm. She gets a rude awakening when she discovers the family is a sloppy, ill-mannered brood that repulses and fascinates her at the same time. John Schlesinger's witty comedy of manners set in 1930s England also stars Eileen Atkins, Ian McKellen and Joanna Lumley.

Crimson Pirate
Warner Bros.
1952
$19.98
One of the all-time great buccaneer sagas, loaded with spectacular stunts, derring-do and good-natured fun. Burt Lancaster and Nick Cravat are the rugged privateers caught between two different sides in a struggle between islands in the Mediterranean. Eva Bartok, Torin Thatcher co-star.

Cry, the Beloved Country
Buena Vista
1995
$19.99
Stirring drama based on Alan Paton's acclaimed novel (first filmed in 1951) and starring James Earl Jones as a rural South African priest who befriends Richard Harris, a man whose activist son has been murdered in Johannesburg. New experiences and disturbing revelations occur when Jones travels to the city for the first time in his life. With Charles S. Dutton.

Experiment, The
Columbia/TriStar
2001
$29.95
After signing up to be a paid volunteer in a two-week research study on the effects of prison life on the psyche, an undercover reporter finds himself in the midst of an amazing story. Separated into prisoners and guards in a simulated jail, the participants begin to take their roles seriously--with shocking results. Unsettling German import inspired by the infamous "Stanford Prison Experiment" stars Moritz Bleibtreu, Christian Berkel. In German with English subtitles.

Flight of the Innocent, The
MGM/UA
1993
$19.98
The gentle son of a brutal kidnapper, ten-year-old Vito (Manuel Colao) witnesses the massacre of his family by a rival gang and narrowly escapes into the Italian countryside. Relentlessly pursued by the killers and the police, he begins a terrifying life on the run, determined to outwit his followers, find a new, honorable and caring family for himself and end his family's lineage of crime. In Italian with English subtitles.

Fun with Dick and Jane
Columbia/TriStar
1977
$24.95
Dick (George Segal) and Jane (Jane Fonda) are an upper-middle class couple who have their comfortable lives turned upside-down when Dick is abruptly fired from his job as a corporate executive. Realizing they can't live on Dick's meager unemployment wages and unable to hold a job herself, Jane comes up with the perfect way to maintain the lifestyle they're accustomed to--armed robbery.

Gangs of New York (Special Edition)
Buena Vista
2002
$29.99
Ethnic animosity, gang wars and street violence aren't a recent New York City development, as seen in Martin Scorsese's sprawling historical saga. Set in the strife-torn Five Points neighborhood of 1860s Manhattan, the film follows Irish-American Leonardo DiCaprio as he works his way into the confidence of anti-immigrant gang leader Daniel Day-Lewis--who killed DiCaprio's father 20 years earlier--in order to gain revenge. Cameron Diaz, Liam Neeson, Henry Thomas and Jim Broadbent also star.

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Paramount
2003
$29.99
Andie needs to prove she can dump a guy in 10 days. Ben needs to prove he can win a girl in 10 days. Now, the clock is ticking-and the year's most wildly entertaining comedy smash is off and running in this irresistible tale of sex, lies and outrageous romantic fireworks!

King of the Hill: Season One
Fox
1997
$39.98
The complete first season of the hit animated prime time series.

Knights of the Round Table
Warner Bros.
1953
$19.98
The legend of the Round Table lives in this spectacular retelling of the Camelot story. Romance and adventure, sorcery and treachery combine as King Arthur establishes his kingdom, oblivious to the growing love between Guinevere and Lancelot. Robert Taylor, Mel Ferrer and Ava Gardner star.

Lie Down with Dogs
Buena Vista
1995
$19.99
A young gay man looking for a change of pace from his hectic New York lifestyle seeks new adventures on the beaches of Provincetown, Massachusetts. There, he encounters mysterious employers, a Latin ne'er-do-well and a man who could be his "Mr. Right." Wally White, Randy Becker, Darren Dryden and James Sexton star in this frothy comedy.

Month by the Lake, A
Buena Vista
1995
$19.99
Sumptuously filmed romance set in Italy's Lake Como resort in 1937 and starring Vanessa Redgrave as an Englishwoman who yearns for romance with handsome soldier Edward Fox. When American beauty Uma Thurman arrives at the lake and attracts his attention, Redgrave pretends to have a fling of her own.

Mr. Baseball
Universal
1992
$19.98
An arrogant and aging major league ball player attempts to revive his career by siging to play in Japan, but he has a lot to learn about Japanese baseball which is more about teamwork than about being a hotshot.

Mutant Aliens: A Bill Plympton Film
Ventura
2002
$19.98
Years after astronaut Earl Jensen was stranded on a faraway planet, daughter Josie discovers he's heading home on an asteroid. When Earl returns to Earth, he brings mutant aliens that resemble human noses with him. Josie learns that her dad was used by evil Dr. Frubar, and she and sex-addicted boyfriend Darby seek revenge. This quirky animated feature from Bill Plympton features the voices of Dan McComas and Francine Lobis.

My Left Foot
Buena Vista
1989
$19.99
Based on a true story, "My Left Foot" stars Daniel Day-Lewis in his Academy Award-winning role as Christy Brown, a man who triumphs over impossible odds to achieve greatness. Also starring Brenda Fricker, who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, as Christy's mother--a woman who, through her undaunting faith and live, gave Christy the support he needed to reveal his creative genius to the world.

My Voyage to Italy
Buena Vista
2001
Martin Scorsese wrote, directed and hosted this retrospective of early 1940's to late 1960's Italian cinema. Produced for Italian television, this companion piece to A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies offers the filmmaker's personal perspective on Italian cinema and chronicles its effects on him and the rest of the world. Awarded the Film Heritage Award by the National Society of Film Critics. "Will forever change and deepen the way you look at cinema" (Stephen Holden, New York Times).

Never on Sunday
MGM/UA
1960
$19.98
Classic romantic comedy that blends "Pygmalion" with "Irma La Douce." Melina Mercouri is the earthy prostitute at a Greek resort who is "educated" by an American visitor (director and Mercouri hubby Jules Dassin) trying to find ties between the modern world and ancient Greece. Eventually, he tutors Mercouri on her country's history. With Titos Vandis; features a memorably bouncy musical score.

Night of the Shooting Stars
MGM/UA
1982
$19.98
A brilliant, magnificent film, winner of many international prizes, from Paolo and Vittorio Taviani. During the final days of World War II, a small town in Italy finds its residents divided into two factions--those who seek freedom and those who distrust the Allied liberators. Omero Antonutti, Margarita Lozano star. AKA: "La Notte di San Lorenzo." In Italian with English subtitles.

Party Girl
Columbia/TriStar
1995
$24.95
Engaging comedy starring Parker Posey in a sparkling performance as a hip denizen of Manhattan's party scene who gets arrested for hosting an illegal rave in her loft. Posey's godmother convinces her to get her life in order by taking a library clerk job, and, while immersing herself in the Dewey Decimal System, she falls for a Lebanese falafel vendor. With Omar Townsend, Liev Schreiber.

Prisoner of the Mountain
MGM/UA
1996
$19.98
Set amidst the war between Russia and rebels from the Chechnya province, this acclaimed film updates the Tolstoy short story "Prisoner of the Caucasus" as it tells the tale of two Russian soldiers, a grizzled veteran and a young recruit, who are captured by Chechnyan forces and held captive so that the rebel leader can bargain for his son's release. Sergei Bodrov's compelling drama stars Oleg Menshikov and Sergei Bodrov, Jr. In Russian with English subtitles.

Queen Margot
Buena Vista
1994
$19.99
Set in France during the late 16th-century conflict between the Catholics and Protestant Huguenots, this acclaimed historical drama stars Isabelle Adjani as the daughter of Queen Mother Catherine de Medici who is forced into marriage with her Protestant cousin. The union leads to conflict and, eventually, the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. With Daniel Auteuil, Vincent Perez, Virna Lisi.

Real Cancun
New Line
2003
$26.97
Find out what happens when people stop being polite and start getting real--drunk, that is--in this wild documentary from the producers of MTV's "The Real World." Follow 16 college students as they travel to Mexico for a week of spring break debauchery, filled with the requisite drinking, partying and sex. No actors. No scripts. No rules. No problem!

Renaissance Man
Buena Vista
1994
$14.99
Unemployed advertising executive Danny DeVito gets a job teaching a group of misfit Army recruits at a local military base, but his unorthodox lessons on life and "Hamlet" soon cause problems with his superiors. Gregory Hines, Marky Mark, Cliff Robertson and Stacey Dash star in Penny Marshall's heartfelt comedy.

Rhapsody in August
MGM/UA
1991
$19.98
Akira Kurosawa's sensitive drama tells of four children whose visit to their grandmother rekindles her frightening memories of August 9th, 1945, when an atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. The children learn about the horrors of war, and when an American cousin arrives, more dark secrets of the past are revealed. Sachiko Murase, Hidetaka Yoshioka and Richard Gere star.

Sex at 24 Frames per Second
Image
2003
$19.98
Playboy explores the history of sensuality in the cinema with this provocative look at sexy screen stars of the past and present. Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Sharon Stone and Diane Lane are profiled, as are eyebrow-raising directors Adrian Lyne ("Fatal Attraction") and Paul Verhoeven ("Basic Instinct"). Unrated version

Start the Revolution Without Me
Warner Bros
1970
$19.98
A riotous send-up of "The Corsican Brothers," with Donald Sutherland and Gene Wilder as two sets of mismatched twins who find themselves on opposite sides during the French Revolution. With Hugh Griffith, Billie Whitelaw, Victor Spinetti, and Orson Welles as the narrator.

Strange Bedfellows
Universal
1965
$14.98
When the tempestuous marriage of London-based American oil executive Rock Hudson and wife Gina Lollobrigida threatens his landing an important promotion, Hudson hires PR man Gig Young to smooth things over in this saucy comedy. With Terry-Thomas, Nancy Kulp.

Tenant, The
Paramount
1976
$19.99
Roman Polanski directed and stars in this bizarre psycho-chiller about a man who moves into an apartment whose previous occupant killed herself, and soon becomes convinced her life is consuming his. With Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Shelley Winters.

To Live
MGM/UA
1994
$19.98
Acclaimed director Zhang Yimou chronicles the stormy, war-torn history of 20th-century China, a