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1) Timecode
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Four separate cameras follow the intrigue, sex, power, jealousy and rage of a diverse group of L.A. players as the action unfolds in real time with no edits and no retakes."-- Container.
Publisher
Anker Productions Inc
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This documentary examines the American film and television industry's response to the rise of Adolph Hitler and the Nazi persecution of the Jews before, during, and after World War II.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Special edition, standard version.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Silent movies are giving way to talking pictures, and a hoofer-turned-matinee idol is caught in that bumpy transition, as well as his buddy, prospective ladylove and shrewish co-star"--Container.
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ben is an overburdened movie producer. He tries to balance his life and has to contend with the never-ending demands of 2 ex-wives, his ice-queen studio head, and a menagerie of various Hollywood prima donnas. Ben manages to take it all in stride. He copes by exuding a smoothly assuring demeanor. The only thing that really seems to upset Ben is when he discovers that his ex-wife sleeps with one of his colleagues.
Author
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 226 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Featuring a wealth of extracts from famous and infamous American movies, Scorsese offers a provocative multifaceted portrait of Hollywood film directors as he charts a comprehensive course through the rich history of the American cinema.
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An exploration of Jean Seberg's career from the brilliant filmmaker Mark Rappaport. Mary Beth Hurt portrays Jean Seberg, who reflects on her life as it is illustrated through her work. It follows her as she is plucked from obscurity to star in Otto Preminger's Saint Joan (1957), to the critical drubbing that followed, her resurrection as a star in Godard's Breathless (1960) and through her death in 1979. A revelatory interrogation of film history,...
7) Good times
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Husband-and-wife singers Sonny and Cher could not be hotter, they even have an offer to star in a movie. Trouble is, Cher does not want to do it and the script stinks. Now Sonny has ten days to write a new script. He has great ideas, he could be a cowboy, the king of the jungle or a private eye. But he still has to convince his dynamite babe to sing the same tune!
Publisher
Deutchman Company Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The true story of Donald Rugoff, the crazy genius who kicked art films into the mainstream in the 1960's and 1970's with outrageous marketing schemes and pure bluster. Rugoff's impact on cinema culture in the United States is inestimable, and his influence on the art film business is undeniable. Yet, mysteriously, Rugoff has become a virtually forgotten figure.
11) Women make film
Publisher
Entertainment One Film USA
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
3 Blu-rays (840 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An epic exploration of cinema history through the lens of some of the world's greatest directors, all of them women. Four years in the making and told in 40 chapters, this inspiring fourteen-hour road trip is narrated by Tilda Swinton, Jane Fonda, Debra Winger, Adjoa Andoh, Kerry Fox, Thandie Newton, and Sharmila Tagore. This epic historical journey explores life, love, politics, humor, and death.
12) The last tycoon
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A penetrating glimpse at big studio politics in the early days of Hollywood; a spectacular translation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's notorious novel.
13) Souls for sale
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The souls in question are silver-screen hopefuls in this witty, insightful glimpse at the early movie business. Feared lost for decades, it includes unique working cameos of director Erich von Stroheim and a non-Tramp Charlie Chaplin, and features starlet Eleanor Boardman, the 'Cinderella of Hollywood' whose rags-to-riches story echoed her character's. Escaping from a train journey with her sinister new husband, Mem Steddon (Boardman) crawls across...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (419 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The American movie business started as peepshows and grew into a near-mythical art form that used an exciting new technology to create drama, laughter and adventure literally bigger than life. Here is the whole story -- the glamour and the sweat, the collaborations and the conflicts, the careers that skyrocketed and the dreams that crashed -- in the biggest production ever from Turner Classic Movies, the leading authority on classic movies and film...
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Kevin Spacey stars as Buddy Ackerman, "the boss from hell" who reigns over an entry-level corporate job anyone would kill for. The ambitious Guy (Frank Whaley), Buddy's personal assistant, finds himself ducking everything from insults to paperweights as he tries to satisfy Buddy's needs. But when those "needs" involve Guy's girlfriend, he snaps. In a wicked twist of personnel payback, Guy takes Buddy as his "personal hostage" for a hilarious executive-suite...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2016, 2009.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, one of his first actions was to ban Jews from working in that country's film industry, praised as the most creative cinema in the world. Men and women who had made landmarks of movie history fled their homeland in the ensuing months and years. Many went to Hollywood. This compelling documentary traces the experiences of the exiles who took refuge in Hollywood, and examines their impact on both...
Series
Language
English
Description
Success Scandal Sex Tragedy Infamy, and that's just the first reel! Rules are made to be broken. And Robert Evans has broken them all. He was the first actor to ever run a major Hollywood studio. In a decade he took it from worst to first. Voted the world's most eligible bachelor, he was quintessential Hollywood royalty. In 1979, he had $11 million. With one mistake he spiraled south from legend to a leper. In 1989, his worth was $37. Did he come...
19) The player
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected, but which one?
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 910 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Commercial motion pictures were invented at the Edison Laboratory between 1888 and 1893. Perhaps none of the component parts were strictly new, but the ability of Edison and his staff to reorganize them for a specific purpose was an extraordinary cultural achievement. In 1894, Edison was the sole producer of motion pictures in the world. Many Edison films continue to be impressive as the company employed such accomplished early directors as John Collins...
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