Monterey Video (Firm)
Publisher
Monterey Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Documentary filmmaker Danny Hart boards a train heading to upstate New York to interview the subjects of his latest project. A chance encounter with a mysterious young woman leads him on a journey of a very different sort, and Hart is forced to leave his complacent life behind for a world in which the line between fantasy and reality is blurred. As Hart tells his story to Detective Martin, he finds himself being questioned as Martin tries to figure...
Publisher
Monterey Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A look at a new breed of sport riders that have taken the sport to the extreme, and how they have almost made it, jumped it, or trashed it on practically every Sunday. Includes never-before-seen footage, documentary, scrapbook, and more.
Publisher
Monterey Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Ten questions are posed to His Holiness the Dalai Lama by filmmaker and explorer Rick Ray. Ray examines some of the fundamental questions of our time by weaving together observations from his own journeys throughout India and the Middle East, and the wisdom of an extraordinary spiritual leader.
6) Pearl diver
Publisher
Monterey Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The story of two sisters, haunted by the twenty-year-old murder of their mother, and what happens when a farming accident rips away the layers of secrecy and buried trauma surrounding that night. They learn that sometimes the secrets from the past can bring hope for the future.
Publisher
Monterey Video
Pub. Date
[2000, 2004]
Language
English
Description
Poe's eerie tale of murder and revenge, as a young man is gradually driven mad by his obsession with the repulsive diseased eye of the old man he cares for. After murdering the old man, and burying the body beneath the floor of his room, he thinks he hears the heartbeat of his victim. When police come to investigate, he offers a confession, convinced that they can also hear the heartbeat.
Series
Publisher
Monterey Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Edgar Allen Poe was truest to his heart a poet. He has blessed American literature with some of the most striking and moving imagery ever created. Includes: The Conqueror Worm, To My Mother, Israfel, Annabel Lee, The City in the Sea, and five more poems.
9) Gooby
Publisher
Monterey Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Willy moves into the family's new house, his childhood toy, Gooby, comes to life as a big, scruffy, six-foot-tall creature who helps Willy through rough times with hair-raising and hilarious adventures. In the end, Gooby fulfills Willy's wish by bringing Willy and his dad together in a heartwarming and exciting climax.
11) Home
Publisher
Monterey Video
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Inga is a poet. She wants to buy and restore a house she is drawn to that reminds her of her childhood home, but her distant husband Hermann sees little value in it or many of the things Inga loves. Her crumbling marrigae is a stark contrast to the relationship that she shares with her 8-year-old daughter, with whom she shares her hopes, fears and inner-most thoughts following her recovery from breast cancer. By day their lives seem magical, but at...
Publisher
Distributed by Monterey Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When a young, unidentified woman is found dead by the lake, the victim of a brutal and violent crime, Walter, an aging small-town police officer, is called to the scene of the town's first murder investigation in decades. Haunted by his past, and hampered by the mistrust of the community and a state police officer overseeing the investigation, he sets out to solve the murder, complicated by his ex-lover and his suspicion of her current boyfriend.
Publisher
Distributed by Monterey Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
This is the story of the Red Dog Saloon and it's importance in the creation of the psychedelic dancehalls that littered the West during the late '60s and of the extended family that grew out of those wild times. Woven together with music, photographs, light shows, poster art, and rare archival footage.
Publisher
Monterey Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Ab Snopes is a Southern tenant farmer whose unrelenting and violent nature proves to be his undoing. Snopes sets his employer's barn on fire when he thinks he's been treated unfairly. His son, Sarty, is horrified. Snopes escapes justice for lack of proof, but he and his family are told to move on. No sooner do they move than Snopes is offended by his new rich employer. Torn between trying to win his father's acceptance and his aversion to what his...
16) Local color
Publisher
Monterey Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In 1974, in the suburb of Port Chester, New York, the teenage aspirant artist John Talia has a troubled relationship with his homophobic father who does not understand John's talent. While visiting his friend Yammi, John finds that the genius Russian painter Nicoli Seroff lives nearby. He decides to pay a visit to his idol. John finds a bitter alcoholic who is still grieving the loss of his wife Anya. Somehow, he successfully befriends the master....
17) The Red Baron
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Europe, 1916: Baron Manfred von Richthofen is a crack pilot of the German aerial combat forces, a legend in his own time, a hero at home, and a man both feared and respected by the enemy. Von Richthofen and his fellow officers see their duels in the sky as tactical, almost sportsmanlike, challenges. But, when he falls in love with Kate, she opens his eyes to the fact that there is more to war than dogfights and he becomes aware of his role in the...
20) On any Sunday
Publisher
Monterey Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Explores the world of motocross and looks at the men who take chances with this dangerous sport -- from asphalt track contests and drag racing to cross-country and hill climbing competitions. Professional riders such as Mert Lawwill and Malcolm Smith are featured. Includes a special tribute to Steve McQueen.