Monday, January 12, 2009

Kate Winslet


Kate Winslet won two Golden Globe awards last night for Best Actress in the movie Revolutionary Road and Best Supporting Actress for the movie The Reader. View some of this talented actresses other performances in these movies available for check out at the Gail Borden Public Library.








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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
By Gondry, Michel
2004/09 - Umvd
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A man goes in for a procedure to erase his memory of his ex-girlfriend, after she erased her memory of him, but changes his mind during the procedure and fights to keep their relationship in his mind. ...More

Book Cover Finding Neverland
By Forster, Marc
Winslet, Kate
Christie, Julie
2006/08 - Buena Vista Home Entertainment
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Set in early 20th century England, the story follows J.M. Barrie and his quest to breathe life into Peter Pan. From the moment of inspiration to the debut of the play, Barrie's life mirrors the action of the story he has written and vice versa. ...More

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Flushed Away
By Bowers, David
2007/02 - Paramount Home Video
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London high-society mouse Roddy is flushed down the toilet by Syd, a common sewer rat. Hang on for a madcap adventure deep in the bowels of Ratropolis, where Roddy meets the resourceful Rita, the rodent-hating Toad and his faithful thugs Spike and Whitey. ...More

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Hamlet
By Zeffirelli, Franco
2004/02 - Warner Home Video
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From director Franco Zeffirelli this two-hour version of Shakespeare's play stars Mel Gibson as the Danish prince. The supporting cast is outstanding, including Glenn Close as Gertrude, Alan Bates as Claudius, Ian Holm as Polonius, and Helena Bonham Carter as Ophelia. ...More

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The Holiday
By Meyers, Nancy
Diaz, Cameron
Law, Jude
2007/10 - Sony Pictures Home Ent
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Two women on opposite sides of the globe, Amanda Woods (Diaz) and Iris Simpkins (Winslet) find themselves in a similar predicament. Desperate for a change of scenery, the two women meet on the internet and swap houses for the Christmas holiday discovering that a change of address really can change your life. ...More

Book Cover Iris
By Eyre, Richard
Fox, Robert
Rudin, Scott
2005/05 - Buena Vista Home Entertainment
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The true life story of novelist-philosopher Iris Murdoch. A young idealist with aspirations of writing meets and falls in love with her soulmate, John Bayley. But it's Bayley who stands in the shadows and supports his wife through everything, including her battle with Alzheimer's Disease. ...More

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Little Children
By Field, Todd
2007/05 - New Line Home Video
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The lives of several adult suburbanites, who have yet to surpass adolescence, intersect on the streets of their small town in unexpected ways. While on-the-go wife and mother Kathy is preoccupied with her career, Sarah, a mother who does not know how to mother, is busy having an affair with stay-at-home dad Brad—Kathy's husband. ...More

Book Cover Quills
By Kaufman, Phillip
Kaufman, Philip
Rush, Geoffrey
2003/06 - Twentieth Century-Fox
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A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the asylum's resident priest. The titillating passages whip all of France into a sexual frenzy, until a fiercely conservative doctor tries to put an end to the fun, inadvertently stoking the excitement to a fever pitch. ...More

Book Cover Sense and Sensibility
By Lee, Amy
Lee, Ang
Various Artists
2005/11 - Sony Pictures Home Ent
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Adapted from Jane Austen's novel, "Sense And Sensibility" is the romantic story about a mother and her three daughters, the eldest two of which are searching for true love in a straitlaced high-society. This highly acclaimed cinematic success portrays how the lives of the characters intertwine and exhibits the most triumphant finale ever seen on screen. ...More

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Titanic
By Cameron, James
DiCaprio, Leonardo
Winslet, Kate
2007/01 - Paramount Home Video
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Two and a half miles beneath the waves of the North Atlantic, a mystery is unfolding. A secret love, bravery, treasure and treachery, hidden by time but never forgotten. A beautiful socialite. A penniless artist. A priceless diamond. A romance so passionate that nothing on earth could stop it. A destiny so incredible that no one could have imagined it. A collision of lives that could only happen on Titanic, the ship of dreams. ...More

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Kate Winslet is the greatest actress of our times.