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Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (83 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
At the film's center is Mathilde Monnier, whose title as head of the Montpellier National Centre for Choreography sends her and an elite group of dancers through numerous, demanding performance pieces, each captured on sumptuous 8 and 16mm images by cinematographers Agnès Godard and Hélène Louvart. Monnier’s significant talents are a clear point of fascination and admiration for the film crew, yet her mysterious aura — that of an artist totally...
Publisher
Maison 4/3
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (87 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Veteran filmmaker Fernand Dansereau has already proven that humour, joy (Old age and laughter, 2012) and sexuality (Old age and erotism, 2017), don’t disappear as we age. But what about hope? When the passing years bring failing physical and mental faculties, how can we anticipate, desire and appreciate everything life still has to offer? OLD AGE AND HOPE does feature some health experts and philosophers, but elderly individuals are front and centre,...
Publisher
Les Blank Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (8 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Since 1946, Lucien Mouchet has been making small-scale reproductions of carousels and fairground scenes that existed in the past or are still in operation today. A machinist by trade, Mouchet retired nearly two decades ago, but his obsession with precision and detail has continued. To date, he has created 48 carousels; each is a functioning masterpiece that is constructed to be exactly 1/20 scale of the original. Mouchet works from photographs and...
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (113 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
The final film from groundbreaking auteur Chantal Akerman, NO HOME MOVIE is a portrait of her relationship with her mother, Natalia, a Holocaust survivor and familiar presence in many of her daughter's films. At once disarmingly intimate and formally rigorous, NO HOME MOVIE is a singualr exploration of family, memory and history.
5) Marceline
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (76 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
MARCELINE. A WOMAN. A CENTURY is a fascinating portrait of the persevering French filmmaker, writer, and Holocaust survivor Marceline Loridan-Ivens (1928-2018).
6) Celebration
Publisher
KimStim
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (73 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
A fascinating, long-suppressed documentary on the legendary Yves Saint Laurent, commissioned by his business partner (and former lover) Pierre Bergé – and then shelved for more than a decade when Bergé decided it was too revealing. Filming as the proverbial fly-on-the-wall over three years, as YSL became increasingly frail and incommunicado, Meyrou captures the last of the great haute couture houses. Seamstresses, cutters (“les petites mains”)...
7) Scars
Publisher
The Film Sales Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (66 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
We admire beauty; we recoil from bodies that are marred, disfigured, different. Didier Cros’ moving, intimate film forces us to question what underlies our notions of beauty as we join a talented photographer taking stunning portraits of several people with profound visible scars which have dictated certain elements of their lives but have not come to define their humanity. The subjects' perceptions of themselves are dynamic, unexpected, and even...
8) Jaber
Publisher
Les Blank Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (15 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
A peek into the creativity of Jaber al Mahjoub, a street artist, originally from Tunisia and now living in Paris, France. Encouraged at an early age by the French artist Jean Dubuffet, Jaber calls himself the “Happy Idiot,” obsessively making paintings, sculptures and songs that express the immediacy of life and experience. Jaber himself is Art Brut.
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (108 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
A reflection on art, life and the movies, THE BEACHES OF AGNÈS is a magnificent film from the great Agnès Varda (*Cleo From 5 to 7*), a richly cinematic self portrait that touches on everything from the feminist movement and the Black Panthers to the films of husband Jacques Demy and the birth of the French New Wave. Nominated for the Allan King Documentary Award at the **Toronto International Film Festival.** Winner of the Best Documentary Film...
10) 12 Days
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (86 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Encompassing questions of mental health, power, class, agency, and the dynamics of societal institutions, 12 DAYS is consummately controlled yet empathetic exploration of the controversial practice of mandatory psychiatric detention.
11) Genet
Publisher
Cult Epics
Pub. Date
1981.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Documentary by Antoine Bourseiler about the work of writer, director, Jean Genet.
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (84 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Alain Ducasse is one of the world’s most renowned chefs and culinary mentors. He tirelessly travels the world smelling, tasting, touching and fearlessly creating ground-breaking new cuisine. Official Selection at the **Berlin International Film Festival**.
Publisher
Ronin Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (88 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
The Chagossians used to live in the Chagos Archipelago, under British rule, in the Indian Ocean. Between 1967 and 1973, the British government progressively evicted the islander population from their homelands to allow the United States to build a huge military base on Diego Garcia, the largest of the islands. The base was strategically important to the US and British involvement in Afghanistan and other Middle Eastern fields of military operation....
14) Vas-y Coupe!
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (91 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Every year for the harvest, a motley team of laborers travels from the north of France to a celebrated family-owned vineyard in the Champagne region. Many of them have been picking these grapes for a quarter century and, though the work can be grueling, there is a cherished comfort in the comradery, the lovingly prepared meals, and the late-night partying. But as the winemaker begins to hand over the business to his son—and younger workers increasingly...
15) Le Joli Mai
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
1963.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (146 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Filmed just after the March ceasefire between France and Algeria, LE JOLI MAI documents the hopes, beliefs and uncertainties of Parisians in the early 1960s. Interviews with workers, students, houswives and lovers combine to create a panoramic portrait of social and political life in Paris.
16) The Competition
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (121 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
THE COMPETITION begins, significantly, with the image of a locked gate—that of La Fémis, one of the most prestigious film schools in the world, offering hands-on training from working professionals and accepting only forty students per year from hundreds of applicants. This Wiseman-esque documentary from Simon, one of France’s premiere nonfiction filmmakers, observes the process whereby those lucky forty are selected—a process which is revealed...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 52 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
As Africa looks desperately for leaders of integrity and vision, the life and ideals of the late Thomas Sankara seem more and more relevant and exemplary with the passage of time. This new film should go a long way towards explaining why, though largely forgotten in this country, Sankara is still venerated on his own continent as the 'African Che,' a legendary martyr like Patrice Lumumba or Amilcar Cabral. The film recovers for the present a detailed...
Publisher
Acephale
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (63 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
A portrait of 77-year-old Juliane Sellam, who is as full of life and vibrancy as the iconic Parisian neighborhood she calls home. Director Sofia Bohdanowicz, however, doesn’t turn her camera on these frequently photographed streets (once walked by the likes of Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso and Vincent van Gogh) or attractions like Sacré Cœur. Instead, Bohdanowicz focuses on the daily life of Sellam in the pre-war apartment this French astrologer...
19) Seasons
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (96 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud (Directors of the Oscar-nominated, *Winged Migration*) return to the lush green forests that emerged across Europe following the last Ice Age, when the ice retreated, and the cycle of seasons was established. SEASONS is the awe-inspiring tale of the long shared history that binds humankind and nature. Nominated for the Films4Families Youth Jury Award at the **Seattle International Film Festival.** *"Another testament...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (104 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
The one-room schoolhouse, where one teacher instructs several grades at once, is generally regarded a quaint thing of the past and a symbol of obsolete and ineffective teaching methods. However, TO BE AND TO HAVE offers an in-depth look at a small school in rural France where one remarkable man has been doing the job of a small teaching staff for 20 years, and has taught several generations of bright and capable children along the way. Nominated for...
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