(0)Robert Altman
Publisher
Planet Group Entertainment
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
A festive tribute to legendary Black American jazz and blues artists. The tony award winning Broadway show recreates the sizzle of the cotton club reviews that galvanized Harlem audiences in the 20s, 30s and 40s. A cultural legacy.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
A glittering Hollywood all-star cast shines in Robert Altman's deliciously sexy comedy hit Ready To Wear! At the world's hottest fashion show, there's been a murder. Now, everybody's a suspect - including two guests who end up sharing much more than a hotel room! Add to the fun a hilariously inept TV reporter on the trail of her most shocking interview yet! They're all caught up in the year's biggest see-and-be-seen event - where steamy scandals and...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
Description
The Disciples of James Dean meet up on the anniversary of his death and mull over their lives in the present and in flashback, revealing the truth behind their complicated lives. Who is the mysterious Joanne and what's the real story behind Mona's son, James Dean Junior? Nominated for one **Golden Globe** for Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Cher. *"Dreamlike and bleakly real, fantastical and humorous, it sucks us into a vortex for two hours where...
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
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
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1969.
Language
English
Description
In this chilling drama, Frances Austen (Sandy Dennis) is a wealthy and frustrated spinster who invites a homeless boy into her apartment, offering him living quarters. As she becomes completely obsessed with him, he rejects her amorous advances, leading her to take him as a prisoner in her home. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival**. *"Full of the drifting long shots, slow zooms, and overlapping dialogue that would help to characterise...
6) Secret honor
Series
Criterion collection volume 257
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Portrays a disgraced President Richard Nixon recording memoirs in an attempt to defend himself and his political legacy.
7) Popeye
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
Based on the long-running comic strip created by E.C. Segar, POPEYE follows the sailor with the mighty arms (played by Robin Williams in his first major film role) as he arrives in the seaside community of Sweethaven in search of his long-lost father. Popeye meets and quickly falls for the slender Olive Oyl (Shelley Duvall), but Olive's hand has already been promised to the hulking Bluto. Eventually, Popeye and Olive are brought together by Swee'...
8) Nashville
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
©2000
Language
English
Description
Nashville interweaves the stories of 24 characters over 5 days during a political rally in the capital of country music.
9) Gosford Park
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Drama set at the country estate of Sir William McCordle in 1932, showing the lives of upstairs guests and downstairs servants at a hunting party weekend when one of the group is murdered.
10) Short cuts
Series
Criterion collection volume 265
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A look at human life and American culture with over 20 characters' lives interweaving.
11) What is cinema?
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Chuck Workman is best known for creating unforgettable Oscar montage sequences and for his award-winning documentaries. Here he demonstrates his command of cinematic language, creating a visual essay out of clips from films that pushed the boundaries of the art form and gave us ideas of what the future might hold. Includes new and archival interviews with eclectic filmmakers.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A group of James Dean devotees reconvene at their teenage hangout, a rural Texas drugstore, twenty years after the death of their beloved idol. But much has changed in the intervening years, and the reunion provides them one final opportunity to expose the secrets and heal the emotional wounds that have lingered among them for two decades.
13) The long goodbye
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
For The Long Goodbye, Robert Altman successfully transports Philip Marlowe, incarnated by Elliott Gould, to the over-privileged, full-color 70s. Marlowe is lonely and shabby, yet does not seem an anachronism in the contemporary world. Unlike Bogart's Marlowe, this is a not especially tough Marlowe. He's a bright, conscientiously solemn nut, a guy who hopes for the best but expects the worst. This particular Philip Marlowe, despite evidence to the...