Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&N=4+4294941262+7517 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1684828 This haunting, kabuki-inflected version of a Japanese folk legend is set in a remote mountain village, where food is scarce and tradition dictates that citizens who have reached their seventieth year must be carried to the summit of Mount Narayama and left there to die. The sacrificial elder at the center of the tale is Orin, a dignified and dutiful woman who spends her dwindling days securing the happiness of her loyal widowed son with a respectable new wife. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1580338 Seventeen-year-old Monika and nineteen-year-old Harry Lund meet in a cafe. They spend a happy summer together, and soon Monika discovers that she is pregnant. They marry, but Monika is bored with taking care of the baby and the responsibilities of married life. She begins an affair with a former lover and their marriage falls apart. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1670531 In this thriller, Nicholas Van Orton, a shrewd and successful businessman who is always in control, has been enrolled by his brother in The Game--a profound life experience with no rules, which begins quietly but soon erupts in a confusing maze of devastating events. Terrorized by forces who seem intent on dismantling all that he has built, Van Orton has to win this deadly game or lose control of everything in his life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1684836 Is the fragmented tale of an unemployed young writer who trails strangers through London, hoping that they will provide inspiration for his first novel. He gets more than he bargained for with one of his unwitting subjects, who leads him down a dark, criminal path. Special features included. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729428 A bawdy, gleefully amoral tale about a prudish married couple feeling put upon by the swingers who live in their apartment building, who, one night by accident, discover a way to simultaneously realize their dream of opening a little restaurant and rid themselves of the perverts down the hall. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1580291 One of the great raconteurs of stage and screen comes together with one of cinemas boldest image makers, Oscar winning director Steven Soderbergh for Grays Anatomy, a spellbinding adaptation of Grays 1993 monologue of the same name. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1557785 A recent college graduate named Aura returns to New York and moves back in with her mother and sister. As painfully confessional as it is endlessly amusing, Tiny Furniture is an authentic, incisive portrait of a young woman at a crossroads. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1622302 A farmworker sneaks across the border from Mexico into California in an effort to make money to send to his family back home. It is a story that happens every day, told here in an uncompromising, groundbreaking work of realism from American independent filmmaker Robert M. Young. Vivid and spare where other films about illegal immigration might sentimentalize, Youngs take on the subject is equal parts intimate character study and gripping road movie, a political work. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1622663 What seems at first to be a straightforward tale of two people getting to know each other over the course of an afternoon gradually reveals itself as something richer, stranger, and trickier: a mind-bending reflection on authenticity, in art as well as in relationships. Both cerebrally and emotionally engaging, reminds us that love itself is an enigma. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713468 In northern Albania a teenage brother and sister are physically and emotionally trapped in a cycle of violence, a result of their fathers entanglement with a rival clan over a piece of land. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1622147 When an African boy arrives by cargo ship in the port city of Le Havre, an aging shoe shiner takes pity on the child and welcomes him into his home. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1547581 A group of actors meet to rehearse Chekhovs Uncle Vanya and find the same conflicts in their own lives as are dealt with in the play. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1372547 Claude Chabrol crafts a sly moral fable about a provincial boy who comes to live with his sophisticated bohemian cousin in Paris. Through these seeming opposites, Chabrol conjures a piercing, darkly comic character study that questions notions of good and evil, love and jealousy, and success in the modern world. A mirror image of Le Beau Serge, Les Cousins recasts that films stars, Jean-Claude Brialy and Gard Blain, in startlingly reversed roles. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1248814 Burt Lancaster stars as barbaric Broadway gossip columnist J. J. Hunsecker, and Tony Curtis is Sidney Falco, the unprincipled press agent he ropes into smearing the up-and-coming jazz musician romancing his beloved sister. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1261246 A portrait of working-class Northern England. Billy is a fifteen-year-old miners son whose close bond with a wild kestrel provides him with a spiritual escape from his dead-end life. Special features included. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1374610 Revolving around the changing of the seasons, The Makioka Sisters follows the lives of four sisters who have taken on their familys kimono manufacturing business, over the course of a number of years leading up to the Pacific War. A graceful study of a family at a turning point in history, and a poignant evocation of changing times and fading customs. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1442160 Fashioned as a tribute to his parents, the film depicts one day in the life of the Yokoyamas, gathered together for a celebratory ritual that only gradually makes itself clear. Rather than focus on big dramatic moments, Kore-eda relies on simple gestures and domestic routines (especially cooking) to evoke a familys entire life, its deep regrets and its daily joys. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1425542 A trio of Americans in Paris who enter into a very adult gentlemans agreement, in this continental pre-Code comedy freely adapted by Ben Hecht (Notorious) from a play. A risque relationship comedy and a witty take on creative pursuits, it concerns a commercial artist unable, or unwilling, to choose between the equally dashing painter and playwright she meets on a train en route to the City of Light. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1190659 When his boss demands more speed and efficiency, Chaplin goes crazy from his repetitious assembly line job. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1208748 A neurotic young woman who is married to an engineer in the industrial wasteland of northern Italy, searches in vain to find meaning in her life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1208713 A story about class divisions in Edwardian England, and the tragic series of events that occurs when two impulsive middle-class sisters become involved with a working class couple and a wealthy family. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1208720 Franois is a foster child on the cusp of his teens. Shuttled from one home to another, his behavior grows increasingly erratic, and his bonds with his surrogate parents perennially fraught. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1208726 A traveling magician bringing his potions and mystical items with him is challenged by the Minister of Health, who believes the magician to be a charlatan. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1229039 A caustic inside look at the Washington news media, stars Holly Hunter in her breakout role, as a feisty television producer torn between an ambitious yet dim anchorman and her closest confidant, a cynical veteran reporter. James L. Brooks witty, gently prophetic entertainment is a captivating transmission from an era in which ideas on love and media were rapidly changing. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1670779 In a Japanese prison camp on Java in 1942, two British officers, John Lawrence and Jack Celliers, encounter camp commander Yonoi and his sergeant Hara. Things had been going pretty well, until charismatic, rebellious Celliers arrived. Yonoi is a devotee of the samurai ideal; neither he nor Hara can understand the stoic way in which the British prisoners accept their situation of defeat. Lawrence speaks Japanese, and ceaselessly tries to mediate between the prisoners and their overseers, translating both the words and the values of the two races. Celliers attitude, however, is more comprehensible to Yonoi. He and Celliers arrive at a sort of dtente, based on an admiration for the other, but this eventually turns into a contest of wills as the camps carefully nurtured equilibrium is destroyed. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1064883 In Northern Irelands Maze prison in 1981, 27-year-old Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands went on a hunger strike to protest the British governments refusal to recognize him and his fellow IRA inmates as political prisoners. A transcedent depiction of what a human being is willing to endure in order to be heard. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729407 Evokes a sense of impending doom, the daily domestic routine of a middle-aged widow. Her chores include making the beds, cooking dinner for her grown son, and turning the occasional trick. Her life is beginning to break down. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696811 David Chappellet, a ruthlessly ambitious skier competing for Olympic gold with an underdog American team in Europe, clashes with his coach, who tries to temper the upstarts narcissistic drive for glory. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1431878 An inner-city detective is investigating the murder of an elderly candy shop owner and finds odd clues along the way, while at the same time trying to find out who he has become. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=978707 World-weary and living hand to mouth, small-time gunrunner Eddie Fingers Coyle (Mitchum) works on the sidelines of the seedy Boston underworld. But when he finds himself facing a second stretch of hard time, hes forced to weigh loyalty to his criminal colleagues against snitching to stay free. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1208754 A romantic fantasy about an angel who wishes he were mortal and is willing to fall from the sky if it means a chance to fall in love. Set in modern day Berlin, the film follows angel Damiels path from heavenly flight to earthly delight in a manner thats comical, touching and entertaining. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1579855 Paula, a leftist writer, goes from Paris to the French town of Atlantic-Cit when she learns of the death of a former colleague and lover, Richard P. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=978849 After a lavish dinner party in a stately mansion, the guests believe themselves unable to leave the premises. As the days pass, the elaborate facades of their social positions collapse and they are forced to live like animals. Finally discovering they are actually free to leave, they go to church to give thanks, where they are again trapped. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1579854 Tells of the journey of the well-intentioned yet naive Kaji from labor camp supervisor to Imperial Army soldier to Soviet POW. Constantly trying to rise above a corrupt system, Kaji time and again finds his morals an impediment rather than an advantage. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=773197 Antonio Gaud designed some of the worlds most astonishing buildings, interiors, and parks. Takes viewers on a tour of Gauds truly spectacular architecture, including his massive, still-unfinished masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia cathedral. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=766907 A relationship between a turn-of-the-century traveling circus owner and his performer girlfriend suddenly changes, when they pull into the town where the owners wife and children live, whom he hasnt seen in three years. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=766922 A yakuza mobster suffering from tuberculosis enters into an unusual relationship with an alcoholic doctor. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=932886 In 1910, Bill, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor. He flees to the Texas panhandle with his lover Abby and little sister Linda, where they work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer. When Bill learns that the Farmer is ill and has less than a year to live, he encourages Abby to accept the mans attentions. The Farmer and Abby marry, and she and her siblings live in the big house, waiting for the Farmer to die, so Abby can inherit, and the three of them live happily ever after. But love seems to be a cure-all: the Farmer seems to be improving--and Abby is no longer seeing this as a marriage of convenience. From a landscape of panoramic vistas, vivid colors, and rich textures comes a timeless American idyll and a gritty evocation of turn-of-the-century labor. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=653881 A sixteen-year-old Parisian girl embarks on a sexual rampage in an effort to separate herself from her overbearing, beloved father, ineffectual mother, and brutish brother. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=623075 Viridiana, who is about to become a nun, does her utmost to maintain her Catholic principles, but her lecherous uncle and a motley assemblage of paupers force her to confront the limits of her idealism. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=766892 A surrealistic view of a perfect future where technology reigns supreme and everyone is monitored by a secret government agency. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1128329 In the shady black markets and bombed-out hotels of post-World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence, maintaining tenuous friendships and a semblance of order in a world of chaos. But when a renegade ex-soldier stumbles into their midst, lusts and loyalties clash, with tragic results. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=978745 A low-level swordsman decides to live in the wild after being betrayed by his former comrades. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=546644 A trio of crooks relentlessly pursues a young American through Paris for the fortune her dead husband stole from them. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=515321 In a dusty, under-populated California resort town, Pinky Rose, a naive and impressionable Southern waif begins her life as a nursing home attendent. There, Pinky finds her role model in fellow nurse Millie, a misguided would-be sophisticate and hopeless devotee of sophisticated ladies magazines. But Pinkys hero-worship evolves into something far stranger and more sinister than could be imagined. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=481156 A Japanese architect and a French actress engage in a brief intense affair in Hiroshima in 1959. Both deal with their personal memories of World War II--he by articulating his firsthand experience with nuclear disaster, she by remembering her traumatic affair with a German soldier. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=494932 Ingemar is a working-class 12-year old boy who is sent to live with his uncle after his mother falls ill. There, he takes refuge from his troubles with the help of the towns warmhearted eccentrics. A bittersweet evocation of the struggles and joys of childhood and the pains of coming-of-age. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1584164 In this stark depiction of spiritual crisis, small-town pastor Tomas Ericsson performs his duties mechanically before a dwindling congregation. When he is asked to assist a troubled parishioner with his debilitating fear of nuclear annihilation, Tomas is terrified to find that he can offer nothing but his own uncertainty.--Container. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=941094 A street singer and a gangster vie for the love of a beautiful young woman. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=492849 Cary Scott, an attractive and wealthy New England widow, creates a social outcry in her community and within her family when she becomes romantically involved with Ron Kirby, her much younger gardener. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1207432 Fellinis autobiographical film about a famous film director who loses his inspiration in the midst of making a film. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1207435 In this stylized dramatization of the puppet theater play, Jihei abandons business, family and self respect for a passionate love affair with a geisha whose freedom he cannot afford. As the world closes in upon him, he finds his only course of action to be death together with the lover he is unable to obtain in life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1349302 In this controversial movie, Jesus, as both fully human and fully divine, is viewed as free of sin but subject to all temptations, including sexual ones. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1203054 Mr. Badii, ceaselessly driving through the red-brown hills around Tehran in search of assistance in his suicide, receives from each of the men he asks for help a viewpoint on life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=878974 Reformed killer Tetsu wanders around Japan, awaiting his own execution, until he is called back to Tokyo to help battle a rival gang. This edition of the film includes an interview with the director.