Claire Bloom
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
Forget James Bond for a moment and step into the real, dour and chilling world of spies and counterspies. Richard Burton was nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award for his role as the burned-out British agent who refuses to "come in from the cold" to take a desk job. Instead, he launches into the most dangerous assignment of his career, stalking East German agent (and Golden Globe winner) Oskar Werner. John Le Carre's best-selling novel provides...
3) Limelight
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Standard version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (132 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1914 London, the film stars Chaplin as an aging music hall comic who's convinced he can no longer move people to laughter. But he gets a final opportunity to shine when he saves a young, equally desperate ballet dancer from suicide, then guides her to triumph on the stage.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Weaving together several different stories about people's lives, loves, perceptions, and ideals, this examines some of the toughest questions surrounding human nature.
Publisher
distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2011, p1981
Edition
Special ed. ; [30th anniversary ed.].
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 659 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (19 p. : col. ill. ; 15 cm.)
Language
English
Description
Charles is from a family with little money. Sebastian's family is wealthy. The two become friends at Oxford. When Sebastian invites his friend to dinner, Charles becomes involved with Sebastian's family. After Charles becomes an officer in the British Army, he and his company are moved to an English country house that he realizes is Sebastian's family home. Here he discovers memories of his youth and young manhood: his loves, life, and a journey of...
Series
Criterion collection volume 406
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (93 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in + 1 booklet (16 p. : b&w ill. ; 19 cm.)
Language
English
Description
A dancer's world: Martha Graham discusses the dancer as a creative artist, as members of her dance company illustrate her theories in a dance choreographed by Miss Graham. Woven into the movements of the dance are all the basic techniques required by the modern dancer.
Appalachian spring: a ballet depicting the wedding day of a pioneer couple.
Night journey: Martha Graham's interpretation of the Oedipus legend, depicting the moment of Jocasta's...
8) The Haunting
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Adapted from Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, this psychological thiller tells the story of four people who come to the house to study its supernatural phenomena.
Series
Criterion collection volume 452
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (112 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
After a fellow spy is murdered, an agent who is working as a defected spy trying to get inside information realizes that he is just as expendable as his fellow agent.
10) Charly
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Widescreen and full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A retarded adult male struggling to survive in the world consents to an experiment to raise his intelligence.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (136 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of Alexander the Great, Greek hero and world-conqueror. Alexander is a man torn by conflict between his teacher, Aristotle, his warrior father and his own ambition.
12) Time for murder
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 309 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Each author gives the mystery genre his or her own twist, with results from humorous to the macabre. You will visit conventional English drawing rooms, a boy's prep school, a luxury health spa and a snowbound hotel.
13) Anna Karenina
Edition
Full screen.
Language
English
Description
Anna Karenina is the young wife of Alexis Karenin, a Russian diplomat. She is on a mission of mercy to help her brother patch things up with his wife after an injudicious affair. While helping her brother, Anna meets the dashing officer, Count Alexis Vronsky. Anna is soon swept off her feet by Vronsky and begins an affair of her own. When Karenin finds out, he offers to forgive Anna is she will leave Vronsky. She refuses. It is a decision that will...
15) Oedipus the King
Series
Publisher
Films for the Humanities
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This play recounts the story of Oedipus, King of Thebes, a man, who out of stubborn pride, must know the truth at all costs.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tells the story of the difficult loves of insular Englishman Charles Ryder and his peculiarly intense relationship with the wealthy but dysfunctional family that inhabited Brideshead. While at Oxford, Charles Ryder meets boyish, flamboyant Sebastian Flyte, who introduces Charles to a charmed and glamorous way of life that continues until Sebastian's health deteriorates.
17) Hamlet
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (222 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dramatization of William Shakespeare's play in which a Danish prince finally avenges the murder of his father, the king, by killing his uncle, Claudius, who murdered the king, usurped the throne, and married Hamlet's mother, Gertrude.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 264 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Presents the lives and loves of a family of cousins from 1939 to present. Begins with a funeral, and uses the reminiscences of those gathered to fill in details in the lives of several different family members
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
Widescreen remastered ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (145 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fyodor Karamazov is the wealthy father of four grown sons: Dmitri, a callous Russian officer; Ivan, the intellectual; pious Alexey; and half-brother Smerdyakov. Tensions erupt to a murderous end when libertine father and romantic son find themselves vying for the affections of the same woman, the wild Grushenka. Finding themselves adrift without the dark anchor that held them together, the four brothers must now find peace, each in their own way.
20) Henry VIII
Series
Works volume 24
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (165 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The last play Shakespeare wrote, spins a web of intrigue and betrayal. This production was filmed at Henry's favorite place, Leeds Castle, with its ceremonies enacted in the very rooms the King inhabited, nearly 500 years ago. Starring Claire Bloom, John Stride and Julian Glover.
