Mona Washbourne
1) My fair lady
Language
English
Formats
Description
Outside Covent Garden on a rainy evening in 1912, cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, meets linguistic expert Henry Higgins. Higgins, in turn, bets his companion, Colonel Pickering, that, within six months, he could transform Eliza into a proper lady, simply by teaching her proper English. The next morning, face and hands freshly scrubbed, Eliza presents herself on Higgins' doorstep, ready and willing to be turned into a lady.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Based on the classic 1867 novel and play by French writer Émile Zola. The story of a young woman, Thérèse, unhappily married to her first cousin, Camille. She begins a passionate affair with one of Camille's friends, Laurent. Thérèse and Laurent will go to any lengths to be together, but their actions may haunt them forever.
3) Home
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
"Home", follows the interaction of five patients over the course of a single afternoon in the garden of what we can fairly assume is an English mental hospital.
4) If
Series
Criterion collection volume 391
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Special edition double-disc set; widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Three British boarding school students (Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick) decide to revolt and turn their repressive school upside down. Nominated for Best English-Language Foreign Film at the **Golden Globes.** Nominated for Best Director and Best Screenplay at the **BAFTA Awards**. Winner of the Palme d'Or at the **Cannes Film Festival.** *"A film of tremendous resonance, coming when it did in 1968 with the force of a grenade." - Elliott...
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Twenty-fifth anniversary collector's edition.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the difficult loves of insular Englishman Charles Ryder and his peculiarly intense relationship with the wealthy but dysfunctional family that inhabited Brideshead. While at Oxford, Charles Ryder meets boyish, flamboyant Sebastian Flyte, who introduces Charles to a charmed and glamorous way of life that continues until Sebastian's health deteriorates.
6) O lucky man!
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Two-disc special edition.
Language
English
Description
Armed with ambition and a work ethic, coffee salesman hits the road and finds that desire alone can't bring wealth and status. Bonus features include commentary, new feature-length career profile, and vintage featurette.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Marianne is traveling to Eastern Europe from Paris for a teaching post. She gets stranded at an inn after her stagecoach mysteriously leaves her. She is persuaded to stay at Baroness Meinster's chateau. During her stay Marianne meets the Baroness's son who is chained to a wall. Feeling bad for the son, Marianne frees him, only to discover that he is a vampire. Luckily for her, Dr. Van Helsing is on his way to rescue Marianne and destroy the vampire."
"Leon...
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