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Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ben is an overburdened movie producer. He tries to balance his life and has to contend with the never-ending demands of 2 ex-wives, his ice-queen studio head, and a menagerie of various Hollywood prima donnas. Ben manages to take it all in stride. He copes by exuding a smoothly assuring demeanor. The only thing that really seems to upset Ben is when he discovers that his ex-wife sleeps with one of his colleagues.
3) King Kong
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 188 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Young and beautiful actress Ann Darrow is from the world of 1930s vaudeville, who is down on her luck. She meets Carl Denham, an over-ambitious filmmaker, who brings her on an exploratory expedition to Skull Island where she finds compassion and the true meaning of humanity with an ape named Kong. Together, beauty and beast finally meet their fate in New York, where the filmmaker has taken and displayed the ape in the quest of finding his fame by...
4) 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.
5) Chaplin
Publisher
Lions Gate Films
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chaplin's entire life is covered in the biographical film. From his upbringings in the slums of England to his Honorary Oscar in 1972.
6) Ed Wood
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 127 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A story of the early career of Edward D. Wood, Jr., the undisputed worst movie director of all time. Wood was behind Glen or Glenda? and Plan 9 from outer space, and it is during the making of these two no-budget flicks that Wood is profiled.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's about an indie movie called "Home for Purim," a somewhat inane drama about a dysfunctional Jewish family living in the South during World War II. But while the film is still in production, a reporter for an online entertainment site drops the word -- based on a brief visit to the set -- that one of the ensemble cast performers may be an Oscar contender. It goes on to chronicle how the Oscar buzz affects the director, additional cast members,...
8) Silent movie
Publisher
Fox Video
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.
9) Hitchcock
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Plagued by both a reckless ego and nagging self-doubt, Hollywood legend Alfred Hitchcock becomes obsessed with a grisly murder story that the studios won't back. Determined, he risks his reputation, his home and even the love of his wife, Alma, as he sets out to make the film "Psycho".
10) Cinema paradiso
Publisher
The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (299 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A filmmaker returns to his Sicilian hometown for the first time in 30 years and looks back on his life.
11) Vacancy
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
David and Amy Fox find themselves stranded in the middle of nowhere when their car breaks down. As luck would have it, they come across a motel. There is something very strange and familiar about the Grade-Z slasher movies that the motel broadcasts for its guests' enjoyment. The set appears to be filmed in the very same room David and Amy are occupying. They come to realize that they are trapped in their room with hidden cameras filming their every...
12) 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.
13) 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.
14) Nine
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
With only a week left before shooting begins on the filming of his latest movie, world famous film director Guido Contini is desperately searching for a way to overcome his creative block. Escaping to a seaside resort, he attempts to restore the equilibrium to his personal and professional existence by drawing inspiration from the women in his life.
15) 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.
16) Son of Rambow
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Will Proudfoot is looking for an escape from his family's stifling home life when he encounters Lee Carter, the school bully. Armed with a video camera and a copy of Rambo: First Blood, Lee plans to make cinematic history by filming his own action-packed video epic. Together, these two newfound friends-turned-budding-filmmakers quickly discover that their imaginative and sometimes mishap-filled cinematic adventure has begun to take on a life of its...
17) Big fat liar
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A high school student has to prove that a sleazy Hollywood producer stole his English class paper and turned it into a smash hit movie. With the help of his best friend, he travels to Los Angeles to squeeze the truth out of this big fat liar through a series of hilarious pranks and outrageous stunts.
18) Road to nowhere
Publisher
Monterey Media
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"A passionate filmmaker, creating a film based upon a true crime, casts an unknown mysterious young woman bearing a disturbing resemblance to the femme fatale in the story. He finds himself unsuspectingly drawn into a complex web of haunting intrigue, obsessed with the woman, the crime, her possibly notorious past, and the disturbing complexity between art and truth."
19) Mia madre
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (1 hr., 47 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
20) Get Shorty
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
1997, c1995
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Loanshark Chili Palmer has done his time as a gangster, so when "business" takes him to Los Angeles to collect a debt from down and out filmmaker Harry Zimm, he talks tough and then pitches Harry a script idea. Everything would be smooth for this cool new producer, if it were't for the drug smugglers and gangsters who won't leave him alone.
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