Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
276 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this expansive story collection, acclaimed writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala continues her lifelong meditation on East and West. Set in India, England, and New York City, A Lovesong for India reveals what unites us across oceans, cultures, and lifetimes."--Jacket.
Publisher
Cohen Media Group LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (6 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
Based on the novel by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala about Anne, who is drawn to India to unravel the scandal surrounding her great-aunt's seduction in the 1920s by an Indian prince.
7) Howards end
Series
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Language
English
Description
A tragic series of events occurs when two impulsive sisters become involved with a working-class couple and a wealthy family.
Publisher
Distributed by GT Media
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After winning a grant, Omar Razaghi travels to the estate of the late Uruguayan author Jules Gund in order to convince his three executors to let him write an authorized biography.
9) Howards End
Series
Criterion collection volume 488
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([14] p. ; 19 cm.)
Language
English
Description
A story about class divisions in Edwardian England, and the tragic series of events that occurs when two impulsive middle-class sisters become involved with a working class couple and a wealthy family.
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (16 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
"Multilayered, subtle, insightful short stories from the inimitable Booker Prize-winning author. Nobody has written so powerfully of the relationship between and within India and the Western middle classes than Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. These stories, chosen by her surviving family, reveal her acute ability to tenderly and humorously view the situations faced by three cultures -- European, post-Independence Indian, and American. Included in these seventeen...
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
p2001
Edition
Widescreen special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of blind devotion and repressed love between a fanatically proper butler and a high-spirited, strong-minded young housekeeper employed by a British lord who is unwittingly a Nazi dupe.
Language
English
Description
Based on the novel by E.M. Forster.
Set in the early 1900's. "Tells the story of the coming of age of Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham-Carter). Longing to burst free from the repression of British upper class manners and mores, she must wrestle with her inner romantic longings to choose between the passionate George (Julian Sands) and the priggish but socially suitable Cecil (Daniel Day-Lewis)"--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 775
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold-out insert.
Language
English
Description
Based on E.M. Forster's novel of requited love. A young, independent-minded, upper-class Edwardian woman who is trying to sort out her burgeoning romantic feelings, divided between an enigmatic free spirit she meets on vacation in Florence and the priggish bookworm to whom she becomes engaged back in the more corseted Surrey. Funny, sexy, and sophisticated, this film was a gargantuan art-house hit.
14) The golden bowl
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in the early 1900's, Maggie is the daughter of American tycoon Adam Verver, who marries an impoverished yet charming Italian aristrocrat, Prince Amerigo. Through a twist of fate, Adam marries the Prince's former lover, Charlotte. Maggie's suspicions deepen to a possible affair between the Prince and Charlotte, when Maggie makes the ill-fated purchase of a golden bowl. It becomes only a matter of time before Maggie unravels the truth from a world...
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The real-life adventures of a traveling theater group in India during the final days of English colonial rule. They try to uphold British tradition by staging Shakespearean plays but can't compete with the wildly popular Bollywood film industry.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004, c1995
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (139 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the mid-1780s, widower Thomas Jefferson replaces Benjamin Franklin as the U.S. representative to French regents Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. He tries to resist the beautiful Mrs. Cosway. Also in Paris is Jefferson's daughter Patsy; when another daughter dies back in Virginia, Jefferson sends for his youngest, who brings along her slave, Sally Hemings, then 15, whom he also finds irresistible.
17) The Bostonians
Series
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
New 4K restoration.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet with 12 unnumbered pages
Language
English
Description
Olive Chancellor finds her infatuation with young activist Verena Tarrant challenged by a Southern lawyer who also loves her. An intricately drawn study of the impact of women's suffrage on society, The Bostonians is also a lush evocation of the late nineteenth century, with dazzling cinematography by Walter Lassally and a memorable score by Richard Robbins.
19) Le divorce
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Edition
Widescreen and full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Isabel Walker receives word that her pregnant stepsister Roxy has been left by her philandering French husband, artist Charles-Henri de Persand, Isabel travels to Paris to offer her help and moral support. Together, the two young women hit the party scene, living it up with the locals and American expatriates. Eventually, Isabel unexpectedly begins an affair with a septuagenarian Frenchman.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
All she wanted was a room with a view on her first trip to Florence. Little did she realize that her wish would lead her into impropriety, confusion, and passion.
