Anna Karenina / Pride and Prejudice / Atonement

Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina is acclaimed director Joe Wright's bold, theatrical new vision of the epic story of love, stirringly adapted from Leo Tolstoy's great novel by Academy Award winner Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love). The film marks the third collaboration of the director with Academy Award-nominated actress Keira Knightley and Academy Award-nominated producers Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, and Paul Webster, following their award-winning box office successes Pride and Prejudice and Atonement. The timeless story powerfully explores the capacity for love that surges through the human heart, while illuminating the lavish society that was imperial Russia. The time is 1874. Vibrant and beautiful, Anna Karenina (Ms. Knightley) has what any of her contemporaries would aspire to; she is the wife of Karenin (Jude Law), a high-ranking government official to whom she has borne a son, and her social standing in St. Petersburg could scarcely be higher. She journeys to Moscow after a letter from her philandering brother Oblonsky (Matthew Macfadyen) arrives, asking for Anna to come and help save his marriage to Dolly (Kelly Macdonald). En route, Anna makes the acquaintance of Countess Vronsky (Olivia Williams), who is then met at the train station by her son, the dashing cavalry officer Vronsky (Aaron Taylor-Johnson). When Anna is introduced to Vronsky, there is a mutual spark of instant attraction that cannot - and will not - be ignored.

Special Features:

• Deleted Scenes
• Anna Karenina: An Epic Story About Love
• Adapting Tolstoy
• Keira As Anna
• On the Set with Director Joe Wright
• Dressing Anna
• Anna Karenina: Time-Lapse Photography
• Feature Commentary with Director Joe Wright

Pride and Prejudice

A romance ahead of its time...

The five Bennet sisters - Elizabeth, or Lizzie (Keira Knightley), Jane (Rosamund Pike), Lydia (Jena Malone), Mary (Talulah Riley) and Kitty (Carey Mulligan) - have all been raised by their mother with one purpose in life - finding a husband. However, the second eldest Lizzie can think of 100 reasons not to marry.

When Mrs Bennet hears the exciting news that a wealthy bachelor and his circle of sophisticated friends are to take up summer residence in a nearby mansion the Bennets are abuzz with the hope that potential suitors will be in full supply. Obligingly, the newcomer, Mr Charles Bingley, is immediately taken with the eldest Jane. However, when Lizzie meets up with the darkly handsome and snobbish Mr Darcy (Matthew Macfadyen), what seems like a match made in heaven quickly becomes divided by pride and prejudice. Can they get past this and can Lizzie finally find a reason to marry?

Special Features:

• Audio Commentary with Director Joe Wright
• Conversations with the Cast (AKA Onset Diaries)
• Jane Austen, Ahead of Her Time (AKA Life and Times of Jane Austen)
• A Bennet Family Portrait (AKA The Bennetts)
• Pride and Prejudice - A Classic in the Making (HBO First Look)
• The Politics of Dating (AKA The Politics of 18th Century)
• The Stately Homes of Pride and Prejudice
• Alternate US Ending

Atonement

The year is 1935 and on a hot summer's day a chain of events set in motion. Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan) is a young, imaginative preteen writer. She is the younger sister of Cecilia (Keira Knightley) who is an attractive, Cambridge graduate in an upper class family enjoying her life. On this hot summer's day she decides to take a swim in the family fountain. Robbie Turner (James McEvoy), the son of the housekeeper watches the beauty as she goes for a swim and little Briony's imagination runs rampant.

It is not long until a few misconceptions and Briony's wild imagination starts rumours which lead to the arrest and conviction of Robbie; An event that will dramatically change the lives of all three people.

Five years later in the madness of World War II appears Robbie, as a foot soldier in the army. He is preparing for an evacuation of Dunkirk. Meanwhile the two sisters train as nurses in London, all deeply affected by the events years before.

Special Features:

• Deleted Scenes
• Deleted Scenes with Commentary
• Feature Commentary with Director Joe Wright
• From Novel to Screen: Adapting a Classic
• Bringing the Past to Life: The Making of Atonement