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 The Directors Series

Call Numbers:

Robert Altman DVD00770

Wes Craven DVD00771

David Cronenberg DVD00772

Clint Eastwood DVD00773

Milos Forman DVD00774

John Frankenheimer DVD00775

William Friedkin DVD00776

Ron Howard DVD00777

Norman Jewison DVD00778 Copy 1, DVD00778 Copy 2

Lawrence Kasdan DVD00779

Barry Levinson DVD00780

Adrian Lyne DVD00781

Garry Marshall DVD00782 Copy 1, DVD00782 Copy 2

John McTiernan DVD00783

Sydney Pollack DVD00784

Rob Reiner DVD00785

Robert Zemeckis DVD00786

David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker DVD00787

Director/Distributor: Robert J Emery

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Wellspring Media, ©2002.

Notes: Each DVD includes extensive interviews, filmographies, scene access, and awards

Summary: Profiles of today’s most acclaimed directors featuring extensive film clips and interviews with Hollywood’s leading stars.

OCLC # (according to the alphabetical arrangement of DVDs above):

44881959

45280437

45092579

45092582

45092572

43613536

45274067

43613447

45199175

45290087

44881955

44881902

43613511

44871925

45199170

45199273

47116139

50126581

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Lloyd Kaufman’s Direct Your Own Damn Movie! 

Call Number: DVD00769

Director/Distributor: Michael Herz; Lloyd Kaufman; Troma Entertainment, Inc.; Troma Team Video (Firm)

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Troma Entertainment : Distributed by Troma Team Video, 2009.

Notes:

Summary: Director Lloyd Kaufman reveals 40 years worth of maverick cinematic know-how, offering the magic key to operating outside the film studio system and providing a road map to script-writing, pre-production, casting, managing the set, post-production, and the secrets of selling a movie. Enjoy stories and trade secrets of award-winning directors, producers, and actors. Includes interviews with Stan Lee, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Dario Argento, Ernest Dickerson, Eli Roth, William Lustig, Penelope Spheeris, Stuart Gordon, James Gunn, Mick Garris, Monte Hellman and more. Includes two additional feature length documentaries: Poultry in motion: truth is stranger than chicken, on the making of Poultrygeist: Night of the chicken dead; and, Lloyd’s large louse up: the thin brown line, on the making of Tales from the crapper

OCLC #: 426158385

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A Dangerous Method

Call Number: DVD00759

Director/Distributor: David Cronenberg; Jeremy Thomas; Christopher Hampton; Peter Suschitzky; James McAteer; Ronald Sanders; Denise Cronenberg; Howard Shore; Keira Knightley; Viggo Mortensen; Michael Fassbender; Sarah Gadon; Vincent Cassel; John Kerr; Sony Pictures Classics (Firm); Lago Film.; Prospero Pictures (Firm); Recorded Picture Company.; Millbrook Pictures.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2012]

Notes: Based on the stage play “The Talking Cure” by Christopher Hampton, and the book “A Most Dangerous Method” by John Kerr.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2011.
Special features: Commentary with director David Cronenberg; The making of A dangerous method; AFI’s Harold Lloyd master seminar with David Cronenberg; Theatrical trailer.

Summary: The relationship between fledgling psychiatrist Carl Jung and his mentor Sigmund Freud is torn apart when Sabina Spielrein, a troubled but beautiful young woman, comes between them and forever changes the face of modern thought.

OCLC #: 776921046

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Dallas Buyers Club

Call Number: DVD00756

Director/Distributor: by Jean-Marc Vallée; Craig Borten; Melisa Wallack; Robbie Brenner; Rachel Winter; David L Bushell; Nathan Ross; Tony Notargiacomo; Joe Newcomb; Nicolas Chartier; Zev Foreman; Logan Levy; Holly Wiersma; Cassian Elwes; Matthew McConaughey; Jennifer Garner; Steve Zahn; Denis P O’Hare; Dallas Roberts; Michael O’Neill, (Actor); Kevin Rankin; Griffin Dunne; Jared Leto; Donna Duplantier; Yves Bélanger; John Paino; John Mac McMurphy; Martin Pensa; Kurt and Bart; Focus Features.; Truth Entertainment (Firm),; Voltage Pictures.; R² Films (Firm),; Evolution Independent (Firm),; CE (Firm),; Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm),;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Universal City, CA : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, [2014] ©2014

Notes: Originally released in 2013 as a motion picture.
Bonus: Deleted scenes; A look inside Dallas buyers club.

Won 2014 Academy Awards for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor & Best Achievement in Make-up and Hairstyling

Summary: Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof’s free-wheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive. Shunned and ostracized by many old friends and bereft of government-approved medicines, he decided to take matters in his own hands, tracking down alternative treatments from all over the world by means both legal and illegal. Bypassing the establishment, he joined forces with an unlikely band of renegades and outcasts and established a hugely successful “buyers’ club.”  

OCLC #: 867875439

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Cultoons! Rare, Lost and Strange Cartoons

Call Number: DVD00753

Director/Distributor: by Thunderbean Animation.; Mackinac Media (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher:  [Littleton, CO] : Mackinac Media, 2005.

Notes: Special features: Film commentaries by Jerry Beck, Milton Knight, Stephen Worth, Mark Kausler, Steve Stanchfield and Mike Kazelah; 4-page full color liner notes with photo.

Summary: While we know many famous cartoons, there are others that have been forgotten. These rare gems include advertisements and educational films along with animated shorts. Many of these cartoons have not been seen since their creation decades ago.

OCLC #: 71199897

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Crusade in the Pacific: Volume 2

Call Number: DVD00752

Director/Distributor: by Westbrook Van Voorhis; Arthur Bernon Tourtellot; Fred Feldkamp; Digiview Entertainment.;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Digiview Entertainment, 2006

Notes: Originally broadcast on television in 1951-1952.

Guadalcanal: America’s First Offensive –War in the North: The Aleutians –The Road Back: New Guinea –Up to Solomons Ladders: Bougainville –Attack in the Central Pacific: Markin and Tarawa –The War at Sea.

Summary: Archival footage from both the Allies and Japan give detailed information of World War II showing both points of view from the Pacific Theater.

OCLC #: 187156479

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The Company

Call Number: DVD00741

Director/Distributor: Neve Campbell; Barbara Turner; Robert Altman; Malcolm McDowell; James Franco; Andrew Dunn; Geraldine Peroni; Van Dyke Parks; Sony Pictures Classics (Firm); CP Medien AG.; Capitol Films.; Killer Films.; John Wells Productions (Firm); First Snow Productions.; Sandcastle 5 Productions.; Joffrey Ballet of Chicago.; Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm); et al

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, ©2004.

Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 2003.
Special features: optional audio commentary with Altman & Campbell; making-of featurette (7 min.); “The passion of dance” featurette (4 min.); extended dance sequence (2 min.); “play all dance sequences” option.

Summary: A behind-the-scenes look at the world of dance, as seen through the eyes of a talented young dance on the brink of success.

OCLC #: 54838998

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Command Performance

Call Number: DVD00740

Director/Distributor: by Walter Lang; Maude Fulton; Gordon Rigby; Neil Hamilton; Una Merkel; Helen Ware; Zouary (Maurice) Collection (Library of Congress); AFI/Brandhagen (Ken W.) Collection (Library of Congress);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher:  Tiffany Productions, Inc., United States : [s.n.] 1931

Notes: Copyright: Tiffany Productions, Inc.; 24Jan31; LP1936.
LC 16 mm. ref print and arch pos are from a television reissue retitled He’s a prince; reissue date unknown.
NCN005404; The command performance.
Based on the play by C. Stafford Dickens.
Source used: American Film Institute catalog, feature films, 1931-1940, F3.0788.

Summary: Peter Fedor, a stage actor in the kingdom of Sherblandt, faces a royal dilemma: In real life, he must masquerade as a prince and win the hand of a princess. If he fails, his punishment will be death. If he succeeds, his reward will be imprisonment!

OCLC #: 33866046

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 Classic Comedies from Hollywood’s Golden Age

Call Number: DVD00733

Director/Distributor: Various, including John Ford, William Wellman, Howard Hawks Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Will Rogers, Cary Grant, Harold Lloyd and Carole Lombard, Passport Video

Format: DVD

Language: Silent & English

Publisher: Passport Video, 2006, 1925.

Notes: Disc 1 – The Gold Rush (1925), The General (1927), Speak Easily (1932); Disc 2 – Mr. Robinson Crusoe (1932), Palooka (1934), Judge Priest (1934); Disc 3 – My Man Godfrey (1936), The Milky Way (1936), Nothing Sacred (1937); Disc 4 – His Girl Friday (1940), That Uncertain Feeling (1941), Topper Returns (1941); Disc 5 – Life with Father (1947), The Inspector General (1949), Father’s Little Dividend (1951)

Summary: Collection of 15 comedies from 1925-1951

OCLC #:

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The Ultimate Civil War Series

Call Number: DVD00732

Director/Distributor: Dan Nance; Mill Creek Entertainment.;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: U.S.A. : Mill Creek Entertainment, 2012

Notes:  Disc 1 – Chapter 1: Sins of the Father–Chapter 2: A Deep, Steady Thunder –Chapter 3: Days of Infamy –Chapter 4: The Turning Point
Disc 2 – Chapter 5: Not War but Murder –Chapter 6: The Killing Fields –Chapter 7: New Birth of Freedom.

Summary: The documentary mini-series traces the causes, courses, major events and personalities of the American Civil War.

OCLC #: 808363045

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Chronicling Narnia

Call Number: DVD00725

Director/Distributor: by Tim Heath; Nick Tucker; Diana Wynne Lewis; Dan Jolin; Artsmagic, Ltd.;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Artsmagic, Ltd

Notes:

Summary: Take a look into C.S. Lewis’ fictional land of Narnia along with a look into the author’s life and work. Discover who the White Witch was supposed to be based on. Learn all about fauns, wolves, badgers, and Aslan, and where they fit in. Reveals the author and his works and bring the worlds of Lewis and Narnia to life for children of all ages.

OCLC #: 62234526

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Cheating Blondes & Cheers of the Crowd

Call Number: DVD00723 Copy 1, DVD 00723 Copy 2

Director/Distributor: Cheating Blondes (1933) – Joseph Levering, Thelma Todd, Inez Courtney, Mae Busch; Cheers of the Crowd (1935) – Vin Moore, Russell Hopton, Irene Ware; Alpha Home Entertainment

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Alpha Home Entertainment

Notes:

Summary: Cheating Blondes – A reporter sets out to prove that his girlfriend was framed and sent to prison; Cheers of the Crowd – To draw attention to a popular show, a publicity expert hires a former carnival character, not knowing that the man is on the run from the law.

OCLC #: N/A

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Chauncer & the Canterbury Tales:

Call Number: DVD00722

Director/Distributor: Gerry Malir; Terry Jones; Peter Gordon Jones; Artsmagic, Ltd

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Artsmagic Ltd

Notes: 120 min

Summary: Known as the father of English literature, Geoffrey Chaucer’s literary eminence was achieved despite having lived in one of the most troubled centuries the world has known, and one particularly fraught for England. Chaucer may have suffered accordingly. It has been proposed that he was murdered!…In addition, Terry Jones, writer, film director, actor and historian, contributes an interview to the program during which he presents his view of Chaucer and his society with wit, charm and passion and vigorously supports his theory that the poet became a victim of the political upheaval caused by the regime change from Richard II to Henry IV.

OCLC #: 407088088

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Casualties of War

Call number: DVD00715

Director/Distributor: by Brian De Palma; David Rabe; Art Linson; Michael J Fox; Sean Penn; Don Harvey; John C Reilly; John Leguizamo; Thủy Thứ Lê; Ennio Morricone; Daniel Lang; Columbia Pictures.; Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, [2001]

Summary: During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.

Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1989.
Based upon the book by Daniel Lang.
Special features include the featurette, Eriksson’s war: a talk with actor Michael J. Fox (18 min.), the documentary, The making of Casualties of war (31 mins.), deleted scenes, filmographies, and three trailers.

OCLC #: 48918995

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Cast Away

Call number: DVD00714

Director/Distributor: by Robert Zemeckis; William Broyles, Jr.; Steve Starkey; Tom Hanks; Jack Rapke; Helen Hunt; Nick Searcy; Jenifer Lewis; Geoffrey Blake; Peter Von Berg; Chris Noth; Don Burgess; Alan Silvestri; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.; Dreamworks Pictures.; ImageMovers (Firm); Playtone (Firm); Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, ©2001.

Summary: A FedEx executive must transform himself physically and emotionally to survive a crash landing on a deserted island.

Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 2000.

OCLC #: 47112404

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Captain Fly-By-Night

Call number: DVD00710

Director/Distributor: William K. Howard, Johnnie Walker, Francis McDonald, Shannon Day, Eddie Gribbon, Charles Stevens, Alpha Home Entertainment

Format: DVD

Language: Silent

Publisher: Alpha Home Entertainment

Summary: Swords flash in this silent action-adventure in the Fairbanks tradition, set in a 19th-century California of Spanish rule, with daring caballeros and beautiful senoritas.

Notes: N/A

OCLC #: N/A

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