Follows the fortunes of Becky Sharp as she climbs the social ladder Determined to reach the top Becky schemes & seduces those who get in her way Her progress is threatened however when she encounters real love Based on the novel by William Makepeace Thackeray ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Eve Matheson & Rebecca Saire lead the cast in this 16-part adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray s classic filmed entirely at the Pebble Mill Studios Set in the Napoleonic Wars Vanity Fair is a rich & resplendent satire of English society in which according to Thackeray there is great quantity of eating & drinking making love & jilting laughing & the contrary smoking cheating fighting dancing & fiddling Becky (Eve Matheson) the penniless orphaned daughter of an artist & a French opera dancer & Amelia Sedley (Rebecca Saire) the sheltered child of a rich City Merchant are unlikely but firm friends From the drawing rooms of Regency London to the fields of Waterloo Vanity Fair tells their story Becky an irrepressible schemer one of the most seductive social climbers of all time who will stop at nothing to get what she wants While her friend the meek & mild Amelia pursues the opposite course In the end both girls get what they want but not quite in the way they planned ...

Vanity Fair 100 Years showcases a century of personality & power art & commerce crisis & culture--both highbrow & low In the sumptuous 384-page coffee table book the editors of Vanity Fair have created the definitive history of the most talked-about magazine of our day From its inception in 1913 through the Jazz Age & the Depression to its reincarnation in the boom-boom Reagan years (after a 47-year hiatus) to the image-saturated Information Age Vanity Fair has presented the modern era as it has unfolded--using wit imagination peerless literary narrative & bold groundbreaking imagery The most innovative voices in popular culture are all compiled within these pages (from Robert Benchley Jacques Cocteau & Dorothy Parker to William Styron Christopher Hitchens & Dominick Dunne) along with the greatest magazine illustrators artists & photographers of all time--most notably Edward Steichen & Annie Leibovitz who through Vanity Fair virtually invented the modern celebrity portrait Writers Sam Kashner & Nancy Schoenberger contribute an essay on the incomparable Frank Crowninshield & the birth of the Jazz Age Vanity Fair Jim Windolf chronicles the magazine's rebirth in 1983 & Frank Di Giacomo gives the history of the glamorous Vanity Fair Oscar Party ...

Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of two contrasting but inter-linked lives Through the retiring Amelia Sedley & the brilliant Becky Sharp Thackeray examines the position of women in an intensely exploitative male world ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play All&s fair in love & war Based on William Thackeray&s 1828 novel Vanity Fair introduces Becky Sharp (Reese Witherspoon) a poor but well educated girl born into a 19th-century society offering little in the way of career advancement for women She becomes a governess for Sir Pitt Crawley (Bob Hoskins) & aims to find a rich husband True to the novel&s tone everyone in Vanity Fair is deliciously devious throughout Actors Gabriel Byrne Angelica Mandy Roger Lloyd-Pack Ruth Sheen Kate Fleetwood Reese Witherspoon Lillete Dubey Romola Garai Bob Hoskins Rhys Ifans Jonathan Rhys-Meyers Geraldine Mc Ewan Natasha Little James Purefoy & Jim Broadbent Director Mira Nair Certificate PGYear 2004 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English for the hearing impaired Duration 2 hours & 11 minutes (approx) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players

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Tracklist White Ribbons On The Ceiling Hair Painted With Copper Devils On The Back Marble Collar But All Spiked ...

Void Toxic Pretender Holy Hell Digging Yuth Decay Personal Cross Humaphobia Piss Up A Rope Pornocopia All American&t Bienvenue ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play This musically themed release from the popular Vans Warped Tour captures many of the most memorable performances at the festival&s 15th anniversary celebration including appearances by Ice T & Body Count Rise Against Pennywise & Friends & more ...

8 Strangers 8 Points of view 1 Truth Thomas Barnes (Dennis Quaid) & Kent Taylor (Matthew Fox) are two Secret Service agents assigned to protect President Ashton (William Hurt) at a landmark summit on the global war on terror When President Ashton is shot moments after his arrival in Spain chaos ensues & disparate lives collide In the crowd is Howard Lewis (Forest Whitaker) an American tourist videotaping the historic event to show his kids when he returns home Also there is Rex (Sigourney Weaver) an American TV news producer who is reporting on the conference It&s only as we follow each person&s perspective of the same 15 minutes prior to & immediately after the shooting that the terrifying truth behind the assassination attempt is revealed Special Features Coordinating Chaos Director Commentary Witness Statements Interviews with the Cast & Crew Writing the Assasination of a President Surveillance Tapes Outtake Vantage Viewer GPS Tracker Techinical Details Actors Matthew Fox Forest Whitaker Dennis Quaid Sigourney Weaver William Hurt Zoe Saldana & Edgar Ramirez Director Pete Travis Certificate 12 years & over Year 2008 Screen Widescreen 2401 Languages English
- Dolby True HD (51) Additional Languages Hungarian ; Czech ; Polish ; Russian ; Turkish ; Hindi ; Ukranian Subtitles Arabic ; Bulgarian ; Croatian ; Czech ; Danish ; Dutch ; English ; Estonian ; Finnish ; Greek ; Hebrew ; Hindi ; Hungarian ; Icelandic ; Lithuanian ; Norwegian ; Polish ; Romanian ; Serbian ; Slovak ; Slovene ; Swedish ; Turkish Duration 1 hour & 30 minutes (approx)
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play 8 Strangers 8 Points of view 1 Truth Thomas Barnes (Dennis Quaid) & Kent Taylor (Matthew Fox) are two Secret Service agents assigned to protect President Ashton (William Hurt) at a landmark summit on the global war on terror When President Ashton is shot moments after his arrival in Spain chaos ensues & disparate lives collide In the crowd is Howard Lewis (Forest Whitaker) an American tourist videotaping the historic event to show his kids when he returns home Also there is Rex (Sigourney Weaver) an American TV news producer who is reporting on the conference It&s only as we follow each person&s perspective of the same 15 minutes prior to & immediately after the shooting that the terrifying truth behind the assassination attempt is revealed Actors Matthew Fox Forest Whitaker Dennis Quaid Sigourney Weaver William Hurt Zoe Saldana & Edgar Ramirez Director Pete Travis Certificate 12 years & over Year 2008 Screen Widescreen 2401 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Additional Languages Hungarian ; Czech ; Polish Subtitles Bulgarian ; Croatian ; Czech ; Danish ; Dutch ; English (UK) ; Finnish ; Hindi ; Hungarian ; Norwegian ; Polish ; Romanian ; Serbian ; Slovak ; Slovene ; Swedish Duration 1 hour & 30 minutes (approx)
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