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Von der Ahe Library MEDIA & RESERVE SERVICES April 30, 1999 FROM: Reggie Melonson, Media Collections Coordinator Please remember that if you have any questions about the titles below or those in the rest of out media collection, do not hesitate to contact me. If you would like us to purchase a title for the collection, please use the on-line request form on our web-site or contact Rhonda Rosen, Director of Media & Reserve Services at (310)338-4584. Thank you. The following are media titles cataloged during the month of April: CD-ROMs: THE ART HISTORIAN, v.1 Prehistory. Ancient Near East. Egyptian. Aegean. Greek. Etrusca. Roman. Early Christian. Byzantine. Islamic. Early Medieval. Romanesque. Gothic. 1 computer optical disc/Sound/Color GREAT ARTISTS The works of eight major artists: William Blake, El Greco, Leonardo da Vinci, Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Vincent van Gogh, J.M.W. Turner, and Jean-Antoine Watteau. 1 computer optical disc/Sound/Color THE MEDICI Art images, music, maps, social and economic information, video clips and animations allow the user to explore Renaissance Florence, the world of the Medici, in this interactive computer program. 1 computer optical disc/Color THE RENAISSANCE OF FLORENCE Travel to 15th century Florence and visit its palaces and churches at the height of the Renaissance. See also the workshops of Michelangelo and De Vinci using more than 600 art images and details. 1 computer optical disc/Sound/Color Videorecordings: AGNES OF GOD (1985) Directed by Norman Jewison. Stars Jane Fonda, Anne Brancroft, Meg Tilly. When, at an isolated convent, the infant of a young nun is found strangled, a court-appointed psychiatrist must decide if the devout but troubled girl is fit to stand trial. Color/90min./1986 AGUEDA MARTINEZ : OUR PEOPLE, OUR COUNTRY Explores the history, life and values of a 77-year-old New Mexico woman of Navajo-Mexican descent. Color/17min./1997 AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973) Widescreen edition. Directed by George Lucas. Stars Richard Dreyfuss, Ronny Howard, Paul le Mat. Four teenagers come of age on their last summer night before college in 1962. Color/112min./1998 THE ART-GALLERY IN THE DESERT Tour the Ma-gao Caves at Dun-Huang -- over 500 caves, more than 30 miles in length, with 3,000 murals and statues -- in the middle of the Gobi Desert. Color/55min./1990 THE BAD SLEEP WELL (1960) In Japanese with English subtitles. Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Stars Toshiro Mifune. A grieving son seeks revenge for his father's murder as he infiltrates the corrupt construction company that was responsible for his father's death. B&W/151min./1998 BLACK PANTHER : SAN FRANSICO STATE: ON STRIKE Interviews with founding members, Huey P. Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, and Bobby Seale, and documentary footage of the organization's meetings and marches reveal a pragmatic and still relevant outline for African American communities' self-determination and development. B&W/35min./1998 BLAZING SADDLES (1974) Directed by Mel Brooks. Stars Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder. The new sheriff and his sidekick, retired gunfighter Waco Kid, protect the town of Rock Ridge from the men who want to run the railroad through it. Color/100min./1998 BRITAIN AND EUROPE Fearful that collective agreements would reduce her sovereignty and damage her worldwide trading interests, Britain refused to join the Common Market. Color/22min./1980 THIS 1/2" VHS COPY REPLACES THE U-MATIC. EL BRUTO = THE BRUTE (1952) In Spanish with English subtitles. Directed by Luis Bunuel. Pedro Armendariz plays a powerfully strong but slow-witted slaughter-house worker who is hired by a slumlord to break a tenant strike. B&W/81min./1987 BUGAKU : THE TRADITIONAL COURT, TEMPLE AND SHRINE DANCES FROM JAPAN Dances from Japan are demonstrated. Color/30min./1982 THIS 1/2" VHS COPY REPLACES THE 3/4" U-MATIC. CANDIDE (1978) In French. A dramatization of Voltaire's novel of the same title, about a simple, optimistic man whose journeys take him from one disaster to another. Color/114min./1993 LES CAPRICES DE MARIANNE (1989) In French. A screen adaptation of Alfred de Musset's comedy about love, rivalry, romantic deception. Color/93min./1992 CARVED FROM THE HEART When Stan Marsden, a Tsimpsean wood carver, loses his son to a cocaine overdose, he decides to create a totem pole and invites the community of Craig, Alaska to help. The project grows and helps a community heal, bringing people of diverse backgrounds together. Color/30min./1997 CENTRAL AMERICA : COSTA RICA The topics of economic development, education, and self-help are featured in this program. We see how the country uses coffee and banana exports to propel itself forward as a developing nation. Color & B&W/20min./1996 EL COMPADRE MENDOZA (1933) In Spanish with English subtitles. Mendoza, a landowner, tries to maintain friendships with both the leader of the government forces and the general of the Zapatista rebels. B&W/82min./199-? CROSS OF IRON (1977) Directed by Sam Peckinpah. Stars James Coburn, Maximilian Schell. A battle-hardened German sergeant tries to hold his platoon together on the Russian front during W.W.II. Color/120min./1998 DANTON (1982) In French with English subtitles. Stars Gerard Depardieu. Georges Danton, the popular revolutionary leader, returns to Paris at a time when the new Republic is in disarray. Maximilien Robespierre and his allies have set up a monstrous dictatorship, beginning the infamous "Reign of Terror." Color/136min./1987 DAWN OF THE EYE : A HISTORY OF THE NEWS CAMERA Traces the evolution of film and television broadcast journalism in the United States and Canada. 6 videocassettes/Color & B&W/290min./1997 DESTRY RIDES AGAIN (1939) Stars Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart. A tongue-in cheek western set in the frontier town of Bottleneck about a lawman with an aversion to guns and a cabaret girl at the Bloody Gulch Saloon. B&W/95min./1993 THE DIRTY DOZEN (1967) Stars an all-star cast including Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown. A World War II drama in which an army major selects 12 men convicted for crimes of violence and offers them their freedom if they will complete a dangerous mission behind Nazi lines. Color/150min./1991 LA DOUBLE INCONSTANCE = DOUBLE INFIDELITY (1981) In French with English subtitles. This comedy tells of two lovers separated by a prince both of whom fall in love with others at court. 2 videocassettes/Color/135min./1991 DOWN BY LAW (1986) Stars Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni, Ellen Barkin, Nicoletta Braschi. DJ Zack and pimp Jack end up in prison for being too laid-back to avoid being framed for crimes they didn't commit. They end up sharing a cell with eccentric Italian optimist Roberto, whose limited command of the English language is both entertaining and infuriating -- but rather more useful to them is the fact that Roberto knows an escape route. B&W/90min./1996 EASY LIVING (1937) Screenplay by Preston Sturges. Stars Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, Ray Milland. When a wealthy financier throws his spoiled wife's coat out the window, it lands on a secretary's head and turns her world topsy-turvy. B&W/88min./1998 THE EXORCIST (1973) Widescreen edition. Stars Ellen Burstyn. A young girl becomes possessed by the devil and causes several violent deaths before she can be cured. Color/159min./1998 FAMILY NAME A child growing up in Durham, North Carolina, Macky Alston never questioned why all the other Alstons in his school were black. Now, after twenty-five years, he has gone back to unravel the mystery. Color/60min./1997 FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE : THE NATURAL APPROACH Lecture and panel discussion covers the theory and application of the Natural Approach, an inductive method of teaching a second language, developed by Stephen Krashen and Tracy Terrell. Color/120min./1997 FROZEN IN HEAVEN (Ice Mummies) Witness the well-preserved body of the "El Plomo" boy. Sacrificed 500 years ago, he was entombed with textiles, jewelry and other classic Inca offerings to the gods. Color/60min./1998 HIGH AND LOW (1963) In Japanese with English subtitles. Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Stars Toshiro Mifune. A complex crime thriller in which a wealthy show manufacturer's chauffeur's son is kidnapped in mistake for his own, and he faces a moral dilemma. B&W/142min./1998 HIROHITO (an A&E Biography) Examines the early days of Hirohito's reign through his role in Japan's miraculous post-war resurgence. Color/50min./1994 THE HUMAN BODY : APPEARANCE, SHAPE AND SELF-IMAGE Examines the attitudes of people, mostly youths, toward their bodies. Color/37min./1998 IN OUR OWN HANDS : THE HIDDEN STORY OF THE JEWISH BRIGADE IN WORLD WAR II Personal reminiscences by veterans of the Jewish Brigade, a regiment of the British Army during world War II composed of Jewish men. Color & B&W/85min./1998 IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD (1963) Directed by Stanley Kramer. Stars an all-star cast including Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman. When a goofy assortment of motorists unexpectedly learn the whereabouts of a stolen fortune, they speed off on a side-splitting, car-bashing race for the loot. 2 videocassettes/Color/182min./1995 JACQUES LE FATALISTE ET SON MAITRE (1984) In French. Jacques is a discursive talker and a fatalist. Recounting the story of his amorous adventures to his master as they travel from inn to inn, Jacques is continually interrupted by the interference of events, chance encounters, conversational digressions -- which, together with the thread of the main story, serve to expound on the piece's central thesis of fatalism. 2 videocassettes/Color/132min./1988 JESUS : HIS LIFE This is a story of Jesus of Galilee. Scholars and theologians explore the mysteries and myths of his miraculous life and legacy. Color/100min./1995 LA JETEE (1962) After the destruction of World War III, a desperate band of survivors, living underground, draw upon the future for the means of survival by performing experiments in time travel. B&W/42min./1996 JULES VERNE'S MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (1961) Stars Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan, Herbert Lom. Science fiction adventure in which escapees from a confederate prison camp seize a balloon which is wrecked on a Pacific island, where Captain Nemo of the submarine nautilus attempts to rescue them from the dangers of the island. Color/101min./1993 LITTLE CAESAR (1930) Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. Stars Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Cesare, alias Rico, Bandello and his cohort Joe Massara head for the big city looking for power and quick riches. A determined man, he ruthlessly pushes his way to the top of the mob. B&W/139min./1997 EL LUGAR SIN LIMITES = PLACE WITHOUT LIMITS (1977) In Spanish with English subtitles. An Mexican motion picture about transvestites. Color/110min./1998 LUMUMBA, LA MORT DU PROPHETE = LUMUMBA, THE DEATH OF A PROPHET In French with English subtitles. Examines the independence struggle in the Belgian Congo and its leader, Patrice Lumumba. Color & B&W/61min./1992 THE MAJOR AND THE MINOR (1942) Directed by Billy Wilder. Stars Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland. After a year in New York, Susan Applegate decides to go home. Only the train fare has gone up, so she disguises herself as a 12 year old, and buys a child's ticket. When the railroad tracks flood and the train stalls, Susan accompanies Major Kirby to a nearby military academy where she must remain in character. Color/101min./1998 MARIA CANDELARIA : XOCHMILCO (1943) In Spanish with English subtitles. Stars Dolores del Rio. A Mexican motion picture. B&W/90min./199-? MARTIAL ARTS OF THE KABUKI FOR THE NATIONAL THEATER INSTITUTE OF JAPAN Dance and theater of Japan. Color/30min./1982 THIS 1/2" VHS COPY REPLACES THE 3/4" U-MATIC. MCCABE & MRS. MILLER Directed by Robert Altman. Stars Warren Beatty, Julie Christie. A gambling gunfighter comes to a northwest mining town at the turn of the century and with his winnings from a small-time card hustle sets up lavish brothels. Color/121min./1990 MCSORLEY'S NEW YORK Traces the history of one of New York City's most venerable drinking establishments and the role it has played in the cultural and political life of the city. Color & B&W/28min./199-? MIDNIGHT EXPRESS (1978) Screenplay by Oliver Stone. Stars Brad Davis, Bo Hopkins. American citizen Billy Hayes is sentenced to four years in a brutal Turkish prison after being caught trying to smuggle hashish out of Istanbul. When his sentence is changed to life just days before his release, he has no choice but to try to escape. Color/121min./1998 LA MORT EN CE JARDIN : DEATH IN THE GARDEN (1956) In French with English subtitles. Directed by Luis Bunuel. Stars Simone Signoret. Clark, an adventurer, arrives in a remote village just as the diamond mines are nationalized. A riot ensues. Clark flees on an old river barge. His fellow travelers include an elderly prospector with his deaf/mute daughter, a French prostitute, and a missionary. Color/104min./1996 MOVING MYTHS Examines the influence of the Protestant and Catholic churches in Ireland, and looks at the notion that the war in Northern Ireland is a religious war by tracing the historical roots of discrimination on the basis of religion and revealing its present-day reality in terms of economic factors. Color/52min./1989 THE MYSTERIOUS MR. ELIOT : ASPECTS OF T.S. ELIOT Deals with the life and works of T.S. Eliot. 2 videocassettes/Color/63min./198-? NAKED (1993) A complex drifter embarks on a bizarre odyssey through the ost souls. Color/131min./1994 THE NEW EUROPE This program covers the Marshall Plan and the European Common Market. B&W/20min./1980 THIS 1/2" VHS COPY REPLACES THE 3/4" U-MATIC. NINE TO FIVE (1980) Stars Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton. Three female office workers combine forces to take revenge on their deceitful, egotistical, and thoroughly chauvinistic boss. Color/110min./1995 NO IRISH NEED APPLY Examines the harsh realities faced by Irish immigrants to New York City in the mid-1800's. Color & B&W/28min./1993 NO TIME FOR SERGEANTS (1958) Stars Andy Griffith. Live television production of the comic adventures of an innocent farm boy drafted into the peacetime Air Force. B&W/60min./1993 OCEAN'S ELEVEN (1960) Stars Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Angie Dickinson. The place is Las Vegas. The time: Midnight, New Year's Eve. Danny Ocean and ten of his ex-commando buddies get ready to rob the casino money vault - at five casinos simultaneously! Color/127min./1990 THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT (1970) Stars Barbra Streisand, George Segal. Meek, owlish Felix and strident, catty Doris live in the same apartment building. His incessant typing bothers her; her gentlemen callers bother him. Felix informs the landlord of her activities. So, Doris moves in on Felix. Felix and Doris eventually decide to put theory into practice. But do opposites really attract? Color/96min./1997 THE PARALLAX VIEW (1974) Directed by Alan J. Pakula. Stars Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn, William Daniels. The story of a newsreporter who, along with seven others, witnesses the assassination of a political candidate. When the other seven die in "accidents", the newsman begins to doubt the official position: that a lone madman was responsible for the crime. Color/102min./1986 PARIS WHEN IT SIZZLES (1964) Stars William Holden, Audrey Hepburn. A screenwriter with a three-day deadline for a script asks a secretary to help concoct ideas. Color/110min./1998 PEEPHOLE ART : BECKETT FOR TELEVISION Excerpts from three works written specifically for the screen by Nobel-prize winning Irish playwright and novelist, Samuel Beckett. Color & B&W/36min./1994 THE PRISONER OF SECOND AVENUE (1975) Screenplay by Neil Simon. Stars Jack Lemmon, Anne Bankcroft. Forty-year-old Manhattanite Mel Edison has just lost his job. And in no time he's going to lose his wardrobe, his TV set, his supply of Chivas Regal, his temper, his self-respect, and - just maybe - his mind. Color/98min./1986 A RAINFOREST REMEDY This program examines efforts under way to preserve the rain forests and their pharmaceutical treasures, including compensating loggers and native peoples with profits from the sale of new drugs. Color/31min./1998 RETURN OF THE ICEMAN (Ice Mummies) In 1991 two hikers in the Italian Alps discovered the nearly perfectly preserved remains of a man who lived more than 5000 years ago. Color/60min./1998 RHODES (1996) The story of Cecil Rhodes who arrived in Africa at the age of eighteen to join the diamond rush but soon conceived another ambition: to bring the entire land under British rule. 3 videocassettes/Color/345min./1996 THE RISE OF CHRISTIANITY : THE FIRST 1000 YEARS Traces the rise of one of the world's great religions from the Crucifixion to the coming of the Crusades. 4 videocassettes/Color/200min./1998 ROAD HOUSE (1948) Stars Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, Celeste Holm, Richard Widmark. In this film noire, Ida Lupino plays a sexy singer trying to make a quick buck as the star "attraction" at a roadside cocktail lounge and bowling alley. Richard Widmark plays a psychotic rich kid who wants to marry her. B&W/95min./1991 ROPE (1948) Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Stars James Stewart, Farley Granger, Sir Cedric Hardwicke. Two friends strangle a classmate and invite his family and mutual friends to dinner -- with the body stuffed inside the trunk for a buffet table. Color/81min./1995 SHAKESPEARE'S GLOBE RESTORED : LEARNING BY PERFORMANCES Documents eighteen months of planning, rehearsal, location work, and post-production by the University of California at Berkeley Shakespeare Program, culminating in the performance of one of Shakespeare's greatest plays (Much Ado about Nothing) ... at the fully operational restored Globe Theatre on the Bankside of the River Thames near its original site. Color/30min./1997 SIBERIAN ICE MAIDEN (Ice Mummies) Mummified, buried and frozen in her tomb on a high plateau in Central Asia over 2400 years ago, the Siberian Ice maiden is believed to be a link to the Pazyryk culture. Color/60min./1998 SONS OF DERRY Describes the efforts of two men -- one Protestant, one Catholic -- to overcome the bitter enmities of the past with constructive solutions to the problems of Northern Ireland's second largest city. Color/57min./1992 SOUTH AMERICA : BRAZIL Human rights, environmental issues, and Brazil's drug problem are featured in this program. Color/29min./1996 SPELLBOUND (1945) Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Stars Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck. An amnesia victim assumes the identity of a noted psychiatrist and is accused of the murder of the man he professes to be. B&W/111min./1998 SUBIDA AL CIELO (1951) In Spanish with English subtitles. Directed by Luis Bunuel. A young peasant is forced to leave his bride on their wedding night to travel to the city to finalize his dying mother's will. On his journey by bus he encounters a diverse group of passengers in a picaresque adventure. B&W/75min./199-? THE SUTTON HOO SHIP BURIAL Discovery and excavation of the ship and treasure with a reading in Old English of the Scyld Scefling's funeral from Beowulf. Color/25min./1972 THIS 1/2" VHS COPY REPLACES THE 3/4" U-MATIC. THIS STRANGE PASSION (1952) In Spanish with English subtitles. Directed Luis Bunuel. Stars Arturo de Cordova. A psychological study of a man obsessed. Francisco's romantic love and marriage fades as a paranoid obsession with his wife's supposed infidelity causes him to display fits of jealousy and repentance for his unfounded suspicions. B&W/88min./1989 TKUMA An historical documentary series on the first fifty years of the State of Israel. 6 videocassettes/B&W & Color/316min./1998 TO CATCH A THIEF (1955) Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Stars Cary Grant, Grace Kelly. A retired American jewel thief living on the French Riviera seeks to prove his innocence by exposing the burglar who has been imitating his technique. Color/103min./1996 TO KILL A PRIEST (1989) Stars Christopher Lambert, Ed Harris. Gripping drama drawn from the life of Solidarity chaplain Father Jerzy Popieluszko. Follows the charismatic Father Alec and the dedicated secret police officer Stefan, two men who see each other as threats to the well-being of the country they love. Color/117min./1990 TO LIVE FOR IRELAND Offers a new and unusual look at the political turmoil and sectarian violence that has racked Northern Ireland for the last fifteen years. Color/27min./1986 THE TRUCE (1996) Actor John Turturro delivers a powerful performance as a man whose life is changed forever by World War II. Color/117min./1996 THE TWILIGHT ZONE, Volume 1 Stars Agnes Moorehead. The Invaders concerns an impoverished woman, living alone, who is stalked by sinister, tiny spacemen in her small cabin after a flying saucer crash lands on her roof. Stars Robert Redford. Nothing in the Dark concerns a paranoid old woman who has barricaded herself inside her home, afraid of letting Mr. Death in the door. When gunshots ring out and a police officer lies wounded outside her house she must decide whether or not to aid the victim. B&W/56min./1990 THE TWILIGHT ZONE, Volume 2 Written by Rod Sterling. Stars Burgess Meredith. Time Enough at Last involves a bookworm, Henry Bemis, who never has enough time for reading until one day the bomb hits and he is the only survivor. Written by Rod Sterling. Stars Claude Atkins, Jack Weston. In The Monsters are Due on Maple Street an ordinary day in a typical American town turns bizarre when the power dies, phones go dead, cars won't start and a boy claims to know what is happening...alien monsters have invaded the earth. B&W/56min./1990 VAMANOS CON PANCHO VILLA (1935) A semi-historical picture covering incidents in the Mexican Civil War. Six ranchers, nicknamed the lions of San Paolo, join Villa in order to avenge the murder of Francisco Madero and overthrow the reactionary forces. B&W/88min./199-? WAR AND PEACE IN EUROPE : HITLER'S WAR Events leading to the surrender of Germany ending World War II. Color/20min./1980 THIS 1/2" VHS COPY REPLACES THE 3/4" U-MATIC. WATERLAND (1992) Stars Jeremy Irons, Ethan Hawke, John Heard. Disillusioned history professor Tom Crick, in an age of cynicism and despair, inspires his students to embrace the past and discover the marvels and mysteries of life. Color/94min./1993 THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY (1982) Directed by Peter Weir. Stars Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt. Guy Hamilton, an ambitious Australian reporter on his first overseas assignment, is befriended by a short Eurasian cameraman, Billy Kwan, who has connections in high places. Hamilton soon gains an entree to Indonesian Communist Party leaders, as well as insight into Jakarta's grim realities on the eve of a major political upheaval. Color/120min./1996 YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974) Screenplay by Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks. Directed by Mel Brooks. Stars Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle. Summoned to Transylvania to inherit his late grandfather's castle, young Dr. Frankenstein soon discovers his grandfather's step-by-step manual explaining how to bring a corpse to life. B&W/106min./1997 |