Daniel Melnick
1) Roxanne
Language
English
Description
C.D. Bales, an engaging small town fire chief, has only one tiny flaw--his astonishingly long nose. The hilarity never stops as he contends with nose jokes, bumbling firemen, and his secret love for a gorgeous astronomy student, Roxanne, who is attracted to another man.
2) L.A. story
Language
English
Formats
Description
A wacky television weatherman thinks his life is perfect except for an erratic relationship with a style-conscious girlfriend. Then, one bright and smoggy L.A. day, an electronic freeway sign changes his life, when its advice leads him into a frivolous romance with a young and beautiful blond and, ultimately, to true love with the woman of his dreams.
3) Straw dogs
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young mathematician, David Summer, and his English wife, Amy, move to a Cornish village, seeking the quiet life. But beneath the seemingly peaceful isolation of the village lies a savagery and violence that could destroy the couple.
4) Air America
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Two renegade pilots are ensnared in the madness of covert operations over Laos during the Vietnam conflict. They lead the crew of AIR AMERICA, a not-so-secret airline that drops everything from live pigs to opium over villages throughout the Vietnamese countryside.
Series
Criterion collection volume 724
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The preternaturally gifted director and choreographer Bob Fosse turned the camera on his own life for this madly imaginative, self-excoriating musical masterpiece. Roy Scheider gives the performance of his career as Joe Gideon, whose exhausting work schedule-mounting a Broadway production by day and editing his latest movie at night; and routine of amphetamines, booze, and sex are putting his health at serious risk.
6) Quicksilver
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
As Jack Casey darts through city traffic as a bicycle messenger, he uncovers a sinister web of murder and intrigue. When he falls for Terri, a fellow messenger who has become the pawn of an unscrupulous drug dealer, it's up to Jack to act quickly.
9) Punchline
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Lilah, a housewife who wants to be a comedienne, teams up with Steve, a self-centered comic who teaches Lilah how to be funny.
11) Altered states
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1980]
Language
English
Description
Research scientist Eddie Jessup (William Hurt) believes other states of consciousness are as real as everyday reality. Using sensory deprivation, then adding powerful hallucinogenic drugs, he explores these altered states ... and endures experiences that make madness seem a blessing.
12) Straw dogs
Series
Criterion collection volume 182
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young American mathematician moves with his English wife, Amy, to the village where she grew up. Their sense of safety unravels as the local men David has hired to repair their house prove more interested in leering at Amy and intimidating David, beginning an agonizing initiation into the iron laws of violent masculinity that govern Peckinpah's world.
13) Air America
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"When Billy Covington accepts a job to fly planes in Laos, he expects to join a crew of civilian pilots flying in peaceful air zones. What he gets is Air America, a ragtag group of renegades dodging gunfire to run secret - and shady - missions for the CIA. As danger grows and the lines between allies and enemies blurs, Billy turns to a wild and grizzled pilot named Gene Ryack. Together, Billy and Gene take a stand against the chaos and become something...
15) Noon wine
Publisher
Liberation Hall
Pub. Date
[2023?]
Language
English
Description
"Royal Earle Thompson's 1890's dairy farm located in West Texas is failing due in part to his own laziness. His wife, Ellie, and two small sons help best they can, but it's not enough. When drifter Olaf Helton offers to help, Royal hires him and watches as his Swedish laborer sets the farm on a path to profitability. One thing Olaf failed to tell the Thompsons is that he's a fugitive from a mental institution, and that a cigar-smoking bounty hunter...