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from the pen of Jandy Stone

Posts Tagged ‘Jane Austen’

Becoming Jane

By Jandy • Oct 9th, 2007 • Category: Capsule Reviews

During the first half of this film about a fictionalized Jane Austen’s love life, I wrote a lot of notes faulting Anne Hathaway’s performance, clumsy editing, muddy and inconsistent sound, and other issues that suggested the film wasn’t quite ready for release. By the end, most of these issues had either gone away or I [...]


From Austen to Bollywood: Adapting Tradition in Gurinder Chada’s Bride and Prejudice

By Jandy • Aug 17th, 2007 • Category: Articles, Film, Literature

Gurinder Chadha’s Bride and Prejudice is not only a modern, cross-cultural version of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice; it also adapts Bollywood musical traditions to create a film that embodies its message of multicultural understanding in its very form.