After witnessing the brutal murder of his powerful father King Solomon of the Netherlands, a young heir to the throne begins preparation for his ultimate revenge in director Uli Edel's medivel tale of might and magic. An allied royal court has granted refuge to young Siegfried following the tragic death of his father, and in the following years ...
Carrington is the true story of the peculiar love affair between two nonconformists in Victorian England: painter Dora Carrington (Emma Thompson) and author Lytton Strachey (Jonathan Pryce). Dora is a young English artist who is part of the Bloomsbury Group, an assemblage of British writers, painters, and eccentrics that includes the likes of ...
One of the best Ismail Merchant/James Ivory films, this adaptation of E. M. Forster's classic 1910 novel shows in careful detail the injuriously rigid British class consciousness of the early 20th century. The film's catalyst is "poor relation" Margaret Schlegel (Emma Thompson), who inherits part of the estate of Ruth Wilcox (Vanessa Redgrave), an ...
This 5.7-million-dollar British comedy from writer/director Gary Sinyor satirizes the now-familiar Merchant-Ivory style of period dramas. So no one will miss the joke, the central setting is Ivory Hall, the Ivory family mansion in rural England. In 1908, young twit Edward Ivory (Samuel West) plans to match his bookwormish friend Cedric (Robert ...
Based on the novel by Kingsley Amis, the British miniseries Stanley and the Women starred future Inspector Morse leading man John Thaw as Stanley Duke, a fortysomething advertising executive. Stanley's life was thrown into turmoil when his son Stephen (Samuel West) was diagnosed a schizophrenic. Making matters worse, Stanley's quiet home was ...
Janet Meyers directed this TV movie about the search for Jack the Ripper in London of 1888. As Inspector Hansen (Patrick Bergin) searches for the murderer of East End prostitutes, his suspicions focus on Prince Albert Victor (Samuel West), eldest son of the Prince of Wales and Queen Victoria's grandson. Filmed in Melbourne, Australia, this drama ...
A sequel to the original Disney classic, 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure arrives straight-to-video. Roger and Anita are planning to move to their Dalmatian Plantation with their dogs Pongo and Perdita to get away from Cruella DeVil and make room for all 101 puppies. However, young Patch (voice ofBobby Lockwood) gets left behind in ...
This documentary program constitutes a single episode in a larger series that relays the seldom-heard tales behind the creation of key works of art. Whereas other volumes in the series hone in on famous tableaux, this particular volume focuses on famous sculptures: Auguste Rodin's The Kiss , Michelangelo's David , and Edgar Degas's The Little ...
This documentary explores the real-life stories behind four seminal works of Renaissance-era art: Leonardo Da Vinci's The Last Supper , Sandro Botticelli's La Primavera , Paolo Uccello's The Battle of San Romano , and Piero Della Francesca's The Resurrection . ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
The "Private Life of a Masterpiece" series of documentary releases systematically relays the tales behind history's best known and most-revered works of art. Per its title, this particular volume hones in exclusively on three Christmas-themed paintings: by Jan Van Eyck's The Annunciation Pieter Breughel 's "The Census at Bethlehem," and Paul ...
This historically-themed documentary caters to connoisseurs of classic art, by recounting the tales that belie three famous Seventeenth Century tableaux: Johannes Vermeer's The Art of Painting , Rembrandt van Rijn's The Night Watch , and Diego Velazquez's The Rokeby Venus . ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
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