Quentin Tarantino
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"In addition to being among the most celebrated of contemporary filmmakers, Quentin Tarantino is possibly the most joyously infectious movie lover alive. For years he has touted in interviews his eventual turn to writing books about films. Now, with Cinema Speculation, the time has come, and the results are everything his passionate fans--and all movie lovers--could have hoped for. Organized around key American films from the 1970s, all of which he...
4) Pulp fiction
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (154 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
6) Grindhouse
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
2 blu-ray discs (191 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A motley crew of survivors must fight off an army of flesh-eating zombies after the military releases a poisonous gas on the population; a sociopathic stuntman, who likes to accost young women in his "deathproof" Dodge Charger, meets his match in a gang of feisty ladies on a Texas highway.
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A stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. Bounty hunter John Ruth and his fugitive Daisy, race towards the town of Red Rock where Ruth, will bring Daisy to justice. Losing their lead on the blizzard, they seek refuge at Minnie's, a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass. When they arrive at Minnie's, they are greeted not by the proprietor but by four unfamiliar faces. As the storm overtakes the mountainside stopover, our travelers...
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A small town sheriffs' department has to deal with an outbreak of murderous, infected people called "sickos." Cherry Darling meets up again with her old lover, El Wray, just as their Texas town is being overrun by "sickos" with festering sores turning them into zombies. Cherry has El Wray's jacket, which she took with her when she left and he keeps trying to explain how he looked for it for two weeks and she keeps interrupting his story. Gun-legged...
9) Desperado
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A mysterious guitar player seeks vengeance against the men who murdered his girlfriend.
10) True romance
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007, c1993
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of two unlikely lovers who find themselves in possession of a suitcase full of valuable mob contraband which they plan to take from Detroit to Los Angeles, sell, and begin a new life.
11) Pulp fiction
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Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction has been hailed by critics and audiences worldwide as a film that redefined cinema. Tarantino delivers an unforgettable cast of characters, including a pair of low-rent hitmen, their boss's sexy wife, and a desperate prizefighter, in a wildly entertaining and exhilarating blend of crime-thriller-drama-comedy that is completely original and entirely unforgettable.
12) Freedom's fury
Publisher
Wolo Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90, 34 min.) : sd., col., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Retells the story of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 through the eyes of freedom fighters as well as athletes from the Russian and Hungarian water polo teams. Gray juxtaposes images of Hungary's unrivaled water polo reign with powerful footage of the uprising, from a young nurse proudly waving a Hungarian flag with the red star cut out of the center to the brutal political executions by the Soviet regime. In the midst of the upheaval, both Hungary...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (153 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During World War II, a group of Jewish-American guerilla soldiers, led by Lt. Aldo Raine, become known as "The Basterds." They are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish woman who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. A plot is set in motion to kill the Nazis at the theater's movie premier, including Adolph...
14) Reservoir dogs
Publisher
Artisan Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
They were strangers, assembled to pull off the perfect jewel heist. Then their simple robbery turns into a bloody ambush and they realize one of them is a police informant. But which one?
15) Django unchained
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Django, a former slave turned hired gun, heads back to the plantation to free his wife, Broomhilda, from the tyrannical plantation owner Calvin Candie, with the help of a German bounty hunter, Dr. King Shultz.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (137 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The bride continues on her deadly pursuit of her former partners in the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, who, in a furious assault, attempted to murder her and her unborn child on her wedding day. As the bride faces off against allies-turned-nemeses Budd and Elle, she flashes back to the day of her deadly wedding. We learn how she was recruited and trained and about her relationship with Squad leader Bill.