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It’s case studies like these ones that can lead readers to declare that the novel is always, always better than the movie.
Consider the case of the anachronistic Persuasion with Dakota Johnson's Anne Elliot. Musing over her estrangement from Captain Wentworth after eight years of separation, the book Anne thinks ...
In this enchanting new theatrical interpretation of Persuasion, audiences will follow the poignant story of Anne Elliot, who, ...
In “Miss Austen,” though, she’s humanized as a deeply devoted sister who just wanted to keep Jane’s most unfiltered thoughts ...
Film history is littered with bad adaptations of good books. Think of Dakota Johnson as Anne Elliot in Netflix’s Persuasion, a film that boldly asks: “What if a Jane Austen heroine was ...
Keeley Hawes shines as Cassandra Austen in 'Miss Austen,' a PBS Masterpiece limited series adaptation of Gill Hornby's novel ...
This Bafta-award-winning film is based on Austen’s 1817 novel of the same name. From director Roger Michell, it stars Amanda ...
From Katniss and Peeta to the latest revelations about Haymitch in Sunrise on the Reaping, the beauty of Suzanne Collins' ...
The respectable don’t come off well in Guha’s world, but neither do the indifferent. Everyone gets what’s coming to them.
Hamlet Hail to the Thief, the vicseral new adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy scored to Radiohead’s Hail to the Thief, had ...