Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Jane Austen"

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Bride & Prejudice **** (2004, Aishwarya Rai, Martin Henderson, Nadira Babbar, Anupam Kher, Naveen Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 4217

Hooray for Bollywood! Bend It Like Beckham and Angus, Thongs director Gurinder Chadha turns her sweet and sassy eye on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice for a glorious 2004 Bollywood take on the tale. As the proud Indian […]

Aug, 22

Love & Friendship ***½ (2016, Kate Beckinsale, Chloë Sevigny, Xavier Samuel, Tom Bennett ) – Movie Review

Writer-director Whit Stillman takes on Jane Austen’s novella Lady Susan. It’s a minor work and it can’t help being a minor film. But Stillman tries all he can and knows to make a success of it, with good, highly civilised, polished results […]

May, 25

Pride & Prejudice **** (2005, Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Donald Sutherland, Brenda Blethyn, Tom Hollander, Judi Dench, Carey Mulligan, Rosamund Pike, Jena Malone, Simon Woods) – Classic Movie Review 706

Keira Knightley makes a lovely job of her posh role as Elizabeth Bennet, proud heroine of this first movie of Jane Austen’s classic since the Hollywood Pride and Prejudice in 1940 with Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier. […]

Jan, 16

Sense and Sensibility ***** (1995, Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, James Fleet, Tom Wilkinson, Harriet Walter, Alan Rickman, Greg Wise, Gemma Jones, Elizabeth Spriggs, Robert Hardy) – Classic Film Review 440

Director Ang Lee’s 1995 film was another triumph for him, both critically and at the box office, as well as at awards time. It won the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture and the Bafta […]

Nov, 23

Emma ***** (1996, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeremy Northam, Ewan McGregor, Phyllida Law, Sophie Thompson, Alan Cumming, Toni Collette, James Cosmo, Greta Scacchi) – Classic Movie Review 439

Gwyneth Paltrow as the endlessly interfering Emma Woodhouse and Jeremy Northam as her eventual true love Mr Knightley are splendid in what had been the long awaited film of Jane Austen’s dazzlingly brilliant novel. The […]

Nov, 23

Austenland ** (2013, Keri Russell, J J Feild, Jennifer Coolidge) – Movie Review

That good and appealing actress Keri Russell draws the short straw and plays an idiot American woman called Jane Hayes, who’s obsessed with Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Mr Darcy and Colin Firth in the BBC […]

Sep, 28

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