Art Linson
Author
Language
English
Description
Art Linson has had a hand in producing some of the most unforgettable films of the past half-century-Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Untouchables, Fight Club-and has worked with some of America's finest actors and directors. In what the Los Angeles Times calls "a breezy anatomy of ritual humiliation," his memoir gives us a brutally honest, funny, and comprehensive tour through the horrors of Hollywood.
Includes a new interview of Art Linson by...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A young soldier arrives in Vietnam and is assigned to a unit of men who have been in the jungle for many months. Their sergeant has only one more mission to complete before he can go home, and though he has been a successful soldier, he has lost his will to fight or to care for his troop. When soldiers on duty prevent the sergeant from going to a nearby town to visit a prostitute on the night before his last mission, the enraged sergeant tells his...
3) The comedian
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Jackie Burke, an aging comic icon, has seen better days. Despite his efforts to reinvent himself and his comic genius, the audience only wants to know him as the former television character he once played.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1940s Los Angeles. Two police officers, Bucky Bleichert and his partner, Lee Blanchard, investigate the death of Elizabeth Short - also known as The Black Dahlia, a young woman who is found brutally murdered. With a corpse so mutilated, the photos are kept from the public. Bucky soon realizes that his girlfriend had ties to the deceased, and soon after that, he begins uncovering corruption and conspiracy within the police department. The case...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Description
Freshly graduated from college with a promising future ahead, Christopher McCandless instead walked out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. What happened to him on the way transformed this young wanderer into an enduring symbol for countless people - a fearless risk-taker who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature. Based on a true story.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A larger-than-life depiction of Al Capone, the warlord who ruled Prohibition-era Chicago ... and Eliot Ness, the law enforcer who vowed to bring him down. In this classic confrontation between good and evil, Ness learns, with the help of a cop named Malone, how to beat the mob by shooting fast and shooting first.
7) Fight Club
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
When a ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a soap salesman channel their aggression into therapeutic "fight clubs", an eccentric woman gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
9) Fight Club
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A lonely, isolated thirty-something insomniac young professional seeks an escape from his mundane existence with the help of a devious soap salesman. They find release from their reality prison through underground fight clubs, where men can be what the world now denies them. Their boxing matches and harmless pranks soon lead to an out-of-control spiral towards oblivion.
10) Into the wild
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2008.
Language
English
Description
Freshly graduated from college with a promising future ahead, Christopher McCandless walked out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. What happened to him on the way transformed this young wanderer into an enduring symbol for countless people, a fearless risk-taker who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature. Based on a true story.
11) Heat
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
A determined LAPD detective tracks down a slick crew of criminals, even though he admires the leader of the group.
12) Scrooged
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Modern version of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with Bill Murray portraying a nasty, uncaring, unforgiving TV network president. On Christmas Eve he is visited by three ghosts who show him the error of his ways.
13) Scrooged
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Modern version of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with Bill Murray portraying a nasty, uncaring, unforgiving TV network president. On Christmas Eve he is visited by three ghosts who show him the error of his ways.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1075
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The wild world of adolescence has rarely been captured with as sharp an observational eye as in this refreshingly smart, frank spin on the teen comedy by director Amy Heckerling and screenwriter Cameron Crowe--for each of whom it kicked off a hugely successful film career. Based on Crowe's experiences going undercover as a student at a southern California high school, Fast Times at Ridgemont High blends hormone-fueled hilarity with an almost sociological...
Series
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The departed: In South Boston, the Massachusetts State Police are waging a war on Irish-American organized crime. Undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate, which is run by gangland chief Frank Costello. Billy quickly gains Costello's confidence. Colin Sullivan is a hardened young criminal who has infiltrated the police department as an informer for the syndicate. Colin is rising to a position of power within the Special...
16) The Untouchables
Author
Language
English
Description
This classic confrontation between good and evil stars Kevin Costner as federal agent Eliot Ness, Robert De Niro as gangland kingpin Al Capone and Sean Connery as Malone, the cop who teaches Ness how to beat the mob: shoot fast and shoot first.
17) Car wash
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
It's just a typical day in the lives of the employees, customers and passersby of a Los Angeles car wash - but what a day! There's a would-be robbery-an assembly line of the weirdest, baddest, shadiest characters you've ever met-and lots of booty-bumping music to pass the hrs. till quitting time.