(0)
(0)Catalog Search Results
A guide to countries around the world, including facts, travel essentials, and extensive coverage of culture, history, and language.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
This terrifying one-hour program showcases such films as The lost world and Mighty Joe Young and examines why giant monsters frighten us and why cultures from American to British to Japanese are so obsessed with the giant monster phenomenon.
2) Citizen Kane
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2001?]
Language
English
Description
Feature film: An all-powerful press magnate, Kane, dies in his fabulous castle Xanadu, his last word being "Rosebud", which leads a reporter to seek the meaning behind the word and find the meaning of Kane. Prominant publisher, William Randolph Hearst, saw the film as a thinly disguised version of his career and attempted to suppress it. Documentary: Looks at the lives and careers of Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst, and how Hearst tried to...
Series
Publisher
Anthology Film Archives
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
This seven-disc collection contains 155 avant-garde films, revealing hitherto unknown accomplishments of American filmmakers working in the United States and abroad from the invention of cinema until World War II. Offers an innovative and often controversial view of experimental film as a product of avant-garde artists, of professional directors and of amateur moviemakers working collectively and as individuals at all levels of film production.
Series
Publisher
Milestone Film & Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
With backing from Hollywood's Paramount Pictures, New York filmmaker Varick Frissell set out to make the early sound feature The Viking, a record of Newfoundland's perilous seal hunt. This film tells the story, integrating footage from The Viking as well as Frissell's earlier documentaries.
7) Writing Beijing: urban spaces and cultural imaginations in contemporary Chinese literature and films
Author
Publisher
Lexington Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
11) Casablanca
Series
AFI's 100 years 100 movies volume no. 2
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
"Casablanca: easy to enter, but much harder to leave, especially if your name is on the Nazi's most-wanted list. Atop that list is Czech Resistance leader Victor Laszlo ... whose only hope is Rick Blaine ... a cynical American...
12) Butterfly
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
Español
Description
A shy young boy is brought out of his cocoon by a wise teacher who shows him the wonder of the natural world around him, amidst the growing tensions and chaos of the Spanish Civil War in Galicia.
Author
Publisher
SelfMadeHero
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In Filmish, cartoonist Edward Ross takes us on an exhilarating ride through the history of cinema, using comics to uncover the magic and mechanics behind our favorite movies. Exploring everything from censorship to set design, Ross spotlights the films and film-makers that embody this provocative and inventive medium, from the pioneers of early cinema to the innovators shaping the movies of today, from A Trip to the Moon to Inception and beyond"--Page...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Maltese falcon: After the death of his partner, private eye Sam Spade is dragged into a quest for a priceless statuette.
Citizen Kane: An all-powerful press magnate, Kane, dies in his fabulous castle Xanadu, his last word being "Rosebud", which leads a reporter to seek the meaning behind the word and find the meaning of Kane. Prominant publisher, William Randolph Hearst, saw the film as a thinly disguised version of his career and attempted to suppress...
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton graphic novel volume 16
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Thanks to one of the Lumiere brothers' first screenings, Paris in 1896 is the site of a historic event: the birth of motion pictures. The Pirate Cats go back in time to steal the brilliant invention, the cinematograph, in order to go down in history as the inventors of the movies! Can Geronimo and his friends thwart the Cats' evil plans and keep Catardone from becoming a star?" --
17) Seven samurai
Series
Criterion collection volume 2
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
日本語
Description
Tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire seven out-of-work warriors to protect them from invading bandits.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Based on the McCarthy witchhunts of the 1950's, Guilty by Suspicion tells the story of the destruction of the career of a director- all he has to do to revive his stalled career is testify against friends who are suspected of being Communists.
19) Ran
Series
Criterion collection volume 316
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
日本語
Description
An aging warlord decides to split his kingdom between his three sons, who will live in three separate castles. The two eldest sons are quite happy, but the youngest thinks his father has gone mad, and predicts that it won't be long until the two older brothers are fighting with each other.
20) The Dresser
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Film adaptation of Harwood's play about an aging English actor/manager, his dresser, and their theatre company touring England during WWII. Both the leader of the company and his dresser are essential to each other. However, the devoted dresser struggles to support the unreasonable demands of the tyrannical head of the company, during the London blitz.
