John Turturro
3) Quiz show
Publisher
Hollywood Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
A drama about a big game show scandal.
4) Slipstream
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Hired to rewrite a film, an aging screenwriter finds the lines between reality and imagination blurring as characters from his script (and others) hop off the page and into his life.
5) Barton Fink
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
In 1941, New York intellectual playwright Barton Fink comes to Hollywood to write a Wallace Beery wrestling picture. Staying in the eerie Hotel Earle, Barton develops severe writer's block. His neighbor, jovial insurance salesman Charlie Meadows, tries to help, but Barton continues to struggle as a bizarre sequence of events distracts him even further from his task.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A lost gem from the 1990's independent film boom, The search for one-eye Jimmy is a lovably offbeat comedy that stars a who's who of indie acting talents. Steve Buscemi, Samuel L. Jackson, John Turturro, and Sam Rockwell are just a few of the actors who populate South Brooklyn throughout the film's shaggy dog tale.
7) The source
Publisher
Fox Lorber Films
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Exploration of the lives, works and influence of four members of the "Beat Generation": Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Neal Cassady, combining archival footage of the writers, and actors readings from their works.
8) Fearless
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
The story of how a near-death experience impacts the lives of three people.
9) Passione
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013].
Language
Italiano
Description
Watch a musical adventure that comes directly out of the people and the volcanic land they inhabit. Conjuring ancient stories and myths that still live of love, sex, jealously, and social protest, each song is a small screenplay, an emotional postcard.
Publisher
First Run/Icarus Films
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Examines the case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti through archival film, music, poetry and excerpts from the 1971 feature film. Also includes interviews with historians, artists and activists as well as readings from the prison diaries of the two defendants.
11) Mr. Deeds
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Small-town guy Longfellow Deeds goes to New York City to collect a $40 billion inheritance from a long lost uncle, even living in a palatial mansion with the services of an unusual valet. Things get better when he mets a beautiful woman. But money changes everything, and things aren't what they seem. His sweetie is actually a journalist feeding reports of his outrageous behavior to the press! Now, its up to Deeds to straighten everybody out.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Actor John Turturro takes audiences on a haunting, intimate journey to his maternal homeland of Sicily. There, while exploring the island's vanishing traditions, he is taken under the wing of one of the puppet theater's few remaining practitioners, Mimmo Cuticchio, who instructs him in the distinctively Sicilian art of puppetry.
14) Box of moonlight
Publisher
Trimark Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997.
Language
English
Description
John Turturro plays an extremely uptight engineer whose entire life is punctual and routine to the point of absurdity. He finds himself struggling with the monotony of everyday life and the threat of middle age. Then a routine business trip turns into a life-altering experience when he meets some bizarre but sincere strangers: a free spirit played by Sam Rockwell, a phone sex operator (Catherine Keener), and a paranoid mechanic (Dermot Mulroney)....
17) The night of
Publisher
HBO Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
An HBO limited series. After a night of partying with a female stranger, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and he is charged with her murder.
20) Clockers
Publisher
MCA Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c1995.
Language
English
Description
Two brothers grow up together in the same Brooklyn housing projects, but they are as opposite as good and evil. Victor Dunham has a family, works two jobs and leads a respectable life. His 19-year-old brother, Strike, hangs out with his friends on a bench and sells crack cocaine. Strike agrees to kill a rival dealer as a favor to Rodney, the neighborhood drug kingpin, but when the man is murdered, it is Victor who confesses. Detective Rocco Kleine...