Collection of seven classic films from acclaimed director Joseph Losey. In ' The Go-Between' (1970), a young teenage boy, Leo (Dominic Guard), is invited to a wealthy school friend's rich family estate & then drawn into a love affair between his friend's 20-something sister, Marian (Julie Christie), & the family neighbour, Ted Burgess (Alan Bates), even though Marian is engaged to be married. She uses Leo as a go-between, sending messages to her lover. Despite feeling he is betraying her fiance, Hugh (Edward Fox), Leo carries on being the messenger boy & discovers more about the attraction between men & women along the way. In ' The Servant' (1963), James Fox plays a wealthy American who has escaped from his homeland in the wake of Communist paranoia. He returns to England from a holiday in Europe, buys a handsome Georgian townhouse & employs Hugo Barrett (Dirk Bogarde) as a house-keeper. However, Hugo becomes steadily more pervasive & manages to engineer a role-reversal which results in him achieving control of his master. In ' Accident' (1967), two Oxford students, William (Michael York) & Anna (Jacqueline Sassard), crash their car outside their professor's house. The lecturer, Stephen (Bogarde), finds William dead & Anna in shock, & the horrifying spectacle in front of him triggers memories of their previous meetings. It transpires that Anna had been having an affair with one of the professor's colleagues, &, in a flashback to a Sunday dinner party, it is revealed what part Stephen had to play in the fall-out from the relationship. In ' The Criminal' (1960), during his three years in prison, Johnny Bannion (Stanley Baker) has been devising his next robbery
- the biggest of his career. Once out of prison he pulls off the heist & buries the money, but is arrested before he can tell of its whereabouts to the rest of the gang. The gang eventually springs him from jail, but makes a mistake that means they may never see the money at all. In ' Eva' (1962), a Welsh novelist (Baker) falls in love with Eva (Jeanne Moreau), a scheming, gold-digging femme fatale. Realising that Eva will never love him, the novelist marries beautiful Francesca (Virna Lisi), who in turn loses her will to live when she discovers her husband's secretly harboured desires. In ' Mr Klein' (1976), while the Nazis are busy deporting French Jews from occupied France, Parisian art dealer Mr Klein (Alain Delon) discovers that he has a Jewish counterpart with the same name, for whom he is mistaken. As he becomes more involved with his alter ego's identity, Mr Klein puts himself at considerable risk. Finally, in ' The Sleeping Tiger' (1954), psychiatrist Clive Desmond (Alexander Knox) brings a criminal (Bogarde) into his home as an Pygmalion-type experiment, after he catches him red-handed. But the psychiatrist's well-meaning plan backfires when his bored wife, Glenda (Alexis Smith), begins to fall for the thief.
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In 1919, when movies were an idea one week, in front of the camera the next & in theaters in a month, few were taking filmmaking seriously as business, but Joseph Kennedy spotted it as 'a gold mine'. This title presents the story of Kennedy's love affair & business arrangement with the 'reigning Queen of the movies' Gloria Swanson. ...

Illustrated throughout with works by Southall formerly in the Fortunoff Collection. They show a wide variety of work produced by Southall during his lifetime. As well as superb watercolours of Engl&, there are also scenes from the Italian lakes & Tuscany, & several images of sailing barques in the harbour at Fowey in Cornwal. ...

Allows children to explore the story of Joseph & his family in a different way
- puzzles. Through spot the difference puzzles,
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Joseph Urban is a lavish celebration of this prolific artist, architect, & designer, whose accomplishments included magnificent Art Deco buildings, spectacular Ziegfeld Follies productions, & dramatic sets for the Metropolitan Opera. Joseph Urban (1872
- 1933) began his career as an artist of the Wiener Werkstatte movement in Vienna.
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Examines Joseph Wright's remarkable impact on the artistic climate of the city of Liverpool, on its cultural institutions, & on the other artists working there. The Merseyside network of merchants, bankers, & amateur & professional artists that Wright encountered in the years around 1770 is identified as his true historical milieu. ...