Oscar Wilde
261) Wilde Salomé
Author
Language
English
Description
Al Pacino shares his most personal project ever; the double feature documentary Wilde Salome, followed by the stage adaptation of Salome as he explores the complexities of Oscar Wilde's scintillating tale of lust, greed and revenge.
Author
Language
English
Description
The notorious Mrs. Erlynne, known for romantic scandals, returns to England and visits Lord Windermere to confide that she is the mother of his wife, Lady Windermere. As Mrs. Erlynne continues to get closer to Lord Windermere, Lady Windermere begins to think the worst. Directed by three-time Academy Award nominee Ernst Lubitch, this silent film portrays one woman's attempt to be introduced into society and the skewering of upper class hypocrisy that...
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
For 300 years the ghost of Simon de Canterville, entombed alive by his father for cowardice, has been roaming his castle in search of a kinsman to free him by performing a brave deed. In 1943, from a troop of American soldiers billeted in the castle, comes new hope: Sir Simon's long lost nephew.
Author
Publisher
Nmc Recordings
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Gerald Barry's riotous opera brings out the savagery beneath the genteel Edwardian manners of Oscar Wilde's play. Its score includes gunshots, whistling and speaking from the orchestral players, and the smashing of dinner plates.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A witty and modern remake of Oscar Wilde's novella about an American family who moves into a haunted English country house. From the makers of Father Brown. Sir Simon de Canterville is the premier ghost in the British Isles, and exquisitely proud of his dastardly reputation. So when the Otis family leaves America and moves into Canterville's abandoned family estate, Sir Simon prepares to give them the fright of their life. There's just one problem....
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
None
Description
In the early decades of cinema, some of the most innovative and celebrated filmmakers in America were women. Alice Guy-Blaché helped establish the basics of cinematic language, while others boldly continued its development: slapstick queen Mabel Normand (who taught Charlie Chaplin the craft of directing), action star Grace Cunard, and LGBTQ icon Alla Nazimova. Unafraid of controversy, filmmakers such as Lois Weber and Dorothy Davenport Reid tackled...
Author
Publisher
e-artnow
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Esta colección presenta las obras más influyentes de la literatura mundial. Contenido: La Ilíada y La Odisea Edipo Rey El Banquete Metafísica La metamorfosis De la Brevedad de la Vida Las Confesiones de San Agustín El Arte de la Guerra Cantar de Mío Cid Popol Vuh El castillo interior Ejercicios Espirituales El Príncipe La divina Comedia El Decamerón Lazarillo de Tormes Don Quijote de la Mancha Los mejores cuentos de Andersen Cuentos escogidos...
Author
Publisher
Pandora's Box
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, novellas and short stories from Charles Dickens,...