Terence Stamp
Author
Language
English
Description
In this second installment of Terence Stamp's captivating memoirs, he takes us right into the heart of the swinging '60s. From his Academy Award nomination for Billy Budd to his coming of age under the direction of the legendary Federico Fellini, the "marmalade skies" are the limit. With beautiful women and beautiful people from London to California, Stamp captures the spirit of the decade. He was the face, the man to be seen with. And then the decade...
Author
Language
English
Description
Rare Stamps offers a revealing insight into the life of an actor and the making of a man. Beginning with an Academy Award nomination for Billy Budd in 1962, Terence Stamp was called "the most beautiful man alive," only to be discarded at the end of the decade with the words, "we're looking for a younger Terence Stamp." Soul searching, he traveled alone through India, staying at the Taj Mahal Hotel while studying above a public lavatory with a chain...
3) Stamp Album
Author
Language
English
Description
In this enchanting memoir, Terence Stamp takes listeners with him on his unlikely journey from prewar London's East End, where his birth heralded the unification of two Cockney clans, to the beginnings of the stardom that would transform his life. A born storyteller, Terence looks back on his life with humor and affection for everyone from his beloved mother-whose unswerving conviction that he was special instilled in Terence a belief that his life...
Author
Language
English
Description
The story behind one of the world’s most loved films, The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert. It’s about three unlikely hero(ine)s daring to step up from the shadows in their shimmering sequined glory and be counted. It’s the story of how a low-budget Australian film changed the course of history and loudly and proudly bought a celebration of gay culture to the world that continues to resonate twenty years on. Production company Jungleboys....
6) Billy Budd
Author
Language
English
Description
1797. On the high seas, the British Navy boards a merchant ship and presses a young sailor into military service. The innocent boy, who believes in the inherent goodness of all men, witnesses cruelty, deceit and betrayal aboard the naval vessel, yet his honesty and hard work earn the friendship and respect of his crewmates. But can this young man survive and maintain his innocence in a harsh, violent world, or will the evils of the British Navy destroy...
7) The Limey
Author
Language
English
Description
After he is released from prison, an extremely volatile and dangerous English ex-con travels to Los Angeles to find the man he considers responsible for his estranged daughter's death.
8) Blue
Author
Language
English
Description
He treats folks in his tiny Texas settlement with fairness, spends his time tending crops, and does all he can do to keep the peace when a hothead taunts him. But the man called Blue (Terence Stamp) wasn't always that way. He once lived the reckless, on-the-lam life of a bandit - stealing destroying, wenching and killing with the outlaw gang ruled by his adoptive father Ortega (Richard Montalban). Karl Malden joins Stamp and Montalban in this brooding,...
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1930s Ukraine, as Stalin advances the ambitions of communists in the Kremlin, young artist Yuri battles to save his lover Natalka from the Holodomor, the death-by-starvation program that ultimately killed millions of Ukrainians.
Publisher
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of how a low-budget Australian film - The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert - changed the course of history, loudly and proudly bringing a celebration of gay culture to the world that continues to resonate 20 years on. Narrated by Terence Stamp, Between a Frock and a Hard Place is also a social history of gay culture in Australia, drawing on footage from the famous movie as well as Sydney in the 80s. A time when the AIDS...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A man glimpses the future fate has planned for him and chooses to fight for his own destiny. Battling the powerful Adjustment Bureau across, under, and through the streets of New York, he risks his destined greatness to be with the only woman he's ever loved.
12) Big Eyes
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
From visionary Oscar®-nominated director Tim Burton (EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY) comes the outrageous true story of one of the most extensive art frauds in the 20th century. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Walter Keane (two time Academy Award®-winner Christoph Waltz of DJANGO UNCHAINED) revolutionized the commercialization of popular art with enigmatic paintings of waifs with BIG EYES. But soon the shocking truth was...
13) Bowfinger
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
With the help of Jiff Ramsey, brother to Hollywood's biggest star, Hollywood's least successful director stops at nothing to get him into his latest low-budget film.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
[English/Spanish/French version]
Language
English
Description
Jacob discovers clues to a mystery and stumbles upon Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. However the mystery is deeper than he had thought, as he gets to know the residents and learn about their special powers. Jacob discovers that only his own special peculiarity can save his new friends.
15) Big eyes
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Walter Keane became a worldwide celebrity and talk show fixture in the 1950s after he pioneered the mass production of prints of big-eyed kids, and used his marketing savvy to sell them cheaply. Unfortunately, he claimed to be the artist. That role was played by Margaret, his shy wife. The ruse broke up their marriage and led to a divorce and a dramatic courtroom battle to prove authorship of the paintings.
16) Valkyrie
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
Based on the incredible true story of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his ingenious assassination plot targeting Adolf Hitler, this engrossing thriller reenacts the daring operation to eliminate one of the most evil tyrants the world has ever known.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Bathsheba Everdene is a willful, passionate girl who is never satisfied with anything less than a man's complete and helpless adoration. She captures the lives and loves of three very different men. Gabriel Oak is a sheep farmer who is captivated by her beauty and proposes marriage. William Boldwood is an older, prosperous man who had been a confirmed bachelor. Sergeant Frank Troy is a handsome, but reckless swordsman who is given to sudden fits of...
18) Valkyrie
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Based on the incredible true story of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his ingenious assassination plot targeting Adolf Hitler, this engrossing thriller reenacts the daring operation to eliminate one of the most evil tyrants the world has ever known.
19) Crooked house
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In Agatha Christie's most twisted tale, a spy-turned-private-detective is lured by his former lover to catch her grandfather's murderer before Scotland Yard exposes dark family secrets.