October Films
1) Kika
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1997
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
A dizzy dame hairdresser, Kika, gets involved with a host of unusual characters: a homicidal expatriate Yank writer, Nicholas, and his bewildered stepson, Ramon, an uncommunicative underwear photographer; a vampish, oddball femme tv reporter, Andrea, who's constantly on the lookout for "reality" scoops and who wears a rubber suit with a revolving video camera mounted on her head; a lesbian maid, Juana, and her mentally-deficient convicted rapist brother,...
2) The muse
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Steven Phillips is a veteran screenwriter of 17 films who is told he has lost his edge. A fellow writer with a string of successes under his belt refers Phillips to Sarah, a professional muse. In exchange for the royal treatment and a showering of expensive gifts, she will grace writers with her presence, which seems to magically spark profitable ideas in the client's mind. Is her power real or is it all in her clients' heads?
Publisher
Alliance Atlantis
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The small southern town of Holly Springs hasn't had such a claim to fame since the advance of General Grant was halted there in 1862. But now the mysterious death of Holly Springs matriarch Jewel Mae, known affectionately as 'Cookie, ' has the small town in an uproar. Who is the murderer? Where is the murderer? Has there even been a murder?"--Container.
4) The apostle
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Widescreen collector's ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sonny is a gifted Southern Pentecostal preacher loved by his community in Texas. When Sonny loses control and commits a crime of passion, he is forced to run from the law. Hiding out in the small Louisiana town of Bayou Boutte, Sonny adopts a new identity as the Apostle E.F. and sets out on a new mission--to find the road to redemption.
Publisher
USA Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A beautiful British widow experiences violence and tragedy before falling in love with a dashing American expatriate in pre-World War II Florence, Italy.
7) High art
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This film depicts a naive young woman whose stock rises at a pretentious art magazine because of her budding relationship with a once brilliant photographer who had a breakdown years ago. The question is how deeply Syd is willing to immerse herself in Berliner's hedonistic, heroin-infused, lesbian lifestyle.
8) Topsy-turvy
Series
Criterion collection volume 558
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Blu-ray director approved special edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (160 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
The world of Gilbert and Sullivan comes to vivid life in this extraordinary dramatization of the staging of their legendary 1885 comic opera The Mikado. Jim Broadbent and Allan Corduner brilliantly inhabit the roles of the world-famous Victorian librettist and composer, respectively, who, along with their troupe of temperamental actors, must battle personal and professional demons while mounting this major production.
Publisher
Manufactured and distributed by Premier Entertainment Co., Ltd
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Vietnamese
Description
A look at ordinary people and their lives in Saigon, some 25 years after the war has ended -- a young woman who has just come to work on a suburban lotus farm, a street urchin, a cyclo driver and the prostitute he cares for, and an ex-U.S. Marine.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bess, a pious, young Scottish woman, prays to God to send her husband, Jan, home from his job on an offshore oil rig. When an accident sends him home paralyzed, she's filled with guilt and submits to his wish that she take on other lovers, convinced that this will aid in his recovery.
11) Agnes Browne
Publisher
USA Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Life is hard in the central Dublin neighborhood for the Browne family. And with the unexpected death of her husband, Agnes Browne and her seven children are thrown into emotional turmoil and financial crisis.
Publisher
A & E Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 336 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It tells the epic story of the rise and fall of the Roman Empire from the perspective of the barbarian leaders who brought it down. The Roman Empire called them "barbarians", savage tribes beyond the fringe of civilization. But they were also some of the fiercest warriors in history, men and women who rose up against absolute power so that they might live free, or die.
14) Matewan
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 chapter index (1 sheet ; 19 cm.)
Language
English
Description
A labor leader seeking to organize the workers of a company town sets off a powderkeg of racial hostility, corruption and betrayal in this tale of the bitter clash between unionist miners and the tyrannical coal company owners in West Virginia in the 1920's.
