Films with: Brownlow, Kevin

Cinema Europe the other Hollywood /

DVD 905

College

Ronald is an idealistic freshman who attends Clayton College in pursuit of higher learning, but finds himself instead embroiled in a war of athletics as he fights for the heart of his beloved coed, Mary. The electric house: Buster turns an ordinary dwelling into an automated funhouse. Hard luck: A suicidal Buster makes a final effort at fitting in with society at a swank country club. The blacksmith: Mechanical mayhem is wrought in a blacksmith's shop.

DVD 9132

D.W. Griffith father of film /

Profiles the life and work of the American film director. Includes interviews with people who worked with him, his family and extracts of his work.

DVD 7028

Garbo

An original documentary from Turner Classic Movies, Garbo takes a look at the life and career of the movies' most luminous, reclusive and mystifying star. A portrait of Garbo the woman is drawn through interviews with biographers and admirers. Those offering analysis and reminiscences are biographers Barry Paris, Mark Vieira and Karen Swanson; actor/playwright/fan Charles Busch; Garbo's niece and greatnephews, Gray, Derek and Scott Reisfeld, and acquaintances Gore Vidal, Gavin Lambert, Jack Larson and Sam Green, who was Garbo's confidante and walking companion for 20 years.

DVD 4416

It happened here

In a rewrite of history, Germany has won World War II and Nazi troops occupy England. Pauline, an apolitical nurse, hopes that normal life will return to England. It is only after she accepts a nursing job with the Nazis that she slowly realizes the horrifying reality behind the occupation. This film tells the story of what might have happened if the Allied effort had failed.

DVD 1052

Millay at Steepletop

Presents a documentary about Edna St. Vincent Millay and her life on her farm, Steepletop, in upstate New York. The writer's sister, Norma Millay, takes the viewer on a tour of the writer's favorite places, including the gardens, tennis courts, spring-fed swimming pool, and the rustic cabin where Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote. Includes footage from home movies showing Ms. Millay at the height of her fame and creativity.

DVD 1997

Unknown Chaplin the master at work /

Using countless reels of footage and outtakes Chaplin wanted destroyed, film archivists Kevin Brownlow and David Gill have meticulously crafted an essential and fascinating documentary homage to the silver screen legend.

DVD 9901

Winstanley

April 1, 1649. St. George's Hill, Surrey, England. A reformation-era religious sect called the Diggers sets out to form a commune and till the soil on "common land," which by law permits grazing-- but not settlement and cultivation. Led by Gerard Winstanley, theirs is a nonviolent action to reclaim land for the poor who have been dispossessed by Oliver Cromwell's recent Civil War. But the local villagers see the Diggers as a threat to their livelihood and, led by the Presbyterian parson, John Platt, take violent action to harass and burn them out.

DVD 1053