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1) Memento
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Three-time Oscar nominee Christopher Nolan (Interstellar, Inception) directs this critically acclaimed mystery. Leonard (Guy Pearce) is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty, however, of locating his wife's killer is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago,...
4) The door
Publisher
Network Ireland Television
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Russian
Description
This Oscar-nominated film opens with an absurd act: stealing a door. Then, what had seemed an absurd act turns into a simple statement of human dignity, of people making sense of loss through ritual. THE DOOR reflects on the fact that it is based on someone's testimony. Images are impressionistic, haunting, like fragments of memories which the viewer must piece together. Although the main character, Nikolai, gives us the facts, he himself is trying...
6) Dreamgirls
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Three female, African American soul singers try to come to terms with fame as they become an overnight success as a pop group.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This meditation on cinema's past from Decasia director Bill Morrison pieces together the bizarre true history of a long-lost collection of 533 nitrate film prints from the early 1900s. Located just south of the Arctic Circle, Dawson City was settled in 1896 and became the center of the Canadian Gold Rush that brough 100,000 prospectors to the area. It was also the final stop for a distribution chain that sent prints and newsreels to the Yukon. The...
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
Français
Description
A French romantic comedy concerning an unlikely relationship between two Parisians, Variety called ODETTE TOULEMONDE "A Charmer! An adorable slice of magical realism that thumbs its cinematic nose at the intelligentsia." The title character (Catherine Frot) is a forty-year-old saleswoman, saddled with two children (an adolescent daughter and a hairdresser son), who spends her days hawking cosmetics from behind the counter of a Parisian department...
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
This production is part of a famous series produced by BBC of all of William Shakespeare's plays. The resulting films, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilized the best theatrical and television directors and brought highly praised performances from leading contemporary actors. The trickiest sort of play -- a comedy with tragic relief. With her brother condemned to die for the crime of premarital sex, Isabella is torn between her vows to God...
11) Fantasia
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Records
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Along with being a groundbreaking film, Fantasia remains a favorite among many Disney fans. Along with the original soundtrack, this collection features bonus material that sheds more light into one of Disney's most acclaimed movies. Includes bonus tracks of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" and "Peter and the Wolf" read by Sterling Holloway.
12) Born yesterday
Publisher
Columbia Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Holliday plays the "dumb blonde" girlfriend of a crooked junk dealer who would do anything to fulfill his social ambitions. He hires Holden to give her a crash course in culture.
15) The lost weekend
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Realistic portrayal of the devastating effects of alcohol on a dissatisfied would-be writer.
16) Sweet land
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Set in post-World War I Minnesota, a German woman arrives to meet the man she is to marry but the anti-German climate in the town creates obstacles for them.
Publisher
Les Blank Films
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
Produced and directed by Kidlat Tahimik, this brilliant semi-autobiographical fable tells the story of a young Filipino born in 1942 (during the Occupation), his awakening to, and reaction against, American cultural colonialism. In his small village, Kidlat dreams of Cape Canaveral and listens to the Voice of America; he's even the president of his village's Werner Von Braun fan club. Winner of the Berlin Film Festival International Critics Award...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Winding through the nascent days of cinema in Paris and Fort Lee, New Jersey, the battlefields of Belgium during World War I, and the faded Knickerbocker Hotel in 1960s Hollywood, [this novel] follows the intertwined fates of the cinematographer Claude Ballard and his muse, Sabine Montrose"--
20) We bought a zoo
Author
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A man buys a struggling zoo in Southern California and along with his family and employees, works to bring it back to life.
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