Thanks to my friends’s fabulous website Lights, Camera… History!, I decided to invest about 20 pounds a month into buying historical film adaption DVDs.
Budget: 20 pounds/month, 9 months long.
Total: 180 pounds
Budget remaining: 68 pounds
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Here’s what I bought so far:
Doris Day & Rock Hudson Anthology (with Lover Come Back, Send Me no Flowers and Pillow Talk)
Emma (Mark Strong & Kate Beckinsale)
Emma (with Gwynneth Paltrow & Jeremy Northan)
Gosford Park (Jeremy Northam & Kristin Scott-Thomas)
Great Expectations (James Mason)
Jane Eyre
Little Women (Susan Sarandon)
North & South (with Richard Armitage & Daniela Denby-Ashe)
Northanger Abbey (Felicity Jones)
Ocean’s Eleven (George Clooney)
Ocean’s Twelve (George Clooney)
Persuasion (with Sally Hawkins & Rupert Penry-Jones)
Pretty Woman (with Richard Gere & Julia Roberts)
Pride & Prejudice (Keira Knightley & Mathew MacFadyen)
Pride & Prejudice (with Colin Firth & Jennifer Ehle)
Rendezvous With Joe Black (with Brad Pitt & Anthony Hopkins)
Sabrina (with Audrey Hepburn & Humphrey Bogart)
The Legend of Zorro (Catherine Zeta-Jones & Antonio Banderas)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
To Catch a Thief (Cary Grant & Grace Kelly)
Twelfth Night (Helena Bonham Carter)
Wives and Daughters
Wuthering Heights (with Juliette Binoche & Ralph Fiennes)
And here’s my wishlist :
* symbolizes “high” priority :-)
A Room With a View (Helena Bonham Carter)
After Sunset (Pirce Brosnan)
Amazing Grace (Rufus Sewell)
Annie (Albert Finney)
As It Is In Heaven
Becoming Jane (Anne Hathaway)
Bleak House (with Gillian Anderson)
Cranford (with Judi Dench)
Dangerous Beauty (with Catherine McCormack, Rufus Sewell) *
Fingersmith (Sally Hawkins)
Great Expectations (with Justine Waddell) *
James Bond: Golden Eye (Pierce Brosnan)
Lark Rise to Candleford (Julia Sawalha)
Lorna Doone (Amelia Warner)
Mansfield Park (Hannah Taylor Gordon)
Middlemarch (with Juliet Aubrey) *
Persuasion (with Amanda Root) *
PS I Love You (Hillary Swank)
Sense & Sensibility (with Charity Wakefield) *
The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (with Hugh Grant)
The Princess Diaries 1 (Anne Hathaway)
The Princess Diaries 2 (Anne Hathaway)
Wuthering Heights (with Peter Davison)
