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1) Cold Souls
Language
English
Formats
Description
Paul Giamatti stars as himself, agonizing over his interpretation of Anton Chekhov's Classic Play, "Uncle Vanya." Paralyzed by anxiety, he stumbles upon a solution via a New Yorker article about a high-tech company promising to alleviate suffering by extracting souls.. Giamatti enlists their service -- only to discover that his soul is the shape and size of a chickpea. His intention is to reinstate it once he survives the performance but complications...
Series
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen [ed.]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Made famous as Superman on television, George Reeves finds it hard to not be typecast because of it. When he is found dead of a gunshot wound, rumors begin to run rampant. Based on Hollywood's most notorious unsolved mystery.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
A harried filmmaker tries to juggle the demands of her latest movie with a personal life in shambles. The star of her film, a bombastic American actor imported for the production, presents nothing but headaches and her crew is close to mutiny. Away from the shoot, Margherita tries to hold her life together as her mother's illness progresses and her teenage daughter grows ever more distant.
Series
Criterion collection volume 479
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (27 p. ; 18 cm).
Language
English
Description
An actor has dinner with his friend, a theater director, at an Upper West Side restaurant. Together they discuss everything from money to death to love and all the superstition in between. Playing variations on their own New York-honed personas, the two dive in with introspective, intellectual gusto. All captured in a delicate, but artful detachment.
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (2 hrs., 7 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Made famous as Superman on television, George Reeves finds it hard to not be typecast because of it. When he is found dead of a gunshot wound, rumors begin to run rampant. Based on Hollywood's most notorious unsolved mystery.
7) Galaxy Quest
Language
English
Description
"For four years, the courageous crew of the NSEA Protector-- 'Commannder Peter Quincy Taggart, ' 'Lt. Tawny Madison, ' and 'Dr. Lazarus'-- set off on thrilling and often dangerous missions in space-- and then their series was cancelled! Now, twenty years later, aliens under attack have mistaken the Galaxy Quest television transmissions for 'historical documents' and beamed up the crew of has-been actors to save the universe. With no script, no director...
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Andy has been and actor for five years, but thanks to his useless agent, he's never done any real acting. Instead, he is a lowly film extra, making his mark in the background while the stars do their work. His partner in arms is the pitiable Maggie, a fellow extra and a hopeless romantic.
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
There's a new kid in town, and he might just be more popular than Hannah Montana! Not only is Jake Ryan a total hottie, he's also a famous actor and the star of his own TV series. While "Miley" tries to keep her superstar identity, not to mention her secret crush on Jake under wraps at school, "Hannah" winds up guest starring on his show. As usual, her friends and family come to the rescue, but not before she makes her way through all sorts of adventures...
10) The grand manner
Author
Publisher
Dramatists Play Services, Inc
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
58 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In 1948, playwright A.R. Gurney, then a young boarding-school student, traveled to New York where he attended a performance of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, going backstage afterwards to meet the production's star, the great stage actress Katharine Cornell, who was dubbed "The First Lady of the American Stage" by the legendary critic Alexander Woollcott. A mix of remembrance and imagination, The grand manner is a love letter to this fabled...
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (300 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
What happens when an unknown actor who can't catch a break actually catches one? For Andy Millman, who's just broken through with a TV sitcom called When the Whistle Blows, celebrity doesn't necessarily mean happiness.
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2001
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Gilda's father dies, she is left with nothing but her video camera, her father's secrets, and a fascination with movie star Michael De. Santis. Using her camera as a diary, and propelled by grief and anger, she sets off for an adventure in New York City. Ultimately, she finds herself right in the middle of her movie star fantasies.
13) Life
Publisher
See-Saw Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the true story of photographer Dennis Stock and Hollywood's rebel actor James Dean, brought together for a Life Magazine assignment. Their journey leads to an unbreakable friendship and some of the most iconic images of the age.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2019].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 106 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An exploration of an unlikely friendship that develops over a wild night in LA between a struggling journalist Danny Tate and actor Hervé Villechaize, resulting in drastic consequences for both.
15) The impostors
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999], c1998
Edition
Widescreen version (2.35:1).
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Meet Arthur and Stanley, two wrongly accused and out-of-work actors who escape from the police by stowing away aboard a luxury liner. But soon these two impostors find themselves giving the performance of a lifetime - not only to escape the authorities, but to foil the dastardly plot of a deranged crewman who has explosive plans for everyone on board.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (431 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Easter parade: Don Hewes and Nadine Hale are a dancing team, but on the day before Easter she refuses to sign a new contract with him. So he takes the next dancer he meets, Hannah Brown, as a new partner. He vows to make Hannah a success before the next Easter parade. After a while Don and Hannah are so successful that Florence Ziegfeld is interested in them. With Nadine dancing for the Follies, Don declines to dance for the Ziegfeld's. Don falls...
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