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1) Sleuth
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Wealthy mystery novelist Andrew Wyke invites lower-class hairdresser Milo Tindle to his elegant English mansion to discuss Milo's affair with Wyke's wife. But when Andrew proposes that Milo participate in a robbery scheme to benefit them all, the two rivals find themselves locked in an increasingly devious duel of wits and deceptions.
3) Angel
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Angel Deverell fantasizes about living in the town mansion, Paradise House. After a London publisher turns her novel into a best seller, she is able to buy Paradise House and pursue the man of her dreams, a painter struggling for his own big break.
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
Junhee is a novelist who's grown disenchanted with her writing. On a trip to see an old friend, she runs into a film director who was set to adapt one of her novels before the project fell through. One chance encounter leads to another and soon she finds herself having lunch with Kilsoo, a well-known actress also questioning he role as an artist. It's then that Junhee has an epiphany: she will make a film starring Kilsoo. It won't be like other films....
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet
Description
For decades, journalist Jep Gambardella has charmed and seduced his way through the glittering nightlife of Rome. Since the legendary success of his only novel, he has been a permanent fixture in the city's literary and elite social circles. But on his sixty-fifth birthday, Jep unexpectedly finds himself taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Leo writes romance novels - but with a loveless marriage, she finds herself fresh out of inspiration. Angel is a tough and gruff journalist with an iron will and a heart of gold. When their paths cross, they discover something neither had expected - a real-life love affair"--Container.
9) Misery
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After an almost fatal car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon finds himself being nursed by a deranged fan who holds him captive.
10) Any human heart
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (270 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Every life is ordinary and extraordinary. Logan Mountstuart's is a rich tapestry of both. Experience Logan at different points in his life in this provocative glimpse at one man's quest for glory and bliss. Any Human Heart is the story of a full life, lived with passion; expansive, rich, unsentimental, comic, and profoundly moving.
12) John Steinbeck
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD c (45 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In depth look at the life and career of writer John Steinbeck.
Publisher
Distributed by Winstar TV & Video
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (200 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A bio-pic about the passionate life of the great French novelist, Honore de Balzac, who was ignored by critics and harassed by debt-collectors and sustained by the Russian countess whom he loved his entire life.
Publisher
ABC Studios
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (430 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A famous crime and horror novelist, Rick Castle, helps Kate Beckette of the NYPD homicide department solve crimes. Castle's non-traditional approach to solving the crimes conflicts with Beckett's conservative approach, leading to much tension and a hint of romance.
15) Pulp
Publisher
Arrow Video
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A seedy pulp novelist is recruited to ghost write the autobiography of an ex-Hollywood star who is living in exile on Malta to avoid a hitman the mob has sent after him.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Kay Effiel is an author writing her latest novel. Her story revolves about an isolated man named Harold Crick. What she doesn't know is that her fictionalized character is real. Harold is an IRS agent who has lived a dull existence. One day he begins to hear Karen's voice as she narrates what she is putting down on paper. Harold enlists the help of a literary professor to find out what is happening and ends up changing things about his life. He begins...
17) Cet amour-la
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Marguerite Duras is one of the most widely read French novelists today. She had a celebrated love affair with Yann, her much younger muse and apprentice. The film also offers an insight into the heart and mind of one of the world's literary figures.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Born to Chinese immigrant parents into 1950's America, it would be decades before Ms. Tan would come to fully understand how her mother's self-destructive tendencies were rooted in watching her own mother kill herself after being forced into the former marital system of concubinage. This painful family legacy inspired her stories of women without the power to choose their lives. An interweaving of archival imagery, artful animation and live performance...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 106 min.) : anamorphic, sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A romance writer sets off to Colombia to pay the ransom of her kidnapped sister, and soon finds herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure. Thrown into a jungle full of gunfire, mud slides and poisonous snakes, Joan's only hope lies with Jack Colton, a rugged wanderer straight out of her novels. Together, they'll have to outwit the bandits and survive the jungle if they're to save her sister.
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