It is hard to imagine, I know. But if you are interested in finding out, check out HU DVD 609, A Star is Born. The version of the film that was released by Warner Brothers in 1954 cut a half hour out of George Cukor’s film, against his wishes. What we see on DVD today […]
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Clint Eastwood’s Favorite Movies…
…according to his biography on IMDB.com. 39 Steps – HU DVD 337Sergeant York – HU DVD 3643Ox-bow incident – HU DVD 5194Chariots of Fire – HU DVD 1946 I am sure he also likes a film or two that he made. Check out some of those too!A perfect world (directed & performed) – HU DVD […]
Continue readingProfessor Middents’ Film Festival Favorites
Film festivals can be magical experiences where you can be exposed to all sorts of films you would never expect anywhere else. I have been lucky to attend and/or some film festivals over the last few years. This list represents only a sampling of films that I discovered first at a film festival, but each […]
Continue readingMedia Services Recommends…Mike’s Must See Picks
Arrested development – HU DVD 4871 – 4878Brick – HU DVD 2253Century of self – DVD 4438The cook, the thief, his wife & her lover – VHS 4205Dig! – DVD 1862Europa – HU DVD 5149The fall – HU DVD 4716Gone baby gone – HU DVD 5140The great dictator – HU DVD 3796Into the wild – […]
Continue readingMedia Services Recommends…Sammantha’s Instant Classics
Nine to Five – HU DVD 5010 Becoming Jane – HU DVD 3953 Breakfast Club – DVD 2179 Evita – HU DVD 2164 Conversations with Other Women – HU DVD 3607 The Painted Veil – HU DVD 2729 The Prestige – HU DVD 3641 Titanic – HU DVD 2290 Waitress – HU DVD 3641 When […]
Continue readingScreen Actors Guild Awards 2009
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role – Sean Penn Check out some of his other starring roles:–21 Grams– HU DVD 792–Mystic River– HU DVD 840–The Game– HU DVD 2246 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role – Meryl Streep Check out some of her other starring roles:–The Devil […]
Continue reading2009 Golden Globe Awards
For a complete list of Golden Globe nominations and winners, click here for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association website. Slumdog Millionaire won this year’s award for Best Motion Picture – Drama and 3 other awards. Check out some films in our collection by Director Danny Boyle: Trainspotting – HU DVD 100228 Days Later – HU […]
Continue readingMust-See Video: Winter Soldier
This film, long unavailable, was restored and released on DVD a couple years ago by New Yorker Films. It’s a documentary about the Winter Soldier Investigation that occurred in Detroit 1971. It was comprised of the testimony of about thirty Vietnam Veterans against the War on atrocities that were being committed daily and systematically by […]
Continue readingNicholas Ray’s Bigger Than Life
Gorgeously presented by the British Film Institute, Nicholas Ray’s Bigger Than Life has just arrived on region 2 DVD and is now available in Media Services. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 3074 Released in 1956, less than a year after Rebel Without a Cause, Bigger Than Life stands next to Douglas Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows […]
Continue readingMedia Services travelogue – Stromboli, real and neoreal
Apparently the Italian volcanic island of Stromboli is active again, spewing lava and such.link Those interested in geology, Italy and the sea might want to check out Roberto Rossellini’s Stromboli: terra di dio (Stromboli : land of God). This Neorealism classic from 1950 improbably finds Ingrid Bergman on the island of fire. Media Services call […]
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