Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&Ne=6662&N=4+7517+4294484650 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1751555 The story of the working world and romantic life of a television cameraman is a visceral, lasting cinematic snapshot of the era, climaxing with an extended sequence shot right in the middle of the riots surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. An inventive commentary on the pleasures and dangers of wielding a camera, Medium Cool is as prescient a political film as Hollywood has ever produced. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1679052 The boundless imagination and physical marvels of the work of the German modern-dance pioneer Pina Bausch leap off the screen in this tribute by Wim Wenders. Shot in 3D, it is a remarkable visual experience and a vivid representation of Bauschs art, enacted by a group of talented dancers from her company. 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=1755572 The comic genius of silent star Harold Lloyd is eternal. He plays a small-town bumpkin trying to make it in the big city, who finds employment as a lowly department-store clerk. He comes up with a wild publicity stunt to draw attention to the store, resulting in an incredible feat of derring-do on his part that gets him started on the climb to success. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715225 Based on the memoirs of an imprisoned French resistance leader, this unbelievably taut and methodical marvel follows the fictional Fontaines single-minded pursuit of freedom, detailing the planning and carrying out of his escape with gripping precision. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687093 Marlon Brando gives the performance of his career as the tough prizefighter-turned-longshoreman Terry Malloy in this raggedly emotional tale of individual failure and institutional corruption. This film charts Terrys deepening moral crisis as he must choose whether to remain loyal to the mob-connected union boss Johnny Friendly and Johnnys right-hand man, Terrys brother, Charley, as the authorities close in on them. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1675714 An adaptation of Patricia Highsmiths novel The Talented Mr. Ripley, this film stars Alain Delon as Tom Ripley, a duplicitous American charmer in Rome on a mission to bring his privileged acquaintance Philippe Greenleaf back to the United States; what initially seems a carefree tale of friendship soon morphs into a thrilling saga of seduction, identity theft, and murder. 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=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=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=1675712 Determined to collect an inheritance from a dying relative, a bourgeois couple travel across the French countryside while civilization crashes and burns around them. Featuring a justly famous centerpiece sequence in which the camera tracks along a seemingly endless traffic jam, and rich with historical and literary references, is a surreally funny and disturbing call for revolution, a depiction of society retreating to savagery, and, according to the credits, the end of cinema itself. Includes bonus features. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1648232 London, 1965: Like many other youths, Jimmy hates the Philistine life, especially his parents and his job in a companys mailing division 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=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=1250148 Maria is an entitled white woman living in Africa, desperately unwilling to give up her familys crumbling coffee plantation despite the civil war closing in on her. A gripping evocation of the death throes of European colonialism and a fascinating look at a woman lost in her own mind. 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=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=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=1624269 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=773170 The life of [Chinese] Emperor Pu Yi, who took the throne at age three, in 1908, before witnessing decades of cultural and political upheaval within and without the walls of the Forbidden City -- Container. 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=729986 Five cities, five taxis, and a group of strangers make for an interesting night. A collection of 5 stories that span continents, time zones, and languages. 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=713848 A Jewish boy living in Nazi-occupied Paris is sent by his parents to the countryside to live with an elderly Catholic couple until Frances liberation. Forced to hide his identity, eight-year-old Claude bonds with the irascible, staunchly anti-Semitic Grampa, who improbably becomes his friend and confidant. 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=708585 In this Japanese anti-war film, acts of cannibalism bring home the terrifying brutality of war. Japanese troops are in retreat in the Philippines. Supplies run out and discipline crumbles. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=721346 Chuck Tatum is an amoral newspaper reporter caught in dead-end Albuquerque who happens upon the story of a lifetime. He will do anything to ensure he gets the scoop. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=653848 America, 1976. The last day of school. Bongs blaze, bell-bottoms ring, and rock and roll rocks. Eavesdrop on a group of seniors-to-be and incoming freshman. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=653890 Koko, a six-year-old gorilla, is the subject of a controversial Stanford University research project conducted by Penny Patterson. A perceptive simian who communicates with humans via sign language, Koko knows more than 300 signs and can combine them to make new hybrid descriptions. Director Schroeder and cinematographer Almendros present a visual argument exposing the contradictions that arise when scientific experiments are used to graph human behavior onto animals. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=773178 Tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire seven out-of-work warriors to protect them from invading bandits. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=694819 Set against the backdrop of Germanys Weimar Republic (1918-1933), the film follows the downward spiral of the fiery, brash, yet innocent showgirl Lulu, whose sexual vivacity has a devastating effect on everyone she comes in contact with. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=619674 When a group of young sophisticated high society friends in New York take in a new member with more humble origins, they begin to learn what life is like outside their sheltered world. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=684086 After Grey Gardens, the portrait of the relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Little Edie, spawned everything from a midnight-movie cult following to a Broadway musical to an upcoming Hollywood adaptation, the filmmakers went back to their 1976 vaults to create this tribute to both the Beale women and their legion of fans. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=634733 A clan lord orders an aging swordsman to have his son marry the lords mistress, but reverses his decision after the young couple falls in love. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=608384 A timeless evocation of the loss of innocence, Rene Clements devastating Forbidden games tells the story of a young orphan and her friend forced to fend for themselves in World War II France. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=606909 Newly deceased playboy Henry Van Cleve arrives at the outer offices of Hades where he asks a bemused Satan for permission to enter the gates of Hell. Though the Devil doubts he will qualify, Henry proceeds to recount a lifetime wooing and pursuing women. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1128328 When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyos underworld explodes with violence. This film was a breakthrough for director Seijun Suzuki, introducing the flamboyant colors and hallucinatory images that became his trademark. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=585172 The film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the immutability of the holy Bengal River in India, around which their daily lives unfold. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=588044 A world-famous symphony conductor, consumed with the suspicion that his wife is having an affair, entertains elaborate visions of vengeance, set to three separate orchestral works. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=597297 In a series of simple and joyous vignettes, director Roberto Rossellini and co-writer Federico Fellini lovingly convey the universal teachings of humility, faith, and sacrifice of the Peoples Saint--Container. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=606970 In sixteenth century Japan a village potter and his brother-in-law set out for the city to seek their fortunes in the spoils of war. Their neglected wives suffer the bitter consequences of their husbands ambition as one is murdered by soldiers and the other is raped and becomes a prostitute. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=606961 A man falls in love with a younger woman, but he is married and divorce is illegal. To get what he wants, he begins an elaborate scheme to kill his wife. 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=635598 Peace in 17th-century Japan causes the Shogunates breakup of warrior clans, throwing thousands of samurai out of work and into poverty. An honorable end to such fate under the samurai code is ritual suicide, or hara-kiri. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=648967 Discovering that he is in the terminal stages of cancer, a clerk spends his last months in search of the meaning of life. After his pursuit of pleasure has failed, he finds self-realization in bringing about the building of a childrens playground in the slums and dies quiety fulfilled. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=531128 An impoverished mother and her daughter-in-law eke out a lonely, desperate existence. In order to survive in feudal Japan, they are forced to murder lost samurai and sell their belongings for grain, then dump their corpses down a deep, dark hole. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=603335 A documentary-style drama chronicling the rise and fall of the title character, a real-life Mob chieftain who rose to prominence in post-WWII Sicily. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=565065 Recounting the years of Italys Risorgimento-when the aristocracy lost its grip and the middle classes rose and formed a democratic Italy. Contains the original Italian version with optional subtitles, the English-language version and special features. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=527705 Begins by recapitulating the final scene of Henry IV, Part III with Edward IV being crowned king. In the background of the celebration, Richard jealously views the proceedings. Soon afterwards, Edward IV is murdered, drowned in a vat of wine. Richard becomes king and, after proceeding with a succession of intrigues and duplicities, he finds his kingdom in dire peril, set upon by Henry Tudor and mustering a final defense for his realm at the Battle of Bosworth. An immortal tale of lust, murder, treachery and the ruthless pursuit of power. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=553643 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=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=540834 A bad day gets worse for rookie detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyos sweltering streets for the thief, whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, the cop and the criminals lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakamis own dark side. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=613412 Martha is sullen, overweight and heartbreakingly lonely. Through the Friendship Club, she strikes up a correspondence with Ray, a sauve charismatic smooth-talker who could be the man of her dreams. A stark portrayal of the desperate lengths to which a lonely heart will go in order to find true love. From brutally immoral killings to a passion that transcends all bounds. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1012142 While vacationing on a remote island retreat, a familys already fragile ties are tested when Karin discovers her father has been using her schizophrenia for his own literary means. As she drifts in and out of lucidity, her father, husband, and younger brother are unable to prevent Karins harrowing descent into the abyss of mental illness.--Container. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1012143 Traveling home by train through a country seemingly on the brink of war, two sisters--the sickly, intellectual Ester and the sensual, pragmatic Anna--along with Annas young son, Johan, are forced to disembark in an unknown city in order for Ester to rest. Attempting to cope with their alien surroundings, the sisters resort to their personal vices while vying for Johans affection, and in so doing sabotage what little remains of their ambiguous relationship.--Container. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=488047 Directed by Federico Fellini, the story of a fragile girl who falls in love with a brutal circus performer she was sold to by her mother. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=527444 In the period of several days, Katharinas privacy and her honor are destroyed, first by the police who terrorize her, and then by the yellow press, which creates in her name the image of a politicized Bonnie Parker. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=466654 Melodramatic thriller based on the Hemingway story about two hit men who become curious about the life and death of the man they were hired to kill. 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=527450 A small time porno filmmaker in Osaka, struggles to cope with the corrupt sexual mores in his family, the world outside, and in himself. He peddles his films to condescending executives and panders a little on the side, believing he provides a socially valuable service. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=492824 Having promised his soul to the Devil in exchange for good fortune, Jabez Stone asks the talented lawyer Daniel Webster to get him out of the bargain. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=502424 Cloaked in a comedy of manners, this scathing critique of corrupt French society is about a weekend hunting party at which amorous escapades abound among the aristocratic guests, which are also mirrored by the activities of the servants downstairs. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=422016 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=439022 Based on cartoonist David Lows parody of the old-fashioned British professional soldier, set in his ways and unable to adapt to the brutality of modern war. This story follows the career of Clive Candy, at first an idealistic, young Boer War hero, then a brigadier general, serving honorably in World War I. Finally, by World War II, he has become a bald, overweight, querulous old man, angry that his age and military experience are held in contempt, and bewildered that his lifelong code of gentlemanly conduct has become an anachronism in a world threatened by a monster like Hitler. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=631958 Story of a young woman who like her friends is very concerned with men and love. A reserve army group comes into town and she falls in love with a pianist, who after swearing eternal love leaves for his home. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=504524 Examines the American involvement in Vietnam, and is a chronicle of the war from a psychological perspective. Includes interviews with General William Westmoreland, former Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford, Senator William Fulbright, Walt Rostow, and Daniel Ellsberg, as well as American Vietnam veterans and Vietnamese leaders. Presidents Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon are shown in rare footage. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=430786 A witty, delightful story about a lovestruck suitor named Jack whose fiancee can only love a man named Ernest. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=536431 One of the CIAs top international operatives is suddenly relegated to a desk job in an agency power play. Unwilling to go quietly, and with the aid of a chic Viennese widow, he puts himself back in the game by writing a memoir exposing the innermost secrets of every major intelligence agency in the world. The CIA now wants him dead, but he refuses to cooperate--because hes having to much fun! http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=475001 A distinguished professor emeritus who lives alone with his housekeeper can only come to terms with his egocentricity by traveling back in time to his earliest youth, finding there the seeds of his failure as husband, lover, father. This film deals with the phenomena of old age wherein childhood memories return with ever-increasing clarity while great stretches of the prime of life vanish into obscurity. In Swedish with English subtitles. 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=604650 The story of a lawyer defending a group of aboriginals accused of murder. The lawyer feels the pull of magic forces beneath the surface of civilization. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=427200 Set in the Middle Ages, the nature of truth and subjective reality are probed in a series of flashbacks from four viewpoints to present the case history of a mans murder and the rape of his wife by a bandit. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=498470 Middle-aged man falls in love with a much younger woman in this satire of sexual obsession. 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=528694 A chambermaid with Paris flair gets a job at a country estate. The family she works for and the other staff members are a strange sort and she must learn the ways of country living and neighbor revialry. After a child is murdered near the estate, she begins to have her suspicions as to whom may be responsible. 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=502541 Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson star as middle-class suburbanites whose casual friendship evolves into a passionate yearning for each other. But as their affections grow stronger, they must face a difficult decision that will affect both of their lives forever. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=603556 Two sisters, joined at birth as Siamese twins, are separated in late adolescence. One is lovely, gentle, kind-- the other is quite mad. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=635602 Professor Henry Higgins works to make a pretty flower girl into a young lady of society. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=432935 A young prostitute who works in the streets of Rome is continually deceived by men who claim to love her. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=471543 The Pythons satirize religion, capital punishment, revolutionary politics, terrorism, graffiti, science fiction, and a host of other topics through the story of Brian, a first-century Judean. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=766878 Dramatization of the life of Joan of Arc centering on her trial and execution. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=422019 Thirty English schoolboys are stranded on an uncharted island at the start of the next war. With no adults present, they quickly turn into savages. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=427206 The story of a witty but lonely secretary who takes a vacation in Venice, hoping to fall in love. She does - with a very handsome but very married Italian man. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=537592 Musashi is now a legendary swordsman whose latest quest is to save an isolated village from rampaging brigands. He also, remains haunted by his memories of Otsu. Meanwhile, the ruthless and increasingly jealous Kojiro plots his battle royal with Musashi to prove who is the finest swordsman in Japan. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=438996 Story of the famed 15th century icon painter who survives the cruelties of medieval Russia and creates works of art. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=492825 A complex crime thriller in which a wealthy shoe manufacturers chauffeurs son is kidnapped in mistake for his own, and he faces a moral dilemma -- should he pay the ransom anyway and risk losing his position? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=503657 On Valentines Day, 1900, a group of Australian schoolgirls set out for a picnic at Hanging Rock. Four of them disappear.