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Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (915 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (43 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm)
Language
English
Description
The story of film: an odyssey, written and directed by award-winning film-maker Mark Cousins, is the story of international cinema told through the history of cinematic innovation. Five years in the making, The Story of Film: An Odyssey covers six continents and 12 decades, showing how film-makers are influenced both by the historical events of their times, and by each other. It provides worldwide guided tour of the greatest movies ever made; an epic...
23) The Wind
Series
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
1928.
Physical Desc
1 video cassette (82 min.) : silent, black and white ; 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
Powerful drama of a woman in Texas, battling the relentless and ever-present wind, and her confusion stemming from the affections of two men who want her.
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
[Special edition].
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (238 min.) : sound, sepia tinted ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Harakiri indulged Lang's fascination with Asian culture and Orientalist design. The wandering shadow was the first collaboration of Lang and Thea von Harbou. It follows a woman who in the wake of a sex scandal, seeks solitude in the Bavarian Alps. Four around the woman involves a society woman who must navigate through a complex web of criminal and emotional intrigues.
25) Faust
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
Classic tale of a man who sells his soul to the devil, based on Goethe, Marlowe, and folk sagas.
26) Sherlock Holmes
Author
Language
Silent
Description
When a young prince is accused of a crime that could embroil him in international scandal, debonair super-sleuth Sherlock Holmes comes to his aid, quickly discovering that behind the incident lurks a criminal mastermind eager to reduce Western civilization to anarchy.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (155 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Show Off is about a gullible woman who marries a pompous, incessantly boasting man against his family's wishes. The Plastic Age is about a fast living college girl during Prohibition.
28) Biograph shorts
Series
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 362 min.) : sound, black and white with color sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The two-disc set compiles one and two reel films directed by Griffith during his six-year position with the American Biograph Company, 1908-1913. Having made over 450 shorts before leaving Biograph to make feature films, these works showcase Griffith's early steps towards developing a cinematic language for narrative cinema.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (145 min.) : sound, black and white with color tints ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Melodrama about a young woman who is lured into a fake marriage, becomes pregnant and is abandoned. She moves to a small town and falls in love with a wealthy but humble man, but cannot escape her scandalous past.
30) The Love light
Series
Publisher
Milestone Film & Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sound, black and white and color tinted ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Angela tends a lighthouse in an Italian fishing village while her brothers are fighting at the front. She discovers a foreign sailor washed ashore, nurses him back to health and falls in love with him. After they marry and have a baby, she discovers that he is a German spy and that her innocent actions have helped cause the death of her brother.
31) The Goose woman
Publisher
Televista, Inc
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A goose woman who was once a famous opera singer involves her son in a murder just to see her name hit the headlines again.
33) Die Nibelungen
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (291 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
In part one, Siegfried wins the hand of Kriemhilde by slaying the dragon and defeating Brunhilde. When Brunhilde learns that magic has been used to conquer her, she has Siegfried murdered. In part two, Kriemhilde seeks revenge for Siegfried's death and marries Attila, king of the Huns, in order to further her purpose.
35) Silent stars
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 497 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
39) The Red kimona
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Digitally remastered version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (80 min.) : sound, black and white with hand-tinted sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A vulnerable young woman, whose blind trust in a man leads her into a New Orleans bordello, endures the hardships of that life, but is eventually driven to murdering her lover. A sympathetic jury acquits her and after a period of hardship she ultimately finds happiness.
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (134 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A pharmacist's daughter seduced by her father's assistant has a child and is banished to a repressive reform school. Escaping, she makes her way penniless to a brothel where she lives for the moment.
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