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Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
This production is part of a famous series produced by BBC of all of William Shakespeare's plays. The resulting films, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilized the best theatrical and television directors and brought highly praised performances from leading contemporary actors. The trickiest sort of play -- a comedy with tragic relief. With her brother condemned to die for the crime of premarital sex, Isabella is torn between her vows to God...
2) Memento
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Three-time Oscar nominee Christopher Nolan (Interstellar, Inception) directs this critically acclaimed mystery. Leonard (Guy Pearce) is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty, however, of locating his wife's killer is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago,...
Publisher
Opus Arte
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
Set in the present day in the world of a women's prison, Brutus wrestles with his moral conscience over the assassination of Julius Caesar, and Mark Antony manipulates the crowd through his subtle and incendiary rhetoric to frenzied mob violence. What follows is the descent of the country into factions and the outbreak of civil war.
What makes a king? What makes a father? Shakespeare's monumental history play travels to the heart of family, duty,...
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
One hundred and fifty years ago, the Corporation was a relatively insignificant entity. Today, it is a vivid, dramatic and pervasive presence in all our lives. Like the Church, the Monarchy and the Communist Party in other times and places, the Corporation is today's dominant institution. But history humbles dominant institutions. All have been crushed, belittled or absorbed into some new order. The Corporation is unlikely to be the first to defy...
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This program teaches highlighting the good parts and trouble spots, research, visualizing and dramatization, non-fiction vs. fiction, the echo effect, online reasearch vs. physical, changing directions, genre material, staying fresh and externalizing characters' thoughts. Subjects covered include:--What to include. --How to avoid the 200 page screenplay. --How faithful should you be to the original? --Is it easier to adapt fiction or non-fiction,...
7) The tempest
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
This production is part of a famous series produced by BBC of all of William Shakespeare's plays. The resulting films, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilized the best theatrical and television directors and brought highly praised performances from leading contemporary actors. THE TEMPEST is a dramatic romance, weaving fancy and realism into a plot that speaks to audiences today. This timeless stage is set on an enchanted island, where an...
8) Richard III
Publisher
Janus Films (The Criterion Collection)
Pub. Date
1955.
Language
English
Description
In Richard III, director, producer, and star Laurence Olivier brings Shakespeare's masterpiece of Machiavellian villainy to ravishing cinematic life. Olivier is diabolically captivating as Richard, Duke of Gloucester, who, through a series of murderous machinations, steals the crown from his brother Edward. And he surrounds himself with a royal supporting cast, which includes Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud, and Claire Bloom. Filmed in VistaVision...
9) Thief
Series
Criterion collection volume 691
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
A safe cracker attempts his final job before bidding farewell to his double life.
10) The tempest
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Language
English
Description
Television adaption of Shakespeare's play revolving around an enchanted island, an exiled Duke, young lovers, and a framework of conspiracy.
11) As you like it
Series
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Presents a dramatization of William Shakespeare's play, a pastoral romance set in the Forest of Arden in medieval France.
12) Coriolanus
Series
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
The last of Shakespeare's tragedies, in which Coriolanus, a strong and cruel soldier, brings about his own downfall through the flaws in his character.
Series
Criterion collection volume 431
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Special edition ; fullscreen.
Language
English
Description
When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, as well as the heart of a beautiful princess.
14) Certain women
Series
Criterion Collection volume 893
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Director-approved special edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A stirring look at three women striving to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer who finds herself contending with both office sexism and a hostage situation; a wife and mother whose determination to build her dream home puts her at odds with the men in her life; and a young law student who forms an ambiguous bond with a lonely ranch hand. A portrait emerges of flawed, but strong-willed individuals in...
15) The stronger
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Based on the play written by August Strindberg on 1912, and filmed in New York's Central Park. Two actresses, one a wife and mother, the other living alone, meet in a cafe. While the wife talks, the other is silent. But the wife must finally face the truth: the silent woman is her husband's mistress. Still, their agonizing confrontation, as well as the relief that follows, binds them together: the battle is over and it becomes irrelevant which one...
Series
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
"Shakespeare's The taming of the shrew tells the tale of the sharp-tongued Kate, who must marry before her younger sister, Bianca, is allowed to find a suitor. Undaunted by her waspish reputation Petruchio attempts to woo the not-so-fair maiden, but is faced with a tirade of poisonous insults"--Container.
17) Oklahoma!
Series
Publisher
distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
Widescreen format, 2.20:1 aspect ratio.
Language
English
Description
A cowboy wins his girl despite the intervention of a sinister hired hand.
19) Hustlers
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A crew of savvy former employees at a New York City strip club band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients.
20) The stud
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Joan Collins ... is back and she's fierier than ever as Fontaine Khaled, the bored wife of a rich businessman and the owner of London's hottest club, The Hobo. Tony Blake, ... who doubles as Fontaine's boy toy, manages the club. But with Fontaine's debauched behavior and erotic demands, Tony secretly plans to break away from his benefactor. When Alexandra, Fontaine's stepdaughter, grabs Tony's attention, it will be a battle of seduction as Fontaine...
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