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A meld of Mexican horror movies and Nazi occultism: a dark thriller about the curse that haunts a legendary lost film--and awakens one woman's hidden powers. Montserrat has always been overlooked. She’s a talented sound editor, but she’s left out of the boys’ club running the film industry in ’90s Mexico City. And she’s all but invisible to her best friend, Tristán, a charming if faded soap opera star, though she’s been in love with him...
2) Shadow magic
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Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2001], c1999
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1 DVD (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Based on a true story about a Chinese photographer and an Englishman who arrives with "moving pictures". Liu unintentionally defies his families traditions to help bridge the gap between Chinese culture and the inventions and western technologies. In order to better his standing in society, so he can marry the woman he loves, Liu must decide if he wants to risk everything to help bring the motion picture industry to China.
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Warner Home Video
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Silent movies are giving way to talking pictures, and a hoofer-turned-matinee idol is caught in that bumpy transition, as are his buddy, prospective ladylove, and shrewish costar. Rediscover the musical masterpiece in dazzling, restored high definition, featuring an all-new documentary special feature that salutes not just the all-time favorite, but also the musical legacy of its producer, songwriter Arthur Freed.
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014].
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1 DVD (98 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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In May 2012, Oscar nominees director James Toback and actor Alec Baldwin worked their way through the Cannes Film Festival in an attempt to secure financing for a proposed film, a political-erotic Middle Eastern adventure inspired by Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango In Paris. As they dashed around, hopeful against all odds, Toback filmed the hilarious and revealing proceedings, from pitches to billionaires, studio moguls, producers, and international...
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HBO Video
Pub. Date
c2004, c2003
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1 DVD (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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The true story of how Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa allowed a Hollywood crew to film him in battle, altering the course of film and military history in the process. Early movie giants D.W. Griffith and Harry Aiken send Frank Thayer to Mexico to persuade the cash-strapped, publicity-hungry Villa to let them film his revolution. Stepping into the literal cross fire, Thayer's crew risk their lives in the mingling of fiction and reality. The two...
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A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005], c1997
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1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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Tells several stories, including the rise of American film, ther personal sagas of the people who shaped it, and the origins of so-called Hollywood values. Using never-before seen home movies, extensive clips, and interviews, this film presents a groundbreaking portrait of Hollywood.
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Waiting for Tom Hanks volume 1
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"Romantic-comedy-obsessed Annie Cassidy dreams of being the next Nora Ephron. She spends her days writing internet content, rewatching Sleepless in Seattle, and waiting for her movie-perfect meet cute. If she could just find her own Tom Hanks--a man who's sweet, sensitive, and possibly owns a houseboat--her problems would disappear and her life would be perfect. But Tom Hanks is nowhere in sight. When a movie starts filming in her neighborhood and...
14) Oil!: a novel
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Follows the relationship of a man from a wealthy California family and his son, as they pursue oil and deal with the manipulations of magnates and speculators, socialists, Hollywood tycoons, and state and national politicians.
Publisher
Legacy Distribution
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (56 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Justice is SERVED. Disgraced media mogul, Harvey Weinstein, was sentenced to 23 years in prison for sexual criminal acts. Witness the rise and fall of one of Hollywood's most powerful men.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (419 min.) : sd., col, b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (39 p.)
Description
The American movie business started as peepshows and grew into a near-mythical art form that used an exciting new technology to create drama, laughter and adventure literally bigger than life. Here is the whole story -- the glamour and the sweat, the collaborations and the conflicts, the careers that skyrocketed and the dreams that crashed -- in the biggest production ever from Turner Classic Movies, the leading authority on classic movies and film...
17) I knew her well
Series
Criterion collection volume 801
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
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1 blu-ray (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Follows naive young Adriana as she moves from the country to Rome to chase her dream of becoming a star.
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Here are the excruciatingly funny adventures of Suzanne Vale - a young film star and drug addict - who survives a rehab clinic only to rejoin the equally harrowing world of Hollywood. Out there on the edge, despair flips into hilarity, and we're left laughing as Suzanne struggles to come to terms with her various fantasylands. This stunning literary debut - read by author and actress Carrie Fisher herself - evokes the deliciously irreverent humor...
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Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Leonor Reyes was once a groundbreaking figure in the Filipino film industry during its ragtag action cinema glory days, but now she struggles with old age, mounting bills, and the untimely death of her son. While revisiting an unfinished script about a fearless protagonist trying to avenge his brother's murder, Leonor is struck on the head by a falling television set and knocked into a coma. As she lays unconscious in the hospital, fantasy and reality...
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