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 hop 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.
Underlined titles are linked directly to the related Amazon.com page for that DVD.
French
La France
contemporaine à travers ses films click here
Cinema for French
Conversation, 3/e click here
Cinéphile: Intermediate
French Language & Culture through Film, 2/e click here
Spanish
Cinema for Spanish
Conversation, 3/e click here
¡De película! Spanish
Conversation through Film click here
Cultura
y Cine: Hispanoamerica Hoy click here
German
Arbeitsbuch zu German Culture through Film (in German) click here
German Culture through Film: An Introduction to German Cinema (in English) click here
Cinema for German Conversation
Merry Christmas
Rosenstraße
Das Wunder von Bern
Solino
Das Leben der Anderen
Berlin is in Germany
Alles auf Zucker
Am Ende kommen Touristen
Im Juli
Kebab Connection
Die Blindgänger
Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei
Italian
Ciak... si parla italiano
Divorce - Italian Style(1961)
We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974)
Cinema Paradiso(1988)
The Icicle Thief (1989)
Ciao Professore(1993)
Wild Flower (1993)
The Postman(1994)
Life is Beautiful (1997)
Nirvana (1997)
Kisses and Hugs (1999)
Bread and Tulips (2000)
One Hundred Steps (2000)
The Son's Room/2001)
The Last Kiss (2001)
His Secret Life(2001)
A Heart Elsewhere (2003)
Portuguese
Cinema for Portuguese Conversation
The Middle of the World (2003)
Central Station (1998)
Vidas Secas(1963)
Carandiru (2003)
Bus 174 (2002)
City of God (2002)
Four Days in September(1998)
Foreign Land (1996)
Testamento(1998)
April Captains (2000)
Dona Flor E Seus Dois Maridos (1976)
Eu Tu Eles (2000)
Black Orpheus (1959)
Orfeu(1999)
Russian
Cinema for Russian Conversation, Volume I
Cinderella
The Cranes Are Flying
Ivan Vasiljevich Changes Profession
Irony of Fate
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
Autumn Marathon
Circus
Cinema for Russian Conversation, Volume II
A Cruel Romance
Adam’s Rib
Prisoner of the Mountains
The Thief
Princess and the Beans
Sympathy Seeker
East-West
Animation for Russian Conversation click here