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Quills
Call Number: DVD00029
by Philip Kaufman; Nick Wechsler; Julia Chasman; Peter Kaufman; Doug Wright; Geoffrey Rush; Kate Winslet; Joaquin Phoenix; Michael Caine; Stephen Warbeck; Fox Searchlight Pictures.; Industry Entertainment.; Walrus & Associates.; Hollywood Partners.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2001]
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 2000 (124 mins.); Based on the play by Doug Wright; Special features include 3 featurettes (Marquis on the marquee, Creating Charenton, Dressing the part), commentary by the screenwriter, theatrical trailers & TV spot, music promo, stills gallery of production artifacts, historical facts about the people portrayed in the film, and little known facts about the film’s production and actors; Nominated for three 2001 Academy Awards;
Summary: History’s most infamous sexual adventurer lives in a madhouse, where a beautiful laundry maid helps him smuggle his erotic stories to the printer, defying orders from the asylum’s priest.
OCLC #: 236107001
Added: October 16, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Quills
Thursday, October 16th, 2008Elizabeth I
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
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Elizabeth I
Call Number: DVD00023
by Nigel Williams; Barney Reisz; Tom Hooper; Helen Mirren; Jeremy Irons; Hugh Dancy; Patrick Malahide; Toby Jones; Barbara Flynn; Ian McDiarmid; Channel Four (Great Britain); Company Pictures (Firm); Home Box Office (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: [New York] : Home Box Office, ©2006, [2005].
Notes: Originally aired on HBO as a two-part miniseries in 2005 (211 mins.); 2-DVD disc set includes “Making ‘Elizabeth I'” behind-the scenes production featurette (18 min.); “Uncovering the real Elizabeth I” featurette (8 min.).; Nominated for 13 2006 Emmy Awards;
Summary: Explores the intersection of the private and public life of Elizabeth I in the latter half of her reign, offering a personal look at her allies, her enemies, and her suitors as she struggles to survive in a male-dominated world.
OCLC #: 68571798
Added: October 13, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Becky Sharp
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008Becky Sharp
Call Number: VHS00070
by William Makepeace Thackeray; Miriam Hopkins; Frances Dee; Sir Cedric Hardwicke; Billie Burke; Kartes Video Communications.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Indianapolis, IN : Kartes Video Communications, [1984]
Notes: Originally released in 1935 (83 mins.); First feature film ever photographed in Technicolor; Edition: Video Film Classics; Nominated for one 1936 Academy Award.
Summary: An adaptation of Thackeray’s Vanity Fair about a hardened orphan who wages war on English society as an ambitious social climber. The first feature photographed in Technicolor.
Also: See the Mira Nair directed Vanity Fair (DVD00060)
OCLC #: 12373885
Added: October 13, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Forrest Gump
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
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Forrest Gump
Call Number: VHS00067
by Steve Tisch; Wendy Finerman; Robert Zemeckis; Eric Roth; Tom Hanks; Robin Wright; Gary Sinise; Mykelti Williamson; Sally Field; Winston Groom; Paramount Pictures.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: [Hollywood, Calif.] : Paramount, 1995.
Notes: Originally released in 1994 (142 mins.); Based on the novel “Forrest Gump” by Winston Groom; Nominated for 13 1995 Academy Awards;
Summary: Through three turbulent decades, Forrest, a simple man with a low I.Q., rides a tide of events that whisks him from physical disability to football stardom, from Vietnam hero to shrimp tycoon, from White House honors to the arms of his one true love.
OCLC #: 32375140
Added: October 13, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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The Shanghai Gesture
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008The Shanghai Gesture
Call Number: VHS00066
by Josef Von Sternberg; John Colton; Gene Tierney; Walter Huston; Victor Mature; Arnold Pressburger; Image Entertainment.; Arnold Productions, inc.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: [Chatsworth, CA.] : Dist. by Image Entertainment, 1988.
Notes: Originally released in 1941 (99 mins.); From the play by John Colton; Nominated for two 1943 Academy Awards;
Summary: A story of decadence and addictions of several sorts in Shanghai’s underworld.
OCLC #: 42459707
Added: October 13, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Shakespeare in Love
Monday, October 13th, 2008
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Shakespeare in Love
Call Number: VHS00064
by Gwyneth Paltrow; Joseph Fiennes; Geoffrey Rush; Colin Firth; Ben Affleck; Judi Dench; John Madden; Marc Norman; Tom Stoppard; Miramax Films.; Universal Pictures (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, Calif. : Miramax Home Entertainment 1998
Notes: Originally released in 1998 (123 mins.); Nominated for 13 Academy Awards; Edition: Miramax films Academy Screening Copy, may contain additional footage; unique box art.
Summary: When Will Shakespeare needs passionate inspiration to break a bad case of writer’s block, a secret romance with the beautiful Lady Viola starts the words flowing like never before
OCLC #: 55959131
Added: October 13, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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A Soldier's Story
Monday, October 13th, 2008A Soldier’s Story
Call Number: VHS00061
by Howard E. Rollins, Jr.; Adolph Caesar; Norman Jewison; Columbia-Delphi Productions.; RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: [Burbank, CA] : RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, ©1985.
Notes: Orginially released in 1984 (102 mins.); Based on Charles Fuller’s play, A soldier’s play; Nominated for three 1985 Academy Awards;
Summary: Near the end of World War II a proud, black army attorney is sent to Fort Neal, Louisiana, to investigate the murder of Master Sgt. Waters, a vicious, bitter man who despised his own black roots.
OCLC #: 23377319
Added: October 13, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Romeo + Juliet
Monday, October 13th, 2008William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
Call Number: VHS00060
by Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce; Gabriella Martinelli; Leonardo DiCaprio; Claire Danes; Brian Dennehy; John Leguizamo; Pete Postlethwaite; Paul Sorvino; Diane Venora; William Shakespeare; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.; Fox Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: [Beverly Hills, CA] : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment/Fox Video, ©1997.
Notes: Originally released in 1996 (120 mins.); Nominated for one 1997 Academy Award; Based on the play by William Shakespeare;
Summary: A modern adaptation of the classic love story, moved to the futuristic urban backdrop of Verona Beach.
Also: See the George Cukor version, Romeo and Juliet (VHS00127); the Franco Zeffirelli version, Romeo & Juliet (VHS00146); the Alan Horrox version (VHS00752); the Mohamed Camara interpretation, Dakan (VHS00318); the Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise interpretation, West Side Story (VHS00557);
OCLC #: 36709304
Added: October 13, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Brian's Song
Monday, October 13th, 2008
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Brian’s Song
Call Number: VHS00059
by Paul Junger Witt; William Blinn; Buzz Kulik; James Caan; Billy Dee Williams; Jack Warden; Shelley Fabares; Judy Pace; Gale Sayers; Columbia Pictures Corporation.; RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, CA : RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, ©1987.
Notes: Originally aired in 1971 (74 mins.); Based on the book: I am third by Gale Sayers with Al Silverman; Nominated for seven 1972 Emmy Awards.
Summary: A drama about the deep friendship between Gale Sayers, black halfback for the Chicago Bears, and his white teammate, Brian Piccolo, who died of cancer in 1970.
OCLC #: 20007044
Added: October 13, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Reap the Wild Wind
Monday, October 13th, 2008Reap the Wild Wind
Call Number: VHS00057
by Cecil B DeMille; John Wayne; Ray Milland; Paulette Goddard; Alan Le May; Charles Bennett; Jesse L Lasky; Thelma Strabel; MCA Universal Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: [Universal City, CA (70 Universal City Plaza, Universal City 91608)] : MCA Home Video, ©1989.
Notes: Originally released in 1942 (123 mins.); From the book by Thelma Strabel; Nominated for three Academy Awards.
Summary: Swashbuckling 1800’s epic set off the coast of Florida as sea captain Jack Stuart and lawyer Steve Tolliver struggle for the love of a southern belle and battle corrupt business practices.
OCLC #: 82968963
Added: October 13, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection