Jack Gilpin
Publisher
HBO Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The American Gilded Age was a period of significant economic change, conflict between old and new systems, and fortunes made and lost. Season two opens on Easter 1883 as Bertha Russell learns her bid for a box at the Academy of Music has been rejected. Over eight episodes, Bertha challenges Mrs. Astor and the old system to gain a foothold in Society. George Russell battles a growing union at his Pittsburgh steel plant. Marian secretly teaches at...
Series
Criterion collection volume 563
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A straitlaced businessman meets a quirky, free-spirited woman at a downtown New York greasy spoon. Her offer of a ride back to his office results in a lunchtime motel rendezvous, just the beginning of a capricious interstate road trip that brings the two face-to-face with their hidden selves.
3) Barcelona
Series
Criterion collection volume 807
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A pair of preppy yet constitutionally mismatched American cousins, a salesman and a navy officer, argue about romance and politics while working in the beautiful Spanish city of the film's title. Set during the eighties, it explores topics both heady (American exceptionalism, Cold War foreign policy) and hilarious (the ins and outs of international dating, the proper shaving method) while remaining a constantly witty delight, featuring a sharp young...
Publisher
Questar Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Unfolds over 60 years and 18 holes of golf per year. John, Ben, Hank and Charlie are the four Musketeers. After sneaking into the elite Sunset ridge Country Club, the childhood friends make a pact to meet each year to play a round of golf. As the years pass, their lives take different paths and dramatic turns. Through it all, the golf games continue, testing and strengthening their cherished friendships.
Series
Criterion collection volume 326, 485, 807
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Over the course of the 1990s, writer-director Whit Stillman made a trilogy of films about the acid tongues and broken hearts of some haplessly erudite young Americans in New York and abroad. Set in the eighties, these films trace the arc of that decade, led by Stillman's Oscar-nominated debut, Metropolitan, which introduced moviegoers to a strange, endangered species of privileged New Yorker, the “urban haute bourgeoisie.” Chronologically, the...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The goonies: A band of misfit kids searches for buried treasure in a subterranean cavern. Here they cross the path of Mama Fratelli and her outlaw brood. The kids befriend Fratelli's hideously deformed (but soft-hearted) son, who comes to their rescue.
Batman: There's a new breed of criminals in Gotham City, led by the infamous joker. Their random attacks via acid-based make-up are just the beginning.
Beetlejuice: After Barbara and Adam Maitland...