These films are located at the Circulation Desk on the first floor of the Library. They must be viewed in the Library.
- Carlo Scarpa
- Call Number: NA1123.S35 C375 2002
Location: Circulation Desk
Publication information: Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, [c2002]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (58 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Examines the work of Venetian architect, Carlo Scarpa. His unique ability to successfully incorporate his designs into historical renovation projects is shown at several locations, including the 15th-century Castelvecchio in Verona and Palazzo Abatellis in Palerma
Language: English narration some Italian dialog with English subtitles
Format: DVD
- A collection of 2007 Academy Award nominated short films
- Call Number: PN1997.A1 C654 2008
Location: Circulation Desk
Publication information: Los Angeles, Callif. : Distributed by Magnolia Home Entertainment, [2008]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (190 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: A collection of short films nominated for the 80th annual Academy Awards. Included are the winning live action short and the winning animated short
Contents: Live action short films: Om Natten = In the night (At night) (2007) / New Danish Screen Zentropa Entertainments10 producer, Louise Vesth written and directed by Christian E. Christiansen (Denmark) -- Il supplente (The substitute) (2006) / Sky Cinema in collaborazione con Frame by Frame scritto e diretto da Andrea Jublin prodotto da Lorenzo Foschi, Davide Luchetti producer, Francesca Sposini (Italy) -- Le Mozart des pickpockets = The Mozart of pickpockets (2006) / Karé Productions présente avec la participation de Canal+ et du Centre National de la Cinématographie un film de Philippe Pollet-Villard scénario et dialogues, Philippe Pollet-Villard (Winner - France) -- Tanghi Argentini (2006) / [presented by] Another Dimension of an Idea & a Private View directed by Guido Thys written by Geert Verbanck produced by Anja Daelemans, Dries Phlypo (Belgium) -- The Tonto woman (2007) / Knucklehead presents a Little Mo & Rose Hackney Barber production story by Elmore Leonard director, Daniel Barber producer, Matthew Brown screenplay, Joe Shrapnel (UK) -- Animated short films: Madame Tutli-Putli (2007) / [presented by] the National Film Board of Canada story and direction, Chris Lavis & Maciek Szczerbowski of Clyde Henry Productions producer, Marcy Page (Canada) -- Même le pigeons vont au paradis = Even pigeons go to Heaven (2006) / BUF directed by Samuel Tourneux written by Karine Binaux, Olivier Gilbert, Samuel Tourneux produced by Pierre Baffin (France) -- Prokofiev's Peter & the Wolf (2006) / a Breakthru Films/Se-Ma-For-Studios co-production in association with Channel Four Television, Storm Studios, Archangel SA adapted & directed by Suzie Templeton producers, Alan Dewhurst, Hugh Welchman co-writer, Marianela Maldonado music & libretto by Sergei Prokofiev (Winner - UK/Poland)
Language: Soundtracks in English, Danish, French or Italian English subtitles;Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired
Format: DVD
These films are located in the General collection on the third floor of the Library. They check out for one week and there is no charge for use.
- Search for the lost cave people
- Call Number: F1219.1.C45 S4 1998
Location: General
Publication information: South Burlington, VT : WGBH Boston Video, c1998
Physical description: 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Deep in the wilds of southern Mexico lies a river canyon surrounded by a jungle so forbidding that it was one of the last untouched archaeological sites in the world, which proved to be the location of a lost civilization
Language: Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired;In English and Italian
Format: VHS
- Adriana Lecouvreur
- Call Number: M1500.C5 A4 1985
Location: General
Publication information: [S.l.] : Sony Corporation of America, c1985
Physical description: 1 videocassette (142 min.) : sd., col., stereo. 1/2 in. + 1 booklet ([12] p. : ill., ports. 18 cm.)
Description: A dramatic tale of love and jealousy, based on the life of Adriana Lecouvreur, considered the greatest French actress of the 18th century
Language: Sound track in Italian with English subtitles
Format: VHS
- Lucia di Lammermoor
- Call Number: M1500.D66 L8 1983
Location: General
Publication information: Hollywood, Calif. : Bel Canto Paramount Home Video, c1983
Physical description: 1 videocassette (139 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in. 1 booklet (10 p. 18 cm.)
Description: Encrico tries to force his sister to wed Arturo in order to save a family fortune
Language: Sung in Italian English subtitles
Format: VHS
- Così fan tutte
- Call Number: M1500.M69 C6 1989
Location: General
Publication information: Milan, Italy : RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana/Teatro alla Scala Chicago, Ill. : HomeVision, 1989
Physical description: 2 videocassettes (186 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in. + booklet (7 p.)
Description: Comic opera in which two friends disguise themselves and seduce each others sweethearts for the sake of a bet
Language: Sung in Italian with English subtitles
Format: VHS
- Don Giovanni
- Call Number: M1500.M69 D6 2005
Location: General
Publication information: [Germany] : Arthaus Musik, c[2005?]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (168 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + 1 text (23 p. : port. 18 cm.)
Description: The story centers around a young nobleman who is obssessed with amorous conquests and his encounters with Donna Anna, the woman who plots to destroy him
Language: Sung in Italian subtitles in Italian, German, French, English and Spanish
Format: DVD
- The marriage of Figaro: a comic opera in 4 acts
- Call Number: M1500.M69 M37 1985
Location: General
Publication information: New York, N.Y. : Video Arts International, c1985
Physical description: 2 videocassettes (168 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Opera based on Beaumarchais' sequel to his Barber of Seville
Language: Sung in Italian, English subtitles
Format: VHS
- La Bohème
- Call Number: M1500.P8 B62 1989
Location: General
Publication information: [Chicago] : Home Vision, c1989
Physical description: 1 videocassette (111 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Puccini's bittersweet tale of high-spirited bohemians and doomed love
Language: Sung in Italian with English subtitles
Format: VHS
- La bohème
- Call Number: M1500.P8 B62 1999
Location: General
Publication information: Long Beach, Calif. : Pioneer Classics, c1999, c1982
Physical description: 1 videodisc (141 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Language: Sung in Italian with English subtitles
Format: DVD
- Madama Butterfly
- Call Number: M1500.P8 M17 1983
Location: General
Publication information: [New York, NY] : Thorn EMI Video, c1983
Physical description: 1 videocassette (150 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in. + 1 booklet (40 p.)
Description: An American naval officer falls in love with a Japanese geisha girl known as Butterfly and goes through a ceremony of marriage with her. He then goes back to America while Butterfly waits for his return, with their child. Pinkerton returns with his new American wife and learns that he has a son. The grief-stricken Butterfly kills herself
Language: Sung in Italian, with English subtitles
Format: VHS
- Tosca
- Call Number: M1500.P8 T6 1986
Location: General
Publication information: Hollywood, CA : Paramount Home Video [distributor], c1986
Physical description: 1 videocassette (127 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Language: Sung in Italian with subtitles in English
Format: VHS
- Il barbiere di Siviglia
- Call Number: M1500.R6 B374 2003
Location: General
Publication information: [Munich] : Arthaus Musik, [2003]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (157 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (33 p. 18 cm.)
Language: Sung in Italian with optional subtitles in English, French, Italian, or Spanish
Format: DVD
- La Cenerentola: Cinderella
- Call Number: M1500.R6 C4 1983
Location: General
Publication information: New York : HBO/CANNON Video [S.l.] : NVC Arts International [distributor], 1983
Physical description: 1 videocassette (152 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in.
Language: Sung in Italian, with English subtitles
Format: VHS
- Aida
- Call Number: M1500.V4 A52 2000
Location: General
Publication information: Hamburg : Deutsche Grammophon New York : Distributed by Universal Music & Video, [2000], p1991
Physical description: 1 videodisc (158 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + booklet (23, [1] p. : ill. : 19 cm.)
Description: An Egyptian soldier falls in love with his Ethiopian captive
Language: Soundtrack in Italian with subtitles in Italian, English, German, French and Chinese
Format: DVD
- Aida
- Call Number: M1500.V47 A5 1986
Location: General
Publication information: Framingham, Mass. : Home Vision, c1986
Physical description: 1 videocassette (160 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in. + 1 booklet
Description: The action takes place in ancient Egypt, and tells of the love of Radames, the captain of the guard, for a slave girl, Aida. She is the daughter of the King of Ethiopia, who is captured by Radames and the Egyptian troops. Tricked into betraying military secrets, Radames is condemned to be buried alive. He is joined by Aida, who dies with him
Language: Sung in Italian with English subtitles
Format: VHS
- Il trovatore
- Call Number: M1500.V47 T7 1985
Location: General
Publication information: [United States] : Sony Corporation of America New York : Corinth Video [distributor], c1985
Physical description: 1 videocassette (138 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in. + 1 program notes
Description: The plot revolves around its two female characters. Acuzena is the daughter of a gypsy who, fifteen years before, was burned as a witch for cursing the young son of a nobleman. In revenge, Acuzena abducted the son to throw into the embers of the same fire, but, in her distress, threw in her own son. She has brought up the other child as her own. Leonora (Sutherland) is a lady-in-waiting at court who is loved by two men, the Count di Luna, who is the older son of the nobleman who had Acuzena's mother burned, and Manrico, the troubadour, and leader of the rebel forces engaged in civil war against the count. Tragedy results when the four come together
Language: Sung in Italian with English subtitles
Format: VHS
- In concert
- Call Number: M1506 .I6 1990
Location: General
Publication information: [New York] : London London : Decca New York : Manufactured by PolyGram, p1990
Physical description: 1 videocassette (87 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in. + 1 booklet
Contents: L'Arlesiana. Lamento di Federico (4:45) / F. Cilea -- L'Africaine. O paradis! (3:47) / G. Meyerbeer -- Tosca. Recondita armonia (3:08) / G. Puccini -- Das Land des Lächelns. Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (4:11) / F. Léhar -- Rondine al nido (4:05) / V. de Crescenzo -- Core 'ngrato (3:46) / S. Cardillo -- I Vespri siciliani. Sinfonia (9:19) / G. Verdi -- Torna a surriento (3:16) / E. De Curtis -- Granada (4:07) / A. Lara -- La Tabernera del puerto. No puede ser (3:28) / P. Sorozábal -- Andrea Chénier. L'improvviso (5:43) / U. Giordano -- Tosca. E lucevan le stelle (3:14) Turandot. Nessun dorma (3:39) / G. Puccini -- Finale (20:46). Medley (Maria Tonight 'O paese d' 'o sole Cielito lindo Memory Ochi tchorniye Caminito La vie en rose Mattinata Wien, Wien, nur du allein Amapola O sole mio) -- Encore. 'O sole mio (3:14) Nessun dorma (4:19)
Language: Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired;Opera and musical comedy excerpts, and songs sung in Italian, English, French, German and Spanish
Format: VHS
- Three mo' tenors: live in concert
- Call Number: ML421.T52 T45 2001
Location: General
Publication information: New York : RCA Victor : [Distributed by BMG Distribution], c2001
Physical description: 1 videodisc (81 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Music spanning over four hundred years, three languages and seven different musical styles including: opera, broadway, jazz, soul, spiritual and gospel. Includes 4 bonus tracks not part of the PBS broadcast, exclusive interview footage, and photos
Contents: La donna è mobile -- Let the good times roll -- Have you heard about the baby Glory to the newborn King -- Try to temember Not while I'm around -- You gotta be a rug cutter It don't mean a thing I let a song go out of my heart Drop me off in Harlem I'm beginning to see the light Take the A train -- Twisted -- A song for you -- Love train Oh girl Betcha by golly wow Midnight train to Georgia -- Ah! Mes amis -- Make them hear you -- O'cessate di piagarmi -- The jazz cat Minnie the moocher -- Today I sing the blues -- I'm a brass band -- Nessun dorma! -- Were you there -- America the beautiful -- Let the praise begin Just come It's my time to be blessed
Language: In English, Italian, and French
Format: DVD
- Love in the city
- Call Number: PN1995.9.L6 L6 1985
Location: General
Publication information: [Chicago, Ill. : Facets Multimedia, 198-]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (90 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Contents: Invitation to love / directed by Dino Risi -- When love fails / directed by Michelangelo Antonioni -- Love cheerfully arranged / directed by Federico Fellini -- The love of a mother / directed by Maselli-Zavattini -- [...] comes to the city / directed by Alberto Lattuada
Language: English narration and Italian dialogue with English subtitles
Format: VHS
- Edipo re
- Call Number: PN1997 .P35616 1990
Location: General
Publication information: [New York, N.Y.] : Water Bearer Films, 1990
Physical description: 1 videocassette (110 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Sophocles' play, with added prologue and epilogue set in modern times, is extended into the present and points out that the motives of the ancient tragedy still exist today
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
Format: VHS
- Allegro non troppo
- Call Number: PN1997.5 .A5 1987
Location: General
Publication information: Burbank, Calif. : RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, c1987
Physical description: 1 videocassette (75 min.) : sd., col., with b&w sequences 1/2 in
Description: Six classical musical pieces are the inspiration for this animated film. The featured music is Debussy's Prelude to afternoon of a fawn, Dvorak's Slavonic dance No. 7, Ravel's Bolero, Sibelius' Valse triste, Vivaldi's Concerto in C Minor, and Stravinsky's The Firebird. The stories are connected by hilarious live-action scenes that mimic the lunacy and comic mechanics of familiar cartoon situations
Language: In English and Italian
Format: VHS
- Allegro non troppo
- Call Number: PN1997.5 .A5 2004
Location: General
Publication information: [Chicago] : Home Vision Entertainment, [2004]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (85 min.) : sd., col. and b&w 4 3/4 in. + contents insert
Description: Six classical musical pieces are the inspiration for this animated film. The featured music is Debussy's Prelude to afternoon of a fawn, Dvorak's Slavonic dance No. 7, Ravel's Bolero, Sibelius' Valse triste, Vivaldi's Concerto in C Minor, and Stravinsky's The Firebird. The stories are connected by hilarious live-action scenes that mimic the lunacy and comic mechanics of familiar cartoon situations
Contents: Mr. Prisney's fantasy -- The players -- Afternoon of a faun / Debussy -- Faun lament / Debussy -- Break 1: Reflexes -- Empire builders / Dvorak -- Break 2: Sustenance -- Coke creation / Ravel -- Evolutionary march / Dvorak -- Intermission: Gorilla ball -- Feline Fantasies / Sibelius -- Break 3: Inspiration -- Birds and the bees / Vivaldi -- Break 4: Difference of opinion -- Paradise lost / Stravinsky -- Break 5: Escape -- Finale -- End credits
Language: Live action scenes in Italian with English subtitles
Format: DVD
- Enrico IV: Henry IV
- Call Number: PQ 4835 .I7 E5 1992
Location: General
Publication information: [Santa Monica, Calif.] : Xenon Home Video, 1992
Physical description: 1 videocassette (95 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Thrown from a horse, a modern aristocrat proclaims he is the 11th century king of the Holy Roman Empire. For 20 years he lives out this delusion until his former love visits with a plan to shock the madman back to reality
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Format: VHS
These film are located in the video rental collection and are filed alphabetically. Rental is $1 for one week.
- 8 1/2
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: [Oak Forest, Ill.?] : MPI Home Video, [1988]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (138 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: Fellini's autobiographical film about a famous film director who loses his inspiration in the midst of making a film. Much of the story is told in flashback sequences
Language: Italian with English subtitles
- Amarcord
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: [S.l.] : Janus Films [Ill.] : Distributed by Public Media Home Vision, [199-?]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (127 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Memories of episodes about love, sex, politics, family life and growing up in a small Italian town in the 1930's
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Amarcord
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: [S.l.] : Janus Films [Ill.] : Distributed by Public Media Home Vision, [199-?]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (127 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Memories of episodes about love, sex, politics, family life and growing up in a small Italian town in the 1930's
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Before the revolution
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: New York, N.Y. : New Yorker Video, c1989
Physical description: 1 videocassette (110 min.) : sd., b&w, col. 1/2 in
Description: A young man flirts intellectually with communism and incestuously with his young aunt. But eventually he realizes that, for him, life will always be before the revolution . Loosely based on Stendhal's The charterhouse of Parma
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Before the revolution
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: New York, N.Y. : New Yorker Video, c1989
Physical description: 1 videocassette (110 min.) : sd., b&w, col. 1/2 in
Description: A young man flirts intellectually with communism and incestuously with his young aunt. But eventually he realizes that, for him, life will always be before the revolution . Loosely based on Stendhal's The charterhouse of Parma
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Bicycle thieves: Ladri de biciclette
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: Irvington, N.Y. : Criterion Collection Santa Monica, Calif. : Distributed by Image Entertainment, [2007]
Physical description: 2 videodiscs (89 min.) : sd., b&w 4 3/4 in.
Description: In postwar, poverty-stricken Rome, a man, hoping to support his desperate family with a new job, loses his bicycle and main means of transportation to work. With his wide-eyed young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief
Language: Italian dialogue with optional English dubbed soundtrack, English subtitles
- Big deal on Madonna Street: I soliti ignoti = Persons unknown
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: Los Angeles, CA. : Connoisseur Video Collection, 1988
Physical description: 1 videocassette (91 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: Five men conspire to burglarize a small-time jeweler's safe. When the time comes to carry out the scheme, the men become hopelessly clumsy and have to eventually give up and go home
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Big deal on Madonna Street: I soliti ignoti = Persons unknown
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: Los Angeles, CA. : Connoisseur Video Collection, 1988
Physical description: 1 videocassette (91 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: Five men conspire to burglarize a small-time jeweler's safe. When the time comes to carry out the scheme, the men become hopelessly clumsy and have to eventually give up and go home
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Ciao, professore!
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: [Burbank, CA] : Miramax Home Entertainment, [1994]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (ca. 91 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A conservative teacher from Northern Italy finds himself teaching not upper crust students, but scrappy students, at a ramshackle school in the South
Language: In Italian, with English subtitles
- Ciao, professore!
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: [Burbank, CA] : Miramax Home Entertainment, [1994]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (ca. 91 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A conservative teacher from Northern Italy finds himself teaching not upper crust students, but scrappy students, at a ramshackle school in the South
Language: In Italian, with English subtitles
- Contempt
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: Los Angeles : Embassy Home Entertainment, 1984
Physical description: 1 videocassette (102 min) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: French dramatist writing a screenplay for an American producer disagrees with producer on how film should be done. After an argument between her husband and the producer, the writer's wife has an affair with the producer and regards the writer with contempt, presumably because of his attitudes and behavior
Language: In English, French and Italian with some subtitles in English
- Contempt
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: Los Angeles : Embassy Home Entertainment, 1984
Physical description: 1 videocassette (102 min) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: French dramatist writing a screenplay for an American producer disagrees with producer on how film should be done. After an argument between her husband and the producer, the writer's wife has an affair with the producer and regards the writer with contempt, presumably because of his attitudes and behavior
Language: In English, French and Italian with some subtitles in English
- Everybody's fine
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: Burbank, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, c1992
Physical description: 1 videocassette (115 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A retired Sicilian bureaucrat who has seen the best and the brightest, including his own five children, leave his island for success on the Italian mainland, is determined to reunite the family. He travels to Italy to surprise his children but is forced to realize that his children are hiding a wrenching family secret
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Farinelli, il Castrato
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, c2000
Physical description: 1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: The true story of a world famous castrato in the 18th century is told. With charisma, talent, drive and success, Farinelli had everything: money, talent, fame, women, and the voice of an angel. He becomes obsessed with earning the respect of his brother's rival, the composer Handel
Language: Italian and French dialogue with subtitles in English, French and Spanish closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired
- Farinelli, il Castrato
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, c2000
Physical description: 1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: The true story of a world famous castrato in the 18th century is told. With charisma, talent, drive and success, Farinelli had everything: money, talent, fame, women, and the voice of an angel. He becomes obsessed with earning the respect of his brother's rival, the composer Handel
Language: Italian and French dialogue with subtitles in English, French and Spanish closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired
- Fellini satyricon
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: Santa Monica, CA : Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment, [1999]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (ca. 129 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: An adaptation of the Petronius classic recreating the bawdy and lecherous days of Nero's reign in ancient Rome. It is also an allegorical satire of the self-indulgence of modern history
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Fellini satyricon
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: Santa Monica, CA : Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment, [1999]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (ca. 129 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: An adaptation of the Petronius classic recreating the bawdy and lecherous days of Nero's reign in ancient Rome. It is also an allegorical satire of the self-indulgence of modern history
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Film d'amore e d'anarchia: Love and anarchy
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: New York : Fox Lorber Home Video, [1997], c1973
Physical description: 1 videocassette (129 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Tells the story of a shy country peasant who goes to the city with a plan to assassinate Benito Mussolini. Shows how his underground contact in the network of anarchists offers him a hideout in her brothel where he meets a young prostitute and falls in love
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Film d'amore e d'anarchia: Love and anarchy
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: New York : Fox Lorber Home Video, [1997], c1973
Physical description: 1 videocassette (129 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Tells the story of a shy country peasant who goes to the city with a plan to assassinate Benito Mussolini. Shows how his underground contact in the network of anarchists offers him a hideout in her brothel where he meets a young prostitute and falls in love
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Fiorile
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: [Beverly Hills, Calif.] : New Line Home Video : Turner Home Entertainment, 1994
Physical description: 1 videocassette (118 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: The Benedetti family has been haunted by a curse for generations. On a long drive to visit their grandfather, Luigi Benedetti tells his children the mysterious and magical story of their ancestors
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Fiorile
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: [Beverly Hills, Calif.] : New Line Home Video : Turner Home Entertainment, 1994
Physical description: 1 videocassette (118 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: The Benedetti family has been haunted by a curse for generations. On a long drive to visit their grandfather, Luigi Benedetti tells his children the mysterious and magical story of their ancestors
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Francesco, giullare di Dio: The flowers of St. Francis
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, c2005
Physical description: 1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., b&w 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (32 p. : ill. 19 cm.)
Description: In a series of simple and joyous vignettes, director Roberto Rossellini and co-writer Federico Fellini lovingly convey the universal teachings of humility, faith, and sacrifice of the People's Saint--Container
Language: In Italian with optional English subtitles
- Francesco, giullare di Dio: The flowers of St. Francis
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, c2005
Physical description: 1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., b&w 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (32 p. : ill. 19 cm.)
Description: In a series of simple and joyous vignettes, director Roberto Rossellini and co-writer Federico Fellini lovingly convey the universal teachings of humility, faith, and sacrifice of the People's Saint--Container
Language: In Italian with optional English subtitles
- General della Rovere
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: Los Angeles, Calif. : Connoisseur Video Collection, 1988
Physical description: 1 videocassette (130 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: A story of intrigue and heroism within the Italian underground during the German occupation of Italy. A con man is persuaded to impersonate a dead general, and becomes so imbued with the latter's code of honour that he goes before a firing squad rather than expose a partisan
Language: Italian with English subtitles
- General della Rovere
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: Los Angeles, Calif. : Connoisseur Video Collection, 1988
Physical description: 1 videocassette (130 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: A story of intrigue and heroism within the Italian underground during the German occupation of Italy. A con man is persuaded to impersonate a dead general, and becomes so imbued with the latter's code of honour that he goes before a firing squad rather than expose a partisan
Language: Italian with English subtitles
- Gianni Amelio's Lamerica
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: New York, N.Y. : New Yorker Video, c1998
Physical description: 1 videocassette (116 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Two Italians in post-Communist Albania seek to buy a former state-run workshop at a good price, but they need an Albanian partner. The most likely candidate, an eccentric old man, disappears on the eve of concluding the contract
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Gianni Amelio's Lamerica
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: New York, N.Y. : New Yorker Video, c1998
Physical description: 1 videocassette (116 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Two Italians in post-Communist Albania seek to buy a former state-run workshop at a good price, but they need an Albanian partner. The most likely candidate, an eccentric old man, disappears on the eve of concluding the contract
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Ginger and Fred
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2007]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (127 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Amelia and Pippo, who wowed crowds with recreations of the dances of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers decades ago, are reuniting for a nationwide TV special that features a list of guest stars that is both long and bizarre
Language: Soundtrack in Italian with English subtitles closed-captioned
- Ginger and Fred
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2007]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (127 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Amelia and Pippo, who wowed crowds with recreations of the dances of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers decades ago, are reuniting for a nationwide TV special that features a list of guest stars that is both long and bizarre
Language: Soundtrack in Italian with English subtitles closed-captioned
- Giulietta degli spiriti: Juliet of the spirits
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: [Irvington, N.Y.?] : Criterion Collection, 2002
Physical description: 1 videodisc (137 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: When she suspects her husband of infidelity, a housewife unleashes an unconscious ripe with erotic fantasies. In this film, Fellini's first feature-length color film, his examination of the sexual psyche unfolds via the surrealistic use of abrupt cut-aways to illustrate the woman' sexual fantasies
Language: In Italian with optional English subtitles
- Giulietta degli spiriti: Juliet of the spirits
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: [Irvington, N.Y.?] : Criterion Collection, 2002
Physical description: 1 videodisc (137 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: When she suspects her husband of infidelity, a housewife unleashes an unconscious ripe with erotic fantasies. In this film, Fellini's first feature-length color film, his examination of the sexual psyche unfolds via the surrealistic use of abrupt cut-aways to illustrate the woman' sexual fantasies
Language: In Italian with optional English subtitles
- Hamam: il bagno turco = The Turkish bath
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: [Calif.] : Strand Home Video, 2000
Physical description: 1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Francesco, a successful designer from Rome, arrives in Istanbul to dispose of an inheritance left him by an aunt he never knew. Once there he discovers that the property is a hamam, a traditional Turkish steam bath, Mehmet, the beautiful son of the hamam's custodian, ushers Francesco into the sultry world of the baths. Enlightened and unbound, Francesco decides to remain in Istanbul and restore the hamam
Language: Italian and Turkish with English subtitles
- Heaven
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: Burbank, CA : Miramax Home Entertainment Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2003]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Philippa is a British schoolteacher living in Italy, whose husband fell victim to a drug overdose. Vendice is a powerful local drug dealer who sold the dope which killed Philippa's husband. Disgusted with the inability of the police to bring Vendice to justice, Philippa takes the law into her own hands, planting a bomb which is intended to kill the dealer. Instead the bomb kills four innocent bystanders. Now with the help of her multilingual translator, Philippa escapes and continues to seek revenge on Vendice
Language: Soundtrack in English and Italian with subtitles in English and French closed-captioned
- Il bidone: The swindle
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: Los Angeles, CA : Connoisseur Video Collection, c1989
Physical description: 1 videocassette (92 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: An aging swindler, ringleader of a trio of petty thieves who impersonate priests to cheat peasants, finally realizes the futility of his life
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Il bidone: The swindle
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: Los Angeles, CA : Connoisseur Video Collection, c1989
Physical description: 1 videocassette (92 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: An aging swindler, ringleader of a trio of petty thieves who impersonate priests to cheat peasants, finally realizes the futility of his life
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Il cittadino si ribella
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: Trento, Italy : Domovideo Ridgewood, N.Y. : Distributed by Ital Video Productions, Inc., [1985?]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (96 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Attacked by a group of gangsters, an engineer seeks revenge and takes justice into his own hands
Language: In Italian
- Il cittadino si ribella
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: Trento, Italy : Domovideo Ridgewood, N.Y. : Distributed by Ital Video Productions, Inc., [1985?]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (96 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Attacked by a group of gangsters, an engineer seeks revenge and takes justice into his own hands
Language: In Italian
- Il Decameron
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: Chatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment [distributor], [1998]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Pasolini's rendition of 8 of Boccaccio's tales. Includes the seducing nuns, the 3 jealous brothers who murder their sister's lover, the wizard who could change his wife into a burro and the story of a false saint
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Il Decameron
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: Chatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment [distributor], [1998]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Pasolini's rendition of 8 of Boccaccio's tales. Includes the seducing nuns, the 3 jealous brothers who murder their sister's lover, the wizard who could change his wife into a burro and the story of a false saint
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Il Deserto rosso: Red desert
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: [S.l.] : Connoisseur Video Collection, 1989, c1964
Physical description: 1 videocassette (VHS) (120 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Antonioni's first color film. A woman traumatized by an auto accident finds herself permanently alienated in her urban milieu
Language: Italian with English subtitles
- Il gattopardo: The leopard
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2004]
Physical description: 3 videodiscs (185 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide
Description: Recounts the years of Italy's Risorgimento-when the aristocracy lost its grip and the middle classes rose and formed a democratic Italy.
Contents: Special features: (Disc one) new high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Giuseppe Rotunno, with restored image and sound and presented in the original Super Technirama aspect ratio of 2.21:1 audio commentary by film scholar Peter Cowie new and improved English subtitle translation optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition (Disc two) A Dying Breed: The Making of The Leopard, a new hour-long documentary featuring interviews with actress Claudia Cardinale, screenwriter Suso Cecchi D'Amico, director of photography Giuseppe Totunno, filmmaker Sydney Pollack, and many others Interview with producer Goffredo Lombardo an exclusive video interview with professor Millicent Marcus of the University of Pennsylvania on the history behind The Leopard original theatrical trailers and newsreels stills gallery of rare behind-the-scenes production photos (Disc three) new transfer of the 161-minute American release, with English-language dialogue (including Burt Lancaster's actual voice) plus: a new essay by author and film historian Michael Wood
Language: In Italian with optional English subtitles
- Il gattopardo: The leopard
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2004]
Physical description: 3 videodiscs (185 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide
Description: Recounts the years of Italy's Risorgimento-when the aristocracy lost its grip and the middle classes rose and formed a democratic Italy.
Contents: Special features: (Disc one) new high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Giuseppe Rotunno, with restored image and sound and presented in the original Super Technirama aspect ratio of 2.21:1 audio commentary by film scholar Peter Cowie new and improved English subtitle translation optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition (Disc two) A Dying Breed: The Making of The Leopard, a new hour-long documentary featuring interviews with actress Claudia Cardinale, screenwriter Suso Cecchi D'Amico, director of photography Giuseppe Totunno, filmmaker Sydney Pollack, and many others Interview with producer Goffredo Lombardo an exclusive video interview with professor Millicent Marcus of the University of Pennsylvania on the history behind The Leopard original theatrical trailers and newsreels stills gallery of rare behind-the-scenes production photos (Disc three) new transfer of the 161-minute American release, with English-language dialogue (including Burt Lancaster's actual voice) plus: a new essay by author and film historian Michael Wood
Language: In Italian with optional English subtitles
- Il Mostro: The monster
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, c1999
Physical description: 1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: A vicious serial sex killer is on the loose, and landscape gardener and shop-window outfitter Loris is the prime suspect, thanks to his unfortunate habit of getting caught in compromising situations (for which there is always a totally innocent explanation that the police fail to spot). Undercover policewoman Jessica is assigned by eccentric police psychologist Taccone to follow Loris and provide evidence for his arrest - but things don't quite go according to plan
Language: Italian with optional English soundtrack subtitles: English, French, or Spanish closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired
- Il postino: The postman
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: [Calif.] : Miramax Home Entertainment Burbank, Calif. : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, c1995
Physical description: 1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: The postman, Mario, enlists the aid of the poet Pablo Neruda to conquer the heart of the beautiful Beatrice
Language: In Italian with optional French soundtrack and optional English subtitles
- Il principe di Homburg: The prince of Homburg
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: Chicago, Ill. : Facets Video, [2003], c1996
Physical description: 1 videodisc (81 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: The Prince of Homburg is a haunted, impetuous young German general. During the 17th century, the Germans are at war with the Swedes. The Prince is having trouble sleeping - he lusts after his commander's beautiful niece and frets over being on the battlefield. In a crucial battle, the Prince leads his troops into battle before being ordered. The Germans win the battle, but the Prince faces severe consequences
Language: Italian dialogue, English subtitles
- Il principe di Homburg: The prince of Homburg
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: Chicago, Ill. : Facets Video, [2003], c1996
Physical description: 1 videodisc (81 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: The Prince of Homburg is a haunted, impetuous young German general. During the 17th century, the Germans are at war with the Swedes. The Prince is having trouble sleeping - he lusts after his commander's beautiful niece and frets over being on the battlefield. In a crucial battle, the Prince leads his troops into battle before being ordered. The Germans win the battle, but the Prince faces severe consequences
Language: Italian dialogue, English subtitles
- Il tetto: The roof
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: [Chicago, Ill. : Facets Multimedia, 1998]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (95 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: Thoughtful, neorealist account of a simple young married couple in overcrowded post-World War II Rome. Under provincial Italian law at the time, once a roof is erected, the occupants cannot be evicted from a building. Follows the efforts of a family to erect the roof on a house overnight so that a newlywed couple can have their own home
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Il tetto: The roof
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: [Chicago, Ill. : Facets Multimedia, 1998]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (95 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: Thoughtful, neorealist account of a simple young married couple in overcrowded post-World War II Rome. Under provincial Italian law at the time, once a roof is erected, the occupants cannot be evicted from a building. Follows the efforts of a family to erect the roof on a house overnight so that a newlywed couple can have their own home
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Invasion of the body snatchers
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: Los Angeles, CA : Republic Entertainment, c2002
Physical description: 1 videodisc (80 min.) : sd., b&w, double-sided 4 3/4 in. + contents insert
Description: Plant-like extraterrestrials have invaded Santa Mira, a small town in California, replicating the villagers in giant seed pods and taking possession of their souls while they sleep. In a race for his life, Dr. Bennell escapes to warn the world of the deadly invasion of the pod people
Language: Soundtrack in English, Spanish and Italian with subtitles in English, French and Spanish closed-captioned
- Io non ho paura: I'm not scared
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: [Burbank, CA] : Miramax Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2004]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: While playing outside one day in a wheat field, nine-year-old Michele discovers Filippo, who is chained to the ground at the bottom of a hole. Michele witnesses town bad boy Felice nearby and suspects something bad is happening. Michele is unsure whom he should tell about his discovery, eventually spilling the tale to his closest friend. When Michele's parents learn of his discovery, they warn him to forget whatever he saw
Language: Italian dialogue, English or Spanish subtitles
- Io non ho paura: I'm not scared
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: [Burbank, CA] : Miramax Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2004]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: While playing outside one day in a wheat field, nine-year-old Michele discovers Filippo, who is chained to the ground at the bottom of a hole. Michele witnesses town bad boy Felice nearby and suspects something bad is happening. Michele is unsure whom he should tell about his discovery, eventually spilling the tale to his closest friend. When Michele's parents learn of his discovery, they warn him to forget whatever he saw
Language: Italian dialogue, English or Spanish subtitles
- Italiensk for begyndere: Italian for beginners
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: Burbank, CA : Buena Vista Home Video, 2002
Physical description: 1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + contents insert
Description: Several students of an Italian language class find romance in their studies of the language of love
Language: In Danish and Italian with English subtitles
- Italiensk for begyndere: Italian for beginners
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: Burbank, CA : Buena Vista Home Video, 2002
Physical description: 1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + contents insert
Description: Several students of an Italian language class find romance in their studies of the language of love
Language: In Danish and Italian with English subtitles
- Johnny Stecchino
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: [Burbank, Calif.] : New Line Home Video [s.l.] : Turner Home Entertainment, [1993]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: The drop-dead gorgeous wife of the notorious mafioso Johnny Toothpick discovers a naive bus driver who's a dead-ringer for her husband who is on the lam and under the gun she schemes to switch the two men, creating one of the best comedies of the year
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Johnny Stecchino
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: [Burbank, Calif.] : New Line Home Video [s.l.] : Turner Home Entertainment, [1993]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: The drop-dead gorgeous wife of the notorious mafioso Johnny Toothpick discovers a naive bus driver who's a dead-ringer for her husband who is on the lam and under the gun she schemes to switch the two men, creating one of the best comedies of the year
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Juliet of the spirits
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: [S.l.] : Distributed by International Film Forum, [199-?]
Physical description: 2 videocassettes (115 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A journey into a world where sex and fantasy have no boundaries
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Juliet of the spirits
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: [S.l.] : Distributed by International Film Forum, [199-?]
Physical description: 2 videocassettes (115 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A journey into a world where sex and fantasy have no boundaries
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- L'albero degli zoccoli: The tree of wooden clogs
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: New York, NY : Distributed by Fox Lorber Home Video, c1978
Physical description: 2 videocassettes (185 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A deceptively simple tale of a small community of peasants in Italy at the turn of the century. It follows four families through the seasons, and shows the seemingly small events that influence their lives and the love they feel for the land and their families
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- L'albero degli zoccoli: The tree of wooden clogs
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: New York, NY : Distributed by Fox Lorber Home Video, c1978
Physical description: 2 videocassettes (185 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A deceptively simple tale of a small community of peasants in Italy at the turn of the century. It follows four families through the seasons, and shows the seemingly small events that influence their lives and the love they feel for the land and their families
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- L'albero degli zoccoli: The tree of wooden clogs
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: Port Washington, NY : KOCH Lorber Films, [2004]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (177 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: A deceptively simple tale of a small community of peasants in Italy at the turn of the century. It follows four families through the seasons, and shows the seemingly small events that influence their lives and the love they feel for the land and their families
Language: Italian dialogue with English subtitles
- L'albero degli zoccoli: The tree of wooden clogs
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: Port Washington, NY : KOCH Lorber Films, [2004]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (177 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: A deceptively simple tale of a small community of peasants in Italy at the turn of the century. It follows four families through the seasons, and shows the seemingly small events that influence their lives and the love they feel for the land and their families
Language: Italian dialogue with English subtitles
- L'amore
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: Los Angeles, Calif. : Connoisseur Video Collection, c1991
Physical description: 1 videocassette (78 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: Presents two episodes. In the first part, a woman talks on the phone to the man who has forsaken her. In the second part, a peasant woman is seduced and is convinced she will give birth to a new Messiah
Contents: pt. 1. Una voce umana = The human voice / di Jean Cocteau -- pt. 2. Il miracolo = The miracle / soggetto di Federico Fellini ridotto da Tullio Pinelli, Roberto Rossellini
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- L'amore
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: Los Angeles, Calif. : Connoisseur Video Collection, c1991
Physical description: 1 videocassette (78 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: Presents two episodes. In the first part, a woman talks on the phone to the man who has forsaken her. In the second part, a peasant woman is seduced and is convinced she will give birth to a new Messiah
Contents: pt. 1. Una voce umana = The human voice / di Jean Cocteau -- pt. 2. Il miracolo = The miracle / soggetto di Federico Fellini ridotto da Tullio Pinelli, Roberto Rossellini
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- L'avventura
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2001]
Physical description: 2 videodiscs (143 min.) : sd., b&w 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (1 folded sheet)
Description: Story about the search for a girl lost on an island gradually the searchers become preoccupied with their own problems, and the girl is never found
Language: Soundtrack in Italian with optional English subtitles
- L'Avventura
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: Los Angeles, CA : Connoisseur Video Collection, [1991]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (145 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: A wealthy young woman disappears on a yachting cruise near Sicily. Her current boyfriend and others search for her without success. The search continues in Sicily itself with leads pursued by the man and another friend of the missing woman, who become lovers
Language: Soundtrack in Italian with subtitles in English
- La dolce vita
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: [United States] : Koch Lorber Films, [2004]
Physical description: 2 videodiscs (ca. 167 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: A journalist ventures into the decadent society of modern Rome and finds that his values are being destroyed, leaving him totally disillusioned
Language: Soundtrack in Italian and English with subtitles in English and Spanish
- La meglio gioventù: The best of youth
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: Burbank, Calif. : Miramax Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2006?]
Physical description: 2 videodiscs (368 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + contents insert
Description: A family epic spanning four decades of social unrest from the 1960s to the 1990s and incorporating such events in Italy's history as the hippy movement, the flood of Florence, the Red Brigades, Mafia scandals, kidnapping and political assassinations. The film focuses on Italian brothers Nicola and Matteo Carati, whose lives take very different paths, divided by politics but bonded by blood
Language: Soundtracks in Italian or French with optional English or Spanish subtitles closed-captioned
- La meglio gioventù: The best of youth
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: Burbank, Calif. : Miramax Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2006?]
Physical description: 2 videodiscs (368 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + contents insert
Description: A family epic spanning four decades of social unrest from the 1960s to the 1990s and incorporating such events in Italy's history as the hippy movement, the flood of Florence, the Red Brigades, Mafia scandals, kidnapping and political assassinations. The film focuses on Italian brothers Nicola and Matteo Carati, whose lives take very different paths, divided by politics but bonded by blood
Language: Soundtracks in Italian or French with optional English or Spanish subtitles closed-captioned
- La Notte di San Lorenzo: The night of the shooting stars
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: New York, N.Y. : MGM/UA Home Video, 1984
Physical description: 1 videocassette (107 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Depicts the final days of World War II in Italy, seen mostly through the eyes of a six-year-old girl. It is a mythic recollection by the protagonist of life on the run when a group of Italian villagers flee from brutal Nazi occupiers in the summer of 1944
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- La Notte di San Lorenzo: The night of the shooting stars
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: New York, N.Y. : MGM/UA Home Video, 1984
Physical description: 1 videocassette (107 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Depicts the final days of World War II in Italy, seen mostly through the eyes of a six-year-old girl. It is a mythic recollection by the protagonist of life on the run when a group of Italian villagers flee from brutal Nazi occupiers in the summer of 1944
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- La stanza del figlio: The son's room
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: [Burbank, CA] : Miramax Home Video : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2002]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + contents insert
Description: Tragedy hits the family of a psychiatrist and they struggle with anger and grief until an unexpected visitor forces them to confront their feelings
Language: In Italian or French with English subtitles closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired
- La stanza del figlio: The son's room
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: [Burbank, CA] : Miramax Home Video : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2002]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + contents insert
Description: Tragedy hits the family of a psychiatrist and they struggle with anger and grief until an unexpected visitor forces them to confront their feelings
Language: In Italian or French with English subtitles closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired
- La strada: The road
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: [Irvington, NY] : Criterion : Janus Films, 2003
Physical description: 2 videodiscs (108 min.) : sd., b&w 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (8 p.)
Description: The story of a fragile girl who is sold by her mother into the employ of a brutal travelling circus performer
Language: Soundtrack in Italian or English English subtitles
- La traviata
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: Universal City, Calif. : MCA Home Video, 1983
Physical description: 1 videocassette (105 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: The story of a beautiful courtesan dying of consumption and her love for a poor nobleman. A film version of the opera by Giuseppe Verdi
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- La traviata
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: Universal City, Calif. : MCA Home Video, 1983
Physical description: 1 videocassette (105 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: The story of a beautiful courtesan dying of consumption and her love for a poor nobleman. A film version of the opera by Giuseppe Verdi
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- La vita è bella: Life is beautiful
- Location: vbren,gnrve
Format: VHS
Publication information: [Calif.] : Miramax Home Entertainment Burbank, Calif. : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [1999]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (116 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A charming but bumbling waiter who's gifted with a colorful imagination and an irresistible sense of humor has won the heart of the woman he loves and has created a beautiful life for his young family. Then that life is threatened by World War II
Language: Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired;In Italian with English subtitles
- La vita è bella: Life is beautiful
- Location: vbren,gnrve
Format: VHS
Publication information: [Calif.] : Miramax Home Entertainment Burbank, Calif. : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [1999]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (116 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A charming but bumbling waiter who's gifted with a colorful imagination and an irresistible sense of humor has won the heart of the woman he loves and has created a beautiful life for his young family. Then that life is threatened by World War II
Language: Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired;In Italian with English subtitles
- La vita è bella: Life is beautiful
- Location: vbren,gnrve
Format: VHS
Publication information: [Calif.] : Miramax Home Entertainment Burbank, Calif. : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [1999]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (116 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A charming but bumbling waiter who's gifted with a colorful imagination and an irresistible sense of humor has won the heart of the woman he loves and has created a beautiful life for his young family. Then that life is threatened by World War II
Language: Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired;In Italian with English subtitles
- La vita è bella: Life is beautiful
- Location: vbren,gnrve
Format: VHS
Publication information: [Calif.] : Miramax Home Entertainment Burbank, Calif. : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [1999]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (116 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A charming but bumbling waiter who's gifted with a colorful imagination and an irresistible sense of humor has won the heart of the woman he loves and has created a beautiful life for his young family. Then that life is threatened by World War II
Language: Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired;In Italian with English subtitles
- La vita è bella: Life is beautiful
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: [Calif.] : Miramax Home Entertainment Burbank, Calif. : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video, [1999], c1997
Physical description: 1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: A charming but bumbling waiter who's gifted with a colorful imagination and an irresistible sense of humor has won the heart of the woman he loves and has created a beautiful life for his young family. Then that life is threatened by World War II
Language: In Italian, Italian with English subtitles, or English;Closed captioned in English for the hearing impaired
- Ladri di biciclette: The bicycle thief
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: Chatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment, c1998
Physical description: 1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., b&w 4 3/4 in
Description: Simple story of an unemployed man and his family living in war devastated Rome. The father finds a job pasting up posters and signs, work requiring a bicycle on which to get around. When his bicycle is stolen the father and his son are forced to steal one in desperation and are caught. This version includes the original U.S. theatrical trailer
Language: Dialogue in Italian or dubbed English with optional English subtitles
- Le corsa dell ́innocente: The flight of the innocent
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: Santa Monica, CA : MGM/UA Home Video : Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment, 1999
Physical description: 1 videocassette (106 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A young Italian boy, the son of a brutal kidnapper, is the only survivor when his family is killed by a rival gang. The boy flees, pursued by the police and the killers, and searches for a new life with a loving family unlike his own and an end to his family's history of criminal behavior
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Le corsa dell ́innocente: The flight of the innocent
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: Santa Monica, CA : MGM/UA Home Video : Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment, 1999
Physical description: 1 videocassette (106 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A young Italian boy, the son of a brutal kidnapper, is the only survivor when his family is killed by a rival gang. The boy flees, pursued by the police and the killers, and searches for a new life with a loving family unlike his own and an end to his family's history of criminal behavior
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Le salaire de la peur: Wages of fear
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Classic Collection, 1999
Physical description: 1 videodisc (148 min.) : sd., b&w 4 3/4 in
Description: A drama of courage, cowardice and failure set in South America. Four desperate men attempt to transport two truck-loads of nitro-glycerine 300 miles to the site of an oil well fire
Language: In French, Spanish, Italian, German and English with optional English subtitles
- Le salaire de la peur: Wages of fear
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Classic Collection, 1999
Physical description: 1 videodisc (148 min.) : sd., b&w 4 3/4 in
Description: A drama of courage, cowardice and failure set in South America. Four desperate men attempt to transport two truck-loads of nitro-glycerine 300 miles to the site of an oil well fire
Language: In French, Spanish, Italian, German and English with optional English subtitles
- Lo Sceicco bianco: The white sheik
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: United States : Home Vision Distributed by Public Media Incorporated, [1995?]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (86 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: A provincial Italian plans a conventional honeymoon, including an audience with the Pope, until his bride sneaks off in pursuit of her fantasy hero. Unfortunately, her White Sheik is no more than an actor whose chivalry is matched by his lechery
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Lo Sceicco bianco: The white sheik
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: United States : Home Vision Distributed by Public Media Incorporated, [1995?]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (86 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: A provincial Italian plans a conventional honeymoon, including an audience with the Pope, until his bride sneaks off in pursuit of her fantasy hero. Unfortunately, her White Sheik is no more than an actor whose chivalry is matched by his lechery
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Lo sceicco bianco: The white sheik
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: [New York] : Criterion Collection, c2003
Physical description: 1 videodisc (82 min.) : sd., b&w 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (8 p. folded)
Description: A provincial Italian plans a conventional honeymoon, including an audience with the Pope, until his bride sneaks off in pursuit of her fantasy hero. Unfortunately, her White Sheik is no more than an actor whose chivalry is matched by his lechery
Language: Soundtrack in Italian with optional English subtitles
- Luci del varieta: Variety lights
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: [Irvington, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2009]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., b&w 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (5 p. (folded) port.)
Description: When a young woman of beauty and talent joins a provincial vaudeville troupe, they're suddenly playing to packed houses, and their aging comic Checco Dalmonte gets big ideas
Language: Soundtrack in Italian English subtitles
- Luci del varieta: Variety lights
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: [Irvington, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2009]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., b&w 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (5 p. (folded) port.)
Description: When a young woman of beauty and talent joins a provincial vaudeville troupe, they're suddenly playing to packed houses, and their aging comic Checco Dalmonte gets big ideas
Language: Soundtrack in Italian English subtitles
- Madame Butterfly
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, 1997
Physical description: 1 videocassette (129 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: An American naval officer falls in love with a Japanese geisha girl known as Butterfly and marries her, with no intention of ever taking her home to America
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Madame Butterfly
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, 1997
Physical description: 1 videocassette (129 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: An American naval officer falls in love with a Japanese geisha girl known as Butterfly and marries her, with no intention of ever taking her home to America
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Malena
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: Burbank, CA : Miramax Home Entertainment : distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2001], c2000
Physical description: 1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Set in a small Sicilian town during WWII, the story centers on Renato, a 13-year-old boy with a coming of age fantasy life who falls hard for the town's ultra-beautiful twentysomething, Malena
Language: Italian or French dialogue, English or Spanish subtitles;Closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired
- Malena
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: Burbank, CA : Miramax Home Entertainment : distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2001], c2000
Physical description: 1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Set in a small Sicilian town during WWII, the story centers on Renato, a 13-year-old boy with a coming of age fantasy life who falls hard for the town's ultra-beautiful twentysomething, Malena
Language: Italian or French dialogue, English or Spanish subtitles;Closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired
- Mamma Roma
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: Los Angeles, CA : Meridian Video Corp., [1995]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (110 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: An ex-prostitute stuggles to begin a new life for herself and her teenage son, fighting to stay out of the clutches of her vicious pimp and to save her son from a life of petty crime
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Mamma Roma
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: Los Angeles, CA : Meridian Video Corp., [1995]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (110 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: An ex-prostitute stuggles to begin a new life for herself and her teenage son, fighting to stay out of the clutches of her vicious pimp and to save her son from a life of petty crime
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Medea
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: New York, NY : Video Artists International, [199-?]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (100 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Medea, high priestess of the Golden Fleece, falls in love with Jason, and, stealing the prized article, flees with him to Corinth. Jason eventually betrays her, however, when he falls in love with the daughter of Creon. In a white heat of anger, Medea murders Creon, his daughter, and finally her two sons by Jason, then flees, leaving him to face a wifeless, childless future
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Medea
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: New York, NY : Video Artists International, [199-?]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (100 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Medea, high priestess of the Golden Fleece, falls in love with Jason, and, stealing the prized article, flees with him to Corinth. Jason eventually betrays her, however, when he falls in love with the daughter of Creon. In a white heat of anger, Medea murders Creon, his daughter, and finally her two sons by Jason, then flees, leaving him to face a wifeless, childless future
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Miracle in Milan
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: [S.l.] : Home Vision, [1990?]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (96 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: Comedy, satire, and realism are combined in a fantasy about the social conceits of man. An Italian orphan, with the aid of a miraculous dove, combats power and wealth and succeeds in bringing happiness to the inhabitants of a Milanese hobo camp
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Miracle in Milan
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: [S.l.] : Home Vision, [1990?]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (96 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: Comedy, satire, and realism are combined in a fantasy about the social conceits of man. An Italian orphan, with the aid of a miraculous dove, combats power and wealth and succeeds in bringing happiness to the inhabitants of a Milanese hobo camp
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Night on earth
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2007]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (128 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Five cities, five taxis, and a group of strangers make for an interesting night. A collection of 5 stories that span continents, time zones, and languages
Language: Soundtrack in English, French, Italian, and Finnish with subtitles in English closed-captioned
- Nights of Cabiria
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: [Chicago, Ill. : Facets Multimedia, distributor, 198-?]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (110 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: Cabiria, a prostitute, throws herself into endless love affairs with the frantic persistence of a trapped bird, dashing body and soul against the vain hope of securing marriage and a happy family life
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Nostalghia
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: N.Y., N.Y. : Fox Lorber Home Video, 1998
Physical description: 1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. and b&w 4 3/4 in
Description: A homesick Russian poet, Gorchakov, researching in Italy with the aid of a beautiful interpreter, Eugenia, arrives at a Tuscan spa, while there he encounters the local mystic, who sets him on a challenging task
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Nuovo Cinema Paradiso
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: New York, NY : HBO Video, c1990
Physical description: 1 videocassette (121 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A young boy in a small Italian village is befriended by the projectionist at the movie theater, the Cinema Paradiso. As he grows up he learns to love films, and is encouraged by his good friend to pursue his dream of one day making movies
Language: Italian with English subtitles;Closed-captioned
- Nuovo Cinema Paradiso
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: New York, NY : HBO Video, c1990
Physical description: 1 videocassette (121 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A young boy in a small Italian village is befriended by the projectionist at the movie theater, the Cinema Paradiso. As he grows up he learns to love films, and is encouraged by his good friend to pursue his dream of one day making movies
Language: Italian with English subtitles;Closed-captioned
- Nuovo cinema paradiso
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: [Burbank, CA] : Miramax Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2003]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (174 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + contents insert
Description: A young boy in a small Italian village is befriended by the projectionist at the movie theater, the Cinema Paradiso. As the boy grows up, he learns to love films, and is encouraged by his good friend to pursue his dream of one day making movies
Contents: Side A. New version (174 min.) -- Side B. Original 1990 theatrical cut version (123 min.)
Language: Soundtrack in Italian with subtitles in English (side A) Soundtrack in French and Italian with subtitles in English closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired (side B)
- Nuovo cinema paradiso
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: [Burbank, CA] : Miramax Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2003]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (174 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + contents insert
Description: A young boy in a small Italian village is befriended by the projectionist at the movie theater, the Cinema Paradiso. As the boy grows up, he learns to love films, and is encouraged by his good friend to pursue his dream of one day making movies
Contents: Side A. New version (174 min.) -- Side B. Original 1990 theatrical cut version (123 min.)
Language: Soundtrack in Italian with subtitles in English (side A) Soundtrack in French and Italian with subtitles in English closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired (side B)
- Open city
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: Los Angeles : Connoisseur Video Collection, 1991
Physical description: 1 videocassette (ca. 101 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: Rossellini's classic is representative of neo-realistic cinema. The story takes place in Rome during the Nazi occupation where a priest who is helping the Italian resistance fighters is discovered and arrested by the SS
Language: In Italian, with English subtitles
- Open city
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: Los Angeles : Connoisseur Video Collection, 1991
Physical description: 1 videocassette (ca. 101 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: Rossellini's classic is representative of neo-realistic cinema. The story takes place in Rome during the Nazi occupation where a priest who is helping the Italian resistance fighters is discovered and arrested by the SS
Language: In Italian, with English subtitles
- Padre, padrone =: My father, my master
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: [New York] : RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, 1982
Physical description: 1 videocassette (113 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A powerful story of a son's development under an oppressive father. Gavino Ledda lives in solitude as an illiterate Sardinian shephard. His father is the brutal instrument of that solitude. Year after year Gavino is isolated alone with his flock in the mountains separated from family, schools and the collectivity of his town. Finally, he rebels against his father and his own illiteracy. Studying by himself, Gavino earns his degree and writes a book about himself
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Paisan
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: [S.l.] : Distibuted by Hen's Tooth Video, [1997]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (116 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: Six stories dealing with Italian and American soldiers meeting under battle conditions during World War II
Language: In English and Italian with English subtitles
- Paisan
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: [S.l.] : Distibuted by Hen's Tooth Video, [1997]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (116 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: Six stories dealing with Italian and American soldiers meeting under battle conditions during World War II
Language: In English and Italian with English subtitles
- Pane e cioccolata: Bread and chocolate
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: [S.l.] : Distributed by Hen's Tooth Video, c1996
Physical description: 1 videocassette (109 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A farce fashioned around the postwar dilema of the status and plight of migrant workers from Southern Europe working in more prosperous and modern northern lands
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Pane e cioccolata: Bread and chocolate
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: [S.l.] : Distributed by Hen's Tooth Video, c1996
Physical description: 1 videocassette (109 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A farce fashioned around the postwar dilema of the status and plight of migrant workers from Southern Europe working in more prosperous and modern northern lands
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Pane e tulipani
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, [2002], c2000
Physical description: 1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: When a harried housewife is accidentally left behind while on vacation with her family, she decides to take a holiday of her own in Venice. She becomes charmed by the city and her newfound freedom. She decides to extend her stay, finding a job in a flower shop, renting a room from a wistful waiter, and rediscovers her love for playing the accordian. But her solo journey does not sit well with her tyrannical husband, who hires an amateur detective to bring her back home
Language: Italian dialogue English subtitles closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired
- Pasqualino Settebellezze
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: New York : Fox Lorber Home Video, 1998
Physical description: 1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col 4 3/4 in
Description: The story of a small-time crook and lady-killer who shoots his sister's pimp to save the family honor. He is caught, tried, sent to an insane asylum, volunteers for the Italian army during World War II and ends up in a Nazi concentration camp
Language: English and Italian language soundtracks with optional subtitles in English
- Quentin Tarantino's Death proof
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: [New York] : Weinstein Company Solana Beach, Calif. : Genius Products, c2007
Physical description: 2 videodiscs (127 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: A deranged stuntman stalks his victims from the safety of his killer car, but when he picks on the wrong group of babes, all bets are off. He becomes involved in an automotive duel of epic proportions
Language: Soundtrack in English, French and Italian with subtitles in Spanish and English closed-captioned
- Riso amaro: Bitter rice
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: Chicago, IL : Home Vision Cinema, c1999
Physical description: 1 videocassette (108 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: In the rice fields of the Po Valley, a thief on the run meets a girl who tries to steal his loot
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Riso amaro: Bitter rice
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: Chicago, IL : Home Vision Cinema, c1999
Physical description: 1 videocassette (108 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: In the rice fields of the Po Valley, a thief on the run meets a girl who tries to steal his loot
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Rocco e i suoi fratelli: Rocco and his brothers
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: [Los Angeles, CA] : Connoisseur Video Collection, [1991]
Physical description: 2 videocassettes (170 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: Spread over half-a-dozen years, each of five episodes concentrates on one of five peasant brothers who, with their widowed mother, Rosaria, migrate to industrial Milan from poverty-stricken Southern Italy. The story dissects the psychological impact of a society that presents its poor with only destructive opportunities
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Rocco e i suoi fratelli: Rocco and his brothers
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: [Los Angeles, CA] : Connoisseur Video Collection, [1991]
Physical description: 2 videocassettes (170 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: Spread over half-a-dozen years, each of five episodes concentrates on one of five peasant brothers who, with their widowed mother, Rosaria, migrate to industrial Milan from poverty-stricken Southern Italy. The story dissects the psychological impact of a society that presents its poor with only destructive opportunities
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Roma
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: Culver City, CA : MGM/UA Home Video, c1991
Physical description: 1 videocassette (ca. 129 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A film adaptation of Federico Fellini's reminiscences of Rome before World War II, as compared to the present, as it was when the film was originally produced (1972)
Language: Italian and English dialogue, English subtitles
- Sacco & Vanzetti
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: [Tulsa, Okla.] : VCI Home Video : United Home Video, [2000]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (120 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences 1/2 in
Description: Drama about the 1927 Massachusetts trial and execution of two Italian-American immigrant anarchists
Language: In English and Italian with English sub-titles
- Sacco & Vanzetti
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: [Tulsa, Okla.] : VCI Home Video : United Home Video, [2000]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (120 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences 1/2 in
Description: Drama about the 1927 Massachusetts trial and execution of two Italian-American immigrant anarchists
Language: In English and Italian with English sub-titles
- Seduced and abandoned
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: [Chicago, Ill. : Facets Multimedia, distributor, 1992?]
Physical description: 1 videocasssette (115 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: An Italian girl is seduced by her sister's boyfriend, setting in motion a chain of events which explore the Sicilian code of honor
Language: Italian with English subtitles
- Seduced and abandoned
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: [Chicago, Ill. : Facets Multimedia, distributor, 1992?]
Physical description: 1 videocasssette (115 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: An Italian girl is seduced by her sister's boyfriend, setting in motion a chain of events which explore the Sicilian code of honor
Language: Italian with English subtitles
- Shoeshine: Sciuscià
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: [S.l.] : Balzac Video Chicago : [Facets Multimedia distributor], [198-?], c1943
Physical description: 1 videocassette (90 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: Two orphaned shoeshine boys, abused by the state reform system in Nazi occupied Rome, become involved in black marketeering with tragic consequences
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Shoeshine: Sciuscià
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: [S.l.] : Balzac Video Chicago : [Facets Multimedia distributor], [198-?], c1943
Physical description: 1 videocassette (90 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: Two orphaned shoeshine boys, abused by the state reform system in Nazi occupied Rome, become involved in black marketeering with tragic consequences
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Strategia del ragno
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: New York, N.Y. : New Yorker Video, 1990
Physical description: 1 videocassette (97 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A young man returns to the provincial Italian town where his anti-fascist father was murdered in 1936, hoping to find out how his father died
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Strategia del ragno
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: New York, N.Y. : New Yorker Video, 1990
Physical description: 1 videocassette (97 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A young man returns to the provincial Italian town where his anti-fascist father was murdered in 1936, hoping to find out how his father died
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Tales of mystery and imagination, [or Spirits of the dead]
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: Chicago, IL : Home Vision Cinema, [1999]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (121 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Metzengerstein is the tale of a young woman who believes the spirit of the cousin she loved, killed in a stable fire she started, is in a horse that escaped. William Wilson is the story of a mean-spirited Austrian officer who kills his doppelgänger in a duel. Toby Dammit is about a film star who takes off on a drunken spree after his film is completed
Contents: Metzengerstein / [directed by] Roger Vadim screenplay by Roger Vadim, Pascal Cousin, Clement Biddlewood -- William Wilson / [directed by] Louis Malle screenplay by Louis Malle and Clement Biddlewood -- Toby Dammit / [directed by] Federico Fellini liberally adapted from Edgar A. Poe's novel Don't wager your head to the devil
Language: In French and Italian with English subtitles
- Tales of mystery and imagination, [or Spirits of the dead]
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: Chicago, IL : Home Vision Cinema, [1999]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (121 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Metzengerstein is the tale of a young woman who believes the spirit of the cousin she loved, killed in a stable fire she started, is in a horse that escaped. William Wilson is the story of a mean-spirited Austrian officer who kills his doppelgänger in a duel. Toby Dammit is about a film star who takes off on a drunken spree after his film is completed
Contents: Metzengerstein / [directed by] Roger Vadim screenplay by Roger Vadim, Pascal Cousin, Clement Biddlewood -- William Wilson / [directed by] Louis Malle screenplay by Louis Malle and Clement Biddlewood -- Toby Dammit / [directed by] Federico Fellini liberally adapted from Edgar A. Poe's novel Don't wager your head to the devil
Language: In French and Italian with English subtitles
- The garden of the Finzi-Continis
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, c1997
Physical description: 1 videocassette (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: In Italy in 1938, Mussolini's anti-Semitic edicts begin to isolate the Jews from their communities. Among them are the Finzi-Continis, an aristocratic Jewish family forced for the first time to acknowledge the world beyond its fenced garden
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- The garden of the Finzi-Continis
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, c1997
Physical description: 1 videocassette (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: In Italy in 1938, Mussolini's anti-Semitic edicts begin to isolate the Jews from their communities. Among them are the Finzi-Continis, an aristocratic Jewish family forced for the first time to acknowledge the world beyond its fenced garden
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- The Gospel according to St. Matthew
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: [S.l.] : Vanguard Video, 1989
Physical description: 1 videocassette (136 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: The film, which won a Special Jury Prize at the 1964 Venice Film Festival, is different from other cinematic depictions of the life of Christ in that there is no screenplay per se. Pasolini limited himself to the account by Matthew only words written by the Saint are employed no additional dialogue was written and only scenes described by Matthew are shown. Pasolini used no professional actors (his mother played the older Mary) and he dedicated his film to the dear familiar memory of John XXIII.
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- The Gospel according to St. Matthew
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: [S.l.] : Vanguard Video, 1989
Physical description: 1 videocassette (136 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: The film, which won a Special Jury Prize at the 1964 Venice Film Festival, is different from other cinematic depictions of the life of Christ in that there is no screenplay per se. Pasolini limited himself to the account by Matthew only words written by the Saint are employed no additional dialogue was written and only scenes described by Matthew are shown. Pasolini used no professional actors (his mother played the older Mary) and he dedicated his film to the dear familiar memory of John XXIII.
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- The organizer
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: [U.S.] : Distributed by Hen's Tooth Video, c1997
Physical description: 1 videocassette (127 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: In 19th century Turin, an itinerant professor unites a ragtag group of textile workers in a strike against their factory
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- The organizer
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: [U.S.] : Distributed by Hen's Tooth Video, c1997
Physical description: 1 videocassette (127 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: In 19th century Turin, an itinerant professor unites a ragtag group of textile workers in a strike against their factory
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- The young and the passionate: Vitelloni
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: [Chicago : Distributed by Facets Multimedia, 199-?]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (106 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: Tells the story of five aimless young men in a small Italian town who behave irresponsibly, usually seeing no more in life than satisfying their animal desires
Language: Italian dialogue English subtitles
- The young and the passionate: Vitelloni
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: [Chicago : Distributed by Facets Multimedia, 199-?]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (106 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: Tells the story of five aimless young men in a small Italian town who behave irresponsibly, usually seeing no more in life than satisfying their animal desires
Language: Italian dialogue English subtitles
- Tosca's kiss: Il bacio di Tosca
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: Switzerland : Video Arts International, 1985
Physical description: 1 videocassette (87 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Visits Casa Verdi, a retirement home in Milan, Italy, which was founded by composer Giussepe Verdi for musicians who made their mark in the opera world. Observes the daily life of the residents, showing how they remain dedicated to their craft
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Tosca's kiss: Il bacio di Tosca
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: Switzerland : Video Arts International, 1985
Physical description: 1 videocassette (87 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Visits Casa Verdi, a retirement home in Milan, Italy, which was founded by composer Giussepe Verdi for musicians who made their mark in the opera world. Observes the daily life of the residents, showing how they remain dedicated to their craft
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
- Traviolti da un insolito destino nell'azzurro mare d'agosto: Swept away
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: New York, NY : Fox Lorber Home Video, 1996
Physical description: 1 videocassette (116 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A rich capitalist woman taunts and teases her working-class, Communist deckhand during a sailing party. A boating accident leaves them stranded together on a deserted island, and it is the deckhand's turn to humiliate his employer, but her eventual submission to him seems to leave them in love with each other
Language: Italian dialogue, English subtitles
- Traviolti da un insolito destino nell'azzurro mare d'agosto: Swept away
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: New York, NY : Fox Lorber Home Video, 1996
Physical description: 1 videocassette (116 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A rich capitalist woman taunts and teases her working-class, Communist deckhand during a sailing party. A boating accident leaves them stranded together on a deserted island, and it is the deckhand's turn to humiliate his employer, but her eventual submission to him seems to leave them in love with each other
Language: Italian dialogue, English subtitles
- Two women
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: [S.l.] : Nelson Entertainment, [1987?]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (VHS) (99 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: Portrays an Italian mother who along with her daughter is raped by soldiers during World War II tells how they find their way back to life and survive the horror of war
Language: Italian dialogue with English subtitles
- Umberto D.
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2003]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., b&w 4 3/4 in
Description: Follow Umberto D., an elderly pensioner, as he struggles to make ends meet during Italy's postwar economic boom. Alone, except for his dog, Flike, Umberto strives to maintain his dignity while trying to survive in a city where traditional human kindness seems to have lost out to the forces of modernization
Language: Soundtrack in Italian with optional English subtitles
- Umberto D.
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2003]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., b&w 4 3/4 in
Description: Follow Umberto D., an elderly pensioner, as he struggles to make ends meet during Italy's postwar economic boom. Alone, except for his dog, Flike, Umberto strives to maintain his dignity while trying to survive in a city where traditional human kindness seems to have lost out to the forces of modernization
Language: Soundtrack in Italian with optional English subtitles
- Valentino: the last emperor
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: [Santa Monica, Calif.] : Phase 4 Films, c2009
Physical description: 1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: It is a behind-the-scenes look at the world of fashion, featuring unprecedented access to the high temples of Haute Couture. Follows the legendary Valentino and his longtime business partner, Giancarlo Giammetti during the final two years of their careers, and shows the struggles the two men face as they confront the final act of a nearly 50-year career at the top of the world's most glamorous and competitive game. An intimate, engaging and very funny fly-on-the-wall exploration of the singular world of one of Italy's richest and most famous men. Tells the story of his extraordinary life and work, and also explores the larger themes affecting the fashion business today
Language: Soundtrack in English, French and Italian with subtitles in English, French, Italian and Spanish
- Walls of Malapaga
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: [S.l.] : International Film Festival [Chicago, IL : Facets, 1995]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (87 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: A French fugitive from justice and a sad Italian waitress meet in bombed-out post WW2 Genoa and bring much-needed happiness to each other's dreary lives
Language: In French and Italian with English subtitles
- Walls of Malapaga
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Publication information: [S.l.] : International Film Festival [Chicago, IL : Facets, 1995]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (87 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: A French fugitive from justice and a sad Italian waitress meet in bombed-out post WW2 Genoa and bring much-needed happiness to each other's dreary lives
Language: In French and Italian with English subtitles
- Wuthering Heights
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: [United States] : HBO Home Video [distributor], [1997]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., b&w 4 3/4 in
Description: A tortured love affair between Heathcliff and Cathy ends when Cathy marries the wealthy Edgar. Heathcliff's savage retaliation upon the woman he loves explodes in a stunning climax
Language: In English with optional soundtracks in Spanish, French or Italian optional subtitles in English, Spanish or French closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired
- Wuthering Heights
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: [United States] : HBO Home Video [distributor], [1997]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., b&w 4 3/4 in
Description: A tortured love affair between Heathcliff and Cathy ends when Cathy marries the wealthy Edgar. Heathcliff's savage retaliation upon the woman he loves explodes in a stunning climax
Language: In English with optional soundtracks in Spanish, French or Italian optional subtitles in English, Spanish or French closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired
Marianne Berger, Reference Librarian
630-942-2338
berger@cod.edu
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