Francis Ford Coppola
Author
Publisher
Regan Arts
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The most important unpublished work on one of the greatest films of all time, The Godfather, written before filming, by the man who wrote and directed it--Francis Ford Coppola, then only thirty-two years old--reveals the intense creative process that went into creating this seminal film. With meticulous notes and impressions of Mario Puzo's novel, the Notebook was referred to by Coppola daily on set while he directed the movie. [This book] pulls...
Series
Qatsi Trilogy volume 1
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Koyaanisqatsi is a Hopi Indian word meaning variously: crazy life, life in turmoil, life disintegrating, life out of balance (the subtitle for this film), and a state of life that calls for another way of life. This film presents a concert of visual images set to the music of Philip Glass that progesses from purely natural environments to nature as affected by man, and finally to man's own manmade environment that is devoid of nature.
6) The terror
Publisher
Vina Distributor
Pub. Date
2006?
Language
English
Description
Jack Nicholson plays a shipwrecked soldier, in Napoleon's army who's tempted by a strange and lovely maiden, along the beach. He follows her and ends up getting trapped in a strange and mysterious castle. Boris Karloff is the deranged baron who owns the castle. His strange and eery deeds make this film a real nail-biter.
9) Hammett
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Dashiell Hammett has retired from his career as a Pinkerton detective to write fiction. An old friend calls, and Hammett becomes involved in a search for a missing girl in Chinatown.
10) Tetro
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Naive, 17-year-old Bennie goes to Buenos Aires to search for his older brother whom he has not seen for ten years. With the success of their father Carlo, a renowned symphony conductor, the family moved from Argentina to New York. When Bennie finds his brother, Tetro, he is surprised to find that he is not the person he remembered. While staying with Tetro and his girlfriend Miranda, the two brothers grapple with the haunting experiences of their...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the lives and careers of Harold Michelson, a storyboard artist and production designer, and his wife Lillian, a film researcher, who eloped to Hollywood in 1947 and worked for six decades, their combined filmography totaling hundreds of movies for which their contributions went mostly uncredited.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The Godfather (1972): Francis Ford Coppola's Masterpiece features Marlon Brando in his Oscar-winning role as the patriarch of the Corleone family. Director Coppola paints a chilling portrait of the Sicilian clan's rise and near fall from power in America, masterfully balancing the story between the Corleone's family life and the ugly crime business in which they are engaged. Based on Mario Puzo's best-selling novel and featuring career-making performances...
13) Patton
Language
English
Description
Story of General Patton in World War II whose military brilliance was balanced by his inability to deal with the social and political aspects of war, causing him difficulties in his dealings with the War Department.
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Peggy Sue, a mother of two who runs her own business & is coping with an impending divorce, attends her 25th high school reunion, where a freak mishap sends her decades back in time, giving her the power to create an entirely different future for herself.
Publisher
Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
When a shipwreck leaves Alec (Kelly Reno) - a courageous young boy - and "the Black"--A wild Arabian stallion - stranded on a desolate island, the two share a frightening adventure of survival that forges a lasting bond of friendship between them. Upon their rescue, Alec and the magnificent horse continue their adventures when they join forces with ex-jockey and horse trainer Henry Dailey (Mickey Rooney). Recognizing the winning combination of the...
16) Rumble fish
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Matt Dillon and Mickey Rourke star as two brothers whose desire to break out of their urban trap eventually leads to death for one and a new beginning for the other.
Series
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the astronaut's wife the lives of courageous NASA astronaut Spencer Armacost and his beautiful schoolteacher wife Jillian are momentarily shattered when Spencer's mission mysteriously loses contact with Earth for 2 minutes, but neither Spencer nor Jillian knows that those 120 seconds of terror will ultimately threaten their sanity, their future and their lives.
In Don Juan DeMarco a psychiatrist rescues a young man who claims to be the legendary...
18) The conversation
Series
Language
English
Description
A routine wiretapping job turns into a nightmare when Harry, a surveillance man, hears something disturbing in his recording of a young couple in a park. His investigation of the tape and how it might be used sends Harry spiraling into a web of secrecy, murder, and paranoia.
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Language
English
Description
In the early 1900s, the young Vito flees Sicily for America after the local Mafia kills his family. Vito struggles to make a living, legally or illegally, for his wife and growing brood in Little Italy. There he kills the local Black Hand Fanucci after he demands his customary cut of the tyro's business. With Fanucci gone, Vito's stature grows. The family legacy is upended by Michael's business expansion in the 1950s. Now based in Lake Tahoe, Michael...
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Two decades have passed and crime kingpin Michael Corleone has nearly succeeded in keeping his promise that his family would one day be legit. A philanthropist devoted to public service, Michael is to receive a special award from the Pope for his good works. Determined to buy redemption, Michael and his lawyer B.J. are working on a complicated but legal deal to bail the Vatican out of looming financial troubles. However, trouble looms in the form...