Julie Christie
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Language
English
Description
Kitty Baldry (Julie Christie) is a haughty society queen with a tunnelled view of life. Kitty's complacency is rocked when her husband, Captain Chris Baldry (Sir Alan Bates), returns from the front during World War I shell-shocked and suffering amnesia, not knowing who she is, and determined for a reunion with Margaret Grey (Glenda Jackson), a working class lover from his past. Kitty employs psychiatrist Dr. Gilbert Anderson (Sir Ian Holm) to help...
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005], c2004
Language
English
Description
Playwright James M. Barrie's career is questioned when his latest play is ill-received. But when he meets a widow and her four adventurous boys, they form a friendship that sparks the imagination needed to produce Barrie's greatest work.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
2003, c1966
Language
English
Description
In a society in which books are outlawed, Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1971
Language
English
Description
Set in the winter in the Old west. John McCabe arrives in a young Pacific Northwest town to set up a brothel/tavern. Mrs. Miller, a professional madam, arrives and offers her help. They are very successful but big business moves into town and offers to buy the business.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Married for almost 50 years, Grant and Fiona's serenity is interrupted by Fiona's increasingly frequent memory lapses. When it is no longer possible for either of them to ignore the fact that she is being consumed by Alzheimer's disease, the limits of love and loyalty are wrenchingly redefined.
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
English
Description
Cross-cutting between two generations, James Ivory’s sprawling epic of self-discovery is also a lush evocation of the prismatic and sensuous beauty of India. As she searches for answers to the mystery surrounding a long-ago affair between her aunt Olivia and an Indian prince, Anne (Julie Christie) becomes immersed in the local culture, the pull of the past simultaneously leading her into a clearer view of her own future. Winner of Best Adapted Screenplay...
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Language
English
Description
After admitting his wife of nearly fifty years to a nursing home because of her severe Alzheimer's, a man copes with the realization that she has completely forgotten him and has started to show affection toward another patient.
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Series
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English
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Description
Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, is revered not only for her dazzling beauty, but for the mystery of her life. Succumbing to the irresistible impulses of passion, she gambled away her throne for love. Unbelievable acts of abduction, rape, and even murder were performed at her behest; she stopped at nothing. Ultimately, the deadly game of power she played and lost against her envious cousin, Elizabeth I, cost her not only her kingdom, but also her life....
12) Don't Look Now
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1973.
Language
English
Description
Working with elements of the traditional horror genre - second sight, ESP, warnings from the dead, a mad killer - and a cinematography of disquieting beauty and dreamlike sense of dislocation, director Nicolas Roeg weaves a fabric of anxiety that questions all reality. The evocative use of the back streets of Venice is a sinister participant in the action based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier. This intensely erotic and macabre film boasts outstanding...
13) Billy Liar
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1963.
Language
English
Description
Billy Fisher is a lazy, wildly inventive and irresponsible clerk in a north country town, who defrauds his employers of the petty cash. Unable to accept the drab reality of life, Billy escapes into a world of fantasy, imagining he is a successful man of the world in various situations. Communication at home is uneasy; his inexplicable lying shocks his parents. But when he becomes engaged to two girls at the same time and invents a demand for his non-existent...
15) Separate Tables
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Language
English
Description
John Schlesinger directed Alan Bates, Julie Christie, Claire Bloom and Irene Worth in this lucid, fascinating television remake of Terrence Rattigan's two classic playlets (set in a luxury-hotel dining room) about relationships gone awry.
17) Afterglow
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Language
English
Description
Producer Robert Altman and director Alan Rudolph team up for this stylish dramedy about couples on the verge of complete fallout.
18) Snapshots
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Language
English
Description
Screen icons Burt Reynolds and Julie Christie star in this romantic drama about an aging hippy and a beautiful young woman who meet in Amsterdam and find love.
Author
Language
English
Description
The period of English romantic poetry occurred roughly between 1800 and 1850 and was represented by poets such as William Blake, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and William Wordsworth. All of these poets are featured in this collection of more than 50 poems read by award-winning actors that include Joan Allen, Julie Christie, Stephen Fry, Glenda Jackson, and Jude Law.
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