Roger Michell
1) Le week-end
Author
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A British couple celebrating their thirtieth wedding anniversary return to Paris many years after their honeymoon there and attempt to rejuvenate their marriage.
3) Persuasion
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
1999, p1995
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Anne Elliot is persuaded to break off an engagement to Capt. Wentworth, but tensions are resumed when they meet again eight years later.
4) The Duke
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022],c2022, 2020
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1961 when Kempton Bunton, a 60-year-old taxi driver, stole Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery's history. Kempton sent ransom notes saying that he would return the painting on condition that the government agreed to provide television for free to the elderly. What happened next became the stuff of legend. Only 50 years later did the full...