A Novel Concept Collection

Three literary classics, adapted for the screen

My Brilliant Career

Judy Davis stars as Sybylla Melbyn, the eldest daughter of an impoverished New South Wales farming family. Bold and determined in a time of sexist ignorance and bigotry, Sybylla dreams of success as an acclaimed writer and her resolve causes frequent clashes with those close to her who believe a career inappropriate for a woman. But it is her love for the dashing Harry Beacham (Sam Neill) that will truly test the independent-minded Sybylla's desire to succeed on her own terms.

Special Features:

• Audio commentary by director Gillian Armstrong
• Audio commentary by Dr Felicity Collins, Senior Lecturer in Cinema Studies at LaTrobe University and author of The Films of Gillian Armstrong
• The Miles Franklin Story
• Interviews with producer Margaret Fink and director Gillian Armstrong
• Original footage from Cannes 1980 featuring Judy Davis, Gillian Armstrong and Margaret Fink
• Study Guide

Brick Lane

At the tender age of seventeen, Nazneen's life is turned upside down. After an arranged marriage to an older man, she exchanges her Bangladeshi village home for a block of flats in London's East End. In this new world, pining for her home and her sister, she struggles to make sense of her existence – and to do her duty to her husband. A man of inflated ideas (and stomach), he sorely tests her compliance. Told from birth that she must not fight her fate, Nazneen submits, devoting her life to raising her family. Until the day that Karim, a hot-headed local man, bursts into her life…

Special Features:

• Deleted Scenes

Brighton Rock

Brighton, 1964. Organised crime has moved into this sleepy English seaside town. Ambitious young gangster Pinkie Brown (Control’s Sam Riley), is determined to stop other gangs taking over his patch, but when he kills a rival, vital evidence falls into the innocent hands of an impressionable young waitress, Rose (Andrea Riseborough, Made in Dagenham). Pinkie romances Rose to stop her talking, but her employer Ida (Academy Award®-winner Helen Mirren) is suspicious. A year before the abolition of the death penalty, can Pinkie trust Rose not to betray him and can Rose trust Pinkie not to make her his next victim? Or will Ida's worst instincts be confirmed?

Special Features:

• Audio commentary with director/writer Rowan Joffe and editor Joe Walker
• The making of BRIGHTON ROCK
• Extended interviews with director/writer Rowan Joffe and stars Sam Riley and Andrea Riseborough
• Deleted scenes
• Featurette: Mod or Rocker?
• Anatomy of a scene