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ÜBERFALL
[fs 4010 VHS 25min bw silent German titles]
In Depression-era Germany a man finds a coin in the street, gambles to win more money, then is robbed.
UBU ROI
[6785VHS bw Fr language 97min 1994 dir:Jean-Christophe Averty cast:Jean Bouise, Rosy Varté]
Alfred Jarry's famous Dada puppet play performed by live actors with the aid of special effects.
UDJU AZUL DI YONTA
[fs 6040 VHS 90min Criolo subt 1991 dir:Flora Gomes]
A poor boy from the country is in love with a girl from the city who is in love with a man who is in love with politics.
UFORIA
[fs 2746 VHS 92min 1981 dir:John Binder cast:Cindy Williams; Fred Ward; Harry Dean Stanton]
A kook and two friends plan to charge admission to a UFO landing.
UGETSU
[fs 0535-0537 16mm 2980 VHS 5258 LaserCLV1 96min bw Japanese subt 1953 dir:Kenji Mizoguchi]
Two peasants in war-torn 16th Century Japan abandon their families to seek their fortunes in the spoils of war.
UKIYO-E: Prints of Japan
[1195 16mm 27min 1969]
The work of twelve Japanese artists of the 17th and 18th centuries.
ULEE'S GOLD
[fs 5587Laser 1997 113min dir:Victor Nunez cast:Peter Fonda; Patricia Richardson]
Both the Tupelo honey and the family of Ulee Jackson are threatened by a long-buried secret.
THE ULTIMATE OZ
[fs 5459/CLV1(52min)/CAV2(103min) bw/color 1939 dir:Victor Fleming cast:Judy Garland; Ray Bolger; Bert Lahr; Jack Haley]
A collector’s edition of The Wizard of Oz which includes a separate documentary narrated by Angela Lansbury, 8X10 behind-the-scenes glossies, and a printed copy of the continuity script dated March 15, 1939.
See also The Wizard of Oz.
ULYSSES (JAMES JOYCE'S ULYSSES)
[fs 9623 DVD 124min. 1967 dir:Joseph Strick cast:Milo O'Shea, Barbara Jefford]
Leopold Bloom's odyssey through the streets of Dublin and his own consciousness one June day.
ULYSSES
[fs9205 DVD 104min 1954 dir:Mario Camerini cast:Kirk Douglas, Silvana Mangano]
Homer's Odyssey: the hero returns to his wife Penelope. Alternate sound tracks in Italian & French.
ULYSSES' GAZE
[6114-6115 VHS 176min English & Greek subt 1995 dir:Theo Angelopoulos cast:Harvey Keitel;Maia Morganstern; Erland Josephson]
The journey of a Greek-American filmmaker across the Balkans and war-torn Eastern Europe in search of severallost reels of film.
ULZANA'S RAID
[5506 LaserCLV 1972 43min dir:robert Aldrich cast:Burt Lancaster; Bruce Davison]
Western in which two cavalry officers disagree on how to deal with a band of renegade Indians.
UMBANDA: The Problem Solver
[3694 VHS 52min 1977]
Documentary of a Latin American religious cult which blends African tribal ritual with Roman Catholicism.
UMBERTO D.
[fs 2973 VHS 5144 LaserCLV1 89min bw Italian subt 1952 dir:Vittorio De Sica]
An elderly man, living alone on a small pension, tries to maintain his dignity and keep his pet dog.
UMBERTO ECO: LA QUÊTE D'UNE LANGUE PARFAITE
[10023 audiocass. 60min 1992 French Language]
Lecture at the College de France, on the European desire for a perfect language.
THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG
[fs 6019 VHS 91min French subt 1964 dir:Jacques Demy cast:Catherine Deneuve; Nino Castelnuovo]
Romantic drama of doomed love affair in which all dialogue is sung.
THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING
[fs 5157 LaserCLV2 172min 1988 dir:Philip Kaufman cast:Daniel Day-Lewis; Juliette Binoche; Lena Olin]
A Prague surgeon must choose between his mistress in a free country or his wife in a communist country.
THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH
[fs 9500 DVD 90min. 1990 dir:Hal Hartley cast:Adrienne Shelly, Robert John Burke]
An ex-con returns home and attracts the attention of a gorgeous teenager. Black comedy.
THE UNCHAINED GODDESS
[0522 16mm 59min 1958]
An overview of meteorology with footage of some of the violent phenomena of weather.
UNCLE TOM'S CABIN (1903, 1914)
[fs 4865 VHS bw silent]
Two versions of the Harriet Beecher Stowe story.
  • [13min 1903 Thomas A. Edison] Filmed stage version.
  • [43min 1914 cast:Irving Cummings; Sam Lucas]
UNCLE TOM'S CABIN (1927)
[fs9436 DVD 112min. 1927 bw silent dir:Harry Pollard cast:James B. Lowe, Virginia Grey]
This film of Harriet Beecher Stowe's abolitionist novel had to stand up to grandiose stage productions, and strove to outdo them in Tom's noble courage, Simon Legree's sadism, and Eliza's flight across the ice.
UNCOMMON VALOR
[fs 2027-2028 u-matic 105min 1983 dir:Ted Kotcheff cast:Gene Hackman; Robert Stack; Fred Ward; Patrick Swayze]
A retired Army officer assembles a crew of Vietnam vets to search for his son, missing in action in Laos.
UNDER CAPRICORN
[fs 3527 VHS 117min bw 1949 dir:Alfred Hitchcock cast:Ingrid Bergman; Joseph Cotten]
Set in Australia in the early 19th century, an alcoholic woman is tormented by her husband until a visitor from Ireland tries to free the housewife from her husband's bondage.
UNDER OLIVE TREES (Zire darakhatan zeyton)
[fs6337 VHS 103min 1994 Farsi/sub dir:Abbas Kiarostami cast:Farhad Kheradmand]
A director making Where is the Friend's Home? is involved in parallels between his film's plot and the actors' lives in post-earthquake Iran.
UNDER THE BRIDGE
[4416 VHS 100min bw German subt 1945 dir:Helmut Kutner cast:Carl Raddatz; Gustav Knuth]
Two river bargemen fall in love with the same woman.
UNDER THE ROOFS OF PARIS (SOUS LES TOITS DE PARIS)
[fs 2910 VHS 95min bw French subt 1930 dir:René Clair]
Mime and song, with a minimum of dialogue, tell the story of a love triangle in Paris. A link between silent and sound cinema.
UNDERSEAS EDEN
[4219 VHS 30min 1989]
Profiles a coral reef in the Philippines and the ecological damage done to itby the local fishermen.
UNDERSTANDING BASIC GENETICS
[6510 VHS 6607 VHS 15min. 1998]
A witty exposition of the Mendelian Model of genetic inheritance, and other basics of genetics.
UNDERSTANDING BEHAVIOR IN ORGANIZATIONS
[0968 16mm 26min 1977]
Examines how organizations can benefit from what is being learned about the psychology of the individual in organizations.
UNDERSTANDING DNA
[6509 VHS 6608 VHS 13MIN 1998]
Computer graphics help illustrate how deoxyribonucleic acid codes genetics.
THE UNELECTED
[2632 VHS 60min 1988]
Describes the growing population of organizations in Washington, D.C. which influence the elected representatives of government.
UNFORGIVEN
[fs 10030 DVD 131min 1992 dir:Clint Eastwood cast:Clint Eastwood; Gene Hackman]
Set in the 1880's. A reformed gunman reluctantly agrees to collect the bounty on two cowboys who slashed a prostitute's face.
DER UNHOLD
See THE OGRE.
THE UNIFICATION OF ITALY
[4223 VHS 26min 1988]
Explains why the Italian states united in the 19th century and provides a chronology of the process.
UNITED ARTISTS SCI-FI MATINEE 1
[fs5488]
3 laserdiscs with 4 black and white science fiction films from the 1950s.
  • Man from Planet X
    [5488a 69min bw 1951 dir:Edgar G. Ulmer cast:Robert Clarke; Margaret Field]
    Scientists in a Scottish observatory meet an alien as they watch a planet heading for collision with Earth.
  • Red Planet Mars
    [5488a-b 87min bw 1952 dir:Harry Horner cast:Peter Graves; Andrea King]
    Communications with Mars clarify the evils of Communism and the truth of religion and the American Way.
  • Monster that Challenged the World [5488b-c 83min bw 1957 dir:Arnold Laven cast:Tim Holt; Audrey Dalton]
    Navy intelligence must defeat a prehistoric man-eating giant mollusk before it breeds.
  • It! The Terror from Beyond Space
    [5488c 70min bw 1958 dir:Edward L. Cahn cast:Marshall Thompson; Shawn Smith]
    A murderous monster sabotages missions to Mars by murdering spaceship crews.
UNITED ARTISTS SCI-FI MATINEE 2
[fs5489]
3 laserdiscs with 4 black and white science fiction films from the 1950s.
  • Magnetic Monster
    [5489a 75min bw 1953 dir:Curt Siodmak cast:Richard Carlson; Jean Byron]
    A physics experiment results in a magnetic "monster" that frequently doubles in size and energy-appetite; final duel with a 900-million volt cyclotron.
  • Quatermass Experiment (The Creeping Unknown)
    [5489a-b 82min bw 1955 dir:Val Guest cast:Brian Donlevy; Marcia Dean]
    The first Hammer horror flick: The lone survivor of a (British?) space mission hybridizes with everything he touches, threatening London.
  • Theatrical trailers for Magnetic Monster and Quatermass Experiment
    [5489b ]
  • Beast of Hollow Mountain
    [5489b-c 80min 1956 dirs:Edward Nassour; Ismael Rodriguez cast:Guy Madison; Patricia Medina]
    Sci-fi western: Mexican ranchers must cope with a large predatory dinosaur. Features Willis O'Brien's stop-motion animation.
  • Invisible Invaders
    [5489c 66min 1959 dir:Edward L. Cahn cast:John Agar; Jean Byron; John Carradine]
    An Army major and 3 scientists must defeat lunar aliens who re-animate fresh corpses.
UNITED STATES EXPANSION: FLORIDA
[0028 VHS 14min 1956]
Reviews the history of Florida from Indian-infested swamp to annexation by the U.S. Interesting time-capsule of attitudes.
AN UNMARRIED WOMAN
[fs2579 VHS 124min 1977 dir:Paul Mazursky cast:Jill Clayburgh, Alan Bates]
Erica's perfect Manahattan life collapses and she must build a new sense of herself.
THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN
[fs 5807 Laser 138min. 1964 dir:Charles Walters cast:Debbie Reynolds, Harve Presnell]
Meredith Wilson's musical comedy about the Denver miner's wife who survived the sinking of the Titanic.
UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD
[4381 VHS 158min 1991 dir:Wim Wenders cast:William Hurt; Solveig Dommartin]
A love-affair-by-manhunt as a woman pursues a man around the world and finally helps him make a scientific breakthrough that can scan dreams into video.
UP IN CENTRAL PARK
[fs 1344-1345 16mm 88min bw 1948 dir:William A. Seiter cast:Deanna Durbin; Dick Haymes]
In turn-of-the-century New York City an Irish girl helps expose the corruption of Tammany Hall.
URA ARU
[fs 2091 u-matic 29min 1985-86 dir:Gary Hill]
Experimental video with images and words in a Japanese context.
URBAN ECOLOGY
[4518 VHS 24min 1991]
The problems of population rise and urbanization are studied in the city of Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
USC STUDENT PROJECTS
[ 6500 VHS 48min. 1998-1999]
9 animated shorts from the School of Cinema-Television Division of Animation and Digital Arts; includes traditional cartoon narrative, surreal whimsy, a Jimmy Buffet song, philosophical shorts, etc.
USING THE WEB TO ENHANCE THE CLASSROOM
[6273 VHS 88min 1998]
PBS Adult Learning satellite broadcast in which a panel of experts discusses ways in which the internet can be used to improve education.
UTAMARO AND HIS FIVE WOMEN
[fs 3847 VHS 89min bw Japanese subt 1946 dir:Kenji Mizoguchi]
An artist favors women as subjects but refrains from emotional involvement. A study of women and social mores of 18th-century Japan.