Dennis Hopper
Author
Publisher
Taschen GmbH
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
482 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 34 cm
Description
"From a selection of photographs compiled by Hopper and gallerist Tony Shafrazi, this extensive volume, finally back in print in a new edition, distills the essence of Hopper's prodigious photographic career. Also included are introductory essays by Shafrazi and legendary West Coast art pioneer Walter Hopps, as well as an extensive biography and new afterword by journalist Jessica Hundley. With excerpts from Victor Bockris's interviews of Hopper's...
3) Hoosiers
Formats
Description
A basketball coach with a checkered past leads him to a last-chance position with a last-chance team.
Series
Criterion collection volume 793
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An amoral American art dealer who entangles a terminally ill German form an unlikely bond when the two become embroiled in an ever-deepening murder plot.
5) Colors
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two L.A. cops, one a veteran and one a rookie, try to bring peace to the war raging on the streets of L.A.
Series
Criterion collection volume 42
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999, c1992
Physical Desc
1 DVD (147 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The fact that John Lurie knows nothing about fishing doesn't stop him from taking his celebrity guests to exotic fishing locales.
7) Easy rider
Series
Criterion collection volume 545
Description
Hippie motorcyclists cross the Southwest and encounter a crazy quilt of good and bad people. An attorney joins their quest for awhile and articulates society's problem with freedom as the two hippies embody it.
8) The source
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 88 mins) : sound,color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs met at Columbia University in the 1940s, they spawned a movement, then called the Beats, that set precedents for the political, hippie and spiritual movements of the 1960s and '70s. This comprehensive portrait of the Beat Generation includes interviews with virtually every surviving figure from this period. Johnny Depp, Dennis Hopper and John Turturro perform dramatized readings of works by Kerouac,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 793
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tom Ripley convinces a business associate to hire a young German picture-framer to assassinate a mobster.
10) Blue velvet
Series
Criterion collection volume 977
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Home from college, Jeffrey Beaumont makes an unsettling discovery: a severed human ear, lying in a field. In the mystery that follows, by turns terrifying and darkly funny, writer-director David Lynch burrows deep beneath the picturesque surfaces of small-town life. Driven to investigate, Jeffrey finds himself drawing closer to his fellow amateur sleuth, Sandy Williams, as well as their person of interest, lounge singer Dorothy Vallens--and facing...
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.
12) Land of the dead
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Zombies have become the dominant population, and they've begun to show signs of undead intelligence and gathering power. The wealthiest human survivors live comfortably in a luxury high-rise building that is barricaded within a safe zone. The wealthy ignore the horrors of the outside world while armed scavengers stage raids in the zombie-zone to gather much-needed food and supplies. Riley and Cholo are mercenaries-for-hire; Kaufman is their nefarious...
Publisher
Arts Alliance America
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A look at the famed Ferus Gallery, which turned the L.A. art scene into a place for brilliant artists to show their work, as well as served as a place where New York artists, such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, could launch their projects.
14) Blue velvet
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A college student stumbles across a bizarre mystery and wants to know more. The strange world he's found lurking beneath his hometown picture-postcard veneer is about to become much stranger.
15) Elegy
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his state of 'emancipated manhood' thrown into tragic disarray. David is a renowned college professor whose life is turned inside out when he becomes involved in a passionate relationship with Consuela. Consuela is a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher. As their sexual relationship evolves, an incredible love story is born.
16) Waterworld
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A lone man known as Mariner must save a woman and her daughter from a roaming gang of killers and thieves in this bleak future where there is no land. Bonus material included.
18) Speed
Description
Jack Traven, an L.A.P.D. SWAT team specialist who is sent to diffuse a bomb that a revenge-driven extortionist has planted on a bus. But until he does, Jack and passenger must keep the bus speeding through the streets of Los Angeles at more than 50 miles per hour-- or the bomb will explode.
19) Red rock west
Publisher
RedRock Films, Inc
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a promised job fails to materialize, an honest, unemployed Texan finds himself mistaken for a contract killer.
20) True romance
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007, c1993
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of two unlikely lovers who find themselves in possession of a suitcase full of valuable mob contraband which they plan to take from Detroit to Los Angeles, sell, and begin a new life.