Billy Wilder
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (71 min.) : sound, b & and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This series of filmed interviews conducted by filmmaker Volker Schlondörff with acclaimed writer/director Billy Wilder is a lively lesson in filmmaking. Wilder tells hilarious anecdotes and offers keen insights into the craft of moviemaking and frank advice about survival in Hollywood. Filmed over two weeks in 1991.
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
At the end of WWII, 60 minutes of raw film in an East German archive was discovered. Shot by the Nazis in Warsaw in May of 1942, the film became a resource for historians seeking an authentic record of the Warsaw Ghetto. The later discovery of a long-missing reel, including multiple takes and cameramen staging scenes, complicated earlier readings of the footage. Presented is the raw footage in its entirety, falsely showing the 'good life' of Jewish...
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Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
John J. Bramble, the sole survivor of a British tank crew, makes his way to a desolate desert town where he is given refuge by a hotel owner and chambermaid who prepare to receive General Erwin Rommel and his German staff. Posing as the hotel's waiter, Bramble attempts to infiltrate Rommel's inner circle and report the general's plans to the Allies.
4) Stalag 17
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A group of American G.I.s in a POW camp suspect a spy is among them.
Series
Criterion collection volume 569
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (73 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (25 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Deutsch
Description
Non-actors play versions of themselves in loosely outlined scenarios. The sense of what an ordinary day might have been like in Weimar-era Germany is enchantingly captured in this bit of cinematic amber.
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Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (1 folded sheet ([6] pages) : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
A plain, middle-aged married man, Richard Sherman sends his wife Helen and his young son Ricky off to vacation at the seashore in Maine during a sultry summer in New York City. They escape but he must remain behind in the heat, to make money. He sees them off at the train station, promising to eat properly, and neither smoke nor drink. He will be sensible, not play around as soon as his wife leaves like so many other men. That is until he meets his...
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Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two would-be songwriters hijack Dino as he passes through their town. Their attempts to charm him into listening to their songs encounter a problem when one man's wife is the head of Martin's fan club. A substitute is hired to claim his attentions. Things do not exactly work out as planned.
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1 videodisc (135 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Biography of Charles Lindbergh from his days of precarious mail runs in aviation's infancy to his design of a small transatlantic plane and the vicissitudes of its takeoff and epochal flight from New York to Paris in 1927.
9) Fedora
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A film producer travels to the Greek isles to coax a Garbo-like screen idol out of seclusion. But the deeper he infiltrates the remote villa, evading an overprotective countess and a mysterious plastic surgeon, the closer he comes to discovering the terrible secret behind the actress's timeless beauty.
10) The lost weekend
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Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A would-be writer's dissatisfaction with his life leads him on a three-day binge. This film gives an uncompromising look at the devastating effects of alcoholism.