Classic Film

A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's castle. Her uncle is very distant due to the loss of his wife 10 years before. Neglected once again, she begins exploring the estate and discovers a garden that has been locked and neglected. Aided by one of the servants' boys, she begins restoring the garden, and eventually discovers some other secrets of the manor.    

Shooting Midnight Cowboy is not only the definitive account of the film that unleashed a new wave of innovation in American cinema but also the story of a country (and an industry) beginning to break free from decades of cultural and sexual repression.

Tom Lee’s life changes forever the day he meets a talking tiger named Mr. Hu and discovers that he has magical powers and great responsibilities that he never imagined. Tom joins Mr. Hu’s ragtag band of creatures in their fight to keep an ancient talisman out of the hands of the worst possible enemy. This action-packed fantasy reveals a hidden world within our own where animals take human form, where friendship is the final weapon in the battle between good and evil, and where a young boy is responsible for saving the world he knows—and the one he is just discovering.

A book that explores the great American novelist and playwright Edna Ferber, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Ficton, whose work was made into many Academy Award-winning movies; the writing of her controversial, international best-selling novel about Texas, and the making of George Stevens’ Academy Award winning epic film of the same name, Giant.

Herman J. (1897-1953) and Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909-1993) wrote, produced, and directed over 150 pictures. With Orson Welles, Herman wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane and shared the picture's only Academy Award. Joe earned the second pair of his four Oscars for writing and directing All About Eve, which also won Best Picture.

Robin von Locksley, oder kurz "Robin Hood", nimmt von den Reichen und gibt es den Armen. Mit seinen Gesellen lebt er im Sherwood Forest, in der Nähe von Nottingham und steht den Schwachen unbeirrt zur Seite, wenn ihnen Unrecht droht. Dem Sheriff von Nottingham missfällt dies natürlich und er lässt nichts unversucht. Robin und seine Freunde zu fassen. Doch das ist nicht einfach, denn Robin ist klug und hat treue Gefährten. Nur vor einem hat Robin Hood Respekt: seinem König Richard Löwenherz. Erleben sie diesen Klassiker der Weltliteratur in einem völlig neu bearbeiteten Hörbuchversion.

ハイヒールを脱ぎ捨てて熱く灼けた砂漠を素足で男を追う女！ 映画史に残る名ラストシーン

Gus Van Sant’s film and the ’90s cult of the alternative Gus Van Sant’s 1991 indie darling My Own Private Idaho perplexed and provoked, inspiring a new ethos for a new decade: being different was better than being good. Gentlemen of the Shade examines how the film was a coming-of-age for a generation of young people who would embrace the alternative and bring their outsider perspectives to sustainability, technology, gender constructs, and social responsibility.

In Buffoon Men: Classic Hollywood Comedians and Queered Masculinity, Scott Balcerzak reads the performances of notable comedians such as W. C. Fields, Eddie Cantor, Jack Benny, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, and Bud Abbott and Lou Costello through humor and queer theory to expose a problematic history of maleness in their personas.

Was passiert, wenn man sich die Haare und die Nägel nicht schneiden lässt? Und was, wenn man seine Suppe nicht isst oder beim Essen herumhampelt? Der Frankfurter Arzt und Psychologe Dr. Heinrich Hoffmann gibt in seinem weltberühmten Kinderbuch haarsträubende und lustige Antworten.

A smart, engaging investigation of the show that brought real teens to TV My So-Called Life lasted only 19 episodes from 1994 to 1995, but in that time it earned many devoted viewers, including the showrunners who would usher in the teen TV boom of the late ’90s and the new millennium. With its focus on 15-year-old Angela Chase’s search for her identity, MSCL’s realistic representation of adolescence on TV was groundbreaking; without her there would be no Buffy or Felicity, Rory Gilmore or Veronica Mars.

Enter the thrilling world of Victor Hugo's classic adventure of a lovable, outcast hunchback who risks all for the love of a gypsy enchantress in this breathtaking new adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

After escaping from her jealous stepmother the Queen, Snow White comes upon a little house in the woods and makes her home there with seven funny, caring dwarfs. When the evil Queen discovers Snow White and offers her a poisoned apple, Snow White falls into a timeless sleep. A faithful prince arrives to kiss Snow White and to break the evil spell.

Charming and classically handsome, John Gilbert (1897-1936) was among the world's most recognizable actors during the silent era. He was a wild, swashbuckling figure on screen and off, and accounts of his life have focused on his high-profile romances with Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich, his legendary conflicts with Louis B. Mayer, his four tumultuous marriages, and his swift decline after the introduction of talkies.

Peter Rabbit is a little cottontail who's fond of tall tales. He tells them to his mother, his sisters and even his cousin, Benny. Then, a run-in with Mr. McGregor's hungry cat causes Peter to tell one tale too many. Thinking his sisters have been boxed up and mailed to Zanzibar (a place at least 30 miles away!), Peter and Benny set out to rescue the girls. So come on! Hit the bunny trail with for a journey into pure storytelling enchantment with a rousing, rib-tickling New Adventures of Peter Rabbit!

Nach einem Roman von Daniel Defoe. Die Geschichte von Robinson Crusoe der auf einer einsamen Insel gestrandet ist. Robinson Crusoe, Sohn eines nach England ausgewanderten Bremer Kaufmanns, strandet nach einem Sturm als einziger Überlebender auf einer einsamen Insel. Sein Vater hatte den noch jungen Robinson davor gewarnt, zur See zu gehen. Diese Ermahnungen missachtend wird Robinson Crusoe auf einer seiner ersten Fahrten von Piraten gefangen genommen. Erst nach zweijähriger Gefangenschaft gelingt ihm die Flucht.

"Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?" These famous lines from The Graduate (1967) would forever link Anne Bancroft (1931-2005) to the groundbreaking film and confirm her status as a movie icon. Along with her portrayal of Annie Sullivan in the stage and film drama The Miracle Worker, this role was a highlight of a career that spanned a half-century and brought Bancroft an Oscar, two Tonys, and two Emmy awards. In the first biography to cover the entire scope of Bancroft's life and career, Douglass K. Daniel reveals how, from a young age, Bancroft was committed to challenging herself and strengthening her craft.

Das Hörbuch zum Film David Copperfield - Einmal Reichtum und zurück. Der große autobiographische Bildungsroman des 19. Jahrhunderts, der aus der Weltliteratur nicht wegzudenken ist: Charles Dickens erzählt das Aufwachsen des Waisenjungen David Copperfield in den harschen und oft brutalen Umständen der Großstadt London. David flieht zu seiner Tante Betsey und schafft es schließlich, Anwaltslehrling, dann Parlamentsreporter und letztendlich Schriftsteller zu werden.

It all started with the school rabbit. Snowflake is the school rabbit, and Snowflake is trouble. At least that's what Tommy thinks, and when Snowflake is unexpectedly left for him to look after and everything starts to go wrong, it looks like Tommy might be right. Even if he is getting more pocket money for feeding it and might be able to afford a new bike after all. And with a sick sister left in bed, a snobby actor left with suspiciously damp trousers, and no rabbit anywhere to be seen, Tommy can see his hopes of a new bike disappearing as fast as Snowflake.

Le réalisateur Daniel Spielstein, meurt foudroyé par un projectile en plein thorax alors qu'il montait fièrement les marches du Palais du Festival de Cannes. Les millions de téléspectateurs qui assistaient à l'événement sont bouleversés. Le commissaire Enzo Colonna mène une enquête difficile malgré les innombrables documents photographiques et filmés dont il dispose. Sa curiosité l'amène en Californie, mais il revient sans beaucoup d'éléments décisifs. C'est sur le tapis rouge de la Croisette que pourrait bien se dénouer cette affaire.