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{ items: [ { label: 'FR 002', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Language Study', 'Interviews', 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'Furstenberg, Gilberte', c_copies_in_stock: '8', description: 'Script contains instructions on how to use the program. An interactive documentary that allows students to explore on their own Marais, a neighborhood of Paris. In the course of their exploration, students can walk along streets, enter buildings such as churches and stores, and meet people who live and work in the neighborhood.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'CD-ROM'], number_of_copies: '8', publication_info: 'M.I.T., 1997-99 ,Yale U. Press.', submitted_by: 'Furstenberg', text_or_script: 'Script available.', title: 'DANS UN QUARTIER DE PARIS', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'FR 013', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Literature'], author_or_director: 'Camus, Albert', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Read by the author. Part 1: extracts from chapters 1 and 6. Part 2: extracts from chapters 5 and 6.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Ades, France.', submitted_by: '', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'ETRANGER, L\'', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'FR 029', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Culture'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Six-part video series on the French Revolution. Tape 1: L\'Ancien Régime Tape 2: La Révolution et la Royauté Tape 3: La Révolution et l\'Eglise Tape 4: La Terreur Tape 5: Le Directoire Tape 6: Le Consulat et l\'Empire.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Films for the Humanities, Princeton, NJ, 1994.', submitted_by: 'Waryn', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'REVOLUTION FRANÇAISE, LA', video_color: 'Color', video_length: 'Each video 52”', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 032', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Literature'], author_or_director: 'Prevert, Jacques', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Read by Pierre Viala. Selections and commentary by Andrée Bergens and David Noakes. Questions on comprehension, grammar, etc. follow each poem. Contents: Le jardin; Déjeuner du matin; Pour toi mon amour; L\'addition; Chanson des escargots qui vont à l\'enterrement; Barbara; La grasse matinée; Page d\'écriture; Le message; Les derniers sacrements; Rien à craindre; Le chat et l\'oiseau; L\'expédition; Par le temps qui court!; Tout s\'en allait...; L\'accent grave; Maintenant j\'ai grandi; Pour faire le portrait d\'un oiseau.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: '', submitted_by: '', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'PREVERT VOUS PARLE', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'FR 034', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Language Study', 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'Ciccone, Anthony', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Video materials are keyed to both the text and workbook, and represent a wide variety of video styles: documentaries, short films, daily French TV shows, etc. Videotape 1 contains chapters 1-4, videotape 2 contains chapters 5-8.', level: 'Intermediate level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape', 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Audio - Heinle & Heinle, Boston. Video - PICS, Iowa City, [1994].', submitted_by: 'Roberts', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'TELETEXTE', video_color: 'Color', video_length: 'Tape 1- 97", Tape 2 - 126"', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 043', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: 'Hope, Geoffrey and Pusack, James', c_copies_in_stock: '22', description: 'User manual is available. Useful for all levels and for individuals studying independently. A variety of grammatical exercises, grouped by topic. Can be used within a class structure since accurate scores can be kept for each student, and vocabulary is kept simple so the exercises can be integrated into any syllabus.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Computer Program'], number_of_copies: '22', publication_info: 'Conduit, Iowa City, 1994.', submitted_by: 'Waryn', text_or_script: 'Script available.', title: 'ELFE - ELEMENTARY FRENCH EXERCISES', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'FR 047', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Music'], author_or_director: 'Glick, Alisa', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Eight contemorpary video-music clips by various French artists. Contents: Dur dur d\'être bébé; Entrer dans la lumière; Faut pas taper la doudou; Cash City; White and black blues; Le Jerk; J\'t\'aime tell\'ment; Osez Joséphine.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape', 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Gessler Publishing Co, New Your, 1994', submitted_by: 'Roberts', text_or_script: 'Script available.', title: 'CLIPS FRANCOPHONES, LES', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '35"', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles' } , { label: 'FR 048', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Language Study', 'Interviews'], author_or_director: 'Petit, Bernard', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Ten short segments portraying a variety of French-speaking people in different daily situations both at home and in the streets. For example, meeting people; asking for directions; making purchases; going to the doctor, etc. Completely authentic language - different accents, mostly from France and Quebec.', level: 'Beginning to intermediate level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Heinle & Heinle, Boston, 1986.', submitted_by: '', text_or_script: 'Script available.', title: 'FRENCH WAY, THE', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '60"', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 050', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Music'], author_or_director: 'MCM Network', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'MTV-style music videos from France, showing a wide variety of current rock and pop performers. The number after the name of each performer indicates the number of songs they perform. The MCM logo appears for 2-3 seconds between each artist. Tape 1: Alain Chamfort 3, Niagara 3,J Wio 1, Jean-Jacques Goldman 3, Francis Cabrel 3, Stéphane Eicher 3, Etienne Daho 3, Charlélie Couture 1. Tape 2: Alain Bashung 2, Louis Chédid 2, Alain Chabat 1, Charlélie Couture 1, Michel Berger et France Gall 2, Jean Louis Aubert 1, Julien Clerc 2, Les Innocents 2, Les Rita Mitsouko 3, Les Négresses Vertes 3. Tape 3: Mano Négra 3, Axelle Red 3, Jill Caplan 2, Françoise Hardy 2, Axell Renou 1, Serge Gainsbourg 3, Patrick Bruel 3, Mylène Farmer 3, Vanessa Paradis 3, L’Affaire Louis Trio 3, Dalcan 1. Tape 4: Michel Jonasz 3, Véronique Samson 3, Dalcan 1, Iam 3, Noir Désir 1, Renaud 1, Patricia Kass 3, Johnny Halliday 4, Native 2, De Palmas 1, Laurent Voulzy 3. Tape 5: William Sheller 2, Busy 1, Blonde Amer 1, Daran et les chaises 1, Mc Solaar 3, Jacques Higelin 2, Arnold Turboust 2, Michel Polnareff 3, Pascal Obispo 3, Atlantique 1, Céline Dion 2, Clémence l’homme 1, Démocratie D 1, Pascal Obispo 1, NTM Nique Ta mère 1, Iam 1. Tape 6: Alain Souchon 2, Les Wampas 1, Liane Foly 3, KOD 1, Bernard Lavilliers 3, Pow Pow 2, Autour de lucie 1, Florent Pagny 1.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'French Cultural Services, Boston (1996).', submitted_by: 'Waryn', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'FRENCH MUSIC VIDEOS', video_color: 'Color', video_length: 'T. 1-5 2 hrs./tape; Tape 6 1+ hr', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles' } , { label: 'FR 054', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Goscinny, René', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Animation based on the comic book series Astérix.', level: 'Beginning level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Action Film Ltd., Montreal, 1992.', submitted_by: 'Waryn', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'ASTÉRIX ET CLÉOPATRE', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '72"', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles' } , { label: 'FR 055', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Language Study', 'Literature', 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'Perrault, Charles', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'A collection of the most well-known children stories by Perrault, read by Georges Béjean.', level: 'Intermediate level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'La voix de son livre, Paris, 1988.', submitted_by: 'Waryn', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'PETIT POUCET, LE : BARBE BLEUE ET LE CHAT BOTTÉ', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'FR 059', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'SNCF', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Contains three films made by SNCF. Horizon Atlantique (10") presents the new Atlantic GV route opened in 1989. Le Serpent Bleu (8") treats the TGV as a new species that has evolved from a prehistoric sea-serpent - a totally new breed of public relations film. Pierre Nevers (7") covers some of the other services offered by the SNCF.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'PICS, Iowa City, [1997].', submitted_by: 'Waryn', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'TGV ATLANTIQUE, LE', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '25"', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 060', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films', 'Culture'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Two innovative films. In Présence féminine (16\') a young woman arrives to stay with a friend of a friend, but just what is in that suitcase of hers? Made in Belgique (7") makes up for lack of dialogue through haunting images of the coincidences and convergences of modern life.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'PICS, Iowa City, [1986].', submitted_by: 'Waryn', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'FANTASTIQUE II: L\'INATTENDU', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '23"', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 063', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films', 'Culture'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Three innovative shorts revealing multiple aspects of the courtship process. In Sale temps (5"), comedian Jacques Villeret returns home to a series of frustrating answering-machine messages from his girlfriend and others. French lovers (8") portrays a typically French Parisian driver trying to pick up a young woman. In Cher Alexandre (13"), a lonely worker returns home to romantic answering-machine messages and a lively imagination.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'PICS, Iowa City, 1987.', submitted_by: 'Waryn', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'AMOUR À LA FRANÇAISE I, L\'', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '23"', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 068', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Music'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: '10 musical highlights from 1991-92 Télé-PICS series. A variety of songs from the past three decades - Edith Piaf, Kim Otero, Pierre Prett, Gérard Blanc, and others.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'PICS, Iowa City, [1991-92]', submitted_by: 'Waryn', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'CHANSONS DE TÉLÉ-PICS, LES', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '29"', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles' } , { label: 'FR 069', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Language Study', 'Music', 'Interviews', 'Culture'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A PICS subscription series. Télé-CLIPS (addrev. TC) contains short segments for use with lower-level courses. Télé-Programmes (TP) are for language and culture throughout the curriculum. Tape 1 - Pilot: TC - Reportage, Petits caractères, gros déboires, TRUC: Envelopper un cadeau, Publicité: Crédit Namurois, Météo, Vol: comment s\'en proféger, Publicité: Tapis vert, Film: Il y a des jours et des lunes, Les diapos de Pierre Parraux. TP - Au service du public: le téléphone, Un geste simple. Tape 2 (Sept. 1991) - TC - Chanson: Mama Yeminah, INC Essals: Petits déjeuners, P\'tit déj\'blues, Bande-annonce: Vanille Fraise, TRUCS: Fleurs d\'artichaut, Petite annonce: Sophie et son hamster, Vidéomusique: Afrique Jeunesse de la francophonie, ELPLOIS: Maçons et charpentiers, Lecture: Le Petit Prince, TRUCS: Ail comme colle, INC Essais: Tondeuses électriques, Les diapos de Pierre Parraux, Chanson: Je te retrouveral. Tape 3 (Sept. 1991) - TP - Court métrage: Elli Fat Mat, Au service du public: Le métro. Tape 4 (Jan. 1992) - TC - Chanson: Le tam-tam du vent, INC Actualités: Dépannage express bidon, Publicité: Peintures Auro, TRUCS: Rouge à lèvres, Bande-announce: Ripoux contre ripoux, INC Essais: Plus douce sera la chute, Trouvailles: Casques moto, Chanso: Lili, Trouvailles: Cadeaux pour la Saint Valentin, Bande-annonce vidéo: Charlie Brown et la Saint Valentin, Publicité: Finomat, INC Actualités: Ne vois-tu rien venir?, L\'émission impossible: Brúler un feu rouge, Chanson: Des rêves et du vent. Tape 5 (Jan. 1992) - TP - La Fricassée de poulet "pays d\'Auge", Le marché de Vincent: Livarot fermier. Tape 6 (Feb. 1992) - TP - 300, La croisière océane, Le TGVert.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'PICS, Iowa City, 1991-92.', submitted_by: 'Waryn', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'TÉLÉ-PICS', video_color: 'Color', video_length: 'each tape appx. 30"', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 084', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Animation based on the comic book series Tintin. Tape 1: Le Sceptre D\'Ottokar Tape 2: Coke en StockTape 3: Les Cigares du Pharaon Tape 4: L\'Etoile Mystérieuse Tape 5: Au pays de l\'or noir Tape 6: L\'Oreille CasséeTape 9: L\'ile Noire Tape 10: Le temple du SoleilTape 12: Le Crabe aux Pinces TintinTape 13: Le Lotus Bleu Tape 14: Tintin et les PicarosTape 7, 8, and 11 are missing from this series.', level: 'Intermediate level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Citel, Cedex, [1996].', submitted_by: 'Furstenberg', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'AVENTURES DE TINTIN, LES', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '50"', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 085', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Disney, Walt', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A family of aristocratic cats are the beneficiaries of the fortune of Mme Bonnefamille. The greedy butler, upset for not inheriting, decides to dispose of the cats.', level: 'Intermediate level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Walt Disney Co, [1996].', submitted_by: 'Furstenberg', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'ARISTOCHATS, LES', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '75"', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 111', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Language Study', 'Interviews', 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'Furstenberg, Gilberte', c_copies_in_stock: '2', description: 'An interactive short fiction that allows students to interact with the main character of the story. In the course of the simulation, students have the opportunity to travel through Paris, visit apartments, listen to a telephone answering machine, and send out phone messages - all in French. A variety of help and tools aid comprehension.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'CD-ROM'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: 'MIT, 1993; cd-rom vs.1.1 2005', submitted_by: 'Furstenburg', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'A LA RENCONTRE DE PHILIPPE v.1.1', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'FR 148', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: 'Callamand, Monique', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Student workbook and Teacher\'s guide available. Lessons 1-20. Pronunciation exercises focusing on intonation. Substitution drills to practice melodic patterns. Useful phrases for expressing surprise, disagreement, regret, and irony. Work on declarative and interrogative sentences.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Langenscheidt Hachette, Paris, 1973.', submitted_by: '', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'INTONATION EXPRESSIVE, L', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'FR 165', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Kurys, Diane', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'In Lyons in 1950, two women are drawn together by postwar discontent. Both are trapped in middle class marriages, and find they can offer each other something their husbands cannot. Their relationship deepens into a dependency that eventually bursts the confines of their provincial society. Produced 1983.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'MGM/UA, New York, 1985.', submitted_by: 'Turk', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'ENTRE NOUS (Between Us)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '110"', video_subtitles: 'French with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 176', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Language Study', 'Interviews'], author_or_director: 'Weiss, Francois', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Dialogues focusing on different communicative situations. Contents: Expressing opinions evaluation; Presenting convincing arguments; Describing, explaining, relating; Breaking the ice, making contact; Playing with the language.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Langenscheidt-Hachette, France, 1982.', submitted_by: '', text_or_script: 'Script available.', title: 'PARLER POUR...', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'FR 178', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Interviews'], author_or_director: 'Ottenheimer, Ghistaine', c_copies_in_stock: '2', description: 'A talk by Ghistaine Ottenheimer, journalist at L\'Express on the subject of individual responsibility versus government responsibility. Subsequent remarks on: young people, the black market, the future of Europe, and the press.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: 'MIT Language Lab, 1984.', submitted_by: '', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'FRANCAIS ET LES AMERICAINS - UNE COMPARAISON, LES', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '35"', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 185', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Buñuel, Luis', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Buñuel uses a dinner party that is always interrupted as a vehicle to lampoon diplomats, wealthy socialites and even radical terrorists. Produced in 1972.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Home Media Entertainment, Los Angeles, 1985.', submitted_by: 'Turk', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'CHARME DISCRET DE LA BOURGEOISE, LE (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '110"', video_subtitles: 'French with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 186', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Literature', 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Cocteau, Jean', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Based on the story by Mme Leprince de Beaumont. A young and beautiful girl gives herself to the Beast in order to save her father. However, because the girl falls in love with the Beast, he turns back into a handsome Prince. Produced in 1946.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: '', submitted_by: '', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'BELLE ET LA BETE, LA (Beauty and the Beast)', video_color: 'B&W', video_length: '95"', video_subtitles: 'French with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 187', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Literature', 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Jourdan, Pierre', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Based on the play by Jean Racine. A study of human emotion in the style of Greek tragedy. Produced 1968.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Tamarelles, Chico, CA, [1987?]', submitted_by: 'Turk', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'PHEDRE', video_color: 'B&W', video_length: '93"', video_subtitles: 'French with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 188', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Renoir, Jean', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'An adapatation of the novel by Emile Zola. This film tells the story of Jacques Lantier, a son of Gervaise, who has inherited from his alcoholic parents a compulsion to murder. Produced 1937.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Tamarelles, Chico, CA, [1987?]', submitted_by: 'Turk', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'BETE HUMAINE, LA (The Human Beast)', video_color: 'B&W', video_length: '92"', video_subtitles: 'French with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 189', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Renoir, Jean', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A tramp saved from suicide by a bookshop owner brings disorder into the shopkeeper\'s bourgeois household. A light comedy as well as an excellent satire of the lifestyle of the time. Produced 1932.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Tamarelles, Chico, CA, [1987?]', submitted_by: 'Turk', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'BOUDU SAUVE DES EAUX (Boudu Saved from Drowning)', video_color: 'B&W', video_length: '87"', video_subtitles: 'French with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 190', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Vigo, Jean', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Story of a revolt in a boarding school. For the first time on film, children were shown in an honest and realistic light. Produced in 1933.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Tamarelles, Chico, CA, [1987?]', submitted_by: 'Turk', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'ZERO DE CONDUITE (Zero for Conduct)', video_color: 'B&W', video_length: '44"', video_subtitles: 'French with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 191', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Literature', 'Interviews'], author_or_director: 'Pivot, Bernard', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Weekly French TV literary debate about recently published books. Authors of books debated are interviewed.', level: 'Advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Régie Française de Publicité, Antenne 2, Paris, 1/20/84.', submitted_by: 'Brami', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'APOSTROPHES', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '90"', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 192', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Beineix, Jean-Jacques', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A romantic thriller. An opera-loving, 18 year old mail carrier becomes entangled in a web of murder, intrigue and passion.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'MGM/UA, New York, 1981.', submitted_by: 'Brami', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'DIVA', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '123"', video_subtitles: 'French with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 195', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Pinoteau, Claude', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Vic, a 13-year old girl, has her life changed after the family moves. She discovers clothes, boys, mopeds and the "boums" - big weekend parties. Her parents are also embroiled in various mid-life crisis. Vic has her own "boum" which brings about the culmination of many problems.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'RCA Columbia Pictures Home Video, Burbank, CA, 1983.', submitted_by: 'Furstenburg', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'BOUM, LA (The Party)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '110"', video_subtitles: 'French with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 196', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Interviews', 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Antenne 2', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: '13 videotapes. A monthly summaries of current events taken from French TV in 1988. Regular segments include, "La Pub", "Clip Panorama", "Agenda et Générique", and an introduction to that month\'s topics. The following is a list of additional topics on each tape. Tape 1: La Libération des Otages; Paris, capitale du monde arabe; Prix Littéraires, Le Goncourt; Marché de l\'Art; Fragonard; Ariane; OVNI; Etats-Unis. Tape 2: Mitterrand; Black Monday; Société; Presidential Candidats; Alcool & Politique; Restaurants du coeur; Enfant du Divorce Paris-Alger; La Palice; M. Yourcenar; Musée d\'Orsay. Tape 3: L\'Education, le certificat d\'etudes; Les Elections, la reforme; Politique, le codde de la nationalite; L\'Ecole, les immigres; Sante, le tabac; L\'eEcole, les jeux, l\'ecriture; Rugby; Le Latin; Proust; L\'Opera. Tape 4: Le Minitel; Mode- Christian Lacroix; Jean-Jacques Goldman; Le Métro; Prix d\'Amérique; Polanski et Kafka. Tape 5: La Vidéothèque de Paris; Les Mille jours de l\'otage Paul Kauffmann; Raymond Barre et les élections; Le Sexe et les partis politiques; Les Artistes de la bombe à peinture; La Bibliothéque Nationale; Le Rock-"Sauvez moi"; La Mode des Parisiennes; Degas au Grand Palais. Tape 6: Un village basque; L\'IRPP; Mitterand à l\'école; Le prêt sur gage; Le prêt-à-porter; Jean Le Poulain; Les Demoiselles d\'Avignon; Le musée Picasso. Tape 7: Louis Malle, "Au revoir les enfants"; Mitterand et le suspense; Un grand parti conservateur?; Lajoinie et le retour aux sources; Le Pen et le Front National; Philippe de Broca, Les Chouans; La crise de la fréquentation des salles; In memoriam, Lino Ventura; Francoise Sagan; Georges de la Tour, "Saint Thomas"; Les Césars; Le festival de Cannes. Tape 8: Les chateaux PME; Les top 50 milliardaires; Edmond de Rothschild; Mitterand candidat; Tonton, tontaine, tonton; Les héritiers de Louis XVI; Dulcie September; L\'airbus A 320; Angoisses des chefs des grandes maisons; Le cartel disparu. Tape 9: Le bonheur et le malheur; Moussy-le-Vieux; Les poulets et les pigeons; Eve, Bernadette, et Danielle; Maxime Gaulard; Brignoles; Georges de La Tour, remise à jour; Le jeu de l\'avion; La manie des concours 1 et 2. Tape 10: Au feu les pompiers!; Les sapeurs-pompiers; L\'attentat "Tati"; Les kounous; L\'entrainement des pompiers; Premier tour des présidentielles; Chat et chien--les débats télévisés; La Nouvelle-Calédonie; Un accident de travail; L\'antenne des pompiers; Le SAMU; Les grands brûlés; Du style pompier à Renoir?; L\'agence Pied de Nez. Tape 11: Un temple de la consommation; L\'evolution de la famille; L\'actualité; L\'Alsace et la droite; Libération des trois otages francais; Un renouveau de la famille?; Marc et Fadila; Métro boulot dodo. Tape 12: Canaques et Caldoches; "Libération"; Alain Guillo; Roland-Garros; Le Festival de Cannes; Mai 1968 et la Sorbonne; La condition féminine; Une entreprise de troisième type; La bagnole du curé de Bagnoles; Les pervenches. Tape 13: Les animaux familiers--une industrie; Les législatives; "Le Chat Botté", La Société Protectrice des Animaux; Paris, capitale de la solitude; Les nuisances.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'JEM Communications, S. Plainfield, NJ, 1988.', submitted_by: 'Brami', text_or_script: 'Text & Script Available', title: 'PANORAMA - 1988', video_color: 'Color', video_length: 'Thirteen 45" tapes', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 197', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Ophuls, Max', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'From the play by Arthur Schitzler. Satire about a circle of love, showing ten inter-connecting relationships between men and women. It begins with the meeting of a young girl and a soldier and goes full circle to end with a meeting between a Hussar and the same young girl. Ophuls highlights the transience of pleasure and the precariousness of happiness. Produced in 1950.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Nelson Entertainment, Beverly Hills, CA, [1988?]', submitted_by: 'Turk', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'RONDE, LA (Roundabout)', video_color: 'B&W', video_length: '92"', video_subtitles: 'French with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 198', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Literature'], author_or_director: 'Renoir, Jean', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: '(Renoir Shorts). Renoir\'s silent adaptation of the Andersen fairy tale, starring Catherine Hessling.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'France, 1928', submitted_by: 'Turk', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'PETITE MARCHANDE D\'ALLUMETTES, LA (The Little Match Girl)', video_color: 'B&W', video_length: '23"', video_subtitles: 'French with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 200', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Carné, Marcel', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'From a script by Jacques Prevert. A complicated, yet humorous murder mystery.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'France, 1937', submitted_by: 'Turk', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'DRôLE DE DRAME (Funny Drama)', video_color: 'B&W', video_length: '87"', video_subtitles: 'French with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 201', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Truffaut, Francois', c_copies_in_stock: '2', description: 'This film brings the Antoine Doinel saga to its conclusion. Antoine is about to be divorced. His first novel has just been published. The women in his life return to tempt him and teach him a lesson.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: 'France, 1978', submitted_by: '', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'AMOUR EN FUITE, L\' (Love on the Run)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '90"', video_subtitles: 'French with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 202', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Vigo, Jean', c_copies_in_stock: '2', description: 'The story of a sailor who marries a young girl and takes her along on his barge, L\'Atalante. She discovers a sailor\'s life is full of surprises but often boring. Produced 1934.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: 'France, 1934', submitted_by: 'Turk', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'ATALANTE, L\'', video_color: 'B&W', video_length: '89"', video_subtitles: 'French with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 203', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Cocteau, Jean', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'This, Cocteau\'s final film, completes the trilogy started with LE SANG D\'UN POETE and ORPHEE. We meet Cocteau wandering in the 18th century only to be brought into the 20th where he encounters gypsies, evil omens and the dead poet Orphée. Produced 1959.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'France, 1960', submitted_by: 'Turk', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'TESTAMENT D\'ORPHEE, LE (The Testament of Orpheus)', video_color: 'B&W', video_length: '83"', video_subtitles: 'French with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 204', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Cocteau, Jean', c_copies_in_stock: '2', description: 'This first film by Jean Cocteau relates the itinerary of a poet during his life, his mission and his function.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: 'France, 1930.', submitted_by: 'Turk', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'SANG D\'UN POETE, LE (The Blood of a Poet)', video_color: 'B&W', video_length: '58"', video_subtitles: 'French with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 205', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films', 'Literature'], author_or_director: 'Ophuls, Max', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Based on three short stories by Guy de Maupassant, "Le Masque", "La Maison Tellier", "Le Modèle".', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'France, 1951.', submitted_by: 'Turk', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'PLAISIR, LE (The House of Pleasure)', video_color: 'B&W', video_length: '95"', video_subtitles: 'French with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 206', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Godard, Jean-Luc', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Godard managed to infuriate Charles de Gaulle with this frank document of a Parisian romantic triangle. Macha Meril is the young wife and mother in love with her husband and her lover. She doesn\'t want to decide between them because, frankly, she enjoys the attention of both.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'France, 1964.', submitted_by: 'Turk', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'FEMME MARIEE, UNE (A Married Woman)', video_color: 'B&W', video_length: '94"', video_subtitles: 'French with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 207', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Pagnol, Marcel', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'The welldigger\'s daughter finds herself pregnant as her lover, Jacques, goes off to war. Both sets of parents are scandalized and begin to feud.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'France, 1940.', submitted_by: 'Turk', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'FILLE DU PUISATIER, LA (Well-Digger\'s Daughter)', video_color: 'B&W', video_length: '142"', video_subtitles: 'French with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 208', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Literature', 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Clément, René', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A perfect example of a polished adaptation of a novel, L\'Assommoir, by Émile Zola. Gervaise is a young woman whose husband becomes an alcoholic after an accident. Notable for a marvelous reconstruction of 19th century Paris.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'France, 1956.', submitted_by: 'Turk', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'GERVAISE', video_color: 'B&W', video_length: '116"', video_subtitles: 'French with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 209', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Clair, Rene', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Lighthearted musical comedy about two penniless artists who win the lottery and become millionaires. But the lottery tickets are in a coat that is stolen and then the fun begins. Refreshingly original in use of sound and stylized action.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'France, 1931.', submitted_by: 'Turk', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'MILLION, LE (The Million)', video_color: 'B&W', video_length: '81"', video_subtitles: 'French with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 210', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Tati, Jacques', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A masterpiece by the great French comic Jacques Tati which concentrates on young Gerard Arpel and his Uncle Hulot, played by Jacques Tati, in a house where gadgets overpower everything. Sound effects and minimal dialogue contribute to Tati\'s wry humor.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'France, 1958.', submitted_by: 'Turk', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'MON ONCLE (My Uncle)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '110"', video_subtitles: 'French with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 212', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Interviews', 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'Antenne 2', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Summaries of current events taken from French TV in 1989. Regular segments include: an introduction to that month\'s topics, La Pub, Clip panorama, "Des chiffres et des lettres", 1,2,3 Soleil, Fiche-image, Fiche-ecoute, Lectures, Fiche-pub, and Fiche-correspondance. The following is a list of the contents of each tape. Tape 1: Les Halles, ventre de Paris; Le temple de la choucroute; La Cuisine allégée; Le fromage interdit; Intégrisme et pluralisme; Jacquot le gagnant; Ariane la gagnante; Les Grandes surfaces; L\'Escargot est faux!; Solidarité et lycées agricoles; Une cantine modèle. Tape 2: Madame la Tour Eiffel; Le Grand Louvre et la pyramide; La Corse en crise; La Pollution marine; Un monument du cinéma; Le Mariage de Figaro; Le Salon du cycle; La Tour, utilités et folies. Tape 3: Arafat à Paris; Et Paris réagit; La Nouvelle-Calédonie; Deux leaders religieux; La fête du travail; Un Breton en mer; New York Stories à Cannes; Un peintre du dimanche; Gian Franco Ferré chez Dior; La Carmen de Pizzi. Tape 4: Il y à encore des Bastilles a prendre; Le tour de France; "On est là pour le défilé"; Le sommet de l\'Arche; Les sept grands du monde; La dame au bras de fer; Sécheresse et incendies; Incendies-secours ou prevention; Bernard Buffet; La chasse-croisé de la fin juillet; Saint-Tropez et le drame off-shore; Le serment du Jeu de Paume; La prise de la Bastille; "La Marseillaise" de Goude; Les voiles de la liberté; Monuments. Tape 5: La sécheresse 1989; Le tourisme vert; Un acte anti-islamique; Le cynégétisme; Une maison de retraite chevaline; Georges Simenon, in memoriam; La jungle de l\'édition scolaire; La fête de l\'Huma; L\'escroquerie de Danielle Gilbert; Jeanine Longo, cycliste à la une; Hell\'s Angels en Auvergne; Le trafic des voitures. Tape 6: Hugo à la Guadeloupe; Après le déluge; Maeght au secours; Saint-Coulitz et le conseil des sages; La grêve chez Peugeot; La 605; La grêve des parloirs; La grêve du Ministère des Finances; La grêve des gardiens de phare; Un attentat en Afrique; Un attentat raté; Exode de l\'Est; Quarante ans de séparation; Après quarante ans, la liberté; L\'Hotel Sale. Tape 7: Fatima et la crise du voile; Jospin, Ministre de l\'Education; Sondage Express - tolérance au lycée; Les enfants de Montfermeil; La fac qui craque; Le martyr des profs; Kadour, Karim et Mohamed; L\'Ecole Normale; L\'argotologie; Guy Baudos, comédien et humoriste; Charles Trenet, le fou chantant; Jardins et Balcons. Tape 8: Le mur de Berlin abattu; Apres la grêve chez Peugeot; La grille de la fonction publique; Les infirmières en grêve; La journée d\'une infirmière; Le feu sacré des infirmieres; "Hiver 54, L\'Abbé Pierre"; Le supermarché du coeur; Les gens du voyage; COMEDE, soins de solidarité; La mosquée de Marseille; 1989, millésime exceptionnel; Catherine Fleury, Championne de judo; Le bourgeois gentilhomme. Tape 9: Trafic dans le métro; Se garer à Paris!; Un réseau souterrain d\'autoroutes; Un super-hotel de police; Le train à grande vitesse; Le tube est un navet!; Le 11 novembre; Le wagon de l\'armistice; Defilé de mode dans l\'infanterie; Coupe sombre dans le budget militaire; Le voilier des mers; Delon chez Godard; Renault quitte Paris; Operation immobilière interéssante; Astuces. Tape 10: Liberté, fraternité et la fin 89; Bonjour, les enfants de Roumanie!; Solidarité France-Roumanie; Réveillon pour les sans domicile fixe; Père Noël, 1er nuage à gauche, le ciel; La neige? En veux-tu? En voila!; Rendez-vous au pole Sud!; Le tunnel sous la Manche; Photographe a Magnum; Un homme révolté, Albert Camus; Noël exotique chez les becs-fins; Colère chez les ostréiculteurs de Thau; Paris-vitrines, Paris-lumières; Météo astrale.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Eagle Multimedia Services, NYC, 1989-90.', submitted_by: 'Furstenberg', text_or_script: 'Text & Script Available', title: 'PANORAMA 1989-1990', video_color: 'Color', video_length: 'Each tape 45"', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 217', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Language Study', 'Interviews', 'Culture'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'The reconstitution of a petty theft and the legal and judicial proceedings which follow.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Iowa City, Iowa [1991?]', submitted_by: 'Furstenburg', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'LA MAIN DANS LE SAC', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '22"', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles' } , { label: 'FR 220', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Interviews', 'Culture'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '2', description: 'An analysis of changes in French society within the past decade. Visits to various French cities confirm three major shifts in traditional values: the decline of the Catholic church, the gradual disappearance of the classe ouvriere, and the breaking up of the traditional family structure. A fourth theme is the presence of a large number of immigrants in France.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: 'PICS, Iowa City, Iowa [1991?]', submitted_by: 'Waryn', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'HISTOIRE IMMEDIATE, L\'', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '95"', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 223', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Interviews', 'Culture'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Tape 1 - Technology: Le Métro de Caracas (transportation); PMU, nouvelles technologies pour 89 (horse racing); La carte à mémoire (electronics); La Caravelle en apesanteur (aviation); Des salles transformables à utilisations multiples (urban environment); L\'eau, une industrie, un mêtier (produced 1989). Tape 2 - Technology: L\'inventorium (technology & children); La peau (science & medicine); Robot X88 (technology & the automobile industry); Ces trains qui battent le temps (public transportation, RER subway, TGV); Les coulisses de l\'Expo (exhibit on water - design & stages of immplementation); TGV 515,3 km/h (train) (produced 89-90). Tape 3 - Film, TV, books, and ethics: Marie-France Pisier - derrière la caméra; Une expérience de télévision pas comme les autres; Bibliothèque Nationale; Comité national d\'éthique (medical science & ethics) (produced 1990). Tape 4 - Les grands travaux de Paris (Architecture / Urbanisme 1979-1991): L\'Opéra Bastille; Le Ministère des Finances "Bercy", l\'Arche de la Défense; le Grand Louvre; L\'Institut du Monde Arabe; le Musée d\'Orsay; la Cité de la Musique (Le Conservatoire); La Villette (Cite des Sciences et de l\'Industrie). Tape 5 - Art: Cannes nostalgie; Satyajit, Ray et Cartier Bresson; Entretien avec Martin Karmitz; Profession "Bruiteur"; Erik Satie, Jean-Pierre Armangaud; Danse contemporaine; Les Négresses Vertes - nouveau rock francais; Jean Fautrier - peintre informel.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'French Consulate, Boston, 1990.', submitted_by: 'Furstenberg', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'AUJOURD\'HUI EN FRANCE', video_color: 'Color', video_length: 'Tape 1 - 51", Tape 2 - 40", Tape 3 - 25", Tape 4 - 22", Tape 5 - 51"', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles' } , { label: 'FR 224', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films', 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'Goscinny, René', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'This animated version of the well-known comic book series "Asterix" is easy to follow for children and young adults.', level: 'Beginning to intermediate level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Buena Vista, Burbank, CA, 1990.', submitted_by: 'Waryn', text_or_script: 'Script available.', title: 'ASTERIX LE GAULOIS', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '67"', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 225', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Literature', 'Films', 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'Grimault, Paul', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'This full length animated story mixes the poetry of Jacques Prevert with the wit of Grimault\'s characters.', level: 'Intermediate level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'France, 1980.', submitted_by: 'Waryn', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'ROI ET L\'OISEAU, LE (The King and the Mockingbird)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '87"', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 226', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films', 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'Rochant, Eric', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Hippolyte falls in love with a nice upper-class girl, but he has nothing going for him. His life is limited to his car and bars. Named best film at the Venice Film Festival, Un Monde Sans Pitié renews the film style of the 60\'s. A great look at Paris as seen by young people.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Action Film, Montreal, 1990.', submitted_by: 'Waryn', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'UN MONDE SANS PITIE (A World Without Pity)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '84"', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 228', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films', 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'Rochant, Eric', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'This tape contains two short films that contrast two different visions of love and marriage. In Comme les doigts de la main a man courts a woman who is bizarrely shadowed by five mysterious men. La Poule presents the interaction between an extremely traditional husband and his intellectual wife, with an unexpected conclusion.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'PICS, Iowa City, IA, [1993?]', submitted_by: 'Waryn', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'AMOUR A LA FRANCAISE II, L\'', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '29" (Part 1 - 9", Part 2 - 20")', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 229', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A medieval knight and his servant are transported in the present and meet their respective descendants. This film is the most popular French film ever.', level: 'Advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Gaumont/CFP Video, France, 1993', submitted_by: 'Waryn', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'VISITEURS, LES (The Visitors)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '108"', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 230', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Literature', 'Films', 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'Pagnol, Marcel', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Adaptation from 3 short stories by Alphonse Daudet. Tape 1: "The Elixir of Father Gaucher" (L\'Elixir du père Gauchet) tells of a group of monks who deal in homemade wines and spirits to replenish their church coffers. And "The Secret of Master Cornille" (Le secret de Maitre Cornille) is the story of businessman\'s harmless ruse which snowballs into near-tragedy. Tape 2: "The Three Low Masses" (Les trois messes basses) involves a clergyman whose taste for gourmet foods leads him to confrontation with Satan.', level: 'Advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'France, 1954', submitted_by: 'Waryn', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'LETTRES DE MON MOULIN, LES (Letters from My Windmill)', video_color: 'B&W', video_length: '169"', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 231', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Literature', 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Angelo, Yves', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Based on Honoré de Balzac\'s novel, the story of the Colonel Chabert who comes back to his wife after having been declared dead on a battlefield ten years earlier, is a tale of identity and honor.', level: 'Advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'France, 1994', submitted_by: 'Waryn', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'COLONEL CHABERT, LE (Colonel Chabert)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '109', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 232', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Literature', 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Pagnol, Marcel', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'The baker in a small French village refuses to make bread until the return of his wife, who left with a local shepherd.', level: 'Advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'France, 1938.', submitted_by: 'Waryn', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'FEMME DU BOULANGER, LA (The Baker\'s Wife)', video_color: 'B&W', video_length: '127"', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 246', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Collard, Cyril', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Jean, though HIV positive, refuses to slow down and let the virus dictate his lifestyle. His self-centered stance is a double-edged sword for two people, Samy, a handsome young hooligan, and Laura, an 18-year old. Laura\'s unrequited love for Jean drives her to near self-destruction and him to reexamine his life.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Ban Film ter / La Sept Cinema / Orango Films / SNC, 1993.', submitted_by: 'Pozen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'NUITS FAUVES, LES (Savage Nights)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '126"', video_subtitles: 'French with English subtitles' } , { label: 'FR 247', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Buñuel, Luis', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Mathieu, a genteel widower, becomes obsessed with his young maid. In a brilliant twist, Buñuel has two actresses alternate in this role, one a Mediterranean coquette, and the other a cool French beauty. Mathieu pursues both blindly, only to be humiliated again and again.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Greenwich Film Productions, 1977', submitted_by: 'Garrels', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'CET OBSCUR OBJET DU DÉSIR (That Obscure Object of Desire)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '104"', video_subtitles: 'French with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 248', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Buñuel, Luis', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A tale of deceit and desire. Severine, a perfect young housewife, leads a shocking double life. By day she is a high-priced prostitute. But then a customer forms a dangerous obsession with the beautiful Severine.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Buena Vista Picutres, 1967', submitted_by: 'Garrels', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'BELLE DE JOUR', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '100"', video_subtitles: 'French with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 249', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Buñuel, Luis', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'This Buñuel masterpiece extolls love and attacks religion and the social order in an amazing assemblage of images. The central metaphor is a couple making love who are continually disturbed by the intrusions of officialdom, police and the Church.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Vicomte de Noailles, Paris, 1930', submitted_by: 'Garrels', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'AGE D\'OR, L\' (The Age of Gold)', video_color: 'B&W', video_length: '62"', video_subtitles: 'French with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 250', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Klapisch, Cédric', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'When Chole decides to go on vacation, she leaves her cat, Gris-Gris, with a cat-sitter. Chloe returns from her seaside holiday to find her feline companion missing. A hilarious cast of characters help her find her cat and a little romance along the way.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Vertigo Productions, France, 1996', submitted_by: 'Trichard', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'CHACUN CHERCHE SON CHAT (When the Cat\'s Away)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '91"', video_subtitles: 'French with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 251', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Klapisch, Cédric', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A comic drama about a dysfunctional family that gets together for dinner once a week. On this particular Friday, the group is celebrating a birthday, but the night turns into anything but a celebration when family politics and petty squabbling come into play.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Telema-Le Studio Canal, France, 1996', submitted_by: 'Trichard', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'UN AIR DE FAMILLE (Family Resemblances)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '105"', video_subtitles: 'French with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 252', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Chatiliez, Étienne', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A comedy about class distinctions and family ties. The Le Quesnoys live the ordered, polite, uptight life of the securely wealthy. The Groselles are a slovenly family of tramps, lowlifes and thieves. When an act of revenge uncovers the fact that 12 years ago their babies were switched at birth, the two families are plunged into chaos.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Telema, Fr3 Films Productions, France, 1987.', submitted_by: 'Trichard', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'VIE EST UN LONG FLEUVE TRANQUILLE, LA (Life is a Long Quiet River)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '89"', video_subtitles: 'French with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 253', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Interviews', 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'Benguigui, Yamina', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Documentary in three parts, looking at three perspectives: the father, the mother, and the children. Through testimonies, the film examines the mechanisms of Maghrebin immigration into France from North Africa and the issues that are raised.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Bandits Productions, France, 1998', submitted_by: 'FR group', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'MEMOIRES D\'IMMIGRES, L\'HERITAGE MAGHREBIN (Immigrant Memories)', video_color: 'ColorB&W', video_length: '160"', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 254', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Interviews', 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'Sarkis, Sami', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Is La Goutte d\'Or, in the eighteenth district of Paris, the ghetto many people think it is, or is it perhaps the last "village" where a typical Parisian population mixes peacefully with people of other nationalities? "Here, there is no loneliness," says an inhabitant of the district. Throughout this agreeable visit, fifteen local people talk about issues that extend beyond the frontiers of La Goutte d\'Or: safety and housing, immigration, education, religion and racism.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Dathana, Alibert & Sarkis, 1995', submitted_by: 'FR group', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'POUR TOUT L\'OR D\'UNE GOUTTE', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '93"', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 255', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'Ndiaye, Cheikh', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A very complete documentary on Africans in Paris: their life at home, their plans for return to their countries of origin, their family, and the future of their children, who have a mixed culture. An interesting presentation of those people who wish to contribute to the development of their home country.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Idea Productions, France, 1993', submitted_by: 'FR group', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'TOUMOURANKE', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '52"', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 256', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Chahine, Youssef', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Produced in Egypt. Kenaoui, who limps, manages to find some small job at the Central Station. He falls in love with the young and beautiful Hanouna who sells lemonade there. As she is promised to an important unionist, and mocks his feelings, Kenaoui decides to kill Hanouna. But Chahine interrupts Kenaoui\'s plan. The film is considered a starting-point for a new rebellious, independent cinema.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'La Médiathèque des Trois Mondes,1958', submitted_by: 'FR group', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'GARE CENTRALE (Central Station)', video_color: 'B&W', video_length: '85"', video_subtitles: 'Arabic with French subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 257', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Tlatli, Moufida', c_copies_in_stock: '2', description: 'Produced in Tunisia. The Silences Of The Palace is directed with close attention to the details of women\'s lives and to the political realities which they survive with courage, comradeship, and the resources of their bodies. Tunisia in the 1950s (during the twilight of their monarchy ) is the sumptuous setting for this drama of memory and motherhood, and of political and sexual power.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: 'Cinetelefilms, Magilm, Mat Films, 1994', submitted_by: 'FR group', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'SILENCES DU PALAIS, LES (The Silences of the Palace)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '127"', video_subtitles: 'Arabic with French subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 258', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Benhadi, Mohamed Rachid', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Produced in Algeria. Takes place in an oasis in the Sahara desert. A young man, who is severely crippled, and his sister, who sacrifices much to help him and create the semblance of a family, live there. The film is a hymn to solidarity and hope.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'CAAIC (Algeria), 1989', submitted_by: 'FR group', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'ROSE DES SABLES', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '110"', video_subtitles: 'Arabic with French subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 259', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Boughedir, Férid', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Produced in Tunisia. Three daughters vow to lose their virginity one summer à la Goulette. Each comes from a different religious background -- one Christian, one Jewish, and one Muslim. This can be seen as a story of coming of age, or as a story about the similarities among the three cultures.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Marsa Films, Cinares Prod., La Sept Cinema, Lamy Films, RTBF, 1995.', submitted_by: 'FR group', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'ETE A LA GOULETTE, UN (A Summer in La Goulette)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '95"', video_subtitles: 'Arabic with French subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 260', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Cissé, Souleymane', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Produced in Mali. After asking for a raise, Sekou is fired from the factory where he works. His girlfriend, Tenin, who is happens to be the daughter of his boss, is mute. Tenin, date-raped by Sekou one evening, becomes pregnant. She is confronted with both her parents\' rejection and Sekou\'s cowardice as he refuses to acknowledge the pregnancy.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Cissé Films, 1975', submitted_by: 'FR group', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'DEN MUSO (The Young Girl)', video_color: 'B&W', video_length: '90"', video_subtitles: 'Bambara with French subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 261', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Folly, Anne-Laure', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Produced in Niger. A documentary on women and polygamy; looking at how social and religious traditions can exclude half the population.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Amanou production (France), Office de Television Nationale du Niger, 1993', submitted_by: 'FR group', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'FEMMES DU NIGER', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '26"', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 262', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'Eicher, A. and Wolff, G.', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Africa Blues introduces us to five artists who, for one reason or another, landed in Paris. This documentary is the moving testimony of those who, via their art, have been able to express in a positive manner the difficulty of combining Western culture and their own, in spite of the "blues" that prevail among all uprooted peoples.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'CAT Entertainment, GMBH, 1992', submitted_by: 'FR group', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'AFRICA BLUES', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '52"', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 263', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'Giradot, Arlette and Baque, Philippe', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'This documentary, filmed between September 1996 and February 1997, portrays the immigrants from Mali who were evacuated from the Church of Saint Bernard on the 23 August 1996, and then deported to Bamako by charter plane. Some of them returned to their original villages in the region of Kayes, a poor area which has traditionally been the source of immigration from Mali. Others lead an arduous battle to return to Europe.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Les Yeux Ouverts, 1997', submitted_by: 'FR group', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'CARNET D\'EXPULSION', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '52"', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 264', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'Kane, Pascal', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Five short movies geared toward starting debates in high school, from the 10th grade on. The movies include: 1) Similarity and diversity: groups constantly evolve even though racism tends to deny this evolution. 2) The barbarian, the slave and the other: a diversified image of the foreigner comes across through 3000 years of history. 3) Does TV manage to represent others? Or does TV oversimplify the image of others? 4) Come look elsewhere, Adjila: racism is related to self-hatred. 5) Come look elsewhere, Souad: the migration of each of us between two poles - our concerns.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'CCSTI, Video Cinema 13 Production, & Marseille Citavision, 1992', submitted_by: 'FR group', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'DE L\'AUTRE COTE DU RACISME', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '65" (13"each)', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 265', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'Weil, Patrick and Wieder, Alain', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'This documentary shows how foreigners have landed in France since the beginning of the 20th century as well as how they have, and have not integrated through their work, housing, marriage, religion, etc. This is a fascinating exploration of the diverse conditions that the French melting pot created for foreigners. A complete and essential document.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'France 2/CAPA, 1993', submitted_by: 'FR group', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'DE PERE EN FILS - LA FRANCE ET SES ETRANGERS', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '105"', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 266', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Chibane, Malik', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A comical look at second-generation Algerian immigrants in Paris, who are struggling with the conflicts between two cultures.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'K Films Video, 1995', submitted_by: 'FR group', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'DOUCE FRANCE (Sweet France)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '100"', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 267', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Chibane, Malik', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Ali, Slimane, Staf, Nacira and Samy are five young "beurs" (young people of Arabic origin) who live in a housing project in a Paris suburb - the "beurette", the intellectual , the junky, the preppy, and the unemployed guy on the dole. All have the same concerns: love, identity, unemployment, and their future.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'la sept/vidéo, 1994', submitted_by: 'FR group', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'HEXAGONE', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '90"', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 268', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Cabrera, Dominique', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A Pied-Noir living in Algeria goes to France for eye surgery. He becomes friends with his surgeon, a Beur - in search of his own identity (of Maghrebin origin). Both try to convince each other that they chosethe "right" shore where to live.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Bloody Mary Productions & France 2 Cinéma, 1997.', submitted_by: 'FR group', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'AUTRE COTE DE LA MER, L\' (The Other Shore)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '90"', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 269', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Ouedraogo, Idrissa', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'The story of a child who leaves his village and grandfather in Africa to join his father, an immigrant in France. The child has nightmares of hyenas. A middle-age French man helps him get over his scare.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Les Films de la Plaine, France, 1994', submitted_by: 'FR group', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'CRI DU COEUR, LE (The Heart\'s Cry)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '86"', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 270', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Ouedraogo, Idrissa', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Produced in Burkina Faso. After a hold-up of a gas-station, Samba takes refuge in his native village. His sudden wealth and generosity soon raise questions. The police comes to investigate. Based on the western genre, this film is considered as a breath of fresh air in African cinema.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Les Films de la Plaine, 1992', submitted_by: 'FR group', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'SAMBA TRAORÉ', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '85"', video_subtitles: 'Moré with French subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 271', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Bossion, Claude', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A montage of amateur films taken between the years 1920 and 1960 in various French colonies such as Tananarive, Saigon, Algeria. Between family celebrations, exoticism, and catholic missions, this intimate picture of the life of overseas French citizens brings forth much ambivalence. Adventure,imperialist colonization, fascination with the other, rejection, surprise, and curiosity all play a part in these short takes from amateur films.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'M3M, France, 1997', submitted_by: 'FR group', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'MEMOIRE D\'OUTRE-MER', video_color: 'B&WColor', video_length: '60"', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 272', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Music', 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'Goude, Jean-Paul', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Film of the celebration of the Bicentennial of the French Revolution (July 1989). Includes the choreography of Jean-Paul Goude\'s unique homage to the occasion.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Telema-Arcanal, 1989', submitted_by: 'de Courtivron', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'OPERA GOUDE: L\'AVENTURE DE "LA MARSEILLAISE"', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '1\'25"', video_subtitles: 'music' } , { label: 'FR 273', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Ocelot, Michel', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Animated movie about a West-African legend, Kiriku, a small boy who helps his village through his magic powers. He first protects them against the wicked sorcerer, Karaba. He then undertakes a trip to the mountains where his grandfather lives, so he can learn why Karaba acts so wickedly. He discovers that Karaba suffers herself, because of a poisonous prick planted in her back. When he removes the prick, Karaba transforms into the beautiful, nice woman that she originally was. Kiriku grows into a man and thecouple decides to return to the village. Kiriku will need his grandfather\'s help to convince the village that Karaba is no longer wicked and that they should welcome her into their community.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'France 3 Cinema, 1998.', submitted_by: 'Cazenave', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'KIRIKOU', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '70"', video_subtitles: 'French' } , { label: 'FR 277', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: 'Charliac, Lucile and Motron, Annie-Claude', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Phonetics and pronunciation drills.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'CLE International, Paris, 1998.', submitted_by: 'Furstenberg', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'PHONÉTIQUE PROGRESSIVE DU FRANÇAIS', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'FR 280', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Kassovitz, Mathieu', c_copies_in_stock: '4', description: 'Lola, a West Indian beauty, confronts her two lovers with her impending motherhood, but refuses to reveal which of the two men is the father. The rival boyfriends hate each other. At first they compete for the right to help Lola through her pregnancy, but soon the three come to a friendly bohemian accord to share the responsibilities of parenthood.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '4', publication_info: 'Les Productions Lazennec, 1993.', submitted_by: 'Sadock', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'MÉTISSE (Café au Lait)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '93"', video_subtitles: 'French with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 281', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Dridi, Karim', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Bye Bye is about urban teen life in modern day France, and how two young French Arab brothers deal with the clash of cultures and generations in Marseilles. After a family tragedy, Ismael and Mouloud leave Paris and end up on the door step of their uncle and his family. Once there, the brothers are pulled apart as one is seduced by the streets and its life of drugs and crime, while the other desperately seeks to rescue him without falling to its temptations.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Turbulent Arts, 1996', submitted_by: 'Trichard', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'BYE BYE', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '107"', video_subtitles: 'French with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 282', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Interviews', 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'Vigana, Henry', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Using the town of Lamentin in Martinique (French Antilles) as his background, Vigana explores the question of juvenile delinquency and problems of their rehabilitation in society; what young Caribbean people have in terms of opportunities and hopes when they are from poor, "difficult" neighborhoods.', level: 'Advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'L\'Office de la Culture du Lamentin & Caribbean Video Diffusion, 1998.', submitted_by: 'Cazenave', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'HLM BLUES', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '70"', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 283', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Literature', 'Films', 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'Alassane, Mustapha', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Seven cartoons, linked by a voice-over that joins that of the griot to tell us about different legends, morals and mythic tales, exploring for example questions of power and the status of women in African societies.  Innovative in its stylistic form and narrative techniques.', level: 'Intermediate level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'P.O.M. Films, Paris, Ouagadougou, Montreal, 1999', submitted_by: 'Cazenave', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'TERRES AFRICAINES: CONTES ET LEGENDES', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '66"', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 284', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Interviews', 'Films', 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'Diabate, Idriss', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'This documentary is the result of a creative process shown on the screen, how a cartoonist and a filmmaker asked children and teenagers from different neighborhoods in Abidjan (Ivory Coast) to tell us about their lives in the city, to guide us and let us discover the city.Followed by:  LES AVENTURES DE GUÉDÉAnimated film (produced in association with the children). The story of Guédé, a young 8 year-old boy who lives in the countryside and is bored and dreams of going to the city.  His many adventures, from childhood to adulthood, reflect the different dreams of the African youth today (going to France and becoming rich, leaving for America, etc), as well as the risks and dangers they are confronted with (drugs, petty crimes, living off the street, etc.)', level: 'Intermediate level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'P.O.M. Films, Paris, Ouagadougou, Montreal, 1996', submitted_by: 'Cazenave', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'ABIDJAN DES ENFANTS / LES AVENTURES DE GUÉDÉ', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '31" / 16"', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 285', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: 'Vicente, Avigail', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'La grammaire en fiches du français is a grammar textbook organized as a set of cards . It provides a tool to be used by students at any given stage of their language work. La grammaire en fiches du français: Le cahier d\'exercices is a workbook to be used in conjunction with the cards.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Text only'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'A. Vicente, Commerce TX, 1992', submitted_by: 'Sadock', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'GRAMMAIRE EN FICHES DU FRANÇAIS, LA', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'FR 286', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'Camus, Isabelle and Jacques, Hélène', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Tape 1-En privé Tape 2-En société. These two videos present an extremely successful French television series shown on TF1 every day before the evening news. These 10 minute-long segments portray a young couple in everyday situations interacting with each other, their family, friends and neighbors. A fresh and comic look into relationships "à la francaise".', level: 'Advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'France Television, 2001', submitted_by: 'Furstenberg', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'UN GARS UNE FILLE', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '70" each', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 288', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films', 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'Philibert, Nicholas', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: '"Etre et avoir", an official entry in the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, is a documentary about a single classroom school deep in the heart of France. A totally charming film, it shows children - ranging from 3 to 11 - learning, struggling, and playing, the teacher coaching and consoling. It also provides wonderful glimpses of family life and landscapes of rural France. A choice of French or English subtitles.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Maia Films, Arte France Cinéma, 2002.', submitted_by: 'Furstenberg', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'ETRE ET AVOIR (To Be and To Have)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '1\'44"', video_subtitles: 'French or English subtitles. Region 2, PAL' } , { label: 'FR 289', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Veber, Francis', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A comedy that shows how one little white lie can change everything. Fancois, a dull and lonely accountant working at a condom factory, endures office jokes and back room whispers that he\'s about to be fired. But that all changes when a rumor about him spreads around the office. Much to his surprise this falsehood sends Francois\' life on a turn for the better.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Gaumont EFVE & TF1 Films, Fance, 2001', submitted_by: 'Sadock', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'PLACARD, LE (The Closet)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '85"', video_subtitles: 'French with yellow English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 290', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Veber, Francis', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'When Pierre decided to play a game to see who could bring the biggest idiot to a dinner party, he never imagined he\'d be the one playing the fool. But when Pierre\'s selfish ways come to light before the main course, he gets his just deserts.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Gaumont EFVE and TFl Films, France, 1998', submitted_by: 'Sadock', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'DÎNER DE CONS, LE (The Dinner Game)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '72"', video_subtitles: 'French with English or Spanish subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 291', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Ozon, François', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A wealthy industrialist is found murdered in his home while his family gathers for the holiday season. The house is isolated in a snowstorm and the phone lines have been cut. 8 women are his potential murderers - each is a suspect, each has a motive...', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'France 2 Cinema and Mars Films, France, 2002', submitted_by: 'Minjares, L', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'HUIT FEMMES (8 Women)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '1\'51"', video_subtitles: 'French with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 292', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Van Dormael, Jaco', c_copies_in_stock: '2', description: 'Georges has been in an institution for the mentally handicapped since the death of his mother a few years earlier. Work-obsessed Harry has a colorless existence, made even bleaker by the sudden departure of his wife and their two daughters. Driving home, he encounters Georges on the road.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: 'Pan-European JProduction, 1996', submitted_by: 'Culot', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'HUITIÈME JOUR, LE (The 8th Day)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '118"', video_subtitles: 'French with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 293', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Kassovitz, Mathieu', c_copies_in_stock: '2', description: 'Police viciously beat a 16-year-old housing project kid they are questioning, leaving him almost dead. Responding to violence, teenagers from the project turn their home into a 24 hour war zone.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: 'Lazennec, France, 1995', submitted_by: 'Culot', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'HAINE, LA (Hate)', video_color: 'B&W', video_length: '97"', video_subtitles: 'French with optional English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 294', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Godard, Jean-Luc', c_copies_in_stock: '2', description: 'Michel, a handsome young criminal, is on the run from the law after stealing a car and killing a policeman. He hides out in the Paris apartment of Patricia, a beautiful young American student. They spend their time dodging the police, making love and stealing cars to raise money for a trip to Italy. As the police net tightens, Michel\'s bravado and desperation grow and Patricia commits the ultimate act of betrayal.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: '1960', submitted_by: 'Trometer', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'A BOUT DE SOUFFLE (Breathless)', video_color: 'B&W', video_length: '90"', video_subtitles: 'French with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 295', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Truffaut, Francois', c_copies_in_stock: '2', description: 'This film follows 13-year-old Antoine as he turns to a life of small-time crime to escape the neglect he receives at home from his parents and the harsh criticism of his teacher. As young Antoine ventures out on his own, he discovers the freedom he longs for is not so easily attained.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: 'Les Films du Carrosse, France, 1959', submitted_by: 'Trometer', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'QUATRE CENTS COUPS, LES (400 Blows)', video_color: 'B&W', video_length: '99"', video_subtitles: 'French with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 296', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Annaud, Jean-Jacques', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Based on the autobiographical novel by Marguerite Duras, an erotic and sensitive story of a young French school girl who embarks on a torrid love affair with a wealthy Chinese man in 1929 French Colonial Vietnam. Consumed by desire, they cling to each other, even though fate and society dictates that they may never wed.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Renn/Burrill/Films A2, France, 1992', submitted_by: 'Culot', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'AMANT, L\' (The Lover)', video_color: 'B&WColor', video_length: '1\'55"', video_subtitles: 'French or English with English, French or Spanish subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 297', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Tati, Jacques', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A village postman, François, watches a film about the American postal service. Impressed by the feats of the postmen and humiliated by the inhabitants\' jokes, François rides his bicycle in order to re-conquer the French postman\'s dignity. Outstanding slapstick comedy with excellent scenic detail.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: '1949, France', submitted_by: 'Furstenberg', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'JOUR DE FÊTE (Holiday)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '85"', video_subtitles: 'In French or Spanish with Spanish subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 298', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Language Study', 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'Fouletier-Smith, Nicole', c_copies_in_stock: '2', description: 'Text, workbook, and answer key available. A beginning level language program designed to develop students\' cultural understanding in tandem with their language and communication skills. Media accompanying this text include 4 audio cd\'s for "In-Text Audio", 5 audio cd\'s for "Cahier Audio", and 1 video cd-rom.', level: 'Beginning level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Audio CD'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: 'Prentice Hall, 2004', submitted_by: 'French Group', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'PARALLÈLES, 3rd ed. - Audio CD', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'FR 299', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Literature', 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Berri, Claude', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Based on the novel by Emile Zola. Set in late 19th century Lille, in Northern France, this film chronicles the uprising of a community of miners against the bourgeois mine owners. The poverty and paucity of the miners\' lives is faithfully portrayed, and their hopes for the future are expressed even as they slave daily in the mines.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'France, 1993', submitted_by: 'de Courtivron', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'GERMINAL', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '157"', video_subtitles: 'French with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 300', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Renoir, Jean', c_copies_in_stock: '2', description: 'A classic comment on war\'s fading glory. Set in WW I, the film tells of two French officers captured by German forces from whom they escape several times. Finally, interred in a prison camp, the two officers encounter Von Rauffenstein, an aristocratic German career officer.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: 'Canal+ Image, France, 1937', submitted_by: 'de Courtivron', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'GRANDE ILLUSION, LA', video_color: 'B&W', video_length: '114"', video_subtitles: 'French with optional English subtitles' } , { label: 'FR 302', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Palcy, Euzhan', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Young José and his grandmother live in a small village in Martinique in the early 1930\'s. Nearly everyone works cutting cane and barely earning a living. José\'s grandmother is determined to save José from hard life of the plantation. When José wins a scholarship at a school in the city, she is ready to sacrifice everything for his chance at an education and an escape from the fields.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Sumafa Production-Orca Productions, 1983', submitted_by: 'Cazenave', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'RUE CASES NÈGRES (Sugar Cane Alley)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '107"', video_subtitles: 'In French with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 303', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Pontecorvo, Gillo', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: '3 disc dvd set. Disc 1, The film, Battle of Algiers recreates a key year in the tumultuous Algerian struggle for independence from the occupying French in the 1950\'s. Violence escalates on both sides. Shot in the streets of Algiers in documentary style, the film is a case study in modern warfare, with its terrorist attacks and the brutal techniques used to combat them. Disc 2 contains 3 documentaries by Pontecorvo and other directors. Disc 3 contains 4 segments on the film and its history.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Casbah Films, 1965', submitted_by: 'Cazenave', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'BATAILLE D\'ALGER, LA (The Battle of Algiers)', video_color: 'B&W', video_length: '121"', video_subtitles: 'In French and Arabic with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 304', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Roüan, Brigette', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'In French Algeria, in the late 1940\'s after WW II, three daughters of a wealthy settler family begin their adult lives. Zon marries an often absent sailor. Malene\'s husband, Gildas, refuses to work on the farm, so she has to take care of everything. Gritte, the youngest, does not want to marry and is a nurse for the natives. The film follows their three different destinies.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Paradise Productions & Lira Films, 1990.', submitted_by: 'Cazanave', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'OUTREMER (Overseas)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '96"', video_subtitles: 'French with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 305', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Interviews'], author_or_director: 'Warner, Judith', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'An interview on NPR\'s program, All Things Considered, on March 22, 2005 with Terry Gross and Judith Warner, the author of Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety. They discuss the differences between stay-at-home mothers in the U.S. verses the life of those in France.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Audio CD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'NPR, 2005', submitted_by: 'Furstenberg', text_or_script: 'Script available.', title: 'MOTHERHOOD IN THE AGE OF ANXIETY', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'FR 306', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Jeunet, Jean-Pierre', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Amelie, an innocent and naive girl in Paris, with her own sense of justice, decides to help those around her, and along the way, she discovers love.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Tapicoa/France 3 Films, 2001', submitted_by: 'Culot', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'FABULEUX DESTIN D\'AMÉLIE POULAIN, LE (Amelie)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '122"', video_subtitles: 'French with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 307', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Jeunet, Jean-Pierre', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'In 1919, Mathilde was 19 years old. Two years earlier, she was notified that her fiancé was killed on the field of battle. Sensing a mistake, she goes on a search for Manech. A former sergeant tells her in vane that Manech died in the no man\'s land of Bingo Crepescie, where he and 4 other solders were abandoned to die for self-inflicting wounds. Her path ahead is full of obstacles, but Mathilde is not frightened. Anything is possible to someone who is willing to challenge fate.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Tapioca / TFI Films, France, 2004', submitted_by: 'Culot', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'UN LONG DIMANCHE DE FIANÇAILLES (A Very Long Engagement)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '133"', video_subtitles: 'French with English, Spanish or French subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 308', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Language Study', 'Films'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A young French television journalist is investigating her grandfather\'s hidden past. It becomes an incredible journey thoughout parts of the French-speaking world. DVD includes Behind-the-Scenes, Interviews, Biographics, and Movie Trailer.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'McGraw-Hill, NYC, NY, 2002', submitted_by: 'Furstenberg', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'CHEMIN DU RETOUR, LE', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '120"', video_subtitles: 'French with optional English or French subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 309', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '2', description: 'Quicktime clips of the following scenes:- the discovery of the baby- Jack\'s return- Jack and his mother- Sylvia\'s return- the last scene', level: 'Beginning to intermediate level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: '', submitted_by: 'Furstenberg', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'TROIS HOMMES ET UN COUFFIN and THREE MEN AND A BABY - 5 Comparative Scenes', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'FR 311', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'Buñuel, Luis', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'An adaptation of the novel by Octave Mirbeau, though Bunuel has updated the book by a quarter-century. The story follows Celestine, a beautiful Parisian domestic, who arrives at the Rabour-Monteil residence in the country to begin her new job. Here she encounters the family patriarch, a foot fetishist who cannot resist trying to seduce every maid; his resistant wife (who finds his "constant" demands for sex -twice a week- overwhelming); and, most important, Joseph, a fascistic and murderous man-servant who believes in maintaining France for the French, and who wants Celestine for his bride.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Studio Canal, France, 1964', submitted_by: 'Garrels', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'JOURNAL D\'UNE FEMME DE CHAMBRE, LE (Diary of a Chambermaid)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '98"', video_subtitles: 'French with optional English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 310', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Buñuel, Luis', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Two French vagabonds undertake a pilgrimage to Santiago de Campostela in Spain, and along the way travel through time and Christian theology. Seeking the roots of their beliefs, the argumentative pilgrims encounter Jesus, the Virgin Mary, a Jesuit, a Jansenist, a prostitute, nuns crucifying one another, and an orgy. Buñuel\'s playful satire on organized religion.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Cinêmathèque Collection, France, 968', submitted_by: 'Garrels', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'VOIE LACTÉE, LA (The Milky Way)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '102"', video_subtitles: 'French with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 312', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'ABC News', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Short news clip on the problems of exporting U.S. made Simpson\'s to an Arab culture.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Video CD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'ABC News, 2006', submitted_by: 'Furstenberg', text_or_script: 'Script available.', title: 'SIMPSONS\' EXPORTED TO ARABS, THE', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '3"', video_subtitles: 'English with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 313', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Berliner, Alain', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Ludovic is a young boy who can\'t wait to grow up to be a woman. When his family discovers the little girl blossoming in him, they are forced to contend with their own discomfort and the lack of understanding from their new neighbors. Their anger and impatience grow, and Ludovic is sent to see a psychiatrist in the hopes of fixing whatever is wrong with him. A movie that addresses trans-gender and gender issues through the eyes of a child.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'French production, 1997', submitted_by: 'de Courtivron', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'MA VIE EN ROSE (My Life in Pink)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '88"', video_subtitles: 'French with optional English or French subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 314', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Gatlif, Tony', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'One day, Zano has a crazy idea. He decides to take his girlfriend, Naima, to Algeria to see the land that their parents escaped a long time ago. With music as their only luggage, the two lovers go on a journey that will bring them to their origins. After spending a few days in Andalousia, they cross the Mediterranean Sea seeking to know themselves better.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Princes Films, France, 2004', submitted_by: 'Ceia-Minjares', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'EXILS (Exiles)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '104"', video_subtitles: 'French, Arabic with optional English or French subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 280', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '4', description: 'Lola, a West Indian beauty, confronts her two lovers with her impending motherhood, but refuses to reveal which of the two men is the father. The rival boyfriends hate each other. At first they compete for the right to help Lola through her pregnancy, but soon the three come to a friendly bohemian accord to share the responsibilities of parenthood.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '4', publication_info: '', submitted_by: '', text_or_script: '', title: 'CAFÉ AU LAIT (see Métisse)', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'FR 315', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Ferroukhi, Ismaël', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A few weeks before his college entrance exams, Réda who lives in the south of France, finds himself obligated to drive his father to Mecca. The wide cultural and generational gap between the two is worsened by their lack of communication. From France, through Italy, Serbia, Turkey, Syria, Jordan to Saudia Arabia, the two embark on a road trip that will change their lives.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Film Movement, 2004', submitted_by: 'Ceia-Minjares', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'GRAND VOYAGE, LE', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '108"', video_subtitles: 'French and Arabic with optional English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 316', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Music'], author_or_director: 'Grand Corps Malade', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Music cd. Contains: Le jour se lève; Saint-Denis; Je dors sur mes 2 oreilles; Midi 20; Ça peut chémar; 6éme sens; Je connaissais pas Paris le matin; Chrcheur de phases; Parole du bout du monde; Attentat verbal; Les voyages en train; J\'ai oublié; Vu de ma fenêtre; Rencontres; Ma tête, mon coeur...; Toucher l\'instant.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Audio CD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Musicales Djanik, 2006', submitted_by: 'Ceia-Minjares', text_or_script: 'Script available with cd.', title: 'MIDI 20', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'FR 317', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Audiard, Jacques', c_copies_in_stock: '2', description: 'Restricted from serving in WW II, Albert can only watch as the war ends without him. In desperation, he resolves to flee to Paris where his inspired gift of deception and trickery leads to a plan to invent a new identity for himself.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: 'Strand Releasing, 1997', submitted_by: 'de Courtivron', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'UN HÉROS TRÈS DISCRET (A Self Made Hero)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '105"', video_subtitles: 'French with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 299B', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Literature', 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Berri, Claude', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Based on the novel by Emile Zola. Set in late 19th century Lille, in Northern France, this film chronicles the uprising of a community of miners against the bourgeois mine owners. The poverty and paucity of the miners\' lives is faithfully portrayed, and their hopes for the future are expressed even as they slave daily in the mines.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'France, 1993', submitted_by: 'Turk', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'GERMINAL', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '152"', video_subtitles: 'French with on-screen English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 318', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Berri, Claude', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Based on the true story and Aubrac\'s book. Raymond Aubrac is arrested at a Resistance meeting during a raid on a doctor\'s surgery after a tip-off from an inside informant. Lucie manages to visit Raymond in prison by lying to the German police, and attempts to rescue Raymond and his fellow prisoners before they are executed. A remarkable love story.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'France, 1997', submitted_by: 'Turk', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'LUCIE AUBRAC', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '111"', video_subtitles: 'French with on-screen English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 319', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Literature', 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Berri, Claude', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Based on the novel by Marcel Pagnol. City dweller Jean de Florette moves his family to the Provence countryside in the 1920\'s to forge a new life as a farmer. But his proud, cocky neighbor, Le Papet, schemes with his simple-minded nephew to acquire some nearby land ensuring the novice owner never discovers an all-important natural spring on the property.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'France, 1986', submitted_by: 'Turk', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'JEAN DE FLORETTE', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '116"', video_subtitles: 'French with optional English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 320', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Literature', 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Berri, Claude', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Based on the novel by Marcel Pagnol. Sequel to the film Jean de Florette. Le Papet and his dim-witted nephew are now successful flower growers using water from a spring on the adjoining property (Florette\'s farm) they now own. Macon, Florette\'s grown up daughter, still lives in the hills as a goatherd and comes to realize that not only these two but the whole village knew of the existence of the spring when her father was desperately trying to water his crops. An accident with one of the goats leads her by chance to the source of the spring and the possibility of a terrible revenge.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'France, 1986', submitted_by: 'Turk', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'MANON DES SOURCES (Manon of the Spring)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '109"', video_subtitles: 'French with optional English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 321', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Godard, Jean-Luc', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Nana, a young mother leaves her family behind to pursue an acting career, but instead she slips into a life of prostitution on the streets of Paris. The movie is comprised of a series of 12 "tableaux" - basically unconnected episodes each presented with a worded introduction.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Films de la Pleiade, 1962', submitted_by: 'Turk', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'VIVRE SA VIE (My Life to Live)', video_color: 'B&W', video_length: '85"', video_subtitles: 'French with on-screen English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 210B', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Tati, Jacques', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A masterpiece by the great French comic Jacques Tati which concentrates on young Gerard Arpel and his Uncle Hulot, played by Jacques Tati, in a house where gadgets overpower everything. Sound effects, minimal dialogue contribute to Tati\'s wry humor. Produced 1958.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: '', submitted_by: 'Turk', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'MON ONCLE (My Uncle)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '116"', video_subtitles: 'French with optional English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 322', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Renoir, Jean', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Virginia has to fend for herself after the death of her father. Any money that might have been left for her is squandered by her drunken uncle, Jef, to buy booze. After a false start at a new life with some bohemians, she is taken in by Monsieur Raynal and falls in love with his son Georges. But on an errand to pay a bill for M. Raynal, Virginia is robbed by her uncle and is suspected by the Raynals of stealing the money for herself. Jean Renoir\'s tragic tale is punctuated by a fascinatingly surreal nightmare sequence.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Studio Canal, 1925', submitted_by: 'Sadock', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'FILLE DE L\'EAU, LA (Whirlpool of Fate)', video_color: 'B&W', video_length: '72"', video_subtitles: 'Silent with optional English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 322', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Renoir, Jean', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'An adaptation of Emile Zola\'s novel Nana. Renoir retells Zola\'s woeful tale of a covetous Parisian slum girl. Hoping to escape her tawdry surroundings, Nana has an affair with a high-ranking government official, George Muffat. Instead of elevating herself to Muffat\'s level, however, Nana drags the poor man down to hers -- and in the end, both lives are utterly destroyed.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Studio Canal, 1926', submitted_by: 'Sadock', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'NANA', video_color: 'B&W', video_length: '130"', video_subtitles: 'Silent with optional English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 323', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Renoir, Jean', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Shot in three days on almost no budget, using film stock left over from Nana, Jean Renoir made this strange curio just for fun. It\'s the year 2028. An explorer from Central Africa arrives in a post-apocalyptic Paris in a flying sphere. Here he finds a scantily-clad wild girl and her monkey friend. The girl dances the Charleston to try to seduce him. Eventually they leave together in his flying sphere.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Studio Canal, 1927', submitted_by: 'Sadock', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'SUR UN AIR DE CHARLESTON (Charleston Parade)', video_color: 'B&W', video_length: '20"', video_subtitles: 'Silent with optional English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 323', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Renoir, Jean', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Based on a story by Hans Christian Andersen. The fantasy of a little match girl in a land of toys ending in destruction and death. Poorly cast lead actress, but a wonderful fantasy scene.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Studio Canal, 1928', submitted_by: 'Sadock', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'PETITE MARCHANDE D\'ALLUMETTES, LA (The Little Match Girl)', video_color: 'B&W', video_length: '33"', video_subtitles: 'Silent with optional English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 323', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Renoir, Jean', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A newsreel like movie about the early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of individual people, citizens of Marseille, counts in exile and, of course king Louis XVI, with their own small problems.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Studio Canal, 1938', submitted_by: 'Sadock', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'MARSEILLAISE, LA', video_color: 'B&W', video_length: '132"', video_subtitles: 'French with optional English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 324', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Renoir, Jean', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Originally produced for French television. This retelling of the Jeckyll-Hyde legend adheres to Renoir\'s long-standing leitmotif of the individual who must stand alone because he is incapable of conforming. The original Robert Louis Stevenson story is updated, making several pointed comments about the good-evil dichotomy of the modern world.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Studio Canal, 1959', submitted_by: 'Sadock', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'TESTAMENT DU DOCTEUR CORDELIER, LE (The Doctor\'s Horrible Experiment)', video_color: 'B&W', video_length: '97"', video_subtitles: 'French with optional English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 324', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Renoir, Jean', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'June, 1940.  In a German POW camp, three soldiers are united by their desire to escape and return to their civilian lives.  After their first attempt fails, the corporal and one friend try again - and again.  Although the corporal comes close to finding his freedom, his good luck always runs out at the last moment.  Ultimately, the three soldiers find themselves in a German disciplinary camp, but their resolve to escape remains as strong as ever.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Studio Canal, 1962', submitted_by: 'Sadock', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'CAPORAL ÉPINGLÉ, LE (The Elusive Corporal)', video_color: 'B&W', video_length: '97"', video_subtitles: 'French with optional English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 325', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Bouchareb, Rachid', c_copies_in_stock: '2', description: 'A revealing look at the brave contributions made by 130,000 North African soldiers who fought for France during World War II to defeat the Nazis. They were contemptuously dubbed indigènes (natives) by many French, despite their remarkable sacrifice. They fought their way across Europe while battling discrimination within their own ranks.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: 'France, 2006', submitted_by: 'Sadock', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'INDIGÈNES (Days of Glory)', video_color: 'ColorB&W', video_length: '123"', video_subtitles: 'French with English, Spanish or French subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 326', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films', 'Interviews'], author_or_director: 'Ostergaard, Anders', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A documentary profiling the life of Hergé and his relationship with his creation \'Tintin\'. Includes rare film footage. Text is written by the interviewer Numa Sadoul.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Anchor Bay Entertainment, 2003', submitted_by: 'Culot', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'TINTIN ET MOI (Tintin and I)', video_color: 'ColorB&W', video_length: '76"', video_subtitles: 'French with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 327', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Tati, Jacques', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Monsieur Hulot has to contact an American official in Paris, but he gets lost in the maze of modern architecture which is filled with the latest technical gadgets. Caught in the tourist invasion, Hulot roams around Paris with a group of American tourists, causing chaos in his usual manner.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Les Films de Mon Oncle, 1967', submitted_by: 'de Courtivron', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'PLAY TIME', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '124"', video_subtitles: 'In French with optional English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 328', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films', 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'Sissako, Abderrahmane', c_copies_in_stock: '2', description: 'An offbeat, satiric comedy which imagines how the powers that be in the West might be forced to answer for the damage they\'ve done in the Third World. Mele is an attractive Malian lounge singer married to Chaka, though their relationship is on the verge of collapse. In their eyes, the African continent isn\'t in much better shape than their marriage. One day a makeshift courtroom appears in the courtyard near their shabby home, and a handful of powerful international organizations, such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are put on trial for their crippling effect on the African economy. Evidence is presented that explains how these "friends" of Africa have saddled the nations with debts they can never repay, and witnesses explain how these actions impact the daily lives of ordinary citizens, who pass through the trial as they go on with their days.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: 'France, 2006', submitted_by: 'Sadocks', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'BAMAKO', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '112"', video_subtitles: 'French and Bambara with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 294B', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Godard, Jean-Luc', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Criterion Collection ed. 2 dvd set with text. Disc 1: New restored hi-def. version of the 1960 film, archival interviews with Godard and actors from the film Michel, a handsome young criminal, is on the run from the law after stealing a car and killing a policeman. He hides out in the Paris apartment of Patricia, a beautiful young American student. They spend their time dodging the police, making love and stealing cars to raise money for a trip to Italy. As the police net tightens, Michel\'s bravado and desperation grow and Patricia commits the ultimate act of betrayal. Disc 2: Interviews with assistant director and filmmaker, and 2 video essays. Also Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suede (80") documentary about the making of the film, and Charlotte et son Jules (13") a 1959 short film by Godard.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: '1960', submitted_by: 'Trometer', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'A BOUT DE SOUFFLE (Breathless)', video_color: 'B&W', video_length: '90"', video_subtitles: 'French with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 022', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Serreau, Coline', c_copies_in_stock: '4', description: 'The lives of three French bachelors change after a former girlfriend drops off a baby. Their wild nights now consist of 3 a.m. feedings and diaper changing, and their apartment is transformed into a nursery that drives away their friends.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '4', publication_info: 'Flach Film, 1985.', submitted_by: 'Levet', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'TROIS HOMMES ET UN COUFFIN (Three Men and a Cradle)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '100"', video_subtitles: 'In French with optional English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 023', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Nimoy, Leonard', c_copies_in_stock: '4', description: 'When a former girlfriend leaves her baby at the apartment of three bachelors, their lives change drastically.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '4', publication_info: 'Touchstone Pictures, 1987.', submitted_by: 'Furstenberg', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'THREE MEN AND A BABY', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '102"', video_subtitles: 'English with French or Spanish subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 329', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Gavras, Julie', c_copies_in_stock: '2', description: 'Caught up in the political revolution sweeping France in the early 1970s, Fernando and Marie reject the comforts of their bourgeois life and dedicate themselves full time to radical activism. This comes as a shock to their precocious nine year-old daughter, Anna, who struggles to understand her parents’ newfound ideals.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: 'Gaumont et al, France, 2006', submitted_by: 'Sadock', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'FAUTE À FIDEL!, LA (Blame it on Fidel!)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '95"', video_subtitles: 'French with optional English subtitles.' } , { label: 'FR 290B', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Veber, Francis', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'When Pierre decided to play a game to see who could bring the biggest idiot to a dinner party, he never imagined he\'d be the one playing the fool. But when Pierre\'s selfish ways come to light before the main course, he gets his just deserts.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Gaumont, France, 1998', submitted_by: 'Levet', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'DÎNER DE CONS, LE (The Dinner Game)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '85"', video_subtitles: 'French with English subtitles' } , { label: 'FR 330', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Berliner, Alain', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A small town \'hot chips\' owner finds his store cut in half by a newly erected wall in Belgium that is meant to separate the Flemish speakers from the Walloons (French Speakers). Unfortunately for Albert, he finds himself on the wrong side of the wall after a long night of new millennium partying and the beginning of a love affair with a gorgeous Flemish girl.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'La Sept Arte, France, 1998', submitted_by: 'Culot', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'MUR, LE (The Wall)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '67"', video_subtitles: 'French and Flemish with English subtitles' } , { label: 'FR 298B', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Language Study', 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'Fouletier-Smith, Nicole', c_copies_in_stock: '3', description: 'Text, workbook, and answer key available. A beginning level language program designed to develop students\' cultural understanding in tandem with their language and communication skills. Media accompanying this text include 4 audio cd\'s for "In-Text Audio", 5 audio cd\'s for "Cahier Audio", and 1 video cd-rom.', level: 'Beginning level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Video CD'], number_of_copies: '3', publication_info: 'Prentice Hall, 2004', submitted_by: 'French Group', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'PARALLÈLES, 3rd ed. -Video CD', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'FR 253B', type: 'Item', language: 'French', areas_written: [ 'Interviews', 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'Benguigui, Yamina', c_copies_in_stock: '2', description: 'Documentary in three parts, looking at three perspectives: the father, the mother, and the children. Through testimonies, the film examines the mechanisms of Maghrebin immigration into France from North Africa and the issues that are raised.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: 'Canal + et Bandits, France, 1997', submitted_by: 'Levet', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'MEMOIRES D\'IMMIGRES, L\'HERITAGE MAGHREBIN (Immigrant Memories)', video_color: 'ColorB&W', video_length: '160"', video_subtitles: 'French with no subtitles.' } ] }