| Shelf Location |
IRIS |
| Title |
Iris (Motion picture : 2001) |
| Iris |
| Publication Details |
South Yarra : Buena Vista Home Entertainment [distributor], [2002], c2001. |
| Description |
1 videodisc (ca. 87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 leaflet. |
| Notes |
Miramax Films, BBC Films, Intermedia Films present a Mirage Enterprises, Robert Fox/Scott Rudin production of a Richard Eyre film. |
| Special features: 'A look at Iris' and two promotional spots. |
| Based on the books Iris : a memoir and elegy for Iris and Iris and her friends : a memoir of memory and desire by John Bayley. |
| Catalogued from container. |
| Originally produced as a motion picture in 2001. |
| "D/E13130" ; "C-112437-9." |
| Director, Richard Eyre ; Producers, Robert Fox, Scott Rudin ; writers, Richard Eyre, Charles Wood ; Director of photography, Roger Pratt; Editor, Martin Walsh; Music composed & conducted by James Horner; costume designer, Ruth Myers; production designer, Gemma Jackson. |
| Adapted from the memoirs of literary critic John Bayley, the film recounts his courtship of and long marriage to British novelist Iris Murdoch. The scenario tacks back and forth from the young Iris--ready to seduce one and all with her coy command of words and sex appeal--to the elder Iris--slowly giving way to the cruel erasure of Alzheimer's. |
| Subject |
Bayley, John, -- 1925-2015 -- Marriage |
| Murdoch, Iris -- Marriage |
| Murdoch, Iris |
| Women novelists, English -- 20th century -- Drama |
| Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Drama |
| Feature films |
| Video recordings for the hearing impaired |
| Added Author |
Myers, Ruth |
| Wood, Charles |
| Horner, James |
| Broadbent, Jim |
| Rudin, Scott, 1958- |
| Winslet, Kate |
| Dench, Judi, 1934- |
| Wilton, Penelope |
| Pratt, Roger |
| Fox, Robert |
| Eyre, Richard, 1943- |
| Walsh, Martin |
| Bonneville, Hugh |
| Jackson, Gemma |
| Bayley, John, 1925- |
| Miramax Films |
| BBC Films |
| Mirage Enterprises |
| Intermedia Films |
| Links to Related Works |
Subject References:
Authors:
- Bayley, John, 1925- .
- Bonneville, Hugh .
- Broadbent, Jim .
- Dench, Judi, 1934- .
- Eyre, Richard, 1943- .
- Fox, Robert .
- Horner, James .
- Jackson, Gemma .
- Myers, Ruth .
- Pratt, Roger .
- Rudin, Scott, 1958- .
- Walsh, Martin .
- Wilton, Penelope .
- Winslet, Kate .
- Wood, Charles .
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