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| Adventure of Tom sawyer
(Mark
Twain)
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Sentiment rules in this version of the Twain tale of boyhood in 1850
Missouri, reasonably faithful except for minor details and making
the character Jim a boy instead of a man. Includes the whitewash
episode, puppy love, the graveyard murder, the boys' running away to
Jackson's Island, the salvation of Muff Potter, and the cave
adventure. --IMDb |
| Adventure of Huckle Finn
EV792/823B01 |
It's the
unforgettable saga of a
mischievous youngster and a runaway slave on a wild expedition to
freedom. As the pair take the ride
of their lives down the treacherous Mississippi River, they
run into an entertaining assortment
of offbeat characters and face one challenging
adventure after another! |
|
All The King's Men
DVD eng/ 791.43 R829k
|
The
rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer
and retains power by dint of a populist appeal. |
|
American
Crime Stories (John Escott)
CD eng/ 407 E74a |
Contained in this
book are seven short stories, by well-known writers such as Dashiel
Hammett, Patricia Highsmith, and Nancy Pickard. |
|
The Age of Innocence
(Clare West)
CD eng/ 407 W512a |
Into the narrow social world of New York in the 1870s comes Countess
Ellen Olenska, surrounded by shocked whispers about her failed
marriage to a rich Polish Count. A woman who leaves her husband can
never be accepted in polite society. Newland Arthur is engaged to
young May Welland, but the beautiful and mysterious Countess needs
his help. He becomes her friend and defender, but friendship with an
unhappy, lonely woman is a dangerous path for a young man to follow
- especially a young man who is soon to be married. |
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| Bartleby the Scrivener, Herman Melvilie
EVR/823/038M11
EV/823/038B01 |
This is Melville's sardonic and symbolic story of a copyist at a
Wall Street law firm who refuses to conform, responding to all
requests with, "I prefer not to." Autobiographical in its despair
over the public'c failure
to understand the writer,
prophetic in its foreshadowing of 20th-century Absurdism, Bartley
the Scrivener porvides a
window. |
| Beloved (Toni
Morrison)--Demo Tape (Running time: Approx. 172 Minutes; 1991) |
Adaptation of Toni Morrison's
version of slave narrative, touching but pretty graphic. Beloved tells the
story of how a mother tries to save her baby by killing it, and then how the
mother and the whole community get haunted by a ghost which is supposedly the
baby.
"Two Thumbs
Up!"--Siskel & Ebert
"One of the Most Powerful Films of the Year!"--Time
Magazine--Rolling Stone
(Stars: Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Thandie
Newton, and Lisa Gay Hamilton) |
| Billy Budd
(Herman Melvilie)
EVR/823/031M11
EV/823/031B01
EV/823/031M01
|
Man fight between God and Evil. The battle is fully realized in the
personal and physical struggle between
Billy
Budd, a young innocent
sailor on a British man-of-war and his superior, the cold, cruel and
often vicious Claggart. |
|
Billy Budd (1) EV/792/451B01
Billy Budd (2) EV/792/452B01 |
Captain Vere, an
oldman, is haunted by a moment in his life when he was tested and
found wanting. |
|
BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS
(novel by Kurt Vonnegut) |
Alan Rudolph's film treatment of Kurt
Vonnegut's classic satire has been hailed as a quirky comic treasure and
derided as an absolute, incoherent disaster. Barely released in the U.S. despite
its all-star cast (Bruce Willis, Nick Nolte, Albert Finney and Barbara
Hershey), the film is nothing if not daring. "Watching it is a little
like taking a ride through a giant fun house. As you
lurch furiously around the corners, you are continually assaulted by visual
and literary jokes that pop out you like faces wearing maniacal grins, then
disappear into the blackness a moment later" (Stephen Holden, New York
Times).
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|
The Bostonians
813
J76b |
In
Boston in the aftermath of the Civil War, Verena Tarrant (Madeleine
Potter), a gifted young orator, has attracted the attention of Olive
Chancellor (Vanessa Redgrave), who wishes to nurture Verena as an
inspirational force for the Womens’ Movement. But ranged against her
is Basil Ransom (Christopher Reeve), a handsome male chauvinist, who
wants Verena as his wife. Against a backdrop of luminous New England
landscapes, battle is joined, and for Olive the struggle will prove
an odyssey that forces her to acknowledge her true nature. Merchant
Ivory Productions’ acclaimed screen adaptation of the Henry James
classic charts the struggle between two charismatic forces to gain
control over the destiny of a spirited young woman.
--Amazon
(120 mins) |
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The Color Purple 紫色姊妹花
V/792/243B01
VHS/792/243L11 |
The
color
purple is a story of Celie,
an uneducated woman living in the
rural American south. Forced to marry a brutal man she calls
"Mister," Celie turns inward and shares her grief only with God. But
she transformed by the
friendship of two remarkable women, acquiring self-worth..and
the strength to forgive. |
|
Cannery Row
791.43 W256c DVDe |
Director-writer
David S. Ward’s 1982 adaptation of John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row
(with material from another Steinbeck tale, Sweet Thursday)
has its charms, principally some top-drawer talent on both sides of
the camera; the cast is headed by Nick Nolte and Debra Winger, Jack
Nitzsche composed the music, and John Huston supplies the
voice-over. In a previous life, Nolte’s Doc was known as Eddie "The
Blur" Daniels, a star baseball pitcher in the 1920s who mysteriously
gave up the game while still in his prime; now he’s a self-styled
marine biologist with a predilection for octopi who makes his home
on "The Row," a string of sardine fisheries in Monterey, California.
There are a variety of colorful characters in this rundown ‘hood--a
worldly-wise madam (Audra Lindley) and her charges, a bum (M. Emmet
Walsh) and his buddies--but although it takes him a while to admit
it, Doc only has eyes for Suzy (Winger), a newcomer to the scene
who, by her own estimation, "ain’t got the class of a duck." The
film relies mostly on these oddballs and their various
idiosyncrasies and adventures, and Steinbeck clearly has
considerable affection for them; it’s no surprise that some,
including Doc, were based on real folks. But while Nolte and Winger
have a certain squabbling rapport, the movie too often comes off as
stagey (the dialogue), artificial (the sets), and glib. In the final
analysis, Cannery Row isn’t John Steinbeck’s greatest book
(at the very least, it lacks the heft of East of Eden or
The Grapes of Wrath), and this effort, despite its good points,
will hardly be considered the best adaption of the author’s work to
the screen or the stage. --Amazon |
|
The Call of the Wind (Nick Bullard)
CD eng/ 407 B935 |
Set in the frozen north of Canada, this book presents the story of
Buck, a plucky dog. The men need big, strong dogs to pull the
sledges at the gold mines. Buck is stolen from his home in the
south. It describes Buck learning how to work in harness, and how to
fight. Because when a dog falls down in a fight, he never gets up
again. |
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Daisy Miller (Dir. Peter Bogdanovich)
810 B674 VRe
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Continuing his 1970s
recreations of classical Hollywood genres and styles, Peter
Bogdanovich turned to the literary costume drama with an adaptation
of the Henry James novella Daisy Miller. At a Swiss spa, upper-class
expatriate American Frederick Winterbourne (Barry Brown) meets
pretty, nouveau riche flirt Daisy Miller (Cybill Shepherd); her
bratty, xenophobic little brother Randolph (James McMurtry); and her
tremulous, nattering mother (Cloris Leachman). Despite warnings from
his dowager aunt (Mildred Natwick) about Daisy's recklessness with
men, Winterbourne finds himself drawn to her. When he encounters her
again in Rome, he tries to convince her that her liberated behavior
with an Italian admirer (Duilio Del Prete) may sully her reputation
in aristocratic circles. But Winterbourne cannot reconcile his own
feelings for Daisy with the manners that he is used to following,
nor can he fathom how she may feel about him beneath her veneer of
willful coquetry. After society matron Mrs. Walker (Eileen Brennan)
ostracizes her, Daisy's final rash action reveals to Winterbourne
how his old-fashioned mores may have sealed her fate. With a
screenplay by Frederic Raphael and location shooting in Rome and
Switzerland, Bogdanovich carefully recreated the rich surroundings
and stultifying social strictures of James' story. Despite this
well-executed atmosphere, Daisy Miller suffered critically, as
Bogdanovich was especially taken to task for casting the amateurish
Shepherd in the complex and pivotal role of Daisy. After three
consecutive hits with The Last Picture Show (1971), What's Up, Doc?
(1972), and Paper Moon (1973), Daisy Miller flopped, beginning
Bogdanovich's mid-'70s slide into box-office and critical ignominy.
--Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide |
|
Daisy Miller
813
J76d |
Cybilll
Shepherd shines in this adaption of Henry James's story, "Daisy
Miller." She gives an authentic performance as an American girl who
is not wise to the ways of gentile society. You feel for her as she
continues to make mistakes in this group of "aristocrats."
Bogdanovich caputres the period remarkably well, and the
cinematography is breathtaking. The Late Barry Brown, Cloris
LEachman, Eileen Brennan and Mildred Natwick are on hand in
supporting performances. This is an underrated gem that is ripe for
discovery.
--Amazon |
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Their
Eyes Were Watching God
(Darnell
Martin)
791.45/M379/W052352V
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A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for
happiness leads her through several different marriages, challenging the
morals of her small town. Based on the novel by Zora Neale Hurston.
(無字幕, 英文發音,
113
min.) |
| East of Eden (Steinbeck)
EVHS/792/607B01 |
The 1955 film version of John Steinbeck's East of Eden will always
be popular because of the presence in the cast of James Dean. Even
so, the film covered only a small portion of the original novel.
Braggadocio union officer Cyrus Trask (Warren Oates) is the father
of gentle, loyal Adam (Timothy Bottoms) and hellraiser Charles
(Bruce Boxleitner). Enter the bewitching, mean-spirited Cathy Ames
(Jane Seymour), who leads both brothers on and causes an irreparable
rift between them. Eventually, Adam marries Cathy, taking her and
their twin sons to a 900-acre farm in California's Salinas Valley.
Cathy rebels against this cloistered existence and runs off to work
in a house of ill repute. In Part Three, we finally meet the James
Dean character: Cal Trask (played by Timothy Bottoms' brother Sam),
who can never hope to come up to the standards of his good twin
brother Aron (Hart Bochner) in the eyes of his father. Cal's bad
reputation obscures his good intentions, but by film's end he is
compelled to reveal to brother Aron that their mother had not died
as father Adam has claimed, but in fact has become a hard-bitten
bordello madam. Adapted for television by Richard Shapiro, East of
Eden was part of ABC's informal Novels for Television series.
--Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide |
| Eat A Bowl Of Tea
ELD/792/486L11
|
Ben
Loy, fresh out of the
service has his whole life spread out before him-including
a job, an apartment and
a marriage arrange by his
father to the beautiful Mei Oi. But as eager as they see what
America has offer them and when Ben celebrated young marriage
threatens to crumble in the face of
this pressure, he find a
future for them in their new adoptive homeland. |
|
Ethan Frome (Susan Kingsley)
CD eng/ 407 K55 |
Long considered one of Wharton's greatest works,
this classic novel is a sharply-etched portrait of the simple
inhabitants of a 19th-century New England village. Written with
stark simplicity, "Ethan Frome" centers on the power of local
convention to smother the growth of the individual. |
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Good Earth, The (Pearl
Buck) (1) EV/792/052B01
Good Earth, The (Pearl Buck) (2) EV/792/053B01
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The story of a farmer in China: a story of humility and bravery. His
father gives Wang Lung a freed slave as wife. By diligence and
frugality the two manage to enlarge their property. But then a
famine forces them to leave their land and live in the town. However
it turns out to be a blessing in disguise for them. --IMDb |
| Gone with the Wind (I)
EV792/244B01
Gone with the Wind (II)
EV792/245B01 |
For half a century,
the world has thrilled to
the triumphs and
heartaches of this timeless tale of war and romance.
With its immortal cast,
magnificient cinematography, sweeping score and classic story,
Gone
With
The
Wind remains cinema's
greatest epic of passion and adventure. |
|
Grapes of Wrath, The (Steinbeck) 憤怒的葡萄 （上﹚(PUBLIC)
EV/792/664M01
Grapes of Wrath, The
(Steinbeck) 憤怒的葡萄 （下﹚ (PUBLIC)
EV/792/665M01 |
John Steinbeck's powerful 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath told
a tale of the effects of the Great Depression on one American family
that struck a nerve in many readers. In Hollywood, 20th Century Fox
studio boss Darryl F. Zanuck quickly moved to obtain the movie
rights and soon put his best director, John Ford, on the project.
The film softens Steinbeck's salty language and bleak story, yet I
think ultimately the movie has a stronger emotional impact than the
book because Ford and celebrated cinematographer Gregg Toland
created unforgettable visual images. |
| Great Gatsby, The
EV/823/034B02 |
Jay
Gatsby, who had once loved
beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchnan, then lost her to a rich boy. But
now Gatsby is mysteriously
wealthy.. and ready to risk everthing to woo Daisy back. |
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| Housekeeping (A Tidy Comedy)
Based on the Book by Marilynne Robinson
(Columbia Tristar Home Video) (Color, approx.
117mins)
791.43 F735 Ve 1988
c.2 |
There's no place like home...especially when Aunt Sylvie's in
charge. Christine Lahti gives a brilliant performance as Aunt
Sylvie, an eccentric free-spirit who returns to her hometown, a
small mountain community in the PacificNorthwest, to care for her two orphaned nieces. At
first the two girls (Sara Walker, Andrea Burchill)
are thrilled to have Sylvie as their new role model. But as time passes, the
teenagers find that this quintessentially quirky woman doesn't quite fit in
with the rest of the moms--she keeps crumbled crackers in her coat pocket for
imaginary children...has a lifetime supply of empty tin cans and used
newspapers...and thinks nothing of taking a midday nap on a bench in town
square. When the townspeople decide Sylvie must clean up her act, it seems
her fantasy world is about to end--but does it? From acclaimed director Bill Frosyth ("Local Hero") comes this off-beat,
witty comedy that New York Times critic Vincent Canby has named one of his
top-ten favorites of the year. |
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| In Country (by
B.A.
Mason) EV/810/001B01 V0031738
|
The
story of a family's struggle to heal the wounds of Vietnam, captures
both the horror of battle-and the disillusionment of a young soldier
who thought war meant glory. And discovers it means both pain and
fear. |
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| The Joy Luck Club (喜福會)
(Dir: Wayne Wang)
791.43/W359/W052321V |
The 1993 film adaptation of Amy Tan's bestselling novel is both
a delight and a moving experience, an anthology of stories wrapped in one
Chinese-American woman's journey to understand her roots. Wayne Wang (Eat a
Bowl of Tea) directs a large, outstanding cast spread over eight different
tales of the lives of Chinese women, most of them set in the past. The script
by Tan and Ronald Bass (Rain Man) is a delicate balance of emotions
that swell but don't gush, and Wang brings impressive texture and a personal
feel to Tan's descriptions of daily life in the Chinese-American community.
This sprawling, good-looking movie makes for a cathartic tearjerker one can
feel good about. (139 min.) |
| Jonathan Livingston Seagull
VE792/048B01
|
The intense and
extraordinary determination of
Jonathan, who envisions another world - one of love,
understanding, achievement, hope and individuality. |
| Joan of Arc
EV792/163B01 |
The
epic story of a woman who followed her own path and changed the
course of history. In 1429 a teenage girl from a remote French
village stood before her King with a message she claimed came from
God; that she would defeat the world's greatest army and liberate
her country from its political and religious turmoil. As this small
voice in the heart of a simple girl grew stronger, rulers were drawn
to listen, armies empowered to fight and her countrymen inspired to
believe. |
| The Joy Luck Club
EV792/601B03 |
Through a series of
flashbacks, four young Chinese women born in America and their
respective mothers born in feudal China, explore their past. This
search will help them understand their difficult mother/daughter
relationship. |
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The Last of Mohicans
EV792/909B01
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Based on James Fenimore Cooper's novel of the
same name, THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS is a lush, sweeping epic about
the brutal realities of building a new world. Stirring and powerful,
THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS delivers action, romance, history, and
scenic beauty. |
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Last Tycoon, The
EV823/033B01
Last Tycoon, The
EVR823/033M11
|
Scott Fitzgerald's fascinating tale od studio
politics in early Hollywood is breathtakingly adapted to the big
screen by Elia Kazan.Robert De Niro heads a powerhouse cast as
studio head Monroe Stahr, a thinly disguised Irving Thalberg
character in command of a love lost to the past. |
|
Love Story
(Rosemary Border)
CD eng/ 407 B728
|
This is a love story you won't forget. Oliver
Barrett meets Jenny Cavilleri. He plays sports, she plays music.
He's rich, and she's poor. They argue, and they fight, and they fall
in love. So they get married, and make a home together. They work
hard, they enjoy life, they make plans for the future. Then they
learn that they don't have much time left. Their story has made
people laugh, and cry, all over the world. |
|
Little
Women (John Escott)
CD eng/ 407 E74 |
Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March
sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New
England. |
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Moby Dick
EV823/030B01
EVR823/030M11
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More than on hundred years ago, Herman Melville
wrote the story of Ahabm the peg-legged sea captain bent on pursuing
a great white whale called Moby
Dick. Ahab a madman
possessed, stupming his ship's deck as though he were riding the
winds of hell in his manical hunt for the crafty old killer that
chewed off his leg. |
|
Mosquito Coast, The
ELD792/357L11 |
He planned a Paradise. He created a Hell. Allie
Fox is fed up. Angered by American that "buys junk, sell juunk, eat
junk " and a world whose nuclear doomday clock is always 2 minutes
away from midnight, the brilliant inventto takes a bold step. |
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Of mice and men (Gary sinise)
(MGM Home Entertainment LLC.,
2005)
813 S615 DVDe W051319 |
John
Steinbeck's classic comes magnificently to life in this beautiful
and stirring film starring Oscar nominees John Maikovich and Gary
Sinise. Directed by Sinise from an adaptation by Oscar winner Horton
Foote, this "flawless miracle of movie-making" (Susan Granger,
American Movie Classic) is a must-see for all audiences.
Best friends Lennie(Malkovich) and George (Sinise) find themselves
unemployed in Depression-era California, unable to keep jobs because
of Lennie's childlike mentality. But once they get hired at the Tyler
Ranch, they enjoy a brief period of stability-until their supervisor's
wife (Sherilyn Fenn) becomes the victim of Lennie's compassion, forcing
George to make a compassionate decision of his own.
(color, 110 min) |
|
Out of Africa
〈遠離非洲〉 ELD792/141L11
|
The fascinating true story
of Karen Blixen, a
strong-willed woamn who, with her philandering husband, runs a
coffee plantation in Kenya, circa 1914. To her astonishment she soon
discovers herself falling in love with the land, its people and the
mysterious white hunter, Robert Redoford. |
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A raisin in the sun
(Daniel petrie) (Columbia
Pictures Industries, 1999)
791.43 P494 DVDe W051315 |
The
younger family, frustrated with living in their crowded Chicago apartment,
sees the arrival of a $10,000 insurance check as the answer to their
prayers. Matriarch Lena Younger (Claudia MaNeil) promptly puts a down
payment on a house in an all-white suburban neighborhood. But the
family is divided when Lena entrusts the balance of the money to her
mercurial son Walter Lee (Poitier), against the wishes of her daughter
(Diana Sands) and daughter-in-law (Ruby Dee). It takes the strength
and integrity of this African-American family to battle against generations
of prejudice to try to achieve their piece of the American Dream.
(color, 128 min) |
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Seize the Day
(Robin
Williams in Saul Bellow’s) (Fielder
Cook)
813/F458/W052325V
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This 1986 film--a dead-serious performance by Robin Williams, minus the
overlay of schmaltz that informed his acting in the late 1990s--sat on the
shelf and had no theatrical release, for obvious reasons: the film has the
downbeat spiral of a 1970s film, relentless in its depiction of human frailty
at the breaking point. That doesn't mean it's a bad film; to the contrary,
it's actually quite a good film. But it is in no way audience-friendly in its
vision of a human being who has reached the end of his tether. Directed by
Fielder Cook, it's based on a Saul Bellow novel and strikes exactly the right
note, a combination of absurdity and dread. Williams has the desperate energy
of a man approaching 40 with nothing to show for his life--and a disapproving,
disappointed father he's constantly trying to impress. Jerry Stiller is great
as Williams's seeming friend, who hooks him into a business deal guaranteed to
change his life and his luck.
(英文發音,
93
min.) |
| The Sheltering Sky
EV792/517B01
|
Are you tourist or traveler? Kit and Port
Moresby find the
distinction important. A tourist wants comforts of home. A traveler
seeks adventure. Kit and Port travelers, drawn by desire and destiny
to the Sahara. There they
will follow their passionate obsession almost to oblivion in an
attempt to recapture the
love they once shared. |
|
The Scarlet Letter (John Escott)
CD eng/ 407 E74s |
Scarlet is the
colour of sin, and the letter 'A' stands for 'Adultery'. In the
1600s, in Boston, Massachusetts, love was allowed only between a
husband and a wife. A child born outside marriage was a child of
sin. Hester Prynne must wear the scarlet letter on her dress for the
rest of her life. How can she ever escape from this public shame? |
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Turn of the Screw, The
ELD782/073L11
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Young English governess on her first assignment
at the remote abd ominous
Bly Manor estate. Believing that
the two young orphans in her care have come under
the evil, depraved
influence of
the manor's resident
ghost, the sexually
repressed governess becomes obsessed with saving
the children from what
sees as a mortal threat to their very souls. |
|
The Turn of the Screw (2000)
(Henry James)
791.43 C638 Ve
|
Jodhi May, Pam Ferris and Colin Firth (in Pride
and Prejudice, Shakespeare in Love) star in this chilling
adaptation of Henry James' gripping horror story, The Turn of the
Screw. A naive, young governess (May) is hired by a charming
bachelor (Firth) to look after his two young children in a grand
mansion in rural England. She is determined to make the most of her
situation, despite the Master's strange stipulation that she never
contact him. Her first impressions are all good—the house is
beautiful, the housekeeper (Ferris) is friendly, the children are
lovely and the job is a perfect delight. But then, she sees the
ghosts of the former valet, Peter Quint and a previous governess,
Miss Jessel, and everything changes. The young governess is
convinced that the children can see the ghosts, that they can
communicate with them, and that their very souls are in danger. She
feels she alone can save them from a horrifying fate. This
provocative adaptation breathes new life into James's morbid
Victorian obsession with sexuality and morality.
--Amazon |
|
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
(Margret Naudi)
CD eng/ 407 N293 |
The human mind is a dark, bottomless pit, and
sometimes it works in strange and frightening ways. That sound in
the night - is it a door banging in the wind, or a murdered man
knocking inside his coffin? This work presents a collection of short
stories that explore the world of the imagination, where fear lies
in every mind. |
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Washington Square (Kieran McGovern)
CD eng/ 407 M478 |
When a
handsome young man begins to court Catherine Sloper, she feels she
is very lucky. But in New York, in the 1840s, young ladies are not
free to marry where they please. Catherine must have her father's
permission, and Dr Sloper is a rich man. One day, Catherine will
have a fortune of 30,000 dollars a year. |
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Stories
|
To Build a Fire
813
C656 |
TO BUILD
A FIRE is a 56-minute episode from the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation's 1981 mini-series `Jack London's Tales of the
Klondike.' Directed by David Cobham, narrated by Orson Welles and
starring Ian Hogg as the man, it is a faithful adaptation. Which, in
this case, is a mixed blessing. London wrote from inside his
characters, and what happened - the action - almost always shared
equal billing with the character's reaction to that action. His
masterpiece, The Call of the Wild, is written from a dog's
point-of-view! The challenge presented by works like Call of the
Wild and To Build a Fire is to bring that inner voice to the
surface. This program met the challenge, with middling success, by
having Welles read pertinent sentences from the story over the
action.
--Amazon |
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
(Katherine Anne Porter)
813 Am512j VRe 1980 |
Granny Weatherall
(Geraldine Fitzgerald) is a spunky old lade of eighty who bosses her doctor
and her children. She seems so strong and in control. Yet she has never had
the upper had in her destiny.
One morning, a flood of long-forgotten memories bring her
to the realization that of her accomplishments, she cannot console herself
for the shame-filled day she was left standing at the altar. Still, her
indomitable will to live and act independently infuses the last day of her
life.
Adapted from the short story by acclaimed writer
Katherine Anne Porter ("Ship of
Fools"), The Jilting of Granny Weatherall reminds us of the plight of many women who
wait for life to claim them, rather than seek life out for themselves.
Starring Geraldine Fitzgerald
(Monterey Home Video) (Approx. running time: 57 mins)
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|
Paul's Case (Willa Cather)
823 012B01
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Lost in a world of fantasy, young
working-class Paul dreams of escaping his dreary existence in
turn-of-the-century Pittsburgh.
As fate would have it, Paul gets his chance by stealing some money and
subsequently running off the glamorous New
York City.
Once there, Paul experiences everything he ever dreamed
of` Kfrom a
luxurious hotel suite to his first taste of champagne. However, when reality
finally comes crashing down around him, Paul realizes the desperate course he
must now take.
In a powerful and intense performance, Eric Roberts
("Star 80") plays the title role in author Willa Cather's PAUL'S CASE. As the tortured and tragic young man,
Roberts brings to life this classic American story of a sensitive soul pitted
against an uncaring materialistic society.
Starring Eric Roberts and Michael Higgens (Monterey
Home Video) (Approx. running time: 52 mins)
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A Rose for Emily (William Faulkner)
Gold Award-Houston
International Film Festival Golden Eagle`
XC. I. N. E.
813 R795 VRe 1982 |
Angelican Huston stars in William Faulkner` `8s
classic tale of love and madness set in the deep South. Miss Emily Grierson was the fading aristocrat of a small Southern
town. When she was young, her tyrannical father drove away all her suitors.
Finally free after his death, Miss Emily quickly succumbed to the advances of
a Yankee day laborer. Only years later does the town realize the chilling
consequences of this ill-fated romance.
A ROSE FOR EMILY is the suspenseful tale of a Southern
belle driven mad by isolation and her allegiance to the past. Adapted from a
short story by Novel Prize-winning author William Faulkner, it is at once a
twentieth century gothic romance, a psychological study of isolation, and a
look at the decay of the old South.
Starring Angelica Huston, John Randolph, John Carradine
(Pyramid Home Video) (PHV 9127/27 mins, 1982
Chubbuck Cinema Company All Rights Reserved) |
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The Yellow Wall Paper (Short story by Charlotte Perkin Gilman; A film by Marie Ashton)
Distributed by: Women Make Movies
813 Y43 Ve 1977 |
This
short dramatic film brings to life the classic Charlotte Perkins
Gilman story of the same name, which has become an important
addition to America. (Color, 1977, 14 mins) |
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