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Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Based on the novella by Thomas Mann, this late masterpiece from Luchino Visconti is a meditation on the nature of art, the allure of beauty, and the inescapability of death. Setting Mann2s story of queer desire and bodily decay against the music of Gustav Mahler, it is one of cinema2s most exalted literary adaptations.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Rupert Everett and Natasha Richardson are the prey, a beautiful British couple working on their relationship while on holiday in Venice; Christopher Walken and Helen Mirren are the hunters who draw them into the sinister web of their opulent, old-world palazzo. What plays out is an unsettling, sadomasochistic seduction imbued with an atmosphere of sumptuous dread.
Series
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Presents a dramatization of one of William Shakespeare's most well-known comedies. Blending tragedy and comedy, it presents contrasts and ambiguities, the complexities of which lie in the character Shylock, its captivating villain. Is he a villain, a buffoon or tragic hero?
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
"Antonio, a successful but cash-poor merchant, approaches Shylock, a wealthy moneylender, for a loan to help his young friend Bassanio woo the fair Portia. Despite being longtime enemies, Shylock grants the request, but demands one pound of Antonio's flesh if the debt is not repaid on time. When Antonio defaults on the loan, Shylock seeks what is legally owed him but soon learns that those to whom evil is done, do evil in return."--Container.
8) Othello
Series
Publisher
Castle Rock Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In Venice during 1570, Desdemona, daughter of a powerful nobleman, elopes with Othello, a proud Moor celebrated as the city's most awesome warrior. Iago, who has served alongside Othello for a decade, is angered when the general chooses another lieutenant, Cassio, as his second in command. In retribution, Iago sabotages Cassio's promotion and convinces Othello that the handsome officer is cuckolding him. Othello writhes under the tortures Iago has...
9) Summertime
Series
Criterion collection volume 22
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A lonely secretary travels to Venice on a vacation with the secret hope of falling in love.
10) Othello
Series
Criterion collection volume 870
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Dramatization of William Shakespeare's play in which the evil Iago plants the seeds of doubt in Othello's mind about Desdemona's fidelity.
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