Movies (fiction) by Category

The 13th warrior 1999

Michael Crichton, Ned Dowd, William Wisher, Warren Lewis, John McTiernan, Antonio Banderas, Diane Venora, Dennis Storhøi, Vladimir Kulich, Omar Sharif, Touchstone Pictures, Touchstone Home Entertainment (Firm), and Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm)

After being warned by a fortune-teller that their fight against legendary creatures is doomed to failure unless they have a 13th warrior, a travelling ambassador (Banderas) is given no choice but to join a group of fierce fighters. 1 videodisc (ca. 103 min.)

MEDIA 10-557

 

Akira Kurosawa's Dreams 2003

Hisao Kurosawa, Mike Y Inoue, Akira Kurosawa, Akira Terao, Mitsuko Baisho, Toshie Negishi, Mieko Harada, Mitsunori Isaki, Toshihiko Nakano, Yoshitaka Zushi, Hisashi Igawa, Martin Scorsese, Akira Kurosawa USA Inc, Warner Bros, and Warner Home Video (Firm)

Eight episodes exploring many aspects of humankind and man's need to harmonize with nature. Based on Akira Kurosawa's actual dreams. 1 videodisc (120 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2908

 

Alice Darkness light darkness 1999?

Jan Svankmajer, Peter-Christian Fueter, Kristýna Kohoutová, Lewis Carroll, Condor Features, Film Four International, Hessischer Rundfunk, and First-Run Features (Firm)

Alice: A little girl follows an elusive White Rabbit and so begins this dream expedition into the landscape of childhood, combining techniques of animation, puppet theatre and live action in Svankmajer's surreal version of Alice's adventures in Wonderland. Darkness light darkness: A man literally constructs himself within the confines of a very small room--a potent allegory of Svankmajer's life in Eastern Europe. 1 videodisc (84, 7 min.)

MEDIA 10-2239

 

Alice in Wonderland 1949

Sets the classic tale within the context of Lewis Carroll's own life. 1 videodisc (76 min.)

MEDIA 10-5071

 

The blood of Jesus 2006, 1941

Concerns the accidental shooting of a woman and of the faith in Jesus that brings her back. As she lies dying, her soul goes on a symbolic journey in which it rejects Hell for Zion, Satan for God, at the foot of the cross. When she awakens recovered, the choir of sisters and brothers from the church come in to sing and celebrate the miracle. Offers a glimpse into Southern Baptist life from an African-American perspective. 1 videodisc (57 min.)

MEDIA 10-4020

 

Born in flames 2006

Lizzie Borden, Ed Bowes, Honey, Jeanne Satterfield, Florynce Kennedy, and First Run/Icarus Films

A futuristic fable of feminist turmoil still brewing ten years after the Second American Revolution.  When Adelaide Norris, the black radical founder of the Woman's Army, is mysteriously killed, a diverse coalition of women - across all lines of race, class, and sexual preference - emerges to blow the System apart.  With their fury growing and all peaceful options exhausted, women overcome divisions of race, class, and sexual orientation to form a guerilla movement to take over control of the media. 1 videodisc (80 min.)

MEDIA 10-1138

 

The chess player c2003, 1927

Raymond Bernard, Pierre Blanchar, Charles Dulin, Edith Jehanne, Henri Rabaud, Henry Dupuy-Mazuel, Photoplay Productions, Thames Television, ltd, and Image Entertainment (Firm)

A costume drama set in the court of Catherine the Great, the film combines romance, politics, and war with the story of the invention of the chess-playing automaton. 1 videodisc (140 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2323

 

Clive Barker's Nightbreed 2014, c1990

"A troubled young man is drawn to a mythical place called Midian where a variety of monsters are hiding from humanity"--IMDb. 2 videodiscs (121 min.)

MEDIA 10-5393

 

Le Collier perdu de la colombe 2008, 1991

A story set in the ancient deserts and settlements of Tunisia. While studying Arabic calligraphy from a grand master, Hassan comes across a fragment of rare manuscript. He sets off in search of the missing pieces, believing that once he finds them, they will reveal all the secrets of love. Hassan meets Aziz, Princess of Samrakand, who aids him in his research. The two encounter wars, a battle between false prophets and face an ancient curse in their hunt for the missing manuscript. 1 videodisc (86 min.)

MEDIA 10-4089

 

Crouching tiger, hidden dragon 2001

Ang Lee, Bill Kong, Ligong Xu, Huiling Wang, James Schamus, Guorong Cai, Yun-fat Chow, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang, Dun Tan, Dulu Wang, Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia (Firm), Sony Pictures Classics (Firm), and Good Machine International

Set in 19th-century China, two master warriors are faced with their greatest challenge when the treasured Green Destiny sword is stolen. A young aristocratic woman prepares for an arranged marriage, but soon reveals her superior fighting talents and her romantic past. As each warrior battles for justice, they come face-to-face with their worst enemy, and the enduring power of love. 1 videodisc (120 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3248

 

The curious case of Benjamin Button 2009

Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Ceaan Chaffin, Eric Roth, Robin Swicord, David Fincher, Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P Henson, Julia Ormond, Jason Flemyng, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, Elias Koteas, Jared Harris, Phyllis Somerville, Tilda Swinton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Paramount Pictures Corporation, Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ), Kennedy/Marshall Company, and Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm)

Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he ages backwards, being born an old man. He is diagnosed with several aged diseases at birth and thus given little chance of survival. He does survive and gets younger with time. 1 videodisc (165 min.)

MEDIA 10-2031

 

Dom za veæLanje 2010

A Gypsy teenager with the ability to move objects with his mind is convinced by a petty crook to leave his grandmother and girlfriend to make quick cash. 1 videodisc (142 min.)

MEDIA 10-5483

 

Dybuk 2007, 1937

Michal Waszy nski, Alter Kacyzne, Andrzej Marek, Avraham Morevski, Isaac Samberg, Moshe Lipman, Lili Liliana, Dina Halpern, Henoch Kon, Gershon Sirota, S An-Ski, FENIKS (Firm), and National Center for Jewish Film

Years after their parents had made a pledge that they would marry, a young couple meet and fall in love. The father of the young man had long before perished and the young woman's father, forgetting his vow, keeps the two apart. The film concerns unfulfilled love, broken promises, and the supernatural, as the persona of the youth enters his beloved's body and possesses her. Inspired by S. Anski's ethnographic research among Jews living in the Polish-Russian countryside just before WWI. 1 videodisc (123 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3082

 

El aangel exterminador The exterminating angel c2008

Gustavo Alatriste, Luis Buanuel, Luis Alcoriza, Gabriel Figueroa, Silvia Pinal, Rosa Elena Durgel, Jacqueline Andere, Josae Baviera, Augusto Benedico, Luis Beristain, Antonio Bravo, Claudio Brook, Cesar del Campo, Lucy Gallardo, Enrique Garcaia aAlvarez, Ofelia Guilmaain, Enrique Rambal, Carlos Savage, Raul Lavista, Luis Alcoriza, Janus Films, and Criterion Collection (Firm)

After a lavish dinner party in a stately mansion, the guests believe themselves unable to leave the premises. As the days pass, the elaborate facades of their social positions collapse and they are forced to live like animals. Finally discovering they are actually free to leave, they go to church to give thanks, where they are again trapped. 2 videodiscs (93 min.)

MEDIA 10-2028

 

El espinazo del diablo 2002

Guillermo del Toro, Antonio Trashorras, David Muńoz, Agustin Almodóvar, Pedro Almodóvar, Bertha Navarro, Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi, Fernando Tielve, Ińigo Garcés, Irene Visedo, Deseo, S.A, Tequila Gang (Firm), and Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm)

During the Spanish Civil War, young Carlos is abandoned at a completely isolated orphanage. The tensions therein have been building for years, exacerbated by the unexploded bomb resting menacingly in the courtyard. Bullies scheme, tempers flare, and a ghost that visits Carlos's bed seems to be the key to it all. 1 videodisc (108 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3193

 

Excalibur c2011, 1981

The classic story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. 1 videodisc (141 min.)

MEDIA 10-5188

 

Fando y Lis p2007, 1968

"Fando and his paraplegic sweetheart Lis [search] for the enchanted city of Tar, where spiritual ecstasy resides. The astonishing road trip takes them through urban rubble, scalding deserts, treacherous mountains, their own pasts, and close encounters of the weirdest kind"--Container. 1 videodisc (96 min.)

MEDIA 10-4874

 

Ge shi qin yuan The gingko bed 1997

Jacky Kang, Sok-kyu Han, Hye-jin Sim, Hi-kyong Chin, and Hyun-jun Shin

A college art lecturer experiences the mysterious love in his prior life when he comes across an antique gingko bed. He is the reincarnated soul of a court musician to a princess, but their love ended in tragedy as a jealous general killed him and the princess committed suicide. For a thousand years their love has been destined to suffer. 1 videodisc (88 min.)

MEDIA 10-121

 

Giulietta degli spiriti 2002, 1965

When she suspects her husband of infidelity, a housewife unleashes an unconscious ripe with erotic fantasies. In this film, Fellini's first feature-length color film, his examination of the sexual psyche unfolds via the surrealistic use of abrupt cut-aways to illustrate the woman' sexual fantasies. 1 videodisc (137 min.)

MEDIA 10-4408

 

Godzilla king of the monsters! c2002, 1956

Terry Morse, Ishir o Honda, Tomoyuki Tanaka, Raymond Burr, Takashi Shimura, Momoko K?ochi, Akira Takarada, Akihiko Hirata, Genius Entertaiment, Classic Media, Inc, T?oh?o Kabushiki Kaisha, and Sony Music Entertainment, Inc

When American reporter Steve Martin investigates a series of mysterious disasters off the coast of Japan, he comes face to face with an ancient creature so powerful and so terrifying, it can reduce Tokyo to a smoldering graveyard. 1 videodisc (78 min.)

MEDIA 10-1634

 

Groundhog day 2008, 1993

Trevor Albert, Harold Ramis, Danny Rubin, Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott, George Fenton, Columbia Pictures, and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)

There is an old belief that everyone is rewarded with the heaven or hell that he deserves. For Phil, the nasty, self-centered weather forecaster in "Groundhog Day," that hell reveals itself one morning in the Groundhog Capitol of the USA, Punxsutawney, Pa. He has journeyed there to do a remote broadcast about his namesake, the groundhog Punxsutawney Phil, and wakes up the next morning in the same bed, with the radio playing the same song, and it gradually becomes clear to him that he is reliving precisely the same day. It will be Groundhog Day again tomorrow, too, and on the day after that. Finally, Phil begins to ponder the question "What would you do if you were stuck in one place, and everything that you did was the same, and nothing mattered?". 1 videodisc (101 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3701

 

The holy mountain 2007, 1973

A mysterious figure and his seven followers attempt to ascend the Holy Mountain, in order to displace the gods who live there and become immortal. 1 videodisc (114 min.)

MEDIA. MEDIA 10-4659 10-4877

 

I never promised you a rose garden 2005, c1977

Edgar J Scherick, Terrence F Deane, Gavin Lambert, Lewis John Carlino, Anthony Page, Bibi Andersson, Kathleen Quinlan, Sylvia Sidney, Martine Bartlett, Signe Hasso, Susan Tyrrell, Diane Varsi, Lorraine Gary, Bruce Logan, Garth Craven, Paul Chihara, Hannah Green, Fadsin Cinema Associates, and Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm)

A young woman's devotion to a childhood fantasy kingdom has taken over her entire life and causes her endless pain and degradation. Placed in a mental hospital, she has the great good fortune to have a truly caring therapist who tries to help her accept reality, even though reality isn't so great either. 1 videodisc (90 min.)

MEDIA 10-2114

 

Iakov Protazanov 1992

IAkov Aleksandrovich Protazanov, Erich Sargeant, Elizaveta Thiemann, Vladimir Shaternikov, Olga Petrova, Mikhail Tamarov, Ivan Il ich Mozzhukhin, Vera Orlova, Elizaveta Shebueva, Ermolev (firm), Thiemann & Reinhardt (Firm), Gosfil mofond SSSR, British Film Institute , and Milestone Film & Video

Protazanov, a leading director of the early Russian cinema, did not shrink from controversy during his highly successful career. The departureof a great old man, about the last days of Tolstoy, provoked legal action by the outraged family. The queen of spades starred Mozzhukhin in one of his most compelling roles as Pushkin's haunted hero. 1 videodisc (95 min.)

MEDIA 10-2249

 

Into the West 2011, 1992

Mystical fable about two Irish brothers traveling across the country on a magical white horse. 1 videodisc (97 min.)

MEDIA 10-4111

 

Kaidan 2000, 1964

Shigeru Wakatsuki, Yoko Mizuki, Masaki Kobayashi, Michiyo Aratama, Misako Watanabe, Rentaro Mikuni, Tatsuya Nakadai , Katsuo Nakamura,  Tetsuro Tanba, Kan'emon Nakamura, Osamu Takizawa, Haruko Sugimura, Lafcadio Hearn, David Ehrenstein, Toho Kabushiki Kaisha, and Ninjin Kurabu

Consists of four stories of the supernatural based on Japanese folk material. In The black hair, a poor young samurai leaves his first wife to marry a rich woman. When he is unhappy in his second marriage, he returns to his first wife, who at first appears unchanged from when he last saw her. In The woman of the snow, a woodcutter is spared by a mysterious ghost-like woman in the snow, but must promise never to tell anyone what he has seen. In Hoichi, the earless, a blind musician-monk named Hoichi is commanded by a gathering of ghosts to sing the saga of their ancient deeds. The head monk paints Hoichi's body with prayer verses to protect him, but unfortunately overlooks Hoichi's ears. In In a cup of tea, a writer wonders what would happen to a person who drinks another's soul and finds out. 1 videodisc (161 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3146

 

Loong Boonmee raleuk chat Uncle Boonmee who can recall his past lives 2011

Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thanapat Saisaymar, Jenjira Pongpas, Sakda Kµobuadi, Illuminations (Firm), Kick the Machine (Firm), Anna Sanders Films (Firm), and Strand Releasing Home Video (Firm)

A unique tale of a man embracing life's greatest mystery. Choosing to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside, Boonmee is visited by his dead wife as a ghost, and his lost son as a strange hairy beast with red glowing eyes. They've come to guide him to his final resting place, a cave where his first soul began. With a wry sense of humor and a humanist spirit, it's a magical tale of reincarnation, karma, and nature. 1 videodisc (113 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2972

 

Magnifica presenza 2012

In this modern ghost story, a young gay aspiring actor rents an apartment haunted by a ghost-family of theatrical actors who are trapped there, disconnected from the real world, and eager to discover the identity of the whistle-blower connected to their tragic deaths during World War II. 1 videodisc (102 min.)

MEDIA 10-4982

 

Medea 2011, 1969

Pier Paolo Pasolini,  Franco Rossellini, Marina Cicogna, Maria Callas, Massimo Girotti, Laurent Terzieff, Giuseppe Gentile, Margareth Clementi, Tony Palmer, Jill Marshall, San Marco (Firm), Film Number One (Firm), Janus Film und Fernsehen (Firm), and Entertainment One (Firm)

To win back his kingdom, Jason must enlist the help of Medea, a powerful sorceress. But when Jason scorns her for another woman, she unleashes a firestorm of revenge. 1 videodisc (110 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3219

 

Midnight in Paris c2011

Woody Allen, Javier Méndez, Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum, Jaume Roures, Stephane Wrembel, Kathy Bates, Adrien Brody, Carla Bruni, Marion Cotillard , Rachel McAdams, Michael Sheen, Owen Wilson, Nina Arianda, Kurt Fuller, Tom Hiddleston, Mimi Kennedy, Alison Pill, Léa Seydoux, Corey Stoll, Sony Pictures Classics (Firm), MediaPro, Versįtil Cinema, Gravier Productions, Pontchartrain Productions, and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)

A romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better. 1 videodisc (94 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3653

 

My neighbor Totoro c2006

Hayao Miyazaki, Toru Hara, Rick Dempsey, Ned Lott, Elle Fanning, Dakota Fanning, Pat Carroll, Tim Daly, Sutajio Jiburi, Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokuma Shoten, Nikariki (Firm), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (Firm), and Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm)

Deep inside a tree trunk, two children discover a fascinating new world inhabited by Totoros, amazing, charming creatures who become their friends. 2 videodisc (ca. 87 min.)

MEDIA 10-922

 

One flew over the cuckoo's nest 1999

Milos Forman, Saul Zaentz, Michael Douglas, Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman, Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Will Sampson, Brad Dourif, Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd, and Ken Kesey

Randall P. McMurphy, a feisty misfit, leads his fellow mental patients to do battle for their rights against a repressive ward nurse. 1 videodisc (134 min.)

MEDIA 10-14

 

Orfeu negro 1999, 1959

Marcel Camus, Sacha Gordine, Jacques Viot, Luiz Bonfį, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Lourdes de Oliveira, Léa Garcia, Vinķcius de Moraes, Dispatfilm (Firm), Gemma cinematografica (Firm), Tupan Filmes, Janus Films, and Criterion Collection (Firm)

Story based on the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice set against the colorful background of the carnival in Rio de Janiero. With its magnificent color photography and lively soundtrack, this film brought the infectious bossa nova beat to the United States. 1 videodisc (107 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3218

 

The picture of Dorian Gray c2008, 1945

Pandro S Berman, Albert Lewin, Herbert Stothart, George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury, Peter Lawford, Lowell Gilmore, Richard Fraser, Oscar Wilde, Loew's Incorporated, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Warner Home Video (Firm)

Dorian Gray is an innocent young man who has his portrait painted by a close friend. Soon after he falls under the influence of amoral Lord Henry Wotton. Dorian soon jilts his fiancee, which leads to her suicide. This is the start of a life of increasing debauchery. Dorian realizes that the outward signs of this are apparent only in the portrait. Eventually the picture, secreted in his childhood playroom, becomes almost hideous to behold. But Dorian still has one pure love - Gladys, the niece of the original painter. 1 videodisc (110 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3702

 

The purple rose of Cairo c2005, 1985

Woody Allen, Jeff Daniels, Mia Farrow, Danny Aiello, Dick Hyman, Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Productions, Orion Pictures, and MGM Home Entertainment Inc

Cecilia is a poor waitress in a dumpy New Jersey diner who goes to movies to escape the realities of the Depression Era life. Her favorite is "The purple rose of Cairo." When the leading man Tom Baxter decides to be with Cecilia, confusion abounds. 1 videodisc (82 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2922

 

The secret of Roan Inish 2007, 1994

A magical tale of a girl whose search for her missing brother brings an Irish legend to life. 1 videodisc (102 min.)

MEDIA 10-4114

 

Sita sings the blues c2009, 2008

An animated reinterpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana blends the stories of Sita, a goddess separated from her husband Rama, and Nina, an animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Set to the 1920s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw. 1 videodisc (82 min.)

MEDIA 10-3848

 

Sonne halt! 2007

Ferry Radax, Konrad Bayer, Ida Radax, Hans Carl Artmann, Peter Kodera, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and Hoanzl (Firm)

A series of short films by experimental director, Ferry Radax
Sonne halt! (1962)  (24 min.) -- Sun stop!  (24 min.) -- Gro e Liebe (1966)  (18 min.) -- Grande Amour (18 min.) --
Forum Dichter Graz (1967)  (43 min.) -- H.C. Artmann (1967)  (36 min.) -- Testament (1967-68)  (44 min.). 1 videodisc (165 min.)

MEDIA 10-2179

 

The tenant 2003, 1976

A quiet, timid file clerk whose unremarkable life begins to be increasingly overshadowed with dread and fear after he moves into his new home - an apartment building with an unhappy past. Adding to his paranoia are the building's other occupants, who do nothing to alleviate his growing obsession with the untimely, tragic fate of the apartment's previous tenant. 1 videodisc (125 min.)

MEDIA 10-4459

 

To Rome with love 2013, c2012

Set in the romantic city of Rome, the intertwining stories of a worker who wakes up to find himself a celebrity, an architect who takes a trip back to the street he lived on as a student, a young couple on their honeymoon, and a frustrated opera director who has a talent for discovering talented singers. 1 videodisc (112 min.)

MEDIA 10-5325

 

The tree of life 2011

Terrence Malick, Sarah Green, Donald Rosenfeld, Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain, Fiona Shaw,  Irene Bedard, Alexandre Desplat, Fox Searchlight Pictures, River Road Entertainment (Firm), and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc

This is a film about the conflict between nature and grace, the agonizing mystery of God, and the meaning of life itself. The death of his brother forces Jack O'Brien to confront his past, which is dominated by his difficult relationship with his father. Jack's father was a stern authoritarian whose no-nonsense demeanor masked a host of unfulfilled dreams. His mother was a gentle, kind woman who often allowed her own needs and desires to give way to those of her husband and children. As Jack's memories come flooding back--of the course of a Texas summer in the 1950s--viewers observe Jack's evolving relationship with his parents, his younger brother, and God, while adult Jack questions the meanings of life, love, and family. 1 videodisc (139 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2977

 

The trial 2003, 1962

A man awakens one morning to find himself arrested for undisclosed charges. To uncover the reasons behind his charges and to protest his innocence, he tries to look behind the facade of the judicial systems, all to no avail. 1 videodisc (119 min.)

MEDIA 10-4028

 

Ulysses 2009

Ulysses' return from the Trojan Wars sets him upon a legendary adventure. He and his crew sail under the curse of Cassandra, and encounter Circe, the sirens and the cyclops. 1 videodisc (101 min.)

MEDIA 10-4934

 

What women want 2001, 2000

A cocky, chauvinistic advertising executive magically acquires the ability to hear what women are thinking. 1 videodisc (126 min.)

MEDIA 10-4120

 

Who framed Roger Rabbit? 1999, 1988

Tale of a detective, an unstable rabbit and his sexy wife in a world where cartoons and people live side by side. 1 videodisc (104 min.)

MEDIA 10-4224

 

Wings of desire 2009, c1987

Wim Wenders, Anatole Dauman, Peter Handke, Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Curt Bois, Peter Falk, Jürgen Knieper, Henri Alekan, Peter Przygodda, Heidi Lüdi, Road Movies Filmproduktion, Argos Films, and Criterion Collection (Firm)

A romantic fantasy about an angel who wishes he were mortal and is willing to fall from the sky if it means a chance to fall in love. Set in modern day Berlin, the film follows angel Damiel's path from heavenly flight to earthly delight in a manner that's comical, touching and entertaining. 2 videodiscs (127 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2937

 

Zelig 2001, 1983

Woody Allen, Jack Rollins, Charles H Joffe , Robert Greenhut,  Mia Farrow, Susan Sontag, Saul Bellow, Patrick Horgan, Gordon Willis, Susan E Morse, Dick Hyman, Orion Pictures, Warner Bros, Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Productions, and MGM Home Entertainment Inc

This spoof of documentary films stars Woody Allen as Leonard Zelig, the famous "Chameleon Man" of the 1920's, whose personality was so vague he would assume the characteristics of whomever he came into contact with. Filmed in black-and-white, the movie simulates the look of a newsreel, complete with stentorian narration. 1 videodisc (79 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2920

 

Zero patience 2005

"John Greyson has woven a tall tale of love and loss, sex and science, history and hysteria in the age of AIDS. Greyson revives renowned Victorian Sir Richard Burton who constructs a sensationalist multimedia museum display focusing on Patient Zero, the gay French-Canadian flight attendant accused of bringing AIDS to North America"--Container. 1 videodisc (101 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3809