Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&Ne=6639&N=4+4294941262+6645 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=1475604 The porcelain perfection of Catherine Deneuve hides a cracked interior in the actresss most iconic role: Severine, a chilly Paris housewife by night, a bordello prostitute by day. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1671657 Based on Ira Levins bestselling novel, Mia Farrow plays a young mother-to-be who grows increasingly suspicious that her over-friendly elderly neighbors and self-involved actor husband are hatching a satanic plot against her and her baby. 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=1675715 A riveting psychological thriller that investigates the nature of truth and the meaning of justice, widely considered one of the greatest films ever made. Four people recount different versions of the story of a mans murder and the rape of his wife. This eloquent masterwork and international sensation revolutionized film language and introduced Japanese cinema, and a commanding new star. 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=1627712 A tale of a one-night-stand that develops into a weekend-long idyll for two very different young men in Midlands, England. Its an emotionally naked film thats both an invaluable snapshot of the complexities of contemporary gay living and a universally identifiable portrait of a love affair. 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=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=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=1374613 A master of intensely emotional human dramas, director Lee Chang-dong is a leading light of contemporary Korean cinema, and his place on the international stage was cemented by his stirring and unpredictable work examining grief and deliverance. An effortless mix of light and uncompromising darkness, Secret Sunshine is the story of a widowed piano teacher who moves with her young son from Seoul to her late husbands provincial hometown for a fresh start. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1252282 Dramatization of the creation of The Mikado, explores the tensions produced by the differences of temperment and style between Gilbert and Sullivan 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=1374550 The last person to die on New Years Eve before the clock strikes twelve is doomed to take the reins of Deaths chariot and work tirelessly collecting fresh souls for the next year. So says the legend that drives the Phantom Carriage, about an alcoholic, abusive neer-do-well who is shown the error of his ways and the pure-of-heart Salvation Army sister who believes in his redemption. 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=1367408 Stanley Kubricks account of an ambitious racetrack robbery is one of Hollywoods tautest, twistiest noirs. Aided by a radically time-shuffling narrative, razor-sharp dialogue from pulp novelist Jim Thompson, and a phenomenal cast of character actors, including Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Timothy Carey, and Elisha Cook Jr., The Killing is both a jaunty thriller and a cold-blooded punch to the gut. With its precise tracking shots and gratifying sense of irony, its Kubrick to the core. 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=1349171 Mia... lives with her mother and sister in the housing projects of Essex. Mias adolescent conflicts and emerging sexuality reach a boiling point when her mothers new boyfriend... enters the picture--Container. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1363587 Kindly antiques dealer Jesus Gris happens upon an ancient golden device, and soon finds himself possessor and victim of its sinister, addictive powers, as well as the target of a mysterious, crude American named Angel. 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=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=1379745 Takes viewers on a World War II era journey from Prague to England to the Swiss Alps, as Nazis pursue a Czech scientist and his daughter who are being aided by a debonair British undercover agent. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=884372 Mayan Indian peasants are tired of being thought of as nothing more than manual laborers. They organize an effort to improve their lot in life, but are discovered by the Guatemalan army. After the army destroys their village and family, Enrique and Rosa, a teenage brother and sister, who barely escaped the massacre, decide they must flee to United States. After receiving clandestine help from friends and humorous advice from a veteran immigrant on strategies for traveling, they make their way by truck, bus and other means to Los Angeles, where they try to make a new life as young, uneducated, and illegal immigrants. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=968247 Film of intrigue and heroism within the Italian underground during the German occupation of Italy. Emanuele Bardone, a petty con man, fleeces his victims by posing as a colonel. Persuaded by the Germans to impersonate a partisan leader they have killed, he assumes the admirable qualities of the heroic officer and the German plan backfires. 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=968066 1895, Japan. In a small village, Seki is the wife of the litter carrier Gisaburo. Seki has an affair with Toyiji, a man twenty-six years younger her. Toyiji becomes jealous of Gisaburo and plots with Seki to kill him. After Gisaburo has had plenty of sake to drink and goes to bed, the two strangle Gisaburo and dump his body inside a well in the woods. Seki tells the locals that Gisaburo moved to Tokyo to work. Finally, three years later, suspicions become very strong and people begin to gossip. To make matters worse, Gisaburos ghost begins to haunt her and the law arrives to investigate his disappearance. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1208714 The story is based on the tabloid sensation of 1936, the fatal love affair of Sada Abe, a former geisha turned maid, and Kichizo Yoshida, the owner of the Tokyo ryotei (Japanese-style restaurant) at which she worked. Abandoning his wife and his business, Kichizo gives himself up to two weeks of dissipation with Sada at a nearby inn, which climaxes in sadomasochistic love games--and his strangulation and mutilation. Kichizo is tired of life, of the militarism that has everywhere suppressed Eros in favor of Thanatos, and he and Sada are escaping, protesting, testing physical and psychological limits, while resisting a social order that condemns their actions and their very being. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=968073 In London in 1973, Willie Parker informed on his gangster colleagues. Ten years later he is violently snatched from his Spanish tranquil village retreat by hit men who are surprised to find out they have a completely willing victim on their hands. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=968184 A drama detailing the emotional breakdown of a suburban housewife and how her family struggles to save her from herself. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=968297 An owner of a Victorian-era boot shop finds himself in a battle of wills with his headstrong eldest daughter, who wants to make her own professional and personal decisions in her life. 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=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=968027 Spy networks gather information for the clans supporting and opposing the shogunate.--Www.kitparker.com. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1128332 A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, a former farmer, dreams of being a samurai. The other, a former samurai, prefers living anonymously. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=667729 Offbeat homage to Hollywood musicals finds a stripper rousing her lovers jealousy by seducing his best friend. 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=1145350 Told through the eyes of Alexander and his sister Fanny, we see the exuberant and colorful Ekdahl household in a Swedish town early in the twentieth century. Their parents, Oscar and Emilie, are the director and the leading lady of the local theatre company. Oscars mother and brother are its chief patrons. After Oscars early death, his widow marries the bishop and moves with her children to his austere and forbidding chancery. The children are immediately miserable, but befriend a local Jewish merchant whose odd household becomes the childrens refuge. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1670731 Drama about the theater and the individuals that made the stage their life. Includes the love story of four men for one woman. 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.