The South Bank Show: The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
Gênero : Documentário
Runtime : 51M
Director : Andrew Snell
Sinopse
1981 episode of London Weekend Television's The South Bank Show examines the film and features interviews with novelist John Fowles, screenwriter Harold Pinter, and director Karel Reisz
Quando uma força obscura ameaça Ponyville e a Mane 6, os pequenos pôneis embarcar em uma viagem até o fim de Equestria para salvar sua amada casa. Lá eles conhecem novos amigos e passam por desafios perigosos ao longo do caminho.
Uma aspirante a atriz em uma pequena cidade em Rajasthan concorda em ter um filho de um casal que está procurando uma mãe substituta, mas sua experiência toma um rumo inesperado quando eles se recusam a ter o filho.
Após o fim da aclamada série de TV, o Rei Arthur se oporá ao exército de Lancelot para obter o trono de volta após sua fuga para Roma.
Utena é uma garota que, desde a tragédia que levou a morte de seus pais, deseja se tornar um príncipe, assim como o qual lhe ajudou a seguir em frente após a tragédia. Por isso, ela sempre se veste como um garoto, tentando agir como um príncipe. Ela vive uma vida comum, estudando em um colégio. Mas sua vida muda quando ela encontra um anel dentro de uma rosa e acaba se complicando com o conselho estudantil do colégio, descobrindo os segredos por traz da Noiva da Rosa. Agora ela deve confrontar esses segredos e descobrir mais sobre seu passado e, quem sabe, poderá se tornar um príncipe. Mas qual é a verdade por trás disso tudo?
A brief history of the DC Comics character Batman, created by Bob Kane in 1939.
After she loses her mobile phone, a lawyer receives a call from the person who found it. They talk and hit it off very quickly. But she's in shock when she sees that he's very short.
Based on the novel by Charles de Coster "The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere." First part: "The Ashes of Claes". XVI century. The freedom-loving and cheerful people of the Netherlands under the rule of the Spanish king: persecution, torture, bonfires of the Inquisition, encouraging scammers. The fearless Thyl Uhlenshpiegel and his faithful girlfriend Nele have to go through many trials. Second part: "Viva Beggars!". The people of the Netherlands, tormented by cruel royal decrees, taxes, heresy, torture and executions, began a war of liberation against Spanish rule. Many feats will be performed by the national hero Tilbert (Thyl) Ulenspiegel and his friend Lamme Gudzak before peace returns to their homeland.
Based on the play of the same name by Anton Chekhov.
About the searches and doubts of the Russian intelligentsia at the end of the 19th century.
Events unfold on the estate of Pyotr Sorin, which brought together representatives of secular society - actress Irina Arkadina, the host's sister and her lover, the famous writer Trigorin. Sorin’s nephew, Konstantin Treplev, in love with a neighbor girl Nina Zarechnaya, who dreams of becoming an actress, writes for her a play that she plays in the scenery of Sorin’s garden.
A modern day musical telling of the ministry of Jesus Christ set in New York. The Apostles, portrayed as an acting troupe re-enact the parables and teachings of Jesus.
Based upon Paul Gallico's delicate novel, Patrick Garland's Golden Globe winning The Snow Goose is a stark and hauntingly beautiful drama set amongst the striking scenery of the Essex salt marshes during the early years of WWII. A bearded Richard Harris leads the modest cast with his sensitive portrayal of tormented soul Philip Rhayader, a lonely misshapen man shunned by society but with a great love of life; Harris isnt overly bitter of his treatment and expresses his compassion through his paintings and love of the waterfowl that surround him. Harris is ably supported by the waiflike Jenny Agutter as Frith, who radiates the requisite amount of youthful innocence and naivety, and won a best supporting actress Emmy Award for her performance.
A dark and disturbing adaptation of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s controversial gothic feminist horror story about patriarchy and hysteria. Jane, a writer and young mother, is prescribed a rest treatment by her physician husband John, who takes her to a remote country estate for the summer. She becomes obsessed with the peculiar yellow wallpaper in the bedroom he has chosen for her. In her isolation, she secretly writes about a woman trapped in the wallpaper—that she must free.
Wilbur Whateley, the son of a disfigured albino mother and an unknown father, is indoctrinated into the world of the occult and the forbidden by his sorcerer grandfather. As Wilbur performs these dark rituals, and begins to mature at an alarming rate, he begins to learn of the morbid and bizarre secrets behind his conception and birth. An adaptation of the story by H.P. Lovecraft.
Based on a popular 1931 play, the film tells the fate of a naive young woman named Marianne, who breaks off her reluctant engagement with Oskar the butcher after falling in love with a fop named Alfred who, however, has no serious interest in returning her love. For this error, she must pay bitterly.
A adolescente Cady Heron foi educada na África pelos seus pais cientistas. Quando sua família se muda para o subúrbio, nos Estados Unidos, Cady começa a frequentar a escola pública e recebe uma rápida introdução às leis de popularidade que dividem seus colegas. Sem querer, ela acaba no meio de um grupo de elite de estudantes apelidadas “as poderosas”.
A Manhattan priest with a penchant for solving crimes goes to the aid of a young actress. She is becoming enmeshed in a series of bizarre incidents she can't explain, and her complaints to the police have gone ignored.
Satirical comedy based on the notebooks and short stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov: "Romance with Double-Bass","On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco", "Misery", "Grateful", "Polinka", "The Cynic", "The Ninny".
When his father flees from debt, carefree college student Osamu sees his life turn upside-down. Expelled from school and evicted from his apartment, he becomes one of Japan’s many ‘net cafe refugees’, barely scraping by each day with temporary and part-time work. Even though he’s still in Tokyo, his circumstances drive him to see and experience his home city in new ways. Trying to survive, Osamu gradually acquaints himself with the ‘invisible’ spaces occupied by the wanderers and homeless of Tokyo… people just like himself.
Elisabeth, a forty year old woman, visits her old father in the outskirts of Klagenfurt. There, she reflects about her childhood and her romantic life.
1981 episode of London Weekend Television's The South Bank Show examines the film and features interviews with novelist John Fowles, screenwriter Harold Pinter, and director Karel Reisz
Based on a true story, this film tells the story of Chaplain Andrew Jensen, the only U.S. navy chaplain ever court-martialed on charges of adultery.