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Austen, Jane

The BBC produced this adaptation of Austen's wry and insightful novel. Emma Wodehouse is an incorrigible matchmaker who presides over the small, provincial world of Highbury. But her deeds blur the line between good intentions and selfish gratification. Only Jane Austen could render this character's foibles with such perfect grace and agility. 257 mins. #S28044 VHS

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A first-rate BBC adaptation of the classic Jane Austen comedy of manners. Filmed on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the novel's writing, this lavishly produced, five-hour production follows the elite of 19th-century English society through games of love and negotiations of marriage. Mrs. Bennet (Alison Steadman) is deeply worried about the fact that all five of her daughters, including the lively Elizabeth (Jennifer Ehle), are as yet unmarried. She plans to convince wealthy neighbor William Collins to marry one of her daughters, but his mischievous friend Fitzwilliam Darcy (Colin Firth) arrives to foul things up. Directed by Simon Langton (Upstairs Downstairs). Featuring a superb soundtrack from composer Carl Davis.
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A lavish treatment of one of the works of Jane Austen by the BBC is now available in this country. In 18th century England an impoverished woman arrives at the estate of her rich uncle, where she is badly treated. Young Fanny Price knows that quality does not come from wealth. She sets out to convince others of that fact. Great Britain, 1986, 261 mins. #S04671 VHS

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Patricia Rozema (When Night Is Falling, I've Heard the Mermaids Singing) uses Jane Austen's novel and the author's letters and early journals to craft a passionate blurring of fact and fiction. Embeth Davidtz, Jonny Lee Miller, Allesandro Nivola, Frances O'Connor and playwright Harold Pinter star in this thematically modern period piece that upset some Austen purists and delighted others. Rozema turns Fanny Price, the heroine of Austen's 19th century tale, into a more confident, romantically and sexually outgoing character--one not unlike the author herself--who seems a woman ahead of her times. #S40999 VHS #DV64486 DVD

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Outstanding adaptation of the Jane Austen novel with a fine cast including Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier and Maureen O'Sullivan. #S01880 VHS

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This BBC production of another popular novel of Jane Austen was filmed on location in the scenic English countryside. The romantic novel of a young woman's adventures and frustrations in acquiring a suitable marriage partner is brought to life by a talented and diverse cast of British actors. #S04670 VHS

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Emma Thompson and Hugh Grant are terrific as the central couple in this Oscar-winning adaptation of the Jane Austen classic. Two sisters fall in love, and their engaging romances play out in completely opposite ways. The settings and costumes are perfect without being overpowering. This film may well be the best adaptation of an Austen novel ever made. #S27828 VHS
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Bronte Sisters

Acclaimed poet and playwright Christopher Fry (The Lady's Not for Burning) wrote this television mini-series that dramatizes the private lives of the members of England's most famous literary family. Showing how their upbringing shaped their adult lives, the series focuses on the accomplishments of the beloved Bronte sisters: Emily, Charlotte and Anne. 240 mins #S44033 VHS

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Love, passion and revenge conspire in this lavish adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's classic tale of the improbable love between a young governess who was once an orphan and her tragic and mysterious employer. From the director of Fierce Creatures. Starring Samantha Morton and Ciaran Hinds. #S32366 VHS #DVD63093 DVD

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Years before their acclaimed performances in The English Patient, Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes starred together in this visually stunning, passionate and eerily atmospheric adaptation of Emily Bronte's timeless tale of two families and the doomed love that entwines them. #S32511 VHS

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Detailed portraits of some of the great women of literature. Each program is 45 minutes. Includes Jane Austen, Emily Dickinson and The Bronte Sisters. 135 mins.

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Colin Clive is Rochester in this early sound era (the first sound version of the story) Monogram Studio production of Charlotte Bronte's classic novel. Virginia Bruce plays the title role of the English orphan who grows up to be the governess in a moody, mysterious English manor, and her growing love for its equally curious owner. #S09579 VHS

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Beautiful adaptation of the Charlotte Bronte novel stars Joan Fontaine as the fragile and noble Jane, in love with the brooding, mysterious and tragic Rochester (Orson Welles in a memorable performance), and is set within a romantic, Gothic framework. With a delicious musical score by famed composer Bernard Herrmann. Also features Agnes Moorehead and a young Elizabeth Taylor. #S18101 VHS

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A Westinghouse Studio One Summer Theatre production of Charlotte Bronte's classic tale of a young governess in peril. This well-done tv version performed live includes Katharine Bard, Kevin McCarthy and Frances Starr in its distinguished cast. USA, 1952, 59 mins. VHS: S03658

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George C. Scott delivers a fine performance as Edward Rochester and Susannah York is superb in the title role of this made-for-television adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's timeless story about a governess who finds serious obstacles to her true love. An attractive and well-acted production from veteran director Delbert Mann (Marty, That Touch of Mink). #S36839 VHS

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William Hurt heads an award-winning cast in this critically acclaimed production of Charlotte Bronte's classic story of a young woman who triumphs over fate and long hidden secrets to experience passion and romance. Also stars Charlotte Gainsbourg, Joan Plowright (The Scarlet Letter), Anna Paquin (The Piano) and supermodel Elle McPherson (Batman and Robin).

Bronte's famous novel in a remarkable adaptation featuring Timothy Dalton as the mysterious Mr. Rochester, and London stage star Zelah Clarke as the mistreated woman who learns to survive by relying on her independence and intelligence. VHS: S03527

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Savor the Wordsworth's beloved Lake District, the Yorkshire moors of the Bronte sisters and Thomas Hardy's old Dorset, immortalized under the name of Wessex. 57 mins. #S31477 VHS

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The story by Anne Bronte that shocked the Victorian world in 1848. Tara Fitzgerald (Brassed Off), Rupert Graves and Toby Stephens star in this story of sensuality and indulgence, of a marriage gone bad and a woman's right to be free and independent, set in a romantic world of wind-swept moors and mysterious manors. #S32523 VHS

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Talented Australian director John Duigan (Flirting) adapted Jean Rhys' sensual novel about the first marriage of Rochester (Nathaniel Parker), the brooding English romantic of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, to a beautiful Creole named Antoinette (Karina Lombard). Set in Jamaica during the 1840s, the film pivots on erotic obsession and sexual delusion. "Infinitely romantic, the film's eroticism is real" (Vincent Canby). With Rachel Ward as Antoinette's mentally unbalanced mother, Michael York, Martine Beswicke and Claudia Robinson.

Charlton Heston stars as the moody Heathcliff in this live tv adaptation of the Emily Bronte novel. Passions and tempers flare on the English moors. With Mary Sinclair and Richard Waring. The commercials have been deleted but the story is complete. USA, 1950, 51 mins. #S05444 VHS

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A wonderfully twisted adaption of Emily Bronte's famed novel, set in Mexico. Alternatively titled The Abyss of Passion, the film was called "a magical example of how an artist of genius can take someone else's classic work and shape it to fit his own temperament without violating it" (Vincent Canby). Spanish with English subtitles.

The tempestuous romance of Heathcliff and Cathy on the Yorkshire landscape is once again the subject for a filmed adaptation of the Emily Bronte novel. Timothy Dalton and Anna Calder-Marshall are the ill-fated lovers. Filmed on location with a cast that includes Harry Andrews, Ian Ogilvy, Hugh Griffith and Julian Glover. #S03002 VHS #DV67432 DVD

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Jacques Rivette breathes new life into this literary/cinematic warhorse, changing the setting of Emily Bronte's classic novel to the French countryside in the 1930s and using his improvisations with actors to investigate a more personal reading of the material. If you're not expecting fidelity to the source material, the director's approach is refreshing. In French with English subtitles. #S52994 VHS #DV68668 DVD

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Emily Bronte's oft-filmed classic about a love so strong it lasts beyond the grave is given a faithful adaptation in this widely praised television production. Robert Cavanah and Orla Brady star as Heathcliff and Cathy, lovers torn apart by worldly concerns but reunited on a spiritual plane. #S35992 VHS

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Burgess, Anthony

This lavish mini-series was a follow-up to the acclaimed Jesus of Nazareth, and dramatizes the trials and triumphs of early Christianity. Celebrated writer Anthony Burgess (A Clockwork Orange) co-wrote this nine-hour production. The all-star cast includes Susan Sarandon, James Mason, Jack Warden, Richard Kiley, Fernando Rey, Ava Gardner, Anothony Andrews, Jennifer O'Neill, Ben Vereen, Richard Roundtree and Anthony Zerbe. Five-volume set

This film, commissioned to mark the 1985 centennary of Lawrence's birth, uses both modern and archival footage to evoke the world of one of Britain's most famous writers. Burgess presents his own appraisal of the man whose explicit views on sex made him a controversial figure in his own time and long beyond. 55 mins.

In a loose, sometimes irreverent manner, author and critic Anthony Burgess examines James Joyce's groundbreaking historical novel, Finnegan's Wake. Burgess uses the setting of an Irish pub for his attempt to address the book's idiosyncratic language, complicated structure, and profound thematic concerns. The host even sings "The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly." 1973, 27 mins. #S50370 VHS

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An exploration of Stanley Kubrick's award-winning movie with film historian William Everson, Anthony Burgess (the novel's author), and star Malcolm McDowell. The program examines the film's mix of brutality and humor, its synthesized classical score, and its violence and sexuality, which initially earned it an "X" rating. 1972, 28 mins. #S31606 VHS

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One of the most audaciously conceived films of recent decades, a merciless vision of the near-future based on Anthony Burgess' chilling novel. Though there are certainly many films far more explicit in depicting violence, it is hard to think of any as profound in what they have to say about how society informs that violence. Certainly, the film ranks as one of the most formally striking of Kubrick's career. The New York Times' Vincent Camby called it "brilliant, a tour-de-force of extraordinary images, music, words and feelings...so beautiful to look at and to hear that it dazzles the senses and the mind."
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The Royal Shakespeare Company's acclaimed production of Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, translated and adapted by Anthony Burgess, and starring Derek Jacobi as Cyrano.

A fascinating series of informative and entertaining programs about the lives and works of some of the most celebrated authors of all time. These revealing profiles contain insightful commentary as well as rare interviews, documents and other historical materials. Each volume is 45 minutes. #S51931 VHS

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Italian director Franco Zeffirelli's impassioned interpretation of the life of Christ. British novelist Anthony Burgess (A Clockwork Orange) wrote the screenplay. With Anne Bancroft, Ernest Borgnine, Valentina Cortese, James Mason, Robert Powell and Olivia Hussey. #S17908 VHS

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An all-star cast including Burt Lancaster, Anthony Quayle, Ingrid Thulin, Irene Papas and Mariangela Melato, star in this epic theatrical adaptation with a screenplay by Anthony Burgess and Vittorio Bonicelli. #S04593 VHS

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Chaucer

This modern parallel to Chaucer's enduring tale dramatizes the effects of that story's countryside on an American G.I. and three Britishers who find themselves en route to the hallowed cathedral on the same Pilgrims Way taken by travelers some 600 years ago. This Powell and Pressburger classic says simple, direct, unaffected and charming things about the venerated traditions of Canterbury, the English and the American Army which "invaded" the area in 1944. "...represents one of the few times the narrative cinema has approached the lyrical ideal" (Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader).

Stop-motion model animation and traditional sketch work are combined with the dramatic voices of the Royal Shakespeare Company for this Oscar-nominated adaptation of Chaucer's timeless tales. Presented in a modern English translation and aimed primarily at younger viewers (grades 9 and up), this is a wonderful way to bridge the gap between film and the written word. This volume includes The Nun's Priest's Tale, The Knight's Tale and The Wife of Bath's Tale. #S42179 VHS

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Stop-motion model animation and traditional sketch work are combined with the dramatic voices of the Royal Shakespeare Company for this Oscar-nominated adaptation of Chaucer's timeless tales. Presented in a modern English translation and aimed primarily at younger viewers (grades 9 and up), this is a wonderful way to bridge the gap between film and the written word. This volume includes The Merchant's Tale, The Pardoner's Tale and The Franklin's Tale. #S42180 VHS

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The third installment of the BAFTA-winning, animated adaptation of Chaucer's classic. Love, loyalty, greed and lust are addressed in "The Squire's Tale," "The Canon's Servant's Tale," "The Miller's Tale," and "The Reeve's Tale." For ages 9 and up. #S42926 VHS

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A film which fits within the context of Pasolini's explorations of bawdy, historical classics (together with Arabian Nights and Decameron), Pasolini once again seeks out the exotic and controversial aspect of Chaucer's classic. In English. #S07821 VHS

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Classic Literary Stories, Vols. 1-3

All The Troubles of the World, from a story by Isaac Asimov, exploring the implications of a world served by an all-knowing, benevolent computer, and The Bear, from a story by William Faulkner, based on the second of his short story versions in which a boy confronts the legend and finds the truth of an old bear. 37 mins.

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The Cash of Amontillado, based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe, one of the masterpieces of horror fiction, and The Necklace, based on a story by Guy de Maupassant, in which the borrowed necklace is lost, and the couple must mortgage the last ten years of their life. 40 mins.

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The Coup de Grace, based on a short story by Ambrose Bierce, as a Union soldier searches for his childhood friend amid the scattered dead and wounded, and Bierce's An Occurrance at Owl Creek Bridge, the great brooding story of a man's life going before him shortly before his execution. 19 mins.

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Conrad, Joseph

William Wellman's adaptation of Joseph Conrad's Victory, about a man dissatisfied with society who retreats to a coastal island and is pursued by a band of criminals. With Nancy Carroll, Richard Arlen, Warner Oland and Gustav von Seyffertitz. #S18947 VHS

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Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel are two officers in Napoleon's army who violently confront each other in a series of savage duels in Ridley Scott's film about passion and honor, based on a story by Joseph Conrad. #S00379 VHS

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8. Great Writers: Joseph Conrad
A fascinating series of informative and entertaining programs about the lives and works of some of the most celebrated authors of all time. These revealing profiles contain insightful commentary as well as rare interviews, documents and other historical materials. Each volume is 45 minutes. #S51926 VHS

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Based on Joseph Conrad's novel, this film casts John Malkovich in the lead as a character who ends up exploring the edges of his own moral universe in the jungles of Africa. Filmed on location in Belize, with co-stars Tim Roth and James Fox. #S20776 VHS

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Lavish adaptation of Joseph Conrad's novel, the existential tale of a seaman in the Far East. With Peter O'Toole, Eli Wallach, James Mason. #S01711 VHS

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12. The Modern World: Ten Great Writers:Modern World: Ten Great Writers, Vol. 03: Joseph Conrad, The

A ground-breaking series of profiles of ten great 20th-century writers who helped shape literature. Each program examines the author's experiences and includes commentary by noted scholars as well as dramatized excerpts performed by actors from Great Britain's National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, including David Suchet, Eileen Atkins, Patrick Malahide, Tim McInnerny, Tim Roth, Brian Glover, Michael Gough and Edward Fox.
Vol. 3: Joseph Conrad. The author of Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness explored political and existential themes. 58 mins.

One of the largest productions in the history of public television, this spectacular, three-volume BBC mini-series is based on Joseph Conrad's sprawling masterpiece of the quest for wealth and power in a backward South American country in the 1880s. When a revolution breaks out, one man is fated to determine the future--Nostromo. With Colin Firth, Brian Dennehy, Serena Scott Thomas, Joaquim DeAlmeida and Albert Finney. #S30472 VHS

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Joseph Conrad's short story is wonderfully adapted in this film version starring Simon MacCorkindale and Thomas Hellberg. From an African outpost, in a land still relatively untouched by Western ideals of civilization, a man must struggle with his own sense of morality and search for personal honor. 45 mins.

Anthony Quinn, Rita Hayworth and Rosanna Schiaffino star in this romantic adventure, based on a story by Joseph Conrad. Quinn plays an 18th century pirate who falls in love with an innocent, slow-witted girl after he escapes the custody of French authorities. Excellent camerawork by longtime Italian cinematographer Leonida Barboni. In English.

Based on Joseph Conrad's Secret Agent, in which Sylvia Sidney suspects her husband, a theater manager, is keeping something from her--he is a saboteur, planning to explode a bomb in a railroad station. Suspense from start to finish. #S01144 VHS

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Settle in for a great Hitchcock double-feature with two British classics from the master of suspense. Oskar Holmolka plays a cinema owner who keeps a dark secret from his wife (Sylvia Sidney) in Sabotage (1936, 76 mins.), an intricate thriller based on Joseph Conrad's novel which shares a title with the other film on this disc. Hitchcock's The Secret Agent (1936, 86 mins.), which is NOT based on the Conrad novel, stars John Gielgud, Peter Lorre and Robert Young in the odd tale of a soldier and novelist enlisted to track down a German spy during World War I. #DV65648 DVD

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Bob Hoskins, Patricia Arquette and Gerard Depardieu star in this first-rate adaptation of Joseph Conrad's chilling novel of political intrigue. Hoskins plays the quiet English shopkeeper who is actually a spy for the Russian embassy, and who faces an unexpected test of allegiance when he's ordered to plant a bomb that will wreak havoc on the British public. "High intensity…dense, faithful and absorbing" (Los Angeles Times). #S31029 VHS

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Lon Chaney stars in Maurice Tourneur's silent screen adaptation of the novel by Joseph Conrad. A tale of treasure and treachery on a South Seas island, the film also stars Wallace Beery and Jack Holt. Long believed lost, this rare film was transferred from a nitrate print that had warped slightly over the years, but Tourneur's visual style is so arresting that it overcomes the poor print quality. Chaney expert and musician Jon Mirsalis wrote and performed the piano score for this video release. #S43555 VHS

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