Posts Tagged ‘Books on Film’
Thursday, October 9th, 2008
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Sense and Sensibility
Call Number: VHS00020 Copy 1
VHS00020 Copy 2
by Ang Lee; Emma Thompson; Kate Winslet; Alan Rickman; Hugh Grant; Lindsay Doran; Sydney Pollack; Jane Austen;
Language: English
Publisher: Culver City, CA : Columbia TriStar Home Video, ©1995. (Copy 2 is copyrighted 1996)
Notes: Originally released in 1995 (136 mins); Nominated for seven Academy Awards; Based on the novel by Jane Austen.
Summary: The Dashwood sisters, sensible Eleanor and passionate Marianne, find their chances at marriage seemingly doomed by their family’s sudden loss of fortune.
OCLC #: 83905754
Added: October 9, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Tags:Ang Lee, Award, Books on Film
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
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Little Women
Call Number: VHS00017 Copy 1
VHS00017 Copy 2
by Denise DiNovi; Robin Swicord; Gillian Armstrong; Winona Ryder; Susan Sarandon; Gabriel Byrne; Trini Alvarado; Samantha Mathis; Kirsten Dunst; Claire Danes; Thomas Newman; Louisa May Alcott; Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm); Columbia Pictures.;
Language: English
Publisher: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, 1995
Notes: Originally released in 1994 (118 mins); Based on the book by Louisa May Alcott; Nominated for three 1995 Academy Awards
Summary: Classic story by Louisa May Alcott about the March family of four daughters, a strong mother and a father away during the Civil War.
OCLC #: 32679509
Also: See the previously-released movie adaptation Little Women directed by Mervyn LeRoy ( VHS00348) or the even-earlier adaptation Little Women directed by George Cukor ( VHS00081)
Added: October 9, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Tags:Award, Books on Film, Gillian Armstrong
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
My Antonia
Call Number: VHS00007
by Jason Robards; Eva Marie Saint; Neil Patrick Harris; Joseph Sargent; Willa Cather; Paramount Pictures Corporation.;
Language: English
Publisher: New York, PDR Productions, Inc.
Notes: Videocassette release of the 1994 television film (92 mins); Based on the novel “My Antonia” by Willa Cather;
Edition Notes: This edition is from USA Network’s footage, stating “My Antonia” – Final Cut on the label
Summary: Orphaned as a teenager, Jim Burden comes to live with his stern grandparents on their isolated farm. His pain and loneliness ease when he meets the beautiful Antonia, the high-spirited daughter of neighboring immigrant farmers. Antonia’s lust for life in her new country endears the young woman to Jim, but not his grandparents, who want bigger and better things for their grandson.
OCLC #: 32776057
Added: October 6, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Books on Film, Eva Marie Saint, Joseph Sargent
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
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A Room with a View
Call Number: DVD00017 Copy 1
DVD00017 Copy 2
by Ismail Merchant; Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; James Ivory; Maggie Smith; Denholm Elliott; Judi Dench; Simon Callow; Helena Bonham Carter; Julian Sands; Daniel Day-Lewis; E M Forster; Tony Pierce-Roberts; Merchant Ivory Productions.; Goldcrest Films International.; National Film Finance Corporation (Great Britain); Curzon Film Distributors.; Film Four International.; BBC Video (Firm); Warner Home Video (Firm);
Language: English
Publisher: BBC Video ; Burbank, CA : Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video, ©2004.
Notes: Two-disc special edition DVD (117 mins); Based on the novel by E.M. Forster; Released as a film in England in 1985; Special features: disc 1. new restoration supervised by director James Ivory and cinematographer Tony Pierce-Roberts; commentary from Simon Callow, Ismail Merchant, James Ivory and Tony Pierce-Roberts; disc 2. archive promotional appearances by Daniel Day-Lewis and Simon Callow; BBC report on the film’s success in the U.S.; E.M. Forster remembered; film scrapbook with never-before-seen photos and memorabilia; Merchant Ivory tribute; Nominated for eight 1987 Academy Awards;
Summary: Tells the story of the coming of age of Lucy Honeychurch. Longing to burst free from the repression of British upper class manners and mores, she must wrestle with her inner romantic longings to choose between the passionate George and the priggish but socially suitable Cecil.
OCLC #: 54810705
Also: Available in VHS format at VHS00050.
Added: October 6, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Tags:Award, Books on Film, James Ivory
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Pollyanna
Call Number: VHS00005
by Hayley Mills; Jane Wyman; Agnes Moorehead; David Swift; Richard Egan; Karl Malden; Nancy Olson; Adolphe Menjou; Donald Crisp; Kevin Corcoran; Eleanor H Porter; Walt Disney Productions.;
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, Calif. : Walt Disney Home Video, [1995?]
Notes: Videocassette release of the 1960 motion picture (134 mins); Based on the novel by Eleanor H. Porter; Walt Disney Family Film Collection;
Summary: A young orphan brings sunshine into the lives of everyone she meets with her optimistic outlook on life.
OCLC #: 32934969
Added: October 6, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Books on Film, David Swift, Disney
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
David Copperfield
Call Number: VHS00003
by Lionel Barrymore; W C Fields; Maureen O’Sullivan; Edna May Oliver; Elizabeth Allan; Freddie Bartholomew; Lewis Stone; Roland Young; Madge Evans; George Cukor; David O Selznick; Charles Dickens; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.; MGM/UA Home Video (Firm);
Language: English
Publisher: New York : MGM/UA Home Video and Turner Entertainment, 1990.
Notes: Released in 1935 (131 mins); Based on the book by Charles Dickens;
Summary: David Copperfield enjoys an idyllic life with his gentle, widowed mother and his loving nurse, Peggotty. Then tragedy strikes when Mr. Murdstone weds David’s mother and drives her to an early grave. Despised by his stepfather, the boy is forced to live in misery and poverty until he runs away to throw himself upon the mercy of his eccentric aunt.
Also: See the Delbert Mann directed David Copperfield (
DVD00061);
OCLC #: 22851345
Added: October 6, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Black and White, Books on Film, George Cukor
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
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Persuasion
Call Number: VHS00002
by Roger Michell; Nick Dear; Amanda Root; Ciaran Hinds; Jane Austen; BBC Films.; WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.); Millésime Productions.; Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm);
Language: English
Publisher: Culver City, CA : Columbia TriStar Home Video, [1995]
Notes: Based on the novel by Jane Austen; Originally broadcast in 1995;
Summary: Anne and Wentworth’s passion is thwarted by a scheming socialite. Eight years later, when Anne is considered an old maid and her once-rich family is on the verge of bankruptcy, Wentworth returns.
OCLC #: 34507979
Added: October 6, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Tags:Books on Film, Roger Michell
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
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MiddleMarch
Call Number: DVD00005
by Anthony Page; Andrew Davies; Juliet Aubrey; Robert Hardy; Douglas Hodge; Michael Hordern, Sir.; Peter Jeffrey; Patrick Malahide; Trevyn McDowell; Rufus Sewell; BBC Video (Firm); Warner Home Video (Firm); George Eliot;
Language: English
Publisher: BBC Video ; Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 2005, ©1994.
Notes: One DVD disc (420 min.); DVD release of the original 1994 BBC television broadcast ; episodes 1-3 on side A (200 min.) and episodes 4-6 on side B (220 min.). Based on the novel by George Eliot; Special features: Middlemarch– a reader’s guide: 40 minute featurette on the book.
Summary: A dramatization of George Eliot’s novel describing life in a provincial town on the eve of the Industrial Revolution.
OCLC #: 58846406
Added: October 6, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Tags:Anthony Page, Books on Film, Mini-Series
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Friday, September 12th, 2008
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Flags of our Fathers
Call Number: DVD00008
by Clint Eastwood; Robert Lorenz; Steven Spielberg; William Broyles; Paul Haggis; Ryan Phillippe; Jesse Bradford; Adam Beach; John Benjamin Hickey; John Slattery; Barry Pepper; Jamie Bell; Paul Walker; Robert Patrick; Melanie Lynskey; Tom McCarthy; Chris Bauer; Tom Stern; Henry Bumstead; Steve Riley; Michael Owens; James Bradley; Dreamworks Pictures.; Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ); Amblin Entertainment (Firm); Malpaso (Company); Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm);
Language: English
Publisher: Universal City, CA : DreamWorks Pictures ; Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Entertainment [distributor], 2007.
Notes: Based on the book by James Bradley and Ron Powers (132 mins); Released in 2006; Nominated for two 2007 Academy Awards;
Summary: The life stories of the five Marines and one Naval officer that were forever immortalized as a symbol of WWII by raising the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima.
OCLC #: 77122195
Added: October 6, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Tags:Award, Books on Film, Clint Eastwood
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Friday, September 12th, 2008
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The Barchester Chronicles
Call Number: DVD00003
by by Anthony Trollope; Donald Pleasence; Nigel Hawthorne; Alan Rickman; Geraldine McEwan; Susan Hampshire; Warner Home Video (Firm);
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 2005.
Notes: 2-disc DVD set; Based on the novels The Warden and Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope. Originally broadcast on television in 1982; Special features: Middle England’s Marvel-commemorative profile of Peterborough Cathedral as it celebrated its 750th anniversary in 1989 and cast/author bios.
Summary: The cozy community of Barchester is rocked from its complacency when a crusade against the Church of England’s practice of self-enrichment misfires.
OCLC #: 57490910
Added: October 6, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Tags:Books on Film, David Giles
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