Posts Tagged ‘Books on Film’
Monday, October 27th, 2008
Ghare-Băire
Call Number: VHS00185
by Satyajit Ray; Soumitra Chatterjee; Victor Banerjee; Swatilekha Chatterjee; Soumendu Roy; Dulal Dutta; Rabindranath Tagore; National Film Development Corporation of India.; Embassy Home Entertainment.; European Classics, Ltd.;
Language: Bangali and English dialogue with English subtitles
Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. : Nelson Entertainment : Embassy Home Entertainment, [1986?].
Notes: Originally released in 1984 (130 mins.); Based on the Nobel Prize winning novel Ghare-Băire by Rabindranath Tagore; Edition was produced in the International Collection;
Summary: A woman falls in love with her husband’s boyhood friend and his political ideals.
OCLC #: 77661957
Added: October 27, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Books on Film, Satyajit Ray
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
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Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The King and I
Call Number: VHS00184
by Darryl Francis Zanuck; Deborah Kerr; Yul Brynner; Oscar Hammerstein; Richard Rodgers; Margaret Landon; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.; Fox Video (Firm);
Language: English
Publisher: [United States] : Fox Video, ©1994.
Notes: Originally released in 1956 (133 mins.); Adapted from Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s musical play based on Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon; Nominated for nine 1957 Academy Awards; Edition is included in the Rodgers & Hammerstein Golden Anniversary series;
Summary: Tells the story of an Englishwoman, Anna Leonowens, who comes to Siam as schoolteacher to the royal court in the 1860s.
OCLC #: 43749503
Also: See Anna and the King of Siam ( VHS00090);
Added: October 27, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Tags:Award, Books on Film, Walter Lang
Posted in Drama, Musical | Comments Closed
Monday, October 27th, 2008
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Call Number: VHS00183 Copy 1
VHS00183 Copy 2
by Yves Montand; Irene Papas; Jean Louis Trintignant; Costa-Gavras; Vasilēs Vasilikos; Reggane Films.; Axon Video (Firm);
Language: French with English subtitles
Publisher: Copy 1: New York : Axon Video Corp., 1989.; Copy 2: New York, NY : Fox Lorber Home Video, ©1997.
Notes: Originally released in 1969 (128 mins.); Nominated for five 1970 Academy Awards; Based on a novel by Vasilēs Vasilikos;
Summary: A Greek pacifist leader is murdered at a rally. Despite the official police report of accidental death, a journalist’s persistent questioning leads to a full-scale investigation, revealing corruption in high places.
OCLC #: Copy 1: 20405410; Copy 2: 44605126
Added: October 27, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Tags:Award, Books on Film, Costa-Gavras
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
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Anna Karenina
Call Number: VHS00180 Copy 1
VHS00180 Copy 2
by Clemence Dane; Salka Viertel; S N Behrman; Clarence Brown; Greta Garbo; Fredric March; Freddie Bartholomew; Maureen O’Sullivan; May Robson; Basil Rathbone; Reginald Owen; Leo Tolstoy; MGM/UA Home Video (Firm);
Language: Swedish with English subtitles
Publisher: Copy 1: Culver City, CA : MGM/UA Home Video, ©1990.; Copy 2: Culver City, CA : MGM/UA Home Video, [1987]
Notes: Originally released in 1935 (96 mins.); Based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy;
Summary: In this story of doomed love set during the reign of Czar Nicholas I of Russia, the wife of a Russian aristocract falls for a dashing cavalry officer.
Also: See the Julien Duvivier directed Anna Karenina ( VHS00088);
OCLC #: Copy 1: 27215432; Copy 2: 16668402;
Added: October 22, 2008
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Tags:Black and White, Books on Film, Clarence Brown
Posted in Drama, Romance | Comments Closed
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
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Der Blaue Engel
Call Number: VHS00174 Copy 1
VHS00174 Copy 2
by Josef Von Sternberg; Marlene Dietrich; Emil Jannings; Hans Albers; Rosa Valetti; Heinrich Mann;
Language: German with English subtitles
Publisher: Copy 1: Eatontown, NJ : Royal Sound Video.; Copy 2: Burbank, CA : Viking Video Classics, 1986.
Notes: Originally released in 1930 (98 mins.); Adapted from the novel by Heinrich Mann;
Summary: One of the early sound masterpieces of German cinema, this film made Marlene Dietrich an international star and helped assure director Joseph von Sternberg a place in cinematic history. The story is a gripping portrait of a middle-aged professor who is degraded by his obsession with a tawdry cafe entertainer.
OCLC #: 52170547
Added: October 22, 2008
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Tags:Black and White, Books on Film, Foreign Film, Josef von Sternberg
Posted in Drama, Musical | Comments Closed
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Gentleman’s Agreement
Call Number: VHS00173
by Gregory Peck; Dorothy McGuire; John Garfield; Celeste Holm; Elia Kazan; Darryl Francis Zanuck; Moss Hart; Laura Keane Zametkin Hobson; Fox Video (Firm); Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: New York : Jewish Media Fund, 1997
Notes: Originally released 1947 (118 mins.); nominated for eight 1948 Academy Awards; Based on the novel Gentleman’s agreement by Laura Z. Hobson.
Summary: A writer who is assigned to do a magazine series on anti-Semitism decides to pose as a Jew, and soon discovers what it is like to be a victim of religious intolerance.
OCLC #: 39446754
Added: October 22, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Award, Black and White, Books on Film, Elia Kazan
Posted in Drama, Romance | Comments Closed
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
A Walk in the Night
Call Number: VHS00162
by Mickey Madoda Dube;
Language: In English and Afrikaans with English subtitles
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, [1999?]
Notes: Originally released in 1998 (78 mins.); Adaptation of Alex La Guma’s 1962 novella;
Summary: A Walk in the Night recounts a single terrible night during which the fragile world of Mikey Adonis, a young Coloured steel worker, disintergrates. As the pressures on Mikey build, we see a decent man driven to an act of brutality by a racist society which humiliates him at every turn.
OCLC #: 43210809
Added: October 21, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Books on Film, Crime, Foreign Film, Mickey Madoda Dube
Posted in Drama, Thriller | Comments Closed
Monday, October 20th, 2008
The Third Man
Call Number: VHS00152
by David O Selznick; Alexander Korda; Carol Reed; Orson Welles; Joseph Cotten; Trevor Howard; Graham Greene; Goodtimes Home Video.;
Language: English
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Goodtimes Home Video, 1985.
Notes: Originally released in 1949 (104 mins.); Nominated for three 1951 Academy Awards; Based on the novel by Graham Greene.
Summary: Details the intrigue encountered by an American novelist who travels to Vienna ostensibly to attend the funeral of a friend, but finds himself enmeshed in international espionage plots in the wake of World War II. Examines the psychological and physical landscape of post-World War II Vienna on the brink of the Cold War, utilizing scenes of war-devastated Vienna as the American novelist determines who is trustworthy.
OCLC #: 163836315
Added: October 20, 2008
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Tags:Award, Black and White, Books on Film, Carol Reed
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
Since You Went Away
Call Number: VHS00143
by Claudette Colbert; Jennifer Jones; Joseph Cotten; Shirley Temple;
Language: English
Publisher: New York : CBS/Fox Video, ©1990.
Notes: Originally released in 1944 (179 mins.); Based on the book Since You Went Away…Letters to a Soldier from His Wife by Margaret Buell Wilder; Nominated for nine 1945 Academy Awards; Edition contains two VHS cassette tapes;
Summary: Story of a family during World War II. While her husband is off at war, Anne struggles to be strong for her two daughters. Because money is tight, they take in a boarder and his grandson, and must deal with all sorts of problems trying to keep their spirits up.
OCLC #: 21632198
Added: October 20, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Award, Books on Film, John Cromwell
Posted in Drama, War | Comments Closed
Monday, October 20th, 2008
The Music Lover’s
Call Number: VHS00140
by Ken Russell; Richard Chamberlain; Glenda Jackson;
Language: English
Publisher: Culver City, CA : MGM/UA Home Video, [1991].
Notes: Originally released in 1970 (123 mins.); Based on the book, Beloved Friend, by Catherine Drinker Bowen and Barbara Von Meck.
Summary: Not exactly a fact-based story of the Tchaikovsky’s marriage, this is a lavishly produced picture with music played by the London Symphony Orchestra.
OCLC #: 24594255
Added: October 20, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Books on Film, Ken Russell
Posted in Biography, Drama | Comments Closed
