Robert Stephens
Language
English
Description
Josh Waitzkin is a typical seven-year-old who happens to be a chess prodigy. Joe Mantegna stars as Josh's father, a sportswriter determined to see his son become a champion. The film follows their heartwarming journey of discovery, as a father and son learn the one thing neither can afford to lose: their love for each other.
3) Adam Bede
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Adam Bede, an honest, hard-working carpenter, has his heart set on marrying his sweetheart, pretty dairymaid Hetty Sorrel. Hetty wants nothing to do with her boring life on the farm and she allows herself to be seduced by the heir to a local estate. She finds herself abandoned and pregnant from her ill-fated dalliance.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) : Sherlock Holmes is confronted with the mystery of a supernatural hound that supposedly takes revenge upon the Baskerville family. Private life of Sherlock Holmes (1970): When a beautiful woman claims her husband has disappeared, the investigation takes Sherlock Holmes and Watson to Scotland, where they uncover a shocking plot involving a clandestine society. Without a clue (1988): Dr. John Watson is secretly a crime-solving...
Series
Criterion collection volume 829
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
DVD edition.
Language
English
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.
8) Puccini
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
An intimate look into the story of Doria Manfredi and her relationship with Puccini, and the opera that came about as a result.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Inspector Morse is a melancholy, enigmatic and romantic man who never uses his first name and who finds solace in real ale, classical music and difficult crosswords. Together with his able Sergeant Lewis, Morse uses his considerable intellect and passion for the truth and justice to investigate death and murder in the English university town of Oxford.
11) Testimony
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Based loosely on the memoirs of Shostakovich, a classical composer living in Russia during the reign of Stalin, this film traces the relationship between Shostakovich and Stalin and the effect that Stalin had on Shostakovich's life and work.
13) Romeo and Juliet
Series
Criterion collection volume 1171
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Language
English
Description
Franco Zeffirelli's sublime adaptation starring Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting and featuring a score by Nino Rota and Oscar-winning costumes and cinematography is Shakespeare at its most deeply felt and passionately alive.
14) Testimony
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Based loosely on the memoirs of Shostakovich, a classical composer living in Russia during the reign of Stalin, this film traces the relationship between Shostakovich and Stalin and the effect that Stalin had on Shostakovich's life and work.
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Full screen.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Thorndyke is an early proponent of forensic investigation; and there is the blind gumshoe Mac Carrados; and gentleman thief Simon Carne; and Mr. Carnacki who is a detective of the occult. These men pit their wits against the best that London's underworld has to offer. Victorian London was a boon for crooks and a bane to Scotland Yard, whose job it was to keep the city safe from criminals.
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