(0)Mel Brooks
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The legendary comedian, actor, and film producer and director traces his rise from a Depression-era kid in Brooklyn to his stellar film career, offering insight into the inspiration for his ideas and the many close friendships and collaborations behind his success.
Brooks shares never-before-told, behind-the-scenes anecdotes and remembrances as he charts his rise from a Depression-era kid in Brooklyn to the recipient of the National Medal of Arts....
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The film celebrates the life and career of one of America's most influential and celebrated filmmakers and comedians, Buster Keaton, whose singular style and fertile output during the silent era created his legacy as a true cinematic visionary. Filled with stunningly restored archival Keaton films from the Cohen Film Classics library, it is directed by Peter Bogdanovich, a filmmaker and cinema historian.
4) Robots
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
With the help of his misfit mechanical friends, a small town robot named Rodney embarks on the adventure of a lifetime as he heads for the big city to pursue his dreams and ultimately proves that anyone can shine no matter what they're made of.
5) High anxiety
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a Harvard psychiatrist takes over the Psycho-Neurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous, he realizes his predecessor died under suspicious circumstances and when the good doctor is accused of murder, he must faces his own great fear in order to clear his name.
6) Spaceballs
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Science fiction farce in which a space bum struggles to save a princess and keep a ruthless alien race from stealing the air supply from a neighboring planet.
7) Leap!
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
An orphan girl dreams of becoming a ballerina and flees her rural Brittany for Paris, where she passes for someone else and accedes to the position of pupil at the Grand Opera house.
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Max Bialystock was once the king of Broadway, but now he only seems to be able to produce flops. Things turn around for Max when he's visited by the neurotic accountant Leo Bloom, who proposes a scheme tailor-made for producers who can only make flops: raise far more money than you need, then make sure the show is despised. No one will be interested in it, so you can pocket the surplus. With this in mind, they decide to produce a musical called 'Springtime...
9) Spaceballs
Series
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Formats
Description
A spoof of the Star Wars series, with Mel Brooks playing the dastardly president of an alien race out to steal the air supply of a neighboring planet. Fearless - and clueless - space heroes Lone Starr (Pullman) and his half/man half dog sidekick Barf (Candy) wage interstellar warfare to free Princess Vespa (Zuniga) from the evil Dark Helmet (Moranis). Along the way they encounter the wise little creature Yogurt (Brooks) who teaches them the mystical...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Everything seems to be changing for the better at Hotel Transylvania. Dracula's rigid monster-only hotel policy has finally relaxed, opening up its doors to human guests. But behind closed coffins, Drac is worried that his adorable half-human, half-vampire grandson, Dennis, isn't showing signs of being a vampire.
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Formats
Description
Summoned by a will to his late grandfather's castle in Transylvania, young Dr. Frankenstein soon discovers the scientist's step-by-step manual explaining how to bring a corpse to life. Assisted by the hunchbacked Igor and the curvaceous Inga, he creates a monster who only wants to be loved.
16) The producers
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A legendary producer and his mild-mannered accountant face catastrophe when their play unexpectedly becomes a success.
19) The automat
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The Automat recounts the lost history of the iconic restaurant chain Horn & Hardart, which served affordable food to millions of New Yorkers and Philadelphians for more than a century. Founded by Joseph Horn and Frank Hardart in 1888, it revolutionized the nationb2ss restaurant scene with technology that captured the public's imagination like nothing else the customer put nickels into slots, and little windows opened to reveal the customer's pick,...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the lives and careers of Harold Michelson, a storyboard artist and production designer, and his wife Lillian, a film researcher, who eloped to Hollywood in 1947 and worked for six decades, their combined filmography totaling hundreds of movies for which their contributions went mostly uncredited.
