A modern version of six stories known as The Canterbury Tales. Features: 'The Miller's Tale', 'The Wife Of Bath', 'The Knight's Tale', 'The Sea Captain's Tale', 'The Pardoner's... more...Tale' and 'The Man Of Law's Tale'.
THE MILLER'S TALEWhen smooth talking Nick arrives in a flash red sports car, young wannabe ... more
pop star Alison thinks that her dreams have come true and incites the jealousy of her husband John.THE WIFE OF BATHBeth Craddock is a TV actress who still believ...
BAFTA-award winning drama from the BBC. The Miller's Tale: When smooth talking Nick ... more
arrives in a flash red sports car young wannabe pop star Alison thinks that her dreams have come true and incites the jealousy of her husband Dennis Waterman. The Wif...
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One spring day 30 pilgrims set off from an inn in Southwark for a shrine in Canterbury. ... more
The inn keeper offers a free dinner on their return to the person who can tell the best story. So begins an assortment of tales from such varied characters as the Knight the Wife of Bath and the Miller.
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In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature ... more
a masterly collection of chivalric romances moral allegories and low farce. A story-telling competition between a group of pilgrims from all walks of life is the occasion for a series of tales that range from the Knight's account of courtly love and the ebullient Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend to the ribald anecdotes of the Miller and the Cook.
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Earning a nomination at the Academy Awards and winning the BAFTA for Best Animated Short ... more
Film in 1998, this collection of 10 animated tales is cleverly and faithfully adapted from one of the most audacious and astonishing works in English literature. Via cel animation, clay animation and impressionistic drawings, the viewer is transported on a vivid journey to medieval times taking in chivalry, love, lust, the Black Death, rape, deception and... chickens.Introducing a group of men and women from various strands of society on a pilgrimage from London to St. Thomas a Becket's shrine at Canterbury. The Canterbury Tales recounts the stories they decide to tell one another to pass the time on the long journey. The powerful characterisation of each adaptation, from the earthy wife of Bath to the gentlemanly knight, brings Chaucer's prose alive for the viewer and the resulting work is an outstanding melding of supreme artistic talents with a master storyteller and literary craftsman.Acclaimed when it was shown on BBC2 and featuring the voice talents of Sean Bean, Robert Lindsay, Richard Griffiths, Haydn Gwynne, Tim McInnery, Bill Nighy, Bob Peck, Liz Smith and Imelda Staunton this much loved 10 part animated series is making its debut on DVD.The Squire's Tale.The Canon's Servant's Tale.The Miller's Tale.The Reeve's Tale.The Nun's Priest's Tale.The Knight's Tale.The Wife Of Bath's Tale.The Merchant's Tale.The Pardoner's Tale.The Franklin's Tale.
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Advantages: First rate entertainment Disadvantages: Not a single one!
Canterbury really come to life, especially through the medium of this DVD.
The characters are in turns venal, crass, rude, diplomatic, churlish, bombastic, chivalrous, angry and friendly as they each tell their own tales on the long trek that made up the pilgrimage. And they are all vividly and sharply drawn. From life, or so it seems. We both seemed to recognise the characters in people that we know or knew at one time or another.
The vocal talents are provided by the crème de la crème of British acting of stage, cinema screen and television. Sean Bean, Richard Griffiths, Robert Lindsay, Tim McInnery, Bill Nighy, Bob Peck, Liz Smith and Imelda Staunton all feature on this superlative DVD.
The tales shown on the DVD are: The Squire's tale, the Cannon's Servant's tale, the Miller's tale, The Reeve's tale, The Nun's Priest's tale ...
Advantages: A true classic of the English language Disadvantages: In Middle English without translation, it can be difficult to read
In Chaucer's work, 'The CanterburyTales', perhaps the greatest of English literary works from the period of the language known as Middle English, there is one particular piece that have always stood out for me.
'A Clerk ther was of Oxenford also,'
This is perhaps my favourite character, as when I first read it, it seemed to epitomise what I hoped for in my own life.
'That unto logik hadde longe y-go.
....
For him was lever have at his beddes heed
Twenty bokes, clad in blak or reed,
Of Aristotle and his philosophye,
Than robes riche, of fithele, or gay sautrye,
But al be that he was a philosophre,
Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre,
But al that he mighte of his freendes hente,
On bokes and on lerninge he it spente,
and bisily gan for the soules preye
Of hem that yaf him wherwith to scoleye.
....
...gladly wolde ...
Advantages: "Between a jest and a joke? Disadvantages: ? many a truth can be told."
The CanterburyTales (1972)
►►►main menu◄◄◄
1. Play film
2. Select chapter
3. Also available: other films by the same director that are available on DVD.
4. Director?s biography
5. Weblink: www.bfi.org.uk
►►►language◄◄◄
Italian with English subtitles. Did I mention that before? The Italian language is CHARMING!
►►►running time◄◄◄
107 minutes.
►►►chapter division◄◄◄
1. credits
2. prologue
3. the merchant?s tale
4. the friar?s tale
5. the cook?s tale
6. the miller?s tale
7. the wife of bath
8. the reeve?s tale
9. the pardoner?s tale
10. the summoner?s tale
11. epilogue
►►►story AND notes◄◄◄
It is easier to follow ...
A modern version of six stories known as The Canterbury Tales. Features: 'The Miller's Tale', 'The Wife Of Bath', 'The Knight's Tale', 'The Sea Captain's Tale', 'The Pardoner's Tale' and 'The Man Of Law's Tale'.
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
IMC VISION; ARVATO SERVICES
Release date
25/10/2004
No of Discs
2
Catalogue No
IMC 533 D
Barcode
5016641115336
Languages
Main Language
English
Subtitle Language
English
Technical information
Special Features
Interactive Menu, Scene Access
Aspect Ratio
16:9 Anamorphic, 1.78 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Sound
Dolby Digital 2.0
Dubbing Sound
Dolby Digital 2.0 English
DVD Description
A modern version of six stories known as The Canterbury Tales. Features: 'The Miller's Tale', 'The Wife Of Bath', 'The Knight's Tale', 'The Sea Captain's Tale', 'The Pardoner's Tale' and 'The Man Of Law's Tale'.
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