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Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022
Formats
Description
Humberto Suárez reflects on his eightieth birthday that he hasn't left anything to be remembered. Using his vast wealth, he decides the best way to make his mark is through film. He hires avant-garde director Lola Cuevas, giving her the freedom to cast the film. She decides the best way to proceed is to hire opposites; shallow film actor Félix Rivero and veteran stage performer Iván Torres.
4) Bowfinger
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2000, c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sd., col ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
With the help of Jiff Ramsey, brother to Hollywood's biggest star, Hollywood's least successful director stops at nothing to get him into his latest low-budget film.
5) 24 frames
Series
Criterion collection volume 956
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
Filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami recreates the final three years of his life through twenty-four short films inspired by a collection of still images.
6) Silent movie
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A has-been movie director (Mel Brooks) intends to make a comeback by making a silent movie, and in the process, save his film studio from a takeover by a New York-based conglomerate. The gags are written out in the form of intertitles.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1184
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 blu0ray (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The wry, incisive debut feature by Cheryl Dunye gave cinema something bracingly new and groundbreaking: a vibrant representation of Black lesbian identity by a Black lesbian filmmaker. Dunye stars as Cheryl, a video-store clerk and aspiring director whose interest in forgotten Black actresses leads her to investigate an obscure 1930s performer known as the Watermelon Woman, whose story proves to have surprising resonances with Cheryl's own life as...
8) S1M0NE
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Critically acclaimed director Viktor Taransky has discovered the perfect actress. She is beautiful, talented, and virtually perfect in every way ... She is Simone, a digitally constructed, computer generated actress.
10) Fedora
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
A film producer travels to the Greek isles to coax a Garbo-like screen idol out of seclusion. But the deeper he infiltrates the remote villa, evading an overprotective countess and a mysterious plastic surgeon, the closer he comes to discovering the terrible secret behind the actress's timeless beauty.
11) Ed Wood
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (127 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dramatization of the life of B-movie director, Ed Wood.
12) Fedora
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2014, 1978
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A film producer travels to the Greek isles to coax a Garbo-like screen idol out of seclusion. But the deeper he infiltrates the remote villa, evading an overprotective countess and a mysterious plastic surgeon, the closer he comes to discovering the terrible secret behind the actress's timeless beauty.
13) Benjamin
Publisher
Artsploitation Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young filmmaker discovers a new love interest in the midst of the release of his second film.
14) Ismael's ghosts
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A filmmaker's life is thrown into disarray when his wife, whom he thought to be dead for more than twenty years, reappears.
15) Mulholland Dr
Series
Criterion collection volume 779
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (146 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.
17) 8 1/2
Series
Criterion collection volume 140
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (138 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Fellini's autobiographical film about a famous film director who loses his inspiration in the midst of making a film.
19) Staying vertical
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It follows filmmaker Leo, whose amorous encounter with a free-spirited shepherdess results in a baby he's forced to raise. Through a series of unexpected and unusual encounters, while simultaneously struggling to find inspiration for his next film, Leo will do whatever it takes to stay standing.
20) The nowhere inn
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"From real-life friends Annie Clark and Carrie Brownstein comes the metafictional account of two creative forces banding together to make a documentary about St. Vincent's music, touring life, and on-stage persona. But they quickly discover unpredictable forces lurking within subject and filmmaker that threaten to derail the friendship, the project, and the duo's creative lives."--container
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