Orson Welles
Author
Physical Desc
xxxix, 549 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Innovative film and theater director, radio producer, actor, writer, painter, narrator, and magician, Orson Welles was the last true Renaissance man of the twentieth century. Welles was a master storyteller, as expansive as he was enigmatic. This collection of penetrating and witty conversations between Welles and Peter Bogdanovich includes insights into Welles's radio, theater, film, and television work; Hollywood producers, directors, and stars;...
Author
Physical Desc
x, 306 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"There have long been rumors of a lost cache of tapes containing private conversations between Orson Welles and his friend the director Henry Jaglom, recorded over regular lunches in the years before Welles died. The tapes, gathering dust in a garage, did indeed exist, and this book reveals for the first time what they contain. Here is Welles as he has never been seen before: talking intimately, disclosing personal secrets, reflecting on the highs...
3) The stranger
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Frank Kindler is a Nazi war criminal who has fled to America, where he disguises himself as a small town schoolteacher. Mary is the young woman who falls in love with the devious, yet charming Kindler.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet
Language
English
Description
Trickery. Deceit. Magic. In this free-form documentary, the legendary filmmaker gleefully engages the central preoccupation of his career - the tenuous line between truth and illusion, art and lies.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (547 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
John Blackthorne is a ship-wrecked English navigator who becomes both an observer and a participant in historic changes in Japan during the Tokugawa, or, Edo period. Toranaga is a feuding warlord vying to become the supreme military dictator, or shōgun. Blackthorne is drawn into the turmoil and becomes determined to be the first foreigner to become a samurai warrior.
Series
Criterion collection volume 830
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (116 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet.
Language
English
Description
Prince Hal must choose between loyalty to Sir John Falstaff or to his father, King Henry IV.
10) Macbeth
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Eleventh century Scottish nobleman Macbeth is led by an evil prophecy and his ruthless yet desirable wife to the treasonous act that makes him king. But he does not enjoy his newfound, dearly-won kingship.
11) Moby Dick
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Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Consumed by an insane rage, Captain Ahab has but one purpose in life -- revenge on the great white whale who maimed and disfigured him.
12) The Tartars
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Vikings and Tatars clash in the steppes of Russia.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ben Quick, an industrious con artist who's known throughout the country as a barn burner, gets run out of a Mississippi town. He meets up with Clara Varner, whose father is pressuring her to get married and provide him with grandchildren. It isn't long before he decides Ben and Clara should marry, and when she resists, it sets up a dramatically escalating clash of wills.
14) Catch-22
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of a group of fliers in the Mediterranean during World War II.
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Looks at the remarkable genius of Orson Welles on the eve of his centenary - the enigma of his career as a Hollywood star, a Hollywood director (for some a Hollywood failure), and a crucially important independent filmmaker. Orson Welles's life was magical: a musical prodigy at age ten, a director of Shakespeare at fourteen, a painter at sixteen, a star of stage and radio at twenty, romances with some of the most beautiful women in the world, including...
16) Ten days wonder
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Divided into 10 days, the story focuses on the wealthy Van Horns. A psychological drama of sex and murder.
17) Citizen Kane
Language
English
Description
An all-powerful press magnate, Kane, dies in his fabulous castle Xanadu, his last word being "Rosebud", which leads a reporter to seek the meaning behind the word and find the meaning of Kane. Prominant publisher, William Randolph Hearst, saw the film as a thinly disguised version of his career and attempted to suppress it.
Series
Criterion collection volume 952
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (88 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (12 panels ; folded to 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
"Orson Welles's beautiful, nostalgia-suffused second feature -- the subject of one of cinema's greatest missing-footage tragedies -- harks back to turn-of-the-twentieth-century Indianapolis, chronicling the inexorable decline in the fortunes of an affluent family. Adapted from an acclaimed Booth Tarkington novel and featuring restlessly inventive camera work and powerful performances from a cast including Joseph Cotten, Tim Holt, and Agnes Moorehead,...
19) King Lear
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the play, this production condensed the play by eliminating the characters of Edgar and Edmund. King Lear of Britain has decided to divide his kingdom into three parts, and to hand over the responsibilities of ruling to his three daughters. The two oldest daughters, Goneril and Regan, flatter their father insincerely, and are rewarded. Cordelia, the youngest, sincerely loves her father, but she cannot match her sisters' skill...
Series
Criterion collection volume 831
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (58 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out booklet.
Language
English
Description
A wealthy merchant in nineteenth century Macao becomes obsessed with bringing to life an oft-related anecdote about a rich man who gives a poor sailor a small sum of money to impregnate his wife.