Cyril Cusack
2) Far and away
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A poor but proud Irish tenant farmer accompanies the spoiled and headstrong daughter of a wealthy landlord to America in a quest for land.
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Language
English
Formats
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 arrival and arrest of Egeon in Ephesus brings a family crisis into focus. For elsewhere in the city, his son Antipholus and his slave Dromio are seeking their respective...
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Hugo's story of escaped convict Jean Valjean, who is aided by a good bishop and pursued relentlessly by the fanatical Inspector Javert, expresses the author's humanitarian interest in the suffering of the common people.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Winston Smith (Hurt) endures a squalid existence in totalitarian Oceania under the constant surveillance of Big Brother. But his life takes a horrifying turn when he begins a forbidden love affair and commits the crime of independent thought. Sent to the chillingly labeled 'Ministry of Love,' he is placed at the mercy of O'Brien (Burton), a coolly treacherous leader determined to control his thoughts and crush his soul.
Series
Criterion collection volume 608
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows the unlikely romance between Harold, a death-obsessed young man from a wealthy family, and Maude, a free-spirited octogenarian.
10) Fahrenheit 451
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Werner stars as a fireman in charge of burning books in a future where reading is a crime. Christie plays a dual role as his wife and his book-collecting mistress.
Series
Criterion collection volume 984
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A man and a woman try desperately to escape the totalitarian regime they live in that bans nearly all free-thinking and love itself. Based on the book by George Orwell. This is the version released in 1984.
Series
Criterion collection volume 452
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a fellow spy is murdered, an agent who is working as a defected spy trying to get inside information realizes that he is just as expendable as his fellow agent.
Series
Criterion collection volume 441
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Details the professional and personal travails of a troubled, alcoholic research scientist and military bomb-disposal expert who, while struggling through a relationship with his girlfriend, is hired by the government to advise on a German weapon.
15) The golden bowl
Series
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Wealthy American widower Adam Verver and his daughter Maggie live in Europe. They collect art and relish each other's company. Maggie becomes engaged to Amerigo, an Italian prince in reduced circumstances. Maggie and Amerigo marry, and later, after Charlotte and Adam have also wed, both spouses learn of the ongoing affair. Not until Maggie buys the gilded crystal bowl as a birthday present for Adam does truth crack the veneer of propriety.
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
An overview of the worldwide political upheavals during the Sixties and Seventies. Interweaves footage from the Vietnam War and the antiwar protests in the U.S., May '68 in Paris, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Salvador Allende and the coup in Chile, Che Guevara and Regis Debray in Bolivia, the Shah of Iran, Fidel Castro, et alia. Contains official images, film clips, news coverage trims and neglected reels.
18) Odd man out
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
An IRA gunman, wounded and desperate,struggles to avoid a police manhunt.
Series
American film theatre volume 2
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
"Jayston, long separated from his London family, brings wife Merchant home to meet his father and two brothers. Film verson of the Pinter play is among the most satisfactory of all stage-to-screen adaptations." --Maltin.