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Foreign Film Collection 4-08.Indd Foreign Film Collection JM 4/08 Rolling Meadows Library 3110 Martin Lane Rolling Meadows, IL 60008 847-259-6050 www.rolling-meadows.lib.il.us Rolling Meadows Library Foreign Film Collection SWEDISH These films are available on either DVD or Cries and Whispers Video. Please see the Readers’ Advisory Elvira Madigan Desk for information regarding these titles. Fanny and Alexander June Night AFGHANI My Life as a Dog Osama Scenes from a Marriage Seventh Seal ARABIC Silence Halfaouine Child of the Terraces Through a Glass Darkly Sabah Under the Sun Virgin Spring ARGENTINIAN Wild Strawberries Common Ground Winter Light Official Story Suddenly TAIWANESE Three Times BELGIAN Yi Yi Private Property BRAZILIAN TURKISH Black Orpheus Distant City of God Four Days in September VIETNAMESE House of Sand Scent of Green Papaya CHINESE YUGOSLAVIAN Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon When Father Was Away on Business Curse of the Golden Flower Eat Drink Man Woman Eye Farewell My Concubine Fearless Hero In the Mood for Love Iron Monkey Millenium Mambo Mongolian Ping Pong Raise the Red Lantern Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles Shaolin Soccer Shower Springtime in a Small Town Stolen Life Story of Qiu Ju Three Times To Live Wedding Banquet Wooden Man’s Bride Yi Yi Zhou Yu’s Train 8 1 Ivan’s Childhood CZECHOSLOVAKIAN Late Marriage Autumn Spring Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears Closely Watched Trains Prisoner of the Mountains Divided We Fall Russian Ark Fifth Horseman is Fear Siberiada Firemen’s Ball Kolya RWANDAN Shop on Main Street Sometimes in April DANISH SAAMI Antonia’s Line Cuckoo Babette’s Feast Emma’s Shadow SERBO-CROATIAN Five Obstructions No Man’s Land Italian for Beginners SPANISH DUTCH Al Otro Lado Black Book All About My Mother Character Amores Perros Belle Epoque FLEMISH Butterfly Daens Common Ground Crime of Padre Amado FINNISH Dancer Upstairs Cuckoo Danzon Leningrad Cowboys Guantanamera Man without a Past Japon Like Water for Chocolate FRENCH Lucia, Lucia Alias Betty Mararia Accompanist Maria Full of Grace Affair of Love Midaq Alley Amelie Motorcycle Diaries Atalante Once Upon a Time in Mexico Autumn Tale Open Your Eyes Barbarian Invasions Our Lady of the Assassins Beaumarchais, L’insolent Pan’s Labyrinth Black Girl Perfect Crime Black Orpheus Quinceanera Blue Sea Inside Bon Voyage Secret Life of Words Breathless Secretos del Corazon Bridge Strawberry and Chocolate Cache Talk to Her Camille Claudel Volver Chambermaid on the Titanic Women on the Verge of a Nervous Chaos Breakdown Children of Paradise Y Tu Mama Tambien Chorus 2 7 Son HUNGARIAN Stolen Kisses Kontroll Sunday in the Country Mephisto Swimming Pool Tale of Springtime INDIAN Tale of Winter Bride & Prejudice Tenant Charulata the Lonely Wife That Obscure Object of Desire Everybody Says I’m Fine Therese I Have Found It Thieves Mahabharata Time to Leave Maya To Be and to Have Monsoon Wedding Triplets of Belleville Two of Us INUIT Umbrellas of Cherbourg Fast Runner Under the Sand Va Savoir? IRANIAN Valet Children of Heaven Very Long Engagement Color of Paradise Viva Maria Crimson Gold Waiting for Happiness Mirror White Smell of Camphor, Scent of Jasmine With a Friend like Harry Taste of Cherry Woman is a Woman Under the Skin of the City Woman Next Door White Balloon Z ISRAELI GERMAN Kadosh: Sacred Blue Angel Late Marriage BRD Trilogy Paradise Now Das Boot Downfall ITALIAN Europa, Europa Amarcord Faust Bicycle Thief Forest for the Trees Big Deal on Madonna Street Goodbye Lenin! Cinema Paradiso Lives of Others Divorce Italian Style Mephisto Dolce Vita Metropolis Don’t Tell Mostly Martha 8 ½ Pandora’s Box Flight of the Innocent Run Lola Run Garden of the Finzi-Continis Sissi Hands Over the City Spies Last Kiss Wings of Desire Leopard Life is Beautiful GREEK Mediterraneo Eternity and a Day Nights of Cabiria Never on Sunday Nostalghia Open City 4 5 Postino: Postman Closet Salvatore Giuliano Comedy of Innocence Strada Corbeau Tiger and the Snow Cyrano de Bergerac Tree of Wooden Clogs Daens Two Women Day for Night Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie JAPANESE Don Juan Akira Donkey Skin Face Double Life of Veronique Gojira Flower of Evil Ikiru To Live Forbidden Games Ju-on 400 Blows Kaidan Kwaidan Germinal Letters From Iwo Jima Girl From Paris Nobody Knows Goodbye Children Ran Grand Illusion Rashomon He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not Seance Human Resources Seven Samurai Indochine Shall We Dance? In Praise of Love Sword of Doom Jean de Florette Twilight Samurai Joyeaux Noel Jules et Jim KOREAN La Vie en Rose Memories of Murder L’Enfant Samaritan Girl Madame Bovary Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring Man and a Woman Tale of Two Sisters Manon of the Spring Way Home Ma Vie en Rose Woman Is the Future of Man Mon Oncle Mondo MONGOLIAN Monsieur Ibrahim Curse of the Yellow Dog Mouchette Mr. Hulot’s Holiday POLISH My Father and I Decalogue My Father’s Glory The Double Life of Veronique My Favorite Season Europa, Europa My Mother’s Castle Knife in the Water Night and Fog On Guard RUSSIAN Paris, Je T’Aime Alexander Nevsky Ponette Battleship Potemkin Private Property Burnt by the Sun Promised Life Close to Eden Read My Lips Cuckoo Red Europa, Europa Red Lights Freeze-Die-Come to Life! Rififi Hamlet Rules of the Game 6 3.
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