Home Vision Entertainment (Firm)
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Danish
Description
Christoffer, who four years earlier abandoned the family steel business for an idyllic life as a restauranteur with the woman he loves, Maria, a rising actress. But when Christoffer's father commits suicide, Christoffer's domineering and manipulative mother compels him to return home to take control. Maria's worst fears for Christoffer are tragically realized as he must contend with a business on the brink of financial ruin and a brother-in-law scheming...
2) L'avventura
Series
Criterion collection volume 98
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
RSDL dual-layer ed.; Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (143 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Story about the search for a girl lost on an island; gradually the searchers become preoccupied with their own problems, and the girl is never found.
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (74 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Viola Liuzzo, a 39-year-old wife and mother of five, was the only white woman killed during the civil rights movement. Narrated by Stockard Channing, Paola di Florio's powerful and poignant documentary tells Liuzzo's tragic story.
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young Jewish woman comes to America in the 1890s, only to discover that her husband, Jake, has given up the ways of the old country, and taken up with a new girlfriend, and a new life.
5) Wetherby
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jean Travers is a schoolteacher whose life changes completely when a young man breaks into her home, and then kills himself right in front of her for no apparent reason. As Jean's friends struggle to help her, Jean is drawn deeper and deeper into a web of memories and deceptions.
6) Howards End
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Special edition two disc set.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Margaret and Helen Schlegel are sisters from a well-educated European family. A series of events brings them into a relationship with the very English Wilcox family. Both families also come into contact with Leonard Bast and his wife, a couple near the lowest tier of the rigid class system. Leonard's desire for cultural and intellectual status attracts the attention of Helen. Margaret must reconcile her independent spirit with her desire for companionship...
Series
Chronicles of Narnia volume 2-3
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (168 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The magical land of Narnia is ruled by the corrupt King Miraz. His nephew, Prince Caspian, calls on Lucy, Peter, Susan and Edmund to help him defeat Miraz and restore Narnia to its former glory. Years later Caspian, Lucie, Edmund and obnoxious cousin Eustace set sail to rescue the six lords who were banished by Caspian's evil uncle.
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (57 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The extraordinary story of a woman who defied tradition, a painter whose work captivated Edgar Degas, and the only American asked to join the French Impressionists. Best remembered for her tender yet unsentimental depictions of mothers and children, Cassatt was also a driving force for women's suffrage and other issues of her day.
Series
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (1 folded sheet ([4] p.) : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Language
Français
Description
Black and white in color: A French colony in Africa's Ivory Coast discovers months after the fact that World War I has begun. Spurred on by a capricious patriotism, they figure they'll do their part by attacking the German colony up the river. After all, they have six rifles, and one of them is an automatic. So off to war they march -- or rather, their servants do, carrying the white folk on palanquins. They soon stop for a lovely picnic. When machine...
11) Bombay talkie
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A troubled romance laced with barbed wit and pointed melodrama. An affectionate view of the Indian film industry (aka Bollywood).
12) Epidemic
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Digitally transferred version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Danish
Description
Tells the bizarre story of a director (played by von Trier himself) and a writer who create a script about a mysterious plague that engulfs Europe, only to find their horrific scenario coming true in real life.
13) Inspirations
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Standard.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A 100-minute exploration of the creative process which starts with the essential question "how do artists get ideas?" and continues into the fascinating world inhabited by seven artists.
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c1999
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (78 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A docu-drama containing re-enactments based on real events that took place in the State of Wisconsin between 1890 and 1900. All the stories are authentic news reports from a newspaper published in the town of Black River Falls, an isolated community in the north of the state. The newspaper was the paper of record for the surrounding county and was edited by an Englishman called Frank Cooper. The photographs are largely the work of Charles Van Schaick,...