Re: [Videolib] Mother Courage and Her Children

2013-04-19 Thread Delin, Peter
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Re: [Videolib] Mother Courage and Her Children

2013-04-19 Thread Jessica Rosner
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Re: [Videolib] Mother Courage and Her Children

2013-04-18 Thread Jessica Rosner
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Re: [Videolib] Mother Courage and Her Children

2013-04-17 Thread Delin, Peter
Dear Curleen, even a German language version of this play without any subs is hard to to be found. Frankly spoken there is none except one! In the eighties the famous version from the Berliner Ensemble with Helene Weigel as a lead has been published on VHS - now extremely rare and much

Re: [Videolib] Mother Courage and Her Children

2013-04-17 Thread Jessica Rosner
Peter IMDB listed a version from East Germany made in 1961. It is not part of the DEFA collection at Univ. of MA. Any evidence it is around anywhere? On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Delin, Peter de...@zlb.de wrote: Dear Curleen, even a German language version of this play without any subs

[Videolib] Mother Courage and Her Children

2013-04-16 Thread Elliott, Curleen
Hi, Does anyone know where I can find an English or English subtitled video production of Mother Courage and Her Children based on the play by Bertolt Brecht. Thanks, Curleen Elliott Library Associate Serials, Acquisitions and Student Worker Supervisor Norwalk Community College Baker Library

Re: [Videolib] Mother Courage and Her Children

2013-04-16 Thread Elizabeth Sheldon
Kino Lorber Edu has a dramatization starring Meryl Streep: Synopsis Filmmaker John Walter artfully captures Meryl Streep groping for – and then seizing – the character in her unforgettable portrayal of Mother Courage in Tony Kushner’s adaptation of the Bertolt Brecht masterpiece Mother Courage

Re: [Videolib] Mother Courage and Her Children

2013-04-16 Thread Jessica Rosner
Does this actually contain the entire play? It sounds like it is very good but a documentary about a production as opposed to a complete version of the play. On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Elizabeth Sheldon elizab...@kinolorber.com wrote: Kino Lorber Edu has a dramatization starring Meryl

Re: [Videolib] Mother Courage and Her Children

2013-04-16 Thread Elizabeth Sheldon
Good point -- there are excerpts of the play interspersed with commentary as it is a doc about Brecht, the play and Meryl Streep's performance of Mother Courage and not a dramatization. Best, Elizabeth On Apr 16, 2013, at 3:40 PM, Jessica Rosner wrote: Does this actually contain the entire

Re: [Videolib] Mother Courage and Her Children

2013-04-16 Thread Anthony Anderson
The cataloging record describes the documentary as such: An examination of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and her children, and the political philosophies the play represents. Preparing for The Public Theater's 2006 production of Brecht's anti-war play, Meryl Streep allows a camera crew to