On this episode of Camera Three, actress Claire Bloom reads poetry. Excerpts include selections from T.S. Eliot, Lord Byron, A.E. Housman, Sir Philip Sydney, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, and medieval carols.
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Promising young racing car driver Joe Joe Quillico leaves the stock car racing scene in the United States in order to pursue Grand Prix racing in Europe. After limited success he manages to win the Spanish Grand Prix. His love life however, is much less successful and his winning on the track only serves to alienate the woman he loves – with unhappy consequences.
10-year-old Kathy prefers pigtails to curls and runs away for the day to avoid a hair appointment. While she’s off having adventures with her best pal Jeeter, her parents clash over how to handle the situation. Kathy’s mother worries that her daughter doesn’t “fit in” while her father believes she’s “just an individual” and should be allowed to grow up at her own pace. At the end of the day, Kathy must return home to face the inevitable.
In this gay classic from acclaimed filmmaker Ira Sachs, 18-year-old Lincoln Bloom leads a relatively straight teenage life, but finds himself drawn to the anonymous sexual encounters of local gay bars and video arcades. He soon meets Minh, a Vietnamese immigrant, and embarks with him on a trip down the river, where their doomed relationship hits a dramatic turning point.
An alcohol/drug abuser re-examines his life until he nearly dies from an overdose. Then a friend convinces him to join a self-help group which turns out to be demonic.
Janet is an overweight girl who has a knack for making the other children in school laugh… by making fun of her own weight. In seeing the other kids’ reaction, she feels that she might have a career as a comedian. She visits the local comedy club, where she finds Tony Moroni, a struggling comedian whose jokes often fail. Together, Tony helps Janet build self-esteem and she helps him with his material.
A sophisticated Hollywood film editor, on location for a film she is working on, falls for a local cowboy who is hired to work on the film.
Saxophonist Danny witnesses the murder of his band manager and a deaf-mute girl after a gig. Questioned by the police, he remembers only the orthopedic shoes of the killers’ leader. So begins his quest to avenge her. He seeks an answer to the simple question ‘Why?’ but finds only more, and deeper, questions which resonate with the wider context of ‘the Troubles’, the inter-communal strife gripping the modern-day Northern Ireland which is the film’s setting.