Summary: "Sybylla Melvyn struggles with the conflicts that we all have between ambition, family, love, and guilt in a most remarkable manner. Sybylla grows to understand that life is a series of trade-offs, and that no one can have it all, and that no one can please everyone. Simple yet universal themes told with charm, wit, and a vulnerability that allows us to get right inside of her character and to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Underground 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MYSummary: "For her award-winning breakthrough film, director Gillian Armstrong drew on teenage author Miles Franklin's novel, a celebrated turn-of-the-twentieth-century Australian coming-of-age story, to brashly upend the conventions of period romance. Headstrong young Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis, in a star-making performance) bemoans her stifling life in the backcountry where her writerly ambitions...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MYContents: Disc one: Stax writers, Stax releases (part one). Comfort me / Carla Thomas -- You make a strong girl weak / Jeanne & The Darlings -- What did I do wrong / William Bell -- Another night without my man / Carla Thomas -- I got everything you need ; Mister fix it ; I'll always have faith in you ; Got to make a comeback / Eddie Floyd -- I've seen what loneliness can do / Homer Banks -- Slow train /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022