Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- )
1) Local hero
Series
Criterion collection volume 994
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Director-approved two-DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (111 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations)
Language
English
Description
Texas oil executive Mac is dispatched by his crackpot boss to a remote seaside village in Scotland with orders to buy out the town and develop the region for an oil refinery. But as business mixes with pleasure, Mac finds himself enchanted by both the picturesque community and its oddball denizens, and Texas starts to feel awfully far away.
2) True stories
Series
Criterion collection volume 951
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (unpaged : color illustrations).
Language
English
Description
"Music icon David Byrne was inspired by tabloid headlines to make his sole foray into feature-film directing, an ode to the extraordinariness of ordinary American life and a distillation ot what was in his own idiosyncratic mind. The Talking Heads front man plays a visitor to Virgil, Texas, who introduces us to the citizens of the town during preparations for its Celebration of Specialness. As shot by cinematographer Ed Lachman, Texas becomes a hyperrealistic...
Series
Criterion collection volume 476
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (Blu-ray) (165 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tells the story of the life and loves of Benjamin Button who was born an old man and ages in reverse.
Series
Criterion collection volume 476
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
[Special ed.].
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (165 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he is ages backwards, being born an old man. He is diagnosed with several aged diseases at birth and thus...