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Matt — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:43:59 +0000

Art:21 : art in the twenty-first century. Season five / a production of Art21 Inc. ; series created by Susan Sollins and Susan Dowling.

Clando = Clandestine / Les Films du Raphia ; un film de Jean-Marie Teno.

Death in the garden.

Fados / Duvideo ; Fado Filmes ; Zebra Producciones ; produced by Ivan Dias, Luis Galvão Teles, and António Saura ; directed by Carlos Saura.

The foreign duck, the native duck and God in a coin locker / directed by Yosihiro Nakamura ; produced by Yasushi Utagawa, Hitoshi Endo ; produced by Amuse Soft Entertainment, Inc. ; SKY Perfect Well Think Co., Ltd. ; Yomiko Advertising Inc. ; dub Corporation ; Higashi Nippon Broadcasting Co., Ltd. ; The Kahoku Shimpo ; “2 Ducks” Film Partners.

Homo toxicus / produced by Les Productions ISCA ; producers, Carole Poliquin, Isaac Isitan ; written and directed by Carole Poliquin.

How sweet the sound / Joan Baez.

Inventing LA : the Chandlers and their Times / presented in association with KCET/Los Angeles ; writer/director/producer, Peter Jones.

Kurosing = Crossing / kamdok, Kim T’ae-gyun ; chejak, CampB.

OSS 117 : le Caire, nid d’espions / Gaumont presente ; une coproduction Mandarin Films, Gaumont, M6 Films ; scénario, Jean-François Halin ; produit par Eric et Nicolas Altmayer ; un film reálisé par Michel Hazanavicius.

La otra conquista = The other conquest / Carrasco & Domingo Films en asociación con Placido Domingo, Enrique Gonzalez Torres ; en co-producción con Sedesol ; Co Tabasco Films ; Conaculta / Fonca / Imcine ; Rada Film ; Grupo Funtanet ; Dova Productions ; una producción de Alvaro Domingo ; una película de Salvador Carrasco ; guión, dirección y edición [= written, directed and edited by], Salvador Carrasco.

Paraiso travel / director, Simon Brand.

Paris / un film de Cédric Klapisch ; produit par Bruno Levy ; scenario, Cédric Klapisch ; une coproduction, Ce Qui Me Meut, Studio Canal Image, France 2 Cinema.

Z / the Criterion Collection, Janus Films ; Valoria Films présente ; une co-production Reganne Films (Paris), Office National pour le Commerce et l’Industrie Cinématographique (Alger) ; dialogue de Jorge Semprun ; film de Costa-Gavras.

New at the Library

Matt — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:14:27 +0000

An angel at my table : a trilogy / produced by Hibiscus Films in association with the New Zealand Film Commission, Television New Zealand, Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Channel 4 ; Fine Line Features ; screenplay, Laura Jones ; produced by Bridget Ikin ; directed by Jane Campion.

Audition / a film by Takashi Miike ; screenplay by Daisuke Tengan ; produced by Akemi Suyama and Satoshi Fukushima ; directed by Takashi Miike.

Bardelys the magnificent ; plus, Monte Cristo : the lost films of John Gilbert

Bill T. Jones : dancing to the promised land / [presented by] View Video ; Bill T. Jones Arnie Zane and Company ; an Antelope West production for BBC Television in association with Thirteen-WNET and AMAYA Distribution ; produced and directed by Mischa Scorer.

Covek nije tica : l jubavni film = Man is not bird : a love story / Avala Film ; scenario i režija, Dušan Makavejev.

The Jeffersons. The complete first season.

Joan Baez in conversation with Anthony DeCurtis : recorded live at the 92nd Street Y in New York City.

Ljubavni slucaj, ili, Tragedija službenice P.T.T. = Love affair, or, The case of the missing switchboard operator / Avala Film ; scenario i režija, Dušan Makavejev.

Nevinost bez zaštite : novo izdanje jednog dobrog starog filma = Innocence unprotected / Avala Film prikazuje ; Dušan Makavejev priredio, ukrasio i snabdeo komentarima.

Richard Bangs’ Adventures with purpose. New Zealand, quest for Kaitiakitanga / Small World Productions, Inc. in association with KCTS/Seattle & Richard Bangs Productions.

Sof Shavua B’Tel Aviv = For my father / Israfilm ; Relevant Film ; directed by Dror Zahavi ; screenplay by Ido Dror, Jonatan Dror.

Sweetie / Janus Films ; Arena Film presents ; screenplay, Gerard Lee and Jane Campion ; producer, John Maynard ; director, Jane Campion.

Tierra de armarios = Closet land / directed by Radha Bharadwaj ; produced by Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Karen Koch, Janet Meyers.

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Matt — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:32:27 +0000

Hear and now : a film / HBO Documentary Films ; Vermilion [presents] ; produced, written, and directed by Irene Taylor Brodsky.

I want to be a mathematician : a conversation with Paul Halmos / a production of Zala FIlms ; produced and directed by George Paul Csicsery.

Die innere Sicherheit = The state I am in / a Schramm Film Koerner & Weber production in collaboration with Hessischer Rundfunk and ARTE ; screenwriters, Christian Petzold, Harun Farocki ; producers, Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael Weber ; director, Christian Petzold.

Marlene / written by Meir Dohnal, Maximilian Schell ; produced by Zev Braun, Karel Dirka ; directed by Maximilian Schell.

The national parks : America’s best idea / a production of Florentine Films and WETA Television ; written by Dayton Duncan ; produced by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns.

The United states of mathematics presidential debate / Mathematical Association of America ; Production by Bill Matthiesen.

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Matt — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:16:55 +0000

Beau Brummel / directed by Harry Beaumont ; screenplay by Dorothy Farnum.

The bronze screen : 100 years of the Latino image in Hollywood cinema / Bronze Screen Productions in association with the Latino Entertainment Media Institute ; producer/director, Susan Racho, Nancy de Los Santos ; writer, Nancy de Los Santos, Susan Racho.

Gigante / Film Movement presents The Match Factory ; Control Z Films … [et al.] ; guión y dirección Adrian Biniez.

Ichi

K-20 : legend of the mask / Toho Kabushiki Kaisha ; kantoku kyakuhon, Sato Shimako.

Nice colored girls / producer, director, writer, Tracey Moffatt.

When a man loves / Warner Brothers Pictures presents ; directed by Alan Crosland ; adaptation by Bess Meredyth.

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Matt — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:44:37 +0000

The betrayal = Nerakhoon / PandinLao Films presents ; a film by Ellen Kuras, Thavisouk Phrasavath ; a co-production with American Documentary/P.O.V. ; directed by Ellen Kuras, Thavisouk Phrasavath ; producers, Ellen Kuras, Flora Fernandez-Marengo ; written by Ellen Kuras Thavisouk Phrasavath.

Boogie man : the Lee Atwater story / directed, shot & edited by Stefan Forbes ; produced by Noland Walker & Stefan Forbes.

Brincando el charco : portrait of a Puerto Rican / Hipspic Productions ; co-production of National Latino Communications Center and Independent Television Service ; produced, written, and directed by Frances Negrón-Muntaner.

Cuba, Guatemala, El Salvador perspectives / produced by Globalvision, Inc.

Directed by John Ford / directed and written by Peter Bogdanovich ; produced by Frank Marshall.

Gervaise / Janus Films presents ; directed by René Clément; screenplay, Jean Aurenche, Pierre Bost.

Gugu datte neko de aru = Cher Gou-Gou … mon petit chat, mon petit ami / kyakuhon, kantoku, Inudo Isshin.

Happy flight / Toho Kabushiki Kaisha ; Yaguchi Shinobu kantoku sakuhin ; seisaku, Kameyama Chihiro ; kantoku kyakuhon, Yaguchi Shinobu.

Hell to pay / a Mira Films Production.

Las huellas borradas / Trastorno Films, Alta Films presentan una pelicula de Enrique Gabriel ; guión Lucía Lipschutz y Enrique Gabriel-Lipschutz.

al-Irhab wa-al-kabab / Aflam Misr al-’Arabiyah ; intaj ‘Isam Imam ; al-mu’allif Wahid Hamid ; ikhraj Sharif ‘Arafah = Terrorism & bar-b-que / script, Wahid Hamed ; producer, Essam Emam ; director, Sherif Arafa.

Le jour se lève / Janus Films presents ; directed by Marcel Carné ; screenplay by Jacques Viot.

Mayerling / Janus Films ; directed by Anatole Litvak ; screenplay by Joseph Kessel and Irma von Cube ; produced by Seymour Nebenzal.

Mustafa / NTV, Ko’medya ortak yapimi, yazan ve yöneten, Can Dündar ; yöneten yardimcisi, Haci Mehmet Duranoglu.

A place of rage / Channel Four Television.

Reassemblage : from the firelight to the screen / a film by Tr?nh T. Minh-hà.

Return to Kandahar / a film by Paul Jay & Nelofer Pazira ; produced, directed & edited by Paul Jay and Nelofer Pazira ; executive producer, David M. Ostriker ; produced by Icebreaker Films & j films inc. ; produced in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Rudo y Cursi / Sony Pictures Classics ; Cha Cha Chá presenta ; en asociación con Focus Features International y Universal Pictures International ; una película de Carlos Cuarón ; escrita y dirigida por Carlos Cuarón ; produced por Alfonso Cuarón, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Guillermo del Toro ; producida por Frida Torresblanco.

Señorita extraviada : missing young woman / a Xochitl Films production ; produced in collaboration with the Center for Independent Documentary ; a presentation of the Independent Television Service ; producer and director, Lourdes Portillo ; writers, Olivia Crawford, Julie Mackaman, Sharon Wood.

Sin nombre / Focus Features presents a Primary Productions/Canana production ; produced by Amy Kaufman ; written and directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga.

Sugar / Journeyman Pictures ; Hunting Lane Films ; Gowanus Projections ; Single A Films ; produced by Paul S. Mezey, Jamie Patricof, Jeremy Kipp Walker ; written by Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck ; directed by Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck.

Tron / Walt Disney Productions presents ; directed by Steven Lisberger ; screenplay by Steven Lisberger ; produced by Donald Kushner.

Trouble the water / an Elsewhere Films production ; directed and produced by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal .

Tulpan / Pallas Film ; Cobra Film AG ; Eurasia Film ; Filmcontract Ltd. ; Pandora Films ; produced by Karl Baumgartner, Thanassis Karathanos ; written by Sergei Dvortsevoy, Gennadi Ostrovsky ; directed by Sergei Dvortsevoy.

Wagon master / RKO Radio Pictures, inc. ; directed by John Ford ; produced by John Ford, Merian C. Cooper ; written by Frank Nugent, Patrick Ford.

Walden : diaries, notes and sketches 1969, 16 mm color 180′ / Jonas Mekas.

Women and work in Africa / script and photograph selection: Doranne Jacobson.

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Matt — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:56:54 +0000

Adolescent cognition : thinking in a new key / Davidson Films, Inc. present ; written by David Elkind ; producer, Frances W. Davidson ; director, John M. Davidson.

African dance : sand, drum and Shostakovich / Kinodance ; producer & director: Ken Glazebrook, Alla Kovgan.

Bordertown / director, Gregory Nava.

La captive / Paulo Branco présente ; scénario, Chantal Akerman, Erik de Kuyper ; une coproduction Gemini Films, Arte France Cinema, Paradise Films avec la participation de Canal+, Centre national de la cinématographie, Gimages 3 ; produit par Paulo Branco ; un film de Chantal Akerman.

Carmen Miranda : bananas is my business / a film by Helena Solberg and David Meyer ; directed and narrated by Helena Solberg ; produced by David Meyer and Helena Solberg ; an International Cinema production in association with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Channel 4 Television and the National Latino Communications Center.

Chicana / a film by Sylvia Morales.

Cursive II / a ballet by Lin Hwai-min for the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan.

Daughters of wisdom = Ye ses rgyud ‘dzin ma / produced and directed by Bari Pearlman ; BTG Productions.

Frida / Miramax Films presents in association with Margaret Rose Perenchio a Ventanarosa production in association with Lions Gate Films, a film by Julie Taymor ; produced by Sarah Green, Salma Hayek, Jay Polstein … [et al.] ; screenplay by Clancy Sigal … [et al.] ; directed by Julie Taymor.

Gaumont treasures, 1897-1913 / by Alice Guy, Louis Feuillade, Léonce Perret.

The girl who leapt through time / director, Mamoru Hosoda.

The human condition / Shochiko Co. ; Janus Films ; producer, Shigeru Wakatsuki ; director, Masaki Kobayashi.

Little women / Radio Pictures ; directed by George Cukor ; screenplay by Sarah Y. Mason & Victor Heerman.

Mi vida loca / [presented by] HBO Showcase ; in association with Film Four International ; a Cineville production ; produced by Daniel Hassid, Carl-Jan Colpaert ; written and directed by Allison Anders.

The mummy / Universal Pictures.

A powerful noise / Sheila C. Johnson presents ; a film by Scott Thigpen & Tom Cappello ; directed by Tom Cappello ; produced by Scott Thigpen ; a Unify Films production in association with Crazy Legs Productions.

Sita sings the blues / Your Name Here presents ; in association with Your Money ; a Funded by You production ; a film by Nina Paley ; directed, written, produced, designed and animated by Nina Paley.

Sukai kurora = The sky crawlers / presented by NTV and Production IG ; director, Mamoru Oshii ; screenplay by Chihiro Ito ; producer: Tomohiko Ishii.

Summer days with Coo.

A tale of sorrow / a Shochiku production.

Zen / directed by Banmei Takahashi.

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Matt — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:10:44 +0000

Bella / Metanoia Films presents ; directed by Alejandro G. Monteverde ; produced by Eduardo Verástegui … [et al.] ; written by Alejandro G. Monteverde, Patrick Million, Leo Severino.

Hito no sekkusu o warauna = Don’t laugh at my romance / kyakuhon, Honcho Yuka & Iguchi Nami ; kantoku, Iguchi Nami.

Maniac / [presented by] Hollywood Producers & Distributors ; produced by Louis Sonney ; written by Hildagarde Esper ; directed by Dwain Esper. Narcotic / produced by Hildagarde Esper ; story by A.J. Karnopp ; directed by Vival Sodar’t ; as interpreted by Dwain Esper.