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- [Culver City, Calif.] : Strand Releasing Home Video, 2011.
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- Video — 1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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"A star-studded documentary about one of the greatest Oscar-winning cinematographers, who captured the beauty of such stars as Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, and Sophia Loren in such memorable classics as The African Queen; The Red Shoes; Barefoot Contessa; and Black Narcissus. With a career spanning more than 80 years, the passionate documentary reveals the craft of one of cinema's most indelible image-makers, Jack Cardiff."--Container.
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ZDVD 26816 BLU-RAY | Unknown |
2. Chris Marker collection [2014]
- [London] : SODA Film + Art, 2014.
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- Video — 2 video discs (134, 154 min.) : sound, black & white, color ; 4 3/4 in. + + 1 Blu-ray (80 min.) + 1 booklet (31 pages). Sound: digital; stereo. Video: PAL. Digital: video file; Blu-ray; region B.video file; DVD; region 2.
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- 1. Sunday in Peking = Dimanche à Pékin (27 min.) ; Letter from Siberia = Lettre de Sibérie (62 min.) ; Description of a struggle = Description d'un combat (60 min.). DVD
- 2: The sixth side of the Pentagon = La sixième face du Pentagone (27 min.) ; The embassy = L'ambassade (20 min.) ; Theory of sets = Théorie des ensembles (11 min.) ; Three video haikus = Trois vidéo haikus (3 min.) ; Blue helmet = Casque bleu (26 min.) ; E-CLIP-SE (8 min.) ; The case of the grinning cat = Chats perchés (59 min.). Blu-ray: Sunday in Peking (27 min.) ; Letter from Siberia (62 min.). Booklet: Rediscovering Chris Marker (2014) / by Chris Darke ; Markeriana: a scarcely critical description of the work of Chris Marker (1963) / by Roger Tailleur.
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- [United States] : Anchor Bay Entertainment, 2012.
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- Video — 1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Roger Corman is perhaps the most prolific and influential Hollywood filmmaker mainstream America has never heard of. Attempts to rectify that injustice by not only examining Corman and his filmography, but also by attempting to explain why the writer-director-producer is more than just a low-budget schlockmeister. Featuring interviews with heavy hitters of Hollywood.
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ZDVD 28371 BLU-RAY | Unknown |
4. David Lynch : the art life [2017]
- [New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2017]
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- Video — 1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded booklet. Sound: digital; optical; surround; DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1. Digital: video file; Blu-Ray; region A.
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An absorbing portrait of the artist, as well as an intimate encounter with the man himself. From the privacy of his home and painting studio in the Hollywood Hills, a candid Lynch conjures people and places from his past, from his boyhood in Idaho and Virginia to his experiences at art school in Boston and Philadelphia to the beginnings of his filmmaking career in Los Angeles; in stories that unfold like scenes from his movies.
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5. Hal [2018]
- [New York, NY] : Oscilloscope Pictures, 2018.
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- Video — 1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. Sound: digital.optical.surround; stereo.Dolby; DTS-HD master audio. Digital: video file.Blu-ray.region A; region B; region C.
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Hal Ashby's obsessive genius led to an unprecedented string of Oscar winning classics, including Harold and Maude, Shampoo and Being There. But as contemporaries Coppola, Scorsese and Spielberg rose to blockbuster stardom in the 1980s, Ashby's uncompromising nature played out as a cautionary tale of art versus commerce.
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6. Inventing David Geffen [2012]
- [Alexandria, VA] : PBS Distribution, [℗2013]
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- Video — 1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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David Geffen is an agent, manager, record industry mogul, Hollywood and Broadway producer, and a philanthropist. Notoriously press and camera shy, Geffen reveals himself for the first time in this two-hour documentary.
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7. Lambert and Stamp [2014]
- [Blu-Ray version]. - New York, NY : Motocinema, [2015] [Culver City, California] : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, [2015]
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- Video — 1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. Sound: digital; optical. Digital: video file; Blu-ray video.
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Aspiring filmmakers Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert set out to find a subject for their underground movie, one that will reflect the way it feels to be young and dissatisfied in postwar London. This unlikely partnership of two men from vastly different backgrounds was inspired by the burgeoning youth culture of the early 1960s. Lambert and Stamp searched for months and finally found in a band called the The Who a rebellious restlessness that was just what they were looking for.
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ZDVD 36936 BLU-RAY | Unknown |
- [New York, New York] : Cohen Media Group, [2015]
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- Video — 1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. Sound: digital; optical; surround; Dolby digital 5.1. Digital: video file; Blu-Ray.
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It looks at the remarkable genius of Orson Welles on the eve of his centenary - the enigma of his career as a Hollywood star, a Hollywood director (for some a Hollywood failure), and a crucially important independent filmmaker. Orson Welles's life was magical: a musical prodigy at age ten, a director of Shakespeare at fourteen, a painter at sixteen, a star of stage and radio at twenty, romances with some of the most beautiful women in the world, including Rita Hayworth.
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9. Roma [1972]
- Roma (Motion picture : 1972)
- [United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2016]
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- Video — 1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. Sound: digital; optical; monaural. Digital: video file; Blu-Ray; region 1.
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Virtually a plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens. Blending autobiography with scenes from present-day Roman life.
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10. Searching for Ingmar Bergman [2019]
- New York, NY : Oscilloscope Laboratories, [2019]
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- Video — 1 videodisc (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. Sound: digital.optical.surround; stereo.DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1. Digital: video file.Blu-ray.region A; region B; region C.
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On the 100th anniversary of his birth, internationally renowned director Margarethe von Trotta examines Ingmar Bergman's life and work with a circle of his closest collaborators as well as a new generation of filmmakers. This documentary presents key components of his legacy, as it retraces themes that recurred in his life and art and takes us to the places that were central to Bergman's creative achievements.
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11. Sono Shion to iu ikimono [2016]
- 園子温という生きもの
- [Tokyo] : Nikkatsu Kabushiki Kaisha, [2016] [Tokyo] : Kabushiki Kaisha Hapinetto [Tokyo] : 日活株式会社, [2016] [Tokyo] : 株式会社ハピネット
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- Video — 1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in., 14 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 15 cm Sound: digital; optical; surround; Dolby Digital 5.1. Video: NTSC. Digital: video file; DVD video; region 2.
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"A documentary following maverick director Sono Sion, who is also active in literature, painting, and street performance among other fields. It covers a year in Sono's life starting from September of 2014, closely surveiling as well the filming of The Whispering Star which was released in 2016. Incorporating interviews with Sometani Shota and Nikaido Fumi, the co-stars of one of his most acknowledged films, Himizu; his wife and actress Kagurazaka Megumi; and other relevant parties, a true picture of Sono is brought to light. The documentary is directed by Oshima Arata, who once featured Sono on the popular documentary program, "Jounetsu Tairiku", and is the second son of world-renowned maestro, Oshima Nagisa."--JFDB.
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Online 12. The trial, the state of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov [2017]
- [New York] : Torch Films, [2017]
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- Video — 1 videodisc (75 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. Sound: digital.optical. Digital: video file.Blu-ray.all regions.
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"This courageous, urgent documentary provides a rare investigative chronicle of Vladimir Putin's ruthless human censorship machine, as evident in the case of Oleg Sentsov--the Ukrainian filmmaker, AutoMaidan activists, and Crimea native sentenced to 20 years imprisonment after an infamous show trial."--Container
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