Tag: Sense and Sensibility
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‘Persuasion’ Review: An Effervescent Dakota Johnson Gives Jane Austen Drama a Cheeky Retelling
Jane Austen knew a thing or two about complicated women and the way they move through the world. The author’s iconic bibliography — from “Pride and Prejudice” and “Emma” to “Sense and Sensibility,” and those are the just the English class curriculum bangers — has always hinged on indelible heroines and their Regency-era attempts to…
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‘Madly Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman’ Set to Hit Shelves in October
Henry Holt publishers has announced it will be releasing “Madly Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman,” a collection of Rickman’s handwritten diaries, on October 18.Rickman wrote his diaries with the intention of future publication, and by the time of his death in 2016, they totaled 27 volumes. Now, his collection has been edited into a…
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Ang Lee to Be Awarded BAFTA Fellowship
Ang Lee is to be awarded the BAFTA Fellowship, the British Academy’s highest honor.The pioneering auteur — a multiple BAFTA winner and known for films such as The Wedding Banquet, Sense and Sensibility, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Brokeback Mountain and Life of Pi — will be bestowed wit the accolade at the BAFTA film awards…
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Universal Unwraps ‘Last Christmas,’ Paul Feig To Direct Script Written By Emma Thompson & Bryony Kimmings
Exclusive: Universal Pictures has acquired Last Christmas, a script by Emma Thompson and Bryony Kimmings. Paul Feig is attached to direct. The details are being kept under wraps, but I’m told Last Christmas is a holiday romance set in London.Thompson, the two-time Oscar winner including one for scripting Sense and Sensibility, next stars in A24’s…