Alan Bates
1) Butley
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 129 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Alan Bates turns his Tony-winning role into one of his greatest film performances as a lecturer who experiences a truly awful day.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 137 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Anton Chekhov's The cherry orchard is the timeless story of an aristocratic Russian family torn apart by buried secrets and changing times. Stars Alan Bates and Charlotte Rampling.
3) Georgy girl
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 99 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A homely but vivacious young woman dodges the amorous attentions of her father's middle-aged employer while striving to capture some of the glamorous life of her swinging London roommate.
4) Shuttlecock
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
At the memorial for his WWII hero father, John confesses a dark family secret, buried twenty-five years, to his own son.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
CIA agent Jack Ryan finds himself in a race against time to stop terrorists who plan to ignite a war between the U.S. and Russia by detonating a nuclear bomb at the Super Bowl game.
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
In this outrageous madcap comedy, a Scottish soldier is sent into an abandoned French village to blow it up, until he finds there are still people left, from the local insane asylum!
Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
James Wilby and Juliet Aubrey portray the reluctant royals who became king and queen of England when Edward VIII gave up the throne for the woman he loved.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 155 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A trio of attractive up-and-comers and four legendary British actors star alongside castles and country houses in a BBC drama about how the upper class loved in the 1930s.
9) The rose
Series
Criterion collection volume 757
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rose is one of the biggest rock stars on the planet. Her life of constant sex, drugs and rock and roll, along with constant touring, prove to be too much to handle. Nominated for four Academy Awards.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A Scottish soldier is assigned the task of disarming a bomb in a small French town at the close of World War I. The townspeople have deserted the town leaving behind the inmates of the local insane asylum who embrace the soldier as their king.
11) Oliver's travels
Publisher
British Broadcasting Corp
Pub. Date
c1995
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (148 min.; 97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Oliver, a university lecturer with an obsession for anagrams and crosswords, has been a question-setter for "Mastermind". When made redundant by the new Vice-Chancellor of the New University (his former Polytechnic) in a general restructuring of the university, Oliver decides to use his new-found freedom to search for his favourite crossword compiler, known only by the pseudonym of "Aristotle". When he locates "Aristotle's" Welsh home, he is horrified...
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1693, the village of Salem, Massachusetts was overcome with superstitious hysteria. At the peak of the madness some hundred fifty people, male and female, were accused of being witches. 19 of them were executed. Salem witch trials dramatically revisits colonial America and the most famous witch-hunt of all time.
13) Three sisters
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2003], c1970
Edition
Letterboxed ed. (1.85:1)
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (162 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nearly a thousand miles away from their beloved Moscow, three sisters live in virtual exile. Olga attemps to support her family and home that is the sole legacy from their late father. Masha finds relief from an empty marriage by being involved with a passionate young colonel. Irina wills herself to return the affections of an ardent suitor in the hope that he will whisk her off to the city. Sift through the debris of their shattered dreams on the...
14) Butley
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2003], c1973
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Butley, a professor at a London University, finds out that his wife wants a divorce, his boyfriend is leaving him and his untalented colleague is getting a book published all in one day.
Series
Studio classic volume 21
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 142 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young British writer moves to Crete to find himself by working in his father's mine, and hires the playful Zorba. He falls in love with a lovely young widow. When she responds to him the townsmen attack her.
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
During World War I, a Scottish soldier is sent on a mission to diffuse a bomb left by Germans in a French town, where he discovers that the town is inhabited by former patients of the local mental asylum who welcome him as their King of hearts.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 80 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A humorous and heartwarming portrait of beloved novelist John Mortimer's early years. After his highly eccentric lawyer father Clifford Mortimer is struck with blindness, John must deal with his father's decreasing ability to take care of himself.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (171 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bathsheba Everdene is a willful, passionate girl who is never satisfied with anything less than a man's complete and helpless adoration. She captures the lives and loves of three very different men. Gabriel Oak is a sheep farmer who is captivated by her beauty and proposes marriage. William Boldwood is an older, prosperous man who had been a confirmed bachelor. Sergeant Frank Troy is a handsome, but reckless swordsman whose given to sudden fits of...
19) The rose
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Presents the final days of a hard-living, burned-out rock performer who badly needs a rest. When her ruthless manager won't give her one, she sets off on a self-destructive binge.
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Madame Ranevskaya returns to her decaying estate in pre-Revolutionary Russia after an exile in Paris. The estate and its beloved cherry orchard are threatened by Ranevskaya's financial problems, and no one seems able to do anything about it.
