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Lock, stock and two smoking barrels [videorecording]
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Summit Entertainment, the Steve Tisch Company, SKA Films ; written and directed by Guy Ritchie ; producer, Matthew Vaughn.
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1 videodisc (ca. 108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
A streetwise charmer who loses his friends' money in a rigged game comes up with a plan to make everything come out right, but ends up in a comedy of errors.
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Macao [videorecording]
RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. presents ; screen play by Bernard C. Schoenfeld and Stanley Rubin ; from a story by Bob Williams ; produced by Alex Gottlieb ; directed by Josef von Sternberg.
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1 videodisc (81 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
A traveling night club singer gets hired by an American expatriate who runs a casino in Macao, and specializes in converting stolen jewelry into cash. When one of her traveling companions turns out to be a cop, complications ensue.
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The magic of Méliès [videorecording].
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1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., b&w, col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Fifteen fantastic works by the cinema's first special effects wizard, plus the documentary Georges Melies - Cinema Magician.
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Magnificent obsession [videorecording] : Frank Lloyd Wright's buildings and legacy in Japan = Idai naru obusesshon : Furanku Roido Raito kenchiku to Nihon
directed, produced, photographed, and edited by Karen Severns and Koichi Mori ; written by Karen Severns.
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1 videodisc (126 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Looks at the six years that American architect Frank Lloyd Wright spent in Japan seeking refuge from public condemnation at home. Shows Wright's fascination with Japan and the influence of Japanese aesthetics on his work. Examines his work on the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, an enormous commission that helped turn his career around, as well as other buildings that he designed and built in Japan, including several houses and a school. Also explores Wright's influence on Japan and the careers and work of his Japanese apprentices and emulators.
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A man and a woman = [videorecording] : Un Homme et une femme
Films 13 ; [director] Claude Lelouch.
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1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in.
A daredevil race-car driver and a movie script girl meet while visiting their children's boarding school. They soon share a love filled with warmth, humor and truth, and intertwined with the demands of career and parenthood.
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Marlene Dietrich [videorecording] : the glamour collection.
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2 videodiscs (441 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Morocco: a cabaret singer arrives in Morocco and continues her wicked career by enslaving all the men in sight, until she finally falls in love. Blonde Venus: an aspiring young actress gives up the stage to marry a scientist who becomes afflicted with radium poisoning. She returns to cabaret life and meets a wealthy playboy who gives her the money for her husband's treatment. The devil is a woman: at the turn of the century, in the port town of Seville, it's carnival week, and the blood of enemies and the passions of lovers run hot. But, none so much as those of a young revolutionary, his old friend, and the new woman who comes between them both. The flame of New Orleans: an impoverished countess arrives in New Orleans with one thing in mind-- to marry a wealthy man. Golden earrings: a Hungarian gypsy rescues a British intelligence officer and helps him to accomplish his mission.
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Mississippi mermaid [videorecording] = Sirène du Mississippi
United Artists ; Lopert Pictures Corporation Inc. presents ; Les Films du carosse ; Les Productions Artistes associes ; Produzioni associate Delphos ; screenplay and dialogue by François Truffaut ; directed by François Truffaut.
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1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
The mail-order bride is a mystery. Her appearance doesn't match the photo she sent, her likes and dislikes aren't those described in her letters. By the time the lonely businessman husband discovers who she is, it is too late, and he will even kill to keep her.
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Nadia Boulanger, Mademoiselle [videorecording]
a film by Bruno Monsaingeon ; produced by Ideale Audience International in association with Medici Arts Ltd.
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1 videodisc (79 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (15 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
In documentary style, Mademoiselle provides a biographical sketch of Nadia Boulanger, a French music teacher, composer, and conductor who influenced a generation of American composers.
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Le petit soldat [videorecording]
[written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard ; produced by Georges de Beauregard].
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1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
"Set during the Algerian War, [the film] follow Bruno Forestier, a disillusioned young deserter who becomes involved in the French nationalist movement. He is ordered to kill an Algerian sympathizer, and although he does not hold deep political beliefs, commits the murder and undergoes torture when captured. At the same time, he meets and falls in love with a woman who he does not know is fighting for the other side."--Container.
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The photographers [videorecording]
NGT, Inc. ; produced and written by Jaime Bernanke.
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1 videodisc (56 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Photographers who have worked for National Geographic reflect on their art.
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Poirot. Evil under the sun [videorecording]
dramatized by Anthony Horowitz ; director, Brian Farnham ; producer, Brian Eastman ; Carnival Films in association with A & E Television Networks and Chorion PLC.
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1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
During a doctor ordered rest at a resort, Poirot fears a fellow visitor may die, and a woman is found dead. Poirot becomes involved with solving the mystery of her murder.
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Reservation Road [videorecording]
Focus Features and Random House Films present a Nick Wechsler/Miracle Pictures production in association with Volume One Entertainment ; a film by Terry George ; produced by Nick Wechsler, A. Kitman Ho ; screenplay by John Burnham Schwartz and Terry George ; directed by Terry George.
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1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Two fathers are forced to live with the same tragedy in two very different ways after an incident that involves them both on the same road.
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