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Ballet Shoes (BBC) [2007]

starring: Emma Watson, Emilia Fox, Richard Griffiths, Victoria Wood, Yasmin Paige
directed by: Sandra Goldbacher

Release Date January 07, 2008
Koch Vision presents "BALLET SHOES" (26 December 2007) (84 mins/Color) (Dolby digitally remastered) -- Our story line and plot, featuring an all-star cast led by Watson (Hermione Granger of Harry Potter), the inspiring and uplifting family drama Ballet Shoes won over audiences of all ages during its UK premiere last Christmas --- Now, KOCH Vision brings Ballet Shoes to American audiences for the first time, when this feature-length adaptation of Noel Streatfeild's beloved novel makes its DVD debut, complete with an exclusive Emma Watson bonus interview --- With her latest blockbuster,Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, shelved until next July, Hermione's millions of fans will thrill to her starring role in one of the top-rated TV movies ... Read More:

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What A Girl Wants [2003]

starring: Amanda Bynes, Colin Firth, Kelly Preston, Eileen Atkins, Anna Chancellor
directed by: Dennie Gordon

Release Date February 23, 2004
i thought this movie was really good, a bit unrealistic though as her father wouldnt have been in the u.s peace corps as he was english. it is defintly worth a watch.

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Jack And Sarah (1995)

starring: Richard E. Grant, Samantha Mathis, Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, Cherie Lunghi
directed by: Tim Sullivan

Release Date July 23, 2001
A really realistic view as how a man copes being left widowed with a young baby daughter...it has some funny bits (you know how men can be, sometimes!)but is all the more, a very toughing film, leaving you happy in the outcome.

A light-hearted film, great to watch on a night in.

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Madame Bovary

starring: Frances O'Connor, Claire Hackett, Adam Cooper, Hugh Bonneville, Eileen Atkins
directed by: Tim Fywell

Release Date March 13, 2006
Lets face it, Madame Bovary was always going to be difficult to produce. The story really centres around Dr Bovary, and Emma Bovary is his second wife, and you have to read about his first marriage until you get to Emma. Although I am a fan of Flaubert and Madame Bovary, as well as many others, I can also see where a large group of people are coming from when they say that this book is one of the most boring written.Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics) if you would like to read the book.

This production is not a straight transposition of the novel, opening as it does after Dr Bovary has lost his first wife. We see in this drama Dr Bovary getting Emma to become his second wife. Emma has been brought up spoiled by her father. Dr Bovary has been brought ... Read More:

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Vanity Fair [2004]

starring: Reese Witherspoon, Eileen Atkins, Jim Broadbent, Gabriel Byrne, Romola Garai
directed by: Mira Nair

Release Date May 16, 2005
It's easy to be cynical of a film whose main protagonist is an American playing a character in English literature, and it is also very easy to criticise their performance. Before watching this film I did wonder whether Reese Witherspoon was merely cast in the role of Becky Sharpe in order to bolster the film's budget. And then I thought imagine if a Keira Knightly (god forbid) had been cast, and suddenly old Witherspoon didn't seem so bad after all. No one bats an eyelid anymore that Renee Zellweger was cast as Bridget Jones, although I concede her accent is a damn sight more convincing. That being said I think Witherspoon does a rather good job in a role that is at times rather disagreeable. In the film's favour `Vanity Fair' boasts an excellent supporting cast, tribute ... Read More:

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Cold Mountain [2003]

starring: Jude Law, Donald Sutherland, Jena Malone, Eileen Atkins, Kathy Baker
directed by: Anthony Minghella

Release Date February 25, 2008
such a beautifully done movie is a tissue box grabber everytime but its worth the tears !

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The Dresser [1983]

starring: Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Edward Fox, Zena Walker, Eileen Atkins
directed by: Peter Yates

Release Date May 24, 2004
Having bought the stage play and compared this to the film they are the same but also they are not. The scene in the market ( actually in Halifax not Bradford) is told by Norman on stage. In the film you actually see everything. Both work but I do not know which is better. No wonder Ronald Harwood won an Oscar he really is one of the best writers working in Britain.

The only real invention for the film is the scene shot in York station.

I saw the film in Bradford at a cinema right next door to the theatre it was filmed in.

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Equus [1977]

starring: Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Colin Blakely, Joan Plowright, Harry Andrews
directed by: Sidney Lumet

Release Date August 04, 2003
People critisize this film for there own reasons and I think there is a simple reason. They either get it but pretend they dont or they do and say it does not stand up to scrutiny. 2 Things make this film great. GBs greatest and ocasionally worst export the late and greatest of english actors Richard Burton and Peter Shaffers superb play.The film is worth it alone for Burtons monologues which are hair-raisingly superb from the first eerie moment in his dark office to the last scene where the camera pans to his pupil and into the soul of Burtons troubled genius. People who say the psychology is 'cod' are most likely Freudians who dont like the deeply Jungian theme placed so enigmatically in such a mainstream film. Psychology for the masses? Surely not! But yes this film says ... Read More:

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Elizabeth Gaskell BBC Collection: Cranford / North & South / Wives & Daughters

starring: Francesca Annis, Ian Carmichael, Barbara Flynn, Deborah Findlay, Eileen Atkins
directed by: Simon Curtis, Brian Percival, Nicholas Renton

Release Date March 17, 2008
People critisize this film for there own reasons and I think there is a simple reason. They either get it but pretend they dont or they do and say it does not stand up to scrutiny. 2 Things make this film great. GBs greatest and ocasionally worst export the late and greatest of english actors Richard Burton and Peter Shaffers superb play.The film is worth it alone for Burtons monologues which are hair-raisingly superb from the first eerie moment in his dark office to the last scene where the camera pans to his pupil and into the soul of Burtons troubled genius. People who say the psychology is 'cod' are most likely Freudians who dont like the deeply Jungian theme placed so enigmatically in such a mainstream film. Psychology for the masses? Surely not! But yes this film says ... Read More:

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Cold Mountain [2004]

starring: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Brendan Gleeson, Philip Seymour Hoffman
directed by: Anthony Minghella

Release Date July 05, 2004
An excellent film. Unfortunately it was deprived of Academy Awards it would otherwise have deserved by the fact that it came out in the same award year as The Return of the King (which was possibly the best film in the history of cinema). Jude Law takes a break from his penchant for vapid non-acting and turns in an astonishing performance as Inman. Nicole Kidman is very good, but is thoroughly trumped by a Renee Zellweger who I feel can breath excellence into the most dull of roles (I could not have countenanced Bridget Jones in any other form; fortunately Cold Mountain's Ruby Thewes is a gorgeous, meaty character). The movie was by no means over-long, but I would recommend the novel for a fuller flavour of the story. More films like this would make expensive trips to the cinema ... Read More: