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Watch Jane Austen’s “Lady Susan” as Done Up by Whit Stillman in Trailer for “Love and Friendship”

March 26, 2016

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The refined, precise hand of writer/director Whit Stillman (Metropolitian, The Last Days of Disco) has been at work adapting Jane Austen’s Lady Susan into Love and Friendship starring Kate Beckinsale and Chloe Sevigny.

It takes someone like Stillman to draw out the Austen’s humor for modern audiences and it looks like he did indeed pulled it off. See for yourself in see this trailer,

Look for Love and Friendship in theaters starting May 13th.

Film Adaptation of “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” Has a Cast

August 5, 2014

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When mashing up zombies and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Seth Grahame-Smith scored a hit novel with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies 5 years ago.

Now, in 2014, the official film adaptation of the novel has just cast Lily James, Sam Riley, and Bella Heathcote. In addition to that, you should also note that the script is written by both Burr Steers and the Oscar nominated writer/director David O. Russell.

So, we’re guessing that this will bring more to the table than Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, the last film adapted from a Seth Grahame-Smith book.

Ignore Rotten Tomatoes For Once and Go See Austenland

August 16, 2013

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These days, just because a comedy isn’t a straight dramedy where the humor lies in the complexity of life, usually centered around an ever present unresolved existential crisis, doesn’t mean that it isn’t worth seeing.

Well, the idea that this is the case for what’s popular in specialty box office comedy is our theory anyway behind why most critics are panning Jerusha Hess’ Austenland currently playing at The Landmark. Jennifer Coolidge rollicking through a Jane Austen fantasy while just wanting to get boned is funny enough for the price of admission and should get you off any sort of pretension against a neatly packaged romantic comedy in an offbeat setting.

You’ll especially enjoy this if you hated reading Jane Austen in high school.

We Like How Trailer for ‘Austenland’ Is Showing How Nerdy Some Jane Austen Fans Get

July 9, 2013

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From the writer of Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre Jerusha Hess, comes a something a little more well read, so to speak. Austenland is a romantic comedy set up in the real life fantasy land of Jane Austen romance novel. The degree in which someone would look for their Mr. Darcy with the likes of Keri Russell, Jane Seymour, and Jennifer Coolidge looks pretty fun in the trailer.

Watch it here.