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Seeing is Believing is a provocative, shrewd, witty look at the Hollywood fifties movies we all love-or love to hate-and the thousand subtle ways they reflect the political tensions of the decade. Peter Biskind, former executive editor of Premiere, is one of our most astute cultural critics. Here he concentrates on the films everybody saw but nobody really looked at, classics like Giant, On the Waterfront, Rebel Without a Cause, and Invasion of the...
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"In addition to being among the most celebrated of contemporary filmmakers, Quentin Tarantino is possibly the most joyously infectious movie lover alive. For years he has touted in interviews his eventual turn to writing books about films. Now, with Cinema Speculation, the time has come, and the results are everything his passionate fans--and all movie lovers--could have hoped for. Organized around key American films from the 1970s, all of which he...
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"The Big Screen" tells the enthralling story of the movies: their rise and spread, their remarkable influence in the war years, and their long, slow decline to a form that is often richly entertaining but no longer lays claim to our lives the way it once did.
7) Kounterfeit
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2007]
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1 DVD (ca. 87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A counterfeit laundering plan results in the death of an undercover cop, leaving two men on the run from the dead officer's sister. Things change when she discovers the accused men she seeks may be her only hope for survival.
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English
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I’M STILL HERE is a striking portrayal of a tumultuous year in the life of internationally acclaimed actor Joaquin Phoenix. With remarkable access, I’M STILL HERE follows the Oscar-nominee as he announces his retirement from a successful film career in the fall of 2008 and sets off to reinvent himself as a hip hop musician. Sometimes funny, sometimes shocking, and always riveting, the film is a portrait of an artist at a crossroads. Official Selection...
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"This portrait of Washington super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff, from his early years as a gung-ho member of the GOP political machine to his final reckoning as a disgraced, imprisoned pariah, confirms the adage that truth is indeed stranger than fiction. A tale of international intrigue involving Indian casinos, spies, sweatshops, and a mob-style killings, this is a story of the way money corrupts our political process"--Container.
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"In the late 1990s, Patrick O’Brian’s multimillion-copy-selling historical novel series—the Aubrey–Maturin series, which was set during the Napoleonic Wars—seemed destined for film. With Russell Crowe as Jack Aubrey and Paul Bettany as Stephen Maturin, the production only needed a ship that could stand in for Lucky Jack’s HMS Surprise, with historical accuracy paramount. The filmmakers found the Rose, a replica of an 18th-century ship...
11) Enemies among us
Publisher
Phase 4 Films
Pub. Date
c2010
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Widescreen.
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1 DVD (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The Governor of Louisiana, Chip Majors, is at the top of his game. He is the number one pick for the vice presidential nominee for his party. But his past as a secret National Security Agency operative has now come back to haunt him. Now he must fight for his political career, and also his life!
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Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2015
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English
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Movie star Vincent Chase, together with his boys, Eric, Turtle and Johnny, are back; and back in business with super agent-turned-studio head Ari Gold. Some of their ambitions have changed, but the bond between them remains strong as they navigate the capricious and often cutthroat world of Hollywood.
13) Celebrity
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Miramax Films
Pub. Date
[1999]
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1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Following their divorce, the lives of a restless writer and his inhibited ex-wife take off in unpredictable directions.
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
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1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Alex wakes up to a dead guy laying next to her and can't figure out how they met. Alex runs for it and ends up in the car of a former cop. Their uneasy alliance draws them closer together, and closer to the startling truth behind the murder.
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Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
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Anamorphic widescreen ed.
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1 DVD (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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An offbeat, comic love story about a cop who'd rather be an artist, a mobster who'd rather be a comic, and a woman who'd rather be anywhere but between them.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
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Widescreen.
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1 DVD (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A married couple- he's a sports attorney, she's a pop psychologist- go to an upscale mall where their shopping spree turns into something more expensive! Things go from bad to worse as they try to work out some of their marital problems.
17) Death proof
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Unrated special ed.
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2 DVDs (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A deranged stuntman stalks his victims from the safety of his killer car, but when he picks on the wrong group of babes, all bets are off. He becomes involved in an automotive duel of epic proportions.
18) Extreme measures
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1999, c1996
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1 DVD (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Something is amiss at New York's Gramercy Hospital. A patient under the care of Dr. Guy Luthan mysteriously dies and the body disappears without a trace. Luthan wants to know why. However, when he looks for post-mortem details, he finds no body... and no record.
19) Soldier of God
Publisher
Anthem Pictures
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Widescreen.
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1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
When the Christian army is nearly annihilated by the Saracens in 1187, a Knight Templar must come to terms with his disillusionment and misgivings about his order and his enemies.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Widescreen version.
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1 DVD (ca. 95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"One of history's most demented serial killers. Ted Bundy terrorized 1970s America with a cross-country killing spree through seven states that left over 30 dead, while terrorizing coed dorms and escaping from two jails"--Container.
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