Feeds:
Posts
Comments

Posts Tagged ‘Emma 2009’

Jane Austen had a few ideas about what would happen to some of her characters in the future. Emma’s Mr. Woodhouse would live for two more years after his daughter’s marriage to Mr. Knightley, and the letters from Frank Churchill that Jane Fairfax placed before her contained the word “pardon.” These little tidbits of information [...]

Read Full Post »

Once again PBS will host a Twitter Party during the second installment of Emma 2009. Come join me and Laurel Ann from Austenprose for a chat from 9-11 PM EST. PBS has also arranged for a Twitter Fest for those who live on the west coast. That Twitter Chat will begin at 9 PM PT [...]

Read Full Post »

IMDb has become an indispensable site for those of us who love movies. I especially love the trivia the site features about each film. Take Emma 2009, for example. Costumes that were recycled from other films are listed there. Let’s look at a few: The purple coat Jodhi May (Mrs. Weston) wears on market day [...]

Read Full Post »

Miss Emma Woodhouse was a bright, articulate, privileged and beautiful young lady who possessed an unswerving sense of her lofty position in Highbury society. To some, Gwynneth Paltrow, an equally privileged woman in real life, was perfect for the role. For me, Kate Beckinsale (A&E Emma) and Alicia Silverstone (Clueless) are unbeatable as Jane Austen’s [...]

Read Full Post »

PBS Masterpiece Classic offer a new adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma. Starring Romola Garai and Jonny Lee Miller.

Read Full Post »

Update: My review of Emma Oh, how droll! An Emma Twitter Party. What! You have no Twitter account? It’s not too late to form one and join me, PBS, and a host of other Austen lovers during the Twitfest on Sunday, January 24, from 9-11 PM EST.  PBS has kindly asked me (and other Jane [...]

Read Full Post »

The incident at Box Hill loomed large in this episode. What did you think of the series as a whole? How did it stack up against other Emma film adaptations? Vote here. More polls sit below asking you how well the actors fit in their roles. To save you from fatigue, not all the show’s [...]

Read Full Post »

Emily Hill of the Evening Standard isn’t thrilled with this adaptation of Emma: The tension of the series comes not from the characters being marooned in stuffy Regency England, but from the bizarre twenty-first-century dating psychobabble. At some point, whoever created this very pretty 9 pm drama seems to have thrown the actual novel aside [...]

Read Full Post »

Highbury, the large and populous village, almost amounting to a town, to which Hartfield, in spite of its separate lawn, and shrubberies, and name, did really belong, afforded her no equals. The Woodhouses were first in consequence there. All looked up to them. – Emma, Jane Austen, Ch 1 Read my review at this link [...]

Read Full Post »

Viewer poll for Emma 2009

Read Full Post »

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 2,112 other followers