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Author
Publisher
North Point Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
viii, 275 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Humorous yet spiritually rigorous, drawing from pop culture and from personal experience, The Dharma of “The Princess Bride” teaches us how to understand and navigate our most important personal relationships from a twenty-first-century Buddhist perspective. Friendship. Romance. Family. These are the three areas Ethan Nichtern delves into, taking as departure points the indelible characters ― Westley, Fezzik, Vizzini, Count Rugen, Princess Buttercup,...
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (70 min.) : sd., col., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a parody of the 1962 film "Mondo cane," an underground organization searches for the ultimate in strange and disturbing images as bizarre performances and vignettes are featured.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A movie of random skits made into a movie, skits that mock cultural fads, commercials, and people of all races. Bonus features include: Forced Trailers: Hitman, Meet the Spartans, AVP-R; deleted scenes and more.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this comedy spoof of the Robin Hood legend, Robin of Loxley, aided by his band of merry men, wrests power from the evil Prince John, humiliates the despicable Sheriff of Rottingham, and finds the key to the fair Maid Marian's heart--and her chastity belt.
7) Spaceballs
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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...
8) Pulp
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A fiction writer ends up investigating a murder while ghostwriting an autobiography for an aging Hollywood actor.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Monty Python delivers the group's sharpest and smartest satire of both religion and Hollywood's epic films. Set in 33 A.D. Judea where the exasperated Romans try to impose order, it is a time of chaos and change with no shortage of messiahs and followers willing to believe in them. At its center is Brian Cohen, born in Bethlehem in a stable next door, who, by a series of absurd circumstances is caught up in the new religion and reluctantly mistaken...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A humorous look at the ages of man. Includes eras through the French Revolution and some parts of history that never quite made it into the textbooks.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video/MK2 Editions
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (120 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chaplin plays the double role of the persecuted Jewish barber and Adenoid Hynkel, dictator of Tomania. The barber is imprisoned, escapes, and is finally mistaken for the dictator at which point he makes an impassioned, humanistic speech which amazes the dictator's followers.
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