Director Gil Junger
Year 1999
Subject Feature Film
Language English
Running Time 97 minutes
Distributor Touchstone Home Video
Comments: A modern day, high school variation on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, with Heath Ledger as a boy (last name Verona) who takes a bribe to take the school's brainy outcast girl (last name Stratford, played by Julia Styles) to the prom. What starts as a cruel hoax turns into real love, of course, with plenty of comic confusion along the way. With Larry Miller and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
Director Arthur Bressan, Jr.
Year 1983
Subject Feature Film
Language English
Running Time 93 minutes
Distributor Cinevista Video
Comments: A young boy, abused by his parents, finally discovers some much needed emotional gratification when he becomes the focus of a documentary about abuse. He becomes close to the gay man directing this film. Shot in a documentary style, this film raises tough questions about the nature of intimacy between an adult man and a 14-year-old boy.
Director Gerry Rogers
Year 1990
Running Time 27 minutes
Distributor Women Make Movies
Comments: On December 6, 1989, a gunman entered the engineering building at the University of Montreal and killed fourteen women. This forceful, moving documentary situates this extraordinary crime within the context of other kinds of violence against women. A wounded survivor and other students describe the harrowing event, widely understood as a backlash against feminism. Activists and journalists explain its impact, linking the massacre with cases of rape, sexual harassment and torture worldwide. This lucid and thought-provoking tape is indispensable for organizations dealing with violence against women, as well as for women's studies classes.
Director Martin Scorsese
Year 1974
Subject Feature Film
Language English
Running Time 112 minutes
Distributor Warner Communications Company
Comments: Widow, unskilled, 35, one son. Alice Hyatt's credentials don't carry much clout in the world. But look out world. In her remarkable Academy Award winning portrayal, Ellen Burstyn stars as Alice, a recently-widowed housewife who packs herself and her son into a station wagon and heads off for a better life.
Year 1978
Subject Documentary
Language English
Running Time 19 minutes
Distributor Women Make Movies
Subject: Documentary
Director: Ivo Stainoff
Year: 2007
Running Time: 60 minutes
Distributor: Every Atom Production
Women truck drivers aren't usually thought of as American folk heroes, yet the seven women portrayed in the documentary film Alligator on the Zipper evoke the qualities of modern day cowboys. Courageous, tough and with a fierce love of freedom, they heed the call of the road that speaks to their independent spirit. One such driver is Patsy Van Flateren, a Belgian immigrant whose drive to succeed and overcome an abusive past has propelled her to build a successful flatbed trucking business. Another tale from the road features Jackie Wheeler, a former actress whose dream is to appear on Oprah to tell her story of how she rose from being a trucker to a millionaire by inventing a lifesaving device for drivers. The stories of these women and five others give us a candid look into the rarely viewed lifestyle of women truckers. The open highways of America are where these independent women reinvent and transform themselves and reach for their dreams. Just as an "alligator on the zipper" refers to a blown out tire in the middle of the highway, it also references the omnipresent danger that comes from hauling their rigs long distances. The freedom of the road is empowering yet it also brings risks.
Interview on "CBS Sunday Morning"
Director Aileen Ritchie
Year 2000
Running Time 99 minutes
Distributor CD universe
Comments: A group of ordinary Irish fellows are bored and dissatisfied with the local women in their small town. Led by fashion-conscious butcher Ian, they decide to pool their resources and put an ad in an American newspaper inviting American women to their town dance in the hope of attracting some exciting potential mates. The local women, including Ian's smitten assistant Siobhan, decide to retaliate in their own way. A sweet and charming romantic comedy from the producer of THE FULL MONTY.
Year 1987
Subject Documentary
Language English
Running Time 52 minutes
Distributor Women Make Movies
Director Ngozi Onwurah
Year 1993
Subject Educational Documentary
Language English
Running Time 30 minutes
Distributor Women Make Movies
Comments: Inspired by a poem by Maya Angelou, this powerful film explores images of Black women in the media, focusing on the myths surrounding Black women's sexuality. Like Color Adjustment, in which Marlon Riggs looked at images of Black people on television, And Still I Rise uses images from popular culture to reveal the way the media misrepresents Black women's sexuality. A combination of fear and fascination produces a stereotypical representation which in turn impacts on the real lives of Black women. And Still I Rise intercuts historical and media images with hard-hitting contemporary views of women of African heritage as they struggle to create a new and empowered perspective. Both a celebration and a critique, And Still I Rise is essential viewing for those interested in African American studies, women's studies, media studies and popular culture. From the director of The Body Beautiful and Coffee Colored Children.
Director Jane Campion
Subject Feature Film
Language English
Running Time 157 minutes
Distributor New Line Cinema
Comments: The true story of one of the 20th century's most gifted writers, this film chronicles the life and extraordinary times of Janet Frame. Born in the 1920s, Janet's early years were tempered by family tragedy. Janet grew to be a woman of fierce determination. An Angel at my Table has garnered over 20 major awards and prizes at film festivals worldwide.
Year 2002
Subject Lecture
Language English
Running Time 88 minutes
Distributor Trustees of Dartmouth College
Comments: Ann Cook is a professional soccer player for the Washington Freedom.
Director Marleen Gorris
Year 1995
Subject Feature Film
Language Dutch with English subtitles
Running Time 102 minutes
Distributor Fox Lorber Films
Comments: Winner of the 1995 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and many of the most prestigious international film honors, Antonia's Line is an inspiring and uplifting masterpiece, as big hearted and full of life as the unforgettable character at its heart. At the end of World War II, a spirited independent woman returns to the place of her birth, a small village in the verdant Dutch countryside, to start a new life with her daughter. Thus begins a remarkable portrait of a family and a community that spans 5 generations.
Director John Ford
Year 1932
Subject Feature
Artist Ronald Colman, Helen Hayes, Myrna Loy
Screenplay Sidney Howard
Language English
Running Time 100 minutes
Distributor HBO Video
Comments: Based on the classic Sinclair Lewis novel, Arrowsmith is the compelling story of a man torn between two sets of values. Ronald Colman stars as Martin Arrowsmith, an idealistic small town doctor and research scientist who relocates in the West Indies. His determination to end the bubonic plague epidemic there sets off a tragic series of events which force him to come to terms with his career and personal life.
Subject: Book on tape/Literature
Running Time: 29 minutes
Producer/Date: Caedmon/1977
Produced by Caedmon for Harper Audio, Voices in Time is a series of distinguished authors reading their finest works to date (1977). Other cassettes donated with this gift: Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men, and The Poetry and Voice of Margaret Atwood .
