(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)Judi Dench
Author
Formats
Description
In this warmhearted memoir, actress Dench brings such a fresh and natural reaction as she describes her roles from Mother Courage to Cleopatra, Lady Bracknell and Sally Bowles that a sense of identification occurs; Dench shows the theatrical inside plumbing of the player and how personal insights, emotional backstories, and initial responses create the character. She believes she is blessed with her marriage to actor Michael Williams and a supportive...
2) Mrs. Brown
Author
Description
Queen Victoria was the world's most powerful woman. John Brown looked after her horses. Yet when circumstances brought them together, the result was a passionate friendship that scandalized a nation.
Author
Description
Two aging spinster sisters have their peaceable Cornwall existence disrupted in 1936 when they take a young Polish violinist into their care. After a particularly violent storm, Ursula and Janet Widington awake to find young man Andrea half-drowned and badly injured on the beach. They slowly discover that he is a Polish Jew with a gift for music as an accomplished violinist, hoping to find his way to America. But the village isn't used to visitors...
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
xi, 257 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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"--
5) Philomena
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1952, a young Philomena was sent to the convent of Roscrea in Ireland after giving birth to her first child. When her son became a toddler, the nuns sent him to America for adoption. Philomena then spent the next fifty years seeking for him in vain.
"Judi Dench brings the Irish-born Philomena to life with good humor and dignity. It's a wonderfully memorable performance by one of the acting world's greats."--USA Today.
"Director Steven Frears...
Pub. Date
c2000, 2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., b&w with col. sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The documentary tells the story of a group of children from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia who were fortunate enough to escape the unfathomable horror of the genocide perpetrated against the Jewish people during WWII. They were saved by the Kindertransport, which took 10,000 children to the safety of England in the late 1930s. (The United States government, which could have sponsored a similar program, declined to do so.) Assuming that the broad...
7) All is True
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (circa 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
"Slowly, as the thematic center of the film begins to take shape, so does Branagh's character - and in those moments the audience is treated to what amounts to nothing short of a Christmas...
8) Red Joan
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (circa 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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...
10) Cranford
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (291 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Cranford in 1842 is a market town in northwest England, governed by etiquette, custom and above all, an intricate network of ladies. For spinsters Deborah Jenkyns, the arbiter of correctness, and Matty, her dumurring sister, the town is a hub of intrigue. Handsome new doctor Frank Harrison has arrived from London; a retired Captain and his daughters move in across the street and preparations for Lady Ludlows garden party are underway. But news comes...
11) Victoria & Abdul
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
13) Parade's end
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 270 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story follows Christopher Tietjens, a wealthy member of Edwardian England's upper class, as the country is drawn into World War One. Tietjens is at the center of a love triangle between his wife Sylvia, a treacherous socialite who is trying to destroy him, and his suffragette mistress, Valentine. The warfare Tietjens encounters as an officer in Europe is but a backdrop to a personal battle of conflicting loyalties, hidden passions and the rigid...
14) Cats
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (circa 111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"A bunch of well-known celebrities get turned into singing, scenery-chewing digital kitties in the utterly absurd yet oddly charming movie musical version of the Broadway hit."--USA Today
"The movie 'Cats' is-forgive the critical jargon-pretty good."--The New Yorker
"Does all this work? Well, it depends on how you feel about ... 'Cats.' Did you love the show? You'll find stuff to love here. Did you hate it? Ditto! Or maybe ... you'll have both reactions?...
15) Belfast
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A poignant story of love, laughter, and loss in one boy's childhood, amid the music and social tumult of the late 1960s.
16) Skyfall
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 143 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Bond's latest assignment goes gravely wrong and agents around the world are exposed, MI6 is attacked, forcing M to relocate the agency. These events cause her authority and position to be challenged by Mallory, the new Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee. With MI6 now compromised from both inside and out, M is left with one ally she can trust: Bond. Aided only by field agent Eve, 007 follows a trail that leads to Silva, whose...
17) J. Edgar
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (137 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
J. Edgar Hoover was head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for nearly 50 years. Hoover was feared, admired, reviled and revered, a man who could distort the truth as easily as he upheld it. His methods were at once ruthless and heroic, with the admiration of the world his most coveted prize. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career and his life.
18) Mrs. Brown
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Queen Victoria was the world's most powerful woman. Rugged Scotsman John Brown was a lowly servant who looked after her horses. Yet when circumstances brought them together the result was a passionate friendship that scandalized a nation.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the summer of 1956, 23-year-old Colin Clark, determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl, the film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe. When his diary account was published, one week was missing. This is the story of that week: an idyll in which he escorted a Monroe desperate to get away from Hollywood hangers-on and the pressures of work.