Robert Altman
Publisher
Planet Group Entertainment
Pub. Date
1991.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (85 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A festive tribute to legendary Black American jazz and blues artists. The tony award winning Broadway show recreates the sizzle of the cotton club reviews that galvanized Harlem audiences in the 20s, 30s and 40s. A cultural legacy.
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
1990.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (140 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The eternal struggle between madness and genius takes its toll on the brothers Van Gogh in this masterpiece from director Robert Altman. In life, Vincent Van Gogh was impoverished, his work largely ignored; yet today, his paintings fetch millions of dollars. This irony is laid bare in this passionate story of Vincent (Tim Roth), an obsessive artist driven by inexorable demons and his devoted, yet despairing, younger brother, Theo (Paul Rhys), who...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1994.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (133 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A glittering Hollywood all-star cast shines in Robert Altman's deliciously sexy comedy hit Ready To Wear! At the world's hottest fashion show, there's been a murder. Now, everybody's a suspect - including two guests who end up sharing much more than a hotel room! Add to the fun a hilariously inept TV reporter on the trail of her most shocking interview yet! They're all caught up in the year's biggest see-and-be-seen event - where steamy scandals and...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1982.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (110 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The Disciples of James Dean meet up on the anniversary of his death and mull over their lives in the present and in flashback, revealing the truth behind their complicated lives. Who is the mysterious Joanne and what's the real story behind Mona's son, James Dean Junior? Nominated for one **Golden Globe** for Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Cher. *"Dreamlike and bleakly real, fantastical and humorous, it sucks us into a vortex for two hours where...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1969.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (107 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In this chilling drama, Frances Austen (Sandy Dennis) is a wealthy and frustrated spinster who invites a homeless boy into her apartment, offering him living quarters. As she becomes completely obsessed with him, he rejects her amorous advances, leading her to take him as a prisoner in her home. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival**. *"Full of the drifting long shots, slow zooms, and overlapping dialogue that would help to characterise...
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (106 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
From legendary director Robert Altman comes his final film, the deeply moving and comedic A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION. Based on Garrison Keillor's wildly popular radio program of the same name, Altman invites audiences to the fictional "closing night" of the fabled show. As the rain pours down on a blustery Minnesota evening, the cast tapes their final performance, while waiting for the Texas businessman who has bought the theater to arrive and shut...
7) Popeye
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1980.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (114 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Based on the long-running comic strip created by E.C. Segar, POPEYE follows the sailor with the mighty arms (played by Robin Williams in his first major film role) as he arrives in the seaside community of Sweethaven in search of his long-lost father. Popeye meets and quickly falls for the slender Olive Oyl (Shelley Duvall), but Olive's hand has already been promised to the hulking Bluto. Eventually, Popeye and Olive are brought together by Swee'...
9) MASH
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
10) Aria
Publisher
The Orchard
Pub. Date
1987.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
Ten of the world's greatest directors (including Derek Jarman, Jean-Luc Godard, Ken Russell, and Robert Altman) were commissioned to create short pieces based on the world's greatest opera music. The result is erotic, demented, funny, poignant, extravagant, outrageous, breathtaking and totally unique.
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Standard version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As if the result of some strange mass-media fluke, the popular radio program "A Prairie Home Companion" somehow managed to survive the television age to entertain its audience every Saturday night from the stage of the historic Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minn. Week after week, hangdog host G.K. serves as unflappable emcee to an amiable hodgepodge of radio-friendly acts that include the likes of popular country duo Yolanda and Rhonda Johnson and...
12) Gosford Park
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Collector's ed., widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.) sd., col. 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Drama set at the country estate of Sir William McCordle in 1932, showing the lives of upstairs guests and downstairs servants at a hunting party weekend when one of the group is murdered.
13) M*A*S*H
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
36 videodiscs (ca. 6579 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. in slipcase (26 x 18 x 8 cm.) and binder (25 x 17 x 7 cm.)
Language
English
Description
Follows the humorous & dramatic adventures of the staff of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital unit in Uijeongbu, South Korea during the Korean War.