Waldo Salt
Series
Language
English
Description
Joe Buck moves to New York from Texas to make his fortune servicing women. Instead, he's conned into partnering up with small-time hustler Ratso Rizzo. Living together on the tattered edges of society, these two outcasts develop an unlikely bond that helps them transcend their cruel existence.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (144 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A naive young set designer seeks work in Tinseltown and falls in love with a wannabe actress who lives with her alcoholic father, a former vaudevillian entertainer.
3) Coming home
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A love story set against the social upheaval of the Vietnam war. While Sally's husband is serving in Vietnam, she becomes involved with a veteran of the war, a paraplegic at a San Diego veterans hospital.
4) Serpico
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert.
Language
English
Description
Adaptation of a true story where a young New York police officer refuses to extort money from criminals as the other officers do. His fellow police officers turn against him when he seeks to expose the situation during a grand jury investigation.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Joe Buck moves to New York from Texas to make his fortune servicing women. Instead, he's conned into partnering up with small-time huslter Ratso Rizzo. Living together on the tattered edges of society, these two outcasts develop an unlikely bond that helps them transcend their cruel existence.
Series
Publisher
warnerarchive.com
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Fullscreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (085 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When an unsophisticated Texan, a soldier about to sent overseas to the World War I trenches, falls hopelessly in love with a beautiful but hardened New York actress, his prospect for romance seems doomed.
7) Taras bulba
Series
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in the sixteenth century, the film chronicles the bloody Polish revolution against the Cossacks, who were led by the brazen, barbaric Taras Bulba. Bulba must contend with his wayward son Andrel.
Series
Criterion collection volume 925
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"One of the British New Wave's most versatile directors, John Schlesinger came to New York in the late 1960s to make Midnight Cowboy, a picaresque story of friendship that captured a city in crisis and sparked a new era of Hollywood movies. Jon Voight delivers a career-making performance as Joe Buck, a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy city women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum...
Author
Language
English
Description
Nathanael West's novel about Hollywood decadence in the late '30s is a brilliant piece of filmmaking. A deeply insightful work that is powerful in its presentation, staggering in its vision. Director John Schlesinger is masterful in creating a world of platinum blondes, cockfights, glamour and broken dreams. And throughout, he plays on the edge of sexual and physical danger which finally erupts in the shocking climax. Oscar® nominations went to Burgess...
