Tanner ’88
Synopsis: In 1988, renegade filmmaker Robert Altman and Pulitzer Prize-winning Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau created a presidential candidate, ran him alongside the other hopefuls during the primary season, and presented […]
Category Archives: Television
The Daily Show: Indecision 2004
Synopsis: The 2004 Race for the White House was one of the most memorable presidential elections of the last five years. Now relive it again – and again – and, […]
Comic Relief: The Greatest…
Synopsis: Humor in the face of adversity. The phenomenon that is Comic Relief is a uniquely American dynamic, created by Bob Zmuda and Chris Albrecht as a way of using […]
Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King
Synopsis: If You Think Your Dreams are Disturbing, Imagine the Nightmares of Stephen King. Go beyond the ordinary. Go beyond the sane. With Stephen King as storyteller, you’ll travel to […]
Riget
Synopsis: Acclaimed director Lars Von Trier delves into the world of the supernatural with the chilling series that inspired Stephen King’s Kingdom Hospital. At The Kingdom, Denmark’s most technologically advanced […]
George Carlin: It’s Bad for Ya!
Synopsis: It’s Bad For Ya, Carlin’s Emmy-nominated 14th and final HBO special from March of 2008 features Carlin’s noted irreverent and unapologetic observations on topics ranging from death, religion, bureaucracy, […]
Alias Nick and Nora
Synopsis: Their on-screen chemistry in the Thin Man films forever linked William Powell and Myrna Loy in moviegoers’ minds. Now you can learn about the impressive careers–together and separately–of these […]
George Carlin: Life is Worth Losing
Synopsis: George Carlin returns to the stage in Life is Worth Losing, his 13th live comedy stand-up special, performed at the Beacon Theatre in New York City for HBO®. Carlin’s […]
Duel
Synopsis: Fear Is The Driving Force. Steven Spielberg directs this high-velocity thriller about a motorist terrorized by an evil truck. Spielberg’s first full-length movie, Duel, helped jumpstart the director’s big-screen […]
George Carlin: Complaints and Grievances
Synopsis: In “Complaints & Grievances,” George Carlin’s 12th HBO Comedy special, taped at the Beacon Theater in New York on November 17, 2001 (ten weeks after 9/11), Carlin casts his […]
George Carlin: You Are All Diseased
Synopsis: Growing up in New York City, George Carlin was always the class clown. He went on to become one of the great comedians of our time, with appeal that […]
Pierre Richard: Portrait d’un rêveur
Synopsis: At once actor, writer, director and producer, for over twenty years Pierre Richard has played a central role in French comedies. Associated with some of the biggest hits of […]
Trekkies
Synopsis: A hilarious look at the universe’s most fervent fans. Get ready to beam up to a galaxy where autograph hounds abound, dentists drill in Federation garb and the debate […]
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