Extra feature for 1995 adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice with comments from producer Sue Birtwhistle and members of the cast.
Thanks to Darcyfied who posted this on Youtube!
Shown in 6 parts.
photo credit: Sharona Lee
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P&P: Lasting Impressions Featurette
Bleak House
Bleak House is one of the best Dickens adaptations to date. The mini-series form allows Dickens' panoramic view, brimming with eccentric characters and complex turns of plot, to sprawl out without losing an iota of suspense or momentum. Two innocent young orphans (Patrick Kennedy and Carey Mulligan) are the potential heirs to a fortune, but their fates are snarled in a monumental legal battle known as Jarndyce and Jarndyce. But the heart of the story is another orphan, Esther Summerson (Anna Maxwell Martin), whose mysterious parentage proves to be intertwined with the fate of the Jarndyce wards and the aloof Lady Dedlock (Gillian Anderson, The X-Files). Dickens' story twines through an excoriating vision of the legal system to heartbreaking domestic drama to a murder investigation to near-Gothic horror, all broken into utterly delicious half-hour segments (after the hour-long opening episode). Martin is utterly beguiling, homely at one moment and luminous the next; Anderson's grippingly eerie and brittle performance will delight her fans. But to single out anyone seems absurd, because every character--from the vicious lawyer Tulkinghorn (Charles Dance, White Mischief) to the foppish parasite Skimpole (Nathaniel Parker, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries) to the simpering clerk Guppy (Burn Gorman)--is intricately drawn, all hitting a mesmerizing balance between caricature and stark emotional honesty. Bleak House demonstrates that humor, pathos, and social criticism can all be contained in one wonderfully entertaining package. --Bret Fetzer from Amazon.com
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Top-notch production, highly recommended!
BBC link
PBS Masterpiece link
Screencaps found on Livejournal thanks to nancherrow
Sense and Sensibility (2008)
The Jane Austen classic is being remade into a BBC miniserieswith screenplay by Andrew Davies
to be aired on
March 30th and April 6th, 2008 on PBS
>>>>>View trailer on Youtube
Take A Girl Like You
Take A Girl Like You is a comic novel by Kingsley Amis. Set in the 1950s, it follows the progress of twenty year old Jenny Bunn, as she moves from her family home in the North of England to a London satellite town to teach primary school children. Jenny is a traditional Northern working-class girl whose exotic good-looks are in sharp contrast to her prosaic upbringing, and to her strong belief that a girl should preserve her virginity until her wedding night. Because of her attractiveness, Jenny's views on virginity and marriage cause conflicts. The novel centres around the (increasingly desperate and cruel) attempts of Patrick Standish, a 30 year old schoolmaster at the local grammar school, to seduce Jenny, against a backdrop of his skirmishes with his school authorities and with the shabby, suburban middle class milieu in which the novel is set.
Starring.....
Sienna Guillory as JennyRupert Graves as Patrick
Hugh Bonneville as Julian
Robert Daws as Dick Thompson
Emma Chambers as Martha Thompson
Screenplay by Andrew Davies
Jenny and Patrick
Patrick and Julian
Mr. and Mrs. ThompsonHe Knew He Was Right
Anthony Trollope's fascinating analysis of jealousy and human relationships in Victorian England is infused with warmth and charm by screenwriter Andrew Davies' four-part adaptation starring Oliver Dimsdale and Laura Fraser.
Dimsdale plays an obsessive man driven to insanity by his unfounded belief that his wife is unfaithful. Suspicious beyond reason, he forces his wife out of their house, hires a private detective to spy on her, and organizes the kidnapping of their son. Throughout, the couple's love for each other endures despite their estrangement.
The wonderful supporting cast includes Anna Massey, Christina Cole, Bill Nighy, Stephen Campbell Moore, and David Tennant. They are featured in subplots involving Emily's sister Nora, who wants to marry for love and not money, and a meddlesome aunt, who needs to involve herself in everyone's love life.
Meet the players...
Emily Trevelyan
Louis Trevelyan
Emily with Colonel Osborne
Nora Rowley with Hugh Stanbury
Sisters: Nora and Emily
Arabella, Mrs. French and Camilla
Miss Stanbury
Arabella with Mr.Gibson
Mr. Glascock
Dorothy Stanbury
Brooke BurgessMiddlemarch
This Masterpiece Theatre production, set at the cusp of the Industrial Revolution, chronicles, the life, loves, foibles and politics of the fictional English town of Middlemarch. Adapted from the George Eliot classic of the same name, the plot centers on the socially conscious, but naive Dorothea Brooke, whose disastrous match to the pedantic Rev. Edward Casaubon sets in motion a chain of events that will change the face of Middlemarch forever. The efforts of the dashing young physician, Tertius Lydgate, to modernize the medical practices at the new hospital causes quite a stir, both in the political power structure, headed by the evil Mr. Nicholas Bulstrode, and the heart of sweet Rosamund Vincey, the town beauty. Smaller plots interweave the action and lead to reconciliation, resignation, remuneration and resolution.
Written by Teresa B. O'Donnell
Screenplay by Andrew Davies
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