Terry Southern
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Language
English
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Description
In this uproarious and wicked cult-classic, Southern skewers American greed and pomposity Guy Grand, an eccentric billionaire prankster, is rich enough to do whatever he likes. And what he likes is to carefully execute projects where he can cauterize by ridicule what the rest of the world ignores: complacency, greed, corruption, and idiocy. Determined to "make it hot for people," Grand spends his billions staging a series of hilarious, sometimes bewildering...
Author
Language
English
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Description
An unforgettable chronicle of an era by one of America's wildest-and most brilliant-comedic and literary minds Edited by Nile Southern and Josh Alan Friedman Starting with his landing at the Battle of the Bulge, Terry Southern showed a knack for winding up in the world's most interesting places. He spent the fifties on the Left Bank of Paris, the sixties in mod London, and the seventies touring with the Rolling Stones. When the Beatles rolled out...
3) Blue Movie
Author
Language
English
Description
A darkly hilarious, wildly erotic satire of Hollywood King B., the world's most admired filmmaker-winner of a string of Oscars and awards from Cannes to Venice-takes on a new project: the most expensive, star-studded, high-quality, X-rated film ever made. He joins forces with producer Sid Krassman, who's made a fortune with B movies, and Angela Sterling, a misunderstood sex symbol who longs to do "serious" work. After convincing the principality of...
4) Texas Summer
Author
Language
English
Description
An evocative, poignant coming-of-age novel set in rural Texas in the 1950s Through events small and large, thirteen-year-old Harold Stevens grows up during a pivotal summer in the red-dirt backcountry of West Texas. With his friend C.K. Crow, the black field hand who works for Harold's father, he shoots deer and quail, fishes for catfish, mends fences, grows and learns about marijuana, and tests his emerging manhood against bullies, bulls, and...
Author
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English
Description
A satirical dream-logic journey through the dark heart of 1950s Los Angeles Dr. Frederick Eichner, world-renowned dermatologist, is visited by the entrancingly irritating Felix Treevly who comes to him as a patient and stays as an obsession. Prosaic incidents blossom into bizarre developments with the sharpened reality of dreams as the spectral Mr. Treevly leads the doctor into a series of increasingly weird situations. With the assistance of a drunken...
6) Easy rider
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two motorcyclists travel across the U.S. in search of the "real" America. And find it.
Series
Criterion collection volume 821
Language
English
Description
A satire in which the U.S. president and his military advisors struggle ineptly to avert a holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union because he fears that the Russians are poisoning the water supply in the United States.
8) Easy rider
Publisher
Columbia TriStar
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
35th anniversary deluxe ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 volume (80 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
Two motorcyclists embark on a coast-to-coast odyssey in search of the real U.S. They encounter hippies and prostitutes, make friends with an alcoholic small town lawyer, take drugs, and are harassed and attacked by rednecks.
9) Barbarella
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An erotic science fiction fantasy in which a female adventurer travels through space vanquishing evil in the forms of robots and monsters and rewarding the men who assist her.
Publisher
Ditributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Kid thinks he's the best 5-card stud player in town, but The Man has never been beaten. It is therefore inevitable that they go head-on, and what a game it will be: a non-stop, stud poker duel-to-the-death to decide who will be the reigning king of the New Orleans gambling world.
Series
Criterion collection volume 789
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (90 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Made up of intimate, revelatory footage of the singular author and poet filmed over the course of five years, Howard Brookner's 1983 documentary about William S. Burroughs (Naked Lunch) was for decades mainly the stuff of legend; that changed when Aaron Brookner, the late director's nephew, discovered a print of it in 2011 and spearheaded a restoration. Includes on-screen appearances by Allen Ginsberg, Herbert Huncke, Terry Southern, and Lucien Carr....
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Comedy legend Peter Sellers portrays Sir Guy Grand, the richest man in the world. One day he whimsically adopts a young homeless man who he happens to meet by chance during a stroll in the park. Together they set off on a series of madcap escapades and comically attack the snobbery and hypocrisy of modern society as they go from one hilarious misadventure to another. Featured are Paul McCartney's hit song Come and Get It and the Monty Python regulars...
