Francis Ford Coppola
Author
Series
Cannes Moments volume 1
Language
English
Description
The festival is established as a response to Mussolini's control of the existing Venice Film Festival. It becomes an inspiration to a generation still recovering from the impact of WWII by attracting the biggest stars of the time including Grace Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor and legendary director Orson Welles. Its reputation spreads worldwide alongside that of its most famous regular visitor, Brigitte Bardot
Author
Series
Cannes Moments volume 3
Language
English
Description
We hear from the likes of Francis Ford Coppola, Quentin Tarantino, Mike Leigh and many others about the festival as it is today. Cannes still attracts the biggest stars in the world but it is also the most prestigious film festival where all the world's greatest directors want to show their films.
Author
Series
Cannes Moments volume 2
Language
English
Description
The French New Wave directors including Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard cause massive controversy and manage to get the event cancelled in 1968. Sophia Loren becomes the new queen of the festival and the Golden Boys of American cinema including Martin Scorces and Robert Altman become regular winners of the Palme d'Or.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 210 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A guide to a visionary new form of filmmaking discusses how advances in digital technology have made it possible to create a "live" film that can be sent instantly via satellite for viewing around the world.
"Keenly aware that advancements in digital tools have literally revolutionized every technological aspect of cinema over the last twenty-five years, Francis Ford Coppola is convinced that this same transformation will profoundly alter the way...
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"The most powerful, loved, and hated film critic of her time." - Roger Ebert on Pauline Kael (1919-2001). In a field that has historically embraced few women film critics, Kael was charismatic, controversial, witty, and discerning. Her decades-long berth at The New Yorker energized her fans ("Paulettes") and infuriated her detractors on a weekly basis. Her turbo-charged prose famously championed the New Hollywood Cinema of the late 1960s and '70s...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Movie fans know the work of Harold and Lillian, even if they don't recognize the names. Working largely uncredited in the Hollywood system, storyboard artist Harold and film researcher Lillian left an indelible mark on classics by Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg, Mel Brooks, Stanley Kubrick, Roman Polanski and many more. Through an engaging mix of love letters, film clips and candid conversation with Harold and Lillian, Danny DeVito, Mel Brooks,...
7) Patton
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (171 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Film biography of America's charismatic and controversial general during World War II (1943-1945). Covers both his confrontations with Eisenhower and his successes.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Special collector's ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rudy is a young lawyer fresh out of college who takes the case of his life. He is the only hope of an elderly couple whose insurance company will not pay for an operation that could save their son's life. Rudy takes on this client in his first case after the head of his law office has to hide because he's wanted by the feds. He must overcome many obstacles inside and outside the courtroom as he attempts to find out what it means to be a lawyer and...
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 inches.
Language
English
Description
Tucker is an engineer and showman who has a vision of the car of the future. Against formidable odds he raises the money and builds a fleet of them, only to have his factory shut down by Detroit's Big Three auto manufacturers.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
[Blu-ray version, Widesreen format}, the Coppola restoration.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (202 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, revealing the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York, and following a parallel story in which Vito's son, Michael Corleone, attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood, and Cuba in the 1950s.
11) Dracula
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Collector's ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jonathan Harker is a young lawyer who is assigned to a gloomy village just outside of Transylvania. He is forced to stay at the castle of the undead vampire Dracula and imprisoned by his minons. Dracula travels to London after being inspired by a photograph of Harker's betrothed, Mina Murray. Once Dracula lands in England, his reign of seduction and terror begins. He drains the life from Mina's closest friend, Lucy Westenra. Lucy's friends, including...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Coppola restoration.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (202 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family which tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Deluxe edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An in-depth and engrossing look into the making of Francis Ford Coppola's epic Apocalypse Now, as filmed by his wife Eleanor.
14) Frankenstein
Publisher
Distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Part of Collector's box set (boxed with Bram Stoker's Dracula which is circulated separately)
Physical Desc
1 videodisc : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: True to the original, here is the story of a young doctor whose obsession with death leads him to create a life. But his "creature" crafted from the bodies of convicts and the brain of a brilliant scientist, is a hideous mockery of humanity. And when the creature realizes he will never be accepted by men, he seeks revenge on Dr. Frankenstein and his family.
Publisher
Lions Gate Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (202 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A United States Army officer/trained assassin is sent into the depths of a southeast Asian jungle to seek out a renegade colonel and terminate his command during the Vietnam War.
16) Tetro
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 127 min.) : sound, black and white with color sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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...
17) Jack
Publisher
Hollywood Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inches.
Language
English
Description
Jack suffers from a disorder that makes him look 4 times as old as he is, so when the 10-year-old attends school for the first time, he runs into some obvious difficulties.
Author
Language
English
Description
The second volume of the LOST & FOUND SOUND collection explores how recorded sound has shaped and captured the history of the last 100 years. Drawing from the archives and attics of the nation, this historic and intimate collection of radio documentaries presents a compelling array of sonic pioneers and legends, eccentric collectors, and original American voices. Highlights include, haunting audio letters from a soldier in the foxholes of Vietnam,...
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998, p1979
Edition
Standard and widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When young Alec Ramsay and a wild stallion are cast adrift after a ship-wreck, they help each other survive on a desolate island.
Author
Series
Dream of Italy volume 5
Language
English
Description
Deep in the south of Italy, the region of Basilicata is timeless and otherworldly. It is home to one of the oldest inhabited cities in the world, Matera, a city of caves. Hollywood director Francis Ford Coppola introduces host Kathy McCabe to his ancestral hometown of Bernalda and talks about how he rediscovered his Italian roots and opened a hotel here. Kathy digs for clams on the coast, learns to make mozzarella with a very special treat inside...