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61) Careful
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The 19th century. In the remote Alpine village of Tolzbad, people talk quietly and restrain their movements lest avalanches come and kill them. This atmosphere lends itself to repressed emotions. Johann is a student lusting after his mother. She is an old flame of the mysterious Count Knotkers. Klara is attracted to her father. He lusts after his other daughter. This leads to duels and suicidal plunges galore. Sexual frenzies teem in this world of...
Series
Criterion collection volume 440
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008, c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This eerie excursion into the Gothic recesses of Maddin's mad, imaginary childhood is a nightmare set in a lighthouse on grim Notch Island, where fictional protagonist Maddin was raised by an ironfisted, puritanical mother.
63) Naked lunch
Series
Criterion collection volume 220
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (31 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Part-time pest-control man and full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Weller) seeks escape from his troubled existence in 1953 New York and flees to Interzone (a hallucinatory version of Tangiers) where reality and fantasy have merged. It's a strange, surreal landscape inhabited by mugwumps, half-alien, half-insect creatures, man-sized centipedes, carnivorous typewriters and bizarre humans. Compelled to make sense of this alien territory, he writes a book...
Publisher
Zeitgeist Video
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + guide (6 pages, fold-out)
Description
Every spring, China's cities are plunged into chaos as an astonishing 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year's holiday. This mass exodus is the largest human migration on the planet, an epic spectacle that reveals a country tragically caught between its rural past and industrial future. Working over several years in classic verite, Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Lixin Fan travels with one couple who have embarked on...
65) Everyone's hero
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
10-year-old baseball fan Yankee Irving is always the last one picked for sandlot baseball games. But when Babe Ruth's prized bat is stolen during the 1932 World Series, Yankee steps up to the plate to help retrieve it for his beloved idol. He embarks on a wild cross-country journey that teaches him the stuff of real heroes, and along the way, Yankee learns that importance of perseverance and the true meaning of friendship.
Series
H.P. Lovecraft collection volume 2
Publisher
Microcinema
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (130 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A secret government group monitors the Dreamers, followers of the ancient cult of Cthulu; three thieves find that robbing an old man of gold coins is more difficult than they thought; a machine opens a portal to another universe; Nazis acquire the Necronomicon and try to unlock its power.
Publisher
Direct Source Special Products, Inc
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (186 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Blood City: Originally "Welcome to Blood City"--A group of five people find themselves in abizarre western twon where status is awarded according to the number of people one can kill. With now knowledge of where they are other than a card in each of their pockets informing them that they are each convicted murderers, things quickly get out of hand. Caught in a ruthless game of survival the five must fight their way out, but not all of them will make...
68) Ararat
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Edward, a veteran filmmaker of Armenian descent, is in Toronto shooting a film about the Siege of Van, which lead to the genocide of over a million Armenian people at the hands of Turkish troops. Raffi has been sent to Turkey to shoot background footage for the film. Raffi's mother Ani, an author and historian, is also involved in the project as a consultant. As Raffi attempts to re-enter Canada with cans of exposed film, he's detained by David, a...
69) C.R.A.Z.Y
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
One of five brothers, Zachary begins life on a charmed note: born in Montreal on Christmas, he almost dies but miraculously pulls through. His hard-working father seems to favor him. That is until his dad detects there's something a little queer about the boy. Indeed, Zac shows even more queer signs come adolescence, aping David Bowie's glam looks and sexually experimenting with a boy from the neighborhood. Ultimately, dad's conservative, macho values...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (104, 92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Governments and scientists race to unravel the mystery behind a visitor's appearance. Dr. Helen Benson is a renowned scientist who finds herself face-to-face with an alien called Klaatu. Klaatu has traveled across the universe to warn of an impending global crisis. She quickly discovers the deadly ramifications of Klaatu's claim that he is a 'friend to the Earth.' Now, she and her yourng stepson must find a way to convince the entity who was sent...
71) Just friends
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During their high school years, Chris confessed his love for his best friend and was met with a broken heart and degrading humiliation. Adding insult to injury, Chris was a big guy and was a source of ridicule for cruel classmates. Years later things have changed and Chris is now a hotshot record producer in Hollywood and the complete physical opposite of himself in high school. When a freak accident occurs on the way to Paris, Chris is forced to...
Series
Publisher
Zeitgeist Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (181 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Twilight of the ice nymphs (1997, col.): A political prisoner returns to his home after several years of incarceration, falling desperately in love with a woman named Juliana on the boat trip home.
Archangel (melodrama, 1990, b&w tinted): A tale of obsessive love in the arctic town of Archangel, where a Canadian soldier, a Belgian pilot, and a Russian nurse, all suffering from amnesia, become involved in a love triangle in which each believes the...
73) Dreams of dust
Series
Film Movement volume 5, film 9
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2007], c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Nigerian peasant comes looking for work in Essakane, a dusty gold mine in northeast Burkina Faso, Africa. He quickly finds out the gold rush ended twenty years before and the inhabitants of this wasteland manage to exist simply from force of habit.
74) Space buddies
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Moving at warp speed, dodging asteroids and more, the Buddies and their new friends must summon their courage and ingenuity to launch plans for a moon landing and a rocketing trip back home. Will they have the right stuff?
75) Juno
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Juno MacGuff is a sixteen-year-old who after a one-time sexual encounter with her best friend Paulie, learns that she's pregnant. Yes, having a baby, especially at a young age, can dramatically affect the rest of young woman's life, and yes, it's nothing to be taken too lightly, but on the other hand: it's not the end of the world. How could a perfectly normal thing like a pregnancy be a totally awful thing? She decides to carry the baby to term...
76) Air Bud
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Josh Framm finds himself in a new city with no friends, he's too shy to try out for the basketball team. However, he meets Buddy, a runaway golden retriever with the ability to score baskets.
77) Elektra
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After recovering from seemingly mortal wounds, Elektra has been resurrected by her old mentor, Stick, who is then unable to keep her from working as an assassin for hire. Only when she balks at her latest assignment - killing Mark Miller and his young daughter, Abby - does Elektra finally come to grips with her damaged psyche. By not doing the job assigned to her, the assignment falls to the minions of "The Hand," an Asian sect dominated by supernatural...
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