Vanessa Redgrave
Publisher
1091 Media
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (92 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
MRS LOWRY AND SON tells the story of how famed British artist L.S. Lowry lived all of his life with his overbearing mother, a deterring voice as he pursued his artistic ambition. However, a rent collector by day, Lowry took art classes in the evening and painted into the early hours to become one of the most significant artists of the 20th Century.
2) Sea Sorrow
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (73 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A documentary focusing on the present and past history of refugees in Europe. Oscar-winning actress Vanessa Redgrave tells her own story beginning as a two-year-old 'evacuee' from London at the outset of World War Two; later as a student volunteer helping Hungarian refugees; and concluding with her return to Lebanon to visit Palestinian three-year olds in a refugee camp nursery school. SEA SORROW marks Vanessa Redgrave’s debut as a film director...
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (98 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In 1923 London, socialite Clarissa Dalloway's well-planned party is overshadowed by the return of an suitor from 33 years ago. Starring Oscar winner Vanessa Redgrave. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**.
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (91 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Set in Venice in the late 19th century and based on Henry James' eponymous novella, THE ASPERN PAPERS is a story of obsession, grandeur lost, and dreams of Byronic adventures. Ambitious editor Morton Vint (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) is fascinated by the Romantic poet Jeffrey Aspern and by his icon's short and wildly romantic life. Having traveled from America to Venice, he is determined to get his hands on the letters Aspern wrote to his beautiful lover...
5) Finding You
Language
English
Description
Talented aspiring violinist Finley meets Beckett, a famous young movie star, on the way to her college semester abroad program in a small village in Ireland. An unexpected romance develops as the heartthrob Beckett leads the uptight Finley on an adventurous revival, and she inspires him to take charge of his future until the pressures of his stardom get in the way.
6) Howards End
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1992.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (142 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Margaret Schlegel (Emma Thompson) and her sister Helen (Helena Bonham Carter) become involved with two couples: a wealthy, conservative industrialist (Anthony Hopkins) and his wife (Vanessa Redgrave), and a working-class man (Samuel West) and his mistress (Niccola Duffet). The interwoven fates and misfortunes of these three families and the diverging trajectories of the two sisters’ lives are connected to the ownership of Howards End, a beloved...
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (108 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A woman keeps a diary of her extended stay at a mental hospital. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 105 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The women of defeated Troy are at the mercy of the Greeks in this adaption of Euripedes' tragic anti-war play. The unbeatable cast is lead by Katharine Hepburn, Irene Papas, Genevieve Bujold and Vanessa Redgrave.
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1984.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (122 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Boston, 1876: At a Women's Movement meeting, fiercely independent Olive (Vanessa Redgrave) becomes mentor to gifted young orator Verena (Madeleine Potter) - who soon attracts the amorous attentions of Olive's Southern cousin Basil (Christopher Reeve). The contesting demands of courtship and sapphic friendship in this love-triangle in all but name are further complicated by New York society matron Mrs. Burrage, who tries to secure Verena for her son....
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspired by actual events, this "ripped-from-the-headlines" thriller features Kathy Bolkovac (Rachel Weisz) as a Nebraskan police officer who takes a job working as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia. Her expectations of helping to rebuild a devastated country are dashed when she uncovers a dangerous reality of corruption, cover-up, and intrigue amid a world of private contractors and multinational diplomatic doubletalk.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1966.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Morgan Delt (David Warner) is a loving man. He is an artist, fond of flowers, animals and children. But like his jungle hero, the male gorilla, he becomes formidable when in danger. As his wife Leonie (Vanessa Redgrave) decides to divorce him in order to marry a more sensible man, Morgan retaliates by acting out his wildest fantasies. Clad in a hired gorilla costume, he attempts to recapture the affections of his long-suffering wife. Nominated for...
14) Foxcatcher
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Based on true events, the dark and fascinating story of the unlikely and ultimately tragic relationship between an eccentric multi-millionaire and two champion wrestlers.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A blind American diplomat develops a curious relationship with a young Russian refugee who works odd and sometimes illicit jobs to support members of her dead husband's aristocratic family.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 547 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
With Nonnatus House scheduled for demolition, Jenny, Chummy, and Sister Julienne search for a new location nearby, while Jenny₂s relationship with Alec continues to blossom. But an outbreak of polio affects the nurses and nuns more than they could have imagined.
18) Georgetown
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ulrich Mott is an eccentric and versatile social climber with grandiose plans to affect United States foreign policy. He is encouraged and egged on in his attempts by his strategically chosen wife, the well-connected journalist Elsa Brecht. Mott has a knack for making himself indispensable and impossible to ignore, with an impeccable sense for when to flatter and how to deftly use political jargon to his advantage. The only one seemingly immune to...
19) Deep impact
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
'Deep Impact' is the story of the world's reaction to a death sentence. As a comet approaches the earth which might not be destroyed or diverted before it reaches earth, each individual struggles in the face of extinction to find what most matters to him or her.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 355 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
A moving, intimate, funny, and true-to-life look at the colorful stories of midwifery and families in East London in the '50s. Based on the bestselling memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth. When Jenny Lee first arrives in Poplar, she knows nothing about hardship, poverty, and life itself. But Jenny is brought up to speed fast once she joins a team of midwives who provide care to the poorest women.