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Call Number: DVD00887

by: Alfred Hitchcock; Cary Grant; Joan Fontaine; Farley Granger; Ruth Roman; Robert Walker; Montgomery Clift; Anne Baxter; Henry Fonda; Vera Miles; Turner Classic Movies (Television network); Warner Home Video (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, ©2009.

Summary: Turner Classic Movies Collection Features four thrillers directed by Alfred Hitchcock with various special features.

Notes: Double-sided discs

Contents: Disc 1/Side A: Suspicion – A shy young English woman marries a charming gentleman, then begins to suspect him of trying to kill her. Starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontain, Special Feature: Original Theatrical Trailer; Running Time Aprox. 99 min.; Originally released as a motion picture in 1941; Nominated for 3 Academy Awards (1942); Standard full frame; RKO Pictures, Inc.

Disc 1/Side B: Strangers on a Train – A psychotic socialite confronts a pro tennis star with a theory on how two complete strangers can get away with murder…a theory that he plans to implement. Starring Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker; Special Features: Commentary by Peter Bogdanovich, Pscho Screenwriter Joseph Stefano, Patricia Highsmith Biographer Andrew Wilson and Several Hitchcock Colleagues, Aficionados and Family Members, PLUS the Suspense Master Himself  in a rare Interview Excerpt, Original Theatrical Trailer; Running Time Aprox 101 min.; Originally Released as a motion picture in 1951; Nominated for an Academy Award (1952); standard full frame;  A Warner Bros. Production. 

Disc 2/ Side A: I Confess – Refusing to give into police investigators’ questions of suspicion, due to the seal of confession, a priest becomes the prime suspect in a murder. Starring Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter; Special Features:  Featurette “Hitchcock’s Confession: A Look at I Confess”, Premier Newsreel, Original Theatrical Trailer; Running Time Aprox 94 min.; Originally Released as a motion picture in 1953;  standard full frame; A Warner Bros. Production.

Disc 2/Side B: The Wrong Man – True story of an innocent man mistaken for a criminal. Starring Henry Fonda, Vera Miles; Special Features:  Featurette “Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and The Wrong Man, Original Theatrical Trailer; Running Time Aprox 105 min.; Originally Released in 1956; matted widescreen; A Warner Bros. Production.

OCLC #: 464581102

Added: March 16, 2011

Call Number: DVD00616

by: Gil Junger; Karen McCullah Lutz; Kirsten Smith; Julia Stiles; Heath Ledger; Joseph Gordon-Levitt; Larisa Oleynik; Larry Miller; Andrew Keegan; David Krumholtz; Susan May Pratt; William Shakespeare; Touchstone Pictures.; Mad Chance (Firm); Jaret Entertainment (Firm); Touchstone Home Video (Firm)

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher:Burbank, Calif. : Touchstone Home Video, ©1999

Notes: Originally released in 1999 (97 mins.);

Summary:Cameron falls for the most beautiful girl in school. However, she is forbidden to date until the most hated girl in school, her ill-tempered older sister, goes out too. Cameron singles out the only guy who could possibly be a match for Kat: a mysterious bad-boy with a nasty reputation of his own.

OCLC #: 42624432

Added: March 16, 2011

Call Number: DVD00985

by: Keanu Reeves; Sandra Bullock; Dylan Walsh; Shohreh Aghdashloo; Christopher Plummer; Doug Davison; Roy Lee; David Auburn; Alejandro Agresti; Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ); Village Roadshow Pictures.; Vertigo Entertainment (Firm).;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher:   Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, ©2006.

Notes: Originally released in 2006 (98 mins.);
Summary: A lonely doctor who once occupied an unusual lakeside home begins exchanging love letters with its newest resident, a frustrated architect. When they discover that they’re living two years apart, they try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it’s too late.

OCLC #: 70826881

Call Number: DVD01173

by: George Wells; Sy Gomberg; Harry Warren; Mack Gordon; Robert Planck; Joe Pasternak; Charles Walters; Judy Garland; Gene Kelly; Eddie Bracken; Gloria DeHaven; Marjorie Main; Phil Silvers; Ray Collins; Nita Bieber; Carleton Carpenter; Hans Conried; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.; Loew’s Incorporated.; Warner Home Video (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher:  Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, ©2006.

Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1950. Running Time Aprox 109 min. Special features: Summer stock: get happy!; The cuckoo clock; Did’ja know? (vintage Pete Smith short); Fall in love audio outtake; theatrical teaser; Theatrical trailer.

Summary: Romance blooms during the summer in New England when Jane Falbury’s sister shows up with a theatrical troupe and convinces her to let them stage a musical in the barn.

OCLC #: 66903120

Added: March 15, 2011

Call Number: DVD01036

by: Fritz Lang; Thea von Harbou; Gottfried Huppertz; Alfred Abel; Brigitte Helm; Gustav Fröhlich; Rudolf Klein-Rogge; UFA (Firm); Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen.; Arte (Firm); Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung.; Kino International Corporation.;

Format: DVD

Language: English (Silent)

Publisher: New York : Kino International, 2010.

Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1927. Based on the novel by Thea von Harbou. DVD release date: Nov. 16, 2010. Special features: original 1927 score by Gottfried Huppertz, performed by the Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra, Berlin conducted by Frank Strobel, and presented in 5.1 stereo surround (disc 2): “Voyage to Metropolis,” a 50-minute documentary on the making and restoration of the film ; interview with Paula Felix-Didier, curator of the Museo del Cine, Buenos Aires, where the missing footage was discovered ; 2010 re-release trailer.

Summary: In 2026, the rich rule over the poor, who live underground. One man tries to bridge the gap between the two classes. In July 2008 a complete 16mm copy of the film was discovered with an additional 25 minutes of lost footage that had not been seen since the film’s premiere in 1927. In restoration, the text of the intertitles was taken from German censorship records and translated into English. Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung in co-operation with ZDF and ARTE supported the restoration, and the sci-fi epic was re-released in 2010.

 

Also available on DVD01037

 

OCLC #: 676836409

Added: March 14, 2011

Call Number: DVD00698

by: John Sayles; Maggie Renzi; Joe Morton; Steve James; Leonard Jackson; Bill Cobbs; Tom Wright; David Strathairn; Peggy Rajski; Ernest R Dickerson; MGM Home Entertainment Inc.; IFC Films.;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Santa Monica, Calif. : MGM Home Entertainment, ©2003.

Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1984.
Special features: audio commentary by John Sayles, featurette with John Sayles and Maggie Renzi, Casa de los Babys trailer. “”The Brother from Another Planet” (1984) has been preserved by Anarchists’ Convention in collaboration with UCLA Film and Television Archive” –Opening frames. Running Time Aprox 108 min. 

Summary: A mute alien is chased by outer-space bounty hunters through the streets of Harlem in this thought-provoking cult classic.

OCLC #: 53129734

Added: March 14, 2011

Call Number: DVD00936

by: Brian Koppelman; David Levien; Michael London; Cathy Schulman; Bob Yari; Neil Burger; Edward Norton; Paul Giamatti; Jessica Biel; Rufus Sewell; Eddie Marsan; Jake Wood; Tom Fisher; Dick Pope, B.S.C.; Naomi Geraghty; Philip Glass; Ngila Dickson; Ondrej Nekvasil; Steven Millhauser; Bull’s Eye Entertainment.; Bob Yari Productions.; Contagious Entertainment (Firm); Michael London Productions (Firm); Stillking Films (Firm); Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher:   Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2007].

Notes: Originally released in 2006 (109 mins.); Based on the short story “Eisenheim, the illusionist” by Steven Millhauser; Nominated for one 2007 Academy Award; Special features: Making-of ‘The illusionist’; Jessica Biel on ‘The illusionist’; trailer;

Summary: The acclaimed illusionist Eisenheim has not only captured the imaginations of all of Vienna, but also the interest of the ambitious Crown Prince Leopold. When Leopold’s new fiancée rekindles a childhood fascination with Eisenheim, the Prince’s interest evolves into obsession. Suddenly the city’s Chief Inspector finds himself investigating a shocking crime. But even as the Inspector engages him in a dramatic challenge of wills, Eisenheim prepares for the most impressive illusion yet.

OCLC #: 74813551

Call Number: DVD01016

by: Edward Zwick; Jake Gyllenhaal; Anne Hathaway; Oliver Platt; Hank Azaria; Josh Gad; Judy Greer; Scott Stuber; Charles Randolph; Marshall Herskovitz; Jamie Reidy; Fox 2000 Pictures.; Regency Enterprises.; New Regency (Firm); Stuber Pictures (Firm); Bedford Falls Company.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher:   Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, ©2011.

Notes: Originally released in 2010 (112 mins.); Based on the book Hard sell: the evolution of a Viagra salesman by Jamie Reidy; Special features:deleted scenes ; featurettes ; theatrical trailer;

Summary: Free-spirited Maggie meets her match in a charming Viagra salesman named Jamie. Maggie and Jamie leap into a no-strings-attached affair, but no matter how hard they try to keep things ‘casual,’ they can’t help falling under the influence of the ultimate drug: love.

OCLC #: 659579691

Call Number: DVD00814

by: Dede Gardner; Ryan Murphy; Jennifer Salt; Billy Crudup; James Franco; Javier Bardem; Julia Roberts; Viola Davis; Richard Jenkins; Dario Marianelli; Elizabeth Gilbert; Columbia Pictures.; Plan B Entertainment.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher:   Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, ©2010.

Notes: Originally released in 2010 (140 mins.); Based on the book by Elizabeth Gilbert; Special features: Ryan Murphy’s journey with Eat, pray, love. Includes director’s cut and original theatrical versions of the film

Summary: A happily married woman who is trying to get pregnant realizes that her life needs to go in a new direction. After a very painful divorce, she risks everything and embarks on a journey around the world that becomes a quest for self-discovery.

OCLC #: 659579691

Call Number: VHS01492

by: Garry Marshall; Juliette Lewis; Diane Keaton; Tom Skerritt; Giovanni Ribisi

Format: VHS

Language: English

Notes: Touchstone Pictures presents a Mandeville Films production ; produced by Mario Iscovich, Alexandra Rose ; story by Alexandra Rose … [et al.] ; screenplay by Garry Marshall & Bob Brunner ; directed by Garry Marshall.

Summary: Approx. .Rated PG-13. Mike Church, an L.A. gumshoe with a knack for wisecracks and tracing missing persons, doesn’t have a clue when he’s hired to help a beautiful amnesia victim tormented by nightmares. Then an eccentric antiques dealer and hypnotist leads Church to believe the source of the nightmares may lie in a past-life connection to Margaret Strauss, a world-famous pianist allegedly murdered by her composer husband in 1948. Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired. Originally released as a motion picture.

OCLC #: 42321170

Added: February 24, 2011

This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

Call Number: DVD01110

by: Stefan Arndt; Maria Köpf; Tom Tykwer; Franka Potente; Benno Fürmann; Joachim Król; Lars Rudolph; Melchior Beslon; Ludger Pistor; Sybille Jacqueline Schedwill; Frank Griebe; Mathilde Bonnefoy; Johnny Klimek; Reinhold Heil; Monika Jacobs; Uli Neumann; X Verleih AG.; X Filme Creative Pool.; Sony Pictures Classics (Firm); Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: German

Publisher:   Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, [2002], ©2000.

Notes: Originally released in 2000 (115 mins.); Special features: optional audio commentary by the director and cast; making-of-featurette; deleted scenes with introduction from the director; filmographies; weblink to the film’s website; theatrical trailers; music video;
Summary: When shy, beautiful Sissi is the victim of a horrible car accident, a handsome small-time criminal comes to the rescue and saves her life. Once she recovers, she sets out to find him and discovers that he is a violent man with a conflicted past and dangerous future. It doesn’t take long for the two to meet again – during a deadly bank robbery. Now it is her turn to save his life.

OCLC #: 48881879

Call Number: DVD01107 Copy 1; DVD01107 Copy 2

by: Arnon Milchan; Steven Reuther; J F Lawton; Garry Marshall; Richard Gere; Julia Roberts; Ralph Bellamy; Charles Minsky; Priscilla Nedd; James Newton Howard; Touchstone Pictures.; Silver Screen Partners IV.; Touchstone Home Video (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher:   Burbank, CA : Touchstone Home Video, 2000, ©1990

Notes: Originally released in 1990 (125 mins.); Nominated for one 1991 Academy Award; Special features: audio commentary with Garry Marshall; theatrical trailer; selected B roll; production featurette; “Wild women do” music video;
Summary: Corporate mogul hires prostitute to be his companion for a week.

OCLC #: 43614126

Call Number: DVD00749 Copy 1

DVD00749 Copy 2

by: Scott Cooper; Robert Duvall; Rob Carliner; Judy Cairo; T-Bone Burnett; Jeff Bridges; Michael A Simpson; Eric Brenner; Leslie Belzberg; Barry Markowitz; Maggie Gyllenhaal; Tom Bower; James Keane; William Marquez; Ryan Bingham; Paul Herman; Rick Dial; Waldemar Kalinowski; John Axelrad; Stephen Bruton; Doug Hall; Thomas Cobb; Fox Searchlight Pictures.; Informant Media (Firm); Butchers Run Films.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher:   Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, ©2010

Notes:Originally released in 2009 (111 mins.); Based on the novel by Thomas Cobb; Nominated for one 2010 Academy Award; Special Special features: Deleted scenes;
Summary:The powerful story of a country music star’s rocky road to redemption. Bad Blake is a boozy, broken-down singer who reaches for salvation with the help of Jean, a journalist who discovers the real man behind the music. But will Bad’s hard-livin’ ways and crazy heart cost him his last chance at a comeback?

OCLC #: 568725448

Call Number: DVD00962

by: Laurence Mark; Nora Ephron; Amy Robinson; Eric Steel; Scott Rudin; Donald J Lee; Dana Stevens; Meryl Streep; Amy Adams; Stanley Tucci; Chris Messina; Linda Emond; Mary Lynn Rajskub; Jane Lynch; Frances Sternhagen; Helen Carey; Deborah Rush; Joan Juliet Buck; Vanessa Ferlito; Casey Wilson; Jillian Bach; Ann Roth; Alexandre Desplat; Stephen Goldblatt; Julie Powell; Julia Child; Columbia Pictures Corporation.; Easy There Tiger, Inc.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher:   Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, ©2009

Notes: Originally released in 2009 (123 mins.); Based on the book “Julie & Julia” by Julie Powell and “My life in France” by Julia Child with Alex Prud’Homme; Nominated for one 2010 Accademy Award; Special Special features: Commentary with writer/director Nora Ephron (optional English subtitled commentary); “Secret ingredients: creating Julie & Julia” featurette;
Summary: Julie Powell is a frustrated insurance worker who wants to be a writer. Trying to find a challenge in her life, she decides to cook her way through Julia Child’s ‘Mastering the Art of French Cooking’ in one year, and to blog about it. As Julie begins to find her groove as a cook, and her voice as a writer, the project takes on a life of its own. The project provides the struggling young woman with her life’s purpose, to her very pleasant surprise. Julia Child has an amazing love affair with her dashing husband, Paul, all while embracing life and French food. Julie lovingly celebrates the life of one of American food’s most influential and beloved figureheads.