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1) Nightcrawler
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A pulse-pounding thriller set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the high-speed world of L.A. crime journalism. Finding a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem, Lou muscles into the cut-throat, dangerous realm of nightcrawling, where each police siren wail equals a possible windfall and victims are...
Series
Criterion collection volume 175
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
p2003.
Language
English
Description
Fueled by a suitcase full of pharmaceuticals, journalist Raoul Duke and his sidekick Dr. Gonzo set off on a fast and furious ride through nonstop neon, surreal surroundings and a crew of crazy characters.
Publisher
Starz Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The story of the life and death of author Hunter S. Thompson, an American master whose gonzo reportage defined an era, while his depraved appetites forged a legend. Features interviews with Thompson, his childhood friends, his wife and those who worked with him. Includes footage from the biographical films Where the buffalo roam and Fear and loathing in Las Vegas.
5) France
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Français
Description
France de Meurs, a seemingly unflappable superstar TV journalist whose career, home life, and psychological stability are shaken after she carelessly drives into a young delivery man on a busy Paris street. This accident triggers a series of self-reckonings, as well as a strange romance that proves impossible to shake. A film that teases at redemption while refusing to grant absolution, France is tragicomic and deliciously ambivalent a very 21st-century...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
An American strip artiste marries an undercover Nazi in Vienna in 1938, simply because she is digging wherever she thinks there is gold. Then along comes an American reporter who patiently reveals to her that her husband is a fingerman for Hitler. They join forces, do a bit of obscure sabotaging and then cut loose for home.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the true story of journalist Gary Webb. The film takes place in the mid 1990s, when Webb uncovered the CIA's past role in importing huge amounts of cocaine into the U.S. It was sold in ghettos across the country to raise money for the Nicaraguan Contras rebel army. Despite enormous pressure not to, Webb chose to pursue the story and went public with his evidence. As a result he experienced a vicious smear campaign fueled by the CIA.
10) France
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Français
Description
A successful French journalist's life is turned upside down when she gets involved in a car accident.
11) Broadcast news
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
Tom Grunick is the perfect modern anchorman, with charm and good looks but no background for the job. Jane Craig, the brilliant producer, has the job of trying to make Tom look like a newsman. Then there is Aaron Altman, a dedicated reporter, utterly devoid of on-camera charisma, and jealous of Tom's success with the public and Jane.
12) Scandal sheet
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Fuller's acclaimed novel "The Dark Page" was the source for this tense drama which featured Broderick Crawford as an egotistical newspaper editor torn between his fear of discovery and his pride in protégé and star reporter Steve McCleary (John Derek), whose investigation into a "lonelyhearts" murder may uncover his boss' secret past.
13) The note
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
After finding a note in the remnants of a plane crash, a columnist seeks its recipient.
Publisher
BBC/Warner
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Magician Jonathan Creek teams up with investigative journalist Maddy Magellan to solve some near impossible cases.
The wrestler's tomb: A celebrated artist has been killed, with a beautiful model bound and gagged by his side. The police are baffled so it is just as well that Jonathan Creek accidently spears Maddy's hand with a cocktail stick.
Jack in the box: Veteran comedian, Jack Holiday has committed suicide. But how did a man with crippling...
Series
Criterion collection volume 867
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"George Stevens' Woman of the Year, conceived to build on the smashing comeback Katherine Hepburn had made in The Philadelphia Story, marked the beginning of the personal and professional union between Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, who would go on to make eight more films together. This tale of two newspaper reporters who wed and then discover that their careers aren't so compatible forges a fresh and realistic vision of what marriage can be. The freewheeling...
Publisher
Winstar Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
A candid and comprehensive biographical portrait of the novelist, essayist, journalist and activist, Norman Mailer. Compiled from over 20 hours of exclusive interviews with the writer, this profile includes rare archival footage, photographs and original manuscripts from the Mailer archives. Both fascinated by and at odds with his country, Norman Mailer personally explores the tensions that exist between reality and fiction in this unprecedented film....
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