Independent Film Channel
Publisher
Video Services Corp
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A hit sketch comedy series that is driven by hilarious character-based shorts, all of which take place in 'Portlandia,' the creators' dreamy and absurd rendering of Portland, Oregon, where '90s culture reigns supreme and political correctness is all the rage.
Series
Split screen. Season three volume episode 30
Publisher
Moviefish
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Profiles the work of Appalachian documentary filmmaker Jacob Young, who speaks about his films and filmmaking.
Publisher
Video Services Corp
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
IFC's hit sketch comedy series, created, written by, and starring Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, is driven by a series of hilarious character-based shorts all of which take place in Portlandia, the creators' dreamy and absurd rendering of Portland, Oregon, where '90s culture reigns supreme and political correctness is all the rage.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Ruby is a hopeless romantic who's always attracted to the wrong kind of guy until she meets Sam. He's sweet, sensitive, sincere and from the year 2470. Despite, or maybe because of, his bizarre claims to have traveled back in time to save her, Ruby falls for Sam.
5) Songcatcher
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
When musicologist Doctor Lily Penleric is passed over, again, for a prominent teaching position, she decides to leave the city to visit her sister in the rugged mountains of Appalachia. While there, Lily, discovers a wellspring of emotional "love songs" (ballads) that have been passed down through generations from the original Irish and Scottish immigrants who have settled in the area. Determined to document the history of the songs, and the recording...
10) Gray's anatomy
Publisher
Wellspring Media
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
A comical look at Gray's middle-age problems including a rare and mysterious eye condition, and his pursuits into alternative healing, including a Native American sweat ceremony, a debilitating raw vegetable diet, and a trip to the Philippines to try out the "Elvis Presley of psychic surgeons."
11) Wanderlust
Publisher
New Video
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
From the award-winning directors of American splendor, this iconic movie traces America's love affair with the 'road movie' through interviews with Hollywood stars and clips from roadie classics.
12) Waking life
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Join Wiley Wiggins as he searches for answers to the question of whether we are sleepwalking through our waking state or wake-walking through our dreams.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Provocative and chilling true story of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr., the son of a prison worker and a self-taught execution expert who consulted with prisons across the country to make capital punishment more humane. When Leuchter is called in as a high-profile expert in a sensationalistic Canadian trial, his ego, bravado and absurd testimony reaches nation media prominence. Ironically, what Leuchter thought was going to be an apex in his career - only ruins...
15) Final
Publisher
Trimark Home Video
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
When Bill wakes up in the psychiatric wing at Sumner Hospital, he has trouble distinguishing his dreams from reality. He is quite certain of his sanity, but memories of being cryogenically frozen, tissue regeneration experiments and talk of a final lethal injection race through his mind. With the help of his psychiatrist, he struggles to piece his memories together.
Publisher
Starz Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Between 1970 and 1977, six low budget films shown at midnight transformed the way we make and watch movies: The allegorical freak-out "El topo," the graphic horror of "Night of the living dead," the outrageous filth fest "Pink flamingos," outlaw reggae's "The harder they come," the phenomenal Rocky horror picture show," and the darkly disturbing "Eraserhead." Discover the stories behind the movies that defied mainstream America to change the world...