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241) Sullivan's travels
Series
Criterion collection volume 118
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
A Hollywood director sets out to discover what tragic life feels like first hand, befriends a beautiful cynic, and learns that comedy is more important than pathos.
242) Close-up
Series
Criterion collection volume 519
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Based on the real-life case of Hossein Sabzian and re-enacted by the actual people involved in the original case, a man impersonates a famous director to insinuate himself into a wealthy family he has just met.
243) I am
Publisher
Gaiam
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 DVD (78 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows film director Tom Shadyac as he travels the world to talk to people about what is wrong with humanity and how we can change our actions.
244) Catch and kill
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
9 CDs (10 hrs. 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story only whispered about: one of Hollywood's most powerful producers was a predator, protected by fear, wealth, and a conspiracy of silence. As Farrow drew closer to the truth, shadowy operatives, from high-priced lawyers to elite war-hardened spies, mounted a secret campaign of intimidation, threatening his career, following his every move, and weaponizing an account of abuse...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
289 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
An Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning director, writer and producer looks back at his career, with a behind-the-scenes look at working with some of the biggest names in Hollywood, such as Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Denzel Washington and Claire Danes.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
©2012
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (915 min.) : sound, color with black & white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (43 p. : illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm.)
Description
Filmed on four continents over a six-year span and covering eleven decades and 1,000 films, this ambitious documentary chronicles the history of international cinema and cinematic innovation from the invention of motion pictures at the end of the 19th century to the multi-billion dollar globalized digital industry of the 21st century, showing how filmmakers are influenced both by the historical events of their times and by each other. Includes interviews...
247) Fosse
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
viii, 723 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"We see Bob Fosse's legacy everywhere--from Broadway to 'Billy Jean' to Beyonce's moves in the 'Single ladies' video. Yet in spite of Fosse's deep cultural significance, no biography has ever brought him fully to life, unveiling the man behind the bowler hat and the swaggering sex appeal. Now, ... cultural historian Sam Wasson traces Fosse's numberless reinventions of himself over a career that would spawn The Pajama game, Cabaret, Pippin, Chicago,...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (360 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On April 24, 1924 the movies changed forever. The studio opened and soon assembled the most stars. MGM reigns as Hollywood's class act and legendary entertainment empire. Full of memorable film clips, rare interviews, behind-the-scenes footage and insider information, this is a mother lode for film fans. Profiles perfectionist moguls, glamorous and charismatic actors, innovative filmmakers and landmark movies. Experience the dramatic and romantic...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
12 videodiscs (1363 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 books (128 p., 128p.)
Description
Films: A soldier falls for his young ward; a young Italian woman joins a traveling carnival; war tears a young couple apart; tempted by a devious woman, a married farmer contemplates murder; a wounded vet shies away from the woman he loves; an Oklahoma family strikes oil and lives it up in Paris; a farmer introduces his Chicago girlfriend to the family; a carnival barker falls for a maid; families come between a young couple; men steal medicine for...
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Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, An Imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
105 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
"While other kids played sports, Steven Spielberg was writing scripts and figuring out camera angles. He went from entertaining his Boy Scout troop with home movies to amazing audiences around the world with epic blockbusters. He has directed four of the most successful films of all time and has won two Academy Awards for Best Director. From Jaws to Lincoln, young readers and aspiring filmmakers will be fascinated by the life of this famous director"--...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (579 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
GoodFellas: Focuses on a group of men involved with organized crime while giving an inside look at the Mafia from 1955-80. Based on the life of mobster and FBI informant Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian New York kid who grows up idolizing the "wise guys" in his impoverished Brooklyn neighborhood.
The departed: In South Boston, the state police force are waging a war on Irish-American organized crime. Undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned...
254) Everywhere an oink oink: an embittered, dyspeptic, and accurate report of forty years in Hollywood
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director David Mamet shares scandalous and laugh-out-loud tales from his four decades in Hollywood where he worked with some of the biggest names in movies. David Mamet went to Hollywood on top-a super successful playwright summoned west in 1980 to write a vehicle for Jack Nicholson. He arrived just in time to meet the luminaries of old Hollywood and revel in the friendship of giants like Paul Newman,...
Author
Series
Tea Shop mystery volume Book 27
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"A movie director's death on set at a haunted manor launches Theodosia Browning into an electrifying investigation in this latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series. Theodosia and Drayton were expecting a mellow break from the bustle atthe Indigo Tea Shop while catering a film, until the director ropes Theodosia into a role as a fortune teller. At the haunted Brittleback Manor, Theodosia's character will read tea leaves and give...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xiii, 286 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
A World War II veteran and Hollywood gas station attendant describes how his good looks and open bisexuality culminated in liaisons with numerous celebrities, providing a chronicle of Hollywood's sexual underground in the 1940s and 1950s. "The wholesome image of America propagated by Hollywood in the 1940s, '50s and '60s is one of the most persistent in popular culture: loving wives, smiling children. But off the set, many of the actors who helped...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
355 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of his epic artistic career in a long-awaited memoir that is as inventive and daring as anything he has done before. Werner Herzog was born in September 1942 in Munich, Germany, at a turning point in the Second World War. Soon Germany would be defeated and a new world would have to be made out the rubble and horrors of the war. Fleeing the Allied bombing...
258) The last shot
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After years of being on the A-List of complete failures, Hollywood screenwriter Steven Schats meets Joe Devine, a producer who green-lights his movie and makes him the director. But Devine isn't who he claims to be, not by a long shot. He's really an FBI agent using the movie in a sting to take down the mob. Inspired by the true story of the greatest movie never made.
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017].
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (574 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (22 unnumbered pages ; illustrations ; 19 cm)
Description
"Jean Rouch was an inspiration for the French New Wave, and a revolutionary force in ethnography and the study of Africa. Beginning in 1955 with his most controversial film The Mad Masters, through 1969's darkly comic Little by Little, these films represent the most sustained flourishing of Rouch's practice of "shared anthropology," a process of collaboration with his subjects. Astonishing on their own terms, now restored and released for the first...
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