Sophia Loren
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The documentary examines the groundbreaking life and career of Lina Wertmüller, the first woman ever nominated for the Academy Award for best director, covering not only her work in cinema, but her work in drama, television, and music, featuring previously unreleased videos, images, and songs written by Lina Wertmüller.
5) El Cid
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (183 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Eleventh-century Spain is divided into Christian kingdoms and Moorish strongholds. The young Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar, who has been dubbed El Cid by his followers, vows to see his country at peace, free from the invader. Showing clemency to some emirs, he faces treason charges at court. His accuser, Gomez, father of his fiancee, Chimene, dies in the resulting duel. Chimene's avowed vengeance plot fails and Rodrigo is given her hand. When King Ferdinand...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (213 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two women: In Rome, during WWII, escaping the allied bombings, Cesira and her 13-year old daughter, Rosetta, are traveling to the home town where Cesira was born. During these difficult times, Cesira fearlessly attemps to protect her daughter from atrocities from the war. Soldiers hiding in the village church rape both women which drives Cesira into a mental breakdown.
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: (Story 1) Adelina sells black-market cigarettes...
Pub. Date
[2004], c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Natalia is a photojournalist whose powerful image of a young girl has just been printed in a magazine. Catherine is a concert cellist whose wife-abusing father has just been released from jail. Olivia is a housewife who has devoted her life to caring for her wheelchair-boung husband. Each of these women have visions of the same small girl at moments when they are each forced to confront their pain and each finds a way back to salvation through living...
8) The key
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (126 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In war-weary London, Stella allows the key to her apartment to be passed from sea captain to sea captain. But when David Ross shows up she finds herself in love.
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jailed during the Spanish Inquisition for offending the church, author Miguel de Cervantes is forced to act out one of his manuscripts for the entertainment of fellow inmates. Cervantes delivers a rapturous performance as the legendary Don Quixote, the chivalrous knight whose choice to see life as it should be, not as it is, takes him into battles with an imaginary foe and into romance with the beautiful Dulcinea.
10) Houseboat
Pub. Date
c2002, c1958
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Shows Cary Grant as a government attorney, living in a houseboat, widowed and left with three unruly kids. He hires Sophia Loren as a governess and ends up falling in love with her.
Pub. Date
©2008
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (185 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Marcus Aurelius Antonius, the philosopher-emperor of Rome, summons his empire's governors and princes to his German war headquarters for a Pax Romanus. He confides to his daughter, Lucilla, that his adopted son, Livius, will succeed him instead of his more unstable heir, Commodus. Overhearing this, Cleander, a blind prophet loyal to Commodus, presents Marcus with a poisoned apple. After the funeral, Livius, who does not share Lucilla's ambition for...