James Ivory
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 132 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's the summer of 1983 in Italy, and Elio, a precocious 17-year-old, spends his days in his family's villa transcribing and playing classical music, reading and flirting with his friend Marzia. One day, Oliver, a charming American scholar arrives as the annual summer intern tasked with helping Elio's father, an eminent professor. Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will alter their lives...
2) Howards End
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Special ed. two-disc set ; Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert.
Language
English
Description
Margaret and Helen Schlegel are sisters from a well-educated European family. A series of events brings them into a relationship with the very English Wilcox family. Both families also come into contact with Leonard Bast and his wife, a couple near the lowest tier of the rigid class system. Leonard's desire for cultural and intellectual status attracts the attention of Helen. Margaret must reconcile her independent spirit with her desire for companionship...
3) Le divorce
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Widescreen and standard full screen vers.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Isabel Walker receives word that her pregnant stepsister Roxy has been abandoned by her philandering French husband, she travels to Paris to offer her help and moral support. Together, the two young women hit the party scene, living it up with the locals and American expatriates while waiting for Roxy's divorce to become final. Then Isabel unexpectedly meets and falls in love with a much older man.
4) Maurice
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
E.M. Forrester's story of two Edwardian-era Cambridge graduates who fall in love, but must abide by British society's strict norms regarding homosexuality.