Julie Christie
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Working with elements of the traditional horror genre - second sight, ESP, warnings from the dead, a mad killer - and a cinematography of disquieting beauty and dreamlike sense of dislocation, director Nicolas Roeg weaves a fabric of anxiety that questions all reality. The evocative use of the back streets of Venice is a sinister participant in the action based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier. This intensely erotic and macabre film boasts outstanding...
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Well-known playwright James M. Barrie finds his career at a crossroads when his latest play flops and doubters begin to question his future. Then by chance he meets a widow and her four adventurous boys. Together they form a friendship that ignites the imagination needed to produce Barrie's greatest work. Traverses both fantasy and everyday reality, melding the difficulties of adult life with the spellbinding allure and childlike innocence of the...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2002, 1971
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in the winter in the Old west. John McCabe arrives in a young Pacific Northwest town to set up a brothel/tavern. Mrs. Miller, a professional madam, arrives and offers her help. They are very successful but big business moves into town and offers to buy the business.
5) Garbo
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Standard version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An original documentary from Turner Classic Movies, Garbo takes a look at the life and career of the movies' most luminous, reclusive and mystifying star. A portrait of Garbo the woman is drawn through interviews with biographers and admirers. Those offering analysis and reminiscences are biographers Barry Paris, Mark Vieira and Karen Swanson; actor/playwright/fan Charles Busch; Garbo's niece and greatnephews, Gray, Derek and Scott Reisfeld, and acquaintances...
6) Darling
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A London photographer's model proceeds from an immature marriage into a series of shady affairs-- first with a television talker, then with a slick promotion man, and ultimately in a palazzo as the loveless wife of an Italian prince. After becoming a prisoner of her own success through these disastrous affairs, she realizes the awful price she has paid for happiness. This is a slashing social satire and a devastating spoof of the television-advertising...
7) Glorious 39
Publisher
Entertainment One
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
At the beginning of World War II, a young British, aristocratic woman discovers evidence of a Nazi conspiracy and becomes desperate as those around her who become aware of the evidence are murdered.
8) Billy Liar
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Billy dreams of escape from an unsympathetic, resolutely working-class family, a pair of demanding fiancees, and an insecure dead-end job at an undertakers.
Series
Criterion collection volume 827
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen two-DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert.
Language
English
Description
An enterprising gambler and a bordello madam, both newcomers to the raw Pacific Northwest mining town of Presbyterian Church, join forces to provide the miners with a superior kind of whorehouse experience. The appearance of representatives of a powerful mining company with interests of its own, however, threatens to be the undoing of their plans.
Publisher
Trinity Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this psychological drama set in the British countryside during the First World War, Alan Bates portrays a shell-shocked veteran who returns home with 15 years of his life, including his marriage, erased from his memory.
11) Afterglow
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
A handyman wreaks havoc and builds romance in two marriages. Marianne is desperate to have a baby so she hires a handyman to build a nursery. There's just one problem--she's not pregnant and her husband isn't interested in sex.
12) Red Riding Hood
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Valerie is a beautiful young woman torn between two men. She is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter, but her parents have arranged for her to marry the wealthy Henry. Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter are planning to run away together when they learn that Valerie's older sister has been killed by the werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village.
13) Away from Her
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fiona and Grant are an Ontario couple who have been married for over 40 years. During the twilight of their years, Grant is forced to face the fact that Fiona's "forgetfulness" actually is Alzheimer's. After Fiona wanders away and is found, the decision is made for her to go into a nursing home. For the first time in their relationship, they are forced to undergo a separation since the nursing home has a "no-visitors" policy for the first 30 days...
14) Dragonheart
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[p1998], c1996
Edition
Widescreen collector's ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (videodisc) (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dennis Quaid stars with the voice of Academy Award winner Sean Connery as Draco in Cohen's heroic adventure that blazes with fantasy, humour, and the most amazing special effects since Jurassic Park. Long ago, when majestic fire-breathers soared through the skies, there lived a knight who would come face-to-face and heart-to-heart with the most remarkable creature that ever existed.
15) Hamlet
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (242 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Prince of Denmark, Hamlet, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (171 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bathsheba Everdene is a willful, passionate girl who is never satisfied with anything less than a man's complete and helpless adoration. She captures the lives and loves of three very different men. Gabriel Oak is a sheep farmer who is captivated by her beauty and proposes marriage. William Boldwood is an older, prosperous man who had been a confirmed bachelor. Sergeant Frank Troy is a handsome, but reckless swordsman whose given to sudden fits of...
17) Demon seed
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a scientist and his wife separate so he can work on a biological supercomputer, the computer takes over his house and his wife. Follow Susan's desperate attempts to outmaneuver and outthink her captor.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Widescreen
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hannah, who wears a hearing aid, is forced to go on holiday. On holiday she finds a job caring for Josef. Josef is a burn victim on an oil rig who temporarily lost his sight. Hannah's job is to care for Josef until he is stable enough to be transferred. There is almost no one on the rig, except a cook, an oceanographer and a few others out at sea. Hannah tends to Josef and he slowly breaks her shell of silence.
19) Heat and dust
Publisher
Cohen Media Group LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (6 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
Based on the novel by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala about Anne, who is drawn to India to unravel the scandal surrounding her great-aunt's seduction in the 1920s by an Indian prince.
20) Shampoo
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c1975
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
George is one of L.A.'s most desirable men, a Beverly Hills hairdresser who makes all his female clients look, and feel, better than ever. Encouraged by his girlfriend Jill to open his own salon, George approaches conservative businessman Lester for financing. Unbeknownst to Lester, George is sleeping with his wife, his mistress and his teenage daughter.
