Woody Allen
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The long-awaited, enormously entertaining memoir by one of the great artists of our time. In this candid and often hilarious memoir, the celebrated director, comedian, writer, and actor offers a comprehensive, personal look at his tumultuous life. Beginning with his Brooklyn childhood and his stint as a writer for the Sid Caesar variety show in the early days of television, working alongside comedy greats, Allen tells of his difficult early days doing...
2) Wonder wheel
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On Coney Island in the 1950s, a lifeguard tells the story of a middle-aged carousel operator and his beleaguered wife.
3) Blue Jasmine
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After everything in her life falls to pieces, including her marriage to wealthy businessman Hal, elegant New York socialite Jasmine moves into her sister Ginger's humble apartment in San Francisco to try to pull herself back together again.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 53 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In a triumphant career that lasted forty years Erroll Garner pushed the playability of the piano to its limits, developed an international reputation, and made an indelible mark on the jazz world. And yet, his story has never been told. Until now. Atticus Brady's new film uses an astonishing array of archival materials interwoven with interviews with friends, family, and fellow musicians, and features commentary from Woody Allen; Ahmad Jamal; Tonight...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Full screen and widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The complex story of Melinda, a woman whose life is told from both a tragic and a comic perspective. Both stories involve the same woman who crashes a Manhattan dinner party, but with wildly different results.
Language
English
Description
Philosophy professor Abe Lucas is at rock bottom emotionally, unable to find any meaning or joy in life. He feels that everything he's tried to do from political activism to teaching hasn't made any difference. Abe gets involved with two women: Rita Richards, a lonely professor who is unhappy in her marriage; and Jill Pollard, his best student, who becomes his closest friend. Pure chance changes everything when Abe and Jill overhear a stranger's conversation...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in the romantic city of Rome. The intertwining stories of a worker who wakes up to find himself a celebrity, an architect who takes a trip back to the street he lived on as a student, a young couple on their honeymoon, and a frustrated opera director who has a talent for discovering talented singers.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"A romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better"--IMDB.com.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (82 min.) : sound, color with black and white segments ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cecilia is a poor waitress in a dumpy New Jersey diner who goes to the movies to escape the realities of Depression Era life. Her favorite is "The Purple Rose of Cairo." When the leading man, Tom Baxter, decides to be with Cecilia, confusion abounds.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1920s, Stanley, an Englishman posing as an Asian magician, attempts to debunk fake spiritualists. He then travels to the south of France to unmask a supposed medium named Sophie as a good-looking fake, but he ends up falling for her real-world charms instead.
12) Whatever works
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Boris Yellnikoff is a lifelong New York resident who attempts to impress his ideologies of religion, relationships, and the randomness of existence onto anyone who will listen. But when he begrudgingly allows Melodie St. Ann Celestine, a naïve Mississippi runaway, to live in his apartment, his reclusive rages give way to an unlikely friendship and Boris begins to mold the impressionable young girl's worldly views to match his own. When it comes to...
13) Manhattan
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Allen portrays Isaac Davis, a successful comedy writer whose wife, having left him for another woman, is now embarking on a book about their failed marriage. Isaac happily consoles himself in the arms of an adoring 17 year-old schoolgirl until he meets someone closer to his own age, who happens to be his best friend's mistress.
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
[Widescreen version].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two American women, one engaged to be married and the other sexually flirtatious, both become romantically involved with a painter while on vacation in Barcelona, only to find they have competition in the form of the painter's ex-wife.
15) Hollywood ending
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (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
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After Alfie leaves his wife, Helena, to pursue his lost youth with a free-spirited call girl named Charmaine, Helena abandons rationality and surrenders her life to the loopy advice of a charlatan fortune teller. Meanwhile, daughter Sally develops a crush on her handsome boss, Greg, while her husband, Roy, becomes moonstruck over Dia, a mystery woman who catches his gaze through a nearby window. These four will find out how easy it is for their illusions...
17) Antz
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Life is no picnic for Z, a small worker ant with some very big ideas, whose chances with the beautiful Princess Bala are literally one in a billion. When Z convinces his soldier ant buddy to switch places with him, his simple life takes a wild turn.
Publisher
[WEA]
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Collector's edition.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (600 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A digitally remastered and restored six-disc collection of classic skits and stand-up from Dean Martin's hugely popular TV show, spanning ten years and so many golden memories. Includes bonus features.
19) Annie Hall
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
Full screen and widescreen versions.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (93 min.) : sound, color, double-sided ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Woody Allen's semiautobiographical portrait of his amorous, but ultimately mismatched, relationship with co-star Diane Keaton. Allen uses satire and comedy to portray this "nervous romance" for modern times.
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Woody Allen's romantic comedy tells the story of college sweethearts, Gatsby and Ashleigh, whose plans for a romantic weekend together in New York City are dashed as quickly as the sunlight turns into showers. When Ashleigh gets an assignment from the school paper to interview celebrated film director Roland Pollard in Manhattan, Gatsby seizes the opportunity to show Arizona-bred Ashleigh his favorite haunts in his home city.