Home Vision Entertainment (Firm)
1) The tunnel
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Deutsch
Description
The Tunnel tells the incredible true story of a massive underground escape attempt from East to West Berlin. An Anti-communist East German swimming champion narrowly escapes before the Berlin Wall is done, but his sister is left behind.
Series
Criterion collection ; 305
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Français
Description
A well-off bookseller rescues a tramp from a suicidal plunge into the Seine and his family dedicates itself to reforming him. He shows his gratitude by shaking the household to its foundations, challenging the hidebound principles of his hosts.
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Produced at the height of Vietnam War, Emile de Antonio's Oscar nominated 1968 documentary chronicles the war's historical roots. The savage and horrific images speak for themselves in perhaps the most controversial film of de Antonio's career.
Series
Publisher
Homevision
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Swedish
Description
A sensual, controversial coming-of-age story in which a young man falls madly in love with his teacher. The intense relationship spins rapidly out of control, setting the stage for a final confrontation in which 'all is fair in love and war.'
Publisher
Public Media Inc
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Combines historical footage, interviews, animation, and live action to trace the history of comic books from 1933 to 1988. Twenty-two significant comic artists and writers are discussed: Lynda Barry, Charles Burns, Sue Coe, Robert Crumb, Will Eisner, Al Feldstein, Shary Flenniken, William M. Gaines, Bill Griffith, Jaime Hernandez, Jack Kirby, Harvey Kurtzman, Stan Lee, Paul Mavrides, Frank Miller, Victor Moscoro, Francoise Mouly, Dan O'Neill, Harvey...
Series
Criterion collection ; 286
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Italiano
Description
A man falls in love with a younger woman, but he is married and divorce is illegal. To get what he wants, he begins an elaborate scheme to kill his wife.
9) Wetherby
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
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.
10) The good father
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Anthony Hopkins portrays a father recently separated from his wife. Bitter, frightened and enraged, he releases his anger on other women and a friend whose wife has just left him.
Publisher
Home Vision
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Banned in China, Jiang Wen's ravishingly photographed anti-war epic is set in 1945 in Japanese-occupied rural China where a peasant is forced to shelter two prisoners: one Japanese who wants to die, and his Chinese interpreter who wants to live.
12) Hester Street
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
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.
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
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
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Take a captivating and compelling road trip though the creative spirit of the American South, a world of churches, prisons, coal mines and mountains. A collage of stories and testimonies while a strange Southern Jesus looms in the background.
Series
Criterion collection ; 266
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with the biggest budget in the history of Hollywood, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into one of the highest-grossing films of all time.
16) Salesman
Series
Criterion collection ; 122
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"A landmark documentary.... Captures in vivid detail the bygone era of the door-to-door slesman. While laboring to sell a gold-embossed version of the Holy Word, Paul Brennan and his colleagues target the beleaguered masses, then face the demands of quotas and the frustrations of life on the road. Following Brennan on his daily rounds, the Maysles discover a real-life Willy Loman, walking the line from hype to despair"--Promotional materials.
17) Videodrome
Series
Criterion collection ; 248
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Max Renn goes looking for edgy new shows for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyperviolent torture show called Videodrome. As he struggles to unearth the origins of the program, he embarks on a hallucinatory journey into a shadow world of right-wing conspiracies, sadomasochistic sex games, and bodily transformation." --
18) Howards End
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
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...
19) Slacker
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Richard Linklater's Slacker presents a day in the life of a subculture of marginal, eccentric, and overeducated citizens in and around the University of Texas; a prescient look at an emerging generation of aggressive nonparticipants.