New DVDs – April 2018

New DVDs – April 2018

May 11, 2018 | In house

Battle of the sexes / Jonathan Dayton and Valérie Faris – 2018 Languages: English and French. Subtitles: French and English DVD (427) In “Battle of the sexes”, 29-year-old Billie Jean King is frustrated by the disparity between what male and female tennis players are...
New DVDs at Doriot Library – March 2018

New DVDs at Doriot Library – March 2018

Mar 22, 2018 | In house

The party / Sally Potter – 2018 Languages: English and French. Subtitles: French DVD (422) “The Party” is a bleakly hilarious political farce, nominally a celebration hostedby and for Janet, a career politician who has just been selected “shadow minister of health” by...
New DVDs at Doriot Library – February 2018

New DVDs at Doriot Library – February 2018

Feb 14, 2018 | In house

Churchill /Jonathan Teplitzky  – 2017 Languages: English and French  Subtitles: French for the hearing impaired, French DVD ( 416) “Churchill” dramatizes the agonizing private doubts that Britain’s wartime leader felt during the buildup to the D-Day landings in June...
New DVDs at Doriot Library – January 2018

New DVDs at Doriot Library – January 2018

Jan 18, 2018 | In house

I am not your negro / Raoul Peck – 2017 Languages: English, French Subtitles: French DVD (414) Raoul Peck’s outstanding, Oscar-nominated documentary is about the African American activist and author James Baldwin, author of  “Go Tell It on the Mountain”. Peck...