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Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1981.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (113 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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. In this classic comedy, three plots intertwine: the entangled love affairs of Demetrius and Helena, Lysander and Hermia, the comic performance of a "play within a play"...
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1979.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (168 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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...
3) Burning
Language
Korean
Formats
Description
An introverted young man, Jongsu (Ah-in YOO), finds romantic interest in a young woman from his past, Haemi (Jong-seo JUN). One day she returns from a trip with Ben (Steven YEUN), a wealthy and sophisticated young man. When Haemi disappears, Jongsu becomes suspicious of Ben and his mysterious hobby.
Publisher
Frederick Wiseman (Zipporah)
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (61 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
THE LAST LETTER is based on a chapter of Vasily Grossman's novel Life and Fate. It is 1941. A Ukrainian ghetto has fallen to the Nazis and all of its Jewish residents are slated to be murdered. In the midst of the impending horror, the town's physician, a woman named Anna Semionova, dictates one final letter to her son, who is safe outside of enemy lines. The letter, with its detailed observations of daily life in a ghetto, reveals the fear, courage,...
5) Memento
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (113 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (145 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 90 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color.
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,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 46 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
May Gibbs' famous children's classic The Adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie is also a popular children's ballet performed by the Dancers Company of the Australian Ballet School with guest artists from the Australian Ballet. This program includes a brief background of May Gibbs before entering into the magic realm of her characters - Snugglepot, Cuddlepie, Snake, Kookaburra and Ragged Blossom. The delightful ballet brings to life the enchanting...
9) Richard III
Publisher
Janus Films (The Criterion Collection)
Pub. Date
1955.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (160 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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...
10) The tempest
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1980.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (124 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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...
11) Berlin syndrome
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
A passionate holiday romance leads to an obsessive relationship, when an Australian photojournalist wakes one morning in a Berlin apartment and is unable to leave. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival**.
12) Brace up
Publisher
The Wooster Group
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (106 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The Wooster Group's production of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, translated by Paul Schmidt and directed by Elizabeth LeCompte, with performances from Kate Valk, Peyton Smith, Scott Shepherd, Ari Fliakos, Anna Kohler, Beatrice Roth, Ron Vawter, and Willem Dafoe.
13) The stronger
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 18 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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...
14) War and peace
Language
English
Formats
Description
Leo Tolstoy’s literary masterpiece comes to life in this epic film classic, featuring the talents of some of the greatest names from Hollywood’s Golden Age. Starring Audrey Hepburn as Natasha, Henry Fonda as Pierre, and Mel Ferrer as Prince Andrei, WAR AND PEACE is a compelling **Oscar**-nominated drama of international conflict, spectacular adventure, gripping intrigue and tragic romance set against the sweeping backdrop of Napoleon’s invasion...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 150 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Kaboodle is a diverse series of 32 animated and live-action stories in varying length that encourage imagination, stimulate creative play and encourage exploration of values and issues. Kaboodle follows a narrative exploration with the stories and activities in each episode focusing on a different aspect of the narrative, in both literature and screen stories. Many of the Kaboodle stories have been adapted from popular children's books.
16) Naples '44
Publisher
First Run Features
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1943 a young British officer, Norman Lewis, entered a war-torn Naples with the American Fifth Army. Lewis began writing down everything that happened to him during his one-year stay, observing the complex social cauldron of a city that contrived unbelievable methods of survival on a daily basis. These notes turned into his masterpiece, a memoir titled NAPLES ‘44. Francesco Patierno's new documentary imagines Lewis returning many years later to...
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is the story of the magical journey that led to the creation of Ebenezer Scrooge (Christopher Plummer), Tiny Tim and other classic characters from *A Christmas Carol*. Charles Dickens (Dan Stevens) mixed real life inspirations with his vivid imagination to conjure up unforgettable characters and a timeless tale, forever changing the holiday season into the celebration we know today. Nominated for Achievement in Visual Effects, Best Adapted Screenplay...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 90 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Zamiatou is the mother of two quarrelsome boys and a depressed teenage girl. She is also the wife of a man arrested for political reasons who returned from prison mentally and physically destroyed. She struggles hard to survive in a poor and desolate area. She is ready to face anything to keep the family alive except prostituting her beautiful daughter.
19) The castle
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 123 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Deutsch
Description
Michael Haneke's adaptation of Franz Kafka's The castle is an ingenious, faithful interpretation evoking Kafka's vision of a dystopian society hobbled by paperwork and bled dry by conformism and convolution.
20) Liz in September
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 93 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Español
Description
Based on the classic lesbian play, Last Summer at Bluefish Cove, the gorgeous drama Liz in September stars Latina lesbian supermodel Patricia Velasquez as Liz, a hardcore party girl and womanizer. Liz (who is ill) and her friends are at a beach resort celebrating what they don't realize could be her last birthday. When an outsider joins the party, Liz's friends dare her to seduce the newcomer - and nothing turns out as expected.
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