Home Vision Entertainment (Firm)
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Swedish
Description
A sharp satire about eight Swedish aristocrats who become romantically and comically intertwined over a single weekend. Includes Director approved special edition features.
3) Animal farm
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Full Screen. Special collector's ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (72 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A group of farm animals successfully revolt against their cruel human owner, only to be enslaved anew by the unscrupulous pig Napoleon, whose slogan is "all animals are equal but some animals more equal than others."
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Painfully shy Lisa can communicate only through rhyme, and David cannot bear being touched. They meet in a mental institution and are strongly attracted to each other. They develop a deep bond that changes both of their lives.
Series
Criterion collection volume 98
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001], c1960
Edition
RSDL dual-layer ed.; Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (143 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Story about the search for a girl lost on an island; gradually the searchers become preoccupied with their own problems, and the girl is never found.
Series
Criterion collection volume 263
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 188 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Swedish
Description
Told through the eyes of Alexander and his sister Fanny, we see the exuberant and colorful Ekdahl household in a Swedish town early in the twentieth century. Their parents, Oscar and Emilie, are the director and the leading lady of the local theatre company. Oscar's mother and brother are its chief patrons. After Oscar's early death, his widow marries the bishop and moves with her children to his austere and forbidding chancery. The children are immediately...
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 103 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Produced at the height of Vietnam War, Emile de Antonio's Oscar nominated 1968 documentary chronicles the war's historical roots. The savage and horrific images speak for themselves in perhaps the most controversial film of de Antonio's career.
Publisher
Distributed by Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (74 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Hindi
Description
Pavan Pool is an enclosed area of Bombay where the city's singing and dancing courtesans ply their trade. Crammed tenements house thousands of men playing up to the camera as they seek out forbidden pleasures - and the courtesans themselves, who appear more as entertainers than sex workers. It shows how young girls are groomed in the arts of singing, dancing, and by inference, seduction. The film is about a tradition with a special place in Indian...
9) Ratcatcher
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
p2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
A haunting evocation of a troubled Glasgow childhood.
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (74 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Viola Liuzzo, a 39-year-old wife and mother of five, was the only white woman killed during the civil rights movement. Narrated by Stockard Channing, Paola di Florio's powerful and poignant documentary tells Liuzzo's tragic story.
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen ; special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Danish
Description
Christoffer, who four years earlier abandoned the family steel business for an idyllic life as a restauranteur with the woman he loves, Maria, a rising actress. But when Christoffer's father commits suicide, Christoffer's domineering and manipulative mother compels him to return home to take control. Maria's worst fears for Christoffer are tragically realized as he must contend with a business on the brink of financial ruin and a brother-in-law scheming...
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Icelandic
Description
It is 1953, and Freya, who had gone to America as an officer's bride, has returned home to begin a new life. She moves into a small house of distant relatives in a quite fishing village in Iceland. But unlike the drab, plump girl who went abroad, Freya, now in her twenties, is a beautiful woman. She is somewhat of a mystery woman of the household, especially to the men of the community. But soon strange things begin to happen in their community. Is...
13) Hoop dreams
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (171 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This documentary follows two inner-city basketball phenoms' lives through high school as they chase their dreams of playing in the NBA.
14) All things fair
Publisher
Homevision
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 132 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Swedish
Description
A sensual, controversial coming-of-age story in which a young man falls madly in love with his teacher. The intense relationship spins rapidly out of control, setting the stage for a final confrontation in which 'all is fair in love and war.'
15) Hiccup =: Hukkle
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (75 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Hungarian
Description
A mesmerizing symphony of sight and sound that chronicles a series of mysterious interconnected events both idyllic and sinister, from an elderly man's hiccup (or hukkle) to a microscopic menagerie of animals.
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Robert Bresson's masterpiece follows a much-abused donkey, Balthazar, whose life strangely parallels that of his owner, Marie. A beast of burden suffering the sins of man, Balthazar nevertheless nobly accepts his fate.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rival theater companies compete to produce their own unique versions of Jane Austen's childhood play, 'Sir Charles Grandison'. George Midash buys the plays manuscript at Sotheby's for Pierre, the head of the avant-garde theater troupe. Another troupe, headed by the traditional Lilianna Zorska, strives to produce their own version of the play. In her first role, a young actress is manipulated by Pierre to join his company. When Lilianna decides to...
18) The Bostonians
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Enhanced for widescreen TVs.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Olive, a militant 19th century suffragette, takes on the education of a young girl with the gift of oratory. Olive hopes to use her gift for the feminist cause, but finds her student involved in a love triangle with Basil Ransom, a young lawyer from Mississippi, who is strongly opposed to the feminists in Boston.
Series
Criterion collection volume 277
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mike is a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him. Scott is a wayward son of the mayor of Portland and the object of Mike's desire. Navigating a volatile world of junkies, thieves, and johns, Mike takes Scott on a quest from the grungy streets to the open highways of the Pacific Northwest, in search of an elusive place called "home". A stirring look at unrequited love and life at society's margins.
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 169 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Prince Caspian calls Lucy, Edmund, Peter, and Susan back to Narnia in his most harrowing time of need. The children help Caspian defeat King Miraz, and restore Narnia for it's full glory.