Woodfall Film Productions
1) Kes
Series
Criterion collection volume 561
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen director-approved special ed
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of working-class Northern England. Billy is a fifteen-year-old miner's son whose close bond with a wild kestrel provides him with a spiritual escape from his dead-end life
2) Tom Jones
Series
Criterion collection volume 910
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (128 min.; 121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (12 pages : color illustrations, 18 cm)
Language
English
Description
Follows the bawdy activities of Tom Jones, a foundling of mysterious origin, adopted by a squire in eighteenth-century England.
Publisher
Woodfall Film
Pub. Date
[1959]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jimmy Porter is a university graduate who rejects middle class dreams and operates a candy stall in a local flea market. His wife, Allison, endures his anger and frustration because of his intense love. But when an actress friend of Allison's temporarily moves in with them, Jimmy becomes a twisted figure of bitterness and pain as disillusionment and anger overtake him.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Colin, a young rebel and promising distance runner, is chosen to represent his reform school in a track race. However, the opposition for Colin isn't another runner, it's the Establishment.
Series
Criterion collection volume 829
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 17 cm)
Language
English
Description
Based on one of the most controversial plays of its time, shows how a disaffected teenager finds her way amid the economic desperation of industrial Manchester, and despite an absent, self-absorbed mother. With its unapologetic identification with social outcasts and its sensitive, modern approach to matters of sexuality and race, a classic that is still a startling benchmark work of realism.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001, c1960
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., b&w, Dolby digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A drama of seedy music hall life centering on Archie Rice, an egotistical, third-rate British music hall performer whose career and personal life are in a down-hill spiral.
Publisher
Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1950s post-war England, the working classes faced an unappetizing choice between drudgery, degradation, and despair or the materialist blandishments of deadening suburban affluence. Arthur is the prototypical 'angry young man'--outspoken, dissatisfied with the status quo, rebelling against stifling class distinctions--insolent and self-confident, his high wages enable his disdain for following orders and his hard drinking, red-blooded weekends....
8) Mademoiselle
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A sleepy farm village in the south of France is the unlikely setting for this study of perversion and evil. A malicious, frustrated schoolteacher's suppressed sexual desire leads her to commit develish acts of destruction. The earthy, virile woodcutter awakens her illicit passions.
