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what is the deal with all of the jane austen movies lately??

All of a sudden in the past few months, all of these jane austen movies have been coming out, but why? There was pride and prejudice the jane austen book club, persuasion, now another sense and sensibility? What happened to cause people to start coming out with all of these movies? Please, somebody enlighten me!

It’s actually been happening over the course of years. Austen’s books make very fine movie period pieces, and various movie companies take them on from time to time.

This is one of those times. Go to a vid store or look at a movie list covering ‘anything Austen’ for any number of years (search decade by decade) and you’ll see what I mean.

You know how ‘Hollywood’ (and even independent film makers) are… once a ‘genre’ shows promise, it will be used up. For a decade or two.

Emma-Music from BBC TV series $14.97 When Rachel Portman wrote the score for the theatrical feature film version of Jane Austen’s Emma in 1996, it resulted in an Oscar for ‘Best Music’. With the arrival of BBC’s new television series based on the same Austen classic, the story is blessed with another award-worthy score, this time penned by the talented British composer Samuel Sim. His orchestral score for Emma is elegant, witty, roma…

Piano Classics from the World of Jane Austen $13.98 This CD features classical piano music accurately reflecting the musical milieu of Jane Austen’s period and social sphere. This music may be heard as emanating from the elegant drawing rooms graced by many of Austen’s immortal and pianistic heroines. All musical selections are drawn from Austen’s personal library, social sphere, or time period. The CD contains 73 minutes of music by well-known …

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Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (Six Piece Collector’s Boxed Set) [VHS] $13.82 Jane Austen’s classic novel of 1813, Pride and Prejudice, still wins the hearts of countless schoolgirls with its romantic story of Elizabeth Bennet and her Mr. Darcy. Now, the 1996 BBC miniseries is winning over adults, with its faithful adaptation, gorgeous scenery, and superb acting. The essence of the story is the antagonism between Mr. Darcy, a wealthy single man who believes Elizabeth to be …

Mafia [VHS] $5.75 This hapless comedy may actually work a lot better on video than it did in theaters. A parody of contemporary mob movies (with a few sidebars skewering such hits as Forrest Gump and The English Patient), Mafia! most closely resembles the first two Godfather films in its generational saga of a gangster family. Lloyd Bridges plays Don Cortino, a native Sicilian who presides over a crime syndicate…

Pride & Prejudice [VHS] $9.57 Jane Austen’s wonderful novel has been adapted to the screen many times, with this 1940 version representing the golden age of the Hollywood studio era. Greer Garson, then just on the cusp of her stardom, plays the headstrong Elizabeth Bennet, smartest of five daughters who must be married off. Laurence Olivier is that difficult fellow Mr. Darcy, whose mulishness about the Bennet girls begins to t…

Pride and Prejudice (Restored edition) $13.49 The countryside of early 1800s England is the setting for laughter, tears and romance in this superb drama based on the jane austen novel, as five sisters are “gently” pushed by their parents into finding suitable husbands and thus preserving the family estate. The fine cast includes Colin Firth, Alison Steadman, Jennifer Ehle, Susannah Harker. 5 hrs. on two discs. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrac…

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Pride & Prejudice $8.19 literary adaptations just don’t get any better than director Joe Wright’s 2005 version of Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice. The key word here is adaptation, because Wright and gifted screenwriter Deborah Moggach have taken liberties with Austen’s classic novel that purists may find objectionable, but in this exquisite film their artistic decisions are entirely justified and exceptionally well execu…

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Jane Austen $54 Noted for her wit and cunningly satirical edge, 19th-century novelist Jane Austen continues to be popular both in and out of the classroom.

Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair companion to Jane Austen $19.95 Whether you've read jane austen once or read her yearly, or if you simply yearn to be Elizabeth or Mr. Darcy, this new Bedside  Companion  will make a perfect match.   Janeite and newcomer alike will revel in the entertaining capsules of each of Austen's beloved  novel s, along with information on such important subjects as white soup, carriages, what happened at the ha-ha, and, of course,  all those characters we love to hate.  In the spirit of Austen, maps, puzzles and quizzes are providedGÇöincluding the one and only Jane Austen Aptitude Test.   The reader is taken  on location to Steventon, her childhood home, to Bath , the city she was happy to leave , and elsewhere .   Included is an interview Karen J. Fowler, author of The jane austen book club , as well as  all  the movies made of Austen's stories,   from Hollywood to Bollywood. An Austentatious work, indeed!