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Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Told in Cunningham’s own words from a recently unearthed six-hour 1994 interview, the iconic street photographer and fashion historian chronicles, in his customarily cheerful and plainspoken manner, moonlighting as a milliner in France during the Korean War, his unique relationship with First Lady Jackie Kennedy, his four decades at The New York Times and his democratic view of fashion and society. Narrated by Sarah Jessica Parker, THE TIMES OF...
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Language
English
Description
An acclaimed photographer with the eye of a filmmaker, Gregory Crewdson has created some of the most gorgeously haunting pictures in the history of the medium. His meticulously composed, large-scale images are stunning narratives of small-town American life—moviescapes crystallized into a single frame. BRIEF ENCOUNTERS beautifully bares the artist’s process—and it’s as mesmerizing and riveting as the images themselves. Nominated for a Documentary...
3) Funny Face
Series
Language
English
Description
Paris, the City of Light, shines even brighter when Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire team up, bringing their luminous starpower to this exquisite **Oscar**-nominated musical featuring songs by George and Ira Gershwin. Featuring iconic performances from two legends of the silver screen, this joyous, stylish film is sure to leave you singing and dancing. Nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the **Academy Awards**. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at...
4) Femme fatale
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Edition
Widescreen version (16x9).
Language
English
Description
An alluring seductress is suddenly exposed to the world, including her enemies, by a voyeuristic photographer who becomes ensnared in her surreal quest for revenge.
Publisher
Film More Entertainment
Language
English
Description
There were those who thought the rare and beautiful wild stallion was just a myth. But for Hannah Mills and C.J. Adams the myth would become as real as the wild mountain range the wraith stallion called home. Hannah and her father Frank arrive at Mustang Matty Steadman's Bear Mountain Ranch, a spread which runs parallel to the Utah Nevada border. Hannah has come west to photograph the famous wild horses found on Matty's ranch. C.J. is from the neighboring...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
8MM : A dramatic story of one man's obsessive search for the truth about a six-year old crime--and his ultimate discovery of the truth about himself. 8MM2 : Entering a seamy underground world of peep shows, nude clubs, and live Internet sex is David Huxley, an aspiring politician who has everything to lose. Secretly filmed in a steamy three-way with his fiancee Trish and a gorgeous young model, David is desperate to find the extortionist who's demanding...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
Sy works in photo processing. His favorite customers are the Yorkin family. Sy dotes on the Yorkins whenever they drop off film to be processed and they are indulgent of Sy's attentions. What the Yorkins don't know is Sy has been obsessively making copies of their photos, imagining himself to be "Uncle Sy," a member of the family. Sy's tenuous hold on reality begins to collapse when he develops a roll of film brought in by a new customer that suggests...
Publisher
Trustees of the Imperial War Museum
Edition
Second disc collector's edition.
Language
English
Description
Desert victory documents the British Eighth Army's victory at El Alamein in Nov. 1942, and its triumphant advance across the desert to Tripoli. The film begins in the days when Field Marshal Rommel's Afrika Korps had driven to within 60 miles of Alexandria and follows the Eighth Army through battle to victory.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Language
English
Description
An intimate look at one of the world's most recognized sex symbols, told in her own words for the first time, impoverished southern family, to high school salutatorian, to scandalous '50s pin-up model, to shocking retirement in 1957 at the peak of her modeling career. With a stunning array of gorgeous photographs, unusual archival material, and playful movie footage.
16) Marwencol
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Language
English
Description
After being brutally attacked outside a bar and recovering from a coma and extensive physical injuries, Mark Hogancamp suffered brain damage and nearly total memory loss. Unable to afford therapy he spent the next few years building a scale model, World War II-era town, Marwencol, populated with dolls, where he lived out his fantasy life, and which he documented in photographs. When his photographs were discovered by an art magazine, a New York gallery...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Brock Blennerhasset makes a living out of photographing the dead in Victorian Ireland. When a series of murders threatens to sully Blennerhasset's reputation, a tenacious detective drags him into an investigation of Dublin's criminal underbelly. Set within the fascinating historical period of postmortem portraiture, this darkly comic series blends murder mystery with delightfully macabre humor.
18) Chevolution
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
How did the iconic image of Che Guevara end up on beer bottles and bikinis? This inquiry into the ethics and aesthetics of appropriation investigates how the enduring symbol of Cuba's revolution skyrocketed to fame and was ultimately devoured by its own worst enemy, capitalism.
19) Chasing ice
Publisher
Docuramafilms
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the efforts of nature photographer James Balog to document the receding of the Solheim glacier in Iceland, a consequence of climate change and global warming, in which strategically placed cameras would take one picture every hour for three years.
20) Tropic thunder
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Watch John 'Four Leaf' Tayback as he fights a gruesome battle during the Vietnam War. But, this is actually a scene from 'Tropic Thunder,' a big-budget adaptation of Tayback's wartime memoir. Starring as the central platoon are Speedman, Lazarus, Chino and Portnoy, as well as young character actor Kevin Sandusky. To play the character of African American Sgt. Osiris, Lazarus dyes his skin dark and refuses to break from character. When a scene goes...
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