Toyah Willcox
1) The tempest
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Shot on location at the ancient and ghostly Stoneleigh Abbey, THE TEMPEST is Derek Jarman's (War Requiem) acclaimed 1979 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's final great play. It is the story of Prospero the magician, who lives on an island with his nubile daughter on an enchanted island and punishes his enemies when they are shipwrecked there. Essentially a study of sexual and political power in the guise of a fairy tale, in Jarman's hands, THE...
2) Jubilee
Series
Criterion collection volume 191
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
When Queen Elizabeth I asks her court alchemist to show her England in the future, she's transported 400 years to a post-apocalyptic wasteland of roving girl gangs, an all-powerful media mogul, fascistic police, scattered filth, and twisted sex.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Miss Moffat [is] the spinster teacher fighting to educate the poor children of a Welsh mining village. The story, based on Emlyn Williams' autobiographical play, focuses on the relationship between Miss Moffat and her gifted young prodigy from the mines, Morgan Evans. She molds him into a legitimate candidate for an Oxford scholarship in the remarkably short span of two years. Despite the disaster of Morgan's seduction by trouble-making Bessie, the...
4) Quadrophenia
Series
Criterion collection volume 624
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The Who's classic rock opera Quadrophenia was the basis for this invigorating, coming-of-age movie and depiction of the defiant, drug-fueled mod subculture of London, 1965. Like many other youths, Jimmy hates the philistine life, especially his parents and his job in a company's mailing division.