Home Vision
Publisher
Homevision
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Nearly four decades after The Titan: Story of Michelangelo won the Academy Award for best documentary, Robert Snyder once again fixes his trademark verite lens upon the legendary artist whose story is told in his own words gleaned from Michelangelo's letters, diaries, poems, and contemporary biographers.
2) Grey Gardens
Series
Criterion collection volume 123
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Portrait of the relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie, once and aspiring actress in New York who left her career to care for her aging mother in their East Hampton home, and never left again. The aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis feed their cats and raccoons and rehash their pasts behind the walls of their decaying mansion, Grey Gardens.
Publisher
Homevision Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
Français
Description
Lili is an impulsive, free-spirited art student living a staid existence with her father in 1970s Paris. When she meets a mysterious young Moroccan man at a nightclub, she falls instantly in love. Soon she learns he was involved in a botched bank robbery -- where a man was killed -- and without hesitation allows him and his accomplice to hide out in her apartment. The two embark on a wild spree throughout France, Spain, Morocco, and Greece, in a contemporary...
Publisher
WETA
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
In 1941 the German army invaded Eishyshok, Poland (now Lithuania) and murdered nearly all 3,500 Jewish residents. Edward Asner, a descendant of an Eishyshok family, narrates this chronicle of the journey of four survivors and their families as they return home.
5) Slacker
Series
Criterion collection volume 247
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents a day in the life of a subculture of marginal, eccentric, and overeducated citizens in and around the University of Texas; a prescient look at an emerging generation of aggressive nonparticipants.
6) Notorious
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A beautiful woman with a tainted past is enlisted by American agent Devlin to spy on a ring of Nazis in post-war Rio. Her espionage work becomes life-threatening after she marries the most debonair of the Nazi ring, Alex. Only Devlin can rescue her, but to do so he must face his role in her desperate situation and acknowledge that he has loved her all along.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The story of a shy, Delhi schoolteacher who marries and then, little by little, gets to know his wife during their first year together. This story, derived from the culture of modern India, is able to relate to the problems of young couples everywhere.
Series
Criterion collection volume 44
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Centers on the dilemma of a young ballerina torn between the demands of career and love.
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
Deutsch
Description
Lt. Colonel SS, Adolf Eichmann was responsible for the expulsion of Jews, Slovenians, and Gypsies from the Reich between 1938 and 1941, and later, their deportation from Europe to the death camps. Hiding in Argentina, he was captured by the Israeli secret service in 1960. His trial took place in Jerusalem the following year and was the first public event ever recorded on video. This stresses the contrast between monstrosity of the crime and the mediocrity...
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Français
Description
A Japanese architect and a French actress engage in a brief intense affair in Hiroshima in 1959. Both deal with their personal memories of World War II--he by articulating his firsthand experience with nuclear disaster, she by remembering her traumatic affair with a German soldier.
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004?]
Language
Français
Description
"Frederique is a free-spirited and impish woman who has made an art of using her sexuality to get precisely what she wants from men. On a whim, Frederique leaves her disinterested husband and the family trout farm to travel to Japan with a wealthy businessman. Her enchantment soon gives way to reflection, navigation of the swiftly-changing sexual freedoms and responsibilities of a new era, and the quest for satori, the "world of ecstasy" experienced...
12) Henry V
Series
Criterion collection volume 1
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Adaptation of Shakespeare's patriotic historical drama that celebrates the English nation and the greatness of its King. Includes medieval battle sequences with a recreation of the Battle of Agincourt.
Series
Publisher
Merchant Ivory Productions
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Inspector Ghote of the Bombay police pursues his most perplexing case: a savage attack has been perpetuated on a rich industrialist's private secretary. With the help of a visiting Swedish criminologist, Ghote edges closer to the truth and soon discovers he may not be dealing with murder at all, but something far more complex and profitable.
14) Quartet
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
The quartet consists of novelist Marya Zelli, her Polish husband, Stephen, wealthy philanderer/artist H.J. Heidler and his wife, Lois. Though she has been indulgent of H.J.'s past indiscretions, Lois isn't keen on her husband carrying on an affair with Marya under their own roof. Meanwhile, Stephen sits in prison, jailed for his various petty thefts. Once Stephen is released, he learns about the triangle. When the dust settles, it is Marya who suffers...
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Two brothers and two sisters find that an old wardrobe magically transports them into the world of Narnia, a land of talking animals and mythical creatures. They discover that Narnia is under the evil power of the White Witch, who has kept the land in eternal winter and has turned all her enemies to stone.