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Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Limited edition.
Physical Desc
15 Blu-rays : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in + 1 booklet (58 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm)
Language
English
Description
Saboteur: Barry Kane is a Los Angeles aircraft factory worker who witnesses a Nazi agent firebombing his plant. However, it is Barry who is accused of the fiery sabotage, and to clear his name he sets off on a desperate, action-packed cross-country chase that takes him from Boulder Dam to New York's Radio City Music Hall to the top of the Statue of Liberty.
Shadow of a doubt: Uncle Charlie is a seemingly charming man visiting his relatives in their...
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (170 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 unnumbered pages ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
"Thom Andersen's landmark documentary explores the tangled relationship between the movies and their fabled hometown, as seen entirely through the films themselves. From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. Andersen takes viewers on a whirlwind tour through the metropolis' real and cinematic history, investigating the myriad stories and legends that have come to define it,...
4) Under fire
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 2 hr., 8 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The final days of Somoza's Nicaragua as witnessed and experienced by three American journalists.
6) Rope
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two friends strangle a classmate and invite his family and mutual friends to dinner--with the body stuffed inside the trunk for a buffet table. Inspired by the Leopold-Loeb murder.
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
The true story of a world famous castrato in the 18th century. With charisma, talent, drive and success, Farinelli had everything: money, talent, fame, women, and the voice of an angel. He becomes obsessed with earning the respect of his brother's rival, the composer Handel.
Publisher
Docurama Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On 10.10.10, across the planet, documentary filmmakers, students and other inspired citizens recorded the human experience over a 24-hour period and contributed their voices to a global day of media creation called ONE DAY ON EARTH. It was the first ever simultaneous filming event occurring in every country in the world and it became a showcase of the amazing diversity, conflict, tragedy, and triumph that occur in one day.
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Deluxe two-disc edition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (341 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A tribute to the Rohauer Collection, including works by Stan Brakhage and Willard Maas, and others. Films include Geography of the Body; The Potted Psalm; The Cage; Interim; Rebus-Film No. 1; and Pacific 231.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (266 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Jean-Luc Godard transformed the face of cinema with his prolific, influential, and revolutionary body of work, which includes such classics as Breathless; Weekend; and Contempt, just to name a few. Consisting of eight episodes made over a period of ten years, this is an extraordinary look at the medium through the eyes of this unique filmmaker. The series covers a wide range of topics, from the birth of cinema to Italian neo-realism to Hollywood and...
Series
Studio classic volume 3
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
A story of the trials and tribulations of a Welsh mining family. Spans 50 years, from the turn of the century fair-playing way of life and ends after unionization, strikes, deaths, and child abuse.
12) Lemming
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
"The story of a troubled relationship festering between two couples: young Alain Getty, a home automation engineer, and his wife, sweet Bénédicte ; and middle-aged André, Alain's boss, who is married to the mysterious Alice. Their encounter does not leave the young couple's harmony unscathed. The discovery of a mysterious rodent's corpse blocking the waste pipe of their kitchen sink does nothing to help and portends the bursting of irrationality...
Series
Publisher
Questar
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Bronze screen honors the past, illuminates the present, and opens a window to the future of Latinos in motion pictures. From silent movies to urban gang films, stereotypes of the Greaser, the Lazy Mexican, the Latin Lover and the Dark Lady are examined. Rare and extensive footage traces the progression of this distorted screen image to the increased prominence of today's Latino actors, writers and directors.
Series
Contes des quatre saisons volume 3
Publisher
Wellspring
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A graduate student has come to enjoy a vacation with his girlfriend. As he waits for her arrival, he quickly finds his attention drawn to two other women. Over the next three weeks, he struggles to choose among the three women.
A graduate student takes a vacation and while waiting for his girlfriend, he becomes attracted to two other women. Over the next three weeks, he must decide which woman he wants.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Collector's set.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (368 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary 'Battle Royale' act. 42 students, three days, no rules, one survivor.
16) Kadosh =: Sacred
Publisher
Kino Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
עברית
Description
The story of two Hasidic sisters living in the Mea Shearim area of Jerusalem. Rivka and her husband are deeply in love, but he obeys his rabbi father and divorces her after 10 childless years of marriage. Rivka's sister Malka loves a man who has left Hasidism after joining the army, but accepts the marriage her parents have arranged to the rabbi's assistant.
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Deluxe two-disc edition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 289 min.) : sound & silent, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Long before home video there flourished an alternative cinema culture on college campuses and around art theaters, where foreign film fare was often accompanied by a short subject. As reliable 16mm film equipment became available to non-professionals, artists independent of film centers began experimenting with cinema. Serious film societies sprang up in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, holding semi-private screenings of non-commercial artistic...
18) Metropolis
Publisher
Kino International Corporation
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Restored authorized edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (124 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of a 21st century city run by a "super trustee" and his collaborators who live in a paradise-like garden. Workers are totally enslaved by machines and condemned to live underground. In the midst of this misery, a young woman, Maria, arises and attempts to inspire the workers to throw off their oppressors.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The attack on Pearl Harbour on the 7th of December 1941 changed the world forever. The United States entered WW2. More than 110,000 citizens of Japanese origin were rounded up and dispatched to camps until the end of the war. Hollywood was quick to react with films from THE PURPLE HEART to KNOW YOUR ENEMY: JAPAN. With the arrival of the Cold War the enemy image had to change quickly, and Hollywood obliged. Clara and Julia Kuperberg found the right...
20) Evil dead II
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ash, the sole survivor of 'The Evil Dead', returns to the same cabin in the woods and again unleashes the forces of the dead. With his girlfriend possessed by the demons and his body parts running amok, Ash is forced to single-handedly battle the legions of the damned.
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