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701) Stoner
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Born the child of a poor farmer in Missouri, William Stoner is urged by his parents to study new agriculture techniques at the state university. Digging instead into the texts of Milton and Shakespeare, Stoner falls under the spell of the unexpected pleasures of English literature, and decides to make it his life. Stoner is the story of that life"--Publisher description (January 2007).
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
2 DVD (approximately 5 hours.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the early 1930's, before Hollywood began enforcing a self-imposed Production Code, many films allowed for extraordinary frankness including nudity, adultery and prostitution. In this restored and remastered three-movie collection, three daring young actresses are featured in racy, riveting star vehicles. Jean Harlow is a red-headed secretary who hooks the company's married boss, while carrying on with chauffeur Charles Boyer. A young soldier is...
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (approximately 425 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Human desire: A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in an affair with a co-worker's wife following a murder on a train where they meet.
Pushover: An undercover cop falls for the beautiful girlfriend of a bank robber on the run and together they plan to double-cross the crook and the cops.
The brothers Rico: A retired mob accountant is drawn back in when his brothers, who have recently made a hit for the...
Author
Publisher
Scribe
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
US edition.
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Marian Evans is a scandalous figure, living in sin with a married man, George Henry Lewes. She has shocked polite society. In secret, though, she has begun writing fiction under the pseudonym George Eliot. As Adam Bede's fame grows, curiosity rises. Gradually it becomes apparent that the moral genius Eliot is none other than the disgraced woman. Now celebrity begins. The world falls in love with her. She is the wise and great writer, sent to guide...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A tale based on a true story from 1920s Manhattan follows the affair between voluptuous Ruth Snyder and undergarment salesman Judd Gray, whose plot to kill Ruth's husband triggers an explosive police investigation.
706) Viva
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Abandoned by her perfect Ken-doll husband, Barbi is dragged into trouble by her girlfriend, who spouts women's lib as she gets Barbi to discard her bra and go out on the town. Barbi becomes a Red Riding Hood in a sea of wolves, and quickly learns a lot more than she wanted to about the different kinds of scenes going on in the wild '70s, including nudist camps, the hippie scene, orgies, bisexuality, sadism, drugs, and bohemia.
707) Out of Africa
Language
English
Formats
Description
The true story of Karen Blixen, a strong-willed woman 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 a mysterious white hunter.
708) Late Ozu
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (636 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Early spring: A young salaryman in postwar Japan, dissatisfied with career and marriage, begins an affair with a flirtatious co-worker.
Tokyo twilight: Follows the parallel paths of two sisters contending with an absent mother, unwanted pregnancy, and marital discord.
Equinox flower: A stubborn businessman who disapproves of his daughter's fiancé must learn to embrace modern romance.
Late autumn: A widow tries to marry off her daughter with the...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
[4-disc edition].
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (471 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The painted veil: Set in the 1920s. A young English couple, Walter a middle class doctor and Kitty, an upper-class woman, get married for all the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai. Kitty falls in love with someone else. When Walter discovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China that is being ravaged by a deadly epidemic. He takes his wife along and their journey brings meaning to their relationship...
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (255 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Blade on the feather: Jason is a reclusive author who is visited by Daniel. Daniel is a young admirer of Jason's. After Daniel seduces Jason's daughter, dark secrets to emerge. Both men are more than they claim to be.
Rain on the roof: To get back her adulterous husband John, a disturbed Janet, begins to flirt with one of her students. Billy is the simple, mistreated young man she flirts with while giving him his reading lessons. Unfortunately, Janet's...
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Blu-ray special edition collector's set.
Physical Desc
7 Blu-rays (716 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (75 pages ; illustrations ; 21 cm).
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
As tears go by: Mid-level gangster Wah falls in love with his beautiful cousin, but must also continue to protect his volatile partner-in-crime and friend, Fly.
Days of being wild: A man tries to find out who his real mother is after the woman who raised him tells him the truth.
Chungking express: Two melancholy Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious female underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night...
712) Kairos
Author
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Kairos tells the story of the romance begun in East Berlin at the end of the 1980s when nineteen-year-old Katharina meets by chance a married writer in his fifties named Hans. Their passionate yet difficult long-running affair takes place against the background of the declining GDR, through the upheavals wrought by its dissolution in 1989 and then what comes after.
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (approximately 810 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The changeling: Beatrice-Joanna is betrothed to one man, but loves another. She hires her father's servant to kill her betrothed, but is then horrified at what she has done.
The apple cart: The king must match wits with an unruly mistress and a cabinet wanting a constitutional monarchy.
Caesar and Claretta: The story of Mussolini and his lover, Claretta Petacci on their last night together.
The philanthropist: A circle of friends talks of unimportant...
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (299 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Osaka elegy. Switchboard operator Ayako agrees to enter into an affair with her married boss after he promises to support her and her father--setting her off on a seemingly irreversible downward spiral.
Sisters of the Gion. Two geisha sisters--one modern-minded, the other staunchly traditional--disagree over how to deal with the men controlling their lives and livelihoods.
Women of the night. The story of two sisters, Fusako, a war widow, and Natsuko,...
715) Pierrot le fou
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Dissatisfied in marriage and life, Ferdinand takes to the road with the babysitter, his ex-lover Marianne Renoir, and leaves the bourgeois world behind. Yet this is no normal road trip, but a violent tale of a romantic couple.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Holocaust survivor finds himself simultaneously involved with three women: the peasant who hid him from the Nazis during the war, a beautiful concentration camp survivor, and his first wife (who he was certain was dead).
717) Passages
Publisher
Mubi
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A gay couple's marriage is thrown into crisis when one of them impulsively begins a passionate affair with a young woman.
Series
Indicator volume 280-289
Publisher
Indicator
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Limited edition.
Physical Desc
10 Blu-rays (34 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (115 pages : color illustrations ; 17 cm).
Language
English
Description
British director Michael J Murphy cut his teeth on a variety of homemade 8mm shorts and had completed three feature-length productions by the age of eighteen. Over the next five decades, Murphy would go on to make many more films across a variety of genres, dividing his production time between Greece, Portugal, and the UK, with family, friends, and local stage performers becoming his regular cast and crew in exchange for holidays in the sun. Containing...
Series
Imprint volume 67-74
Publisher
Via Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
8 Blu-rays (approximately 872 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 17 cm).
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
Red sorghum: When a leprous winery owner in 1930s China dies a few days after his arranged marriage, his young widow is forced to run the winery to make a living while contending with bandits, her drunkard lover, and the invading Japanese army.
Ju Dou: A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband's heir without revealing his parentage...
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