Buck Henry
1) Catch-22
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1970.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (122 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
**Oscar** winner Mike Nichols superbly directs this cinematic adaptation of Joseph Heller’s scathing black comedy about a small group of pilots in the Mediterranean in 1944. There are winners and losers, opportunists and survivors. Separately and together they are nervous, frightened, often profane and sometimes pathetic. Almost all are a little crazy. CATCH-22 is an anti-war satire of epic proportions. Nominated for The UN Award and Best Cinematography...
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (139 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Thomas Jerome Newton, a mysterious and complex personality, appears in New York. Despite his curiously frail physical presence, the strength of his intellect and scientific knowledge appear to transcend contemporary human experience. His inventions are of such originality that they will revolutionize the nation's systems of communication and lead, in approximately three years, to the creating of the largest corporate empire in the United States......
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Four red plaid traveling cases-- one of each belonging to a befuddled Iowa musicologist, a strange but bright young woman, a rich matron and a suspicious fellow-- are mixed up at a San Francisco hotel, with hilarious results.
4) The graduate
Series
Criterion collection volume 800
Language
English
Description
Benjamin Braddock has just finished college and is already lost in a sea of confusion and barely contained angst when he becomes sexually involved with the middle-aged mother of the young woman he's dating.
5) Get Smart
Language
English
Formats
Description
Maxwell Smart is a bungling secret agent who is also known as Agent 86. He works for the United States spy agency known as CONTROL and is on a mission to battle the forces of their evil crime nemesis known as KAOS. Working at his side is his more than competent partner, Agent 99. When the CONTROL headquarters is attacked and the identities of its agents compromised, the Chief has no choice but to promote his ever-eager analyst Maxwell Smart, who has...
6) The graduate
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Directionless and living with his parents, recent college graduate Benjamin Braddock begins an affair with a married neighbor and then falls in love with her daughter.
Series
Criterion collection volume 304
Publisher
[Distributed by] Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005, c1976
Edition
Widescreen format; director-approved special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (139 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (160 p. ; 19 cm.) + 1 accompanying booklet (unpaged ; col., ill. ; 19 cm.).
Language
English
Description
An alien, on mission a mission to obtain water, becomes a head of a large corporation. Ultimately, he is overwhelmed by American capitalism and a relationship with a women. Includes director Roeg's full uncut version.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 900 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Maxwell Smart is bumbling Agent 86 of CONTROL, the secret agency created to fight the evil KAOS organization. Invariably, Smart's bumbling style lands him in hot water. Lucky for him, Agent 99 is there to bail him out.
Language
English
Description
Daniel Miller was tooling along a Los Angeles boulevard listening to Barbra Streisand sing "Something's Coming" when something came - a bus. One head-on crash later, Daniel wakes up deceased. And his troubles are just beginning ... Meryl Streep joins writer/director/star Brooks ... for a witty peek at the afterlife where you can eat all you want and not gain an ounce. But there's a catch: you're saddled with Defending Your Life. If you can't make...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
Grumpy old men: neighborhood curmudgeons' long-running feud becomes an all-out rivalry when an attractive widow moves into the house across the street. Grumpier old men: grumpy old men become grumpier in this sequel as a newcomer (Sophia Loren) plans to change the town's bait shop into a ristorante.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Fullscreen ed.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 750 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Max and 99 pursue their elusive KAOS adversaries around the world from Greenland to the scorching sands of the Sahara desert; come face-to-face with their dastardly foes, staying in a Bedoin tent; stay at the "Pussycat Club;" and deep beneath the eaves in a secret KOAS submarine. The madcap misadventures just get funnier.
13) Catch-22
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of a group of fliers in the Mediterranean during World War II.
14) To die for
Series
Criterion collection volume 1213
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The all-American obsession with celebrity turns monstrous in this deliciously subversive (and disturbingly prescient) satire of our television-mediated, true-crime-obsessed age. In a career breakthrough, Nicole Kidman delivers a diabolical deconstruction of the girl next door as a local TV weather reporter whose perfectly perky facade belies a murderous heart, as her ruthless pursuit of fame ensnares three disaffected teens in a sordid, tabloid-ready...
15) The humbling
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Over-the-hill stage actor Simon Axler struggles to find his passion for life again. Near his breaking point, he finds motivation in the form of a young and lustful lesbian Pegeen Stapleford, but as their relationship heats up Simon has a hard time keeping up with the youthful Pegeen.
16) Grumpy old men
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Next-door neighbors John Gustafson and Max Goldman are neighborhood curmudgeons whose long-running feud becomes an all-out rilvary when an attractive widow moves into the house across the street.
17) Town & country
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Standard and widescreen versions.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Revelations of his best friend's affair drive wealthy architect, Porter, to begin questioning his own life and marriage. In search of some meaning to their rapidly disintegrating lives, the two guys go on a cross-country trip to figure their lives out.
18) Get Smart
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Widescreen two-disc special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Maxwell Smart is a bungling secret agent who works for CONTROL, whose mission is to battle the forces of their evil crime nemesis known as KAOS. After the identities of CONTROL agents are compromised, Smart along with the competent and beautiful Agent 99 must do whatever it takes to thwart KAOS's latest plot for world domination.
19) Gloria
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An accountant is in possession of a ledger which could put a number of mob bosses behind bars for a long time. Before he is killed, however, he manages to entrust the ledger and his son to a neighbor, Gloria, for protection. Gloria reluctantly takes the kid on the run while keeping the mob at bay, sometimes at the point of a gun. Finally, tired of running, she decides to confront them head on!
20) Protocol
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
Standard version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A daffy Washington D.C. waitress saves a visiting Arab dignitary from an assassination attempt and goes from serving drinks to serving her country in the State Department's protocol branch.