Eli Wallach
1) Insomnia
Author
Formats
Description
Ralph Roberts can't sleep. A recent widower, dismayed at life, he cannot seem to close his eyes and rest. After a number of sleepless nights, he begins seeing things that are imperceptible to most people. He can see auras of light surrounding individuals which shift and change depending on their well-being, and terminate in a long balloon-like string. Most creepily, he can sometimes see three little bald men dressed like surgeons going around and...
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the true story of Gary Gilmore and the tragic chain of events which led him to commit two cruel and senseless murders. These crimes would eventually cause him to become the first person in over ten years to be executed in the electric chair. This "director's cut" combines elements from the 97-minute European theatrical release with the original 157-minute U.S. TV miniseries.
3) Girlfriends
Series
Criterion collection volume 1055
Pub. Date
[2020]
Formats
Description
When her best friend and roommate abruptly moves out to get married, Susan, trying to become a gallery artist while making ends meet as a bar mitzvah photographer on Manhattan's Upper West Side, finds herself adrift in both life and love. Could a new job be the answer? What about a fling with a married, older rabbi? This 1970s New York time capsule from Claudia Weill captures the complexities and contradictions of women's lives and relationships with...
Publisher
Eagle Rock Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This dramatic new documentary telling the story of his life and tragic death, includes previously unseen footage from screen and wardrobe tests, color "home movies", location footage from East of Eden, extracts from his personal diaries, the last photo taken of him alive, and his animated film only discovered after his death. Interviews with Dennis Hopper, Rod Steiger, Graham Nash and Eli Wallach.
7) The lineup
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 86 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows the duel plots of two criminals smuggling dope, and the policemen trailing them across San Francisco.
8) The Sentinel
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A beautiful model learns that the New York City brownstone where she rents an apartment guards the gateway into hell.
11) The ghost writer
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a gifted ghostwriter is hired to write the memoirs of former British Prime Minister Adam Lang, he quickly finds himself trapped in a web of political and sexual intrigue. Lang is implicated in a scandal over his administration's harsh tactics, and as the ghostwriter digs into the politician's past, he discovers secrets that threaten to jeopardize international relations forever.
12) The misfits
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Following her divorce, a lonely young woman befriends a couple of down-on-their-luck cowboys. Both men desire her, but she longs for only one, who represents for her the freedom she's never had. Teaming up with a weather-beaten rodeo rider, the foursome goes into the mountains on a quest for rare and elusive wild horses. There they come to realize that, for all their differences, they share fundamentally similar needs and desires.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Following a lengthy prison term, Gordon Gekko finds himself on the outside looking in at a world he once commanded. Hoping to repair his relationship with his daughter, Winnie, Gekko forges an alliance with her fiancé, Jake. But Winnie and Jake learn the hard way that Gekko is still a master manipulator who will stop at nothing to reclaim his rightful place at the top of Wall Street.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Horatio Nelson Jackson, an eccentric Vermont doctor, drove from San Francisco to New York City, in 1903 to became the first person to drive an automobile across the continent--a feat never before accomplished. It would mark the beginning of a new era in America and the end of another. It took Lewis & Clark over two years to go from the Atlantic to the Pacific--Horatio went the opposite direction, by means of the "Horseless carriage", in less than...
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
3 blu-rays (409 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A mysterious gunfighter with no name plays two rival families against each other; two bounty hunters team up to track down the legendary outlaw with no name; the gunfighter with no name forms an unlikely alliance with bounty hunters to claim a fortune ingold.
Series
Studio classic volume 25
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The daughter of a wealthy Frenchman who creates counterfeit art learns her father is in danger of being exposed as a crook. She and a burglar hatch a scheme to swipe a forgery from an art museum to conceal her father's art forgeries.
18) The holiday
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (136 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Amanda lives in Los Angeles and is a movie trailer editor. Iris lives in Surrey, England and is a journalist. The two live five thousand miles apart and have never met, but are dealing with the same problem: men. Amanda just broke up with her cheating boyfriend. Iris has pined for her ex. They both come upon a website that advocates home exchange and the two swap houses for two weeks at Christmas - both with a goal to forget their troubled love lives....
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2001], c1972, c1974, c1990
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (ca. 730 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Coppola paints a chilling portrait of a Sicilian family's rise and fall from power in America, and the passage of rites from father to son. He masterfully balances the story between family life and the ugly business of crime in which they are engaged.
20) The war
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (840 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells the story of ordinary people in four quintessentially American towns - Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; and Luverne, Minnesota - and examines the ways in which the Second World War touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America.