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Publisher
Arrow Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Morty Fineman is an independent filmmaker who is considered an artist, a visionary, and a madman. When he runs out of money, he decides to make a musical about an infamous serial killer.
Publisher
Dark Star Pictures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
It is the story of a child of his time of an extremely talented and dynamic filmmaker named Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who dreams of making movies about the cold-hearted, archaic Federal German society and the longing for respect and love of the outsider's foreigners, underprivileged groups, small convicts. His fulminant rise to being one of the most important directors in Europe correlates with his mental and physical fall and his early death.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Widescreen/standard.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (2 hrs., 2 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Manufacturing on-screen violence has created an entertainment empire for fast-lane Hollywood producer Mike Max. But when Max comes into possession of details concerning a top-secret, anti-crime satellite surveillance system, the information turns this master of imaginary mayhem into a real-life victim. Escaping into L.A.'s shadowy underworld, Max is forced into a heart-stopping confrontation with forces beyond his comprehension and violence beyond...
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
Widescreen version (1.85:first).
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Val Waxman is a one-time cinematic genius down on his luck. Luckily, he receives a script for a period noir set against the backdrop of 1940s New York City. His ex-wife has managed to convince a high-powered studio head, to take a chance on Val's "unique vision." Just when the cameras are ready to roll, however, Val finds that unique vision in jeopardy -- literally -- as he's struck with a psychosomatic case of blindness. When efforts to cure him...
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen presentation (1.78:1).
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Past and present collide as a film director discovers a mysterious key that unlocks the secrets of a legendary actress who vanished at the height of her career.
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...
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
6 Blu-rays (approximately 1,710 mins) : silent, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (76 pages : illustration ; 18 cm)
Language
English
Description
"In the early decades of cinema, some of the most innovative and celebrated filmmakers in America were women. Alice Guy-Blaché helped establish the basics of cinematic language, while others boldly continued its development : slapstick queen Mabel Normand (who taught Charlie Chaplin the craft of directing), action star Grace Cunard, and LGBTQ icon Alla Nazimova. Unafraid of controversy, filmmakers such as Lois Weber and Dorothy Davenport Reid tackled...
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
After his wife leaves him, a film director finds himself drawn into affairs with two enigmatic women, while at the same time searching for the right subject (and actress) for his next film.
Publisher
Big World Pictures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Arabic
Description
Downtown Cairo, 2009. Khalid, a 35 year old filmmaker is struggling to make a film that captures the soul of his city while facing loss in his own life. With the help of his friends, who send him footage from their lives in Beirut, Baghdad and Berlin, he finds the strength to keep going through the difficulty and beauty of living--IMDb.
Author
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2008?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (73 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Janine: (Experimental documentary, 1990) The story of a black lesbian's relationship with a white, upper middle class high school girl.
She don't fade: (Experimental narrative, 1991) A self-reflexive look at the sexuality of a young black lesbian.
The potluck and the passion: (Experimental narrative, 1993) Sparks fly as racial, sexual and social politics intermingle at a lesbian potluck.
Vanilla sex: (Experimental documentary, 1992) Dunye's contribution...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (142 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Director Stanley Kubrick's career comes into sharp focus in this compelling and revealing documentary ... [including] fascinating footage of Kubrick in his early years, at work on film sets and at home, and via candid commentary from collaborators, colleagues and family."--Container.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Features 33 legendary directors, such as James Cameron, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, Spike Lee, George Lucas, Tim Burton, and others, who reveal intimate and in-depth knowledge about the art of filmmaking, and their own careers in the movies. Includes film clips, interviews, biographies, and interesting facts about each director. Topics include: Everyone has to start somewhere; The art of writing and choosing scripts; The care...
13) The Fabelmans
Language
English
Description
Young Sammy Fabelman falls in love with movies after his parents take him to see "The Greatest Show on Earth". Armed with a camera, Sammy starts to make his films at home, much to the delight of his supportive mother although his practical father has doubts.
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tracks maverick filmmaker Terry Gilliam's madcap mission to film "The man who killed Don Quixote". He struggles to complete his masterpiece, all the while beset by obstacles of such epic proportions that not even Hollywood could have concocted them. Capturing the mayhem on camera, filmmakers Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe are granted unlimited, behind-the-scenes access to Gilliam's frantic but inspired creation.
15) Benjamin
Publisher
Artsploitation Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A charmingly offbeat romantic dramedy about a mess-of-a-filmmaker juggling the anxieties and excitement of his upcoming film premiere with the fear and awkwardness of a burgeoning romance.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (20 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Danish
Description
This exhaustive documentary surveys the career of one of the great motion picture directors, following Dreyer's life through interviews with the director and his colleagues, film clips and archival materials.
Series
Criterion collection volume 140
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen edizione.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Fellini's autobiographical film about a famous film director who loses his inspiration in the midst of making a film.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the legendary filmmaker from his lighthearted early works to weightier postwar tales of social consciousness. Includes interviews with more than 20 actors and directors.
Publisher
Sony Music Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A documentary of Peter Biskind's controversial, best-selling book, which chronicles edgy, impressionistic pictures made by maverick, now-legendary directors such as Scorsese, Coppola, Lucas, Altman, Polanski and Peckinpah. Includes interviews with many directors, writers, actors, etc. Bonus disc (ca. 102 min.) includes more interviews including one with Peter Biskind.
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Based on true events, it tells the story of Georgina, an indigenous Andean woman whose newborn baby is whisked away moments after its birth in a downtown Lima clinic, and never returned. Stonewalled by a byzantine and indifferent legal system, Georgina approaches journalist Pedro Campas, who uncovers a web of fake clinics and abductions, suggesting a rotting corruption deep within Peruvian society. Set in 1988, in a Peru wracked by political violence...
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