Mark Rydell
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
1981.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (109 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The loons are back again on Golden Pond and so are Norman Thayer, a retired professor, and Ethel who have had a summer cottage there since early in their marriage. This summer their daughter Chelsea -- whom they haven't seen for years -- feels she must be there for Norman's birthday. She and her fiance are on their way to Europe the next day but will be back in a couple of weeks to pick up the fiance's son. When she returns Chelsea is married and...
Publisher
Cinema Libre Studio
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (86 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond escaped from Hungary in 1956 and immigrated to the United States to toil in the underbelly of Hollywood. Suddenly, after ten years, Laszlo’s camera broke the rules of cinema with *Easy Rider* and Vilmos poured “poetic realism” into *McCabe & Mrs. Miller*, ushering a new wave of American cinema. Combined with interviews from some of Hollywood's biggest names including: Sandra Bullock, Peter Fonda, Denis Hopper...
3) The Reivers
Publisher
Paramount Pictures/CBS DVD
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on William Faulkner's warm, humorous, poignant story about the advent of the automobile, a horse race and a boy's loss of innocence during a great adventure in the early 1900's south.
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
The Thayers, a crotchety old professor and his wife, spend their summer together on a lake in New England. When their daughter arrives, the family is forced to renew the bonds of love and overcome friction that has existed for years, as Norman finds his way through anger and frustration at growing old.
6) The rose
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Presents the final days of a hard-living, burned-out rock performer who badly needs a rest. When her ruthless manager won't give her one, she sets off on a self-destructive binge. The character is modeled after Janis Joplin.
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...
8) The cowboys
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen version ; Deluxe edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers for the gold mines, Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his drivers in order to cross the 400 treacherous miles to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster. The boys learn to do a man's job under Andersen's tutelage, however, neither Andersen nor the boys are aware that a gang of cattle thieves is stalking them.
9) Even money
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The lives of nine individuals fate begin to increasingly entwine in a web of addiction and gambling, culminating at one critical moment where their lives will be lost or reclaimed. Struggling writer Kate loses her family's savings at a casino; a washed-up Vegas performer tries to help Kate regain her money; Clyde owes so much money to his dangerous bookie that he asks his NBA-destined nephew to throw a game.
10) The long goodbye
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For The Long Goodbye, Robert Altman successfully transports Philip Marlowe, incarnated by Elliott Gould, to the over-privileged, full-color 70s. Marlowe is lonely and shabby, yet does not seem an anachronism in the contemporary world. Unlike Bogart's Marlowe, this is a not especially tough Marlowe. He's a bright, conscientiously solemn nut, a guy who hopes for the best but expects the worst. This particular Philip Marlowe, despite evidence to the...
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (264 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A dying doctor refuses to believe that her patient cannot remember the last 25 years of his life. In the middle of a ferocious firefight outside of Baghdad, soldiers discover a mysterious body they can't identify as human. The seventh-richest couple in the world are anthropoids - each containing a few strands of human DNA, grown into a baby and fused with plastics. Despised minorities are adrift in the darkness of outer space and make an ominous pact...
12) The rose
Series
Criterion collection volume 757
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version; director-approved two-DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert.
Language
English
Description
Rose is one of the biggest rock stars on the planet. Her life of constant sex, drugs and rock and roll, along with constant touring, prove to be too much to handle. Nominated for four Academy Awards.
Author
Series
Masters of Science Fiction volume 1
Language
English
Description
In a post-Apocalyptic future, Dr. Deanna Evans is charged with uncovering the mysteries hidden within the mind of a confused man who is suffering from a lapse in memory. Slowly, the doctor peels back layers and layers of memories from her patient, but when she reveals the horrifying past, does it contain the answers she is looking for? Join host Professor Stephen Hawking for this expedition into the outer realms of scientific imagination starring...
14) Even Money
Author
Language
English
Description
Gambling addiction bring the stories of three otherwise unconnected people together as it destroys each of their lives in this critically acclaimed drama from Academy Award nominated director Mark Rydell (On Golden Pond).
15) The Fox
Author
Language
English
Description
Jill Banford and Ellen March have built a good life together on a hardscrabble Canadian farm. Then handsome Paul Grenfel enters their isolated world, and sets friend against friend. But is Paul the real trouble between Jill and Ellen? Or has his presence merely awakened the unspoken, unexplored sexual tension that always existed between the women? Sandy Dennis, Keir Dullea and Anne Heywood portray the three sides of an incendiary triangle in this...
16) Char-act-er
Author
Language
English
Description
Featuring artists like Sydney Pollack & Peter Falk, this unique documentary takes us into the living rooms of some of America's greatest storytellers.
17) Intersection
Author
Language
English
Description
Three of today's hottest stars meet in this year's most electrifying drama! Richard Gere portrays Vincent Eastman, an award-winning architect whose personal life is on shaky ground. Separated from his beautiful but aloof wife (Sharon Stone), Vincent has an affair with a joyful and passionate writer (Lolita Davidovich) whose love promises a new beginning. But Vincent remains emotionally torn between the two women, leaving his future happiness- and...