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The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Part 1 - The Moab Story (2003)
Cast: Peter Greenaway
Tags: Art Film Surrealist Film
Length: 127min
Iconoclastic director Peter Greenaway begins his most ambitious project to date with this feature, the first in a proposed series of films, television programs, and multimedia projects that examine the contents of 92 suitcases, each revealed by title...
The Emperor's New Clothes (2001)
Cast: Ian Holm
Tags: Comedy of Errors Romantic Drama Period Film Comedy Drama
Length: 106min
A fanciful retelling of the story of Napoleon Bonaparte (played by heralded actor Ian Holm, this British costume comedy suggests that it was Napoleon's double, not the man himself, who died on St. Helena Island. The film begins by presenting Napoleon...
Cast: Richard Harris Peter Medak Mandy Patinkin
Tags: Historical Film Melodrama Period Film Romantic Drama
Length: 98min
In medieval Paris, a deformed foundling named Quasimodo grows up under the care and tutelage of Dom Claude Frollo, the archdeacon of the Cathedral of Notre Dame. Quasimodo is humpbacked, lame, and blind in a drooping eye -- a human gargoyle who keeps...
Cast: Derek Jarman Tilda Swinton
Tags: Gay & Lesbian Films Art Film
Length: 75min
A year before director Derek Jarman succumbed fully to AIDS, he made his last film. In Blue, the color blue is all there is to see as Jarman tries to bring the audience into his vision-impaired world. Jarman offers his insights on life, love, disease,...
Tags: Drama Tragedy Gay & Lesbian Films Historical Film
Length: 91min
Two years before director Derek Jarman died of AIDS, he directed this extremely ambitious variation on Christopher Marlowe's 16th-century play. While Marlowe is the root of this film, Jarman has taken a great deal of leeway with the manner of...
Tags: Period Film Gay & Lesbian Films Biopic Drama
Length: 97min
Writer/director Derek Jarman injects his patented iconoclasm in this biography of Renaissance artist Michelangelo Merisa da Caravaggio. Nigel Terry plays the title role, whom (according to Jarman) essentially told his own life story in his paintings....
Tags: Biopic
Length: 99min
New Zealand educator Sylvia Ashton-Warner (played by Eleanor David) is the subject of this informative and slightly uneven biography, based on the events in Ashton-Warner's adult life. During the 1930s Ashton-Warner moves to a remote village with her...
Cast: Shelley Winters Claire Bloom Nigel Terry Anthony Richmond
Tags: Romantic Fantasy Fantasy Supernatural Thriller
Length: 95min
Similar to the 1991 Dead Again starring Kenneth Branagh, this story of reincarnation and murder also features two couples who meet again in a new lifetime. Brooke Ashley (Jaclyn Smith) is a ballerina and Michael Richardson (Nigel Terry) is her lover,...
Cast: Helen Mirren John Boorman
Tags: Fantasy Sword-and-Sorcery Fantasy Adventure
Length: 140min
John Boorman directed this gloriously savage interpretation of Arthurian legend loosely based on Thomas Malory's novel -Le Morte d'Arthur. By turns gleaming and filthy, tender and bloody, the film is a visually stunning epic which is never less than...
Cast: Peter O'Toole Katharine Hepburn Anthony Hopkins John Barry
Tags: Period Film Historical Film Marriage Drama Family Drama
Length: 134min
The year is 1183. Like many a modern-day politician, Britain's King Henry II (Peter O'Toole) finds it occasionally useful to take his wife out of mothballs and parade her before the public. Henry's Queen Eleanor (Katharine Hepburn), long exiled to a...
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