Jeeves and Wooster
Oceans Thirteen
Calendar Girls
Circle of Friends
A Knight's Tale
Fawlty Towers
The Duchess
Brideshead Revisited
Bright Star
Jane Austen's Persuasion
Mr. Bean
Daniel Deronda
Pride and Prejudice
Roxanne
And Now For Something Completely Different
Under the Tuscan Sun
Valmont
Mama Mia
Bridget Jones's Diary
Cranford
Girl With a Pearl Earring
Definitely Maybe
New Waterford Girl
St. Trinian's
The Holiday
Greenfingers
The Importance of Being Earnest
Berkeley Square
He Knew He Was Right
The Barchester Chronicles
The Way We Live Now
Jane Austen's Emma
Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility
Kate and Leopold
Pride and Prejudice
Emma 2009
Mansfield Park
Wives and Daughters
Persuasion
Gweneth Paltrow's Emma
The Jane Austen Book Club
Becoming Jane
Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen's Mansfield Park
Lost in Austen
Young Victoria
Freaky Friday
Clueless
A Child's Christmas in Wales
Saving Grace
The Age of Innocence
Sense and Sensibility
Anne of Green Gables
Jane Eyre
North and South
Miss Potter
Amadeus
Guys and Dolls
Star Trek
Elf
Bridget Jones The Edge of Reason
Bend it like Beckham
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Foyle's War
Oliver Twist
The House of Mirth
Our Mutual Friend
Vanity Fair
Middlemarch
Four Weddings and a Funeral
The Duchess Two Weeks Notice
Nicholas Nickleby
The Madness of King George
The Secret Garden
Notting Hill
Cranford
Leap Year
Romeo and Juliet
Blues Brothers
Minority Report
Julie and Julia
DaVinci Code
The Boys are Back
Fever Pitch
500 Days of Summer
30 Rock
The Battle of Trafalgar-Nelson's Victory The Sound of Music
Thunderpants
Finding Neverland
Caddyshack
Rob Roy
Seabiscuit
Master and Commander
White Squall
The Italian Job
Brideshead Revisited
Chicago
Black Adder
Out of Africa
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Elizabeth I
The Princess Bride
Amelie
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Apollo 13
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Coupling
The Goonies
The Holy Grail
Return to Me
There's Something About Mary
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Robin Hood Men in Tights
A Fish Called Wanda
Ghostbusters
Beverly Hills Cop
High Fidelity
Impromptu
Gosford Park
Very funny to see the juxtaposition of films like The Buccaneers with Revenge of the Nerds and A Christmas Story, but there you have it. Not all of the DVDs in the house are here, but most of them are. I did not include most of my teenage boys films like Dude, Where's my Car? and Zoolander (although I did enjoy Zoolander) and probably a few of mine aren't here, but I didn't scour the house. I tried not to edit them, and some of the fun is seeing which ones got grouped together (usually watched at a similar time).
Please do comment and I hope you learned something about your blogger today.
Hah! I just realized I have 2 copies of The Duchess! Anyone want a copy?
I love Dick Van Dyke. He recently did an interview on NPR where he said that those five seasons were the best years of his acting career. And Foyle's War. I wish it had gone on and on and on.
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ReplyDeleteWe watched The Dick Van Dyke Show with our teen boys and they thought it was hilarious. And it was even better than we remembered. He is a genius! And Michael Kitchen and Honeysuckle Weeks were brilliant in Foyle's war.
Really enjoying your blog. You are so upbeat. It's a pleasure to read. :)
ReplyDeleteLove your DVD Collection! It's very similar to mine. I've got DVDs in baskets in my bedroom, I've got so many that I'm running out of space!
ReplyDeleteMy favourite films & period dramas I watch when I'm unwell or bored are:
Period Dramas
Sense & Sensibility '95
Pride & Prejudice '95 (Colin Firth is my Mr Darcy!)
Emma '09 (Johnny Lee Miller is my Mr. Knightly)
Persuasion '07
Cranford
Jane Eyre '06 (My favourite period drama! I love to watch this with chocolate and a cup of tea! Toby Stephens is lovely and gorgeous!)
Little Dorrit '08
Our Mutual Friend '98 (I love this! Wonderful story!)
David Copperfield '99
Downton Abbey
Victoria & Albert '01
The Young Victoria
Little Women '94
Ballet Shoes '07
Films
Serendipity (This is a great romantic comedy. John Cusack is lovely! Magical Christmas film.)
While You Were Sleeping
Sleepless in Seattle
You've Got Mail
Bridget Jones's Diary
Sliding Doors
Gone With The Wind
Now Voyager
Dark Victory
All About Eve
Top Hat
The Heiress
White Christmas
The Philadelphia Story
Meet Me In St. Louis
Easter Parade
The Wizard of Oz
It's A Wonderful Life
Romeo & Juliet '68
Letters to Juliet
Harry Potter Series
Brothers and Sisters boxed sets
Ugly Betty boxed sets
Tchaikovsky Ballet boxed set
La Boheme
Bette Davis boxed set
Audrey Hepburn boxed set
Kate from Leeds xx
Great list Kate! Thanks for letting me peek into your DVD library. You have just given me ideas for a few more blog posts. For instance, I haven't watched Our Mutual Friend in a while. I loved it but only saw it once, so I think it's time again.
ReplyDeleteI see you like some of the great old Black and White films too. They are very fun! And I haven't seen Brothers and Sisters. Is that series good?
@Jenny-I'm very pleased you like my DVD library! I love Our Mutual Friend! I find Brothers and Sisters very addictive and fun. I really love old Black and White films because the actors were fantastic and as I was growing up I found out my Grandma loved all the Black and White films I do as well as the musicals, which I find comforting although sad at times because she is not here to watch them with me.
ReplyDeleteAlso love:
Adam's Rib
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
To Sir With Love
To Kill A Mockingbird
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Harvey
High Society
Jack and Sarah
Kate from Leeds. xx
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House! I love that one! The scene where she is picking the paint colours is pure genius.
ReplyDeleteMuriel Blandings: I want it to be a soft green, not as blue-green as a robin's egg, but not as yellow-green as daffodil buds. Now, the only sample I could get is a little too yellow, but don't let whoever does it go to the other extreme and get it too blue. It should just be a sort of grayish-yellow-green. Now, the dining room. I'd like yellow. Not just yellow; a very gay yellow. Something bright and sunshine-y. I tell you, Mr. PeDelford, if you'll send one of your men to the grocer for a pound of their best butter, and match that exactly, you can't go wrong! Now, this is the paper we're going to use in the hall. It's flowered, but I don't want the ceiling to match any of the colors of the flowers. There's some little dots in the background, and it's these dots I want you to match. Not the little greenish dot near the hollyhock leaf, but the little bluish dot between the rosebud and the delphinium blossom. Is that clear? Now the kitchen is to be white. Not a cold, antiseptic hospital white. A little warmer, but still, not to suggest any other color but white. Now for the powder room - in here - I want you to match this thread, and don't lose it. It's the only spool I have and I had an awful time finding it! As you can see, it's practically an apple red. Somewhere between a healthy winesap and an unripened Jonathan. Oh, excuse me...
Mr. PeDelford: You got that Charlie?
Charlie, Painter: Red, green, blue, yellow, white.
Mr. PeDelford: Check.
I love that quote. As you know I love the film Top Hat! so on Thursday 1st December 2011 I am going to the Leeds Grand Theatre with my Mum to see Tom Chambers and Summer Strallen star in Irving Berlin's Top Hat which is based on RKO's Motion Picture. It is Fred and Ginger's greatest Hollywood dance musical - live on stage for the very first time in 76 years!
ReplyDeleteIt is also Black Tie and Tiara Night for one night only on the 1st December so I can wear my ball gown!
This is one of my favourite musicals so I can't wait to see it live on stage!
Kate from Leeds. xx
I hope you had fun Kate. Sounds like a wonderful show, and great to dress up too. I saw Ginger Rogers at Radio City Music Hall in NYC when I was a teen. She must have been in her 60s or older then, but she was still dancing with the Rockettes!
ReplyDeleteDid you wear a tiara too?
Did I tell you that my great-grandmother was born in Leeds? Hunslet to be precise.
@Jenny - Top Hat was brilliant last night at the Leeds Grand Theatre! Tom Chambers and Summer Strallen were fantastic as Jerry Travers and Dale Tremont! The rest of the cast were great too. They sang some of Irving Berlin’s greatest hits, such as, 'Cheek to Cheek' and 'Top Hat', 'White Tie and Tails', 'The Piccolino', 'No Strings' (I'm Fancy Free) and 'Isn't This A Lovely Day To Be Caught In The Rain?' which are all in the film Top Hat. They also sang 'Let’s Face the Music and Dance' and 'I'm Putting All My Eggs In One Basket' which are from the film 'Follow The Fleet.'
ReplyDeleteThe costumes, sets and dance routines were all wonderful and I loved every minute of it! I want to see it all over again! I had a lovely time and I felt very special in my ball gown! I didn't wear a tiara but I did have my hair up.
How wonderful to have seen Ginger Rogers! She was fantastic at dancing! I think she was 83 when she died, although I'm not sure.
No, you didn't tell me your great-grandmother was born in Leeds. I felt a little sad thinking of my Grandma (my Mum's Mum) last night as she would have loved to have seen Top Hat on stage. She loved all the old films that I love.
Kate, from Guiseley, Leeds. xx
I just looked up where Guiseley is. You are in Calendar Girls territory (almost). I looked on my family tree and found my great-great-great-grandfather was born in Otley. That is close to you isn't it? I had to go back 200 years, but still...
ReplyDeleteGlad you had a great time. I bet you looked lovely. I did the math and Ginger Rogers would have been 68 when I saw her at Radio City Music Hall in 1979. Oh, that does make me sound old! She was still dancing pretty well for a 68 year old!
@Jenny - Yes, Otley is about 10 minutes away from Guiseley and so is Ilkley which is a lovey town. I loved wearing my ball gown and seeing 'Top Hat' on stage, it was fantasic! I would love to see it again but it's fully booked and only on until the 10th December. We booked our tickets in June.
ReplyDeleteI love all the Fred and Ginger musicals and the era. The style and the clothes are wonderful.
Kate, from Leeds. xx
Some new additions to my DVD library are:
ReplyDeleteVicar of Dibley Complete Collection boxed set
Downton Abbey Series Two boxed set
Downton Abbey Christmas Special (I've watched this lots of times since my birthday on the 22nd January)
Singin' In The Rain (I love this musical)
One Day (This is a very sad and romantic film)
(Leeds) x
Some new additions in my DVD Collection in 2012 so far are:
ReplyDeleteRebecca 1997 adaptation
War Horse - I loved this film!
The Artist - Great film!
Notorious - I love Ingrid and Cary together! Their chemistry is fantastic!
from Leeds x
DVDs I got for Christmas 2012 and bought in 2013 so far:
ReplyDeleteDownton Abbey Series Three
Elf
Holiday Inn
Miracle On 34th Street (1994)
The Railway Children (1970)
The Paradise
Forrest Gump
Cheaper By The Dozen
How To Marry A Millionaire
Mildred Pierce
This Happy Breed
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