Movies from Emma Thompson

Young Frankenstein

A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather was delusional, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind.
Emma Thompson
Actress
“Young Frankenstein” “If I could be buried with one film, it would be that one. I was always in love with Gene Wilder, and I couldn’t live without Madeline Kahn, who’s somewhat built into my DNA as the funniest woman who ever lived, and one of the kindest. That film has been with me since I was 16, and it’s just one of those essential things that I watch every year.”
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Emma Thompson’s Favorite Movies

Here is a list of Emma Thompson’s favorite movies. Enjoy!
Emma Thompson
Actress
Here is a list of Emma Thompson’s favorite movies. Enjoy!
Movies from Emma Thompson

Great Expectations

In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
Emma Thompson
Actress
My favorite movie adaptation I do love David Lean’s Great Expectations. It echoes the atmosphere of the Dickens beautifully.
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The Social Network

In 2003, Harvard undergrad Mark Zuckerberg creates a social networking site called Facebook with the help of his friend Eduardo Saverin. Though it turns out to be a successful venture, he severs ties with several people along the way.
Emma Thompson
Actress
What’s the best movie based on a book you’ve seen recently? “The Social Network.” I admired it in a kind of breathless fashion.
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On Fire

#1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author Naomi Klein makes the case for a Green New Deal in this “keenly argued, well-researched, and impassioned” manifesto (The Washington Post).An instant bestseller, On Fire shows Klein at her most prophetic and philosophical, investigating the climate crisis not only as a profound political challenge but also as a spiritual and imaginative one. Delving into topics ranging from the clash between ecological time and our culture of “perpetual now,” to the soaring history of humans changing and evolving rapidly in the face of grave threats, to rising white supremacy and fortressed borders as a form of “climate barbarism,” this is a rousing call to action for a planet on the brink. An expansive, far-ranging exploration that sees the battle for a greener world as indistinguishable from the fight for our lives, On Fire captures the burning urgency of the climate crisis, as well as the fiery energy of a rising political movement demanding a catalytic Green New Deal. “Naomi Klein’s work has always moved and guided me. She is the great chronicler of our age of climate emergency, an inspirer of generations.” —Greta Thunberg, climate activist "If I were a rich man, I’d buy 245 million copies of Naomi Klein’s 'On Fire' and hand-deliver them to every eligible voter in America…Klein is a skilled writer." —Jeff Goodell, The New York Times
Emma Thompson
Actress
“Naomi Klein is a friend and someone whose clarity and intellect have helped me so much over the last few years as we’ve come to understand what the crisis is. And so Naomi’s book, which is breaking down the components of the Green New Deal and explaining how possible they are, is essential reading, because you have to imagine the thing and give it life in order for it to happen. She has done that so brilliantly.”
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The Overstory

· · · SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 · · ·‘Autumn makes me think of leaves, which makes me think of trees, which makes me think of The Overstory, the best novel ever written about trees, and really, just one of the best novels, period.’ - Ann Patchett'It's a masterpiece.' - Tim Winton'It’s not possible for Powers to write an uninteresting book.' - Margaret AtwoodA monumental novel about trees and people by one of our most 'prodigiously talented' (The New York Times Book Review) novelists.The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond:An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan.An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut.A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light.A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another.These four, and five other strangers – each summoned in different ways by trees – are brought together in a last and violent stand to save the continent’s few remaining acres of virgin forest.There is a world alongside ours – vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.
Emma Thompson
Actress
“The Overstory” by Richard Powers “That’s the best book I’ve read in 10 years. It’s a remarkable piece of literature, and the moment it speaks to is climate change. So, for me, it’s a lodestone. It’s a mind-opening fiction, and it connects us all in a very positive way to the things that we have to do if we want to regain our planet.
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The Madwoman in the Attic

Called "a feminist classic" by Judith Shulevitz in the New York Times Book Review, this pathbreaking book of literary criticism is now reissued with a new introduction by Lisa Appignanesi that speaks to how The Madwoman in the Attic set the groundwork for subsequent generations of scholars writing about women writers, and why the book still feels fresh some four decades later."Gilbert and Gubar have written a pivotal book, one of those after which we will never think the same again."--Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Washington Post Book World
Emma Thompson
Actress
I think the last time I just woke up in the way that she made me wake up was when I read ‘The Madwoman in the Attic,’ that wonderful feminist literary criticism.
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Naked Lunch

Nightmarish and fiercely funny, William Burroughs' virtuoso, taboo-breaking masterpiece Naked Lunch follows Bill Lee through Interzone: a surreal, orgiastic wasteland of drugs, depravity, political plots, paranoia, sadistic medical experiments and endless, gnawing addiction. One of the most shocking novels ever written, Naked Lunch is a cultural landmark, now in a restored edition incorporating Burroughs' notes on the text, alternate drafts and outtakes from the original.
Emma Thompson
Actress
The book I read in secret as a kid Naked Lunch, by William Burroughs. I felt sick for days afterwards.
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The Phantom Tollbooth

“Comes up bright and new every time I read it . . . it will continue to charm and delight for a very long time yet.” --Phillip Pullman, New York Times bestselling author of His Dark Materials With almost 5 million copies sold in the 60 years since it was published, generations of readers have journeyed with Milo to the Lands Beyond in this beloved classic.Enriched by Jules Feiffer’s splendid illustrations, the wit, wisdom, and wordplay of Norton Juster’s offbeat fantasy are as beguiling as ever. For Milo, everything’s a bore. When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he’s got nothing better to do. But on the other side, things seem different. Milo visits the Island of Conclusions (you get there by jumping), learns about time from a ticking watchdog named Tock, and even embarks on a quest to rescue Rhyme and Reason. Somewhere along the way, Milo realizes something astonishing. Life is far from dull. In fact, it’s exciting beyond his wildest dreams!
Emma Thompson
Actress
The book I enjoyed most in school The Phantom Tollbooth. An extraordinary linguistic feat, a timeless bit of genius.
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Emma Thompson's Favorite Books as a Child

Here is a list of Emma Thompson's favorite books as a child. Enjoy!
Emma Thompson
Actress
Here is a list of Emma Thompson's favorite books as a child. Enjoy!
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Emma Thompson's Favorite Books

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Emma Thompson
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Here is a list of Emma Thompson's favorite books. Find her favorite books below.
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TOP 5 Emma Thompson's Favorite Songs

Here is a list of Emma Thompson's favorite songs. Enjoy!
Emma Thompson
Actress
Here is a list of Emma Thompson's favorite songs. Enjoy!
Music from Emma Thompson

A Ceremony Of Carols — Benjamin Britten

Emma Thompson
Actress
After selecting one of her father Eric Thompson’s songs for the British kids’ TV show The Magic Roundabout, Emma kept things classical with Benjamin Britten’s ‘A Ceremony of Carols’ – which continues to bring back fond memories of Christmases past – before naming ‘Candido’ by Inti-Illimani who came together following the assassination of Chilean freedom songwriter Victor Jara.
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Corarsik — Patrick Doyle

Emma Thompson
Actress
Her first track, ‘Corarsik’, is an ode to that beloved highland dwelling. “This piece of music is by the Scottish film composer Patrick Doyle, who I’ve known since I was 23,” she explained.
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Heal the Pain — George Michael

Emma Thompson
Actress
George Michael’s “Heal the Pain” “It’s my favorite song by him. ‘Heal the Pain,’ which is not one that a lot of people know, features strongly in our film and expresses a huge amount of what the film’s about, which is looking after yourself, taking responsibility for yourself and understanding that it’s complex and hard to be a human, and that it’s all right to be inconsistent and uncertain.”
Places from Emma Thompson

The Tower of London

The Tower of London
Emma Thompson
Actress
“I shot ‘King Lear’ in it recently, and it’s such a beautiful place. Its history is so bloody and difficult, but there it is, still nestling in the center of our strange and ever-growing city. And it just gives me great pleasure to look at it. I love its ancientness, and I love the bones of it.”
Cuisine from Emma Thompson

Oatcakes

Oatcakes are so easy to make and can be enjoyed as a snack, breakfast or lunch. Great for packing in a lunchbox
Emma Thompson
Actress
I like to eat oatcakes for breakfast - I warm them up and have them with a bit of honey.