Peter Bogdanovich
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The film celebrates the life and career of one of America's most influential and celebrated filmmakers and comedians, Buster Keaton, whose singular style and fertile output during the silent era created his legacy as a true cinematic visionary. Filled with stunningly restored archival Keaton films from the Cohen Film Classics library, it is directed by Peter Bogdanovich, a filmmaker and cinema historian.
5) Bombshell
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and '40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and Bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr, the glamour icon whose ravishing visage was the inspiration for Snow White and Cat Woman and a technological trailblazer who perfected a radio system to throw Nazi torpedoes off course during WWII.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Peter Hadley, an uptight and disillusioned medical student, is failed by one of his professors, who happens to be his father. Seeking some escape, Peter ends up in bed with a nightclub singer named Bogart, who invites him on a road trip to Humboldt County. It is here that he meets and is embraced by Bogart's eccentric marijuana farming "family." Leaving Peter stranded, he begins a new journey of his own.
10) F for fake
Series
Publisher
Criterion collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Trickery. Deceit. Magic. In this free-form documentary, the legendary filmmaker gleefully engages the central preoccupation of his career: the tenuous line between truth and illusion, art and lies.
11) Bringing up Baby
Language
English
Description
All the earnest paleontologist wants is an intercostal clavicle to complete his brontosaurus skeleton. What he gets is an out-of-control toboggan ride with a scatterbrained heiress nuts about him (or maybe just nuts).
12) Paper moon
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A smooth-talking con man and a nine-year-old orphan are up to tricks in depression-era Kansas. Also includes a prologue by Peter Bogdanovich in which he shares insights about being a director and goes behind the scenes of Paper Moon.
Series
Criterion collection volume 216
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Français
Description
A comedy drama set on the eve of World War II. It contrasts the affairs of the French aristocracy and the working class at a weekend house party. Masters and their servants are involved in an immoral erotic charade that builds to a shattering climax.
14) Infamous
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
While researching his book "In cold blood", writer Truman Capote develops a relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and, in particular Perry Smith, while both men waited for their date of execution on death row.
15) The Cat's meow
Publisher
Trimark Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A retelling of one of the most notorious Tinseltown legends to circulate at the height of the studio era. In November 1924, a mysterious Hollywood death occurred aboard media mogul William Randolph Hearst's yacht. Included among the famous guests that weekend were Charlie Chaplin, starlet Marion Davies, the studio system creator and producer Thomas Ince, and feared gossip columnist, Louella Parsons.
Publisher
Bohemia
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Actress, humanitarian, film and fashion icon, Audrey Hepburn was undoubtedly one of the greatest legends from the Golden Age of Hollywood. But who was the real Audrey Hepburn? Malnourished as a child, abandoned by her father, and growing up under Nazi occupation in Holland, Hepburn faced a life-long battle with the traumas of her past, which thwarted her dreams of becoming a ballet dancer, and cast a shadow over her personal life. yet she found inner...
17) Daisy Miller
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
" ... an expatriate American lives abroad in Europe with her daffy mother and bratty kid brother. Daisy is very liberated and very much ahead of her time [and] scandalizes the Victorian high society of 1878."--Container.
18) Mask
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The true story of Rocky Dennis, a personable young man who has craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, a fatal disease which causes hideous facial disfigurement. Rocky is the son of biker Rusty and he is accepted without question by his mom's boyfriends and her cycle buddies, but treated with pity and disgust by much of the outside world. The local high school principal doesn't want to enroll Rocky, but Rusty fights for her son's rights. Rocky eventually falls...
Publisher
Treeline Films
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
[Horrors of Spider Island]: Survivors of a plane crash on a remote island find it is covered by spiders. When bitten, the survivors start turning into spiders.
[Wasp Woman]: A cosmetics queen develops a youth formula from the jelly taken from queen bees. Unfortunately, the treatment turns her into a ghastly flesh-devouring creature instead.
[Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet]: Spaceship orbits planet Venus, while two astronauts and a robot explore....
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The favor: As a favor to her friend Kathy, Emily looks up Kathy's old boyfriend, but their steamy one-night stand ignites more than just passion.
When Richard Dice receives a jury summons for a murder trial, he tries to get our of serving until he discovers that the accused is Molly, his ultimate infatuation in elementary school. Convinced she couldn't have done the deed, Richard breaks every rule and squares off against blackmailers, thieves and...