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Small Island on Masterpiece Classic PBS Survives a Cold Embrace by the Mother Country – A Recap & Review

Posted in Masterpiece Classic, tagged , , , , , , , , , on 19 April 2010 | 4 Comments »

There is a lot of pride and prejudice in the story of Small Island, the new Masterpiece Classic two-part adaptation of Andrea Levy’s award winning 2004 novel. Not the Jane Austen kind of pride and prejudice, but the kind experienced by millions of people whose countries were colonized by Great Britain during the 18th and [...]

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Adieu Miss Woodhouse – Emma (2009) concludes on Masterpiece Classic

Posted in Emma Movies, Jane Austen Adaptations, Jane Austen's Emma, Jane Austen's Works, Masterpiece Classic, tagged , , , , , , on 7 February 2010 | 7 Comments »

Episode three of Emma (2009) aired tonight on Masterpiece Classic PBS. I am feeling more than a bit of melancholia setting in!  There be spoilers ahead!  Despite being a “troublesome creature” throughout most of the story, Emma does redeem herself by admitting her misconceptions and blunders. How could we not forgive, admire and love her? [...]

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Masterpiece’s Oliver Twist Review: Darkness and Discordance Descend as Episode Two Fizzles

Posted in Masterpiece Classic, Victorian Authors, tagged , , , , , , , , on 23 February 2009 | 2 Comments »

Episode two of Masterpiece Classic’s Oliver Twist on PBS concluded last night with a dull thud. It also did not help that it was competing in the same time slot at the 81st Academy Awards ceremony, so viewers like me who taped Oliver watched it after an anti-climatic new and improved Oscars that also left [...]

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Mansfield Park (1999) Movie: Musing & Discussion: Day 10 Give-away!

Posted in Jane Austen Adaptations, Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Mansfield Park Madness, Mansfield Park Movies, tagged , , , , , , , , on 24 August 2008 | 15 Comments »

  MOVIES Take a controversial classic novel, mix in a liberal filmmaker’s re-interpretation, add in slavery, lesbianism and incest and presto! you have Mansfield Park (1999), writer-director Patricia Rozema’s provocative adaptation of Jane Austen complex novel. I don’t think that I am exaggerating when I estimate that Janeites find this one a bit puzzling. So [...]

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Metropolitan (1990) Movie: Musings & Discussion: Day 6 Give-away!

Posted in Jane Austen Inspired, Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Mansfield Park Madness, tagged , , , , , , , on 20 August 2008 | 13 Comments »

MOVIES Anyone who lived through the 1980′s can not hear the term Preppy and not smile! For the rest of you young things who were just a twinkle in your parents eyes, take notice and rent the movie Metropolitan, writer, director and producer Whit Stillman’s witty take on the WASP subculture of young upper-class Manhattanites as [...]

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