Movies

Across a single day in Lagos, Nigeria, Clarissa prepares to host a high society party at her home, as her complicated past begins to consume her, in...

Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel "Orlando: A Biography" follows the centuries-spanning life of a young nobleman who awakens to find that they are a woman....

England, 1600. Queen Elizabeth I promises Orlando, a young nobleman obsessed with poetry, that she will grant him land and fortune if he agrees to...

In 1910 London, independent-minded Katharine Hilbery defies her family's expectations of marriage to pursue a career in astronomy. But when her...

Clarissa Dalloway looks back on her youth as she readies for a gathering at her house. The wife of a legislator and a doyenne of London's upper-crust...

With the book The Waves by Virginia Woolf as point of departure, the film follows six characters trying to recapture the feeling of harmony they knew...

A collection of animated Christmas shorts: An original Maurice Sendak piece about a boy with nothing to give for Christmas -- An excerpt from the...

Over a single summer day in New York, the lives of two mothers briefly entwine. Julia, a writer and mother, is unsettled by creative stagnation,...

A faithful dramatization of Virginia Woolf's novel. A lecturer, his family, the spinster Aunt Lily, an old friend, and a student, Charles Tansley,...

Olga Neuwirth, for a long time one of the great composers of the present, succeeds with this opera in creating a captivating arc across many musical...

To get beaten or give a beating, to beat oneself up. To beat the odds. Metal is forged by beating. Birds beat their wings, the sun beats down, and...

A Room of One's Own is based on two lectures which Virginia Woolf gave at Cambridge University in 1928 to the women students there. It is performed...

The charm of Rie Miyazawa is in full display as she passionately portrays a beautiful young nobleman who transforms into a woman overnight,...

A film, first broadcast in 1970, that celebrates the life and work of author Virginia Woolf through the memories of her friends and relations.

Biography documentary on the writer for "The Hours" DVD special features.

A transient contemplation of memory.

A re-framing both of Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel Orlando, and of Potter’s film of the same name. Through song and dance, the new film...