Coleccion-Multimedia

Basado en el relato de la escritora Susanna Kaysen sobre su estadía de 18 meses en un hospital psiquiátrico en la década de 1960. Director: James Mangold. Escritores: Susanna Kaysen (libro), James Mangold (guión). Estrellas: Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Clea DuVall. Argumento Año 1967. Susanna Kaysen, de 18 años, es como la mayoría de las chicas estadounidenses de su edad: está confusa, insegura y luchando por entender un mundo que está cambiando rápidamente a su alrededor. Al ser visitada por un médico de la familia, éste piensa que la joven se droga o consume alguna sustancia tóxica, pero ella se niega a contestar sus preguntas, ya que habían pasado cuatro días desde que Susana consumió un frasco de aspirinas con una botella de vodka simulando tener jaqueca. El médico, al darse cuenta que Susana hiere a todos los que la rodean, se pone de acuerdo con sus padres para finalmente enviarla al Hospital Claymoore dando un nombre a su comportamiento: trastorno límite de la personalidad, que se manifiesta con una gran inseguridad respecto a la imagen que uno tiene de sí mismo, sus objetivos a largo plazo, los amigos y amantes. Cuando Susanna llega al Hospital Claymoore, es recibida por la doctora Valerie Owens quien la manda al pabellón de mujeres, lugar donde trabaja y está en principal de servicios. Aquí Susanna conoce a Polly, una muchacha que tiene comportamiento infantil y cicatrices de quemaduras en su rostro. Luego conoce a Janet, una anoréxica que estaba discutiendo con la doctora Owens porque esta se negaba a darle su ropa hasta que no comiera. Susanna es hospedada en una habitación junto a Georgina, una mentirosa patológica que se muestra muy simpática en cuanto se presentan. Más tarde ingresa Lisa Rowe, quien se había escapado durante quince días y ataca a Susana por no reconocerla.     Clasificación [ CM DVD 00364 ] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

Young advertising executive Mack Maddox (C. Thomas Howell) is on a career fast-track. Happily married with a young daughter, Mack seems to have it all… until a bizarre series of events make him the target for murder. Director: Marc S. Grenier. Writer: Michael Rauch. Stars: C. Thomas Howell, Maxim Roy, Jay Underwood.   Clasificación [ CM DVD 00361 ] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

Una chica del este de Europa va a Estados Unidos con su hijo pequeño, esperando que sea como una película de Hollywood. Director: Lars von Trier (como Lars Von Trier). Escritor: Lars von Trier (como Lars Von Trier). Estrellas: Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse. Sinopsis. La película se desarrolla en Estados Unidos en el año 1964. Selma (Björk) es una inmigrante checa que se muda a aquel país con su hijo Gene. Además padece una enfermedad hereditaria degenerativa que le está ocasionando una rápida ceguera progresiva. Por este motivo Selma ahorra centavo a centavo en una lata que guarda en su cocina para pagar una operación que evite que su hijo sufra el mismo destino. Selma participa en la obra teatral The Sound of Music donde comienza a quedarse ciega. Cuando su vida es aburrida y miserable, comienza a tener alucinaciones donde ve a la gente en números musicales La vida de Selma comienza a ser una auténtica ruina; uno de sus supuestos amigos la traiciona, le ocurren cosas malas en parte por culpa de sus alucinaciones y otra por su enfermedad irreparable.Si nos damos cuenta, Selma está rodeada de mucho amor.     Clasificación [ CM DVD 00356 ] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

A man robs a bank to pay for his lover's operation; it turns into a hostage situation and a media circus. Director: Sidney Lumet. Writers: Frank Pierson (screenplay), P.F. Kluge (based upon a magazine article by). Stars: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Penelope Allen. Plot On August 22, 1972, first-time crook Sonny Wortzik (Al Pacino), his friend Salvatore "Sal" Naturale (John Cazale), and Stevie (Gary Springer) attempt to rob the First Brooklyn Savings Bank. The plan immediately goes awry when Stevie loses his nerve shortly after Sal pulls out his gun, and Sonny is forced to let him flee the scene. In the vault, Sonny discovers that he and Sal have arrived after the daily cash pickup, and only $1,100 in cash remains in the bank. To compensate, Sonny takes some traveler's cheques. To prevent the cheques from being traced, he burns the bank's register in a trash can, but the smoke alerts the business across the street to suspicious activities. Within minutes, the building is surrounded by the police. Unsure of what to do, the two robbers camp out in the bank, holding all the workers hostage. Police Detective Sergeant Eugene Moretti (Charles Durning) calls the bank to tell Sonny the police have arrived. Sonny warns that he and Sal have hostages and will kill them if anyone tries coming into the bank. Sal tells Sonny that he is ready to kill the hostages if necessary. A security guard has an asthma attack, so Sonny releases him when Moretti asks for a hostage as a sign of good faith. Moretti convinces Sonny to step outside. Using the head teller as a shield, Sonny begins a dialogue with Moretti that culminates in his shouting "Attica! Attica!" (invoking the recent Attica Prison riot), and the civilian crowd starts cheering for Sonny.     Clasificación [ CM DVD 00357 Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying. Director: Howard Hawks Writers: Charles Lederer (screen play), Ben Hecht (from the play "The Front Page"). Stars: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy. Plot. Walter Burns (Cary Grant) is a hard-boiled editor for The Morning Post who learns his ex-wife and former star reporter, Hildegard "Hildy" Johnson (Rosalind Russell), is about to marry bland insurance man Bruce Baldwin (Ralph Bellamy) and settle down to a quiet life as a wife and mother in Albany, New York. Walter determines to sabotage these plans, enticing the reluctant Hildy to cover one last story, the upcoming execution of Earl Williams (John Qualen) a shy bookkeeper convicted of murdering an African-American policeman. Walter insists Hildy and her fiancé Bruce join him for lunch and attempts to convince Bruce that Hildy is the only one who can write a story to save wrongly convicted Earl Williams. Hildy agrees on the condition that Walter buys a $100,000 life insurance policy from Bruce and he enthusiastically agrees. Walter does everything he can to keep Hildy from leaving, including setting Bruce up so he gets arrested over and over again on trumped-up charges. He even kidnaps Hildy's stern mother-in-law-to-be (Alma Kruger). When Williams escapes from the bumbling sheriff (Gene Lockhart) and practically falls into Hildy's lap, the lure of a big scoop proves too much for her. She is so consumed with writing the story that she hardly notices as Bruce realizes his cause is hopeless and leaves to return to Albany.     Clasificación [ CM DVD 00358] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago and is hired to bring the townsfolk together in an attempt to hold off three outlaws who are on their way. Director: Clint Eastwood. Writer: Ernest Tidyman. Stars: Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill. Plot A mysterious stranger rides out of the desert into the isolated mining town of Lago, on the shore of a small lake in an unnamed western territory. Three men follow him into the saloon, taunting him, then follow him to the barbershop. When they challenge him, he kills all three with little effort. Attractive townswoman Callie Travers deliberately bumps into him in the street, knocks his cigar from his mouth, and loudly insults him. He drags her into the livery stable and rapes her. That night, in his hotel room, the Stranger dreams of a man being brutally whipped. Then, in a flashback, Jim Duncan, a federal marshal, is whipped to death in front of the hotel by outlaws Stacey Bridges and brothers Dan and Cole Carlin as the citizens look on. Sheriff Sam Shaw approaches the Stranger and offers him the job previously held by the men he killed: defending the town from Bridges and the Carlins, who are about to be released from jail. He declines. Shaw, in desperation, offers him anything he wants in return. The Stranger learns that the townspeople were complicit in Duncan's murder; they hired the outlaws to kill him after he discovered that the town's only source of income, the mine, was on government land. They then double-crossed the murderers and turned them in.     Clasificación [ CM DVD 00359] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

A film crew follows a ruthless thief and heartless killer as he goes about his daily routine. But complications set in when the film crew lose their objectivity and begin lending a hand. Directors: Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel. Writers: Rémy Belvaux (story), Rémy Belvaux (screenplay). Stars: Benoît Poelvoorde, Jacqueline Poelvoorde-Pappaert, Nelly Pappaert. Plot. Ben (Benoît Poelvoorde) is a witty, charismatic serial killer who holds forth at length about whatever comes to mind, be it the "craft" of murder, the failings of architecture, his own poetry, or classical music, which he plays with his girlfriend Valerie (Valérie Parent). A film crew joins him on his sadistic adventures, recording them for a fly on the wall documentary. Ben takes them to meet his family and friends while boasting of murdering many people at random and dumping their bodies in canals and quarries. The viewer witnesses these grisly killings in graphic detail. Ben ventures into apartment buildings, explaining how it is more cost-effective to attack old people than young couples because the former have more cash at home and are easier to kill. In a following scene, he screams wildly at an elderly lady, causing her to have a heart attack. As she lies dying, he casually remarks that this method saved him a bullet. Ben continues his candid explanations and appalling rampage, shooting, strangling, and beating to death anyone who comes his way: women (he is misogynistic), immigrants (he is a racist xenophobe), and postmen (his favorite targets). The camera crew becomes more and more involved in the murders, first as accomplices but eventually taking an active part in them. When Ben invades a home and kills an entire family, they help him hold down a young boy and smother him. They meet a competing camera crew and take turns shooting the three men. During filming, two of Ben's crew are killed; their deaths are later called "occupational hazards" by a crew member.     Clasificación [ CM DVD 00362 Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

A spoiled heiress must choose between three suitors: her jazz musician ex-husband, a stuffy businessman, and an undercover tabloid reporter. Director: Charles Walters. Writers: John Patrick (screenplay), Philip Barry (play). Stars: Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra. Plot The successful jazz musician C.K. Dexter Haven (Bing Crosby) (with a Newport "robber baron for a grandfather") is divorced from wealthy Newport, Rhode Island, socialite Tracy Samantha Lord (Grace Kelly), but remains in love with her. She, however, is about to get married to a bland gentleman of good standing, George Kittredge (John Lund). Spy Magazine, a fictional tabloid newspaper in possession of embarrassing information about Tracy's father, sends reporter Mike Connor (Frank Sinatra) and photographer Liz Imbrie (Celeste Holm) to cover the nuptials. Tracy begins an elaborate charade as a private means of revenge, introducing her Uncle Willy (Louis Calhern) as her proper father Seth Lord (Sidney Blackmer) and the latter as her "wicked" Uncle Willy. Connor falls in love with Tracy, who must choose among three very different men in a course of self-discovery. After becoming tipsy at a party on the eve of her wedding and going off with Connor for a romantic swim, Tracy decides to go through with it until Kittredge takes umbrage. While in the process of telling her guests that the wedding is off, Tracy is surprised by a proposal from Dexter to take the groom's place. Realizing where her heart truly is, she accepts.   Clasificación [ CM DVD 00363 ] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange North American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world. Director: Jim Jarmusch. Writer: Jim Jarmusch. Stars: Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Crispin Glover. Plot William Blake (Johnny Depp), an accountant from Cleveland, Ohio, rides by train to the frontier company town of Machine to assume a promised job as an accountant in the town's metal works. During the trip, the train Fireman (Crispin Glover) warns Blake against the enterprise while passengers shoot buffalo from the train windows. Arriving in town, Blake discovers that the position has already been filled, and he is driven from the workplace at gunpoint by John Dickinson, the ferocious owner of the company. Jobless and without money or prospects, Blake meets Thel Russell (Mili Avital), a former prostitute who sells paper flowers. He lets her take him home. Thel's ex-boyfriend Charlie surprises them in bed and shoots at Blake, accidentally killing Thel when she tries to shield Blake with her body. However, the bullet still passes through Thel and wounds Blake, but he is able to kill Charlie using Thel's gun before dazedly climbing out the window and fleeing Machine on Charlie's horse. Company-owner Dickinson just happens to be Charlie's father, and he hires three legendary frontier killers, Cole Wilson, Conway Twill, and Johnny "The Kid" Pickett to bring Blake back 'dead or alive'. Blake awakens to find a large Native American man (Gary Farmer) attempting to dislodge the bullet from his chest. The Man, calling himself Nobody, reveals that the bullet is too close to Blake's heart to remove, and Blake is effectively a walking dead man. When he learns Blake's full name, Nobody decides Blake is a reincarnation of William Blake, a poet whom he idolizes but whom Blake is ignorant.[7] Blake learns of Nobody's past, marked both by Native American and white racism; it is detailed that he is the product of lovers from two opposing tribes, and how as a child he was abducted by English soldiers and brought to Europe as a model savage. He was briefly educated and learned of the proper William Blake's art and poetry before returning home, where his stories of the white man and his culture were laughed off by fellow Native Americans. He gained his name, Nobody, at this point, the literal translation of which is revealed to be "He who talks loud, saying nothing". Nobody resolves to escort Blake to the Pacific Ocean to return him to his proper place in the spirit-world.     Clasificación [ CM DVD 00355 ] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

When he acquires a different kind of show for his station, a sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a terrifying new reality. Director: David Cronenberg. Writer: David Cronenberg. Stars: James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits. Plot Max Renn is the president of CIVIC-TV, a Toronto UHF television station specializing in sensationalistic programming. Displeased with his station's current lineup (which mostly consists of softcore pornography and gratuitous violence), Max looks for something that will break through to a new audience. One morning, he is summoned to the clandestine office of Harlan, who operates CIVIC-TV's unauthorized satellite dish which can intercept broadcasts from as far away as Asia. Harlan shows Renn Videodrome, a plotless television show apparently being broadcast out of Malaysia which depicts the brutal torture and eventual murder of anonymous victims in a reddish-orange chamber. Believing this to be the future of television, Max orders Harlan to begin unlicensed use of the show. Max experiences a hallucination, the first of many. Appearing on a talk show, he defends his station's programming choices to Nicki Brand, a psychiatrist and radio host, and professor Brian O'Blivion, a pop-culture analyst and philosopher who will only appear on television if his image is broadcast into the studio, onto a television, from a remote location. O'Blivion delivers a speech prophesying a future in which television supplants real life. Max dates Nicki, who is sexually aroused when he shows her an episode of Videodrome and coaxes him into having sadomasochistic sex with her while they watch it. Max goes once again to Harlan's office, where Harlan tells him that the signal delay which caused it to appear to be coming from Malaysia was a ploy by the broadcaster and that Videodrome is being broadcast out of Pittsburgh. Hearing of this, Nicki excitedly goes to Pittsburgh to audition for the show under the guise of a business trip, but never returns. Max contacts Masha, a softcore pornographer, and asks her to help him find out the truth about Videodrome. Through Masha, Max learns that not only is the footage not faked, but it is the public "face" of a political movement. Masha further informs him that O'Blivion knows about Videodrome.     Clasificación [ CM DVD 00354 Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)