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that will help football players improvespeed, agility, strength, and explosiveness,particularly for advanced athletes playingat the high school level and above. T hevideo includes sections on a flexiblewarm-up, balance work using a balancepad, agility drills using "ladders" andcones, plyom etric drills for improving ex-plosiveness, and bung ee drills, whe re theathlete is tethered to the coach for resist-ance. Todd Durk in, a former collegequarterback, introduces each section, withbackground on w hy these particular drillswill help you become a better athlete;valuable "coach ing tips" are superimposedon the screen during each drill. Durkinwarns that some of the exercises are verydifficult, can be dangerous, and shouldonly be attempted by advanced athletes.The plyometr ic exercises and bungeedrills are a rarity in a coaching video ; theirinclusion here makes this program espe-cially valuable. This video is recom -mended for public libraries and academiclibraries supporting football programs.Christina Hennessey, Loyola Marymount Univ., LosAngelesSpeed Improvement Techniques forYoung Athletes, color. 126 min. LennyMagill, Todd Durkin Enterprises, dis t. byInstructional Video, 2219 C St., Lincoln NE68502; 800-228-0164; 402-475-6570.20 04 . DVD. $2 9.9 5. Public performance.SPORTSSpeed is the basis of nearly every sport.In this DVD, two enthusiast ic , youn gmale fitness coaches describe drills thatathletes can do in practice to increasetheir speed and improve running tech-niques.Th ey divide these into 11 sections(e .g. , warm -up, core condit ioning, accel-eration ), wh ich can be directly accessedfrom the menu.Young male and femaleathletes, about ten to 18 years of age,demonstrate all the exercises except theplyom etr ics, which involves leapingarou nd w ith a me dicin e ball and aredem onstrated by a professional footballplayer. Th e exercises rang e from easy toquite challenging; athletes at all levelscould benef i t f rom them. Productionquality is good except for some windnoise a round the m ic rophone . Thecoaches thoroughly explain the impor-tance and purp ose o f each drill, som e-times too long-windedly. However , theirspirited presentation helps get viewersenthused about working to improve theirspeed. Rec om me nde d for human kinet-ics collections in college libraries andlarg er pu bl ic libraries.K athy Ruffle, Coll. ofNew Caledonia Lib., Prince George, BC

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Camera Buff, color. 103 min. in Polishw/Engiish subtitles. Kino on Video. 1979.VHS/DVD $29.95.Initially getting an 8m m movie camera toshoot his newborn daughter, a factoryworker makes a documentary containingmaterial that the authorities would rathernot have shown and ends up threateninghis marriage in the process. Togetherwith T h e Scar, No E n d , and BlindChance in "The Krzysztof KieslowskiC ollection I I, " this auspicious early effortfrom the lauded director of Three Colors:B lu e , W h i t e , R e d a n d Decatogue is rec-ommended for most collections.La Dolce Vita. b/w. 167 min. In Italianw/Engiish subtitles. Koch Lorber. 1960.DVD ISBN 1-4172-0022-7. $34.98.Marcello Mastroianni stars as a blas6tabloid reporter mixed up in the deca-dence of his celebrity subjects in thegroundbreaking F ederico F ellini classicthat tapped an emerging Zeitgeistnot tomention inspiring the term paparazzi.With its spacious framing and lusciousblack-and-white cinematography renderedin a virtually pristine digital transfer, thistwo-disc set (with a bevy of extras) is amust for any serious collection.Monsieur Ibrahim , color. 95 min. InF rench w/Engiish subtitles. C olumbiaTriStar. 2 00 4. VHS Priced for rental; DVDISBN 1-4049-4865-1. $24.96.An elderly Muslim shopkeeper befriendsan abandoned adoiescent Jewish boy

Expioring Baii and Komodo: A Glimpse ofIndon esia, color. 3 2 min. SJB Prods, dist.by AV C af, 3943 S. 48th S t., Lincoln, NE68506; 877-228-2233; 402-486-1686.2003. VHS/DVD $9.99. Public performance.TRAVSheryl B rakey, wh o filmed and ed ited thisprodu ction, and B ob B rakey, the n arrator,could have benefited from a visit to the irlocal public library.This program includessome nice cinematography of B ali andsome superlative underwater photographyof the ocean life in the waters surround-ing the island, bu t it is a collection of snip-pets that lack context. Just on e m ap and afew general facts and statistics could makethis into a very valuable viewing experi-ence for potential tourists and educators.

despite (or maybe because of) hisrepeated shoplifting. With his still-piercing yet compassionate eyes, OmarSharif is magnificent in the title role, hissage character effectively becoming asurrogate father to a lonely kid who'sbeen finding solace with neighborhoodprostitutes in a working-class section of1960s Paris. For all collections.Smiles of a Summer Night, b/w. 108min. In Swedish w/English subtitles.C riterion C ollection, dist. by Home Vision.1955. DVD ISBN 0-7800-2871-6.$29.95.In a departure from his usual melan-choly dramas, Ingmar Bergman deliveredthis relatively light (but by no meansweightless) romantic comedya wittytake on late 19th-century love and lustthat served as the inspiration forStephen Sondheim's A Little Nigh tMusic and Woody Allen's A MidsummerNi gh t 's Sex Comedy. Includes an intro-duction by the director, plus a discus-sion by film historian Peter C owie andwriter Jorn Donner. For most collections.Story of Women, color. 108 min. inFrench w/English subtitles. Home Vision.1988. DVD ISBN 0-7800-289 7-X. $29 .95 .During Nazi-occupied France, an impov-erished woman (Isabelie Huppert) with adrunken iout of a husband kind of hap-pens into a iucrative cottage business asan iilegal abortionist. Based on the truestory of a woman executed for her activi-ties, C laude C habrol's remarkably unsen-timentaiized fiim takes no direct standon the issue of abortion, but its view ofmale hypocrisy suggests certain sympa-thies. Includes commentary, interviews,and more. For most collections.

For example, it shows a Hindu temple bu tfails to me ntio n that B ali is the only Hin diarea within the world's largest Muslimcoun try o r that B alinese Hindu ism is fairlydistinct from Indian Hinduism.The largestportion of the film is underwater pho tog-raphy showing fabulous shots of oceanlife; however, this segment is less usefijl tothose just plann ing a holiday. Th e footageof the rare komodo dragon may also be ofparticular interest to school students andnature enthusiasts.This reviewer found thebackground music irritating and occa-sionally too lou d.T he narration is also a bi tclunky, with overuse of the past tense.Recommended for public libraries thatwant to add to their travel collection atlow cost.Susan M. Clark, MLS, Tokyo, Japan

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