Touchstone Home Entertainment (Firm)
Series
Criterion collection volume 300
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert.
Description
Internationally reknown oceanographer Steve Zissou and his crew - Team Zissou - set sail on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious, always elusive, possibly non-existant Jaguar Shark that supposedly killed Zissou's partner during the documentary filming of their latest adventure. On this journey, Steve's crew are joined by a young airline co-pilot, who may or may not be Zissou's son, a beautiful journalist who has been assigned to write a profile...
Formats
Description
Hassan is a culinary ingenue with the gastronomic equivalent of perfect pitch. Displaced from their native India, his family settles in a quaint village in the south of France. They plan to open an Indian restaurant, that is, until Madame Mallory, the owner of a classical French restaurant, gets wind of it. Her icy protests against the new Indian restaurant so near her own escalate to all out war; until Hassan's cooking talent and love for Mme. Mallory's...
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect escape from the Earth moments before its destruction and join forces with Zaphod Beeblebrox on board the Heart of Gold and search for the ultimate question.
24) Ransom
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When the son of a wealthy businessman is kidnapped, he defies the experts and turns the tables on the kidnappers in a last-chance effort to rescue his boy.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
While on vacation, a just-divorced writer buys a villa in Tuscany on a whim, hoping it will be the start of a change for the better in her life. Along the way she finds that sometimes what seems like a mistake is really a blessing.
26) Ed Wood
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 127 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A story of the early career of Edward D. Wood, Jr., the undisputed worst movie director of all time. Wood was behind Glen or Glenda? and Plan 9 from outer space, and it is during the making of these two no-budget flicks that Wood is profiled.
27) John Carter
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 132 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on Edgar Rice Burroughs's classic novel, a war-weary former military captain is inexplicably transported to Mars and reluctantly becomes embroiled in an epic conflict. It's a world on the brink of collapse, and Carter rediscovers his humanity when he realizes the survival of Barsoom and its people rests in his hands.
28) Open range
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (139 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Boss Spearman, a rugged old-timer, free grazes cattle. He and Charley have been partners for ten years. The pair and their employees, Mose and Buttons, are driving their cattle across the West. Mose is attacked and thrown in jail during a visit to a town. The local cattle rancher, Baxter, wants the free grazers off his land and when Boss and Charley retrieve Mose, they are warned that they have until the next day to be out of the area. Charley confesses...
29) Country
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When government bureaucrats threaten to take away the farm that has bound their family together for generations, Jewell and Gil Ivy decide to fight at all costs
30) King Arthur
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A reluctant leader, Arthur wishes only to leave Britain and return to the peace and stability of Rome. Before he can, one final mission leads him and his Knights of the Round Table - Lancelot, Galahad, Bors, Tristan, and Gawain - to the conclusion that when Rome is gone, Britain will need a leader to fill the void. Britain needs a king - someone not only to defend against the current threat of invading Saxons, but to lead the isle into the new age....
31) People like us
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
While settling his recently deceased father's estate and reconnecting with his estranged family, a twenty-something salesman discovers he has a half sister.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Melanie is a successful New York fashion designer who is dating a wealthy socialite. One day he pops the big question and asks Melanie to marry him. Despite her polished uptown image, Melanie grew up poor in the deep South, and as a teenager she married her high school sweetheart. Now Melanie returns to her hometown to tell her parents the news and convince Jake to grant her a divorce. However, the more time she spends with her old flame, the more...
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004, c1995
Physical Desc
1 DVD (139 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the mid-1780s, widower Thomas Jefferson replaces Benjamin Franklin as the U.S. representative to French regents Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. He tries to resist the beautiful Mrs. Cosway. Also in Paris is Jefferson's daughter Patsy; when another daughter dies back in Virginia, Jefferson sends for his youngest, who brings along her slave, Sally Hemings, then 15, whom he also finds irresistible.
34) War horse
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (146 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War, begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets; British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter....
35) The ladykillers
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Marva Munson is a spry, elderly woman who is looking for a tenant for the spare room in her house. Goldthwait H. Dorr moves in and gains Munson's permission to use the basement for rehearsals with his "medieval music ensemble." Dorr is masterminding the robbery of a riverboat casino, and the fellow musicians in his ensemble are actually the crew he's assembled to pull off the job. Despite their best efforts, Munson finds out about their scheme and...
37) The recruit
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Clayton recently completed his studies at MIT. One evening, Clayton is approached by Walter Burke, a recruiter for the CIA, who believes Clayton is just the sort of man the CIA is looking for. Clayton, who has little interest in an ordinary nine-to-five career accepts the offer. Clayton has to keep in mind Burke's dictum that "nothing is as it seems," especially when Clayton is given a special assignment--find the mole within the Agency's training...
38) The village
Series
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a quiet, isolated village in olde Pennsylvania, there lies a pact between the people of the village and the creatures who reside in the surrounding woods. The townspeople do not enter the woods, and the creatures do not enter the village. The pact stays intact for many years, that is until the headstrong Lucius Hunt seeks medical supplies from neighboring towns beyond the woods. Animal carcasses begin to appear around the village, causing the elders...
39) 25th hour
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Monty Brogan is facing a seven year prison sentence for dealing drugs. On the night before he has to go to prison, he decides to go out with his friends one last time, and re-examines his life in the process.
40) Phenomenon
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An average man becomes a genius after being struck by a bright light on his 37th birthday.