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J. S. BACH
[fs 2820 VHS 28min 1986]
Juan Downey's documentary on J. S. Bach places the famous composer's career and his powerful music in counterpoint with the gritty reality of his life.
THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM (first series)
[fs 6709-17 VHS bw 9 tapes 55min ea 1951-1958]
The early episodes. Include many original network commercials.
  • [6709] "Lunch Counter Murder" (with Humphrey Bogart)
  • [6710] "Hong Kong Suit"(with Fred Allen).
  • [6711] ""How Jack Found Mary" (with Dorothy Shea).
  • [6712] Guest stars Bing Crosby, George Burns, Bob Crosby.
  • [6713] "Jack Casting for TV Special" (with Jayne Mansfield).
  • [6714] "Jack Goes Christmas Shopping"; "Don's Anniversary".
  • [6715] Guest stars Liberace and Bob Hope.
  • [6716] "4 O'Clock in the Morning"; "Jack Rents His House".
  • [6717] Guest stars Julie London and Marilyn Monroe (in her first TV appearance).
THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM (second series)
[fs 6704-8 VHS bw 5 tapes 50min ea1958-1964]
More of the classic early television program.
  • [6703; also JHVC 7009] 51min
    "The Christmas Show
    "The Railroad Station" (Mel Blanc).
  • [6704] 51min
    "Johnny Carson Guests"
    Jack Takes Boat to Hawaii (Jayne Mansfield guests stars).
  • [6705] 50min
    "Jack on Trial for Murder (with Raymond Burr)
    "Jack Plays Tarzan" (with Carol Burnett).
  • [6706] 51min
    "Jack is Kidnapped" (with George Burns)
    "The Lucille Ball Show"
  • [6707] 50min
    "The Peter Lorre/Joanie Sommers Show"
    "The Smothers Brothers Show"
  • [6708] 49min
    "The Income Tax Show" (with Jimmy Stewart)
    "Jack Adopts a Son" (with Milton Berle).
JACKIE BROWN
[fs 6701VHS 155min 1997 dir:Quentin Tarantino cast:Pam Grier, Samuel Jackson]
Six people, including a stewardess, gun runner, ex-con, beach bunny and federal agent, all after a half million dollars in cash.
THE JACKIE ROBINSON STORY
[fs 3736 VHS 76min bw 1950 dir:Alfred E. Green cast:Jackie Robinson; Ruby Dee]
The life of the baseball player, concentrating on the racism he had to endure to become the first person of African ancestry to play major league baseball.
JACOB THE LIAR
See JAKOB, DER LÜGNER.
JACQUES LACAN'S PSYCHOANALYSIS part one
[fs 4909 VHS 60min bw French subt 1974]
Interviews with the French Freudian help explain his psychological theories.
JACQUES LE FATALISTE
[6796-97 VHS French 120min 1991 cast:François Perier]
Filmed version of Diderot's novel.
    Part 1 [6796]
    Part 2 [6797]
JACQUOT
[fs 4035 VHS 118min French subt 1991 dir:Agnčs Varda cast:Philippe Maron; Edouard Joubeaud]
A biographical tribute to director Jacques Demy, deceased husband of Varda, concentrating on his fascination with cinema.
JADE DRAGONHEAD SCEPTER
[2084 u-matic 60min Chinese]
Taiwanese video drama concerning a priceless artifact which has been pawned.
JAGUAR
[0505 VHS 93min dir:Jean Rouch]
A group of young men leave their village on the Niger and travel to the Gold Coast in search of adventure, wealth, and stories to bring home.
JAILHOUSE ROCK
[fs 5219 LaserCLV1 9399 DVD 92min bw 1957 dir:Richard Thorpe cast:Elvis Presley; Judy Tyler]
Stoller and Lieber songs. A young man is sent to prison for manslaughter and takes up singing to rehabilitate himself.
JAKOB, DER LÜGNER(JACOB THE LIAR)
[7255 VHS 96min. 1974 German/sub dir:Frank Beyer cast:Armin Müller-Stahl. Vlastimil Brodsky]
During Hitler's Holocaust, a Jewish Pole's ghetto neighbors believe he has a radio which gives encouraging news of Russian victories.
JALSAGHAR (The Music Room)
[fs6581 VHS Bengali language sub 100min 1958 dir:Satyajit Ray ]
Chekovian story of an aging, proud Indian nobleman who undergoes a slow decline after he throws a lavish party to spite his neighbor.
JAMAICA INN
[fs 3519 VHS 9027 DVD 10039 DVD 9591 DVD 98min bw 1939 dir:Alfred Hitchcock cast:Charles Laughton; Maureen O'Hara]
In old Cornwall an orphan girl gets involved with smugglers.
JAMES BALDWIN: The Price of the Ticket
[4588 VHS 87min 1990]
A biography of the black author whose main personal and literary cause was the Civil Rights movement.
JAMES BALDWIN
[6977 VHS 54min 199? ]
BBC Great Writers series documents the life and work of the African-American author, including involvement in Civil Rights.
JAMES JOYCE'S ULYSSES
See ULYSSES.
JAMES JOYCE'S WOMEN
[fs 3996 VHS 91min 1985 dir:Michel Pearce cast:Fionnula Flanagan]
Depicts the writer's intimate relationships with three key women in his life and dramatizes three of his female fictional characters.
JAN SVANKMEJER: Alchemist of the Surreal
[fs 4609 VHS 60min dir:Jan Svankmejer]
A collection of films by the Czech master of animation.
  • Dimensions of Dialogue [12min 1982]
  • The last Trick [12min 1964]
  • Punch and Judy [8min 1966]
  • Et Cetera [8min 1966]
  • Jabberwocky [14min 1971]
JANE EYRE
[fs 5110 LaserCLV1 96min bw 1944 dir:Robert Stevenson cast:Orson Welles; Joan Fontaine]
A young governess falls in love with her mysterious employer. From the novel by Charlotte Brontë.
JANINE
[fs 4569 VHS 9min 199? dir:Cheryl Dunye]
A black woman recalls her white childhood friend Janine and the racialbias she endured because of homosexual yearnings.
JAPAN: A Proper Place in the World
[2589 VHS 57min]
A political and economic history of Japan, from before World War II until the present.
JAPAN: The Changing Tradition
[VHS 29min each 1978]
Documentary series on the history of Japan.
  • The Cross and the Gun
    [2594]
    First contacts with the West in the 16th Century.
  • Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarian
    [2595]
    Commercial treaty with the U.S., 1854-1868.
  • Rich Country, Strong Military
    [2596]
    From feudal state to world power in the last half of the 19th century.
  • Men of Action
    [2597]
    The Taisko Period, (1912-1945).
  • Rebirth of a Nation
    [2598]
    Rebuilding of Japan after World War.
  • Made in Japan
    [2599]
    Reasons for Japan's current economic strength.
JAPAN: The Living Tradition
[VHS 28min each 1976]
Documentary series on the cultural history of Japan.
  • Early Japan, Pt.1
    [3724]
    Begins with the three prehistoric periods: Jomun; Yayoi, and Kofun.
  • Early Japan, Pt.2
    [3725]
    Discusses the Heian Period, the imperial court, Buddhism, and the writing system.
  • The Feudal Experience, Pt.1
    [3726]
    Focuses on the first two stages of feudalism, the Kamakura and Ashikaga Periods.
  • The Feudal Experience, Pt.2
    [3727]
    Describes the third stage of feudalism in which strong political control brought peace and urbanization.
THE JAPANESE VERSION
[3549 VHS 56min 1991]
Documentary on Japanese culture that concentrates on the Japanese appetite for the material artifacts of foreign - and especially American - culture.
JAWS
[fs9400 DVD 125min. 1975 dir:Steven Spielberg cast:Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider]
Peter Benchley's horror novel of a single-minded shark munching on New England tourists and villagers, and the variously-minded men who hunt it.
JAZZ
[fs DVD 2000 dir:Ken Burns]
Documentary, drawing on archival film, recordings, photos, and interviews, including new interviews and critical analyses. Focusses on personalities of great musicians. DVD allows titling of the music being heard.
  • 1. GUMBO
    [ 9502 90min.]
    Beginnings to 1907: In New Orleans, many kinds of music come together to define the first jazz traditions.
  • 2. THE GIFT
    [ 9503 120min.]
    1917-1924. Louis Armstrong in Chicago and Duke Ellington in New York initiate the Jazz Age.
  • 3. OUR LANGUAGE
    [ 9504 120min.]
    1924-1928. The boom of the 20s allows the music of Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong to prosper as a recognized American art form.
  • 4. THE TRUE WELCOME
    [ 9505 120min.]
    1929-1935. The Big Band era breaks out from Harlem dance halls into the mainstream, with Benny Goodman at the fore.
  • 5. SWING: PURE PLEASURE
    [ 9506 90min.]
    1935-1937. Goodman, Dorsey, Miller, Shaw form their bands, and Swing becomes a thriving business. Billie Holiday becomes a star.
  • 6. SWING: THE VELOCITY OF CELEBRATION
    [ 9507 105min.]
    1937-1939. Count Basie, Lester Young, Ella Fitzgerald, and Coleman Hawkins join other great names of the Depression's music.
  • 7. DEDICATED TO CHAOS [ 9508 120min.]
    1940-1945. Throughout World War II jazz is an inspiration to Americans abroad and at home. Bebop begins.
  • 8: RISK [ 9509 120min.]
    1945-1955. Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie bring bebop to prominence, while Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, and Gerry Mulligan attract new audiences.
  • 9. THE ADVENTURE
    [ 9510 120min.]
    1956-1960. Louis Armstrong becomes part of the Civil Rights movement; Davis, Rollins, Coltrane, and Ornette Coleman launch an avant garde movement.
  • 10. A MASTERPIECE BY MIDNIGHT
    [ 9511 120min.]
    1961-present. Jazz finds its place in a culture whose pop music is now rock and roll.
THE JAZZ AGE 1919-1929
[0005 VHS 52min bw 1965]
Henry Salomon compilation of archival film, narrated by Fred Allen, gives a fast and amusing trip from the Treaty of Versailles to Black Tuesday, looking in on the KKK, voting women, prohibition, Lindberg's flight, and of course the stock market.
THE JAZZ SINGER
[fs 1208-1209 16mm JHVC 7037 VHS 89min bw 1927 dir:Alan Crosland cast:Al Jolson; May McAvoy]
The son of a Jewish cantor would rather sing jazz. First movie with synchronized soundtrack.
See also fs 5265LD AL JOLSON COLLECTION
JEAN GENET: Les Bonnes
[6250 VHS 110min French 1991]
Stage play about two treacherous maid-servants who simultaneously love and hate their mistress.
JEAN HARLOW COLLECTION
[fs5422]
4 1932-35 black-and-white films starring Harlow on 3 laserdiscs.
  • Red-Headed Woman
    [5422a ]
    See RED-HEADED WOMAN .
  • Bombshell
    [5422a-b ]
    See BOMBSHELL
  • Girl from Missouri
    5422b-c ]
    See GIRL FROM MISSOURI
  • Reckless
    [5422c 97min. 1935 dir:Victor Fleming cast:William Powell, Franchot Tone]
    A Broadway star is admired both by a wealthy playboy and by her shady agent.
JEFFREY
[fs 6295 VHS 92min 1995 dir:Christopher Ashley cast:Patrick Stewart; Stephen Weber]
A young gay man vows to give up on love because of the AIDS epidemic, even though he’s just met someone special.
JE TU IL ELLE
[fs 3431 VHS 90min French subt 1974 dir:Chantal Akerman cast:Chantal Akerman]
Semi-autobiographical film about sexuality from the female perspective
.
JENNY LAMOUR
[fs 3081 VHS 102min bw dubbed 1948 dir:Henri-Georges Clouzot cast:Louis Jouvet; Bernard Blier; Suzy Delair]
A pair of forlorn lovers become implicated in the murder of a sleazy film producer.
JERUSALEM: WITHIN THESE WALLS ()
[7258 VHS 59min. 1986 National Geographic special on the history and conflicts of the Old City.]
Jewish Studies, Israeli history, religion
JESSE JAMES
[fs 3004 VHS 105min 1939 dir:Henry King cast:Tyrone Power; Henry Fonda]
After the Civil War, when railroad employees harass their family, two brothers begin robbing trains.
LA JETÉE
[fs 0658 16mm 3116 VHS 30min bw French subt 1962 dir:Chris Marker]
Survivors of World War III seek help through time travel but one man finds only his own death.
See also FRENCH AVANT GARDE SHORTS (VHS) and SHORT CINEMA JOURNAL 1.2 (DVD).
JEWISH AMERICAN
[0486 VHS 26min bw 1974]
"A Storm of Strangers" series. The Jewish immigrant experience in turn-of-the-century New York City.
JEWS IN MANY LANDS
Documentary series describing Jewish subcultures in many parts of the world. See individual descriptions. Titles include:
THE JEWS OF DJERBA
[7242 VHS 26min 1977]
An ancient Jewish colony on the island of Djerba near Tunisia.
JEWS OF POLAND
[7245 VHS 50min bw 1938-1939]
A filmed tour of five cities in Poland prior to the war showing general places of interest and Jewish landmarks and neighborhoods.
JEZEBEL
[fs 3833 VHS; 5153 Laser 9401 DVD 105min bw 1938 dir:William Wyler cast:Bette Davis; Henry Fonda; George Brent]
Before the Civil War, a southern belle stirs up trouble among the menfolk by her wilfulness and spite, but atones when a plague strikes.
JFK: THE DIRECTOR'S CUT
[fs5630 LD 189min 1991 dir:Oliver Stone cast:Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Kevin Bacon, Tommy Lee Jones, Sissy Spacek]
Brave New Orleans DA uncovers a conspiracy of gays, commies, and the FBI.
JFK: From Boyhood to Presidency
[2779 VHS 60min 1983]
Documentary on John F. Kennedy narrated by Cliff Robertson.
JLG/JLG
[fs 4959 VHS 65min French subt 1994 dir:Jean-Luc Godard]
"Godard stars in JLG/JLG as a fictional character of his own creation musing about in his actual home..."
JOAN BRADERMAN READS THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER
[fs 2007 u-matic 28min 1983]
A discourse by Joan Braderman on the National Enquirer and why she reads it.
Joan the Woman
fs 5470LD
See CECIL B. DEMILLE: The Greatest Showman on Earth
JOBIM:AN ALL-STAR TRIBUTE
[6751VHS 60min]
Music of the co-founder and leading composer of Bossa Nova music performed by jazz musicians and Antonio Carlos Jobim himself.
JOE KIDD
[fs 9100 DVD 88min 1971 dir:John Sturges cast:Clint Eastwood; Robert Duvall; John Saxon ]
A hired gun takes action in a land war in New Mexico at the turn of the century.
JOE'S BED-STUY BARBERSHOP: We Cut Heads
[fs 4853 VHS 60min 1983 dir:Spike Lee]
A slice of Black urban life. Spike Lee's thesis film at New York University.
JOHANNA D'ARC OF MONGOLIA
[4284-4285 VHS 165min French German subt 1989 dir:Ulrike Ottinger cast:Delphine Seyrig]
Seven female passengers on a Trans-Siberian Express train are abducted by Mongol horsewomen and introduced to life on the plains of Inner Mongolia.
JOHN CAGE: The Initiation of a New Composition for the Third Time
[fs 2035 u-matic 28min 1978]
Richard Kostelanetz interviews John Cage who is perhaps saying something funny about James Joyce's Ulysses.
JOHN WAYNE RKO COLLECTION
[fs5483]
6 westerns and war movies from 1949-1958 on 6 laserdiscs designated A-F
  • Allegheny Uprising
    [5483a 81min bw 1939 dir:William A Seiter cast:John Wayne; Claire Trevor]
    Just before the Revolutionary War a Pennsylvania colonist leads a revolt against the British.
  • Tall in the Saddle
    [5483a-b 87min bw 1944 dir:Edward L. Marin cast:John Wayne; Ella Raines]
    A ranch foreman tries to solve a murder mystery while avoiding predatory females.
  • Back to Bataan
    [5483b-c 94min bw 1945 dir:Edward Dmytryk cast:John Wayne; Anthony Quinn]
    Based on the true story of an American officer who stayed in the Philippines to organize a resistance against the Japanese during World War II.
  • Fort Apache
    [5483c-d ]
    See FORT APACHE
  • She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
    [5483d-e ]
    See SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON
  • Flying Leathernecks
    [5483e-f 102min 1951 dir:Nicholas Ray cast:John Wayne; Robert Ryan]
    A Marine fighter squadron commander has his rigid ways called into question by his second-in-command during the battle of Guadalcanal in World War II.
JOHN WIDEMAN
[4585 VHS 26min bw 1992]
An interview with a black writer who discusses the dilemma of being a black intellectual writing about lower-class blacks, when his primary literary audience must be middle class whites.
JOHNNY GUITAR
[fs 4996 VHS 116min 1954 dir:Nicholas Ray cast:Joan Crawford; Sterling Hayden; Mercedes McCambridge]
Two power-hungry women fight to take over a western town.
JOHNNY MNEMONIC
[fs 5604 LD 98min 1995 dir:Robert Longo cast:Keanu Reeves]
William Gibson's hero goes underground to download his brain.
JOHNNY STECCHINO
[4882 VHS 100min Italian subt 1992 dir:Roberto Benigni cast:Benigni]
A scheming wife complicates the life of her husband who happens to look like a notorious mafia boss.
LE JOLI MAI
[fs 2523 VHS 124min bw English French subt 1962 dir:Chris Marker; Pierre Lhomme]
An informal sampling of life in Paris in May of 1962.
JOLSON SINGS AGAIN
[fs 6719VHS 96min 1949 dir:Henry Levin cast:Larry Parks; Barbara Hale; Virginia Mullen]
AlJolson exits retirement, is no longer popular on Broadway and is enlisted to entertain troops during the war.
THE JOLSON STORY
[fs 6718 VHS 128min 1946 dir:Alfred E. Green cast:Larry Parks; Evelyn Keyes]
Film biography;songs dubbed by Al Jolson himself.
JOMO KENYATTA
See AGAINST THE ODDS: Jomo Kenyatta
JONAH WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000
[fs 4796 VHS 110min French subt 1976 dir:Alain Tanner cast:Jean-Luc Bideau; Myriam Meziere; Miou-Miou]
Eight characters who were marked by events in 1968 are drawn together to tell their stories.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
[4680 VHS 76min 1983]
"..weaves together dramatized sequences from Borges' stories with a rare interview of the author..."
JOSEPH ANDREWS
[fs 2624 VHS 99min 1976 dir:Tony Richardson cast:Ann-Margaret; Peter Firth]
Farce based on concealed identities adapted from the Henry Fielding novel.
JOSEPH BEUYS - Interview
[fs 2009 u-matic 55min 1980]
Joseph Beuys discusses his early interest in the sciences and how this interest evolved into his development as an artist.
JOSEPH BRODSKY: A MADDENING SPACE
[ 6483 VHS 60min. 1991 ]
Documentary follows the exiled Russian poet, a Nobel prize winner, discussing his ordeals in Communist Soviet Russia and his life in the United States.
JOSEPH MCCARTHY
[0528 VHS 26min bw]
A biography of the American politician famous for seeking out communists in America in the early 1950s.
JOUR DE FÊTE (Holiday)
[fs 4313 VHS 5374 LaserCLV1 76min bw French subt 1948 dir:Jacques Tati]
A French village postman, having viewed a documentary on the American postal system, sets out to deliver mail much more quickly.
LE JOUR SE LÈVE (Daybreak)
[fs 3096 3656 VHS 88min bw French subt 1939 dir:Marcel Carné cast:Jean Gabin; Arletty]
An otherwise honorable man spontaneously kills a rival for the affections of a young woman and awaits his doom barricaded in his apartment.
Le Journal d'une femme de chambre (The Diary of a Chambermaid)
[9837 DVD 98min bw French (English subtitles) 1964 dir:Luis Bunel cast:Jeanne Moreau, Michel Piccoli]
This adaptation of the Octave Mirbeau novel presents celestine, a Parisian chambermaid who,upon arrival at her new job at an estate in provincial 1930s France, entrenches herself in sexual hypocrisy and scandal with her philandering employer. A tangle of fetishism and murder, the fim is a scathing look at the burgeoning French facism of the era.
THE JOURNEY
[JHVC 7148 VHS 34min 1989 ]
Russia, 1941: an American engineer teaches a young Jewish boy to care about his heritage.
JOURNEY INTO FEAR
[fs 3414 VHS 71min bw 1942 dirs:Norman Foster; Orson Welles cast:Joseph Cotten; Dolores del Rio]
An American munitions expert becomes the target of Nazi assassins in Istanbul.
JOURNEY INTO SELF
[1059 16mm 47min bw 1968]
Documents an ecounter group session.
JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF TIME
[fs9430 DVD 83min. 1967 dir:David Hewitt CAST:Lyle Waggoner ]
A fun trip when a nuclear reactor sends a crew into a time trap.
JOURNEY TO THE FORGOTTEN RIVER
[2049 u-matic 60min 1990]
National Geographic documentary of a drought in northern Botswana during the decade of the 1980s.
JOURNEYS FROM BERLIN/1971
[fs 3988 VHS 125min 1980 dir:Yvonne Rainer]
A feminine meditation on politics and terrorism of the seventies as public events parallel private ones.
THE JOY LUCK CLUB
[fs 5310 LaserCLV2 139min 1994 dir:Wayne Wang]
Based on the novel by Amy Tan about generations of Chinese women from China to America.
JOYLESS STREET
[fs 3113 VHS 4399 VHS 90min bw silent 1925 dir:G. W. Pabst cast:Asta Nielsen; Greta Garbo]
A neighborhood of Vienna after World War I lapses into economic and moral decay.
JU DOU
[fs 3626 VHS 98min Chinese subt 1990 dirs:Zhang Yi-mou; Yang Fengliang]
A mill owner's battered wife takes a secret lover and the resulting son eventually seals their doom.
JUAREZ
[0807 16mm 29min bw 1930]
Dramatizes the Mexican revolution of 1863-1867 between the forces of Benito Juarez and Emperor Maximilian.
JUBAL
[fs 5051 LaserCLV1 101min 1956 dir:Delmer Daves cast:Glenn Ford; Ernest Borgnine; Rod Steiger]
A rancher's wife lusts for a hired hand, while another hired hand lusts for her.
JUD SÜß
[fs 3933 VHS 97min bw German subt 1940 dir:Veit Harlan]
The story of an ambitious 18th-century Jew executed for misappropriating state funds turned into an antisemitic propaganda instrument for Nazi Germany.
JUDGEMENT AT NUREMBERG 1
[JHVC 7106 VHS 187min 1961 dir:Stanley Kramer cast:Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Maximiliian Schell]
An American court tries four Nazi judges for war crimes in connection with the Holocaust.
JUDITH OF BETHULIA
[fs 0376-0377 16mm (45min) 4081 VHS (63min) 5283 LaserCLV1 (59min) bw silent 1913 dir:D. W. Griffith cast:Blanche Sweet; Henry B. Walthall; Lillian Gish; Dorothy Gish; Mae Marsh]
A widow in a city besieged by Assyrians courts their leader and beheads him.
JULES ET JIM
[fs 4196 VHS 5025 LaserCLV1 105min bw French subt 1961 dir:François Truffaut cast:Jeanne Moreau; Oskar Werner; Henri Serre]
A love triangle set in Post-World War I France: a Frenchman, a German and the woman they both love.
JULIET OF THE SPIRITS
[fs 3487 VHS 148min Italian subt 1965 dir:Federico Fellini cast:Giuletta Masina; Sylvia Koscina]
A surrealistic fantasy is triggered by a wife's fears that her well-to-do husband is cheating on her.
JULIUS CAESAR
[6521 VHS 6930 VHS 122min b/w 1952 dir:Joseph Mankiewicz cast:Marlon Brando; James Mason; John Gielgud]
Rendition of Shakespeare's historical play tracking the conspiracy against Caesar.
JUMBO
[fs _6601_VHS 125min 1962 dir:Charles Walters cast:Doris Day; Stephen Boyd; Jimmy Durante; Martha Ray]
Musical comedy in which Doris and crew try to save their circus from being taken over.
A JUMPIN' NIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN
[JHVC 7149 VHS 75min 1987 ]
A celebration of contemporary klezmer music.
JUNE NIGHT
[fs 5122 LaserCLV1 9131 DVD 90min bw Swedish subt 1940 dir:Per Lindberg cast:Ingrid Bergman]
A small-town girl who is shot by her rejected lover, tries to start a new life in Stockholm.
JUNGLE BOOK
[fs9212 DVD 78min 1967 Walt Disney animated]
Rudyard Kipling's wild child Mowgli must define himself as a man.
JUNGLEBURGER
[3136 VHS 52min 1986]
Documents the repercussions that cattle raising has on the ecology and poor people in Costa Rica.
JUNIOR BONNER
[6533 VHS 110min 1972 dir:Sam Peckinpah cast:Steve McQueen; Robert Preston; Ida Lupino ]
Character study of a one-time rodeo star who rejoins the circuit, thereby gaining self-esteem and rejuvenating his alcoholic father.
JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK
[fs4762 VHS 98min 1930 bw dir:Alfred Hitchcock cast:Sara Allgood]
Sean O'Casey's play about values in Dublin in the period of civil war.
JUPITER'S DARLING
[fs 5732 Laser 96min. 1955 dir:George Sidney cast:Esther Williams, Howard Keel]
Musical comedy about the Punic Wars. Hannibal falls in love with the Roman dictator's betrothed, who has come to ask for mercy from the Carthaginian general.
JURASSIC PARK
[fs5647 Laser 127min 1993 dir:Stephen Spielberg cast:Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Richard Attenborough]
Michael Crichton's novel of cloned dinosaurs going amok.
JUST ANOTHER GIRL ON THE I.R.T.
[fs 5309 LaserCLV1 96min 1993 dir:Leslie Harris cast:Ariyan Johnson; Kevin Thigpen]
A Brooklyn teenager wants to go to college and medical school but gets pregnant instead.
JUST NEIGHBORS
[fs 1938 16mm 8min bw silent cast:Harold Lloyd]
Description not researched.
JUST PALS
[fs 4664 VHS bw silent 1920 dir:Jack (John) Ford cast:Buck Jones]
The town's "free spirit" is idolized by a runaway boy but everyone else thinks he's a bum.
JUVE CONTRE FANTOMAS
[fs 3875 VHS 64min bw silent 1913 dir:Louis Feuillade]
Police Inspector Juve is pitted against Fantomas, the criminal master of disguise.