Tennessee Williams

Three solitudes behind almost-closed doors; three human frailties; three ways to dream of a different life. The plot is simple, and elusive like a memory. A live broadcast of Ivo van Hove's adaptation of Tennessee Williams' acclaimed play, The Glass Menagerie.

The parallel lives of writer Truman Capote (1924-84) and playwright Tennessee Williams (1911-83): two friends, two geniuses who, while creating sublime works, were haunted by the ghosts of the past, the shadow of constant doubt, the demon of addictions and the blinding, deceptive glare of success.

Tennessee Williams’ twentieth century masterpiece Cat on a Hot Tin Roof played a strictly limited season in London’s West End in 2017. Following his smash hit production of A Streetcar Named Desire, Benedict Andrews’ ‘thrilling revival’ (New York Times) stars Sienna Miller alongside, Jack O’Connell and Colm Meaney. On a steamy night in Mississippi, a Southern family gather at their cotton plantation to celebrate Big Daddy’s birthday. The scorching heat is almost as oppressive as the lies they tell. Brick and Maggie dance round the secrets and sexual tensions that threaten to destroy their marriage. With the future of the family at stake, which version of the truth is real – and which will win out?

As Blanche’s fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace – but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski.

The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.

The story is about the world of a small family with familiar dreams and not so remarkable problems. The mother is trying to lead everything to save her family, but small events disarrange all her plans.

James Rasin's documentary “Beautiful Darling” honors American Transgender actress and best-known Warhol Superstar, Candy Darling, and her all-too-brief life and career, with a combination of current and vintage interview material, rarely seen archival photos and footage, and extracts from Darling's movies.

Fisher é uma garota entediada com a visão limitada dos habitantes de Memphis, dessa forma, ela se diverte chocando a todos. Depois de voltar dos estudos em outro país, a moça conhece Jimmy, cuja mãe é uma mulher desequilibrada que trabalha na fazenda da família de Fisher. Percebendo que Jimmy não seria aceito por sua tia, que possui o direito sob a fortuna da família, Fisher decide disfarçar o rapaz de rico. Tudo muda quando ela perde um diamante, colocando em risco o relacionamento dos dois.

Dr. Vaginal Davis gives what John Water's describes as "phenomenal" and what George Kuchar calls "a riveting" performance as Mrs. Venable, the obsessed, upset mother of the dead sea poet Sebastian. Beset with an en masse visit from her late husband's relatives, which include Mrs. Holly, George Holly as the mercenary son, Katherine Holly as Sebastian's set upon companion, Sister Felicity, the Nurse/Nun of who's performance Ronald Tavel states "another scene stealer using understatement" and Dr. Sugar brought in to "cut that HIDEOUS STORY out of her head" by Mrs. Venable. A psycho-sexual catharsis ensues when Katherine is given sodium pentothal and reveals what really happened SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER!

Margaret's dream of getting her differently abled daughter married shatters when she finds that the boy she chooses for her is engaged to someone else.

O filme segue a odisseia de Karen Stone, uma atriz que perde o marido por um ataque cardíaco. Em Roma, ela conhece uma contessa e outro homem com outras intenções e interesses românticos que nada têm a ver com a sra. Stone.

A young girl escapes the boredom of a small town existence in the 1930s.

A young girl escapes the boredom of a small town existence in the 1930s.

Layla lives a peaceful life with her husband Hossam in one of the coastal cities. When her older sister Nemat comes to live with her after facing financial difficulties, Hossam tries to dig into Nemat's past, especially after one of his best friends falls in love with her.

Recorded live with the San Francisco Opera, the world premiere production of Andre Previn's A Streetcar Named Desire. For his first-ever opera, Previn turned to one of the most celebrated plays in the history of American theater, Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning A Streetcar Named Desire. He saw the haunting story of lost youth and innocence in the romantic, shadowy world of New Orleans as ideal material. Collaborating with librettist Philip Littell, Previn has captured all the claustrophobic tension, volatile emotion and sexual undertow of Williams' original in his own Streetcar. This world premiere recording took place in September 1998 at the spectacularly renovated War Memorial Opera House, with Previn conducting.

Blanche Dubois goes to visit her pregnant sister and husband Stanley in New Orleans. Stanley doesn't like her, and starts pushing her for information on some property he know was left to the sisters. He discovers she has mortgaged the place and spent all the money, and wants to find out all he can about her. Even more friction develops between the two while they are in the apartment together...

A study of Tennessee Williams's life and work as a whole, ranging from his youth in Mississippi and in St. Louis to success and acclaim, followed by the final difficult years. Includes some of the most celebrated scenes from film adaptations of Williams' work, among them extracts of A Streetcar Named Desire (1951),Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Night of the Iguana, The (1964), and Suddenly, Last Summer (1993) (TV). Contains footage of Williams being interviewed, including conversations with David Frost, 'Edward R. Murrow (I)', and Melvyn Bragg, as well as reminiscences from people who knew and worked with him, among them Edward Albee, Gore Vidal, and his lifelong friend, Lady Maria St. Just. Features readings from Elia Kazan's Notebook by Kim Hunter.

Catharine Holly, a poor relation of a prominent New Orleans family, seems to be insane after her cousin Sebastian dies under mysterious circumstances on a trip to Europe. Sebastian's mother, Violet Venable, trying to cloud the truth about her son's homosexuality and death, threatens to lobotomize Catharine for her incoherent utterances relating to Sebastian's demise. Under the influence of a truth serum, Catharine tells the gruesome story of Sebastian's death by cannibalism at the hands of locals whose sexual favors he sought, using Catharine as a device to attract the young men (as he had earlier used his mother).

Val Xavier is a drifter in 1940's Mississippi who brings new life to an Italian immigrant woman trapped in a loveless marriage.

A lonely man tossed by life and hectored by his landlady finds happiness only with an alley cat.

In order to boost his own cotton ginning business, Jake Meighan sets the local Syndicate Plantation ablaze. the superintendent of the Syndicate Plantation sends over 27 wagons full of cotton for ginning, and turns aside his suspicions that Jake is the arsonist in exchange for apparent sexual favors from Jake's wife, Flora.

Ex-barman retorna à cidade natal com a amante, atriz decadente e alcoólatra, reavivando antigos conflitos.

Based on the play of the same name by Tennessee Williams, staged by the Vl. Mayakovsky Theater.

Tom analisa seu relacionamento com a mãe e a irmã. Todos foram abandonados pelo pai há 16 anos. Tom tem um emprego sem perspectivas, a mãe quer a estabilidade do passado e se preocupa com o futuro da filha, que tem uma deficiência física.

Brick, an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife, Maggie. His reunion with his father, Big Daddy, who is dying of cancer, jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.

Brick, an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife, Maggie. His reunion with his father, Big Daddy, who is dying of cancer, jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.

Blanche Dubois goes to visit her pregnant sister and husband Stanley in New Orleans. Stanley doesn't like her, and starts pushing her for information on some property he know was left to the sisters. He discovers she has mortgaged the place and spent all the money, and wants to find out all he can about her. Even more friction develops between the two while they are in the apartment together...

An adaptation of Tennessee Williams' "The Lady Larkspur Lotion" created by Douglas Sirk with the assistance of his film students and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It depicts the conflict between a dreamy, delusional heroine and her brusque, practical landlady, who wants to kick her out of her apartment.

The story of conflicts, power plays and secrets in a wealthy Mississippi family.

The tale of a lonely Southern woman's longing for her handsome next-door neighbor. At once tragic and romantic, the story is a reworking of the Williams play "Summer and Smoke," which uses the same characters and setting but in dramatically different ways.

A look at the lives of migratory farm workers, focusing on one family.

An aging Southern belle's preoccupation with her past and her dreams for her children's futures threaten to smother her painfully shy daughter and her aspiring writer son.

The brutes and the belles. The gadflies and the good ol' boys. The taboos and the profound truths. They're all part of a tennessee state of mind -- a realm of places, personalities and ideas. Williams is front and center for this exploration, reading from his works, placing them in the context of his life, and serving as guide in visits to his career-shaping refuge in New Orleans and his later-day writing quarters in Key West. Also, dramatizations by distinguished actors -- including Jessica Tandy, Broadway's original Blanche DuBois, in a recreation of her A Streetcar Named Desire triumph -- give flesh-and-bone immediacy to some of the writer's famed works. In his own words. In his own places. The resilient character and memorable characters of one of our greatest writers reside in Tennessee Williams' South.

A new bride gets caught between her decadent husband and his black half-brother.

TV movie containing filmed versions of "I Can't Imagine Tomorrow" and "Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen"

A son longs to escape from his stifling home, where his genteel mother worries about the future prospects of his lame, shy sister.

Explores the confrontation between the woman who has everything, including emptiness, and a penniless poet who has nothing but the ability to fill a wealthy woman's needs.

A prostitute suffers schitzoid dillusions while grasping on to her past loves. She is stricken with "acquired" diseases.

An adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play about restless young warehouse worker and would-be poet, Tom Wingfield, his fragile, reclusive sister, Laura, and his colorful but overbearing mother, Amanda, all living together in a shabby apartment in St. Louis during the Depression and struggling to dilute the grim realities of daily living by way of memories, fantasies, and grandiose dreams about the future.

An adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play.

A railroad official, Owen Legate comes to Dodson, Mississippi to shut down much of the town's railway (town's main income). Owen unexpectedly finds love with Dodson's flirt and main attraction, Alva Starr. Alva and Owen then try to escape Alva's mother's (Hazel) clutches and the town's revenge.

Padre com a fé abalada ganha a vida conduzindo excursões de senhoras pelo México. Numa delas, ele se envolve com a sobrinha de uma das passageiras e vai parar em uma pousada onde, junto com a dona do lugar e uma estranha viajante, passa por situações que vão testar o seu limite.

A newlywed couple on their honeymoon visit friends who are having marital problems of their own.

Drifter Chance Wayne retorna à sua cidade natal depois de muitos anos tentando fazer carreira no cinema. Chegando com ele está uma estrela de cinema decadente que ele pegou ao meio do caminho, Alexandra Del Lago. Enquanto tenta obter ajuda para fazer um teste de tela, ele também encontra tempo para reencontrar sua ex-namorada Heavenly, filha do político local Tom 'Boss' Finley, que mais ou menos o obrigou a deixar a cidade há muitos anos. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)

Drifter Chance Wayne retorna à sua cidade natal depois de muitos anos tentando fazer carreira no cinema. Chegando com ele está uma estrela de cinema decadente que ele pegou ao meio do caminho, Alexandra Del Lago. Enquanto tenta obter ajuda para fazer um teste de tela, ele também encontra tempo para reencontrar sua ex-namorada Heavenly, filha do político local Tom 'Boss' Finley, que mais ou menos o obrigou a deixar a cidade há muitos anos. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)

Critics and the public say Karen Stone is too old -- as she approaches 50 -- for her role in a play she is about to take to Broadway. Her businessman husband, 20 years her senior, has been the angel for the play and gives her a way out: They are off to a holiday in Rome for his health. He suffers a fatal heart attack on the plane. Mrs. Stone stays in Rome. She leases a magnificent apartment with a view of the seven hills from the terrace. Then the contessa comes calling to introduce a young man named Paola to her. The contessa knows many presentable young men and lonely American widows.

In a small Mississippi town in 1916, an eccentric spinster battles her romantic yearnings for the randy boy next door.

Valentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier, um vagabundo de origens obscuras propenso a problemas, chega numa pequena cidade do Mississippi e consegue um emprego numa loja administrada por Lady Torrence cujo marido, Jabe M. Torrance, está morrendo de câncer. Apesar de estar em busca de uma vida simples e honesta, se vê envolvido com mulheres cheias de problemas. Val é perseguido por Carol Cutere, a enigmática vadia local de boa família.

A jovem socialite Catherine Holly fica traumatizada após testemunhar a morte do seu primo. Mas a sua tia tenta subornar um médico para fazer uma lobotomia na sobrinha, com o objetivo de manter as circunstâncias da morte do filho em segredo.

A jovem socialite Catherine Holly fica traumatizada após testemunhar a morte do seu primo. Mas a sua tia tenta subornar um médico para fazer uma lobotomia na sobrinha, com o objetivo de manter as circunstâncias da morte do filho em segredo.

Toda a família está reunida para comemorar o aniversário de Big Daddy. Todos, menos ele, sabem que será o último e que ele está a morrer. Convencido de que está bem de saúde, ele vai aproveitar a oportunidade para dizer todas as verdades que nunca disse a cada um deles, e de acertar as contas com Gooper, o seu filho interesseiro e ambicioso, e com Brick, o seu filho mais novo, alcoólico e com um casamento fracassado com Maggie, "a Gata".

Toda a família está reunida para comemorar o aniversário de Big Daddy. Todos, menos ele, sabem que será o último e que ele está a morrer. Convencido de que está bem de saúde, ele vai aproveitar a oportunidade para dizer todas as verdades que nunca disse a cada um deles, e de acertar as contas com Gooper, o seu filho interesseiro e ambicioso, e com Brick, o seu filho mais novo, alcoólico e com um casamento fracassado com Maggie, "a Gata".

A presentation of Tennessee Williams' three one-act plays: "Moony's Kid Don't Cry", "The Last of My Solid Gold Watches", and "This Property Is Condemned".

Uma adaptação de Tennessee Williams. A luta de dois homens e suas relações com duas mulheres infantis.

Uma adaptação de Tennessee Williams. A luta de dois homens e suas relações com duas mulheres infantis.

A grieving widow embarks on a new romance when she discovers her late husband had been cheating on her.

A grieving widow embarks on a new romance when she discovers her late husband had been cheating on her.

A grieving widow embarks on a new romance when she discovers her late husband had been cheating on her.

Durante a primavera de 1866, a Itália está ocupada pela Áustria e prepara seu principal movimento de libertação. Em meio ao caos de Veneza, a Condessa Serpieri (Alida Valli), que participa da resistência, começa a nutrir um amor proibido: o tenente autríaco Franz Mahler (Farley Granger).

Blanche vai visitar sua irmã grávida e o marido dela, Stanley, que não gosta dela e começa a forçá-la a falar sobre uma propriedade que sabe que foi deixada para as duas. Aos poucos o clima entre Stanley e Blanche vai ficando cada vez mais pesado.

Blanche vai visitar sua irmã grávida e o marido dela, Stanley, que não gosta dela e começa a forçá-la a falar sobre uma propriedade que sabe que foi deixada para as duas. Aos poucos o clima entre Stanley e Blanche vai ficando cada vez mais pesado.

A documentary short film depicting the work of the motion picture director. An anonymous director is shown preparing the various aspects of a film for production, meeting with the writer and producer, approving wardrobe and set design, rehearsing scenes with the actors and camera crew, shooting the scenes, watching dailies, working with the editor and composer, and attending the first preview. Then a number of real directors are shown in archive footage (as well as a predominance of staged 'archive' footage) working with actors and crew.

An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her dreams of what life should be.

An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her dreams of what life should be.

A group of people in a small, isolated desert town through a series of strange events, begin to come to terms with growing older.