Michael O. Tunnell
"A heartwarming period piece based on a true incident, lovingly told, beautifully illustrated," raved The New York Times Book Review of Michael O. Tunnell's Mailing May, illustrated by Ted Rand, which was also honored as a 1998 ALA Notable Book. [... more]
Harper Collins |
Restoration (Widescreen)
 From Amazon.com: A fantastic premise is utterly blown in this film by director Michael Hoffman and screenwriter Rupert Walters (the two collaborated previously on the winning Some Girls). Robert Downey Jr. plays Robert Merivel, King Charles II's (Sam [... more]
CDN$12.95
Amazon CA |
Victoria And Albert
From Amazon.com: Recasting history as a particularly lavish soap opera, Victoria and Albert sets the story of the relationship between the queen and her consort against a background of family strife and political wrangling. Sticklers for accuracy might [... more]
CDN$59.99
Amazon CA |
Wuthering Heights
From Amazon.com: Peter Kosminsky's 1992 adaptation of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights goes to the extreme of casting Sinéad O'Connor in a brief bit as Brontë herself, but the film still doesn't approach the accomplishment of William [... more]
CDN$17.99
Amazon CA |
Days of Heaven (Widescreen)
Amazon.com Essential Video: Richard Gere works in a Chicago steel mill at the turn of the century, but must flee the city after accidentally killing a man. Heading for the wheat fields of Texas, he packs up his girlfriend (Brooke Adams) and his younger [... more]
CDN$11.99
Amazon CA |
Barry Lyndon
From Amazon.com: In 1975 the world was at Stanley Kubrick's feet. His films Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and A Clockwork Orange, released in the previous dozen years, had provoked rapture and consternation--not merely in the film community, [... more]
CDN$24.98
Amazon CA |
An Ideal Husband (Widescreen)
From Amazon.com: For truly clever dialogue and a smartly structured plot, you can't go wrong with Oscar Wilde. Wilde's play An Ideal Husband is not his best known, but this film adaptation has all the wit you could ask for and a cast with the chops to [... more]
CDN$21.98
Amazon CA |
The Cincinnati Kid
Unpolished to Perfection: Classic performances by Steve McQueen, Karl Malden and Edward G. Robinson, along with an impressive supporting cast, lend character and depth to a deceptively straight forward plot. Hunter's (McQueen) quest to become "the [... more]
CDN$18.70
Amazon CA |
Orphans of the Storm
Amazon.com essential video: This is D.W. Griffith's last great success, an epic melodrama from 1922 about two orphaned girls (real-life sisters Lillian and Dorothy Gish) raised in the same house and tragically separated during the French Revolution's [... more]
CDN$7.27
Amazon CA |
Vatel (Widescreen)
Vatel's "Choice"...: Vatel is a very subtle story that is cleverly baked into a jumble of party decorations, conspiracies, and love as the main character François Vatel (Gérard Depardieu) is hurriedly preparing for the arrival of [... more]
CDN$25.98
Amazon CA |
Howards End - The Merchant Ivory Collection
Amazon.com Essential Video: Howards End is E.M. Forster's beautifully subtle story of the crisscrossing paths of the privileged and those they disdain--and of a remarkable pair of women who can see beyond class distinctions. Dramatic and tragic, but also [... more]
CDN$34.99
Amazon CA |
The Betsy
From Amazon.com: Adapted from a Harold Robbins potboiler, The Betsy offers power struggles, incest, adultery, gold digging, and car racing. Laurence Olivier plays a ruthless but fallible auto tycoon with a tortured family history including a weakling son [... more]
CDN$9.93
Amazon CA |
