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Judi Dench
Author
Language
English
Description
"Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it before by pre-ordering internationally renowned actor Dame Judi Dench's SHAKESPEARE: The Man Who Pays The Rent - a witty, insightful journey through the plays and tales of our beloved Shakespeare. Taking a curtain call with a live snake in her wig... Cavorting naked through the Warwickshire countryside painted green... Acting opposite a child with a pumpkin...
Author
Language
English
Description
New York Times Bestseller
The heartbreaking true story of an Irishwoman and the secret she kept for 50 years
When she became pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent to be looked after as a “fallen woman.” Then the nuns took her baby from her and sold him, like thousands of others, to America for adoption. Fifty years later, Philomena decided to find him.
Meanwhile,...
The heartbreaking true story of an Irishwoman and the secret she kept for 50 years
When she became pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent to be looked after as a “fallen woman.” Then the nuns took her baby from her and sold him, like thousands of others, to America for adoption. Fifty years later, Philomena decided to find him.
Meanwhile,...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dame Maggie Smith, Dame Judi Dench, Dame Eileen Atkins, and Dame Joan Plowright are among the most celebrated actresses of the time, with scores of iconic performances, decades of wisdom, and innumerable awards between them. They are also longtime friends who invite viewers to join them for a weekend in the country as they catch up with one another, reminisce, and share their candid, delightfully irreverent thoughts on everything from art to aging...
7) Red Joan
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Joan Stanley is a widow living out a quiet retirement in the suburbs when, shockingly, the British Secret Service places her under arrest. The charge: providing classified scientific information, including details on the building of the atomic bomb, to the Soviet government for decades. As she is interrogated, Joan relives the dramatic events that shaped her life and beliefs: her student days at Cambridge, where she excelled at physics while challenging...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 257 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From her first theatrical roles as a teenager in York to her ... performances as 'M' in the James Bond films, Dame Judi Dench's professional life has consisted of non-stop acting, leading to numerous accolades, including an Academy Award for her performance as Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love. [This book] is a candid blend of reminiscences and photos, many of them never-before-seen from her personal collection"--
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based in part on his autobiography, director Franco Zeffirelli's Tea with Mussolini is a story about a group of British and American travelers on an indefinite visit to Italy in 1935. Luca is a boy living in Florence whose family situation is precarious at best; his mother has run off and his father has little time for him. Fortunately, he's a welcome guest with Mary, a English woman visiting Italy to soak up European culture. Mary and her friends...
11) All is true
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The year is 1613, and Shakespeare is acknowledged as the greatest writer of the age. But disaster strikes when his renowned Globe Theatre burns to the ground. Devastated, Shakespeare returns to Stratford, where he must face a troubled past and a neglected family.
12) Belfast
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A poignant story of love, laughter, and loss in one boy's childhood, amid the music and social tumult of the late 1960s.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The peaceful life of two aging sisters is shattered when they take in a young Polish violinist who they find injured after having been washed ashore near their coastal English home. Their town is suspicious of any visitors and things get worse when he befriends a Russian woman who is visiting the town.
14) Philomena
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Judi Dench stars in the story of Philomena Lee, mother to a boy conceived out of wedlock and given up for adoption. Nearly 50 years later, Philomena meets Martin Sixsmith, a former BBC reporter looking for his next big story. Together, they embark on a journey to locate her long lost son. As the pieces of the puzzle come together, the unlikely travel companions form a comic and heartwarming friendship. Based on the 2009 investigative book by Martin...
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Will Shakespeare needs passionate inspiration to break a bad case of writer's block, a secret romance with the beautiful Lady Viola starts the words flowing like never before!
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002], c1996
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 210 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lionel and Jean were lovers many years ago at the time of the Korean War. They were separated by a misunderstanding. Forty years later, fate brings them together again with hilarious results.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (210 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Once upon a time, a young British Army officer and a lovely student nurse fell in love. After a forty year absence, fate brings them together again, with hilarious results.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Barbara is a cynical schoolteacher who is close to retirement. Her only means of taking the edge off her desperate loneliness is writing in her journal. Sheba is a younger, attractive woman, who joins the faculty as an art teacher. Barbara watches her from afar and has nothing but caustic things to say in her diary. Barbara finds herself reaching out to Sheba. Sheba responds by inviting her to dinner at her house to meet Sheba's lecturer husband and...
19) Cats
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Oscar-winning director Tom Hooper transforms Andrew Lloyd Webber's record-shattering stage musical into a breakthrough cinematic event. The film reimagines the musical for a new generation with spectacular production design, state-of-the-art technology, and dance styles ranging from classical ballet to contemporary, hip-hop to jazz, street dance to tap. One of the longest-running shows in West End and Broadway history, it won seven Tony Awards, including...
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1939, influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors for a future looking National Socialist. A teacher there sees what is coming and is trying to raise the alarm. But the authorities believe he is the problem.
