Tony Richardson
Series
Criterion collection volume 829
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
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.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Language
English
Description
"Using the best 35mm print of the 1929 reissue from George Eastman House as well as additional material from UCLA Film and Television Archive, Photoplay Productions created the finest existing version of the film, featuring a magnificent orchestral score by composer Carl Davis. The Photoplay team was also able to restore the stunning Technicolor bal masque sequence and has re-created the Handschiegl color process used in the famous 'Apollo's Lyre'...
4) Blue sky
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
An Army major assigned to monitor a top-secret nuclear test is thrust into the center of a high-level military conspiracy. The only person who has a chance to save him from the nightmare cover-up is his wife--the wife who has nearly ruined his career with her scandalous behavior.
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
c1994.
Language
English
Description
A re-creation of mid-Victorian England that contrasts the silliness of the aristocracy with the squalor of the lower classes. Rather than making a standard blood and glory epic, Richardson created a film that took the silly glory and glamour out of war and substituted something closer to the bitter truth.
6) Tom Jones
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Lusty tale set in 18th century England. Tom Jones is an orphan raised by the village squire who grows up to be a handsome young man with a way with women. He loves the daughter of a neighboring landowner, and falls into many adventures in pursuit of her, including duels, bedroom romps and prison!
Series
American film theatre volume 2
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a neurotic Connecticut family and the old friends who decide to move in with them indefinitely.
10) Tom Jones
Series
Criterion collection volume 910
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows the bawdy activities of Tom Jones, a foundling of mysterious origin, adopted by a squire in eighteenth-century England.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
A rambunctious (and contentious) young man stuck in a factory job is having an affair with the wife of a co-worker. Frustrated by his economic confines, he drinks up much of his paycheck on the weekends. He also meets a young girl his own age and his affections begin to shift toward her.
12) Joseph Andrews
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A poor but virtuous 18th century English country servant struggles to remain faithful to his true love, an innocent servant girl, amid the comically scandalous and debauched behaviour of all around him.
13) The loved one
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A bemused would-be poet gets entangled with an unctuous cemetery entrepreneur, a mom-obsessed mortician and other bizarre characters.