Cinema Guild.
1) Marwencol
Pub. Date
©2018
Physical Desc
videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After being brutally attacked outside a bar and in spite of recovering from a coma and extensive physical injuries, Mark Hogancamp suffered brain damage and nearly total memory loss. Unable to afford therapy he spent the next few years building a scale model of a World War II-era town, Marwencol, populated with dolls, where he lived out his fantasy life, and which he documented in photographs. When his photographs were discovered by an art magazine,...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
From acclaimed director Wang Xiaoshuai comes a personal snapshot of contemporary China in all its diversity. Shot over ten years on both film and video, the film consists of a series of carefully composed tableaus of people and environments, each one more extraordinary than the last. Pedestrians shuffle across a bustling Beijing street, steelworkers linger outside a deserted factory, tourists laugh and scamper across a crowded beach, worshippers kneel...
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. "On the Seventh Day, a fiction feature from director Jim McKay, follows a group of undocumented immigrants living in Sunset Park, Brooklyn over the course of seven days. Bicycle delivery guys, construction workers, dishwashers, deli workers and cotton candy vendors, they work long hours six days a week and then savor their day of rest on Sundays on the soccer fields of Sunset Park. José, a bicycle delivery worker, is the team's captain -...
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A feature-length portrait of renowned percussionist Milford Graves, exploring his kaleidoscopic creativity and relentless curiosity. He is a founding pioneer of avant-garde jazz, and he remains one of the most influential living figures in jazz. Oscillating from present to past and weaving intimate glimpses of the artist₂s complex cosmology with performances from around the globe, this is cinema full of fluidity, polyrhythm, and intensity, embodying...
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Winner of a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, Dos Estaciones follows iron-willed businesswoman María García (Teresa Sánchez), the owner of Dos Estaciones, a once-majestic tequila factory now struggling to stay afloat. The factory is the final holdover from generations of Mexican-owned tequila plants in the highlands of Jalisco, the rest having folded to foreign corporations. Once one of the wealthiest people in town, María knows...
6) Sweetgrass
Pub. Date
©2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (7 pages ; 18 cm)
Description
DVD-R. "An unsentimental elegy to the American West, "Sweetgrass" follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture. This astonishingly beautiful yet unsparing film reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed"--Container.
7) Leviathan
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
One of the most highly anticipated films of the year; the film is a thrilling, immersive documentary that takes viewers deep inside the dangerous world of commercial fishing. Set aboard a hulking fishing vessel as it navigates the treacherous waves off the New England coast-the very waters that once inspired Moby Dick, the film captures the harsh, unforgiving world of the fishermen in starkly haunting, yet beautiful detail.
8) Western
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet featuring essay by Dennis Lim inserted in container (4 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Description
An intense, slow-burning thriller, this film follows a group of German construction workers installing a hydroelectric plant in remote rural Bulgaria. The foreign land awakens the men's sense of adventure, but tensions mount when, Meinhard, the strong, silent, and newcomer to the group, starts mixing with the local villagers. The two sides speak different languages and share a troubled history. Can they learn to trust each other, or is the stage being...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An aging poet, Younghwan, summons his two estranged sons to a solitary hotel beside the Han River because he feels his death is near. While waiting for them to arrive, he meets two women out walking in the new-fallen snow and is struck by their angelic beauty. But the women have come to the hotel to do some healing of their own. As Younghwan moves between the women and his sons, he also moves between his two minds: one that walks on the street and...
10) Manakamana
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (8 pages ; 19 cm.)
Description
"Filmed entirely inside the narrow confines of a cable car, high above a jungle in Nepal that transports villagers to an ancient mountaintop temple, [Manakamana] is an acute ethnographic investigation into culture, religion, technology and modernity ... For centuries, devoted pilgrims hoping to reach the fabled temple needed to undertake an arduous multi-day journey. Today, because of a new cable car system, the entire trip takes just under 10 minutes...
Pub. Date
2017?
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. "Responding to the increase of noise pollution, a 'major environmental and public health burden' according to the World Health Organization, In Pursuit of Silence is a meditative exploration of our relationship with silence, sound and the impact of noise on our lives. This critical acclaimed documentary takes us on an immersive cinematic journey around the globe - from Denali National Park in Alaska to a forest outside of Tokyo, where a researcher...
Pub. Date
2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On a winding mountain road, Vittorio stops to help Kate, whose car has broken down. After gallantly making the repair, without a single word spoken, he speeds off. When their paths cross again, Vittorio learns that Kate has returned to join her family's traveling circus after leaving under mysterious conditions many years ago. Intrigued by her story, Vittorio stays for the show, and the next one, and little by little is integrated into the circus...
Pub. Date
[2018?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (77 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. "Composed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community, "Hale County this morning, this evening" allows the viewer an emotive impression of the Historic South - trumpeting the beauty of life and consequences of the social construction of race, while simultaneously a testament to dreaming - despite the odds"--Container.
Pub. Date
©2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"In the winter of 1945, Primo Levi, one of the century's great writers, was liberated from the Auschwitz concentration camp. With the war still underway, he embarked on a thousand-mile journey to his home in Turin, Italy--a strange, beguiling odyssey memorialized in his book, The Reawakening. Sixty years later, director Davide Ferrario set out to follow in Levi's footsteps. Retracing his historic trip, the film weaves a path through a modern Europe...
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Junhee is a novelist who's grown disenchanted with her writing. On a trip to see an old friend, she runs into a film director who was set to adapt one of her novels before the project fell through. One chance encounter leads to another and soon she finds herself having lunch with Kilsoo, a well-known actress also questioning he role as an artist. It's then that Junhee has an epiphany: she will make a film starring Kilsoo. It won't be like other films....
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (157 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the dead of night, a group of men--among them, a police commissioner, a prosecuter, a doctor and a murder suspect--drive through the Anatolian countryside, the serpentine roads and rolling hills lit only by the headlights of the cars. They are searching for a corpse, the victim of a brutal murder. The suspect, who claims he was drunk, can't remember where he buried the body. As night wears on, details about the murder emerge, and the investigators'...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Murielle and Mounir fall in love and have children, as so many couples do. Unlike other couples, however, they give over the control of their family by living with Mounir's rich adoptive father. It seems as if everything is going well, but underneath it all, Murielle is suffocating.
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (188 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 booklet (7 pages : color illustrations; 18 cm).
Description
DVD-R. An aspiring writer returns home after university and finds his ambition at odds with the deferred dreams of his gambling addict father. As his own fantasies mingle with reality, he grapples with the people and the place that have made him who he is.