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Sabata = Ehi Amico...C'E' Sabata, Hai Chiuso!
produced by Alberto Grimaldi ; script by Renato Izzo & Gianfranco Parolini ; directed by Gianfranco Parolini.
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1969; 1 videodisc (ca. 106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Sabata is a mysterious steely-eyed gunslinger who, after he discovers the town of Daugherty's elite are the masterminds behind the big bank heist, imposes his bullet-laced brand of justice on the town.
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Le samouraï
CICC ; Fida Cinematografica ; Filmel ; TC Production ; produced by Raymond Borderie, Eugène Lépicier ; writers, Jean-Pierre Melville, George Pellegrin ; directed by Jean-Pierre Melville.
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2005; 1 videodisc (ca. 95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Jef Costello is a fedora and trench-coat wearing contract killer with samurai instincts. When Jef assassinates a nighclub owner, he finds himslef confronted by a series of witnesses, who drop his perfect world into the hands of a persistent police investigator and Jef's shadowy employer, both of whom are determined to put an end to the career criminal.
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Saraband
A Sony Pictures Classics release, a Swedish Television-SVT Fiction production in association with DR, NRK, YLE1, ZDF, ZDF Enterprises, Network Movie, ORF, Nordiska TV Samarbetsfonden and Nordisk Film och TV Fond, an Ingmar Bergman film ; written and directed by Ingmar Bergman.
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2006; 1 videodisc (ca. 112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Johan and Marianne lost touch after their divorce. Years later Marianne looks up Johan and tries to get him out of isolation. Upon her arrival to his home, they spend several intense weeks together. Sequel to Scenes From A Marriage. Bergman's last film.
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Saturday night live. The best of Gilda Radner
NBC.
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2005; 1 videodisc (ca. 93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
A compilation of the best Saturday night live moments of comedian Gilda Radner.
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Saving face
Sony Pictures Classics ; Destination Films presents an Overbrook Films production in association with Forensic Films, Greenestreet Films, an Alice Wu film ; produced by James Lassiter, Will Smith, Teddy Zee ; written and directed by Alice Wu.
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2005; 1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Wilhelmina is a Chinese-American lesbian and a young surgeon who has kept her sexual orientation secret from her conservative Chinese community in New York. But when her widowed mother becomes pregnant and is kicked out by her own parents, Wil suddenly has to juggle her mother's secrets with her own. Wil has a new romance with Vivian who is a ballet dancer and the daughter of Wil's boss.
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Serenity
Mutant Enemy, Inc. ; Universal Pictures ; Barry Mendel Productions ; produced by Barry Mendel ; written by Joss Whedon ; directed by Joss Whedon.
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2005; 1 videodisc (ca. 119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
River Tam and her brother Simon are hiding out from the totalitarian government that experimented with River's brain aboard a space-freighter. Captained by a down on his luck soldier, the crew of Serenity must take jobs, whether they are legal or not, while trying to avoid the Alliance, and keeping the Tams safe. Then things get out of control and the true extent of River's powers becomes known. At the same time, the Alliance sends a new Operative to make sure that what River knows doesn't get out.
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The seventh victim Shadows in the dark
kRKO Radio Pictures, inc. ; produced by Val Lewton ; written by Charles O'Neal and DeWitt Bodeen ; directed by Mark Robson.
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2005; 1 videodisc (71 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Mary Gibson, a naive orphan, goes to Manhatten to find her missing sister Jacqueline. Her investigation leads her to Jacqueline's secret husband, and also to a strange cult of Diabolists who are also hunting Jacqueline.
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Shadow kill = Nizhalkkuthu
The Global Film Initiative ; a film by Adoor Gopalakrishnan.
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2005; 1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Kaliyappan struggles with the guilt and implications of the executions he obediently carries out. His son rejects his father's way of life. After Kaliyappan is told to prepare for another hanging, a traveler's story changes their destiny.
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Sherlock Holmes and the case of the silk stocking
a co-production of BBC and WGBH ; produced by Tiger Aspect Productions ; produced by Elinor Day ; original screenplay by Allan Cubitt ; directed by Simon Cellan Jones.
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2005; 1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
When the murder of a penniless shopgirl is linked to the body of debutante Lady Alice Burnham, legendary sleuth Sherlock Holmes (Rupert Everett) immediately begins to piece together the clues.
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Simply Ming : easy techniques for East-meets-West meals
WGBH-TV.
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2005; 3 videodiscs (ca. 468 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Ming Tsai is the award-winning chef/owner of Blue Ginger and the author of three cookbooks. By using Ming's master recipes, anyone can create a variety of dishes, keeping dining at home interesting and fun - whether you're a beginner or experienced cook.
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Sister Helen
Cinemax Reel Life ; produced and directed by Rebecca Cammisa & Rob Fruchtman.
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2004; 1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
In 1986, at the age of 56, Helen Travis became a Benedictine Sister after she lost her husband and both her sons to substance abuse. Two years later, in New York City, she opened a halfway house for recovering male addicts.
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Spare parts
= Rezervni Deli Film Movement and EmotionFilm present ; a film by Damjan Kozole.
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2005; 1 videodisc (ca. 96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Hard-drinking, chain-smoking Ludvik spends his nights smuggling illegal refugees in his van from Croatia, across Slovenia, and into Italy. The young and inexperienced Rudi is his new assistant. Together they cope with life in a rundown town, home to the only nuclear power plant in former Yugoslavia.
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