Facets Video (Firm)
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (65 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Blends rare archival footage of the events and personalities of the Mexican revolution of 1910-1917 with contemporary documentary scenes to present a comprehensive sociohistorical analysis of Mexico. The film discusses the economic problems Mexico has had to deal with as a result of the government's failure to live up to the promises of the revolution.
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Edition
Widescreen version; special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
"Filmada de 1995 a 1997 en La Habana, Nueva York, Los Ángeles, Morelia y en México D.F., narra la historia de Yuliet, una adolescente cubana, y Fabiola Quiroz, una modelo mexicana, quienes, con humor y franqueza, rodeadas de peculiaries personajes secundarios, nos demuestran que la ausencia de sus padres, las carencias y las adversidades las hicieron má s fuertes."--http://www.filmaffinity.com
A look at the lives and thoughts of some young people...
3) Delbaran
Publisher
Facets Multimedia
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Persian
Description
Young Kaim drifts to the Delbaran crossing on the Afghan-Iran border, finding work at a coffee shop frequented by truck drivers. As we watch Kaim run from one task to another day after day, we soon realize that he is being cheated out of his childhood.
Publisher
Cinemateca/Condor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (83 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Un hombre fuerte físicamente pero simple que trabaja en un matadero es contratado por un patrón para desalojar a sus inquilinos. Su vida se complica cuando se enamora de la seductora esposa del patrón.
A slow-witted but strong slaughterhouse worker who is hired by a slumlord to break a tenant strike accidentally kills one of the strike leaders. He is then drawn into a doomed affair with the landlord's wife.
Author
Publisher
Cinemateca--Condor Media Inc
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Letterboxed version (1.85:1)
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Recounts the true story of a young Catholic socialite from Buenos Aires, Camila O'Gorman, who falls in love and runs away with a young Jesuit priest, Ladislao Gutierrez, in 1847. Eventually they are found and executed by the repressive government. The film also makes a statement about the affect of dictatorship on personal and political freedom.
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (120 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Joaquina has never married, but she makes up for it by going to the movies, where she lets her imagination run away with her. When her young nephew comes for a visit, she introduces him to her fantasy world, in which the actors easily become the characters they play, and vice versa. But, she takes her fantasies too far when she decides to do something about the marauding bandits that plague her small town. She writes to legendary western hero Tom...