John Sayles
Publisher
Indican
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
"Filmmaker and actor Kevin Mukherji takes us on a fascinating journey into the minds of four American storytellers, giving us an in-depth portrait of what makes these directors tick. John McNaughton, Harold Ramis, John Sayles and Forest Whitaker discuss life, art and the process of film making"--Container.
3) Limbo
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
Story revolves around Joe Gastineau, a fisherman traumatized by an accident at sea years before, singer Donna de Angelo, and her teenage daughter Noelle who come into Joe's life. When Joe's fast-talking half-brother Bobby returns to town and asks Joe for a favor, the lives of the characters are changed forever.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
In this vastly amusing, offbeat fantasy, Sayles takes a fresh look at our society through the eyes of a black extraterrestrial (Joe Morton) who crash-lands on Earth -- in Harlem -- and is taken in by the regulars of a local bar. The alien changes everyone he meets on his original and eye-opening journey through the streets of urban America. But can his message of brotherly love resonate with the intergalactic bounty hunters trying to track him down?"...
7) Matewan
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
A labor leader seeking to organize the workers of a company town sets off a powderkeg of racial hostility, corruption and betrayal in this tale of the bitter clash between unionist miners and the tyrannical coal company owners in West Virginia in the 1920's.
8) Alligator
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A pet baby alligator is flushed into the sewers, where he survives by feeding off experimental lab animals and becomes a 32-foot monster that devours humans and animals alike. Now it's up to one detective to prove it exists, before it's too late!
9) Passion fish
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
A handicapped ex-soap opera star and her nurse explore the murkier aspects of men, romance, and family in the Louisiana bayou.
11) The challenge
Series
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Adventure film involving the return of a lost 13th Samauri sword to Japan.
12) Great directors
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Ten of the greatest filmmakers in the world passionately discuss their craft in Angela Ismailos' hugely entertaining documentary Great directors. Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Liliana Cavani, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Sayles open up about their extraordinary careers with unexpected candor and humor. Ismailos gets them to talk about their artistic evolution from their debut...
13) Great directors
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
Ten acclaimed filmmakers discuss their careers and their craft.
14) Piranha
Series
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Mutant piranha escape from a secret research station and head downriver towards a summer camp and a small town's lakeside tourist attraction. A gruff loner and a daffy private eye race against time to try to stop the creatures.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Six women -- dreamy Eileen, abrasive Nan, athletic Skipper, brusque Leslie, vivacious Jennifer and patient Gayle -- are staying at a hotel in South America. Focus on the turbulent emotions these American women face surrounding the adoption of foreign babies. The six women are fed up with the long delays of the adoption system in the United States and have the common desire to adopt a child. Includes a Latina mother who is certain that her baby will...
Series
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Crazy Mama: A widow in the 1950s begins a wacky life of crime when she loses her beauty parlor. She's joined by her mother, her pregnant daughter and her boyfriend, an old lady, a greaser and a defecting sheriff. The Lady in Red: A farm girl flees her abusive father and lands in a sewing sweatshop in Chicago, where the girls are exploited by a sleazy manager. After landing in jail, she becomes a prostitute and then a waitress while falling in love...
18) Eight men out
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Traces the gambling conspiracy by members of the Chicago White Sox to lose the 1919 World Series in order to win a huge gambling payday.
19) Sunshine state
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real estate development.
Publisher
Double O Film
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the life and work of Barney Rosset, the influential head of Grove Press and the Evergreen Review, who published such groundbreaking works of fiction as Lady Chatterley's Lover, Naked Lunch, and Tropic of Cancer, while fighting the U.S. government's obscenity laws along the way.