Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&Ne=7400&N=4+4294484650+7402 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=766922 A yakuza mobster suffering from tuberculosis enters into an unusual relationship with an alcoholic doctor. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=729984 Three slackers are on a self-discovery road trip to Florida. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=701909 The story of one 20-year-olds journey from basic training to the battle front lines at D-day brings all the terrors of war to its viewers with jolting authenticity. Interweaved with archival war footage. 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=708321 A civil engineer who is one of the French Resistances chiefs is given away by a traitor and interned in a camp. He manages to escape and join his network at Marseilles, where he has the traitor executed. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=728022 In late 1960s England, Mick Travis and his school chums trump authority at every turn at their boarding school. He finally emerges as violent savior against the draconian games of one-upmanship played by both students and the powers that be. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=708587 Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, black-market opportunist Harry Lime-- and thus begins this legendary tale of love, deception, and murder. 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=702011 Sad is an Arab, Hubert is black, and Vinz is a Jew, all of them young, unemployed and living in a dreary, troubled Paris suburb, largely inhabited by poor immigrant families. Each of them needs to vent the anger they feel about the police brutality that landed another friend in the hospital. The film focuses on one day in the lives of these three hoodlum friends and the result is a brutal, harrowing study of the cyclical nature of violence. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=715817 When an idealistic governor disobeys the reigning feudal lord, he is cast into exile, his wife and children left to fend for themselves and eventually wrenched apart by vicious slave drivers. 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=630802 Based on the directors life, this film chronicles Malles experiences during the German occupation of France in World War II. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=669598 Jane Campion, director of The Piano, will always be remembered for this stunning debut feature. The focus of this film is the hazardous relationship between button-down, superstitious Kay, and her rampaging sister, Sweetie. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=653884 Reworking of Chaucers epic 14th century tale, largely set in 1940s wartime Kent. It centers on three modern-day incarnations of Chaucers pilgrims: a plainspoken American Army sergeant (Sweet), a resourceful British sergeant (Price), and a melancholy landgirl (Sim). While enroute to Canterbury, they are waylaid and forced to solve a bizarre village crime: the mystery of a man who pours glue over the hair of village girls at night. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=673102 Shortly after the Spanish civil war, a six-year-old girl attends a traveling movie show of Frankenstein and becomes haunted by her memory of it. 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=707620 Federico Fellini satirizes his youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals in this portrait of provincial Italy during the Fascist period. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=610914 Classic biographical telling of the early life of Abraham Lincoln as a novice lawyer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=703968 The relationship between a young boy and his beloved butler turns sour when the boy suspects the butler of murder. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=653855 Monterey Pop is the first filmed document of a rock festival. The Monterey Pop Festival, held on Californias Monterey Peninsula in 1967. It would help launch the careers of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Otis Redding. Captured on film that became immortalized, Pete Townshend destroying his guitar and Jimi Hendrix burning his. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=610928 A young executive hunts down his fathers killer. A tale about corruption in the boardrooms of postwar corporate Japan as seen through the rising executive eyes. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=669586 A harrowing story of a schizophrenic mans desperate search for his young daughter. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=881172 Train engineer Jacques lusts after the wife of his co-worker Robaud. Robaud kills his boss and Jacques witnesses the murder. In order to keep Jacques quiet, Robaud allows Jacques to have an affair with his wife, creating a tragic love triangle. 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=881102 Documents the 1973 Kentucky coal miners strike against the operators of the Brookside mine and the Duke Power Company, which resulted from the companys refusal to honor the national contract of the United Mine Workers of America. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=637261 Florence Carala and her lover Julien Tavernier, an ex-paratrooper, want to murder her husband by faking a suicide. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=610930 A peasant girl is raped and murdered in 14th century Sweden. When her killers seek shelter in her fathers house, he kills them to avenge her death. Soon a spring appears from where the girl was killed and her father sees this as a sign from above. 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=623072 Louis Mazzini wants to avenge his mothers disinheritance by ascending to dukedom. To do this, he must kill eight of his relatives in the dAscoyne family. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=653896 Follows a middle-class family in Taipei over the course of one year, beginning with a wedding and ending with a funeral. Whether chronicling middle-aged father, NJs tenuous flirtation with an old flame or precocious young son Yang-Yangs attempts at capturing reality with his beloved camera. 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=591947 This documentary follows two inner-city basketball phenoms lives through high school as they chase their dreams of playing in the NBA. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=606973 An aging warlord decides to split his kingdom between his three sons, who will live in three separate castles. The two eldest sons are quite happy, but the youngest thinks his father has gone mad, and predicts that it wont be long until the two older brothers are fighting with each other. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=605929 In the impoverished town of Las Piedras, desperate men and women scrape out a living under the watchful eye of the ruling Southern Oil Company. When a well explodes, four workers must go on a suicide mission that is their only way out. 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=591948 A charming, eloquent, and vicious drifter on the lam in London rejects those who would care for him and hurls himself into a nocturnal odyssey through the city, colliding with a succession of desperate and dispossessed people and scorching everyone in his path. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=608385 Charlie Kohler is a piano player in a bar. Lena, a waitress at the bar, is in love with him. One of Charlies brother, Chico, a crook, takes refuge in the bar because he is being chased by two gangsters, Momo and Ernest. But Charlies real name is Edouard Saroyan,who was once a virtuoso who gave up playing after his wifes suicide. Charlie now has to deal with Chico, Ernest, Momo, Fido (his youngest brother who lives with him), and Lena. Charlie ends up stumbling into the criminal underworld and a whirlwind love affair. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=603293 The true-life story of Janet Frame, New Zealands most distinguished author. The film follows Frame along her inspiring journey, from a poverty-stricken childhood to a misdiagnosis of schizophrenia and electroshock therapy to, finally, literary fame. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=592127 A well-off bookseller rescues a tramp from a suicidal plunge into the Seine and his family dedicates itself to reforming him. He shows his gratitude by shaking the household to its foundations, challenging the hidebound principles of his hosts. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=605930 Jef Costello is a fedora and trench-coat wearing contract killer with samurai instincts. When Jef assassinates a nightclub owner, he finds himslef confronted by a series of witnesses, who drop his perfect world into the hands of a persistent police investigator and Jefs shadowy employer, both of whom are determined to put an end to the career criminal. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=597290 A moving drama about an aging English schoolmaster who comes to grips with his personal and professional failures. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=585176 Having pulled off the heist of a lifetime, Max looks forward to spending his remaining days relaxing with his beautiful young girlfriend. But when Riton, Maxs hapless partner and best friend, lets word of the loot slip to loose-lipped, two-timing Josy, Max is reluctantly drawn back into the underworld. Riton gets kidnapped by a mob boss in the hopes that there will be an exchange for the money, but nothing turns out as anyone has it planned. 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=605926 A lavish screen adaptation of Jacques Offenbachs phantasmal opera. Included are performances from some of the greatest ballet dancers and opera singers ever to grace the stage or screen. 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=592125 Robert Bressons masterpiece follows a much-abused donkey, Balthazar, whose life strangely parallels that of his owner, Marie. A beast of burden suffering the sins of man, Balthazar nevertheless nobly accepts his fate. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=591964 French new wave icon Jean-Pierre Leaud stars as Paul, an idealistic would-be intellectual struggling to forge a relationship with adorable pop star Madeleine (real-life ye-ye girl Chantal Goya). 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=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=634735 In an open-air dance hall, the members of Lecas gang are relaxing with their ladies. One of the ladies, Marie, meets Manda, who is a carpenter by trade. Maries man Roland is a jealous sort and does not like the idea of Marie and Manda becoming friendly, and Leca himself has his eye on Marie. What follows is a story of love, death, friendship and jealousy during the Belle Epoque. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=634743 Ex-G.I. Nick Garcos is a tyro trucker bent on satisfaction from the man responsible for crippling his father, a ruthless market operator by the name of Mike Figlia. Along the way, he is seduced by the siren Rica and drawn into the San Francisco produce racket, landing him in a web of treachery and heartbreak. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=605977 Considered Truffauts greatest film, this is a story of friendship between two artists and their mutual love for the same woman. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=651536 A chance encounter on a canal bridge results in a series of twilight rendezvous between a lonely city transplant and a sheltered woman haunted by a lovers promise. 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=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=540824 A middle-aged prostitute attempts to extricte herself from her sordid past for the sake of her son. Mamma Roma offers an unflinching look at the struggle for survival in postwar Italy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=881169 This film compassioniately details a year in the life of five young men lingering in post-adolescent limbo, dreaming of adventure and escape from their small town and struggling to find meaning in their lives. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=591963 Goes behind the scenes in the making of Werner Herzogs Fitzcarraldo, the story of one mans attempt to build an opera house deep in the Amazon jungle. Filmmaker Les Blank captured the production, made perilous by Herzogs determination not to use models or special effects. 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=634742 Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean, an army deserter looking for another chance to make good in life. Fate, however, has a different plan for him, as both acts of revenge and kindness render him front-page news. Portrays an underworld of lonely souls wrestling with their own destinies. 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=565080 While helicopters overhead spray against a Medfly infestation, a group of peoples lives in Los Angeles intersect, some casually, some to more lasting effect. While they go out to concerts and jazz clubs and even have their pools cleaned, these same folks also lie, drink, and cheat. Death itself seems never to be far away. A look at human life and American culture with over 20 lives interweaving. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=529949 The Mamiya family is seeking a husband for their daughter, Noriko, but she has ideas of her own. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=502594 Marianne and Johan always seemed to be the perfect couple. But when Johan suddenly leaves Marianne for another woman, they are forced to confront the disintegration of their marriage. Chronicles ten years of turmoil and love that bind the couple despite their divorce and subsequent marriages. Portrays the brutal pain and uplifting peace that accompany a lifetime of loving. 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=537593 A sharp satire about eight Swedish aristocrats who become romantically and comically intertwined over a single weekend. Includes Director approved special edition features. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=536386 Dramatizes the harrowing events of 1957, a key year in Algerias struggle for independence from France. Recreates the tumultuous Algerian uprising against the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, the French torture prisoners for information and the Algerians resort to terrorism in their quest for independence. Children shoot soldiers at point-blank range, women plant bombs in cafs. The French win the battle, but ultimately lose the war as the Algerian people demonstrate that they will no longer be suppressed. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=542742 A plastic surgeon, holed up in a Paris mansion, is obsessively slicing off the faces of kidnapped women and grafting the flayed skin onto the rotting countenance of his beloved young daughter, disfigured in an automobile accident. 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=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=617515 The notorious Pp le Moko is a wanted man--women long for him, rivals hope to destroy him and the law is breathing down his neck at every turn. On the lam in the Casbah of Algiers, Pp is safe from the police until a Parisian playgirl compels him to risk his life and leave its confines once and for all. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=481523 Adaptation of Shakespeares Macbeth, set in feudal Japan. Tells the story of a Samurai lord who kills his master and usurps his power in fulfillment of a witchs prophecy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=765591 Tells the fable of the kindly beast and the self-sacrificing beauty whose love releases the prince in him. Contains such visual displays as tears that become real diamonds and walls that grow arms to light Beautys path through the castle of the Beast. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=466639 Follow Umberto D., an elderly pensioner, as he struggles to make ends meet during Italys postwar economic boom. Alone, except for his dog, Flike, Umberto strives to maintain his dignity while trying to survive in a city where traditional human kindness seems to have lost out to the forces of modernization. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=529955 A master thief is fresh out of prison. But instead of toeing the line, he finds his steps leading back to the shadowy world of crime. He, a notorious escapee, and an alcoholic ex-cop plan a jewel heist, while being pursued by a police superintendent. 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=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=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=502398 Lonely widow Emmi Kurowski meets Arab worker Ali in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love--to their own surprise, and to the shock of family, colleagues, and drinking buddies. An emotional power that reflects the ethnic tensions within German society. 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=488054 An elderly couple journey to Tokyo, where they are greeted less than enthusiastically by their adult children, until death quiets the conflicts. 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=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=528703 Two bumbling burglars plan a robbery with a young woman they just met. Problems begin immediately when they both fall for the girl and the plan goes haywire. The jewel-heist plot is merely a jumping off point for Godards fast-paced mix of fantasy and spoof of Hollywood crime films. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=494985 Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, this piece documents the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust and contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=478113 A young mathematician, David Summer, and his English wife, Amy, move to a Cornish village, seeking the quiet life. But beneath the seemingly peaceful isolation of the village lies a savagery and violence that could destroy the couple. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=627505 When young Domenico 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 are daunting, but Domenico finds reason for hope in the fetching Antonietta. A tender coming-of-age story and a sharp observation of dehumanizing corporate enterprise, Ermanno Olmis Il Posto is a touching and hilarious tale of one young mans stumbling entrance into the perils of modern adulthood--Container. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=478946 A middle-aged journalist and his wife invite a footloose young hitch-hiker aboard their sail-boat for a Sunday outing in the Polish lake district. Like two peacocks, the men proceed to flaunt their virility before the woman, revealing a cynical sadism on the part of the husband and a growing resentment in the knife-wielding youth. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=466686 When thief Gaston Monescu meets his true love in pickpocket Lily, they embark on a scam to rob lovely perfume company executive Mariette Colet. But when Gaston becomes romantically entangled with Mme. Colet, their larcenous ruse is jeopardized and Gaston is forced to choose between two beautiful women--Container. 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=498131 Bob the gambler and his friends learn that the Deauville Casino expects to pull in 800 million francs. On the night of the heist Bob plays the casino tables until the appointed time. Before the dawn breaks, some of the men and women will win, some will lose, and some will die. 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=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=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=503666 An epic study of athletes struggling to excel against their own bodies and against each other. Kon Ichikawa used 164 cameramen and over 100 cameras to show the humanity of the competitors-- the tears of the Japanese women volleyball champions, the bellow of the hammer throwers, the pain of the collapsed marathon runner and the solitude of the loser, finishing his lap, picking up his sweats and leaving the field. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=454478 Asked to write a screenplay for an American producer, a young French dramatist and his wife visit the producers villa in Capri. There the wife and producer engage in an affair, and she decides to leave her husband. However, something quite unexpected happens. 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.