Carlotta's Seamstress
1860년 파리 오페라 하우스. 새로운 극단주 앙드레와 피르맹, 그리고 후원자인 라울 백작은 '한니발' 리허설을 감상하는 가운데 갑자기 무대장치가 무너지는 사고가 발생한다. 사람들은 오페라의 유령이 한 짓이라고 수근대고, 화가 난 프리마돈나 칼롯타는 무대를 떠나버린다. 발레단장인 마담 지리의 추천으로 크리스틴이 새로운 여주인공을 맡게 되고, 공연은 대성공을 거둔다. 크리스틴은 축하객들을 뒤로하고 대기실에 혼자 남게 되는데, 거울 뒤에서 반쪽 얼굴을 하얀 가면에 가린 채 연미복 차림의 팬텀이 나타나 마치 마법이라도 걸듯이 크리스틴을 이끌고 미로같이 얽힌 지하 세계로 사라진다. 크리스틴의 실종으로 오페라 하우스는 일대 혼란에 빠지고, 팬텀은 극단주에게 자신의 요구에 응하지 않을 시 크리스틴도 돌려보내지 않고 큰 재앙을 내리겠다고 경고한다. 그러나 기회를 주겠다며 크리스틴을 돌려보낸 팬텀과 달리 극단은 그의 협상을 모두 무시하고, 오페라 하우스는 괴사건에 휘말리며 문을 닫기에 이른다. 한편, 지하세계에 끌려갔다 온 후 크리스틴은 팬텀의 공포에 날마다 시달리고 크리스틴을 위로하던 라울은 그녀와 사랑을 맹세한다. 이들의 대화를 엿들은 팬텀은 사랑과 질투에 싸여 복수를 결심하는데… 과연, 오페라 하우스와 팬텀에게는 어떤 비밀이 숨겨진 것일까?
Self
Hell on Earth is an hour-long documentary presented by Mark Kermode. It's about Ken Russell's 1971 film, The Devils which is one of the most controversial films ever made. Kermode chats to Russell as well as two of the films stars Georgina Hale and Murray Melvin. Also included are scenes that were cut from the released film for being too controversial.
Mrs. Churchill
Yowler, the last dragon on Earth is in terrible danger. His arch enemy, the Dark Knight, has returned. Only young John McGowen can save him...
Spinster 2
Made by Carlton Television for ITV (UK) , this adaptation of Laurie Lee's autobiographical novel follows a young man's maturation in the country town of Gloucestershire near the end of World War I. As young Laurie (Dashiell Reece) comes of age under the protective eye of his mother (Juliet Stevenson), he learns to live with an eccentric collection of friends, neighbours, and relatives. As he enters his teenage years, Laurie (now played by Joe Roberts) discovers women, specifically Rosie Burdock (Lia Barrow). Veteran screenwriter John Mortimer adapted Lee's book, with Lee narrating.
La Patronne
Alan Bleasdale's modern re-telling of Madame Bovary. A tale of passion, greed, revenge, and of course pleasure, set in France. Starring Line of Duty's Adrian Dunbar, Jennifer Ehle and James Larkin. In the French city of Rouen, the beautiful, young but bored Emma seeks to escape her dull married life. Her dreams are answered, and her comfortable, peaceful existence soon tarnished when she answers a lonely-hearts ad. She meets Gustave, a unsuccessful toy salesman, and potential con man. Together they begin a passionate affair, where they indulge in illicit sex and illegal scams. But parallel to their exhilarating affair, the police are on the hunt for a mysterious masked robber known only as Le Terroriste. As the stakes rise, and a betrayal means Emma finding herself alone, her own talents for deception develop into an overwhelming and obsessive desire for her to get her revenge.
Miss Harby
Ken Russell's rather loose adaptation of the last part of D.H. Lawrence's "The Rainbow" sees impulsive young Ursula coming of age in pastoral England around the time of the Boer War. At school, she is introduced to lovemaking by a bisexual physical education instructress. While experiencing disillusionment in her first career attempt (teaching), she has an affair with a young Army officer, who wants to marry her. Unable to accept a future of domesticity, she breaks with him, and eventually leaves home in search of her destiny.
Eldrad (female form)
When the TARDIS lands in a quarry on Earth, Sarah unearths what appears to be a fossilised hand, buried in one-hundred-fifty-million-year-old strata. Analysis shows the hand to be silicon-based and inert, but when Sarah begins to act as if possessed, the Doctor suspects that it may still be alive...
Kate
The film fictionalizes the real relationship between French sculptor Henri Gaudier and Polish writer Sophie Brzeska, twenty years his senior, who came to Paris, she says, for its “creative atmosphere.”
Sister Agnes (miscredited as Sister Judith)
루이 13세 시대의 프랑스, 리슐리외 추기경(크리스토퍼 로그)은 자신의 통제권 밖에 있는 도시를 장악하기 위해 음모를 꾸민다. 추기경과 그 추종자들이 권력 장악을 위해서는 그랑디에 신부(올리버 리드)를 제거해야 한다. 그랑디에 신부는 요새화된 도시를 운영하는 성직자로 리슐리외 추기경이 프랑스 전체를 장악하는 데 방해가 됐던 것이다. 이에 리슐리외는 권력가이자 호색한인 그랑디에 신부를 고발하기로 하고, 그랑디에 신부에게 성적으로 집착하는 잔느 수녀(바네사 레드그레이브)를 그 음모에 끌어들인다. 악마에 홀려 있는 그 수녀는 그랑디에 신부에 대한 성적인 강박관념에 사로잡힌 인물이다. 악마로 고발당한 그랑디에의 재판이 진행되면서 수녀원은 점차 폭력과 광기로 물들어간다. 광적인 마녀 사냥이 점점 극단적으로 변해 가고 인간의 악마적인 본성이 적나라하게 드러나게 된다.
Russell's composer biopics were usually labours of love. This was the opposite: he regarded Strauss's music as "bombastic, sham and hollow", and despised the composer for claiming to be apolitical while cosying up to the Nazi regime. The film depicts Strauss in a variety of grotesquely caricatured situations: attacked by nuns after adopting Nietzsche's philosophy, he fights duels with jealous husbands, literally batters his critics into submission with his music and glorifies the women in his life and fantasies. (BFI Screenonline)
Elizabeth Siddal
The story of the influential 19th century British poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his troubled and somewhat morbid relationship with his wife and his art.
