Bud Cort
1) The Crucible
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The place is Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, an enclave of rigid piety huddled on the edge of a wilderness. Its inhabitants believe unquestioningly in their own sanctity. But in Arthur Miller's edgy masterpiece, that very belief will have poisonous consequences when a vengeful teenager accuses a rival of witchcraft - and then when those accusations multiply to consume the entire village. About this author: Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright...
Series
Criterion collection volume 300
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Internationally famous oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) and his crew - Team Zissou - set sail on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious, elusive, possibly nonexistent Jaguar Shark that killed Zissou's partner during the documentary filming of their latest adventure. They are joined on their voyage by a young airline co-pilot, who may or may not be Zissou's son, a beautiful journalist assigned to write a profile on Zissou, and his estranged...
Series
Criterion collection volume 608
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows the unlikely romance between Harold, a death-obsessed young man from a wealthy family, and Maude, a free-spirited octogenarian.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
In this remake of the classic 50s SF tale, a boy tries to stop an invasion of his town by aliens who take over the the minds of his parents, his least-liked schoolteacher and other townspeople. With the aid of the school nurse the boy enlists the aid of the U.S. Marines.
8) Pollock
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
"Fellow artists and lovers Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner are at the center of New York's 1940's art scene, but as Krasner neglects her work to push Pollock's career forward, Pollock begins to unravel emotionally. Pollock and Krasner escape to the country to marry, and soon, Pollock creates the work that makes him the first internationally-famous modern painter in America. But with fame and fortune comes a volatile temper and severe self-doubt; before...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Brewster McCloud is a strange young man who lives under the roof of the Houston Astrodome and is secretly building a pair of giant wings. A ruthless killer is on the loose in Houston, and some of the city's richest and most illustrious citizens are among the victims. Is it the killer's bizarre trademark or merely a coincidence that each corpse is marked with bird droppings?
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Archie is the brains of a society of thugs in sport coats called the Vigils. The Vigils have gained power over their fellow students and faculty by using intimidation. They meet their match in new student, Jerry Renault. Jerry refuses to participate in the school's annual fund-raising chocolate sale event. Brother Leon, the school's sadistic headmaster, makes a pact with the Vigils to sell 20,000 boxes of chocolates so he can be promoted to head of...
12) MASH
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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Description
Army surgeons Hawkeye Pierce, Duke, and Trapper John shake things up at the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital. They try to escape the horrors of war with humor and a martini or two, much to the chagrin of Major Frank Burns.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The once and future king: A mediocre Elvis impersonator is transported back to Memphis, 1954, where he meets the real Elvis, then a truck driver and would-be singer in an encounter that transforms both of them.
A saucer of loneliness: Shelley Duvall is a shy young woman who receives a private message from a flying saucer.
What are friends for?: No one believes that a lonely boy's new friend is real until the boy's father remembers something strange...