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Publisher
University of Southern California Cinematic Arts
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A surreal, offbeat short film about a cockroach who falls in love with the woman whose apartment he infests. Roach shares Josephine's appreciation for early 20th century French classical music, and as she practices her accordion, he accompanies her on the violin, unbeknownst to her. They are perfect for each other. But, alas, Josephine has approximately 45,000 times Roach's body mass, and their reproductive systems are totally incompatible. Besides,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
A tender, revealing documentary about one of the most famous and popular performing artists of the 20th century. Her legendary banana belt dance created theatre history; her song "J'ai deux amours" became a classic, and her hymn. The film focuses on her life and work from a perspective that analyses images of Black people in popular culture. It portrays the artist in the mirror of European colonial cliches and presents her as a resistance fighter,...
Author
Series
Beyond Oak Island volume 5
Language
English
Description
The Laginas and Matty Blake offer their help to a team of treasure hunters in Utah, as they search deep underground for billions in gold at a site believed to be the legendary Lost Josephine Mine.
Publisher
Kino Lorber Inc
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
None
Description
Josephine Baker stars as an innocent girl from the tropics who has come to Paris and becomes a music hall performer, a laundress who stands in for the star of a musical and steals the show, and a North African woman who rises through Parisian society with the help of a French author.
Author
Language
Français
Description
It's a farcical romantic-comedy set in contemporary WWII France, about young lovers forbidden to marry by their respective families. Baker, as "Zazu," the owner of a nightclub, inherits a job restoring harmony between the two families and allowing the young lovers to 'se marier.' A mélange of French character actors add to the fun!
10) Breathe
Author
Language
Français
Description
A nuanced story of the depths and escalating passions found in female friendships, Breathe is Mélanie Laurent's (Inglorious Basterds, Beginnings) assured adaptation of the sensational French young-adult novel of the same name. Two young girls soon find their all-consuming friendship putting them on a trajectory toward an inevitable and extraordinary collapse.
Series
Criterion collection volume 505
Language
English
Formats
Description
"[A]n enormously moving Depression-era depiction of the frustrations of family, aging, and the generation gap. Beulah Bondi and Victor Moore ... as an elderly couple who must move in with their grown children after the bank takes their home."--Container.
12) The Immigrant
Author
Language
English
Description
An immigrant girl from Bosnia navigates vast social & economic differences while struggling to make a dignified life for herself in an alien society. She meets a privileged but aimless young Bostonian - an encounter that changes both in unexpected ways.
Language
English
Description
Tale of Josephine Monaghan, a young woman of the mid-nineteenth century who is thrown out of her parents' home after being seduced by the family's portrait photographer and giving birth to his child. Josephine quickly learns that young, female, pretty, and alone are a bad combination for life in the wild west. In her desperation to survive, Josephine disguises herself as "Jo", a young man.
14) She's French
Author
Language
English
Description
Put the word 'French' before 'woman' and who do you see? The 'chic' ideal of fashion and beauty campaigns? The female protagonist of a French film? Or the woman written about in endless media articles who has become the subject of dozens of books that sell in their millions around the world? This documentary asks where this obsession with French women originates and how our thinking about her might be a foreign invention: has the French woman become...
16) Young & innocent
Series
Publisher
Delta Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
[Young and innocent] When a woman's body is discovered on the beach by one of her former lovers, he races off to call the police. Two witnesses see him run and think he is the escaping killer. After being arrested, he manages to escape in the confusion at the courthouse. With the assistance of the constable's daughter, he tries to prove his innocence while avoiding pursing the police.
[The Cheney vase] A fired curator begins to manipulate an elderly...
Series
Publisher
[Lincoln Academy]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Rebecca Curtin discusses "Pioneer woman lawyer: Leila Robinson Sawtelle." Suffolk University School of Law professor Rebecca Curtin will relay the fascinating story of Leila Robinson Sawtelle, the first woman graduate of the Boston University Law School. When Leila was denied admission to the Massachusetts Bar, she successfully fought to change the law, eventually being admitted to practice before the Supreme Court and authoring two books about the...
18) Zou Zou
Series
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Français
Description
A star walks out on her sugardaddy producer for true love, and a talented Cinderella (Baker) takes her place, saves the show and is hailed as a new sensation opening night.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off watching some other movie," warns our narrator, Lemony Snicket. "In this movie," he continues gravely, "not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle." This is the story of the Baudelaire children -- three "clever and reasonably attractive orphans"--Who embark on a shaky adventure after their home burns down, killing...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Français
Description
After attempting to set a mailbox on fire, Pimpette, 14, and her elder sister, Joséphine, 18, spend their summer holidays shuttling between their secretly pregnant mom and bachelor father. But when Joséphine gets involved with the wrong crowd, little Pimpette turns out to be more responsible than the grown-ups who spend their time educating her.
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