Film Movement (Firm)
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
[Fullscreen presentation].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Let the church say Amen: "Blocks away from the White House and the Capitol stands a tiny storefront church, endeavoring to combat the street violence, unemployment, and homelessness that threaten American families living in poverty. Over the course of a year, this feature-length documentary ... follows four church members as they work to fulfill their dreams for a better life."--Container.
A stolen moment: "In the future, the world has fallen victim...
2) Hop
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
All Justin and his father want is to enjoy a soccer game together. This sparks a chain of events that leads to his father's deportation, and Justin finds himself alone and on the run. Enlisting the help of a former anarchist, Justin embarks on a thrilling adventure to re-unite with his father. But to fight the system, he will need to apply the secret of the Hop.
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD video (approximately 86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The insider documentary by Lloyd Handwerker, grandson of Nathan Hanwerker, who founded the legendary Brooklyn eatery and iconic New York institution, Nathan's Famous, in Coney Island in 1916. Featuring interviews with extended family, friends and the employees who helped make Nathan's the prototype for fast-food made with quality, love and care. It is also very much a story of labor and a chronicle of the people who spent their lives in the employ...
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jude is a single mother who descends from a long line of Jamaican caregivers. Silence is a 'past his prime' boxer who fights illegally to survive. Ciel is a boy who delves into music, conjuring dreams for his mother. During the last week of summer, a late-night brawl finds the fighter in the nurse's care causing their three fates to be forever entwined.
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 7
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 digital videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tom is a charismatic late-night radio talk show host, whose unconventional upbringing has made him a little too quick to fall in love and marry, resulting in three divorces before the age of 40. Fay is his total opposite. Her romantic ideal has not yet been attained and is unlikely ever to be met due to her impossibly high expectations as a result of living with the perfection that is her parents' rock solid marriage.
6) Spare parts
Series
Film Movement volume 3, film 11
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Slovenian
Description
Hard-drinking, chain-smoking Ludvik spends his nights smuggling illegal refugees in his van from Croatia, across Slovenia, and into Italy. The young and inexperienced Rudi is his new assistant. Together they cope with life in a rundown town, home to the only nuclear power plant in former Yugoslavia.
7) Come undone
Series
Film Movement volume 8, film 3
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Come undone: A married woman becomes involved in a heated affair with a married waiter, and as their neatly ordered world falls apart, they are faced with a life-changing choice which neither is entirely prepared to make.
12 years: For twelve years, she ignored sneers and mockery and stood up for her relationship. But that was probably a mistake.
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Korean
Description
"Byong-man Jo and Gye-Yeul Kang have been inseparable companions for the past 76 years. Living in their small home by the river, they wear traditional Korean clothes, go shopping at the local market, have picnics with neighbors, and enjoy dance parties. Every night they go to sleep holding each other's hands. Observing this fragile couple for 15 months, director Moyoung Jin acts as a fly-on-the-wall, capturing their twilight days with tender moments...
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 12
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
[Widescreen ver.]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
"Three women: a mother, her daughter, and a prostitute have been living in a hotel in the center of town amid creeping fundamentalism. Goucem, the daughter, has chosen a modern, emancipated life, spending steamy weekends in nightclubs. Fifi, her faithful friend, prostitutes herself under the thumb of a local protector. Papicha, the mother, eats pizzas in front of the television, torn between fear and nostalgia"--Container.
10) Lake Tahoe
Series
Film Movement volume 7, film 3
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
After crashing the family car, teen-age Juan walks the streets all day searching for someone to help fix it. He meets an elderly mechanic whose only companion is a boxer dog, a young mother who wants to sing in a punk band, and a teenage mechanic who loves martial arts and Kung Fu philosophy. As the day drags on, it is revealed that the sadness and silence in Juan's family is due to the death of his father.
Después de chocar el auto de la famila,...
11) Somers Town
Series
Film Movement volume 7, film 8
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (70 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tomo, just turned sixteen, and released from social care, runs away to London from a lonely difficult life in the Midlands. Marek, a Polish immigrant, lives with his father who drinks with his friends most evenings after working on a construction site. Marek is a keen photographer, quiet and sensitive. He is not comfortable in his father's world. Both struggle to make sense of their new world, and a chance meeting in Somers Town, London leads the...
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
On a desolate island in the Arctic Circle, two men work at a small meteorological station, taking readings from their radioactive surroundings. One day while Sergei is out, inexperienced Pavel receives terrible news for Sergei from HQ. Intimidated, Pavel can't bring himself to disclose the information. When the truth is finally revealed, the consequences explode against a chilling backdrop of thick fog, sharp rocks, and the merciless Arctic Sea.
13) Time to die
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
The story of a former gunman who returns to his town after serving time in prison. He plans to live a quiet life, but the sons of the man he killed have other plans.
Series
Film Movement volume 8, film 11
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Romanian
Description
Silviu has only two weeks left before his release from a hostile juvenile detention center. But when his mother, who abandoned him long ago, returns to take his younger brother away--a brother Silviu raised like a son--those two weeks become an eternity. While his outcries for help fall on deaf ears, he is introduced to a beautiful social worker that he can only dream of being close to. Faced with a slew of conflicting emotions and wild with desperation,...
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 10
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A story of three sisters coming of age in a wildly dysfunctional family in the 1960s.
16) Carol's journey
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 2
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Carol, a 12-year-old Spanish-American girl from New York, travels with her mother to Spain in the spring of 1938, at the height of the Spanish Civil War. Separated from her beloved father, she arrives in her mother's home village and transforms the secretive family environment. Her innocence and rebellious nature drive her at first to reject a world that is both new and foreign. But she soon journeys into adulthood through a friendship with the village...
17) The seventh fire
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (76 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a Native American gang leader is sentenced to prison for a fifth time, he must confront his role in bringing violent drug culture into his beloved Ojibwe community.
18) Arranged
Series
Film Movement series. volume 5 volume film 12
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Arranged: Ditmas Park, Brooklyn. A young Orthodox woman, Rochel Meshenberg, is about to begin her first year as a special education teacher at the local public school. She is also about to begin the process of finding a husband via the time-tested method of using a "shadchen," or matchmaker. As the school year gets underway, Rochel meets Nasira Khaldi, a Muslim woman of Syrian descent. Nasira is also a first-year teacher. The two young women - Rochel...
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 6
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Maiquel lost a bet and had to dye his hair blonde. This triggers a head-on collision with destiny in which Maiquel goes from nobody to hero to outlaw-- all in 24 hours.
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
In the aftermath of World War II, France attempted to replenish its weakened work force by recruiting men from North Africa. In 1974, the French government relaxed its immigration policy by enacting the "family reunion" law, a euphemism which allowed families of Algerian men to join them. Zouina is a woman who parts tearfully from her mother in the port of Algiers; she finds herself feeling imprisoned between a distant husband who scorns her, a hostile...