BBC Charles II: The Power & The Passion

 
King Charles II is a fascinating monarch and his life is a perfect story for a great period drama. This BBC series of 4 episodes is a good example and follows the life of the king since his father execution until his own death.
Charles is portrayed by the brilliant and talented (also sexy !) Rufus Sewell, [...]

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News: Amelia, Australia and My Boy Jack

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Mira Nair (Vanity Fair, Salaam Bombay) is preparing another project based on the life of Amelia Earhart, one of the most famous pioneers of the world aviation. The movie is called Amelia and stars Hillary Swank (Boys Don’t Cry and Million Dollar Baby) as Earhart and Richard Gere as her husband, George Putnam. We’ll certainly [...]

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A Bafta for Cranford

Miss Matty (Judi Dench), Mary Smith (Lisa Dillon) and Miss Deborah (Eileen Atkins).
 
Dame Eileen Atkins received tonight the Best Actress Bafta for her outstanding performance as Miss Deborah in the successful BBC series – Cranford. We couldn’t agree more! Even if Judi Dench (the favorite in the category) did a marvelous job playing the gentle [...]

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The Brotherhood of the Wolf (Le Pacte des Loups)

 
This movie was a huge success not only in France but worldwide. The story is inspired on some historical facts taken place during the 18th century in central France (Lozère), where a sort of beast was killing and terrorizing the population. This wolf-like creature is known as La Bête du Gévaudan and even today it [...]

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Bleak House in our Monthly Discussion

Some of you must have noticed (wishful thinking!) that we didn’t have a monthly discussion during April, we’ve been terribly busy and with a lot on our hands, so we decided to move it to May 5th. Since we’ll have a little more time, we decided to go with a longer series: Bleak House, a [...]

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News: Wuthering Heights, A Room With a View and John Adams

The news is all over town that a new movie based on Emily Bronte’s story – Wuthering Heights – is being prepared. The expectation would be to have a British actress for Cathy but it seems Natalie Portman has landed the role. There’s a lot of rumors about who is going to play Heathcliff though, we certainly [...]

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How Hard Can it Be?

Did you ever wonder how hard could it be to be part of an historical serie?
Last year, ITV decided to adapt to the small screen three novels by Jane Austen – Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park and Persuasion - and they were aired in the US not so long ago. In all of them adjustments were made to [...]

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Becoming Jane

 
Although not claiming to be a biopic, Becoming Jane, based on the book by Jon Spence, pretends to show a specific period in Jane Austen’s life that could be the decisive influence on the novels she wrote. There are several people easily identifiable with Austen’s characters and she mentions in the end how her characters [...]

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