Catalog Search Results
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet
Description
For decades, journalist Jep Gambardella has charmed and seduced his way through the glittering nightlife of Rome. Since the legendary success of his only novel, he has been a permanent fixture in the city's literary and elite social circles. But on his sixty-fifth birthday, Jep unexpectedly finds himself taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries.
3) The gambler
Publisher
Wellspring
Pub. Date
2002, c1997
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on a true episode in literary history - this is a tale of the strange circumstances that led Dostoyevsky to write his novel "The gambler". A young woman, in desperate need of money, takes a job as a stenographer while Dostoyevsky dictates his novel to her. The terms of her employment are extraodinary - she must stay in his apartment during the next month. As the novel unfolds, she discovers that she must come face to face with her own eroticism....
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approx. 116 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Susan is living through an unfulfilling marriage when she receives a package containing a novel manuscript from her ex-husband, Edward. The novel is dedicated to her but its content is violent and devastating. Susan cannot help but reminisce over her past love story with the author. Increasingly she interprets the book as a tale of revenge, a tale that forces her to re-evaluate the choices that she has made, and reawakens a love that she feared was...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Let us know! Suggest a Title