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The authoritative edition of The Winter's Tale from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.
The Winter's Tale, one of Shakespeare's very late plays, is filled with improbabilities. Before the conclusion, one character comments that what we are about to see, "Were it but told you, should be hooted at / Like an old tale."
It includes murderous passions,...
The Winter's Tale, one of Shakespeare's very late plays, is filled with improbabilities. Before the conclusion, one character comments that what we are about to see, "Were it but told you, should be hooted at / Like an old tale."
It includes murderous passions,...
4) Sirens
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young minister is on a mission to tame the wicked ways of a notorious artist whose nude paintings scandalize the nation. Intent on delivering salvation, the reverend and his wife instead are led into temptation by their playfully seductive hosts.
5) Wild dogs
Publisher
Sisu Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
עברית
Description
A successful lawyer's life falls apart when his wife, a social worker, is brutally assaulted by a gang. A riveting drama that tests the limits of justice and morality in an apocalyptic society.
9) Cymbeline
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English
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The authoritative edition of Cymbeline from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.
Cymbeline tells the story of a British king, Cymbeline, and his three children, presented as though they are in a fairy tale. The secret marriage of Cymbeline's daughter, Imogen, triggers much of the action, which includes villainous slander, homicidal jealousy, cross-gender...
Cymbeline tells the story of a British king, Cymbeline, and his three children, presented as though they are in a fairy tale. The secret marriage of Cymbeline's daughter, Imogen, triggers much of the action, which includes villainous slander, homicidal jealousy, cross-gender...
10) Django unchained
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (166 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Django, a former slave turned hired gun, heads back to the plantation to free his wife, Broomhilda, from the tyrannical plantation owner Calvin Candie, with the help of a German bounty hunter, Dr. King Shultz.
12) Weekend
Series
Criterion collection volume 635
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
Français
Description
Determined to collect an inheritance from a dying relative, a bourgeois couple travel across the French countryside while civilization crashes and burns around them. Featuring a famous centerpiece sequence in which the camera tracks along a seemingly endless traffic jam, and rich with historical and literary references, this film is a surreally funny and disturbing call for revolution, a depiction of society retreating to savagery, and, according...
13) Open water
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Susan and Daniel are a happily married couple who are taking a much needed vacation to the islands. They are hoping for a memorable trip. However, their vacation turns tragic when their scuba diving party leaves them in the middle of the ocean by the careless diving boat crew. As the reality of isolation sets in, they turn to one another for support. Unable to flag down passing boats, they begin to panic as encircling sharks begin to appear.
15) Cousins
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Danson and Rossellini play cousins-by-marriage who pretend to be lovers in order to punish their philandering spouses. The make-believe lovers do fall in love with consequences that are both hilarious and heartwarming.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 630 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From the mind of mystery maven Agatha Christie comes what is considered to be the original crime-solving couple, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. Redefining the conventions of the mystery genre, providing a prototype for many male/female detective teams that followed.
18) Please give
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kate has a lot on her mind. There's the ethics problem of buying furniture at estate sales and marking it up at her Manhattan store. There's the materialism problem of not wanting her teenage daughter to want the expensive things that she wants. There's the marriage problem of sharing a partnership in parenting, business, and life with husband Alex but sensing doubt nibbling at the foundations. And worst of all are the neighbors, cranky, old Andra...
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Series
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
3 CDs (199 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Imogen, the daughter of King Cymbeline, is persecuted by her wicked stepmother, the Queen, and by Cloten, the Queen's doltish son. Disguised as a boy, she sets out to find her husband, the banished Posthumus.
20) Keeping mum
Publisher
Thinkfilm
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An absent-minded vicar of a rural parish is so distracted by the pressures of his job that he fails to notice his wife's dalliance with her brash golf instructor, his daughter's parade of new boyfriends, and his young son's regular trouncing by the school's bullies. Enter their new housekeeper, Grace, the answer to the family's prayers. Grace is a sweet old lady with her own distinctive definition of cleaning house, with an unusual way of solving...
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