Francis Ford Coppola
Series
Criterion collection volume 432
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (56 p. : ill.)
Description
A look at acclaimed Japanese author and playwright Yukio Mishima, the impossible harmony he created between self, art, and society, and his famously committed public seppuku (ritual suicide). Includes interviews, commentary, documentary, and more.
24) Dementia 13
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (75 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
John Haloran has a heart attack. His wife Louise won't get any of the inheritance from his mother's estate if he is dead. She forges a letter from him to convince his family he's in NY on business to ensure a cut of the inheritance. His sister had also drowned and the family enact a morbid ritual in remembrance.
25) The Rainmaker
Series
Description
Rudy is a young lawyer fresh out of college who takes the case of his life. He is the only hope of an elderly couple whose insurance company will not pay for an operation that could save their son's life. Rudy takes on this client in his first case after the head of his law office has to hide because he's wanted by the feds. He must overcome many obstacles inside and outside the courtroom as he attempts to find out what it means to be a lawyer and...
26) Patton
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006, c1970
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (171 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A dramatization of the experiences of General George S. Patton during World War II.
27) Apocalypse now
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 153 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A United States Army officer/trained assassin is sent into the depths of a southeast Asian jungle to seek out a renegade colonel and terminate his command during the Vietnam War.
28) The outsiders
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Coming of age movie set in Tulsa Oklahoma in the mid sixties, this movie is about teenage gangs the "Soc's" [Socials] and the "Greasers," and the struggle of growing up as an outsider.
29) The Cotton Club
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1928 New York, spirits are high and jazz, dancing and gangsters rule supreme. Harlem's Cotton Club is in the center of it all, where rich upper-eastsiders mix with dressed-up mobsters. On stage is gifted coronet player Dixie Dwyer, who dreams of the big time, and tap sensation Sandman Williams who can't touch his girl, the lovely singer Lila Rose Oliver, because of strict club rules. As tension rises, so do tempers, and the nightclub becomes a...
30) Dracula
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Bram Stoker's Dracula: Francis Ford Coppola returns to the original source of the Dracula myth, and from that gothic romance, he creates a modern masterpiece. Gary Oldman's metamorphosis as Dracula who grows from old to young, from man to beast is nothing short of amazing. Winona Ryder brings equal intensity to the role of a young beauty who becomes the object of Dracula's devastating desire. Anthony Hopkins co-stars as the famed doctor who dares...
Series
Formats
Description
In the early 1900s, the young Vito flees Sicily for America after the local Mafia kills his family. Vito struggles to make a living, legally or illegally, for his wife and growing brood in Little Italy. There he kills the local Black Hand Fanucci after he demands his customary cut of the tyro's business. With Fanucci gone, Vito's stature grows. The family legacy is upended by Michael's business expansion in the 1950s. Now based in Lake Tahoe, Michael...
33) The great Gatsby
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (143 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1920s Long Island, a mysterious American millionaire's efforts to recapture the sweetheart of his youth result in tragedy.
36) My family
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows the lives of three generations of Mexican Americans.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (202 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family. Tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In a parallel story, Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (170 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the final instalment of the Godfather Trilogy, an aging Don Michael Corleone seeks to legitimize his crime family's interests and remove himself from the violent underworld but is kept back by the ambitions of the young. While he attempts to link the Corleone's finances with the Vatican, Michael must deal with the machinations of a hungrier gangster seeking to upset the existing Mafioso order and a young protoge's love affair with his daughter....
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Legendary Hollywood producer Robert Evans, the man behind such films as Rosemary's baby, Love story, Chinatown, and The Godfather - tells it like it is and was in Hollywood. Includes his appeal to the Board of Directors short film that saved Paramount Pictures in 1970. Also, includes archival interviews about Evans with stars and filmmakers. Includes an Evans gag reel.
40) The Godfather
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (175 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Corleone Family nearly falls from power in America but rises to observe the passage of rites from father to son. There is a balance between family life and the ugly business of crime in which they are engaged.