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Criterion collection volume 216
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
Français
Description
Includes 2 pamphlets in pocket: pam. 1: 24 pages featuring writings by Jean Renoir, Francois Truffaut, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bertrand Tavernier, and an essay by Alexander Sesonske; pam. 2: List of films in the Criterion Collection with issue nos.
A comedy drama set on the eve of World War II. It contrasts the affairs of the French aristocracy and the working class at a weekend house party. Masters and their servants are involved in an immoral erotic...
83) Hoff the Record
Series
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After five divorces and some misguided professional decisions, David Hasselhoff is in the UK to star in a new film that could reboot his career. But alarm bells start to ring when he gets the low budget treatment on arrival. The Hoff tasks his manager with finding him something more worthy of his talents. But as his attempts fall into disarray, can The Hoff get his career back on track?
84) The Old Guys
Series
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Housemates Tom and Roy are the ying to each other's yang. Roy is well-read, organised, clean and sensitive. Tom, well, isn't. As both of them settle into retirement, they are faced with the prospect of life simply not turning out quite how they imagined. Together, however, they manage to muddle through life - answering the important questions that retirement poses. Questions involving religion, true-love and precisely how early is too early to start...
85) Mongrels
Series
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Join Nelson the metrosexual fox and his friends as they negotiate life and love in the back alleys of the urban jungle. The cast of puppet characters features Destiny, a pretentious pedigree 'it-bitch'; Kali, a deeply cynical pigeon; Marion, an abandoned tom cat; and Vince, a streetwise geezer fox. But scratch their hairy surfaces and these guys are just five mixed-up kidults struggling with everyday emotional truths about life, love, sex, aspirations,...
Series
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Dawn French and Alfred Molina play a happily married couple in this domestic comedy set in real-time. Each episode begins with one of the couple already at home and we watch what happens when the other arrives to join them. Successfully married for over 20 years, Roger and Val are beautifully in tune with each other. They rely on each other for distraction from any woes, and - because they have no children - they are, it has to be said, somewhat lazy....
87) Ideal
Series
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Award-winning comedian Johnny Vegas stars in a comedy about the finer things in life. For over twenty years Moz has been dealing drugs from his small bedsit in Manchester which he shares with girlfriend, Nicki. Despite his chosen profession, Moz is a man of principle - he deals only in the best quality marijuana and nothing else.
Series
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Sue Johnston, Dawn French and Joanna Lumley lead a celebrity cast in an eccentric comedy written by and starring Jennifer Saunders. Clatterford is a small town, with a good cross section of people, local shops and a late night convenience store - a place which also has a thriving Women's Guild; who promote truth, justice, tolerance and fellowship - or is it just an excuse for a good old gossip? Without a job and feeling very much alone, Sal slowly...
Series
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
With an extraordinary ear for mimicry and a sure sense of character and comic timing, Catherine Tate presents a variety of unique and quirky characters in the first series of her widely-acclaimed sketch show. Meet teenage nightmare Lauren who is never 'bovvered', foul-mouthed Nan, Aga Saga mum Helen, frightened Margaret, enigmatic cop DI Amanda Hogg, randy Nurse Bernie and a host of other oddball creations.
90) Raffles
Series
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Language
English
Description
Man about town and First Class cricketer A.J. Raffles keeps himself solvent with daring robberies. Meeting Gwen from his schooldays and falling in love all over again, he spends the weekend with her parents, Lord and Lady Melrose. A necklace presents an irresistible temptation, but also in attendance is Scotland Yard's finest, finally on the trail.
91) Early Doors
Series
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Comedy set in The Grapes, an old-fashioned Manchester pub where the daily life of the locals - among them jack-the-lads Joe and Duffy, beer-bellied landlord Ken and his police officer cronies Phil and Nige, miserable old git Tommy and single mum Janice - revolves around love, loneliness and blocked urinals. The regulars rib each other and discuss the minutiae of everyday life, each bringing their own faults and foibles with them to the bar.
92) Famalam
Series
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Famalam shines a comedic light on everything - from alien encounters in the outer reaches of the galaxy to what happens when a man is left on his own in a house for 10 minutes holding only a phone and a remote. With a dazzling array of accents, cultural observations and colourful costumes, Famalam gives us a glimpse of the latest Nollywood blockbuster, reveals who might be responsible for internet spam and introduces us to the real rulers of the world...
93) Marion and Geoff
Series
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Taxi driver Keith Barrett has been left by his wife, Marion, for the flashy, high achieving Geoff and turned out of his own home. In a series of monologues starring Rob Brydon, Keith chats about the events that have shaped his life - namely his doomed marriage to Marion and her affair - and he reveals himself to be a man for whom the silver lining was especially invented.
94) In My Skin
Series
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Sitcom set in South Wales offers a raw, starkly funny portrayal of adolescence today. Teenager Bethan is using her cheek and wit to hide her home life from her friends. But when your mother is in a mental facility and likes breaking out, and your father is a Hell's Angel, flying under the radar isn't easy. Bethan learns, through heartache and laughter, to finally let go of the armour and exist for the first time in her own skin. Based on the writer...
95) The Smoking Room
Series
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In the world of work, there is only one place where seniority counts for nothing, where shop-talk is banned, and where the last bastions against fresh air and desk-based massage, gather regularly to discuss the minutiae of their lives: the smoking room. Here, in this protected environment, crossword addict Barry, lazy lothario Clint, self-obsessed Annie and lovelorn skiver Robin nurse that last ciggie and are always ready to ask, "have you got time...
Series
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Jimmy Venables is probably the only man in Britain who gets divorced and ends up with his mother-in-law. When his ex-wife Ann volunteers to go to East Africa, weekend-dad Jimmy agrees to take care of their two teenage kids full-time in an attempt to win her back. Unfortunately, his mother-in-law Diana virtually moves herself in to keep an eye on things and undermine Jimmy whenever possible.
Series
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Meet Don: a man with ambition, a man in the prime of life; a man who manages to mess up even the simplest of tasks. When faced with any awkward situation, Don's energetic imagination gets into gear - showing him all of the things not to do or say in that situation... Entertaining, surprising and with some unexpected turn of events, this series will make you think whatever situations you have got yourself into, however you have dealt with them, it...
Series
Publisher
BBC Studios
Language
English
Description
Impressionist duo Alistair McGowan and Ronni Ancona chart the über-couple's transfer from Beckingham Palace to Madrid. After waving Adios to sunny Manchester, the King and Queen of the premiership set their sights abroad. But all is not well in the Beckham camp - will the designer boutiques of Madrid be posh enough for an ex-Spice Girl with a wallet the size of the Costa Del Sol?
100) Inside the rain
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Language
English
Formats
Description
Facing expulsion from college over a misunderstanding, a bipolar student indulges his misery at a strip club where he befriends a gorgeous, intelligent, outrageous woman and they hatch a madcap scheme to prove his innocence.
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