Alan Bates
2) Gosford Park
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Drama set at the country estate of Sir William McCordle in 1932, showing the lives of upstairs guests and downstairs servants at a hunting party weekend when one of the group is murdered.
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(142 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A timid English writer finds himself drawn into a world far more exciting and dangerous than any he has known when he hires an eccentric stranger named Zorba to work in a mine he has inherited on Crete.
4) Evelyn
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1953, Desmond Doyle takes on the Irish family law system and the Catholic Church in a bid to be reunited with his children. Despite a strong work ethic, Desmond has a hard time holding on to steady work. Desmond's wife walks out on the relationship and his sporadic employment eventually attracts the attention of the law. A court order sends his two sons and young daughter to separate Catholic orphanages until Desmond can prove he's capable of properly...
5) The rose
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Presents the final days of a hard-living, burned-out rock performer who badly needs a rest. When her ruthless manager won't give her one, she sets off on a self-destructive binge. The character is modeled after Janis Joplin.
6) Hard times
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion. Under his influence, Louisa grows cold while Tom turns to a secret life of drinking and gambling. To be nearer her brother, Louisa accepts an offer of marriage from his boss, the self-made, self-important banker Josiah Bounderby, though she does not love him. But soon she finds...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A humorous and heartwarming portrait of beloved novelist John Mortimer's early years. After his highly eccentric lawyer father Clifford Mortimer is struck with blindness, John must deal with his father's decreasing ability to take care of himself.
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (171 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bathsheba Everdene is a willful, passionate girl who is never satisfied with anything less than a man's complete and helpless adoration. She captures the lives and loves of three very different men. Gabriel Oak is a sheep farmer who is captivated by her beauty and proposes marriage. William Boldwood is an older, prosperous man who had been a confirmed bachelor. Sergeant Frank Troy is a handsome, but reckless swordsman whose given to sudden fits of...
10) Arabian nights
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (179 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A legendary heroine, Scheherazade, saves her kingdom and her own life by seducing her husband with the fantastical tales of Aladdin, Ali Baba, and other larger-than-life heroes, warriors and djinns.
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Butley, a professor at a London University, finds out that his wife wants a divorce, his boyfriend is leaving him and his untalented colleague is getting a book published all in one day.
12) In celebration
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
Three sons return to the primitive Yorkshire mining town of their birth to celebrate their parents' fortieth wedding anniversary. During the celebration, their submerged hatreds and fears emerge from behind their model blue collar family facade.
13) Three sisters
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (162 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nearly a thousand miles away from their beloved Moscow, three sisters live in virtual exile. Olga attemps to support her family and home that is the sole legacy from their late father. Masha finds relief from an empty marriage by being involved with a passionate young colonel. Irina wills herself to return the affections of an ardent suitor in the hope that he will whisk her off to the city. Sift through the debris of their shattered dreams on the...
14) Arabian nights
Pub. Date
2000, c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 175 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Every night Scheherazade tells her husband, the Sultan, a portion of a fabulous story, thus postponing her execution by one more day.
15) Hamlet
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (135 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hamlet, a prince of medieval-era Denmark, senses treachery behind his royal father's death. His mother is all too dangerously entangled in that treachery. This film portrays Shakespeare's immortal tale of high adventure and evil deeds.
16) The rose
Series
Criterion collection volume 757
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert.
Language
English
Description
Rose is one of the biggest rock stars on the planet. Her life of constant sex, drugs and rock and roll, along with constant touring, prove to be too much to handle. Nominated for four Academy Awards.
17) Quartet
Series
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The quartet consists of novelist Marya Zelli, her Polish husband, Stephen, wealthy philanderer/artist H.J. Heidler and his wife, Lois. Though she has been indulgent of H.J.'s past indiscretions, Lois isn't keen on her husband carrying on an affair with Marya under their own roof. Meanwhile, Stephen sits in prison, jailed for his various petty thefts. Once Stephen is released, he learns about the triangle. When the dust settles, it is Marya who suffers...
18) Hamlet
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hamlet, a prince of medieval-era Denmark, senses treachery behind his royal father's death. His mother is all too dangerously entangled in that treachery. This film portrays Shakespeare's immortal tale of high adventure and evil deeds.