George Bernard Shaw on Film (Criterion Collection: Eclipse Series 20)The hugely influential Nobel Prize winning critic and playwright George Bernard Shaw was notoriously reluctant to allow his writing to be adapted for the cinema. Yet thanks to the persistence of Hungarian producer Gabriel Pascal, Shaw finally agreed to collaborate on a series of screen versions of his witty, social minded plays, starting with the Oscar winning Pygmalion. The three other films that resulted from this famed alliance, Major Barbara,

Pascal Comelade - Le Non Sens Du Rythme

The musicians

Once thought "lost"

a market town in the North West of England

As elegantly composed and achingly tender as any of the Japanese master's films

Ray Charles

conductor Enrique Mazzola gets Rossini's music to sizzle

following him when he left Rome for Venice

The church today

training pedal technique

and winner of a Grammy Legend Award in 1992

Lau took on the same historical legends in Executioners from Shaolin