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Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Caine plays successful novelist Lewis Fielding, whose imagination spins ever-more elaborate scenarios of infidelity when his wife Elizabeth (Glenda Jackson) goes on a solo vacation to Baden Baden. When a young man she met there, Thomas (Helmut Berger), rings their home and shows up for tea, the couple's mutual jealousies explode to the surface. The line between Fielding's reality and his fantasies becomes blurred, breaking down altogether in the...
3) Croupier
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
London's gambling world is the setting where aspiring writer Jack Manfred, suffering from writer's block, takes a job as a croupier to support his art. Knowing the dangers of the cards, Jack is adamant about remaining a professional outsider, but the temptations of the game inevitably swallow him deeper than he could have ever anticipated.
Publisher
Trinity Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A story of deception and opportunistic exploitation. British news reporter James Penfield (Jonathan Pryce) attempts to claw his way up from his working-class roots at any cost. James lies to the people around him to get what he wants, only to discover that he has become the recipient of a deception far more clever than his own.
5) Fish tank
Series
Criterion collection volume 553
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Mia... lives with her mother and sister in the housing projects of Essex. Mia's adolescent conflicts and emerging sexuality reach a boiling point when her mother's new boyfriend... enters the picture"--Container.
6) Hockney
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of David Hockney, legendary artist and an early icon for LGBTQ and AIDS activism.
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rita, a young working-class woman in Liverpool, desperately wants an education. She enrolls in literature tutorials at a British university to escape from her dreary life as a hairdresser, as well as a confining existence at home with a husband who wants her to choose motherhood over education. Her professor is Frank Bryant, a disillusioned, alcoholic English professor who encourages his students to forsake dead poetry and enjoy life. As Rita is transformed...
9) Henry V
Series
Criterion collection volume 41
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Adaptation of Shakespeare's patriotic historical drama that celebrates the English nation and the greatness of its King. Includes medieval battle sequences with a recreation of the Battle of Agincourt.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 98 minutes) : sound, color ; 12 cm
Language
English
Description
Set in the Pakistani community in south London, the film focuses on two youths--Johnny, a working-class white, and Omar, a Pakistani. Together they operate a laundrette, which Omar inherits from his uncle. While Johnny looks upon the laundrette as a life line on which to salvage his self-respect, Omar sees it as just the beginning step on the road to riches.
11) A view to a kill
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Special 007 edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (2 hr., 11 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (6 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
Agent 007 must stop a power-mad industrialist who plots to kill millions of people in order to corner the world's microchip supply.
12) Daniel
Publisher
Legend Films
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After his parents work with the Communist Party and execution for selling secrets to the Soviets, a young man involves himself in the protests of the 60's, and lives with his belief that his parents were wrongly murdered.
13) The proposition
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Anamorphic widescreen format (1.85:first).
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the desolate Australian outback of the 1880s, newly-arrived Captain Stanley captures the wanted outlaw Charlie Burns. Seeking to civilize the violent outback frontier, Captain Stanley presents his prisoner with a stark choice: Burns can either watch his beloved younger brother Mikey die on the gallows, or find and betray his older and far more dangerous brother Arthur to the authorities.
14) Shallow grave
Series
Criterion collection volume 616
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When three friends find their new roommate dead and a suitcase full of money under his bed, they have no trouble deciding how to dispose of the cash, but the body is a different story. Their troubles are compounded when they meet the men who come to retrieve the money.
15) The pillow book
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (126 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
A modern-day Japanese woman's life experiences are inspired by the writings of Sei Shonagon, a female courtier who lived during the Heian Dynasty in 10th century Japan and her father's relationship with his publisher.
16) Two way stretch
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This is a hilarious spoof of prison life in which Peter Sellers and his cellmates escape from jail for just one night in order to commit an outrageously funny robbery.
17) Dreams rewired
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 17-page booklet.
Language
English
Description
Rare archival footage culled from hundreds of films from the 1880s through the 1930s, narrated by Tilda Swinton.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hester Collyer is the wife of an upper-class judge and a free spirit trapped in a passionless marriage. Her encounter with Freddie Page, a troubled former Royal air force pilot, throws her life in turmoil, as their erotic relationship leaves her emotionally stranded and physically isolated.
19) In the loop
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The US President and UK Prime Minister fancy a war. But not everyone agrees that war is a good thing. The US General Miller doesn't think so and neither does the British Secretary of State for International Development, Simon Foster. But, after Simon accidentally backs military action on TV, he suddenly has a lot of friends in Washington, DC. If Simon can get in with the right DC people, if his entourage of one can sleep with the right intern, and...
20) Pusher II
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 12 cm
Language
Danish
Description
Tony (Mads Mikkelsen) is released from prison again. This time he has his mind set on changing his broken down life, but that is easier said than done.
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