There was an article in the Independent newspaper here in the UK a few days ago about the forthcoming movie of George Eliot’s Middlemarch, supposed to be due for release in 2010. Apparently Focus Features, which has made quite a lot of costume dramas including the most recent Pride and Prejudice and Gosford Park, is [...]
Archive for the ‘George Eliot’ Category
New movie of ‘Middlemarch’
Posted in costume drama, George Eliot, tagged Andrew Davies, Martin Scorsese, Sam Mendes on June 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The Mill on the Floss (1997)
Posted in costume drama, George Eliot, tagged Bernard Hill, Cheryl Campbell, Emily Watson, Graham Theakston, Hugh Stoddart, Ifan Meredith, James Frain, James Weber-Brown, John Scott, Jon Lee, Lucy Borton, Nicholas Gecks, Stefan Weclawek, The Mill on the Floss on June 2, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Continuing my George Eliot theme, in the last few weeks I re-watched the most recent BBC production of The Mill on the Floss, starring Emily Watson as Maggie Tulliver. I know there is also an older (1978) mini-series, and I’d eventually like to see this too to compare the two, but that one is yet [...]
Middlemarch (1994)
Posted in costume drama, George Eliot, tagged Andrew Davies, Anthony Page, BBC, Douglas Hodge, Jonathan Firth, Jonathan Hackett, Juliet Aubrey, Michael Hordern, Patrick Malahide, Peter Jeffrey, Robert Hardy, Rufus Sewell, Simon Chandler, Trevyn McDowell on April 18, 2009 | 15 Comments »
After enjoying a repeat viewing of the 1995 Pride and Prejudice, I decided to re-watch another major Andrew Davies adaptation from around the same period . This time I went for the BBC’s six-episode version of George Eliot’s Middlemarch, made the previous year, with a superb cast, headed by Juliet Aubrey and Rufus Sewell… though [...]
Adam Bede (1991)
Posted in costume drama, George Eliot, tagged Adam Bede, BBC, Giles Foster, Iain Glen, James Wilby, Jean Marsh, Julia McKenzie, Maggie Wadey, Patsy Kensit, Susannah Harker on February 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The 1991 TV production of George Eliot’s Adam Bede, a tale set in the late 18th century, is one of many costume dramas only available on region 1 DVDs. Fortunately for me, though, it was shown over here in the UK on satellite TV station TCM, so I was able to record it from there [...]
