Judi Dench
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Physical Desc
xiii, 268 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Description
From the moment Judi Dench appeared as a teenager in the York Mystery Plays it was clear that acting would be her career. Trained at London's Central School of Speech and Drama it was her performance in her twenties as Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's memorable Old Vic production that turned her into a star. But it is her role as 'M' in six James Bond films beginning with Golden Eye in 1995 that has gained her worldwide recognition. This book is, however,...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
ix, 373 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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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
Publisher
Penguin Books, Penguin Group, (USA)
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
vi, 420 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, photographs ; 22 cm
Description
Fifty years after giving her son up for adoption, Irishwoman Philomena Lee decides to find him, while, on the other side of the Atlantic, her son, a lawyer in the first Bush administration, struggles to find his mother.
4) Belfast
Pub. Date
2022
Formats
Description
Follows the story of a boy growing up in the late 1960s in Belfast whose family must decide whether to stay or leave amid the social tumult.
5) Skyfall
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (144 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. 007 aided only by field agent Eve, follows a trail that leads to Silva, whose...
6) Philomena
Publisher
Anchor Bay Films
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1952, a young Philomena was sent 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 searching for him in vain.
8) Red Joan
Formats
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...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The life-affirming tale of 10,000 children saved from Hitler's grasp and placed with foster parents and hostels in Great Britain at the outbreak of World War II. Includes archival footage and decades-later rememberances of both the rescuers and the rescued.
10) Behaving badly
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 203 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Oscar winner Judi Dench stars in this darkly humorous drama about a meek, middle-aged divorcee who suddenly begins to behave in ways that shock her ex and her grown daughter. Extras include biographies of star Judi Dench and writer Catherine Heath.
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
4 blu-rays (512 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Goldeneye (1995): When an MI6 agent turns rogue and plans world domination with a terrifying satellite-borne weapon, Bond must pursue his former ally to Cuba, Monte Carlo, Switzerland and even Russia, all whilst dodging a sexy, deadly femme fatale who will stop at nothing to put the 'squeeze' on Bond.
Tomorrow never dies (1997): Just as a media mogul unveils his new global news service, a British warship is attacked in Chinese territory. Agent James...
12) Victoria & Abdul
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (1 hr., 51 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
Story of the relationship between Queen Victoria and her Indian Muslim servant Abdul Karim.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (375 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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
[2002], c1996
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 210 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
15) All is true
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (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.
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Recently widowed and well-to-do Laura Henderson needs a diversion to see her through war torn London. On a whim she buys the derelict Windmill theatre in the West End and persuades impresario Vivian Van Damm to run it. The two don't seem to get along at all. Although their idea of a non-stop revue is at first a success, other theatres begin to copy the idea and disaster looms. Laura suggests they put nudes in the show, but Van Damm points out that...
Publisher
Hit Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (41 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Angelina Ballerina tells the timeless tales of a remarkable little mouse who dreams of becoming a prima ballerina. Headstrong, passionate, and feisty she is a character to whom children of all ages will relate.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (288 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
20) Wetherby
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jean Travers is a schoolteacher whose life changes completely when a young man breaks into her home, and then kills himself right in front of her for no apparent reason. As Jean's friends struggle to help her, Jean is drawn deeper and deeper into a web of memories and deceptions.