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Film Information for
Cinema for Language Conversation Texts
Focus Publishing cannot guarantee the availability of the films featured in any of the books in our Cinema for Language Conversation series. Every effort has been made to include films that are readily available, but movie distribution and rights are always changing. We hope that the following guide and links below will help you track down the movies, so you can begin using the texts along with the movies, as innovative teaching tools.
What’s the best place to start?
Depending on your preference either to buy or to rent, you will find these sources a good jumping-off point.
Most of the films are available through the following three venues, or a combination of them.
On any of our Cinema for Language Conversation individual book pages, you can click on a film's title and the link will take you to the www.Amazon.com page where the DVD (or VHS format) of that film is available for sale.
What if it’s not in my budget to purchase the films?
If buying any or all of the films featured in these textbooks is not in the budget for you or your school, and your school’s library does not carry them, you may consider the following rent-by mail services:
What other options do I have?
Specialized language distributors are a great resource for purchases. They also attend most of the Foreign Language Conventions offered around the country. Applause Learning Resources
World of Reading
1-World Festival of Foreign Films
What if I can’t find some movies, or what if I’ve discovered that they are out of print?
If you’re still having trouble, Focus authors and customers have found the best way to find hard-to-get foreign films is to search a used marketplace online.
www.facets.org (a specialty language rent-by-mail service)
www.cervantes.org Sometimes in locating a particular version of a film, you will need locate the movie by the English translated title, or include the year of release.
Where possible, a direct link has been provided so you can purchase the DVD’s directly through Amazon.com.
What if it’s not available in a US version?Whenever possible, we provide links to DVDs which manufactured for US distribution. However, in some cases, the film has never been distributed in the US. When this happens, we will link to the foreign edition and include a note “Not Region 1”. You may need special equipment to play these DVDs. More information can be found here: http://hometheater.about.com/cs/dvdlaserdisc/a/aaregioncodesa.htm.
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