Pride & Prejudice, Again!

Jane Austen fans will be happy to hear that the new Pride & Prejudice is looking like a winner.

It's set in a slightly different time-period than the much-loved A&E version. This version is different enough to make it worth seeing the story retold.

The Bennet sisters are played by Keira Knightley (Elizabeth), Rosamund Pike (Jane) and the noteable new girl Jena Malone (Lydia). Donald Sutherland plays the complaisant Mr. Bennet. The luscious Mr. Darcy is played by Matthew MacFadyen and Mr. Collins by Tom Hollander, both of whom you might know from the movie Enigma. Judi Dench is perfect for the role of Lady Catherine de Bourg.

Roger Ebert liked it, too!

The movie is well cast from top to bottom; like many British films, it benefits from the genius of its supporting players. Judi Dench brings merciless truth-telling to her role as a society arbiter; Sutherland is deeply amusing as a man who lives surrounded by women and considers it a blessing and a fate, and as his wife Blethyn finds a balance between her character's mercenary and loving sides. She may seem unforgivably obsessed with money, but better to be obsessed with money now than with poverty hereafter.

When Lizzie and Darcy finally accept each other in "Pride & Prejudice," I felt an almost unreasonable happiness. Why was that? I am impervious to romance in most films, seeing it as a manifestation of box office requirements. Here is it different, because Darcy and Elizabeth are good and decent people who would rather do the right thing than convenience themselves. Anyone who will sacrifice their own happiness for higher considerations deserves to be happy. When they realize that about each other their hearts leap, and, reader, so did mine.

More at: :: rogerebert.com :: Pride & Prejudice

Check out the official P&P website, too!

Railroad & Canal Schemes of Victorian England

The Way We Live Now (BBC)- Shady financier Augustus Melmotte lures prominent citizens and politicians into a colossal get-rich-quick railroad scheme involving the South Central Pacific and Mexican Railway Company - a railroad between Salt Lake City and Veracruz. Based on the book by Anthony Trollope.



An Ideal Husband (Miramax) - Northam, a member of Parliament, is blackmailed into a shady canal scheme by a mysterious woman who turns out to be a loathed school chum of his wife.

Romantic Period Pieces - American Civil War

Romantic Period Pieces - American Indians

Romantic Period Pieces - Canada

Romantic Period Pieces - Down Under

Romantic Period Pieces - East Africa

Romantic Period Pieces - Famous Biographies

Romantic Period Pieces - Holland

Romantic Period Pieces - Ireland

Romantic Period Pieces - North Africa

Romantic Period Pieces - Rome & Greece

Romantic Period Pieces - Russia

Romantic Period Pieces - Scotland

Romantic Period Pieces - The West

Romantic Period Pieces - Vampires

The Legend of Zorro

Elena: You never gave me pearls.
Zorro: I thought you said you didn't care about those kinds of things.
Elena: Every woman loves pearls.

Alejandro De LaVega is now a daddy. His beautiful wife, Elena, and their precocious young son, Joaquin, are his most precious possessions... but duty calls and he continues to put on the mask. The mask of Zorro! *insert flaming Z here*

But since Alejandro won't give up the mask, Elena dumps him! Then she starts dating some stuffy French count! Of course, he's got to be bad. ..

While the plot and dialogue here are not really all that, we still get great eyefuls of the sezy swordsman in black and his ethereal Latin beauty.

Check out the official website of Sony Pictures - The Legend of Zorro

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