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Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 174 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young boy in a small Italian village is befriended by the projectionist at the movie theater, the Cinema Paradiso. As the boy grows up, he learns to love films, and is encouraged by his good friend to pursue his dream of one day making movies.
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Series
The Carsons of Mustang Creek volume 4
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Description
It's a Christmas affair to remember as a Hollywood mogul discovers his inner cowboy and the woman of his dreams amid the rugged beauty of Wyoming. Raine McCall would take snow-covered mountains over a star-studded premiere any day. But when hotshot movie executive Mick Branson arranges dinner on Christmas Eve to discuss a work opportunity, she's intrigued by the offer and the man. She's a no-makeup, no-frills single mom, who's happy with her quiet...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1170
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
When a filmmaker and her husband travel to the remote island Fårö, Sweden, where Ingmar Bergman lived and worked, she finds herself confronting her complicated relationships to work, men, and motherhood.
Author
Series
Lakeshore chronicles volume 9
Publisher
Harlequin Mira Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
311 p.: maps.; 25 cm.
Description
When her mother, who is unexpectedly pregnant, receives a devastating diagnosis, Sonnet Romano must decide what really matters in life and, putting her career on hold, stays in Avalon and takes a job that forces her to work alongside her biggest mistake--award-winning filmmaker Zach Alger and Sonnet's former lover.
6) 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.
7) No bears
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
One of the world's great cinema artists, Jafar Panahi has been carefully crafting self-reflexive works about artistic, personal, and political freedom for the past three decades, despite being banned from filmmaking by the Iranian government since 2010. In No Bears completed shortly before his imprisonment in 2022, Panahi plays a fictionalized version of himself, a dissident filmmaker who relocates to a rural border town to direct a film remotely...
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Mili Rathod hasn't seen her husband in twenty years--not since she was promised to him at the age of four. Yet marriage has allowed Mili a freedom rarely given to girls in her village. Her grandmother has even allowed her to leave India and study in America for eight months, all to make her the perfect modern wife. Which is exactly what Mili longs to be--if her husband would just come and claim her. Bollywood's favorite director, Samir Rathod, has...
Series
Criterion collection volume 118
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A successful Hollywood director disguises himself as a bum and sets off to see America from the bottom up. In the midst of the brutality and despair, he makes a valuable discovery-- that what the downtrodden need most is laughter.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"A fresh, innovative interpretation of the life, work, and lasting influence of the twentieth century's most iconic filmmaker. In The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock, Edward White explores the Hitchcock phenomenon-what defines it, how it was invented, what it reveals about the man at its core, and how its legacy continues to shape our cultural world. The book's twelve chapters illuminate different aspects of Hitchcock's life and work: "The Boy Who...
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After Justine Nolan discovers that her mother has been pretending that Justine's favorite grandmother has been dead for ten years, she embarks on a search that takes her to Istanbul, where she discovers family secrets that go all the way back to World War II--and a chance to follow the true desires in her heart.
12) Pain and glory
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It tells of a series of reencounters experienced by Salvador Mallo, a film director in his physical decline. Some of them in the flesh, others remembered: his childhood in the ₁60s, when he emigrated with his parents to a village in Valencia in search of prosperity, the first desire, his first adult love in the Madrid of the '80s, the pain of the breakup of that love while it was still alive and intense.
Author
Publisher
Crown Archetype
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
x, 276 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
A lighthearted account by the producer and director of such productions as "Laverne & Shirley" and "Pretty Woman." Marshall traces his Bronx childhood, role in shaping A-list celebrity careers, and personal philosophies about life and entertainment.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
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Description
"Felicity 'Fizzy' Chen is lost. Sure, she's got an incredible career as a beloved romance novelist with a slew of bestsellers under her belt, but when she's asked to give a commencement address, it hits her: she hasn't been practicing what she's preached.Fizzy hasn't ever really been in love. Lust? Definitely. But that swoon-worthy, can't-stop-thinking-about-him, all-encompassing feeling? Nope. Nothing. What happens when the optimism she's spent her...
17) 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...
18) 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.
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