Just a quick note to wish everyone who visits my blog a happy and peaceful Christmas break. Over the past few festive seasons I’ve usually watched the Patrick Stewart version of A Christmas Carol, which I have reviewed here in the past, but this year I had a change by watching a 1977 BBC version [...]
Archive for December, 2010
A Christmas Carol (1977)
Posted in Charles Dickens, costume drama, tagged A Christmas Carol, Bernard Lee, Elaine Morgan, John Le Mesurier, John Salthouse, June Brown, Moira Armstrong, Sir Michael Hordern, Tracey Childs, Zelah Clarke, Zoe Wanamaker on December 24, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Jane Eyre (1996)
Posted in Charlotte Brontë, costume drama, tagged Amanda Root, Anna Paquin, Billie Whitelaw, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Elle Macpherson, Fiona Shaw, Franco Zeffirelli, Geraldine Chaplin, Haddon Hall, Hugh Whitemore, Jane Eyre, Joan Plowright, John Wood, Josephine Serre, Leanne Rowe, Maria Schneider, Samuel West, William Hurt, Wuthering Heights on December 1, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Classic literary adaptations on TV might be in short supply at the moment, but there are two feature film versions of the Brontës’ novels due for release in 2011 – a new Jane Eyre directed by Cary Fukunaga and a new Wuthering Heights directed by Andrea Arnold. I’d be more excited about adaptations of works [...]
