From Prada to Nada A review by Vic Sanborn
Lost in Austen If you enjoyed Bridget Jones’s Diary, it is more than probable that you will find the new ITV British television series Lost in Austen excessively diverting. Lost in Austen aired in the UK in September and in Canada on the new Canadian channel Viva i...
Film Scripts for the Austen Movies When the final credits roll on an Austen film, whether you’ve loved it or not, it’s often fun to find out more. What were relationships like on and off the set? Where did they film these great houses? Who designed the costumes? Was the final produc...
Bright Star It is rare that a film separates potential viewers into two camps so easily as Bright Star, director Jane Campion’s ode to the relationship between John Keats, the great 19th century Romantic poet, and Fanny Brawne, an independent, opinionated E...
Emma (2009) on Masterpiece Classic “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” Sage advice from the philosophizing Forrest Gump. The same can be said of Jane Austen adaptations. Last nights US premiere of screenwriter Sandy Welch’s newly retooled Em...
Sense and Sensibility Goes Gothic Sir Walter Scott confessed that, although he could write action adventure novels “like any now going,” he lacked Jane Austen’s genius, “the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting.” Filmmakers sho...
Miss Austen Regrets: An "Imagined" Biography I am greatly pleased with your account of Fanny; I found her in the summer just what you describe, almost another sister; and could not have supposed that a niece would ever have been so much to me. She is quite after one's own heart; give her my best ...
Almost Persuaded: ITV's Persuasion The game is afoot in ITV’s Persuasion as Anne Elliot (Sally Hawkins) speed walks down a maze of hallways in Kellynch and jogs down the streets of Bath in what was, presumably, the film makers’ attempt to add action and energy to Jane Austen’s po...
Becoming Jane: Becoming Fictional Prior knowledge of Jane Austen's life
will not enhance the viewer's enjoyment of the film."
Becoming Jane is not really about Jane Austen. Becoming is about us and our Austen- inspired, time travel fantasies. Through the artistry of costu...
Barbara Cartland’s Mansfield Park The 2007 made-for-television film Mansfield Park is not to be confused with Jane Austen’s 1814 novel of the same name. Like Lydia Bennet’s marriage, the ITV Park is “a patched up business.”
The best scenes are William Price (Joseph Morgan) d...
Northanger Abbey 2007: The Continuing Saga Another Jane Austen novel is being dusted off for the big screen. This time, Miramax films is co-producing Northanger Abbey. It's a $9 million feature adaptation of Jane Austen's first published novel. Shooting begins this fall in Bath, an historic c...
Pride and Prejudice 2005: Cinderella Meets Mr. Darcy Is Pride and Prejudice primarily a Cinderella story? How you answer that question may well determine whether you will enjoy or detest the 2005 Keira Knightley/Matthew Macfadyen film.
When spending quality time with Jane Austen's novel, gentle reader...
Bride and Prejudice: Bollywood's Pride and Prejudice extravaganza!
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must have no life without wife.
Obviously, something was lost in translation between the 1813 novel and the 2004 film, but the sentiment in Jane A...
Pride and Prejudice: A Latter Day Comedy From the beginning film producers have felt compelled to adapt and update Jane Austen’s books. Paramount did it with the movie Clueless, when they set Emma against the backdrop of a here and now Beverly Hills. Kandukondain Kandukondain placed Sense a...
Kandukondain Kandukondain: The Indian Film Industry takes on Jane Austen It is a truth universally acknowledged...that Jane Austen's works must be popular wherever they are found. While her works have been translated into many languages across the world, it is only the recent films that have made her a household name, wi...
Emma: The Girl that Jane Liked North America finally gets to see Emma...
Metropolitan, Clueless and Bridget Jones's Diary Recent Austen knock-offs: The Sincerest Form of Flattery?
Northanger Abbey: 1986 A Great Deal of it Must be Invention
Persuasion: 1995 Perhaps the most perfect Austen adaptation ever!
Persuasion: 1971 The first of the "old" BBC adaptations
Emma(3): 1996 BBC/A&E's 1996 Emma offering
Emma(2): 1996 Miramax's take on the Novel
Emma: 1972 What some critics have called the best of the early Austen films.
Mansfield Park: 1999 Patricia Rozema's controversial adaptation
Mansfield Park: 1983 A critical view of the BBC's version of Mansfield Park
Pride and Prejudice: 1940 The first of Jane Austen's novels committed to film
Sense and Sensibility: 1995 Emma Thompson's Award Winning Film
Pride and Prejudice: 1995 Behind the scenes of the A&E/BBC Favorite
Sense and Sensibility: 1985 A contrast of Elinor Dashwood and Charlotte Lucas
Pride and Prejudice: 1979 The BBC/Masterpiece Theater adaptation
