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BECOMING JANE also starring the acclaimed Maggie Smith James Cromwell and Julie Walters is an enchanting and imaginative film you'll fall head over heels for. Just as affection begins to bloom, Tom has to return to London, and Wisley, whose financial prospects are superior, proposes. Instead, Julian Jarrold (White Teeth) expands on events from Jane Austen's life that may have shaped her fiction. To complicate matters, Tom's uncle (Ian Richardson in his final performance) disapproves of the outspoken young lady just as much as Wisley's aunt (Maggie Smith, lending the proceedings some subtle humor). Wisley (Laurence Fox, son of actor James Fox), who would be happy to oblige. Then, she meets brash law student Tom (The Last King of Scotland's James McAvoy), while he's staying with relati... see description |
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--Robert Horton . Thompson's script won an Oscar, and 1995 was a fine year for Jane Austen all around: Persuasion was made into an excellent picture, and Emma became the spritzy high school comedy Clueless. Not only does Thompson turn in a strong (and gently humorous) performance as one of the Dashwood sisters--the one with "sense"--she also wrote the witty, wise screenplay. Emma Thompson Alan Rickman Kate Winslet and Hugh Grant star in this captivating romantic comedy that swept the Ten Best lists and won the Golden Globe Award as Best Picture of the Year (Drama). All of this is doled out with the usual eye-filling English countryside and handsome costumes, yet the film always seems to be about the careful interior lives of its characters. Rickman Grant and Greg Wise co-star as the... see description |
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At age 24 she realizes that while she is deeply Iranian she cannot live in Iran. In addition Marjane has to combat being equated with the religious fundamentalism and extremism she fled her country to escape. --Tom Keogh Stills from Persepolis (click for larger image) Beyond Persepolis On Blu-ray Paperback Soundtrack CD . Based on an autobiographical comic book by Marjane Satrapi, the story concerns Marji (voiced as a teenager and woman by Chiara Mastroianni), whose natural fire and precociousness are slowly dampened by the rise of religious extremists. Over time she gains acceptance and even experiences love but after high school she finds herself alone and horribly homesi... see description |
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