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Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Gregoire, a Parisian film producer, has it all, a beautiful wife, three adorable daughters, wealth and a buzzing career. On the surface he seems invincible, maintaining humor and charm as he tirelessly juggles the demands of his production company with his family's needs. But when Gregoire's reserves, both financial and emotional, reach a dramatic breaking point, his family's love and resilience is tested and their world is forever changed.
622) My voyage to Italy
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 246 min.) : sound, black and white, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Martin Scorsese directs and narrates this remarkable in-depth look at the careers of great Italian filmmakers such as De Sica, Fellini, Visconti, and Antonioni, and their art's profound influence on him.
Publisher
PBS DIstribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It is a rare look at the over four-decade intimate relationship Ken Burns has with his America and beloved community of Walpole, NH, and the importance that a "sense of place" and belonging has in one's life. That the essential American fabric of patriotism and goodness are woven through each of us, and often, the road less traveled is a good decision.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
3 Blu-rays (approximately 12 hr., 45 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The shadow on the window: Three young thugs rob a farmhouse, kill the owner and take his stenographer hostage but the woman's estranged husband, a police detective, starts investigating her disappearance.
The long haul: After leaving his U.S. Army job in Germany, a trucker takes a long-haul driver job in Britain where he runs into an organized-crime syndicate that controls the trucking industry.
Pickup alley: U.S. narcotics agent Charles Sturgis...
Series
Indicator volume 280-289
Publisher
Indicator
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Limited edition.
Physical Desc
10 Blu-rays (34 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (115 pages : color illustrations ; 17 cm).
Language
English
Description
British director Michael J Murphy cut his teeth on a variety of homemade 8mm shorts and had completed three feature-length productions by the age of eighteen. Over the next five decades, Murphy would go on to make many more films across a variety of genres, dividing his production time between Greece, Portugal, and the UK, with family, friends, and local stage performers becoming his regular cast and crew in exchange for holidays in the sun. Containing...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
355 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of his epic artistic career in a long-awaited memoir that is as inventive and daring as anything he has done before. Werner Herzog was born in September 1942 in Munich, Germany, at a turning point in the Second World War. Soon Germany would be defeated and a new world would have to be made out the rubble and horrors of the war. Fleeing the Allied bombing...
628) Kubrick by Kubrick
Publisher
Level 33 Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (62 min) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This documentary is composed entirely of archival footage and photographs, accompanied by the voice of Stanley Kubrick. Taken from a series of rare interviews, the film provides an opportunity to understand the work of a master filmmaker, giving voice to one of the greatest directors in the history of cinema, as well as one of the most controversial and enigmatic.
Series
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
2015, 2014.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 minutes) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 12 cm + 1 folded-out.
Language
English
Description
Looks at the remarkable genius of Orson Welles on the eve of his centenary - the enigma of his career as a Hollywood star, a Hollywood director (for some a Hollywood failure), and a crucially important independent filmmaker. Orson Welles's life was magical: a musical prodigy at age ten, a director of Shakespeare at fourteen, a painter at sixteen, a star of stage and radio at twenty, romances with some of the most beautiful women in the world, including...
630) Mike Nichols: a life
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 673 pages, 32 unnumberered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Mike Nichols burst onto the scene as a wunderkind without parallel: while still in his 20's, he was half of a lucrative hit improv duo with Elaine May that was the talk of the country. Next he directed four hit Broadway plays, picking up the Best Director Tony for three of them, and by his mid-30's the first two films he directed, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and The Graduate, were the highest-grossing movies of 1966 and 1967 respectively, and...
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (613 min.) : sound, black and white, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Drums along the Mohawk: Newlyweds Gil and Lana Martin try to establish a farm in the Mohawk Valley but are menaced by Indians and Tories as the Revolutionary War begins.
The grapes of wrath: Tom Joad returns from prison to find his homestead overwhelmed by weather -- and a greedy banking industry. Seeing virtually no work potential on the horizon of the Oklahoma dust bowls, the entire family packs up and heads for the promised land -- California.
How...
632) Jodorowsky's dune
Publisher
Sony Pictures
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
DVD and Blu-ray.
Physical Desc
1 DVD and 1 Blu-ray (90 minutes) : sound, color ; 12 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of cult film director Alejandro Jodorowsky's determined but ultimately ill-fated [1975] film adaptation of the influential science fiction novel.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
12 DVDs (1,363 min.) : sound, black and white with some color sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 books (128 pages : chiefly black and white photographs ; 31 cm)
Language
English
Description
Sunrise: A sophisticated urban woman seduces a farmer in the hopes that he will murder his neglected wife and join her in the city, but he soon finds himself rekindling his romance with the latter when she discovers their scheme.
City girl: A Chicago waitress falls in love with a Minnesota farmer, and decides to face a life in the country.
Lazybones: Steve Tuttle, the titular lazybones, takes on the responsibility of raising a fatherless girl, causing...
635) Girls with guts
Publisher
Darkside Releasing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (68 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An exploration of modern feminism through the boundary-pushing films of badass female filmmakers working in the Pacific Northwest, exploring the topics of body horror, pregnancy, and scream queens, and includes one-on-one interviews and film clips by the filmmakers, who are drawn together in the spirit, passion, and the blood and guts of sisterhood.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
289 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"I’ll be dropping a few names,” Ed Zwick confesses in the introduction to his book. “Over the years I have worked with self-proclaimed masters-of-the-universe, unheralded geniuses, hacks, sociopaths, savants, and saints.” Written mostly with love, sometimes with rue, this memoir is also a meditation on working, sprinkled throughout with tips for anyone who has ever imagined writing, directing, or producing for the screen.
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xvi, 298 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : genealogical table, illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
For many decades, Marion Davies's story has been a source of fascination to the public. From her humble days in Brooklyn to her rise to fame alongside press baron William Randolph Hearst, her story seems like a modern fairy tale. Gossip columnists and fan magazines have tried to capture her unique story for over one hundred years, and biopics and documentaries have tried to incorporate her story into countless screenplays. Due to her wariness of strangers...
638) Essential Fellini
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Special edition collector's set.
Physical Desc
15 Blu-rays (approximately 1,885 min.) : sound, color, and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 booklets.
Language
Italiano
Description
Variety lights: A beautiful and ambitious young woman joins a traveling troupe of third-rate vaudevillians and inadvertently causes jealousy and emotional crises.
The white sheik: During a day in their honeymoon, a couple is separated by the city's lust and the desires it produces.
I vitelloni: Details a year in the life of five young men lingering in post-adolescent limbo, dreaming of adventure and escape from their small town and struggling to...
639) The Koker trilogy
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Three-DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (281 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
Persian
Description
Abbas Kiarostami first came to international attention for his wondrous, slyly self-referential trilogy of films set in the rural Iranian town of Koker. Poised delicately between fiction and documentary, comedy and tragedy, these lyrical fables exemplify both the gentle humanism and playful sleight of hand that defines the director's sensibility.
640) Blue
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (75 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In his final and most daring cinematic statement, Derek Jarman the romantic meets Jarman the iconoclast in a lush soundscape pulsing against a purely blue screen. Laying bare his physical and spiritual state in a narration about his life, his struggle with AIDS and his encroaching blindness, it is by turns poignant, amusing, poetic, and philosophical.
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