DVD: James Wilby

DVD: James Wilby

DVD:

James Wilby

Howards End - The Merchant Ivory Collection

Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter

Merchant Ivory, 2005

Classic - Must See!!
This is one of my favorite films, truly a classic film. Emma Thompson, Anthony Hopkins, and Helena Bonham Carter, and Vanessa Redgrave do an outstanding job, as always. The story is interesting and it makes one think of how this would have indeed been quite a scandal ...

De-Lovely

Kevin Kline, Ashley Judd

MGM (Video & DVD), 2004

Cole Porter, Warts and All
Shadow Watcher Nobody Drowns in Mineral Lake As the story of Cole Porter, DE-LOVELY is perhaps the best, most imaginative movie musical biography ever made. Unlike NIGHT AND DAY, the 1946 whitewashed Porter biography that starred Cary Grant and Alexis Smith, this ...

Island at War

Owen Teale, Marshall Griffin

Acorn Media, 2005

Island at War ... a real classic series..
from what I understand the 4 Channel Islands were occupied during the war from 1940 until they were liberated by the British troops in 1945...Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark.. Jersey is the largest island... It was the purpose of the occupiers to build a huge ...

Gosford Park

Eileen Atkins, Alan Bates

Universal Studios, 2002

Commentary by Julian Fellowes is most enjoyable!
I'm glad this DVD belongs to me for I will watch it many times. The music is lovely and Jeremy Northam and Clive Owen are easy on the eyes. Julian Fellowes has an excellent commentary explaining the aristocracy and the servant class which made the story-line all the ...

Adam Bede

Iain Glen, Patsy Kensit

BBC Warner, 2007

Adam Bede-A developing character
The story charts Adam Bedes development as he deals with two personal tragedies the death by drowning of his drunken father, the betrayal by his first love Hetty Sorrell and his best friend Arthur Donnithorne. The book is full of graphic descriptions of life in ...

A Handful of Dust

James Wilby, Kristin Scott Thomas

Hbo Home Video, 2004

If "Requiem for a Dream" were a period peice film ...
I will admit, I was not a fan of this film during the first fifteen minutes when it nearly went into the "Period Film Sleeping Bag" category, but after you get through this first hump (which is to wean out the naysayers) this is a very disturbing and thoughtful film. ...

Lady Chatterley

Hetty Baynes, Sean Bean

Acorn Media, 2003

Lady Chatterley Again A pleasant surprise!
I thought oh no not another version of this book, I can't bear it but when I saw it, I was blown away. Sean Bean is great as the "lover" and smolders all the way through but he can also act!! Almost as good as his Sharpe role. I thought the period sets and cast ...

A Tale of Two Cities (Masterpiece Theatre, 1989)

James Wilby, Xavier Deluc

Bfs Entertainment, 2001

Worth watching. Worth owning.
Within my admittedly limited experience, Masterpiece Theater dramatizations of great books are well produced and faithful to the original. This is no exception. Well, Dickens's famous opening lines, "It was the best of times. It was the worst of times," etc. do not ...

Bertie and Elizabeth: The Reluctant Royals - The Story of King George VI & Queen Elizabeth

James Wilby; Juliet Aubrey; Alan Bates; Eileen Atkins; Charles Edwards (VI); Amber Rose Sealey; Elisabeth Dermot Walsh; Hannah Wiltshire; Robert Hardy; Oliver Ford Davies; Graham Bill; Deborah Cornelius; Naomi Martin; Alexandra Staden; Jeremy Child; David Hatton; Rupert Wickham; Jeremy Swift; Simon Day (III); Anthony Smee

WGBH BOSTON, 2005

Wonderful movie, but it was too short.
This is a wonderful movie, and the main actors did a terrific job in portraying King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. The only thing I have against this movie is that it was too short. The director and writers should have added Princess Margaret's birth at Glamis, more ...

Maurice - The Merchant Ivory Collection

James Wilby, Hugh Grant

Merchant Ivory, 2004

Century Later the Feeling Is Still Strong
Over twenty years after it was made "Maurice" has changed into a classic but did not age at all. This coming-of-age and coming-to-terms story faithfully taken from E. M. Forster's novel was transferred into the screen with such adroitness that with the passage of time ...

Little Devil

Kate Hardie, Maggie O'Neill

Bfs Entertainment, 2008

Not a family flick
The cover of this DVD makes it look like a family film. Definitely not. It's a comedy/drama about marriage woes. A small amount of salty language and mature topics makes it inappropriate for children, but would only offend a very, very prudish adult. Two British ...

Jump Tomorrow

Tunde Adebimpe, Hippolyte Girardot

MGM (Video & DVD), 2003

Multidimensional Mellotronic Cinema
Jump Tomorrow opens cold, but is warmed over by the stylistic pathos and groovy music.. The director has said his goal was to create a world that implied alternate-reality but doesn't quite force it down our throats. Aided by the protagonist's quirkish clumsiness and ...

The Woman in White

Tara Fitzgerald; Justine Waddell; Andrew Lincoln; Susan Vidler; John Standing; Adie Allen; Ian Richardson; James Wilby; Ann Bell; Anne Etchells; Timothy Carlton; Simon Callow; Tony Spooner; Sean Gleeson; Kika Markham; Corin Redgrave; Nicholas Woodeson; Eric Carte; David Barry (IV); Celandine Wade

WGBH BOSTON, 2005

Wonderful adaptation
No, this is not a faithful adaptation, but it is a very good adaptation. As this is a Masterpiece Theatre production, there is an introduction and a conclusion that is included, but not part of the actual film. The conclusion explains why so much of the novel was ...

Behind the Lines

Jonathan Pryce, James Wilby

Lions Gate, 2003

Behind The Lines
A rivetting drama based on real life events in WW1 and the psychological disasters occurring from service in the action on the western Front - well before the term 'Post-traumatic Stress Disorder" came into vogue. Full of drama, dilemmas and human emotion. Tightly ...

De-Lovely

Keith Allen, Natalie Cole

MGM, 2004

Cole Porter, Warts and All
Shadow Watcher Nobody Drowns in Mineral Lake As the story of Cole Porter, DE-LOVELY is perhaps the best, most imaginative movie musical biography ever made. Unlike NIGHT AND DAY, the 1946 whitewashed Porter biography that starred Cary Grant and Alexis Smith, this ...