Ian Holm
1) Lord of war
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the rise and fall of Yuri Orlov, from his early days in the early 1980s in Little Odessa to selling guns to mobsters in his local neighbourhood, and through to his ascension through the decade of excess and indulgence into the early 90s. He forms a business partnership with an African warlord and his psychotic son. His relationship with his younger brother is somewhat volatile, he is married to a famous model, and he is relentlessly pursued...
Language
English
Description
One has lost her marbles, another is dead. A third is in prison, a fourth the worse for liquor. A fifth has sworn off the devil's music and the sixth--Elizabeth--is daydreaming about reforming the band. As a teenager in the war years, Elizabeth was a sax player with the Blond Bombshells, until a scandal blew the band apart. But now, some five decades later, encouraged by Patrick, an old rogue from her youth, she sets off in search of the survivors...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Adaptation of the classic horror story in which a young doctor creates life. The creature he assembles from the bodies of convicts and the brain of a brilliant scientist soon realizes that he will be rejected by society and goes on a rampage seeking revenge on the doctor who gave him life.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A dramatized global warming event triggers a barrage of epic natural disasters: tornadoes flatten Los Angeles, a tidal wave engulfs New York City and the entire Northern Hemisphere begins to freeze solid. An assortment of individual narratives are threaded together to follow the various catastrophes and their effects on local populations, including the stories of climatologist Jack Hall, his son Sam, and other small bands of survivors as they ride...
5) Brazil
Series
Criterion collection volume 51
Language
English
Description
A daydreaming bureaucrat becomes involved with an underground superhero and a beautiful mysterious woman and becomes the tragic victim of his own romantic illusions.
6) Naked lunch
Series
Criterion collection volume 220
Language
English
Formats
Description
Part-time pest-control man and full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Weller) seeks escape from his troubled existence in 1953 New York and flees to Interzone (a hallucinatory version of Tangiers) where reality and fantasy have merged. It's a strange, surreal landscape inhabited by mugwumps, half-alien, half-insect creatures, man-sized centipedes, carnivorous typewriters and bizarre humans. Compelled to make sense of this alien territory, he writes a book...
7) Brazil
Series
Criterion collection volume 51
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In this surrealistic nightmare vision of a "perfect" future where technology reigns supreme, a daydreaming bureaucrat who is involved with an underground superhero and a beautiful mysterious woman becomes the tragic victim of his own romantic illusions. This is the original 142 minute director's cut edition of the film assembled from both the European and American versions.
8) Time bandits
Series
Criterion collection volume 37
Language
English
Description
Young Kevin's daydreams burst into astonishing and hilarious life when a band of time-traveling little men come crashing through his bedroom wardrobe and carry him off on an unbelievable crime spree, weaving through the greatest and strangest moments of history. Features Terry Gilliam Interview and trailer.
9) From hell
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
In 1888 London's Whitechapel slums, poor women like Mary Kelly and her friends walk the streets for a living. When the streetwalkers begin to be murdered one by one, it attracts the attention of Inspector Abberline, who takes a personal interest in the case, and in Mary Kelly. Now he must use his psychic abilities to stop the most notorious serial killer in history--Jack the Ripper--before Mary is killed.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001, c1994]
Language
English
Description
Based on the life of King George III, this is the story of royal intrigue, sexual indiscretions, backstairs plotting and a battle for power between Parliament and the throne, all occurring while the King is being treated for an unknown mental illness.
11) Chariots of fire
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story, told in flashback, of two young British sprinters competing for fame in the 1924 Olympics. Eric, a devout Scottish missionary runs because he knows it must please God. Harold, the son of a newly rich Jew runs to prove his place in Cambridge society. In a warmup 100 meter race, Eric defeats Harold, who hires a pro trainer to prepare him. Eric, whose qualifying heat is scheduled for a Sunday, refuses to run despite pressure from the Olympic...
Publisher
USA Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Joe Mitchell is a top writer at The New Yorker, specializing in profiles of urban eccentrics. But he's never met anyone as fascinating as Joe Gould, a cantankerous, unkempt, yet possibly brilliant street philosopher. When Mitchell decides to profile Gould, he has to decide whether Gould is a fraud or a genius.
Series
Lord of the rings volume 3
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Frodo makes his way through the darkness to Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring. Aragorn learns of his destiny as the true King and the others prepare for a massive battle that will determine the fate of Middle-Earth.
15) Existenz
Publisher
Dimension Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Language
English
Description
A designer of a virtual reality game is hunted by an assassin intent on killing her and destroying her creation.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Benny & Joon: A mentally ill young woman who lives with her older brother finds her love in an eccentric young man who models himself after Buster Keaton. An offbeat romantic comedy.
Edward Scissorhands (Anniversary edition): A fairy tale about an inventor's greatest creation, a man with scissors for hands, who's taken in by a strange family in Suburbia and gives his new neighbors a lesson in what it truly means to be human.
From hell: Inspector...