Richard Schickel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Few figures in film and theater history tower like Elia Kazan. Born in 1909 to Greek parents in Istanbul, Turkey, he arrived in America with incomparable vision and drive, and by the 1950s he was the most important and influential director in the nation, simultaneously dominating both theater and film. His productions of A Streetcar Named Desire and Death of a Salesman reshaped the values of the stage. His films -- most notably On the Waterfront --...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (289 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Clint Eastwood narrates Richard Schickels perceptive 5-episode, 85th-anniversary salute to the studio that gained a four-footed hold with an unlikely star (Rin Tin Tin), championed tough guys and dames who gave the Depression and the Nazis the raspberry, countered the box-office onslaught of TV and emerged as a 21st-century giant. Art, business, stars, moneymen, America its an enthralling tale.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 423 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Martin Scorsese's career is a dense map of critical darlings and experimental films--from "Mean Streets" to "Shutter Island." Now fans are given the chance to see all of his movies, and moviemaking in general, through the eyes of the master director himself.
11) Gilda
Series
Criterion collection volume 795
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 minutes) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold-out booklet.
Language
English
Description
A deceitful woman plays with the lives of her husband, his crime lord boss, and his right-hand man.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 77 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two documentaries saluting William Powell, originally silent film star and loveable villain and Myrna Loy's passage to the reigning queen of Hollywood.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (162 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Named for the insignia of the First Infantry Division, this World War II combat film follows a handful of young GIs and their sergeant as they battle their way from North Africa through Sicily, Omaha Beach and Belgium to the ultimate horror of the concentration camp at Falkenau, Czechoslovakia.
14) Whirlpool
Series
Fox film noir volume 9
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC
Pub. Date
c2005, 1950
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : digital, b&w, 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet.
Language
English
Description
A young wife is caught in a spiral of deceit, blackmail and murder. Terrified that her psychiatrist husband will learn of her frailty, Ann Sutton attempts to cure herself with the help of hypnotist David Korvo. However, Ann finds herself plunging deeper and deeper into a psychological abyss as Korvo, with a diabolical plan of his own, manipulates her unconscious mind.--Container.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Widescreen two-disc special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (141 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the small Texas town of Rio Bravo, law and order is maintained by three unlikely enforcers: hard-boiled sheriff Chance; former quick draw artist Dude, now gone drunk and disheveled; and the crippled, wisecracking Stumpy, who patrols the jail with a shotgun. The arrest and incarceration of Joe Burdette for murder has set these three at odds with his brother, corrupt and wealthy landowner Nathan Burdette. Nathan assembles a force of hired guns...
17) Ask The Dust
Author
Language
English
Description
Colin Farrell is Arturo Bandini, a young would-be writer who comes to Depression-era Los Angeles to make a name for himself. While there, he meets beautiful barmaid Camilla (Salma Hayek), a Mexican immigrant who hopes for a better life by marrying a wealthy American. Both are trying to escape the stigma of their ethnicity in blue-blood California. The passion that arises between them is palpable – if they could only set aside their ambitions...
