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THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD

August 26, 2020 By Leave a Comment

Armando Iannucci, a man possessing a preternatural gift for telling serious stories with a puckish twist, has taken on the classic Dickens tale of David Copperfield, and infused it with sparkling new life while remaining true to the original’s spirit. After all, despite his sometimes cloying sentimentality, Dickens spared his readers nothing when describing the… Read More »

Tagged With: 19th century, book to screen, Charles Dickens, colonialism, color-blind casting, England, imperialism, literature, social commentary

THE HOURS

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE HOURS begins with a suicide, a famous one at that. Virginia Woolf with a fierce deliberateness puts a heavy stone in her pocket and walks into a river. We see her head duck silently into the water and then her body floating delicately away, pulled by the current with a gentle urgency. By the… Read More »

Tagged With: AIDS, book to film, Feminism, LGBT, literature, suicide, Virginia Woolf

MUCH ADO ABOUT SOMETHING

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

The piquant documentary, MUCH ADO ABOUT SOMETHING, takes on the question of who actually wrote Shakespeare’s plays and poems.  Now, I am of the opinion that in the final analysis, it doesn’t really matter.  The works speak for themselves and whether they were written by the Bard of Avon or not, they still glimmer with… Read More »

Tagged With: literature

Cary Fukunaga & Mia Wasikowska Revisit JANE EYRE

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Cary Fukunaga & Mia Wasikowska Revisit JANE EYRE

Revisiting a classic is always a tricky business, but the latest film adaptation of JANE EYRE takes some daring chances in telling Charlotte Bronte’s much loved story of a plain governess and her love for her dashing, if difficult employer. During my talk with them on March 2, 2011, director Cary Fukunaga and star Mia… Read More »

Tagged With: book to film, Cary Fukunaga, Charlotte Bronte, cinema, drama, hypothermia, Jaime Bell, Jane Eyre, Judy Dench, literature, Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, narrative, novel, phone, romance, Sally Hawkins

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