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Titles that will enhance any French course by augmenting students' interest in topics covered in class. All new, factory fresh, sealed films, in either color or black and white.
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FA0025 100% ARABICA $39.95
1997, 85 mins., DVD, NR
In this light-hearted musical comedy with a message, a North African pop group called Rap Oriental uses music to triumph over the bigotry and violence in 100% Arabica, the housing project on the outskirts of Paris that they call home
MZ00AQ ABOUNA $35.95
M.S. Haroun, 2002, 92 minutes, NR ISBN:6307949805
The lives of two brothers, who live in N'djamena, are upended when they awake one morning to find that their father has left the family. They are Amine, eight years old, playful and asthmatic, and Tahir, 15, quiet and his brother's protector. The boys go in search of their father, and find only trouble.
BT1560 AMELIE $19.95
J.P Jeunet, DVD, 2001, R , 122 min.
Jeunet creates a world of color, movement and romance in a sensational film that charmed audiences around the world. Tautou is delightful as a fearless waitress/matchmaker resolved to help those around her find love and happiness.
The movie was shot on location in Paris. Winner of the Cesar Award for Best Film, Director, Music and Production Design.
BT0811 THE ACCIDENTAL HERO $26.95
Laurent Jaoui, 2003, 90 min, NR
A difficult teen copes with tumultuous life changes in this coming-of-age story from the celebrated French TV movie series “The Rebel Years”. Maillard is inclined to angry outbursts that overcome his worried single mother.When one of their arguments leads to a horrible car accident, their lives are forever changed. The movie ties in the
themes of identity, memory, and family.
BT1755 AVENUE MONTAIGNE $29.95
2006, 101 mins., DVD, G, ISBN: 9786311070543
Jessica is a beautiful young woman from the provinces who comes to Paris and lands a job waiting tables at a chic bistro on fabled Avenue Montaigne. Jessica's customers include some famous individuals. Precisely because Jessica doesn't know how celebrated these people are, her guileless and completely unintimidated engagement in their lives has a transforming effect on them – and ultimately her.
FA2066 BLACK AND WHITE IN COLOR-DVD $39.95
1976, Color, 92 Min.
Winner of the 1976 Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, this film is a satire based on racism, colonialism, and war. Set in the Ivory Coast during WWI, a group of French colonialists learn (too late) that they are at war with Germany and set off to destroy a German outpost.
FA68692 CHILDREN OF PARADISE $49.95
Marcel Carne, 1945, NR, 190 min., DVD
Set in the 1840s, when pantomime and melodrama were at their height on Paris’ famed theater street, the Boulevard du Crime, Marcel Carne’s delicate yet elaborate portrait ofthe actors and thieves who made the Boulevard their home has all the passion, intelligence and authority of a truly great work of art
BT765X LA CHEVRE (1981) DVD $39.95
Director: Francis Veber, Color, Widescreen, NR, 91 min.
The movie has a fun and energetic plot, lots of silly twists and fine acting. It is great for adults and kids alike. ‘Richard' teams up with ‘Depardieu' to find the daughter of French tycoon, kidnapped in Mexico. Both seem to be more able to find trouble than the missing girl, through a circus of accidents and bad luck.
FA700 CHOCOLAT (DVD) $19.95
2000, Color, French soundtrack, 121, PG-13
Julia Binoche and Johnny Depp star in this movie about individuality, love and acceptance of differences. A single mother arrives with her daughter in a small, conservative French town where at first she is shunned but gradually endears herself to all.
FA76494 THE CHORUS $39.99
Christophe Barratier, 2004, PG, DVD
Inspired by La Cage aux Rossignols, this film explores the uplifting effect that teachers can have on their students’lives. When an acclaimed orchestra conductor Pierre returns home to bury his mother, he fi nds his thoughts drifting to his childhood music instructor. Barratier’s film captures scenes from childhood and adulthood with great grace, lyricism, and poignancy.
BT7684 LES COMPERES (1984) DVD $35.95
Director: Francis Veber, Color, Widescreen, PG, 88min.
‘Les Comprères' is a must for French classrooms. Students 7th through 12th grades will laugh hysterically at the comical duo of ‘Depardieu' and ‘Richard'! When her 16 year old son runs away from their Paris home, Christine convinces two former lovers that they are the boy's father. Duped into a sense of responsibility, each man follows the boy's trail to Nice where along with finding their "son", they also find manic days battling Riviera bikers and casino racketeers ensue!!
BT7838 LE COMTE DE MONTE CRISTO (DVD) $39.95
1999, Color, French with English subtitles, 480 minutes.
France's foremost actor, Gérard Depardieu, leads an all-star international cast in this epic adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic tale of love, intrigue, and revenge. Filmed on location throughout Europe, the award-winning, critically-acclaimed video holds the distinction of being the most-watched program in the history of French television.
ORN505 CYRANO DE BERGERAC (DVD) $24.95
1990, color, French with English subtitles, 138 minutes
Directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau. The classic love story of the 17th Century soldier-adventurer and his enduring love for the beautiful, youngRoxane. Gérard Depardieu, Frances most celebrated actor, gives the performance of his career as the ill-fated, but heroic Cyrano. AcademyAward Best Costume Design. Nominated Best Foreign Film 1990
JAN040 DIABOLIQUE $39.95
1955, B&W, DVD, French with English subtitles, 107 minutes.
A taut suspense film by French director Henri Georges Clouzot that
rivals Hitchcock's best. A cruel schoolmaster is murdered by his wife and
mistress, or is he?? With Simone Signoret.
FA3234 THE DINNER GAME DVD $19.95
1998, French with English subtitles, 81 minutes
A hilarous comedy by Francis Veber, director of Les Comperes, about two friends, a wealthy publisher and his equally rich friend, competing against each other to find the most obnoxious guest possible. At first the guest seems like to be the perfect fit. However, as the plot develops, the guest unwittingly destroys the publisher's life. This is a fast and funny movie.
MZQSOC THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY $24.95
(2007), PG 13, 112 min.
This is a dazzling and expansive movie about love, imagination, and the will to live. After a stroke, Bauby can only move his left eye and through that eye he learns to communicate, one letter at a time. With the help of his speech therapist and a stenographer Bauby writes his memoirs
FA79739 THE FANNY TRILOGY $99.95
Marcel Pagnol, NR, 3 DVD Set
Marcel Pagnol’s charming humanist trilogy set amidst the seaside beauty of Marseilles is presented in its entirety in this impressive boxed set.
MARIUS
(Alexander Korda, 1931, 120 mins.), introduces Marius, son of the cafe owner, Cesar, who longs to go to sea in spite of his love for Fanny.
FANNY
(Marc Allegret, 1931, 120 mins.), the abandoned love discovers that she is pregnant by Marius, now at sea.She reluctantly accepts a marriage offer from an older man when Marius reappears. In the final film,
CESAR (Marcel Pagnol, 1936, 121 mins.), set twenty years after Marius, Fanny’s husband, and also Cesar’s best friend,has died and her son is at last told about his true father,the legendary Marius. All fi lms in French with English subtitles
MZ2J68 I'VE LOVED YOU SO LONG $29.95
Director:Philippe Claudel, 117 min.
Juliette Fontaine is a frail, haunted woman, an ex-doctor who's a shell of her former self. Having served 15 years in prison for an unspeakable crime, she's back on the "outside." With nowhere else to go, she comes to live with her loving but estranged sister Lea. Together the sisters embark on a painful but redemptive journey back from life's darkest edge in this gripping drama of struggle and salvation.
BT0425 INCH'ALLAH DIMANCHE $19.95
2006, 98 mins., DVD, NR, ISBN: 9786309275875
Zouina is a woman who is torn from her home in Algeria. With her three children and her abrupt mother-in-law, she rejoins her husband in France. She begins to take secret excursions with her children on Sundays, the one day that her husband and mother-in-law are out of the house. Through these little adventures, she comes to terms with the difficulties of immigration, change, and adaptation to a new culture.
FA74124 IS PARIS BURNING $19.95
Rene Clement, 1968, NR, DVD, 173 min.
The gripping heroism of the Allied Resistance during the Paris liberation of 1944 is depicted in this multi-storied war epic scripted by Francis Ford Coppola and Gore Vidal. The illustrious cast includes Jean-Paul Belmondo, Kirk Douglas, Yves Montand, and Orson Welles.
ORN018 JEAN DE FLORETTE & MANON DES SOURCES $29.95
1987, Color, DVD, 122 Min., PG-13
Marcel Pagnol's epic saga of deceit, surrounding a French farm family, and the struggle that eventually leads to their downfall. Depardieu stars as the ambitious humpback who inherits the apparently drought stricken farm, with Yves Montand as his scheming neighbor. Part II of the saga of Jean de Florette finds Manon, as a young woman fighting to expose the crimes against her family and avenge her father's untimely death.
BT7625 JOYEUX NOEL $26.95
C Carion, 2005, 116 mins., PG-13, DVD
View the true-life story of the spontaneous Christmas Eve truce declared by Scottish, French and German troops in the trenches of World War I. Enemies leave their weapons behind for one night as they band together in brotherhood and forget about the brutalities of war.
BT4222 LUMUMBA $29.99
Raoul Peck, 200, 115 min., NR, DVD
This enthralling drama depicts the true story of Patrice Emery Lumumba, the first leader of an independent Congo. The movie details how the U.S. government, through the CIA, conspired with Belgium to have Lumumba assassinated to protect business and Cold War power interests
BT7382 MADAME BROUETTE $19.95
M.S. Absa, DVD, Color, 2002 111 Minutes, R
Proud and independent Madame Brouette, survives by pushing her produce cart through the pathways of the market in Sandaga. She dreams to own a little restaurant. All seems well until one day at dawn, the Niayes Thiokeert district is awakened to the sound of gunfire.
JAN914 FORBIDDEN GAMES $39.95
1952, B&W, DVD, French with English subtitles, 102 minutes, Rated PG-13
Winner of numerous awards, this startling antiwar film, directed by
René Clément, is devastating without bloody battle scenes.
Through the poignant story of an orphan girl (played by the young Brigitte
Fossey) befriended by a peasant boy, we witness war's destruction of
innocence.
INT1390 LA GRANDE ILLUSION $49.95
1937, B & W, French with English subtitles, 111 minutes.
One of Jean Renoir's masterpieces, this film tells of two French
officers held in a German fortress during World War I. A story of
friendship and courage, the men creatively stage their escape over the
Alps.
FA645 INDOCHINE $29.95
1992, color, French with English subtitles, 160 minutes, Rated R
Catherine Deneuve plays a plantation owner in Southeast Asia in the
1930's. She searches for her adopted Vietnamese daughter, who has fallen
in love and become a revolutionary.
BT1058 MERCI POUR LE CHOCOLAT $34.95
DVD, Color, 2000, 99 Min., R.
In the style of Hitchcock, Claude Chabrol presents a chillingly entertaining tale of a wealthy chocolate heiress, her new husband, his son, and the unexpected appearance of a mysterious young woman who shatters their elegant façade.
BT4651 MOLIÈRE $29.95
2007, 115 mins., DVD, PG-13, ISBN: 9781424872787
Molière is rescued from debtor's prison by Monsieur Jourdain, a wealthy bourgeois, for his theatrical expertise to help him woo the beautiful Célimène, even as Molière falls in love with Elmire, Monsieur Jourdain's wife. It is from the heart of this tale, and from his passion for Elmire, that Molière the great dramatist is born.
BT5391 MY BEST FRIEND $24.95
2006, 95 mins., DVD, PG-13, ISBN: 9786311511213
Catherine refuses to believe that her business partner the unlikeable François has a best friend so she challenges him to set up an introduction. Scrambling to find someone willing to pose as his best pal, François enlists the services of a charming taxi driver to play the part. Nominated for two awards.
BT3873 MY FATHER'S GLORY $19.95
Yves Robert, France, 1990, 110 mins., G, ISBN:9780792853879
An 11-year-old boy spends an enchanting summer in the rugged French countryside with his family. The experience becomes a turning point in his young life and cements his relationship with his father. From the novel by Marcel Pagnol, this luminous film stars Philippe Caubere and Nathalie Roussel. In French with English subtitles.
BT3881 MY MOTHER'S CASTLE $19.95
Robert, France, 1990, 99 mins., PG, ISBN:9780792853886
In the companion film to My Father's Glory, a boy continues his love affair with the wild country of southern France. Through frequent family visits to their summer home, he learns to love and understand his mother's true nature. This is the unaffected conclusion to the story by Marcel Pagnol.
BT0040 LE PLACARD $ 19.95
DVD, 89 min., Directed by F.Veber
Pignon is about to lose his position, fortunately for him, his coworkers start a false rumor that is a closet homosexual. In order to be “politically correct” the firm keeps him employed. A sensational farce starring Depardieu, Autueil and Lhermitte.
AMZS4JI NIGHT OF TRUTH $34.95
F.R. Nacro, 2004, Color, DVD, 100 Minutes, NR
The ruling Nayak and the opposition Bonandes, have finally embarked on a path to peace after a decade of atrocities. To commemorate the reconciliation, a celebratory feast is planned. All seems to go well, until suddenly the fragile peace is shattered by the distant sound of drums that signal impeding trouble. Will the night of truth bring understanding or revenge?
MZA68W PERSEPOLIS $29.95
2007, PG 13, Director: Marjane Satrapi, 96 min.
A fascinating and wholly unexpected take on Iran’s Islamic revolution beginning in the 1970s, Persepolis is an enthralling animated feature about a spirited young woman who spends her life trying to deal with the consequences of her nation’s history.
MZ361M THE RED BALOON $14.95
1956, Director:Albert Lamorisse, Rating:G, 34 min.
Newly restored and available for the first time on DVD, Albert Lamorisse s exquisite The Red Balloon remains one of the most beloved children s films of all time. In this deceptively simple, nearly wordless tale, a young boy discovers a stray balloon, which seems to have a mind of its own, on the streets of Paris.
The Red Balloon has enchanted movie lovers, young and old, for generations.
MGM202 SMALL CHANGE DVD ONLY $24.95
1976, color, French with English subtitles, 105 minutes.
Directed by François Truffaut. "A child invents life,"
says François Truffaut, who brilliantly captures the joys,
yearnings, pain and wonder of childhood in this unforgettable film. The
setting is a small French town where Truffaut interweaves vignettes of
puppy love, school days, bragging rights, caring parents...and one boy's
escape from the nightmare of child abuse. Small Change is a
treasure! One of 1976's 10 Best Films--Time; One of 1976's 5 Best Foreign
Language Films--National Board of Review.
MZN0MQ THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE $14.95
2003, Color, DVD, French only, 107 Min, PG 13
A bicyclist is kidnapped from the Tour de France by mysterious gangsters; his grandmother travels to the city of Belleville where she tracks him down with the help of a musical trio gone to seed, the Belleville Triplets. In this hand-drawn movie; every scene mixes the silent comedy of Jacques Tati and Buster Keaton--in which the world of objects subtly fights with living beings for mastery. Unique and mesmerizing
FA2345 JEANNNE LA PUCELLE $39.95
The battles / The prisons (1997) DVD, J. Rivette, Part I 112 min., Part II 116 min., PG 13
Joan the Maid is a brilliant adaptation from the famous historical icon, Joan of Arc. It chronologically illustrates her story from her birth, her triumphant victories over the English, and her ultimate downfall and death at the stake.
MZQ7JC THE VALET / LA DOUBLURE $21.95
PG-13 85 min.,(2006)Director:Francis Veber
When a billionaire gets photographed next to his mistress he tries to persuade his wife that the model must be with the other man in the picture, a parking valet who was walking by. The valet agrees to the scheme because he hopes that the money he'll receive will win the heart of the bookstore owner he loves. The sneaky machinations of the characters multiply and cascade with delicious results, this movie is sly and engaging.
BT6839 LA VIE EN ROSE $29.95
2007, 141 mins., DVD, PG
The immortal story of French singer Edith Piaf's rise from a childhood on the streets of Paris to a career as the highest paid entertainer in the world during her time and the "soul of Paris". Marion Cotillard won the Academy Award in 2007 for Best Actress in this film, which features a number of Piaf's songs including La Vie en Rose, L'Eveil, and Mon Légionnaire.
FA025 LES VISITEURS $14.95
1994, Color, French, Subtitles, 107 min., R
This hilarious farce chronicles the misadventures of a medieval knight and his faithful sidekick when they suddenly find themselves in the present day. Their antics will keep you laughing, as they try to take over their former castle which is now a luxury hotel.
MZ0YWS YEELEN / BRIGHTNESS $39.95
S. Cissee, 1987, Color, DVD, 105 Minutes, NR
Yeelen is a mythic tale from Africa dealing with the spiritual forces of good and evil, darkness and light, as embodied in the form of a father and son.
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VY898 LE BOURGEOIS GENTILHOMME $39.95
1958, color, French with English subtitles, 97 minutes
Performed by the Comédie Française. A delightful
combination of music, dance and song. Words and music from Molière
and Jean-Baptiste Lully.
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CIVILISATION DES FRANÇAIS $99.95 Each 1 Hour Video Tape
One hour Video
Nine to fourteen short and comprehensive clips about France and the French, 2-3 minutes each, help keep students aware of French civilization. Four levels : beginning, intermediate, advanced, and perfection make them appropriate for all your classes. Each video includes a teachers guide with ideas on how to best use the information presented.