Moira Shearer
1) Peeping Tom
Series
Publisher
Home Vision
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A study of a voyeuristic maniac who obsessively murders beautiful women while filming the fear in their faces at the moment of death.
Series
Criterion collection volume 44
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Centers on the dilemma of a young ballerina torn between the demands of career and love.
Series
Criterion collection volume 317
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A lavish screen adaptation of Jacques Offenbach's phantasmal opera. Included are performances form some of the greatest ballet dancers and opera singers ever to grace the stage or screen.
Series
Criterion collection volume 44
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A young ballerina is torn between love and success.
5) Peeping Tom
Series
Criterion collection volume 58
Language
English
Formats
Description
Unleashing a murderous filmmaker armed with a killer camera, Michael Powell's groundbreaking reclaimed masterpiece takes a dark detour into obsession and voyeurism, daring viewers to confront their own relationship to the violence on-screen.
Series
Criterion collection volume 44
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Cinema's quintessential backstage drama, a rising star ballerina [is] torn between an idealistic composer and a ruthless impresario intent on perfection"--Container.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
This film explores relationships--from the whimsical to the dramatic--recalled by passengers aboard a sleek ocean liner. In the first story, an impresario loses his heart to a lovely ballerina with tragic results. Next, an elderly enchantress uses magic to help a naive governess find romance. Finally, a trapeze artist who was responsible for the death of his last partner trains a new one, a beautiful woman with a mysterious past.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger create a phantasmagoric marriage of cinema and opera in this one-of-a-kind take on a classic story. In Jacques Offenbach's fantasy opera, a poet dreams of three women a mechanical performing doll, a bejeweled siren, and the consumptive daughter of a famous composer all of whom break his heart in different ways. Powell and Pressburger's feverishly romantic adaptation is a feast of music, dance, and visual effects,...
Series
Classic musicals volume 11
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Jack and the beanstalk: When babysitting, Costello falls asleep and dreams he is Jack of the fairy tale, Jack and the Beanstalk. Dink, played by Abbott, and Jack declare their intentions to rescue the princess and bring back the hen that lays the golden eggs. Instead, they are captured by a "man-eating" giant and threatened with great punishment until Jack effects a swashbuckling escape and, after his friends have followed, Jack the giant killer chops...