Christopher Guest
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (103 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Laura Henderson buys an old London theater and opens it up as the Windmill, a performance hall which goes down in history for, among other things, its all-nude revues.
3) Best in show
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A comic look at dog show participants (and the pooches who love them).
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Recently widowed and well-to-do Laura Henderson needs a diversion to see her through war torn London. On a whim she buys the derelict Windmill theatre in the West End and persuades impresario Vivian Van Damm to run it. The two don't seem to get along at all. Although their idea of a non-stop revue is at first a success, other theatres begin to copy the idea and disaster looms. Laura suggests they put nudes in the show, but Van Damm points out that...
5) 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
MGM Home Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83, 105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Once upon a time, Spinal Tap had a big hit song. Now, nearly two decades later, Spinal Tap still clings to some glint of their lost glory as they embark on an accident-plagued tour across America. In Cleveland, the group gets lost underneath the stage. In Washington, they're accidently booked at an Air Force formal dance. And in a Chicago record store, no one shows up to get their autographs.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (84 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Almost no one's ever heard of flamboyant, would-be Broadway director Corky St. Clair's hometown of Blaine, Missouri. But Corky fully expects Blaine will be his ticket to Broadway when he writes, directs, choreographs and costumes a local show celebrating Blaine's 150th anniversary in this hilarious comic spoof.
Author
Formats
Description
From actor Cary Elwes, who played the iconic role of Westley in The Princess Bride, comes a first-person account and behind-the-scenes look at the making of the cult classic film filled with never-before-told stories, exclusive photographs, and interviews with costars Robin Wright, Wallace Shawn, Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest, and Mandy Patinkin, as well as author and screenwriter William Goldman, producer Norman Lear, and director Rob Reiner.
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,...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (216 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of the 30-year-old Tom Chadwick, an Englishman who has few roots, little family, and an unsure sense of his purpose in life. Tom inherits a mysterious box of belongings from a great-aunt he never met, triggering a passion to investigate his family lineage. As Tom's interest in genealogy grows, his life evolves in unexpected directions, as he uncovers a world of unusual stories and characters in the U.K. and the U.S., as well as a growing...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Description
Return to a time when men were men and swamps were fire swamps, full of quicksand and rodents of unusual size. Lagoons were inhabited by shrieking eels, and the most beautiful woman in the world was named ... Buttercup? Well, it's a bent fairy tale, complete with all the fencing, fighting, chases, and escapes.
13) The long riders
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Four theatrical families of the 1980's recreate the most wanted criminal families of the 1860's. This portrayal of the Jesse James gang is a rapidfire succession of thrilling moments -- the bandits' lightning attacks on banks, trains and stagecoaches ; their hairbreadth escapes from the law ; Jesse's jubilant wedding celebration ; and the tragic Great Northfield, Minnesota raid.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A kindly grandfather sits down with his grandson and reads him a bedtime story. As the grandfather reads the story, the action comes alive in a classic tale of love and adventure. The beautiful Buttercup is kidnapped and held against her will in order to marry the nasty Prince Humperdinck, while Westley (her childhood beau, now returned as the Dread Pirate Roberts) attempts to save her. Along the way he meets an accomplished swordsman and a giant,...
Formats
Description
When the Museum of Natural History is closed for renovations, the museum pieces are moved into federal storage at the famous Smithsonian Institution. It houses the world's largest museum complex with more than 136 million items in its collections. These range from the plane Amelia Earhart flew on her non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic and Al Capone's rap sheet and mug shot to Dorothy's ruby slippers. From Fonzie's leather jacket to Archie Bunker's...