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 [...]
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Emma 2009 revisited
Posted in jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Movie review, PBS Movie Adaptation, tagged Emma 2009, Emma 2009 poll, Jonny Lee Miller, PBS Masterpiece Classic, PBS Movie Adaptation, PBS Movie Review, Romola Garai, Sandy Welch on February 7, 2010 | 17 Comments »
Recycled Fashions in Emma 2009
Posted in Emma, Fashions, jane austen, Jane Austen Novels, Jane Austen's World, Mansfield Park, Movie review, PBS Movie Adaptation, Popular culture, Regency Life, Regency style, Regency World, Sense and Sensibility, tagged Emma 2009, Jonny Lee Miller, Louise Dylan, Miss Bates, PBS Masterpiece Classic, PBS Movie Adaptation, Regency Fashion, Regency movie gowns, Romola Garai, Tamsin Greig on January 28, 2010 | 13 Comments »
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 [...]
In Jane Austen’s Words: Highbury Society and Emma Woodhouse’s Place In It
Posted in Emma, Film adaptation, jane austen, Jane Austen Novels, Jane Austen's World, Masterpiece Classic, Movie review, PBS Movie Adaptation, Popular culture, Regency Customs, Regency society, tagged Blake Ritson, Emma 2009, Gwynneth Paltrow, In Jane Austen's Own Words, Jonny Lee Miller, Kate Beckinsale, Regency class distinction, Regency society, Romola Garai on January 26, 2010 | 12 Comments »
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 [...]
Emma 2010 on PBS Masterpiece Classic: A Review
Posted in Emma, Film adaptation, Film review, jane austen, Jane Austen Novels, Jane Austen's World, Movie review, PBS Movie Adaptation, Popular culture, Regency style, Regency World, tagged Emma, Emma 2009, Johdi May, Jonny Lee Miller, Michael Gambon, PBS Masterpiece Classic, Romola Garai on January 24, 2010 | 36 Comments »
PBS Masterpiece Classic offer a new adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma. Starring Romola Garai and Jonny Lee Miller.
Emma 2009, Episode 4: What Did You Think of the Film and the Actors?
Posted in Emma, jane austen, Jane Austen Novels, Jane Austen's World, Movie review, Popular culture, Regency Life, tagged Blake Ritson, Christina Cole, Emma 2009, Emma 2009 poll, Jefferson Hall, Johdi May, Jonny Lee Miller, Laura Piper, Louise Dylan, Michael Gambon, Robert Bathurst, Romola Garai, Rupert Evans, Tamsin Greig on October 24, 2009 | 27 Comments »
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 [...]
Endgame: PBS Masterpiece Contemporary
Posted in Movie review, Popular culture, tagged Apartheid, Chiwetel ejiofor, Endgame, Jonny Lee Miller, Masterpiece Contemporary, Nelson Mandela, PBS Movie Adaptation, William Hurt on October 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
“Trust no one, confide in no one …” This memorable line in Endgame, PBS’s latest presentation from Masterpiece Contemporary, is the essence of a plot that includes secret talks and negotiations between Afrikaners and the African National Congress (ANC) that ended apartheid. If you missed the show or want to see it again, you can watch it [...]
Emma 2009: Episode Three
Posted in Fashions, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Movie review, Popular culture, Regency Life, Regency World, tagged Blake Ritson, Christina Cole, Emma 2009, Emma 2009 poll, Jodhi May, Jonny Lee Miller, Louise Dylan, Romola Garai on October 18, 2009 | 28 Comments »
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 [...]
Emma 2009: The Sets of Highbury and Hartfield
Posted in Emma, jane austen, Jane Austen Novels, Jane Austen's World, Movie review, tagged Chilham, Emma 2009, Emma 2009 poll, Jonny Lee Miller, Romola Garai, Squerryes Court on October 11, 2009 | 9 Comments »
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 [...]
Emma 2009 Poll: What did you think of Part One?
Posted in Emma, jane austen, Jane Austen Novels, Jane Austen's World, Movie review, Popular culture, tagged Emma 2009, Emma 2009 poll, Jane Austen Movie Adaptations, Jane Austen Movies, Jonny Lee Miller, Michael Gambon, Romola Garai on October 4, 2009 | 27 Comments »
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